Authors Note: The new video gave me all the feels. Who else cried when the girls showed up with the new buss? Also I just wanted to note...this story is changing into a sort of random one-shot story. I will post random prompts or one shots I write when I am feeling inspired. This chapter is what happens when Sana goes home, after the girls show up with the new buss.
Have you ever felt so happy...so elated that you feel like your bones are lighter? Like, you can spread your arms and fly away? That was how Sana felt today.
She had started her day, like the last few days, crying. She thought for sure she had lost all of her friends. And she had no one to blame but herself. Sure, Sara was a cold hearted, two faced bitch, but Sana didn't have to sink down to her level. In the end she had hurt a lot of people, and this was the day she was going to fix everything. She just needed her friends to actually show up.
When the Pepsi-max girls stood to leave, and Chris and the girls were no where to be found, Sana had lost all hope. It was over.
And then the girls swooped in like the angels they were, and put her broken heart back together. They laughed and screamed and hugged most of the afternoon, and when it was time for Sana to go home, she hugged each one of them extra hard before they left.
Sana's face hurt from smiling so much, and she found that she couldn't stop her eyes from watering. She was an emotional person weather it be sadness or happiness and this was probably the happiest she had ever been. She felt light on her feet when as walked into the kitchen and flew right into her mothers arms. She pressed her face into her mothers chest and laughed and cried at the same time.
"Sana?" Her mother exclaimed. "Honey, whats wrong? Why are you crying? Has something happened?"
Yes something has happened. She found out that her friends are amazing. She found that Chris had been playing her when she told Sana, that they didn't like her anymore.
Sana just squeezed her mother tighter and laughed.
"Mama?" Another voice said, as the door to the kitchen swung open.
"What happened?" The voice...Elias said. "Sana, whats wrong? What happened?"
Sana laughed as she spun around to face her brother. Only then noticing that his four shadows stood by his side. Sana smiled as she ran forward into her brothers arms. She hugged him tight and then, shocking everyone, she hugged the others too. First Mikael, and then Adam and then Mutta and then...
Oh
She stopped herself before hugging the last boy in the chain. Because...well, it had been awkward with him for a long time, but she was so happy today that she didn't want to think about it. She just wanted to be happy. Yousef was looking very amused by the whole show, and a little awkward, because nobody else in the room knew what had happened between the two of them.
Sana was still smiling, but now she was blushing too. Because, she could be mad at him all she liked, but Yousef was still the most beautiful boy she had seen up close. He still made her pulse pound in her ears.
"Are you okay, Sana?" Yousef said, voice deep and curious.
"Uh, yeah" Sana said, "I'm great actually. I've had a really horrible couple days, but everything is better now."
She reached up to wipe the tears from her watery eyes, blushing still as Yousef continued to look at her.
"If everything is great, then why are you crying?"
She shook her head and smiled. "Its a really long story. Like I said, it's been a really horrible few days and this morning I just felt like all was lost. I felt hopeless. And then my friends pulled through for me. I realized that none of it mattered. It doesn't matter that I am too Muslim for some people, and not Norwegian enough for others. I am who I am, and that is enough."
Yousef smiled, and it took her breath away.
"I have a gay, best buddy/biology partner. And I have four best friends who love me for me."
Yousef rolled his lips in and then he smiled that toothy smile that Sana loved.
"That's really amazing, Sana," He said, "I just have one question though."
Sana raised her eyebrows in question.
"Do I get a hug too?"
She laughed and looked down, and blushed bright red again. When she was able to look up again, she nodded her head.
Yousef stepped forward and gently wrapped his arms around her shoulders. Sana slid her arms around his torso and pressed her face into his chest. She wanted to cry again with how good it felt to be this close to him.
He smells so good.
Sana stepped back and laughed when she heard a chorus of "awww" from her brother and his friends.
It felt really good to be in such a good place, and she knew she owed a lot of that to her friends, and looking around at everyone in the kitchen, she thought about someone else in her life. Her smile faded as she addressed all the boys.
"You know, I've made a mess of my life lately and I ended up hurting a lot of people. But my friends never gave up on me. And, it seems to me that this little group of yours has been missing someone really important."
Five pairs of eyes fell to the floor.
"I know from experience that when someone feels embarrassed, or scared they tend to isolate themselves because they fear rejection. Because it's easier to be alone, then to have the ones you love the most tell you that you're not good enough. Sometimes all it takes is one person to take the first step; to not give up."
The boys stayed silent after Sana finished. She hoped that they took her advice.
Sana turned and blew her mother a kiss, before she made her way to her bedroom. Tonight all of the girls were going to Skype about their buss. It was little, and kind of crappy but it was theirs and it was going to fucking amazing.
End Note: Let me know what you think?