Chapter twelve

When they saw their mother fall down, he picked her up and laid her on her bed in her room.

- Jihan brought some cologne, which was on her release, in her mother's bedroom, but the mother was looking at her husband's picture, and she was crying at times, even if the children grew up and became men, because she needs someone to share her burden, their responsibility is that they have grown up and the responsibility also grown up,

Samir kissed her cheeks, and her head with great tenderness after he sat beside her on the bed, and Jihan covered her mother and put cologne under her nose, but she was awake.

- I do not want you, my son, to quarrel with me, because some things must be taken calmly and gently, as you know this age and how stubborn it is.

She said it after Jihan came out of the room, her mother asked her for a glass of water.

Samir, holding his mother's hand, raised it to his mouth and kissed it.

And he said to her: Whatever you say, I will do, mother, but please, I have no one in this world except you, and my brothers, may God prolong your life.

After Azza woke up, she put those things on the small circular table in her room in front of her bed, which she brought from Sheikh Mohsen. She was very happy, as if she possessed Solomon's ring or the magic lamp, which would make Ahmed love her.

- She spoke as she looked at these things and said, "Finally, my dream will come true. I am no longer a great person. For years I have been looking at him, but he does not care about me. I am very happy."

She turned her face towards the phone, which is in her room, because Azza is the type who tells her friends everything that happens to her because she feels that she is alone, and that her mother controls all her actions, so she wants to get married quickly, especially to the one she loved for many years.

Azza got up and sat on the small sofa, which is located at the bottom of the window of her room, and she grabbed the home phone and put it on her legs, as she said that she would talk to her beloved Reham, who supported her many times.

Even this time she felt that she wanted to end her life because there was nothing new, and because she did not get married like the rest, Reham supported her and said: I also did not get married, so why is the feeling of failure that it is a lot and his ability that I lost several times abroad, especially to mosques, and I took her to listen to a lot From lessons, and religious circles after the end of the evening prayer, especially, at Al-Mursi Abu Al-Abbas Mosque.

I dialed Reham's number, and after a while I heard,

-Hello.

It is the voice of Reham, her best friend.

Hello, how are you Reham? Today I haven't heard your voice for a long time.

Reham replied, sighing.

And she says to her: My love, I already told you to return the greetings.

Azza: Yes, I am sorry, but I am very affected. I want to tell you that the dream of my life will come true.

- Reham: Did you do what I told you to perform ablution, and the night prayer, for it will fulfill all that you wish for, and it will also purify your soul, O Glory.

- Frankly, there are days and days that force me to pray. As for the qiyaam al-haja prayer, I did not perform it for months.

Reham, her friend, was wearing black clothes and a white veil, so she moved the stethoscope from her left hand to her right hand and said to her: Why did I warn you so much?

Azza: Yes, I will continue with it, but I am very happy with what I will tell you. Finally, my only dream will come true. I will marry Ahmed soon.

Reham smiled, a small smile.

And she said: Finally he felt you, did you take care of his children, or did you take care of them as I told you earlier, or what?

Azza: Honestly, none of this. He doesn't even raise his head to me. I feel invisible to him.

- Reham: I think as long as he does not raise his face to you, that someone from, the people in the area, or the neighbors has nominated you to him as a wife.

Azza: Also, no.

Because Reham knew the behavior of her friend Azza's mother, she was worried.

She pities Azza from her mother, and from her strange thoughts.

Reham spoke while she was worried: Tell me frankly, how did you do anything? And I told people that he assaulted you, and so on, so he had to.

- Azza raised her hand to her head and let her fingers penetrate her hair. She wanted to tell her friend what had happened, and who Sheikh Mohsen was, but she was afraid of her mother's reaction if she found out that her friend knew about it.

Reham took her little pillows from her side and put them on her legs.

And she said: Speak, I sat down, I will not do anything in the house now, until you tell me, tell me, do you know about me that I am a snitch?

Azza's eyes were filled with tears, so inside her was a good side that she inherited from her father, but her mother always frustrated her and wanted her to be an exact copy of her.

Reham, I will tell you what happened this morning.

Indeed, Azza went on talking, telling her everything about Sheikh Muhsin, and that bottle in front of her, and that veil, and what he asked of her to bring a white undergarment from Ahmad's clothes.

- And after she finished telling this story, and what happened, Reham removed the earphone from her ear while asking God for forgiveness. What will she do when she knows that her friend is her feelings, and she is confused because of her mother.

If she says it is forbidden to her or rebukes her, Azza will swear an oath that happened to her mother and a big problem may occur, and Azza may become stubborn, so she thought that she would tell her, with that secret that she learned about her lover and her other friend, Hadeer.

- Reham: Azza, do you have time to talk for a long time together? Unfortunately, I can't meet you these days.

- Azza: Wait until I see my mother, is she sleeping or watching TV?

Azza got up and put the phone on the sofa she was sitting on, walked very slowly, opened the door to her room, looked around and looked at her mother's room, and found her sleeping on the bed, opposite the door of her room.

So Azza closed her room behind her, and continued her way as she was on the couch, and put the phone on her legs and picked up the phone.

She said:

Sleeping, you know that my mother, she wakes up early and sleeps at such a time, she has two hours to wake up, so that we can prepare dinner, stay up late, and then sleep again.

Reham: So, my friend, listen to me, and I will tell you what happened to my friend Hadeer.

- and began to tell her what happened.

Reham: You know that we completed, Hadeer Abdel Salam and I, after the diploma.

That equation in order to join the College of Education.

Azza: Yes, I know why my mother wanted me to continue with you, and she said: The girl is her end to marriage.

- Reham: What I will tell you is a secret between you and me, and I want you to swear that what I will tell you will be a secret, so that our friend will not be harmed.

Azza: I will not tell anyone what you say, and you know that everyone is far away from me and there is nothing left but you, because I do not speak to anyone but you.

Reham: They told me on the phone that Hadeer was dying. I didn't know how to walk, run, or stop. All I knew was that my tears were running down my face. I went to the hospital quickly, looking for her room like a liar, and I asked the receptionists about her name, and what? room you live in and they told me,

I climbed the stairs and summoned all my courage and strength when I found the room, whose number they told me, and knocked on the door, so her mother opened it for me, and when she looked at it, she said to me with her tears:

- Hadeer Abdel Salam's mother: Catch up with your beloved, Reham, that Hadeer is dying.

Reham: I hugged her and patted her on the back while I said in a voice like screaming, I left her a week ago and she is fine. What happened to her?

Sensing that her mother might fall into a swoon, I propped her to the nearest chair, closed the door behind me, and turned my eyes across the room from the roar.

- Reham: Where is she, where is she roaring, aunt?