Chapter seventeen

From one day to another, Nawar would come to visit Dana, go out with her to dinner in a restaurant, take a walk... or buy wedding supplies and live the future! “Where are you going today?” I asked her, as she put on her cloak to go out. “First to the antique shops, then to the beach! I’ll be back at night!” I said, “The beach? Wonderful! How I long to go to it!” She said slyly: Come with us!” I looked at her disdainfully and then turned my face away from her... I said, “I would have done if your fiancé had not come with us!” She said maliciously, "Shall we go alone? You and me?" "Every day you go out with him! Why don't you give up this day to go out together? I'm bored" she said: "Tomorrow Samer will come back and go with him wherever you want!" And tomorrow is Samer's visit, which comes once or twice every month. ...to spend the weekend with us...but...but I don't feel excited to go with him...when I compare my situation to that of Dana, I feel a huge difference...she, from the moment of her engagement, lives happily ever after...and enjoys In her life every day her fiancé is a rich man and he showers her with gifts and gifts! Every day I go to college and then come back and spend a fair amount of time on homework and drawing, while Dana enjoys picnics and trips with her cocky fiancé... and at other times she spends hours talking to him on the phone! When Samer calls, our conversation lasts only minutes... Are all the betrothed like Dana but me?? I said, provoking her: "At all... your fiancé is an arrogant and hateful person! I don't know how you can bear to stay with him for all these hours!" Dana turned towards me and looked at me arrogantly and said: "Arrogant? Even if he was! He has the right... He is the most famous and richest player in the region! As for abhorrent... it means nothing! It's your opinion of all men!" She was silent for a moment and then said: "Maybe even Samer! You are devoid of romance, Raghad! You don't know how to love or You pamper your fiancé!" And here we heard the doorbell sound, and Dana rushed out urging me to get out of her room, then worry about the door... and leave... Dana may have forgotten what she said even before she left, but her words kept hammering a painful nail in my heart for a while. Long... I really don't feel anxious to meet Samer! But he always misses me...and recently, after he moved to another city, he started treating me more kindly and warmly whenever he came back. And do the rest of the girls act like Dana?? I did not have direct contact with an engaged girlfriend, as I was the first to get engaged among my friends, even though I was the youngest of them! I wanted to expel these thoughts from my head, so I went to my notebooks... and started drawing... Something called me to search among my paintings piled on top of each other for a picture of Walid! The picture is still the same...Since he left...I had no desire to finish coloring it...I'm not the type to brag about myself, but this particular painting...so cool! Walid...has a wide face...a wide forehead...and thick hair...with deep eyes...a wide jaw with bulging muscles...and a sharp hooked nose! He's more handsome than Noir, which Danah boasts about! And from the distorted Samer, of course... I would not draw something distorted like Samer's face... It does not fit a work of art... In my last meeting with Walid... When he left at night... I cried a lot... Maybe more than I cried when I learned He traveled to study without saying goodbye years ago... I closed the door and entered, and the abras slipped on my sad cheek. I was surprised to see my mother standing at the window overlooking the courtyard, which allows the beholder through it to see the gate, who is standing at the gate, and what Happening near the gate! I didn't know at that moment what to do or what to say... I was terrified and dumb... My mother just gave me scary and sad looks at the same time, then I left... Since then, something has been standing between me and her... I don't know what In the evening, my cousin Nahla visited me, and of course Sarah is with her, as she accompanies her like a tail day and night! I wanted to talk to Nahla about things that occupy my mind and confuse me... and things that I can't talk about to anyone else... but how can I distract this intrusive little girl?? "Sarah... do you like going to my room and looking at my drawings?? You can also draw whatever you want!" "I'll go when my sister goes" Oh... how can I spend her...?? "So...what do you think about watching an amazing new comic...my dad brought it yesterday? Go to the living room and watch my mom!" The movie and we'll be coming in a little while!" "I'll go when you two go" What an annoying girl! Can I be alone with my girlfriend for a while?? Nahla said, "It's okay, Raghad! She doesn't care what we say!...Is there something?" I hesitated, but then I let out my tongue to say things I didn't think Sarah would understand...because she is still young, and so stupid. What ! I said: “Samer will come tomorrow!” She said: “And…?” I said: “The issue of our marriage will be opened again, as always! He wants us to marry with Dana… It seems that my mother was convinced of the idea and encouraged me. On her…” She said: “And you?” I sighed and then said: “You know… I want to finish my studies first… and… and… I know Walid’s opinion.” Nahla raises one eyebrow, and lowers another. ...and one of the corners of her mouth tilts cunningly! And I know Walid’s opinion! And if Walid said: Marriage is forbidden!?” I quickly said: “I will not marry!” She said: “And if he says: Marriage is obligatory!?” I did not want… Nahla looked at me for a while, then said: Raghad And why are you waiting for Walid's opinion?, He is not your guardian or responsible for you!

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