I was my parents favorite because i was too pretty

on a hiking trail one day i caught sight of a boy in the distance all by himself and my heart stopped why was he so close to the edge of the cliff it seemed like he would fall over any minute i dashed forward and pulled him away we both fell to the ground our eyes locked for a second but i quickly backed away what'd you do that for i thought you were gonna go over i was just trying to take a picture of a really rare butterfly thanks for ruining it i said i was sorry and brushed the grass off myself just as i was about to walk away he suddenly took my hand hey getting to see your eyes up close was kind of worth it i'm jack by the way oh my heart he let go of my hand abruptly and i could see a girl coming over like a raging bull towards us what do you think you're doing stay away from him i couldn't forget that moment for a week hi my name is rubina and it was my first day at my fancy new high school my parents had moved from pakistan a long time ago and now owned a restaurant i wanted nothing more than to become a chef but they wouldn't hear of it i had to be a doctor they didn't move all the way to america for me to be a cook as i walked into class with clara i froze when i saw the boy from the trail and his annoyingly pretty girlfriend no he obviously didn't remember me but maybe she did cause she hated me from the moment i came in elena was one of those perfect girls with perfect hair who knew all the answers and never got less than an a and all she could talk about was how she was going to harvard like her daddy and granddaddy she also felt so threatened by the new smart kid in class that's me i could tell that she didn't like that i had guys flocking around me a boy from class told me the other day that i looked so exotic he wanted to know all about where i was from another one said he wished he could move to pakistan if all the girls were as gorgeous as me jeez why don't you guys just all move there i don't even know why you're jealous the only boy i want is with you which leads us to my first ever b-plus on a math test it was hard to focus with jack in class my parents were furious it was like i'd brought dishonor to our entire family when i was your age i walked 20 miles to school every day with a heavy backpack you have everything you could want princess getting good grades is the least you can do and don't turn out like your sister that girl has given us nothing but grief i sighed we didn't talk about ferial much unless it was to give an example of what not to do she'd become a model and gone off with her loser boyfriend i missed having her around though it was cultural day at school and i was so excited to be wearing my traditional clothes and sharing some food from back home i'd cooked up a secret family recipe when i walked into class that day i had girls gasping at how pretty my clothes were of course elena loudly announced that she thought i looked really weird i think it's actually a pretty cute look babe you should try it out sometime i'm sure rubina would be happy to help the vein on elena's head looked like it was gonna pop during recess we joined tables in class and were about to share the food we'd brought suddenly i found myself tripping and falling face forward i stared around in horror everything was on the floor and i was a mess claire helped me up but one looked at elena's smug face and i knew she was behind it i was so furious and embarrassed i just walked out i grabbed my things from my locker and decided to go home i just walked a block away from school when i heard someone call out to me jack i'm so sorry for what happened rubina i just wanted to make sure you were okay he hugged me and i cried some angry tears into his shoulder i pulled away but he was still holding me by the waist you're the girl from the trail right yes yes yes i knew it was you i couldn't forget those green eyes like deep pools covered with algae you know the green stuff jack you're really bad at this he laughed too and he leaned in to kiss me the universe had conspired to make this moment happen i i gotta fix things with elena first i'll call you soon okay i almost skipped with joy on my way home you know how rare it is to find your soul mate this was fate and then i got struck by lightning i had no idea that most people survived being struck by lightning and i was one of them i opened my eyes and there were lots of lights and people talking around me and a guy with a really worried face i slipped away again i woke up and had no idea where i was this wasn't my room where were all my boy band posters oh thank god you're awake how are you feeling blank that's what i'm feeling stranger who are you and where am i he looked shocked and he told me that lightning had struck me yesterday and he explained that he was my boyfriend jimmy and i was at our apartment had this lunatic kidnapped me i was beginning to freak out i ran to the bathroom and locked myself in and told him i needed to see my parents i heard him talking on the phone to someone i turned to the mirror and i screamed why did i look so much older omg were those lines starting to show under my eyes and what was that a white hair just then i heard a knock on the door in a familiar voice open up rubina it's varial i opened the door and my sister hugged me tight she also looked so much older than i remembered what had happened to the hot model she remembers you she doesn't have any idea who i am okay i was feeling sorry for this dude because he looked really hurt and he seemed nice but what was going on rubina what's the last thing you remember i remember kissing jack and going home from school they took me to the doctor and after much questioning it turned out that i had lost all my memories for the last 10 years i was stuck feeling like i was still 17 because i didn't remember anything from my life after that but i was actually 27 now the doctor said my amnesia could go away on its own but they couldn't be sure varial decided to take me to her place since i didn't feel comfortable with jimmy he looked really sad as he put my bags in her car and said he'd come and see me soon with picture albums maybe those would help jog my memory a bit i had so many questions where were mom and dad ferial told me they'd gone out of business two years ago and had decided to move back to pakistan i was devastated by that news i loved that restaurant ferial said she'd left her boyfriend many years ago and fixed things with mom and dad and moved back into her house she was still living there after they'd left of course i remembered this place this was home the door was opened by a very silky 13 year old girl varial introduced her as her daughter sidra mom i know who she is we meet like every weekend yes sweetie but auntie doesn't know who you are anymore her brain's gone a bit mushy the next day was just as crazy as i tried to understand what had happened all these years apparently i'd gone to med school and graduated with flying colors and i had my own clinic now that was so lame i was supposed to be a chef i talked to mom and dad on skype and they said they'd come and see me as soon as they could get a flight um by the way mom do you remember me dating a guy called jack in high school i don't remember the word bite that means kid in my language it's something mom will probably keep calling me even when i'm a grandma maybe you kept it a secret from me that was entirely possible i said the connection was dropping and hung up what had happened to me and jack hadn't he broken up with elena after that magical life-changing kiss jimmy came by the next morning with a pile of photo albums as he walked me through all the birthdays and trips i could see him looking at my face hoping i would remember something he really had such warm kind eyes i felt awful disappointing him why don't you leave these here and i'll look through them again he smiled sadly and said he'd come again later oh i almost forgot here's your phone you forgot it the other day yes that's what i needed and i found a jack on my phone my hands were shaking as i dialed the number turned out it was jack the plumber who'd fixed the pipes in our place last month apparently great i didn't have claire's number either i wanted to catch up with her and if anyone knew what had happened between me and jack it would be her i searched for both of them on facebook but they didn't seem to have accounts no one uses facebook that much anymore aunt rubina i've been telling you since forever to make an insta account why was this 13 year old weirdo calling me auntie then i remembered that i wasn't actually 17 and that she was my niece whatever fine if you insist set up this insta account for me she rolled her eyes and took my phone a few minutes later i had a profile on instagram and we found both jack and claire there i sent them both invites and spent the whole day checking my phone thank god cedra had shown me this awesome channel my story animated i laughed and cried over the stories all day while i waited as i was about to go to sleep that night i got a notification jack had accepted my invite how is it possible that he was even cuter now and i couldn't see any wife or girlfriend i left him a message saying i'd like to meet almost instantly i got a reply hey never thought i'd hear from you again i'd love to catch up meet me at the starbucks on 5th avenue how was i going to sleep tonight just then i got a whatsapp message from jimmy goodnight i started going through all our previous conversations and it seemed like he really loved me it made me feel kind of warm and fuzzy inside but i couldn't remember that feeling of loving him i woke up feeling so excited about meeting up with jack i had to decide what to wear yuck why did being 27 mean that i only had boring clothes where were the ripped jeans and cute crop tops i remembered ferial saying that some of my old stuff was in the attic so i went up hoping to find something there and i did this was perfect it was the dress i was wearing the day jack and i kissed he'd loved it and maybe i'd get lucky again okay so i had to beg cedric to zip me up while i held my breath but i still looked good my heart was racing as i walked into the coffee shop he looked up and smiled and i was spellbound again he got up and kissed me on the cheek and said i hadn't changed at all i really haven't jack he asked why i'd wanted to reconnect after all this time and i told him my whole crazy lightning story i'm just trying to remember things what happened between us he looked really surprised that i'd forgotten everything well i broke up with elena and asked you out and we dated for a year it was really special he said when i was going off to med school we decided long distance was going to be too hard so we went our own ways i felt heartbroken how could i have possibly let my soul mate get away he took my hand and said he'd felt so good hearing from me he wanted to see me again and of course i said yes maybe this was fate's way of letting us have another chance he walked me back home and just as he was about to leave he turned around i've been wanting to do this again for so long and he pulled me in for a long kiss leaving my head spinning as i snuggled up on the couch to become jack's cyberstalker i realized claire still hadn't added me i looked her up on google and found out where she worked she was a partner at some big law firm i called her workplace and the secretary put me through a few seconds later i instantly recognized claire's voice as she asked who was speaking hi fancy pants claire it's rubina remember your best friend suddenly there was complete silence and then she just hung up what on earth the doorbell rang someone had sent a bouquet of white lilies from me how oh i had always loved lilies i read the note hey would you like to come over to my place for dinner tonight i'd like you to get to know me again let me know jimmy man this was getting confusing i mean jack had just kissed me and asked me out and here was my real boyfriend and he was just so sweet and it was just dinner right i texted him and said i'd be there when jimmy opened the door i couldn't help thinking he looked really cute all dressed up and here i was in cidra's t-shirt we walked out to the balcony to have a candle at dinner for two this was definitely a date when he placed the food on the table i cried out in surprise omg how did you know that's like my favorite thing in the world of course i know i learned the recipe from your mom ages ago boy did he know how to make his way into a pakistanis girl's heart it was just really fun and easy talking to him i didn't even realize how quickly the time had gone by wanna dance i don't know if you remember this but you love dancing i always have as he pulled me close and we slow danced under the stars i could feel my heart racing why did he smell so nice i kind of really wanted him to kiss me trying to distract myself i said that it was really weird that my best friend claire seemed to be avoiding me he suddenly stopped short you mean claire from your high school you've told me about her you guys haven't spoken to each other since you graduated i was really surprised why you said you caught her and your boyfriend kissing at the graduation party i pulled back horrified what i told jimmy i had to go and ran out of there before he could stop me i cried all the way home how could my best friend who knew everything do this how could jack the next day i stormed off to the car dealership he told me he owned he looked really surprised to see me hey babe i thought we were meeting i slapped him hard on the cheek you kissed my best friend and you tried to fool me because i couldn't remember stuff babe listen that was such a long time ago well what about the ring on your finger now all of his employees were staring at us in stunned silence i wish i'd forgotten you even existed goodbye jack stupid boy i'd met on that stupid trail was always a scumbag when i got back home i tripped over a suitcase and cried out in joy mom and dad were here as i sobbed and hugged mom i thought she smelled like my favorite things in the world cinnamon and jasmine suddenly i felt dizzy like my mind was spinning out of control what was happening to me it felt like my life was playing out before me i remembered the graduation party the first time lightning struck me and my time at med school and i'd come back and on the plane ride home i'd met jimmy they say lightning never strikes the same place twice but it had it struck me twice when i was 17 and when i was 27 years old the first time nothing happened but the second time it had hit me i'd lost all my memories of the last 10 years but now i remembered everything and i remembered that i'd found my real soulmate and he was not a stupid high school crush he was a real deal and i had to marry him before he ran away i told everyone i had to do something really important and i rushed out i just had to make one stop on the way jimmy looked really surprised to see me at his door that night when i got struck the second time i was going to ask you to marry me i kneeled on the ground and i said jimmy would you marry me and i handed him the ring i bought before i lost my memory his jaw dropped open and he said you remember me and he just pulled me in tight and hugged me he said in my ear there's nothing i want to do more than marry you roubina

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Published: Thu Feb 11 2021