The two women who sat in the kitchen didn"t talk to each other for a while. One was having a bathing towel on and the other was wearing a plain blue dress. The woman in a towel got up and filled two gla.s.ses with water and pa.s.sed one gla.s.s to the other woman. "Miray, I am sorry.." Hazel suddenly broke the silence between them.
"Do you know why I am upset with you?..." Miray slowly turned her head and looked at Hazel in the eyes, "... It"s because I felt your pain and I remember everything but you seem to forget easily!.. have you forgotten how you were after he left you! I hate to see you that way, you idiot!!" , tears were coming out of her eyes as she said those words.
Hazel also started to cry, "Miray I am sorry, it was my fault this time, it will never happen again.."
"That"s what you said last time!! What have I ever done to you?! Why do you always have to make me feel this way!!! Are you stupid!!.."
Miray"s sobbing started to increase and Hazel hugged her as they cried together. "I love you, I am sorry Miray... "
"Don"t cry you idiot, you look ugly when you cry.." Miray broke out of the hug and started wiping Hazel"s tears. "You are a very beautiful woman, please don"t lower yourself for a man... If you didn"t stop me, I would have killed that Thomas guy."
Hazel nodded like an obedient child, knowing how serious her friend was. After some time the two of them started to laugh at each other for bursting out with emotions while wiping their tears.
"Miray, why have you not changed your clothes yet?" Hazel finally noticed what her friend was wearing.
The memory of last night suddenly came back to Miray. "I didn"t bring anything with me, I will have to wear your clothes .... ooh something for my best friend"s ears only??"
Hazel nodded while her eyes widened, she couldn"t wait to hear what had happened.
"I went on a wrong blind date with a handsome guy, and he asked me to marry him... it was really too good to be true," Miray let out a sigh and drank the gla.s.s of water that was in front of her.
Hazel paused for a moment while a.n.a.lyzing Miray"s face to see if she was telling the truth and then started to laugh out loud. The thought of Miray going on a blind date was very funny to her. "Whattt? Hahaha A blind date?? I am sure you chased the guy away with your nasty att.i.tude, poor guy! hahha"
"Yes, you can laugh all you want but my life ain"t perfect either... Old Yethu is pressuring me about marriage."
"Ooh, how I miss old Yethu! I need to visit your parents someday, how is Zain and Gift?" Hazel always had sleep overs at Miray"s place, old Yethu and madam Yethu had been like her parents too.
"They are fine, old Yethu is getting more difficult now that he is getting old,... Oh yah, the man I went on a date with happens to be my new business compet.i.tor, and I will meet him this Sat.u.r.day at a party ... I don"t know what to do Hazel.."
"Why stress about it? just ignore him."
Miray was the one who used to over think while Hazel had a carefree att.i.tude. So many people used to wonder how they were friends when they were so different.
"You are right, I will ..."
"Since you are here why don"t we go for swimming, the weather is really good today!" Hazel cut out Miray"s words for she knew her friend wanted to start with her complaining.
"Wait lets go shopping first, I need a dress for the party... Then we can do anything you want after that." Miray got up from her seat.
"Change of plan, let"s go shopping all day!" Hazel"s eyes were lit up with excitement.
Miray couldn"t understand how her friend would manage to be happy all the time. "I am not buying you anything, I am still not over seeing a naked man in your kitchen.... Aa it was scary.." she walked past Hazel who seemed to be silent at that moment.
"Yaa!! I told you it won"t happen again!!!", Hazel went behind Miray and started tickling her, "buy me a dress too! You naughty girl!".
Miray fell to the ground with laughter and Hazel continued to tickle her. "Okay okay.... Hahaha, I will buy you something hahahaha, please stop!" Miray cried out.
"Alright, let"s get ready!"
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That afternoon the two ladies went through all the malls around the city trying to look for the perfect dress for Miray. This would be her first time going public and she wanted to look very beautiful, hoping to shut down the rumours that she was an ugly witch.
Finally after going around all day, Miray found the dress she thought would be perfect. It was a short plain white dress with a collar and it had b.u.t.tons in front.
"I don"t know why you love plain colours," Hazel asked while looking at Miray through the mirror.
"White represents everything, elegance and purity,.. maybe they can now call me an angel instead of a witch." Miray smiled at Hazel.
"It"s not that bad but you could choose something better."
"No I want this one." Miray insisted.
They were in the middle of making a purchase when Miray"s phone rang and it was old Yethu calling.
"h.e.l.lo papa," Miray answered in a low tone.
"I will not die before my time because of you! where are you?!" Old Yethu"s shout was loud, it pierced through Miray"s ear.
"Papa, I am sorry, I am in city L now with Hazel... I wanted to buy a dress for a public function tomorrow, I have decided to come out."
Old Yethu was silent for a moment, Miray thought he had cut the line, "h.e.l.lo? Papa are you still there?"
"Yes I am,.." Old Yethu cleared his throught as he continued, ".. Since you are making a public appearance it would be bad to go by yourself, why not go with Terrence then, that way the two of you can get to know each other.."
Miray could sense that her father was smiling through the phone. "This is a good idea! That man won"t talk to me since I will be with someone."
"Sure papa, it will be tomorrow. He can come pick me up at 6pm and send me his phone number.... Make sure you tell him I don"t like to wait."
"I will..., my beautiful daughter always makes me happy, hahaha, I will call him right away." The line was dropped by old Yethu.
Hazel was waiting to hear what conversation Miray had with old Yethu, "what did he say?"
"You can pick a guess," Miray answered as she typed a message to Zain, telling him to buy her a return ticket.
"A blind date again?" Hazel eyes were filled with laughter.
Miray looked at her best friend and nodded. Hazel simultaneously started to laugh.Please go to to read the latest chapters for free