Chapter Nine

She replied and said:

Well, wait a bit, and I'll send my daughter to take you to me

Here what are you wearing?

Azza replied:

- Wear a brown scarf, black pants, and a blouse

blue.

And that woman said to her

Well, a quarter of an hour, at most, and you'll have it.

Azza stood waiting for someone to come to guide her to a house

Improver.

- And at Mohsen's house, his wife was looking forward to him, and she

She puts her hands around her waist and says to him:

- The girl who called now, her mother's name is Saniya, is that?

The things that I went to get from Sheikh Jaber yesterday,

who works with their own.

He did not answer her because he was still asleep.

She said:

Wake up, the girl you've been waiting for has come.

He said while still lying in bed:

- You just woke up, woman. Now because I have

I have a headache, bring me a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from my pants, then go out to the kitchen immediately and bring me

A strong cup of tea.

She said mocking him:

- Yes, Sheikh, as long as you bring us the money.

So he sat yawning and said to her:

- Be careful not to utter any words in front of the girl, she and her mother. They know that I am Hajj Mohsen, and they do not know that I am.

Another job, we take money to help others, this is how Sheikh Jaber always told me, he is the one who taught me what to do

with it.

And indeed their daughter, about thirteen years old, went and found there beside, the special stand

In projects, a girl dressed like the clothes her mother told her about so she went to her.

She looked over and said:

- You idiot who's going to our house.

Azza looked at her thoughtfully and said:

- Yes, I am. Are you the daughter of Sheikh Mohsen?

The girl looked at her, and fell silent

Then she said: Yes.

Her mother warned her not to talk to the girl who was going to bring her, but to bring her while she was silent.

Azza walked next to, the girl a long distance, enter from

A street, then a street, then another to the land area, by whom

The sand is far from the public street, and the girl consulted

on a house built with great white bricks, and said to her:

- This is our house, go up those three stairs, and knock on the door, and my mother will open for you.

And the girl wrapped her body to leave.

Azza called her and said:

-You girl! where are you going ? Won't you come with me to your house?

She replied, walking away:

- No, my mother gave me money to buy bread, beans and a piece of cottage cheese

- good.

Then Azza walked, climbed the three steps, and then knocked

loudly at the door.

And I heard a woman's voice from inside,

Says :

Wait a minute, I'll open the door right now.

She opened and said:

- Hello. I think you are, who did you call in the morning, which

I sent it to my daughter.

Azza looked at her and said:

- Yes me.

= Come inside, Sheikh Mohsen is waiting for you.

The lady led her to the opposite door, in which she found a set of old sofas, which were being stuffed

with straw.

And the woman said to her:

Sit down and rest, I'll go inside, and the Sheikh will come

after a while.

Azza replied:

- Good.

And at the factory

Tamara came out of Mohab's office, and he looked at her trail.

And he made him think that she was a beautiful girl, and she would also tie him up

With her, he was related, except that her grandfather and her father had burned her

mother.

Surely he didn't know that, Tamara Sharif's father

He did not have any hand, but he is Sheikh Dahshuri and his grandfather.

For his mother called Noman who was the mastermind, though Dahsuri.

He came to the idea of the years of torment that he, his mother, and his sisters faced, and how his mother, who took care of his second grandfather,

He is the full brother of Hajj Abdel Moneim, and how it is,

She quickly took them and hid them with her uncle for a while

of time.

Her maternal uncle, Mahmoud, was a poor man, and her father always rebuked him and belittled him, but he was a man who knew,

His God is fully knowledgeable.

So he hid them, but also advised her that the sheikh

Abdul Moneim Al-Tahan has money, in Qena, which he deposits in the governorate bank where they live.

He said to her two days after they left:

- My daughter, Sheikh Abdel Moneim has some

The money he used to give your husband, for them to deposit

In the big city bank, and he didn't put it here in

The Bosta.

His niece replied to him, sitting on the floor beside him:

- I know that perfectly, uncle, but I couldn't

Leaving the house with any papers, except for the ones Mahran was able to give me, I put them in my chest, and I ran

And I hugged, my kids and walked away, I thought

Mahran knew the exit from the fire, but I waited

much, if it had not been burned,

He will suffocate from the smell of fire.

Her uncle replied:

- May God have mercy on them, my daughter. Now the police are searching and they found nothing but two bodies, so your father knows

Certainty, that you and your children are still alive.

She replied sadly to her uncle:

- Even if he knew, my father would say, I died knowing him

Right to know, I never felt like me

Father, you were with me, my uncle.

As for him, he always used to say to my mother that he hated having daughters, and God punished him and he did not have a second child yet, the birth of my brother Sharif, so that you know that he married several times, and every woman stays for a year or two, then he divorces her because she does not have children for him, and finally

He was convinced when he found my brother Sharif great, succeeding excelled in

His school was proud of him and said that Sharif is the one who will give him

Atomic.

Her uncle looked at her and was all affected by what she said, and it was tears

His eyes filled, but she was crying silently. :

- Unfortunately, my daughter, your father is imitating his father. It was

His father is a very cruel man, and unfortunately my father agreed that

He marries my sister, who is your mother, and what I advise you to do now is that

Wait a minute, because we can't take territory, though

You revealed your existence when your father killed you because of the presence of your children. Those who will claim when they are forced to these lands, then my advice is to take the money, whether it is little or not

Too much and run away, my daughter, from here.

She looked at him and said:

- I don't know what to do, and I can't say that I saw my father, and then the men enter the palace, and they

Whoever did that, I did not watch them throwing

The things they burned the house with, but I watched them while they were

They go out, the fire began, it was filled in the house, and it was all

My thinking is to bring my children and keep them away from the fire

As best I could.

Her uncle said:

- I know a lawyer in the center, simple but capable, and Ali

A large part of the responsibility, he will guide us, to do

necessary after the completion of the police procedures.

At the time, he was fearful, sitting and listening, but he listened

Silently, every word his mother said, and his mother's uncle, etched into his memory as if he was an old man, not a small child.

Even that old man, who used to cry for his brother for days and days, was also talking a lot to me in a voice

depressed.

As for Tamara, when I left Mohab's office, I found her

She roared, resting her head on her hand, and when she called

It was in another world did not respond to it.

- He growls, how are you, my friend? I've been talking to you for a while

Period and what are these tears that fill your eyes.

Hader looked at her and was silent, for a minute and then he spoke

The person called Samir, did you know that yesterday in your sermon, he sat down

near me, when you were talking together, all said to me

In a low voice while looking into my eyes I love you.

I applauded

Tamara said:

- Nice news, how I wished he would have the courage to say it to you, and now he has finally said it.

Hader looked at her sadly.

- As for today, when I came to talk to him, he looked away

And he left me, as if he wasn't the one who was sitting next to me yesterday.

Tamara looked surprised after sitting on the chair

For her friend:

- How is that really strange, but I think it is the social difference, which stands between you, and I know that if

Offered to you if you immediately agree to it.

Heather nodded.

- Yes, but I feel that he is sensitive because of his special circumstances, as he is the one who spends on his family, as I saw

Yesterday he was very attached to his sister, and she is still a student at the university, and he is the one who provides for her. You know, I agree that he should support them even if we get married.

I will spend on our house.

And he gives all his salary to his sister and his mother, but I want him to talk, and marry me, because my heart is also full of his love.

She said these words, and she could not control herself, from a waterfall

Tears flowing from her eyes, and Tamara felt sad because she left a roar, for a long time without speaking, about

Her conditions were, she only cared about her conditions, this is Hadeer, who stood with her in her father's illness in every way.

The stages, the sad ones were, and yes the bond and yes

Girlfriend.

After that, Tamara said to embrace her friend:

- I'm sorry, my friend, I've been minding my own business, and

I completely forgot you, you are the real bond for me, I am really sorry.

Heather said, wiping her tears.

- I did not say anything because I was carrying with you those sorrows and problems. You are my sister, as you know

Sad, very sad that I have been watching him for years and years while he is in front of me, and I know very well that he loves me and this is what makes

My heart bleeds, but he doesn't want to speak.

Tamara replied:

- You know Mohab, until now he hasn't told me that he loves me, me

I also wished him to hold my hand and look at me

my eyes, says how much I love you, but he didn't say it,

He only said to my mother that I want to marry your daughter, he just didn't say

me anything.