chapter 38

-LAYAN-

i was thinking about sleeping in today... you know how you get lazy and just want to sleep and eat food?


ya, i was in one of those moods.

i was laying in bed watching the proposal on my plazma. i was wearing an over sized tee and training. i did change my clothes when i woke up.im not that lazy

i didnt see faisal for the past two days, i dont know what hes up to, but hes always busy and in a hurry.

he barely sleeps if you count him coming home 9alat ilfajer and leaving at 6.

maybe he sleeps at his house or his friends places.

i finally got bored of being lazy and started going to the kitchen.

i was putting a chip in my mouth

when suddenly the door bursts open and faisal rushes in.

his eyes were wide and wild.

faisal:"layan. car. now" he said it breathing heavily and grabbing me by the forearm. he rushed me to the door.

me:"shisalfa, heloooooo can you see what im wearing? wain ray7eeeeen?"

faisal herded me into the passenger seat and slammed the door before getting into the drivers seat.

faisal:"layan, can you do me a favor?" he asked as we pulled out of the driveway

me:"ya" i was confused and freaking out

faisal:"can you shut up and let me drive?" he didnt even glance my way

now thats more like it.

i smiled despite myself and shook my head

faisal finally glanced my way for a split second

he sighed

faisal:"whats so funny? tha7keeni ma3ach" he said it in a dry humourless voice

me:"your just never going to change"

he smiled to himself

faisal:"everyone changes. only the best people stay the same"

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we got to the airport and we walked towards pinkberry and found a distressed reem and fahad speaking rapidly to eachother in the corner.

fahad looked at us and let go of a breathe he seeemed to be holding.

fahad:"gggoooood your here"

faisal nodded

fahad and reem sat next to eachother so that left me to sit next to faisal.

reem:"will you explain what happened?"
fahad:"it was the gameplan" then he looked at faisal and said "right faisal?"

faisal nodded

me:"will someone please fill in the blanks?"

fahad pointed at faisal

fahad:"hes the expert on gameplan, he has enemies and allies there"

reem:"how? i mean hes close? how do you know so much?" she was suspicious.

faisal looked her straight in the eye and said

"i know, because i was one of them"

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reem and i freaked out

we started to talk over echother

reem:""seriously?!!! why am i even surprised"

fahad put a hand over his face

faisal just put his hands over eachother and crossed them

me:"what the fu--dgebucket?!!!!! YOU??? ulllaaaaa" i said in exasperation (we werent supposed to say bad words since we were young, my dad turned every bad word into an appropriate one)

fahad took his hand away from his eyes and smiled at what i just said.

faisal waited patiently til we quited down.

faisal:"5ala9taw?....mumkin atkalam?"

we nodded

he sighed

faisal:"yes i was in the gameplan when we came back from america but it only lasted a year o shway. i had bad friends and... actually all of my friends were bad except fahad. he talked me out of it. and the gameplan changed.."

....

faisal:"the gameplan is a huge group of guys from all schools and everywhere in kuwait, mu haylag kilish, theyre the upper layer of kuwait society but some of them are bad. you could say the upper layer split in half. half for the bad guys and half for the good ones. the gameplan is the bad side, ma3a alasaf it didnt used to be that way, kanaw zayneen bas.... people change"

he looked at me when he said that last part.

faisal continued

"what you two saw the other day, and what reem and fahad saw today is something that has nothing to do with you two" he looked at me and reem

reem joined  in:"but wait, shthamb the people illy bilma3rath?"

faisal :"what you mean the fillers? oh right you dont know i forgot. ya. ilnas illy bil ma3rath were hand picked to come, layan wasnt supposed to be there illa itha u5u ghizlan wouldve taken her out before anything happened, and im pretty sure he would have, the people the gameplan wants revenge from, those people angered the gameplan so they cornered them and got something in return, ya2ama they beat the crap out of them, or they take something from them, or........." he went quiet
faisal looked downpeople that are there are of three. ya2ama ohma part of the gameplan or there the fillers or theyre the


"they didnt kill people when i was a part of it, the reason i left was because someone died by accident, when they killed the boy i left. i didnt want anything to do with it. "

reem:"are you trieng to convince us you have a heart?" rem said to my shock

faisals eyes darted towards her

faisal:"you can believe what you want"

reem:"aww too bad -"

faisal:"im not a part of the game plan but if i want something to happen it will"

everyone went quiet for a second.

fahad broke the silence:"ilmohim what you saw today was the gameplan trieng to get revenge from faisal"

me:"why??" i asked in shock?

faisal glanced towards me

faisal"maybe you havent noticed. but im not nice" he said with a small amused smile.

we all looked at faisal

reem:"i would have never have guessed"she said drily.

what was going on? reem and faisal exchanged death glares

me:"shisalfa??"

they both looked at me

fahad looked uncomfortable.

fahad:"layan do you want to go get something to eat? you know they have this knew strawberry flavor im dieng to try... though im a choclate person myself, you know i could really go for some pomegranate.."

i got up and nodded.

we walked away together and when we got in line i saw a flash. someone was taking pictures in pinkberry???

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-REEM-

fahad and layan were walking away and discussing flavors

i was currently losing a staring competition

faisal:"you cant say a word" he said

me:"im not"

faisal smiled:"because you know youll lose her if you do"

that made me grimace

me:"what do you have to lose? why arent you telling her?"

faisal countered:"because we dont want her dad to find out before the papers of the shareekat are finalized"

me::"speaking of, when will the marriage be finalized?"

faisal:"we will  officially  be husband and wife tomorrow morning " he said.

my face went grim

me:"you know, layan and i have been fantasizing about our wedding day since we were in middle school... wedding dresses, rings, flowers, the guy" i said. in a wistful voice

faisals eyes went cold and hard. his lips formed a line

faisal:"well im sorry that didnt work out for you, bas this is for her, all my dad is doing is for her. im sorry this isnt what you wanted but its whats best, and its not like shes stuck with me forever, shell be free soon enough, and she wont even know, you guys can still have your fantasy weddings and whatever afteer this is over"

me:"but youll still be her first"

faisal:"shell never know i was, ill be gone" he said in a smooth calm voice

my heart broke a little for layan.....

me:"you know, i wish you wouldve never come back... because when you do leave, it will cause her more harm then when you came" i said not wanting to admit it.

he looked at me, he looked pissed

faisal:"reem you just said yourself shed be better off without me here"

me:"she cant be better off, because she cares"

faisal looked at me angrily

faisal:"she wont for long"

i couldnt hold it in

me:"AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?"

faisal stood up:"BECAUSE! " he said it and walked away.

when he walked away fahad and layan came back looking confused.

layan:"wain ra7?"

i pointed towards his brooding figure walking out.


layan:"i dont know whats going on with you two, but you both have to get over it"

layan took off after him

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-LAYAN-

i power walked after him

when i got out i was shocked by what i saw.

faisal smoking

i just stood there and stared,

he looked at me carelessly, like i see him smoking everyday.

he was too laid back.

he started blowing out smoke rings and when i walked up to him he blew one at my face

i coughed and took the cigaret from him threw it on the ground and stepped on it

he just looked at me

faisal:"now why would you do that?" he said in a tired voice

me:"because its killing you slowly" i said.

he just took out another one and placed it in his mouth.

he lit it and i took it out

but his fast reflexes won out and grabbed my wrist

he plucked the cigarette out of my hand and put it in his mouth

faisal:"layan go back inside" he said as he exhaled

me:"why are you doing this?" i said in exasperation

faisal exhaled:"doing what?"

me:"YOUR ACTING LIKE A JERK"

he glanced my way

faisal:"its just who i am"

me:"no its not, the faisal i know would never smoke infront of me, thefaisal i know would blow up if i took a cigarret out of his hand. he would take whats happened to fatma seriously-"

faisal cut me off

faisal:"she had it coming"

WHAT?!!!!!!

me:"na3am? faisal no one NO ONE deserves to die that way."

faisal didnt even look at me:"one less problem to fix, one less problem in the world"

my mouth fell open

me:"i hope your happy then-"

faisal:"in order to be happy i would have to care first" he said.

me:"what would you do if that happened to me?"

he threw his cigarrete on the floor and took out another one.

faisal:"get inside layan."

me:"ANSWER ME"

faisal:"it depends"

i felt my heart plummet

me:"it depends... it depends..."

faisal looked my way

faisal:"you can take care of yourself"

i just looked at him.


suddenly a tinted van came up to us opened the door and yanked me inside.

they slammed the door shut

and i was plummeted into darkness.