CHAPTER XXI

Silver or black

Badiyya couldn't help but contemplate on which colour of car she would take among so many cars parked in their driveway. She wasn't acting to be a spoilt brat, in fact these two cars which she was actually having difficulties to choose, is the cheapest among all the various cars. Just because her dad was rich doesn't mean she need to behave spoilt when in fact she hates spoilt kids, all they do is annoy her.

The black one it is

She finally decided to take the black one since it wouldn't be as flashy as the silver one. She dressed up nicely in a beautiful sewed atampa . Badiyya is a very calm and collected lady, she doesn't look down on people no matter where and what background they come from. She sees everyone as equal. We are all human and whatever material things we think we have, we aren't taking it to our graves. All of it will be left on earth, so why behave as if you have the world under your foot?.

She starts the car and drove out of the drive way to this particular restaurant her brother told her to meet him.

I pray he isn't doing bad coz it would hurt me. I can't help it .

She just couldn't get the bad thoughts away about her brother not doing good. It been years now since she last saw him. He is everything to her. It came to a point when she even considers him as her only brother. Mansir wasn't even much of a brother to her, all he does was to only scold her . To think that It was this same sadiq that always advise her to stop talking rudely about Mansir,but look at how they all treated him as if he was a stranger in his own father's home. She blames her dad for letting all these happened, he didn't do a good job on her part.

Even if sadiq decided to leave home, the least their father could have done was to try and get in touch with him but he didn't. He left him out here alone like someone who doesn't have a family. She shakes her head at the thought.

" they are all evil. Both dad, Mom and yaya Mansir. They don't deserve yaya Sadiq,he is too good to be with all of them." she spat. If she had a chance, she would have even prefer to stay with Yaya Sadiq but he wouldn't let her. He cares for her so much that he wouldn't let any harm come to her.

She sight the restaurant from a far and reduced the speed of the car. When she got closer to the place, she found a safe place to park her car and then finally got out of the car. She double check if all the car doors were locked. She walk straight to the entrance with contempt. Before entering, Badiyya decides to call sadiq if he was inside yet and he wasn't. He told her to wait inside for him since he has just few minutes to get there.

She Pull the door open and " ouch" she bump into a man. It was more like the man bumped into her. The man was actually at fault coz he was on the phone not being attentive to his surrounding.

Due to the quick reflex he has, he quickly held her thin waist coz she was about to fall backward all because of the amount of force he hit her with.

As for Badiyya, all that just happened came off too sudden for her. Her heart beat rapidly in fear of falling down. Her eyes were still tightly closed . The two stood in that position for few seconds. The man waited for her to get over the shock before he could release her. He knew he was to be blamed for the happening.

" Miss, are you OK? " he asked, concerned. At the sound of the voice, she quickly push the man back.

" auzubillah" her face was hot from the shame. She couldn't believe that he held her so close like that. No man had ever done that. She couldn't even meet his eyes.

The man raised a brow, surprised at her action " sorry, if my closeness had made you uncomfortable. I didn't do that intentionally " he looked at her mesmerized faced.

Cute

She look cute like a baby doll, the man thought.

She slightly cleared her throat " ermmm, I.... I'm sorry for pushing you. You caught me by surprise. "

He smirk " I should be the one apologizing. I'm sorry. " he said it more like a tease

She noticed it and raise her eyes to meet his " you don't actually mean it" she seem unaffected with his look. From mere looking at him, he looks more older in age. She speculated that he might be at least ten years older than her.

" why would you say so? "

" you don't look like it. Your apology sounded more like a tease " she roll her eyes.

" OK, pardon my manners. Let me make it sound more apologetic. " he smirk

" don't bother " she made a move to go into the eatery

" wait! " she turn to look at him " what? "

" erm I didn't get your name"

" you don't need to" she said

" please, I would love to have your number " he was insistance

" and I said you don't "

" OK fine, since you won't tell me your name and also give me your number, then I will tell you mine. I'm Sagir"

She sigh" Badiyya" she said and entered into the restaurant without much being said.

Badiyya,

What a lovely name, he tried the name out and was already in love with it.

" I hope to see you soon, Badiyya" he said to himself and left.

***

Sadiq parked his small car at the lot. He eagerly walk into the restaurant . Immediately he got in, he looked around hoping to see her face and there she was at the window side busy with her phone. She look a lot different now, she is now a grown woman. To him, she will always be his little sister.

Badiyya felt someone's gaze on her so she raise her head to see who it was and everything freeze for her. There standing just a few metres away from her is her brother, Looking more devilishly handsome. He smile widely at her and stride towards her table.

She didn't even know when she dropped her phone and squealed loud in joy. She ran to hug him so tight .

" calm down tiger. Don't forget we aren't the only one in the restaurant " he whispered in close to her ear.

" who cares, I don't care what they say. I have missed you so much" she whispered back.

She finally pull back and they have their seat.

" we have so much to talk about, Yaya " she look so excited

He chuckled " of course we do. "

She was high in happiness. She doesn't even know which particular question she wants to start with. " let me start by asking who your girlfriend is. I'm sure you have one " she wiggled her brows. She couldn't help but ask. The way he kept himself clean and smooth actually did drew some attention from other ladies in the restaurant. Starting with a question might sound stupid to others but she just couldn't help it. I really want to know.

He could only raise a brow" is that why we are here?. Well, to answer your question, why do I need to have a girlfriend. I'm doing good on my own"

" I don't believe you. You must have a girlfriend, how can you tell me you don't need one" she sounded serious and surprised at the same time.

She made him speechless " I don't have and don't need one yet"

She scoff" you're unbelievable. But I'm definitely sure you already have someone in mind even if you two aren't dating"

" hmm, well-done miss nosey cat. I actually don't have any one in mind"

" please don't hide it from me. At least you must have a crush on someone " she pout

" I don't "

" you do"

" I don't "

" yes, you do"

" no, I do_

He was cut off by a loud shriek.

" waiter, there is a cockroach in my food" the lady with the loud shriek called out

Badiyya and Sadiq turn to the commotion and the sight before sadiq surprised him to the core. He knew how she hates this restaurant, then why is she here?. He had always noticed that she prefers going to the five star restaurant not far from this particular one. I'm sure this cockroach stunt she is pulling is a lie. Why would she do that?

" what is she doing here" he mumbled

Badiyya heard " who is she? Do you know her? "

Sadiq disregard her question, instead, his mind was still at the lady making the scene.

Realisation dawn into Badiyya " is she the one? " she wiggled her brows.

He turn to her " the what? "

" the girl you are crushing on "

He look at her like she was crazy " stop speculating nonsense. I can never date someone like that " he pointed at the direction " she is too..too" he was finding it hard to get a word that defines her.

" too pompous ? "

He sighed "something like that "

She clicked her finger " gotcha. So I was right after all. She is the one then? "

He scowl at her " eew, she isn't "

" I know she is. She kind of look familiar though " she glanced at Rahama's table again. " I think I have seen her somewhere "

" of course, you would have seen her somewhere. After all she is Mansir's fiance"

Her eye almost bulged out " she is? "

" yes she is. Don't tell me you've not met one on one ?"

she shake her head " no, no we haven't. "

" oh"

" yeah. Mansir hasn't introduced us and I never bother to ask"

" lucky you then"

She stare at him sternly " why do you say it like she is a bad person?. Infact,back to my previous question. Where do you know her from ?"

" No where "

" please, pretty please " she begged with puppy eyes.

He exhaled deeply " we work in the same office "

" Really?!!" her voice was coming off too loud coz of how surprised she was.

" How is she like?" she was too eager to know.

" are we here to talk about her? Aren't we here to spend a good time "

She pout " but it still part of having a nice time. " she glance at Rahama's table again and was surprised that Rahama was already looking at her. More like glaring at her.

" I think someone is jealous of me" Badiyya whispered, " don't look at her table . She is already glaring daggers at me" she giggles

" what? Why would she do that? " he wanted looking at the table but Badiyya quickly held his face " I said you shouldn't look" she warned.

" why? "

" just don't "

" OK fine. Can you release my face now? "

" hm, of course " she let him be. They continue their talk while eating,forgeting that a particular someone was looking at them .

They actually did patched up all lost time.

***

Well well well, how was it?