Chapter twenty-five

I looked at her and said:

-Why are you wearing black, my sister? You know that until now, I don't know your name.

The girl: My name is Rahma, and I wear black because my mother passed away recently, and I was sitting with my brother, crying a lot, until I saw him, two days ago, my father and mother were together.

I did not see him, one day because he died as you know, and I did not complete the month in my mother's womb, I watched him calling your name.

So I sat down with my brother, after I woke up and told him that I wanted to get to know you and hug you.

Being away from you was not hate towards you, my sister, but as you know, your mother threatened my mother with my brother, and my brother was still young, my brother was a year or two older than you.

Azza looked left and right.

And she said: I forgot him, I will call him, what is your brother's name!

She said: To her Solomon.

Here, she couldn't control herself.

from laughing .

She said to her: It is really like!

Azza got up and left her sister, sitting on the bed

a couch.

And she said to him: Go ahead.

So he looked at her and said: No, I will go to spend some of the special interests of work now, and leave my sister with you. Shall I come on an appointment, what day to take her?

Because she does not know how, she returns home, from here. This is the first time she comes to this area.

- I looked at him in astonishment, and she says: Why did you live far away?

- Suleiman: Yes, when my mother took me from here and we moved, she took us to Al-Ajami, you know, a silver pharmacy.

- Azza said to him: As if she had heard this name before: Yes, I have heard this name before, that I have a friend who lives near there, and I went to her several times in the past.

Suleiman: We live there.

And here the neighbor in the apartment opposite opened the door of the apartment, and he looked at this young man, who was standing with Azza

She said: Who are you and what do you want? Are you scout electricity or gas?

Solomon turned to her politely.

And he said: No, mom.

Azza said quickly, as if she was trying to help him, about what this woman would say.

And she said to her: He brought me, my sister, for he is her brother.

The lady did not understand anything, because she had forgotten this issue a long time ago. Everyone had forgotten what happened previously, and signs of lack of understanding appeared on her face, so Azza looked at him again.

She said: I will make her stay with me.

He said to her: No, not at the beginning. Rather, you must do it, with your mother's permission. First, there may be grievances about my sister staying with you. We make her visits at the beginning.

between you and us, and then I leave it to you for a few days.

The neighbor was standing with her hands crossed over her chest, surprised at how Azza was talking to this stranger, as if she knew him. She was even surprised. How can he be a brother to her sister?

Azza was silent for several seconds.

She said to him: If it is possible, come after Maghrib prayer.

He looked at her closely, and he was also drawn to her. And he said, "Okay, I will, thank you. Peace be upon you."

Here his sister, who was listening to the speech, came out from inside, so Azza moved away a little from the door, so she embraced him, his little sister, mercy, and kissed him.

Girl: Thank you, my brother. Now I have nothing in this world, except you, my brother and sister Azza.

Solomon said to her: Your sister will take care of you, until he comes and takes you.

He said goodbye to them and turned and went down the stairs and left the house.

Here the neighbor started standing with her mouth slightly open, because she did not understand what this dilemma was, brother and sister and another brother, so she does not understand,

Azza laughed and said: Come in, aunt, don't worry about me, I'm fine.

Indeed, the neighbor turned around and entered her apartment. As for Azza, she also entered her apartment, embracing.

Her sister says: To her, you must be hungry. Today I cooked molokhia, rice, and a large boiled chicken. After I boiled it, I fried it. I will have lunch. You and I are alone. My mother is on a long journey. You may leave today and not see my mother, so I told him to Suleiman, to come to Morocco .

As for Samir's house, it was a strange day. Samir took a leave this morning, and he informed Hadeer about that, and he has not taken a leave in a long time. She was also thinking about her son, who is learning away from her, and about that girl whose mother feels that she is entrusting us to Ahmed, and his children. It is not pity, but rather Love knows that her daughter's heart beats, not Ahmed

They were sitting in the hall after Samir entered the kitchen and made today the only dish he knows how to cook, which is Koshari, but not Alexandrian Koshari with lentils and rice only, but the Egyptian Koshari had come down in the morning and brought those small noodles, rice and noodles, and also spaghetti, which he cut into small pieces. And his sister had cut a lot of onions, and his mother had chopped garlic and crushed tomatoes, and it was not useful for him to prepare the hummus of the Levant, as his sister requested, and indeed he was in the kitchen all afternoon.

His sister called him while he was in the kitchen and said in a loud voice:

_ You know that all women are calling for koshari to be made in one suit, and you are this and you are now throwing a lot of dishes in the basin, who will now wash them.

He told her, laughing on the inside.

_You, of course, I cook and you wash these utensils, but by the kindness of my heart, because I want you to remember your lessons, I will wash them and pass it on to God.

Their mother was listening to them and she said to him in a loud voice:

_ May God bless you for me, my son, and make you always nostalgic for your sisters, you are in the place of their father.

And here, Samir heard the sound of his phone ringing, with that particular song that he had composed for Hadir, so he thought that she needed something from him at work.

So he came out of the kitchen, and the phone was placed on that large table on which they ate their food.

He grabbed his phone and said:

Peace be upon you. Yes, Hadeer

- She replied to him, and the strange thing is that the background had the sound of carts.

_ And she said: I can't hear you, Samir, on your voice a little bit

Samir: Where are you, Hadir?

- Hadeer: Samir, I wanted to come to your house to visit your sick mother. I took the address from the Personnel Affairs, and I am standing in front of the street, but I do not know which house to enter from those houses scattered left and right.

He only felt himself, saying a stupid one

- You didn't expect that word; So her mind did not receive it, so she said: What did you say to him?

- Samir: He said nothing and looked at himself quickly, he's wearing those home pajamas, yeahDha was wearing a kitchen apron.

- He closed the phone in her face and looked at Jihan, and said:

Jihan, please, you are wearing clothes for going out, go down quickly, you will find a girl from her appearance, you will know that she is not from the region, her name is Hadeer, and she is my colleague. Bring her here and do not make her talk to anyone in the street.

Jihan was shocked by his words and said:

_His present, I saw it in Tamara's sermon.

As for the mother, a smile appeared on her face. She sensed that when her son answered this call, his heart was racing. This is the feeling of the mother.

Jihan put on her shoes quickly, then opened the door of the apartment and closed it behind her, and she did not forget to take the key in her hand, and she ran down the stairs and went out, from the door of the house and walked, jogging to the beginning of the street. She filled the place and everyone was looking at her, even those sitting on the coffee were standing looking, who is this beauty that came to their area!