Standing in the way of control
Christian likes Syed, and Syed is fighting every single bone in his body to stay as the perfect and dedicated Muslim. Dating a gorgeous girl, an estate agent, can he run away from his feelings?
Hey everyone, risking two fictions at the same time!
Syed- works at a estate agency, is deperate for his big break. He's dating a non-Muslim girl by the name of Jade, and everything seems to be going well for him. But hes still not happy.
Christian- Works at a gym where her boss hates him more then she hates pickles.
Both boys seem to have a "unrequited" crush on eachother,but will the curtain drop as they start to get pushed together?
Syed Masood woke up in his room, and upon hearing pots clanging around, vowed to get his own flat soon. He yawned a little and looked at the suit hanging on his wardrobe, complete with a lime green tie. It was a big day for him, he was showing someone around a house, a big house. If he nailed this sale, it would be very good for his job.
He frowned at the green tie. He had a pink one there when he went to brush his teeth. Zainab. She couldn't leave anything of his alone. Of course she had checked over his suit and decided to edit the bits she didn't approve of.
He went downstairs to breakfast after a quick shower, his hair tousled and cleanly shaven, completing the look in his suit.
"I knew that tie would look better" beamed Zainab, and Syed rolled his eyes
"Whats for breakfast?" he asked politely, sitting down, a hint of a smile playing around on his lips as he shared a glance with his father
"Big sale?" Masood asked, still in his postman uniform, eating a bowl of cereal.
"The biggest of my career" Syed replied, suddenly feeling a bit nervous
"Nervous?" Masood asked
"Never" Syed replied heartily, he would never admit a weakness.
"Of course, brother perfect shall never be nervous" Tamwar quipped, picking up a piece of toast and watching as Zainab sat down, and frowned at him. it didn't last for long
"My poupous going to get a promotion!" she grinned, and Tamwar's chair scraped away from the table, muttering something about "some of us still are in education" with a small grimace "brush your hair!" Zainab shouted after him
Syed checked his watch, and stuffed another piece of toast down
"Ive got to go, bye Mum, Dad" he finished, getting up with a nervous grin
"You forgot something" Zainab said sharply, and tapped her cheek. Syed sighed and kissed it, before saying "love you" and leaving.
Walking through the square was one of the only times he truly felt free. He loved having the wind whip through his hair, he liked the way he could walk around, not having Zainab and Masood shouting orders at him. He felt liberated.
He smiled as he saw Christian Clarke heading through the square in his personal training attire, he had a coffee in one hand and was beaming
"Alright Syed?" he asked, smiling as he went by, stopping for his friend
"Yeah, how are you?" Syed enquired, watching Christian. Those green eyes were almost hypnotic..wait what was he thinking, was he calling another mans eyes hypnotic? He shook his head a little and watched Christian again
"Yeah, good, just got another client!" Christian said, pumping the air with enthusiasm. Syed laughed, he loved how enthusiastic Christian was about everything. Oh dear did he just say love? He meant liked. He liked the way that Christian was enthusiastic. His phone beeped with a text from "Jade", his girlfriend
"Good luck baby, love you! Xx" it read. He rolled his eyes a little. And the "love you.."..when exactly did they start exchanging that little gem over text? He didn't have much time to mull it over, before Christian questioned him
"Trouble?" Christian asked, laughing at the scrunched up facial expression of his friend
"Well done! Just a overly attached girlfriend" Syed burst out, and then he found himself laughing with Christian
"Aww Jade..bless the blonde hairs on her head…I don't usually have that problem" Christian sipped his coffee with a grin
"Oh really?" Syed asked, an eyebrow raised..the gossip told him that Christian was like the square playboy
"Yeah, I usually have a line of overly attached men, queuing" Christian said, nudging him a little, and Syed laughed even more
"That's what they all say" he quipped, and Christian shook his head with a grin, then looked at Syeds suit
"Big day at the office?" he asked, playing with Syeds tie with a laugh "in green?" he smirked, watching Syed carefully
"My mum chose it" Syed lightly replied, in a "please don't" sort of fashion,then he looked down at his watch
"Oh..oh…my train!" Syed shouted, taking a grip of his briefcase and giving Christian an apologetic smile. He was doing quite well in that conversation until then...he mentally shook himself, what did he mean "doing quite well in that conversation?"
"Get running!" Christian cackled, watching him run away
"Bye!" Syed shouted, running across the road to the train station, a smile etched on his face. He managed to get on the train with 1 minute to spare, panting, and getting his phone out
He replied to Jades text with a simple "thanks x", then laughed at Christians evaluation of his tie..maybe green was too much? He then shook off this thought. Green was absolutely fine.
Christian smiled as he headed towards his work, even though his boss bordered on insane. Susie. She was absolutely mental.
She seemed to have a personal vendetta against Christian because her husband left her last year, because he was gay.
And unfortunately, she had happened to be in R & R while he was celebrating his coming out, while he had decided to come onto Christian.
It wasn't like Christian knew that Joey was Susie's husband. Or ex husband. Or whatever, but she seemed to believe he did, no matter how many times he tried to explain. So now, she was acting like a slave driver.
Christian was a part of her company, which was a gym. He had a few personal training clients, but he mainly had to walk around the gym, make sure everyone was handling equipment, that the yobs weren't abusing things. He had to sell her stupidly expensive memberships. etc.
He walked through the glass door and saw the uptight redhead almost immediately. She had bird like features just to make her even more annoying, and she had opened her mouth to speak as soon as he went to pass her
"Your late" snapped Susie, who seemed to of taken up a habit of waiting on reception and timing his breaks to the very second, reprimanding him for even 30 seconds of lateness
Christian sighed "You said I could take a break"
"For 10 minutes not 15" Susie said, crossing her arms over the file that she was holding and looking annoyed
"I only took 10" Christian raised his eyebrows
"Well I say you took 15, get to work Christian" Susie said, raising her voice slightly
"Whatever" Christian sighed, and walked over to a cross trainer, checking that the person on there was ok, and trying to ignore the death stare that Susie was giving him "subtly" behind her clipboard
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Syed stirred a coffee in the café. He didn't know how the sale went. Ever since he saw Christian and had to run for the train, he was nervous, jittery, and had some strange pack of butterflies roaming his stomach. And now he had to meet Jade. All he wanted to do was go home and collapse onto his bed.
Jade wasn't a typical Muslim girl, she was a blonde, gorgeous, tanned beauty, who he had met on a night out in a club. He didn't usually drink, but whenever Shabnam came to town, he had a few with her. Nothing crazy. Thats the night he met Jade. He was out with Shabnam, Dawn, Christian and Roxy had come along with Chelsea after another long, boring shift at the Vic.
He met Jade, who was immediately was a stand out with her gorgeous green eyes and curly, angelic hair. She was vivacious, loud, fun. She worked at the gym with Christian, Christian introduced them. He remembered it clearly, he was sitting in a booth with Christian, not even noticing that he had a big muscly arm around the back of his seating. When he did, he almost shuddered with some sort of obvious delight, then realised that he could not do that, so he found a girl. Jade was that girl.
She was different. She was the opposite to him, and he liked that about her.
Zainab didn't approve at first, she said that Syed shouldn't involve himself in "non-Muslim girls", but she had learnt to respect Jade. She had made a immense effort. She was polite, she had toned down her partying lifestyle, she helped out with Masala Queen, she was perfect towards his family. She even understood his awkward brother, Tamwar.
They had been together for sixth months, and Syed was slightly confused. He had heard from just about everyone, that after six months, they were meant to be in love. In love? He loved Jade, but not in the way everybody was expecting him too..he didn't feel like he couldn't live without her, that she was the only one for him, that there was nothing else..
"Guess who?" a pair of hands covered Syed's eyes, and he knew from the fragrance that it was Jade
"Hey Jade" he smiled, she took her hands away from his eyes and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek
"How did it go?" she asked, sitting opposite him
"No idea" Syed truthfully said
"Oh dear..dont worry babe!" she said, trying to sound refreshing. Syed felt like such a idiot at the moment, all he wanted was to be cuddled, to be told that everything's ok. Clearly Jade wasn't going to do that
"Don't worry we'll go for a drink" Jade gave him a sexy grin, holding his hand in hers. That seemed to be her answer to everything
"Sure" Syed said, with a sweet smile, and he suddenly heard a familiar voice on the phone
"Susie, im getting your coffees now, I left 10 minutes ago, it's a 10 minute walk from the gym!" Christian moaned, rolling his eyes, and waving to Syed, who shot him a grin
"Yes I'll make sure yours is a sugar free, of course it would look bad for a personal trainer to have sugar, yes awful, ok bye" Christian sighed, hanging up the phone with a snap, he saw Jade and Syed tucked in a corner. He was good friends with both of them, and it was either them or Ian Beale. There was no decision in that.
"Hey" he said, pulling up a chair
"Hey you, can you tell Mr Mopey that his thingy at the estate thingy earlier went ok?" Jade drawled, placing a hand on Syed's shoulder
"What happened?" Christian asked kindly, warmly, looking at Syed's brown eyes that looked slightly scared to connect anywhere at the moment. He didn't know why, Syed's eyes were like dreamy pools of chocolate..but he was off limits
"The client wasn't particularly vocal..I don't know if he liked it, or what" Syed closed his eyes in frustration..he probably could of sold it more if he wasn't thinking about this morning? This morning what was he talking about. He talked to Christian this morning, and was a little frazzled, that wasn't enough to blame any sort of failure on. He probably just stayed up too long last night thinking about what to do? Or maybe he was just overanalysing things?
He sighed, and felt a warm hand on his shoulder, he suddenly felt better, like a rush of warmness had just been extended to his arm, and was being spread all over
Maybe Jade's comforting technique had improved slightly. His eyes snapped open in time to see Christian retracting his hand, and he put his head on his shoulders, trying to hide the fact that it was a burning red
He heard a swear word, and Christian jumping up, looking at his watch.
"Mental Susies going to be even more mental if I don't get back there" Christian said, closing his eyes in the same way that Syed just had
"Whats she upto now?" Jade asked, with a grin, her eyes darting from Syed to Christian. She worked at the same place as Christian, but she had taken a weeks holiday to stay in Walford, spend some time with her boyfriend, with her sister, Jodie Gold, and her mother, Vanessa.
"She times my breaks, she tries to convince clients to join her instead of me, shes trying to not pay my lunch hour, shes a nightmare!" Christian announced, looking even more annoyed
"Oh Christian, shouldn't of got the husband.." Jade cackled devishly
"Oh Jade, should of rubbed the foundation in" Christian retorted with a grin, and they both laughed. Christian and Jade shared playful banter, they always had
"Jealous of the tan? Or is it the smooth complexion?" Jade grinned
"My tan doesn't come out of a bottle babe" Christian replied, with a waggle of his eyebrows, his eyes still on Syed's limp form
"Either does mine, my mum does it at the salon. For free" Jade said, moving her head around boastfully
"Oh I must drop in sometime" Christian said in a camp manner, and Jade laughed out loud, and they both watched as Christians phone started to ring
"Oh speak of the devil" he snapped, picking up the phone
"Hello? Yes Susie im on my way back now..yes your coffee has no sugars and ive picked up one for Phoebe and Ned, of course" he said, on his way out, connecting eyes with Syed one more time as he saw the younger mans head come up, and he gave the young couple a wave, before heading out. He knew he was going to have to run.
"Maybe I'll get Christian to come with us later, he seems to cheer you up" giggled Jade, nuzzling into Syed after five minutes of staring into the distance, sipping her tea. She had waited for Syed to talk or something, but he still failed to.
"Jade I have to go" Syed suddenly announced, frowning and pushing his chair up
"Babe whats wrong?" Jade asked, watching him
"I feel ill" Syed lamely said, dropping some money to pay for the till "we'll go out another time" his eyebrows knitted together as he got out the cafe, relieving himself of a breath that he didn't even know he was holding..
Strangest. Day, ever.
The bigger problem was, this incident was not a lone one. He often found himself being nervous, twitchy, getting random hot flushes, and it was always after he had talked to Christian. One look into those big green eyes and he turned to goo.
When Christian touched his shoulder he almost felt a explosion of electricity..
He shrugged. He hadn't had much sleep last night, it must be some sort of dream. Nothing sinister. He loved Jade.