Hey guys, sorry for not updating for ages!! My sis gave birth and I'm now an aunty to this CUTE young man...looool. He cracks me up.

ANYWAY, so I watched twilight a few days ago, and it was alright. Not as crap as I expected, not as good as I wanted. Edward's ugly, Bella's a man, Jasper is constipated, Emmett is cool and...Alice is cute? The important people's acting was crap!

Did u c Stephenie Meyer???! She was having her coffee in it!!

But the worst part of it was; Jacob!!! TAYLOR LAUTNER is soo BLOODY UGLY!! They gave Jake a bad image!!

Okay...I don't want to talk about this anymore....*stifles a sob*...I'm fine...I'm fine...

"What are you talking about?" I asked, trying hard to keep the panic out of my voice.

How was I supposed to answer his question?

He gave me a long look. I looked back innocently.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about, Shereen."

"Umm …no I don't"

I really, truly didn't. I mean, seriously….

Where the hell did his question come from?

He took a deep breath as if he were trying to calm himself.

"When Jacob thought that you were my girlfriend, you made it out that because we are cousins, we can't be together." he explained.

I looked at him like he was the biggest idiot I knew.

"Are you alright?" I tapped the side of my head, adding "in the head?!"

He looked offended.

"What?!"

I covered my face with my hands to stop myself from getting up and kicking him in the ribs...

"You…..you….idiot….I only said that because I wasn't going to sit there explaining to him that it's against my religion to even have girlfriends or boyfriends! It's easier just to say that we're cousins as an explanation! I didn't expect one of us to be stupid enough to think I was serious about what I said!" I cried.

I thought I'd gotten him….

But he thought otherwise.

"Or you're taken by him and don't want him to think-" he stopped talking when I threw him the dirtiest look I had.

"Taken by him? Taken by him? What the heck?!" I yelled, thinking of how much I wasn't taken by Jacob black.

It looked like Ramsey was gathering up all the courage he had when he said;

"Yeah, taken by him! You like him! Don't you?!" he pointed an accusing finger at me.

I was completely speechless at his stupidity.

"Wha-what?! You know what Ramsey? SHUT UP!! JUST SHUT UP!" I shouted and jumped up, glaring ferociously at him.

He went red with anger and struggled as he got up.

"DON'T TELL ME TO SHUT UP!! All I asked was an innocent-"

"Innocent question!" I finished for him "yeah right! It was extremely…..un-innocent!"

Unfortunately, when I'm arguing with idiots like Ramsey; my vocabulary isn't as good as I want it to be…..

Ramsey continued ranting on and on about how I liked Jacob….while I answered back with things like 'go find another girl to get jealous of' and 'go jump off that cliff over here!'

Things were getting very tense…

If they weren't already.

"…and you were looking down! Like you were embarrassed or something! Like the very sight of him makes you BLUSH! That's a sign, a sign of some kind of attraction!" It was like he was pleading for me to…….BRING HIM DOWN!

"Oh yeah? Well, you were 'taken by him' -I air quoted that-, weren't you?-hah! See? You were! I didn't know you batted for the other team, Ramz!" I exclaimed. The words 'I am a loser' were written all over his face.

"You know its haraam to even think about doing that…" he said quietly, disgust evident in his voice.

I felt a bit bad for suggesting such a thing…..

But, he deserved it!

I mentally patted myself on the back, for my way of revenge.

No-one says that 'I'm taken by' Jacob Black without copping it!!

After awhile of just standing there, Ramsey's head suddenly shot up.

"You know why I became friends with him so fast? How the first minute I was all protective and annoyed then next I'm best friends with him? Because he thought you were my girlfriend! So he obviously doesn't like you that way! HE thought you were my girlfriend!! That's enough of an explanation. It's flattering!! And besides; he's actually a good guy, if he hadn't thought what he thought and said it out loud; I probably wouldn't have gotten to know him!"

I half-expected him to go "so…Hah!" and stick his tongue out.

He was pouring his heart out…or rather what he had thought about the situation we were in at McDonalds. I thought I'd prompt him to speak without angering him so he could relax, then I'd………

RELEASH THE BOMB!

(Insert evil laughter)

"What do you mean?"

"It's obvious! I was jealous coz you were talking about him to Mona and possibly Aysha and Rayan. When he said that, I was so relieved; I liked him straight away!" He had his hands on his heads, ready to rip his hair out. He LOOKED like he was calming down....who knows?

I stayed silent, still slightly fuming over what he said earlier.

Was Ramsey seriously that stupid?

Couldn't Jacob have said what he said to make sure that I WASN'T Ramsey's girlfriend?

I didn't want to suggest this out loud; that would start a whole new 'you're taken by him!' rant…

After a few minutes of silence…I couldn't control myself.

Jacob was the bad guy.

I wasn't.

"You don't know anything! Nothing whatsoever! HE SAW-" I was cut off.

By the person I least expected to interrupt my conversation.

"Uh, hi?" Jacob Black greeted, sounding like he was ASKING to friggen interfere.

JACOB…..BLACK!

He just pops out of ANYWHERE!

I swear he's stalking me!

The guy is evil….

EVIL I TELL YOU!

I glared at Ramsey, as if it was his fault Jacob was stalking me.

Then I slowly, in a way that would make anyone run screaming, turned around. The air was filled with suspense. I could almost picture me finally facing Jacob and then in slow motion, him ruuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnniiiinnng awaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy saying 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOO' in that deep voice they use in the movies.

And yes I know that it's the actors' voices and they just do something on the computer with it…

ANYWAY, so I finally turned around.

Now, the thing that really pissed me off was that he was completely unaffected by the venomous, if-you-don't-run-now-I-will-hurt-you look I gave him.

Not a flinch.

Or a step back.

Or a scared look.

Or…..or…something!!

I heard Ramsey sigh. He turned around just as slowly as I did except with a bright smile on his face.

I swear if I didn't know otherwise; I'd think he was in love with Jacob or something…

Jacob looked at Ramsey unsurely.

"Did I interrupt something?"

Oh!, I thought

I felt so affronted, it was not funny!

How come he didn't ask ME that?

I was the one with the annoyed expression!

Humph!

These men!

"No, it's all good. Gee…what a coincidence! Yet again. Where's Quil?" Ramsey was eager to get a conversation going.

Jacob gave a dismissive wave that I thought made him look a bit gay, "oh, he just went home. My other friends are having a sand fight. Which I got pulled out from coz I hammered everyone's lives… "

More like 'got hammered myself!'

He probably wouldn't admit that till he's on his death bed.

Suddenly, I have no idea why, I felt like crying.

Of fury….

Of frustration!

I cracked.

I could no longer be embarrassed of the fact that he saw my hair.

It's not like it was my fault anyway…

I turned to Jacob.

Then I just let it out….

"GET. AWAY. FROM. ME!" I bellowed.

He looked VERY taken aback that moment.

I kept going. "Why are you stalking me, HUH?!"

He froze as soon as I said that.

So he WAS stalking me!

I mean, I didn't actually mean to say that….

As in, I didn't actually believe he was stalking me.

I imagined myself kicking him.

Just kicking…

And kicking…

And kicking.

Yes, I was having practically violent thoughts.

"YOU STILL HAVE THE BALLS TO COME AND ACTUALLY TALK TO ME?!!"

He looked at me weirdly.

"I was just saying hi…to Ramsey..."

That stumped me for a second, but then I quickly retaliated.

"HAH! Like I'm going to believe that one!" I felt the Rayan in me coming out.

And I did something that the real Rayan would definitely do…

I grabbed a handful of sand and threw it at the stalkers face!

I felt triumphant. It felt so good, I finally got him back for stalking me AND seeing my hair. The whole world seemed to have witnessed my payback, because it suddenly went quiet.

We all stood there silently – not uttering a single word or sound; Jacob glaring at me, some sand stuck on his face – Ramsey was staring at me with his mouth wide open and I was looking at Jacob with a happy, happy smile...

Life was good then and there…

Until sand sprayed onto my face.

Jacob smirked evilly at me. Ramsey just looked between the both of us and cringed. And I felt the need to…

"BRING IT ON!" I yelled and threw sand at Jacob…half of it fell to the ground and the rest hit Ramsey; whose eyes flashed mischievously as this happened. He bent down and cupped sand in both hands, ready to throw it at me…..

….and threw it at Jacob! I laughed at the look on Jacob's face.

"Two against one! You're already losing!" I mocked him.

Our sand fight continued. The dry sand was getting a bit boring, so I decided to go for the different kind.

As in, wet sand.

I moved back a little until my feet touched it. I grabbed a bit in my hand and watched Ramsey and Jacob throw sand at each other. Then I threw it at Jacob.

I have to say, it was a pretty good aim. It hit him square on the nose. He just stood there while it slid off and fell under his shirt. He looked so ticked off, I started laughing. Hysterically.

Eventually, I feel to the floor. Still laughing. It got to the point where I was banging my fists on the sand.

"Okay…..okay…I can breathe now" then I went into another fit of laugher.

Then to try to get myself to stop laughing, I thought about what I was laughing at and found that it wasn't that funny. And it helped, I stopped.

"Done?" Ramsey asked with an eyebrow raised. I nodded.

Then I remembered something.

"Where's everyone else?" I asked.

"Over here!" a cheerful Miran popped up from behind Ramsey. I gave her a fake apologetic smile.

"I wasn't exactly asking about you Miran….I was asking about the important people that were with us."

She stuck her tongue out at me. "Darling, if they're important, I'm the MOST important." She flicked her scarf as if it were hair and stuck her nose up in the air…

Oh, that rhymes!

I snorted "sure you are……just tell me where they are!"

"Oh they went home"

My eyes widened in disbelief.

"They went home? And just left me here?! By myself?"

"You're not by yourself! I'm here...hellooooooo"

"But it's you! That's not good enough!"

She gave me a look of mock hurt and put a hand on her forehead dramatically. "I'm….not…good enough…for you?"

I shook my head sadly. "Sorry, I'm sure it hurts…but it's the truth..."

Thinking that I couldn't hear him, Jacob whispered to Ramsey. "Are they always like this?"

"Yep." Came the matter-of-a-fact reply from Ramsey.

Miran looked at me, a smile spreading across her face.

"YOU'RE SO CUTE!!!"

Uh-oh.

She came up to me and hugged me, lifting me from the ground and twirling me around. I rolled my eyes and patiently waited for her to put me down.

She did. After awhile.

"Miran, don't you think I'm getting a little bit too old and heavy for that?"

"No, you're as light as a feather."

"No I'm not! I weigh 154 pounds!!" I realized the mistake I had made…

I had indirectly told Jacob my weight!

Perfect!

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"Do I have to try this out?" Aysha asked us hopefully, as we pushed a pink sundress at her.

"Mmhmm" Rayan and I answered back absently and continued to look for clothes on the rack. She groaned and trudged to the changing rooms nearby.

We were shopping together while the older girls were having coffee.

Suddenly, Rayan turned to me.

"Oh. My. God! Instead of getting them last minute, we should buy our Eid clothes today!! "Her eyes glittered happily as she made the supposedly wonderful suggestion.

"Uhh…Eid is in six weeks…"

She frowned. "And?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Don't you think it's a little too early to buy them?"

"Nope! Ramadan is in TWO weeks, we won't be bothered to get our Eid clothes during that month!"

She had a point. Ramadan was the best time of the year for me, for Muslims around the world! It was a blessed month in which we fasted; no food, no drink from sunrise to sunset each day of that month.

And since we didn't eat or drink we didn't have much of a chance to survive a whole days shopping for each person in the family. There was no problem for the moms; khalto Hanaa made their clothes anyway. When we would eat when Maghrib came, we would be too full to move.

The perfect time in which to buy clothes for the celebration afterwards (the celebration being; Eid, which was the day after the last day of Ramadan depending on the moon) would be before Ramadan.

But that didn't mean TWO weeks before it!

"You've got a point but-"

"Eww!! Its looks gross!" Aysha complained from inside the changing room. Rayan and I automatically walked to it and drew the curtain. We gasped.

Aysha stood there, her scarf pushed back so it didn't come in the way. The dress was baby pink with some huge metallic dark pink flowers scattered around the pleated flowing skirt that reached up to her knees. It had a double V-neckline and a clinched fitted waist. It was sleeveless, so she would have had to wear a long top underneath. She looked girly and cute yet so elegant.

I loved it.

Although, she looked like she hated it.

"OH MY GOSH! That has got to be the best piece of potential clothing you could ever wear!" Rayan squealed, jumping up and down. I could tell she was already putting the outfit together with some other things she'd seen throughout the day.

Man she's an embarrassment to scarvies around the globe!

"I have to agree, sorry Aysh." I grinned at her, not sorry at all. She looked miserable.

Poor thing.

"Come on! You have to buy it for Eid!" Rayan squealed again.

"Eid?" Aysha asked, confused. I put my hands up as if saying 'don't ask!'

"It's perfect! Come on, I'll buy it for you as a present. 'kays?" Not really giving her a chance to answer, Rayan dragged her to the counter and bought it for her.

We walked out of the store with Aysha holding a bag and Rayan looking satisfied. We still needed to get the rest of the outfit for Aysha and an outfit for me AND Rayan.

Oh boy.

We walked in silence until…

"Those guys are totally checking you out Shereen." Rayan whispered to me from the corner of her mouth. She was staring ahead.

"Guys don't check scarvies out, Ray." I whispered back from the corner of my mouth bending down a little.

Rayan got her height genes from her mother, so it was kind of hard for me to talk to her without doing that.

"yes they do, they're checking YOU out…wait a sec, they look familiar..." she was then making it really obvious that she could see them. She kept squinting at them and made us stop walking so she could see. I didn't want to look at who she was looking at just in case and Aysha was gazing longingly at a pair of converse sneakers in the display window of a shop across us.

Then Rayans eyes widened in horror.

"Crap! They're coming towards us! Walk fast!" she turned and pulled us with her as she power-walked away.

"It's your fault! You're the one who was staring at them. You got their attention!" I told her.

"I was trying to work out who they were!" she was panicking.

And when Rayan panics; all is not well.

"Well? Who-"

"Hi!" said a voice I could've recognized anywhere.

And it wasn't coming from behind me.

I glared at Rayan before turning to The Jacob.

"What?"

"uhh….you dropped this." He looked embarrassed and I suddenly got a very sick feeling in the stomach.

He gave me an unfamiliar bracelet. Aysha, Rayan and I examined it.

It was a piece of rope with a wooden charm dangling off it. The charm was a tiny wolf. The wolf was very detailed. It was probably something I would've bought but I didn't remember buying it that day.

I looked at it once more. "I don't thi-" I looked up and he was gone…

How did the stalker know that I liked that kind of stuff and that it would be mine?

Most importantly…

Why would he give it to me?

There's the seventh chapter…

Arabic glossary:

Haraam: against religion.

I THINK that's all the Arabic there was? I'm not bothered to check, its 11:55 pm and I'm sleepy...

If there was more Arabic I forgot to put translate, please review and tell me....and give me feedback about the chapter...or if you're new about the story so far.

I hope it satisfied u people!!

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