THUMBS DOWN

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• When Best Friends Love    THUMBS DOWN

  Today is the special day when Mujahid gets to meet Nadia's mother. All the reasons not to meet her came flooding in, as if his body chemistry just sent them a blanket invitation. He feels the soft panic that can grow or fade depending on what he does next. It will fade if he backs away, but then he has to do it all again another time. It will grow if he lets these thoughts swirl into a vortex of stupidity, eating their own tail. Or he can breathe real slow, let the thoughts leak into the ether and be the real boss of him. Last time he was that nervous was when he was looking for a job that his father refused to help him get.

• When Best Friends Love    STRANGERS

  The next morning after Subh, she dressed up and left for work early. Her Head throbbed. The pain felt like someone had taken a knife to her skull. She leant her head against her desk. Squeezing her eyes shut, she willed the pain to go away. The rest of the world became detached, all she could concentrate on was the pain rooted deep in her head. She could barely hear the people chattering around her. All she felt, all she knew was the pain of that moment. Staying up all night and whimpering wasn't a good idea.

• When Best Friends Love    THE DISMANTLE

  He lifted his coffee mug to take another sip when Ahmad held the mug and took it away from him. He shook his head and Mahmud chuckled. "I don't think taking that much coffee would make you forget about her or solve your problems."Mahmud looked at the mugs on the desks and chuckled dryly. He was having a meltdown ever since she rejected him. What bothers him more is that their relationship is over all thanks to his brother for coming

• When Best Friends Love    CLOAK AND DAGGER

  "This place looks really beautiful, I never knew about it before," she spoke, holding his arm tighter like someone was going to snatch him away. "Well yes, it's a new place. They just opened it few months ago and I thought we'd have our picnic here and hangout all day together."She watched

• When Best Friends Love    MEETING THE RIVAL

  They walked into to boutique, roaming around while talking and checking out dresses. "This would look good on you Aydah, you should try it on please," she urged her to try the dress on. Aydah sighed and grabbed it from Maryam's hand.Maryam sat patiently waiting for her to wear the dress and step out of the dressing room. She has been having a tough week and she couldn't open up to tell Aydah her problems. She haven't even told anyone that

• When Best Friends Love    SHAMBLES

  The next week, Mujahid was on his first date with Nadia. He has never been excited about going out with someone till he met Nadia. She was a no nonsense woman. An independent, rich, sexy and classy woman, just the lady he wanted. He has met women more sexier, more classier and richer than her but he has never met someone so beautiful with great attitude like hers."Remember that day, when I winked at you for the first time. And you shot back a sm