Chapter twenty-seven

Hadeer smiled at her and said: Was Samir talking to you about me?

The mother laughed in a low voice, saying: O my daughter, without speaking, I am a mother and I feel what my son feels, or I say my little one. No matter how old he or his sisters grow, he will remain my little one, and you too will remain your little one with your mother, even when you get married and have children.

Hadeer smiled shyly, and here Samir came from the kitchen carrying dishes containing koshari, and he was placing the dishes in a loud voice, so that Hadeer would watch him, but she did not raise her eyes to him.

Samir put the dishes, then called: Jihan Jihan, come and bring the children with you so that we can all eat, here you go, mother. Then he looked at Hadeer and said: Please sit here.

Then bring from inside several other chairs

In order to suffice them, he used to put a chair for her next to his mother, but his mother advised her to sit next to him.

Mustafa sat down and began to eat. As for Sidra, although she was two years old, her build was weak, given that Jihan only cared for her in the morning, but in the evening her father could not give her any attention, just as a mother takes care of her daughter.

So Jihan would put the food in her mouth, and wait a little while for the little girl to pop the amount of food in her mouth.

Then Samir looked at his left side, where Hader was sitting, and said to her in a low voice:

Did anyone know you were coming to visit me today?

She looked to her right and said:

No, I didn't tell anyone, don't be afraid, except that I don't see any problem with my coming here!

Samir: There is a big problem, of course. Talks and gossip will happen to us. I don't care if anyone talks about me, but you are a girl, and I fear for your reputation.

Hadeer: When I asked for your address, I also asked for several addresses for several doctors, and said that I would send Mohab and Tamara's wedding suits to you with Mersal.

Samir: Please don't embarrass me any more, can you eat and leave quickly?

Here she couldn't swallow food, so she kept coughing hard.

Samir's mother: Get up, Samir, and get her some water.

Indeed, he got up and brought water, but there was still something that made the little one and the little girl laugh with Jihan, while Samir's mother was looking at everyone in silence and eating.

Then she made a low voice, and said to Jihan: If you finish eating, enter your room.

And I'll wash my hands, and go into my room.

Samir was silent. He really wanted to sit with Hadeer alone, because he wanted to warn her that their story was over before it even began.

The mother got up and entered her room, and Jihan also got up with Mustafa and Sidra, and they entered Jihan's room, and the place became empty.

You came here and it happened, but why didn't you tell me before.

She looked at him and said: I came to check on your mother.

So he shook his head and said: No, you came to get hold of me, to make me confess that I love you, you know already, I love you but I can't marry you, here you are, you saw the street where I live, that old house, this old apartment, old furniture,

You have not understood until now that there is more than one obstacle in the way of our marriage. I will not laugh at you and say that I will arrange for myself after a year, two, three, or even ten. Another thing that I spend on him is that my salary is almost a month away, and I had to take my mother's pension, so how can I marry you when you are his son by lineage and lineage?

Will your mother, the lady of society, who lives in one of the most prestigious areas in Alexandria, accept that he marry her daughter in this apartment, in that small room that does not accommodate a full bedroom? Any marriage during that period is ahead of me for many years to think about it.

Hader was looking at him, very shocked!

How can he be so frank?

And she looked and said: I did not ask you for anything, so that I could take part in all this, but I want to be with you.

Samir stood up and said: I am a man and I do not accept such a situation. Please leave now. You have squandered my dignity in front of everyone. People in the street will think that I will laugh at this rich girl until I marry her and save myself and my brothers. My family will also say that.

Please I don't ever want to be put in this situation, and if you really loved me you wouldn't accept it.

Hader left the cup of tea that she was holding in her hand, placed it on that table, then returned the chair on which she was sitting back, got up and brought her bag, opened the door of the apartment, and left quietly, except that while she was going down, she was crying, and she stood down before leaving the door of the house Al-Kabir, I wiped away those tears so that no one would see them, and left the area.

Meanwhile, Azza's mother, Saniya, was sitting with Nadia, Mohsen's wife, talking to each other, and I found that this lady spoke very frankly.

And she said about her husband: He does not understand anything in these matters, but he is the one who does. Saniya looked at her, and because she had known for years about that,

She said: I know about these things from before he married Mohsen, when he was young, so don't worry, I know everything.

After that, Mohsen's wife got up to make her a cup of tea for the third time, as she refused to persuade him to eat, and contented herself with those small pies that were on the table.

Saniya heard the door of the house open, Mohsen calling on his daughter to carry these bags for him

carrying plastic,

The girl came quickly.

And here I heard him say: Do not touch this bag and bring it into our apartment, it belongs to Mrs. Saniya, who is sitting in that room.

His daughter grabbed the bags, and said to him: Yes, then she entered and hid inside, searching in those bags for the sweets that her father always brought her.

After Hadir left, Samir entered the house, to his room

And he closed the door on him, his sister Jihan listened

to the sound of the door closing.

While she was playing with little Sidra and Mustafa, she put Sidra on her bed.

And she said to Mustafa: I sit next to your sister even

I go and talk to my mom.

He said to her: Yes

.

Then Jihan opened the door to her room and looked out

nodded, to see whether her mother was sitting outside, or not?

The mother was also coming out of her room and looking

To the door of Samir's room, which is closed.

And she says to her daughter Jihan: I am tearing up for your brother, my love

I realize, now, what he suffers I pity him, as

I pity you, my daughter.

The mother entered Sunni's room, and Jihan entered after her

So the mother sat on the bed and looked at her daughter who

She is still standing by the door.

_I have listened to everything your brother said to Hader.

The mother was talking while crying, saying what she could do.

I am sad for this young man, who took our responsibility

From a young age, what do I do?

I have nothing to do.

Jihan sat next to her, embracing her mother

who is still crying.

And she said to her mother:

_What should I do, Mama? Shall I go down to look for work, besides

College so that I can, to spend on my studies, and on

his clothes and help you, mother at home, so that he can

My brother to get married.

_ I don't know the mother pronounced it.

And she really does not know, as she is torn between her love for her son,

And her concern for her daughter, if she had to, to go down

to work, at such a young age.

And the mother completed while crying, I want him to marry her, and that

Let us live on a pension, your father thought we'd do well

With it, I am thinking of sending a letter to your uncle

Or call him, tell him the circumstances,

I talk to Ahmed

Mustafa's father, in order to ask me about that apartment, which is located on the top floor, of his apartment. It has been closed for years. I want to know what happened to its owner. Perhaps the owner of the property will rent it to us and marry Samir from Hadeer there.

Jihan said: Roaring is not the problem, mom, as it is

The apartment is not the problem. The problem, my mother, is the consent of her parents. Will they consent to their daughter who lives in one of the apartments?

High-end areas to get married in that area

Popularity, I know very well that from that region came out

engineer, doctor, lawyer and teacher,

But there are other people who look at us in another way.

Wiping away her tears, the mother said:

It doesn't matter, my daughter, she likes it, and she will press on

Her parents, I watched her from the balcony, walking in

Street staggers, and wears those black glasses, which

She put it over her eyes, so that no one could see her tears.

Know that she is in love with him, and will stand by him. The problem here is with your brother, how do we convince him, when he knows very well that it is

You love him, but he will be there.

_And here the doorbell rang.

Jihan said to her mother: I will go, mother, to open a door

Flat .

Indeed, she got up from one side, her mother, and went out and approached the door of the apartment and opened it, and here she found Ahmed standing,

Look at her in amazement!

Tears were flowing down her face, affected by what

Her mother said it, then she quickly wiped her tears.

Ahmed said to her: Jihan, is there anything, is your mother okay?

Jihan: Yes, Ahmed, my mother is fine

Come on boys, inside I'll call them.

Mustafa did not wait when he heard his father's voice, except for him