Chapter 11

Marwan brought Maisarah back to the factory. She rode her bike and followed Marwan to the mechanic. She thought that it would take a day or two to fix her motorcycle but it would only take a few hours.

Since they had free time, they decided to wait at a nearby cafe.

“Order your drink, my treat,” Maisarah said as she also looked at the board of the menu.

“Isn’t that a given. I am just a student after all,” Marwan replied as he also looked through the menu board.

“Hmm… Give me Mango Shake Super Blast Special and a slice of strawberry cake,” Maisarah gave her order.

The server took her order and punched it inside the computer.

“Orange Shake Mega Special, a slice of cheesecake and orange cake,” Marwan gave him too.

“Eat here or pack?” the server asked.

“Eat,” Maisarah replied and she made her payment. On the other hand, Marwan went and searched for a seat in the cafe. He chose a seat beside the glass wall and sat there.

Maisarah sat opposite of Marwan.

“Aren’t you eating too much?” Marwan asked.

“Shouldn’t I be the one asking that?” she looked at Marwan weirdly. Marwan ordered more than her, so she felt like he should not ask her that question.

“I am a growing boy. So, it is not that weird for me to eat a lot,” Marwan retorted.

“Growing boy? Heh,” Maisarah shook her head, “You are not a boy anymore. You are a young man. You are already 21. What boy is that? Your growth period has passed too.”

“Still, a man usually eats more than a woman. So, what is so weird with my order?”

“What nonsense. I know many men who eat little and women who eat a lot.”

“Whatever. Aren’t you worried about getting fat? What if Abang Rafiq ran away?” Marwan added.

“He will never leave me and I will never leave him too because we love each other,” Maisarah was smiling. “No matter what size I wield, or what size he wields, we will be together until we are old.”

“...” Marwan was speechless but he caught on to something. “Are you guys planning to get married soon?”

“We are planning for it but we haven’t set anything yet. Keep this a secret first. Nothing is certain yet,” Maisarah replied.

“Why are you guys uncertain about it? Since you plan to get married, that means you will,” Marwan found it weird.

“Both of us are really busy now. He just gets promoted at work and if he takes a vacation for our marriage, it will not look good. Also, I will get promoted soon too, so I also cannot take any break.”

“Oh,” Marwan understood.

Their order arrived and they started eating.

“Emm~” Maisarah looked happy eating the sweet cake and sweet drinks.

“...Aren’t you too happy?”

“Why can’t I be happy?” she asked back and added, “After all the stressing stuff I went through in the morning, I am happy that everything went well.”

“Do you know how scared I am when I feel pain at my side? Alhamdulillah that nothing serious happens,” Maisarah ate happily.

“Then, you should go to the hospital earlier. Why are you delaying it?” Marwan was speechless.

They continued eating while chatting once in a while and Marwan checked his phone and there was a message from Muaz. He checked it and saw that Muaz would be really late tonight.

“Along will be late tonight,” Marwan said.

“Why are you telling an injured woman about this?” Maisarah replied.

“...” Marwan decided to keep quiet.

“And what about Kak Leeya? Will she be late too? Like every time?” Maisarah added. She sounded displeased.

“...I think so,” Marwan replied and he glanced at Maisarah.

“So, have you got your internship’s location?” Maisarah changed the subject. She did not want to talk about the depressing stuff. She just got out of one of them and did not want to enter another one.

“Not yet, soon,” Marwan replied.

“Do well. Who knows? Maybe you will be recruited after the internship,” Maisarah said and she added, “If only I do good enough in my internship, I will be working at a good company now.”

“Aren’t your workplace now good too?”

“It is but obviously I want to work on something that I painstakingly learn for many years. Imagine learning accountancy but getting a QC job. It has nothing to do with what I learn and I need to relearn many things too for my job.”

“You are right…” Marwan’s mind flew somewhere as he thought of something.

“You are in the same situation too. You learned economics at school but then you got into Pure Science. It is hard right to learn many things from the beginning?”

Marwan nodded. He knew how hard it was.

“So, don’t screw up your internship,” Maisarah reminded Marwan.

They continued chatting for a while before it was time to check back on Maisarah’s motorcycle. They fixed the headlight and they rode their bike back home.

“Why are you home early?” Zainab asked Maisarah. It was normal for Marwan to come back early as it depended on his class but not Maisarah.

Maisarah would usually be home at 7 pm as she did overtime too, every day. So, for her to come back home before 5 pm was weird.

“Well…” since she came back early, she could not conceal the reason and told Zainab what had happened.

“Are you okay?” Zainab looked at Maisarah up and down to see if she was hurt anywhere but she looked fine.

“I am fine. I just got a few bruises and nothing else,” Maisarah reassured Zainab of her wellness.

“Alhamdulillah, that’s great,” Zainab smiled in relief.

“Where are the brats?” Maisarah looked around.

“They are sleeping. Don’t disturb them and no need to worry about them too. You should rest. Although you are not injured, you should still rest,” Zainab urged Maisarah to rest.

“Okay,” Maisarah got to her room. Marwan did the same too.