(Cemetery Butterfly)
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Mahmoud sat behind the wheel waiting for the nurse who was obviously thinking about something!!
The nurse said step aside.
He gave her a sweet look and said, "Don't I look amazing?"
The nurse said, "Step aside," her tone was stern and he knew there was no point in arguing with her!
He raised his foot with his hand and moved himself to the seat next to the driver. He said, “Come in,” then he added, “Be careful not to kill us!”
The car moved slowly, the nurse said, No you look amazing, but next time don't make me force you!
The road was crowded with cars, the car was moving at a snail's pace. Mahmoud took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and handed one to the nurse.
The nurse pushed her away, saying, "You know I don't smoke."
Mahmoud said I won't tell anyone I promise!
The nurse smiled and said, "Thank you, I won't smoke."
He said, I know, but sometimes a person changes his mind. Life sucks.
She had gotten used to his way of saying incomplete sentences like a puzzle he wanted her to solve!
Can I ask you something?
The nurse said, staring at the road in front of her, "Anything?"
He said I would like to see the accident site where the car fell into the river.
The nurse said, "What do you expect to find there? This is the fifth time you've asked me that."
I know, just this once, he said.
The nurse drove the car and stopped at the scene of the accident. He got out of the car, leaned on the fence that was still broken, took out a cigarette and lit it while watching the river water.
She watched him from her place without leaving the car, knowing that he would now rush to the shops opposite and ask again about the identity of the person who had run him over with his car.
He came back after a few minutes, sat in his seat, and remained silent. The nurse drove the car towards the house.
Why are you doing this to me? I mean, you don't have to help me.
The nurse said, "Does the idea of staying home while you hang out sound fun to you?"
no
She knew he was grateful to her, all his actions showed that, when she came to work he was very strict with her, always shouting and complaining, she would trick him into swallowing the pill, or inject it into the muscle, he would grumble, swear, curse in secret, tell her he didn't need her help, leave any place that brought them together without paying attention, he wanted to get rid of her by any means, but from her experience she understood that, all patients suffer violent attacks after long-term injuries.
However, she soon calmed down. Everything changed after a week of his frustration. She wanted to ask him more than once about the reason, until he told her once that he expected her to leave at any moment, but she did not do it. She did not abandon him.
She didn't understand that word, she didn't ask for explanations, she just looked at him with gratitude after every medical session that brought them together
Then I discovered that he is a wonderful person, behind that mask he pretends to be is a good person who does not want to come out into the world.
After they got out of the car, she tried to help him. He refused and said, “I’ll try this time.” She walked behind him while he was limping, leaning against the wall, sweating profusely.
When the door of the house opened, his mother told him that there were guests waiting for him in the living room. Laura was sitting next to Tharwat, whispering some words to him. She quickly fell silent upon seeing him.
Mahmoud welcomed Tharwat, thanked him for taking the trouble to visit him, apologized for his late visit, swore that he had only known about the accident two days ago through Laura, and that the reason for his late visit was Tasneem. He had been trying to convince her to visit Mahmoud with him, but she refused. Tharwat said, “I’m sorry, but she hates you!”
Mahmoud said he understood all of that and there was no need to apologize.
Tharwat asked him how are you?
Mahmoud said, "I'm still alive. I won't die before I take revenge on that scoundrel who hit me with his car."
Abidi expressed his apologies and said that he would be at Mahmoud's service if he wanted to help him.
He asked him not to put him in the same category as Tasneem, and that he really wanted to help him.
Just tell me what you want me to do to solve this case, the criminal must be punished!
Mahmoud said after thanking him, "I am a rebel alone, I will not involve anyone in this."
Alone? Tharwat said sarcastically, "You can barely walk." Mahmoud patted him on the shoulder, "Please let me help you?"
Thank you, Mahmoud said. You are really a wonderful person, Tharwat.
More than you can imagine, Laura said. He insisted on coming to visit you without delay. I was the one who asked him to wait. I was obligated to do some work.
Mahmoud said, "Thank you, Laura. Will you eat together?"
Tharwat apologized, he said with a smile, I can't, Tasneem will never forgive me for that, one must fear one's wife, of course
Tharwat left while Laura was eating with them. The nurse was sitting next to Mahmoud. She was thinking silently, absent-minded. Mahmoud noticed that.
What's wrong, he asked her?
She said, "I don't know. It's just that, this, I mean Tharwat, doesn't seem like a good person to me."
Laura laughed and Mahmoud followed her.
Laura said, "Isn't that okay? He can't urinate before asking Tasneem's permission. He's a fragile, unstable person. Tasneem is making him suffer."
But he loves her, when one loves one endures for the sake of the one he loves
Mahmoud said, "He is indeed a kind, peaceful person." Then he whispered to the nurse, "We will discuss this later."
Laura said, "You know that I am always by your side, Mahmoud. Don't think that distance makes a difference between us. Anytime you need me, just call me."
The nurse got up and left the table towards her room. Mahmoud said, “I am really grateful to you, Laura. It is rare for life to grant us true friends.”
Friends? Laura stood up and slammed her fist on the table. You still say friends?
The soup spilled and stained the tablecloth.
Mahmoud, you have to forget her. Tasneem will never come back to you again. What are you waiting for? Tell me.
Why do you insist every time to push me away from you?
What makes her different from me?
Mahmoud looked at her with lost eyes and said, "Nothing."
What then? I'm tired of waiting for you, I said it was just a whim and a passing thought, but you're drowning in the past, the past will kill you
Mahmoud said, "I didn't ask you to wait for me!"
Laura yelled but I love you, can you understand that, I love you!
Mahmoud turned his face away, announcing the end of the conversation.
Laura walked nervously towards the apartment door, stopped and turned towards him, saying to herself, “You both deserve what’s happening to you.”
She slammed the door and disappeared.
Is the love affair over? the nurse asked him as she sat back in her seat.
Bro, get rid of it, I don't know why you're giving yourself a hard time!?
Mahmoud said confidently: It is wonderful to find someone who loves you and you reject his love
The nurse said, "You're a narcissistic cheat, what's so great about that?"
Why do you enjoy her pain?
Mahmoud said in an angry tone, “You have to understand that I did not ask for this. I told her clearly that I do not want her.”
When was that? the nurse asked him.
He said as he got up from his seat towards the kitchen, the morning of the accident
Would you like a coffee?
The nurse said thank you
Mahmoud shouted again, would you like some coffee?
The nurse said, "Every time you ruin the coffee, then you ask me to make it for you."
I'm confused, either you don't want to learn, or you like my coffee and you do it on purpose
Mahmoud said, I'm trying to learn and I like your coffee.
The nurse said as she got up and went to the kitchen, “That can’t be an answer. You’re so boring.”
Mahmoud said as he climbed the stairs to the roof without turning his back
Don't be late, I'm waiting for you
The nurse said you have no other choice
From next month you will give me two salaries, I will not make coffee for free
You say that? Mahmoud said in a voice I could barely hear, and you refuse in any way any bonus on top of your salary? before he added, stupid!
The nurse shouted for him to hear her, really stupid
He played the music and put his legs up on the table, the afternoon sun spreading a weak, warm, refreshing light.
The drawing board holder approached the nurse who had just arrived carrying the coffee tray.
I told you a hundred times I'm not a painter
"Bring the board closer," Mahmoud ordered her in a stern tone that showed no sign of judgment.
She responded, she liked his way very much.
He took his brush and started painting.
Sipping her coffee, she followed him silently before asking, “Will you tell me what you are drawing?”
Mahmoud said to the board
The nurse said, "Sign, do you believe it?"
He didn't laugh at her joke, she knew that look in his eyes when he was distracted, the look of someone who misses someone and can't stand life without them.
Who is afraid to smile feels betrayed
Tharwat had just arrived when he entered Tasneem's room. He pulled up a chair and sat next to her. He said he didn't die.
He waited for Tasneem to speak, but she didn't. She knew he was going to hit her anyway, but she didn't want to give him the motive.
He limps on his feet like a rhinoceros
He says he lives in hope of getting revenge on the person who ran him over with his car.
Do you believe that?
He didn't die of bad luck, what I'm going to do to him is much harder than death
Don't hurt him please
Did you pronounce it? I thought you swallowed your tongue.
Do you love him? Tell me I won't hit you.
I don't like him
Liar, and kicked her with his foot
She curled up on herself, her body trembling.
I will do whatever you want but please don't kill him!
Who said I would kill him? There is no pleasure in killing. The traitor should suffer just like you.
Do whatever you want with me but please leave him alone
I will do whatever I want to you and to him too, girl...
Even before he hit her, Tasneem screamed. She tried to beg him, saying, “Today my friend came home from work. She knocked on the apartment door, but I didn’t answer.”
You can ask her, I swear I didn't scream
He cleared his throat, smiled, patted his stomach, lit a cigarette, and said, "I'm waiting."
Wait for Laura to tell me he loves her then I can forget about this story, but the damned one is thinking about you
What does he like about you? Speak up, you bitch!
She gave up, closing her eyes as kicks rained down on her stomach.
A week ago her eye was swollen, her breastbone was on fire
She just wanted to die and have peace.
22.!!
Mahmoud's condition improved. He no longer used a walker to walk. His foot began to recover. He could walk on his own without leaning on the wall. He sometimes entertained himself by cooking. He was a failure.
Behind him, his mother was throwing all the food in the trash, but his desire to leave home and get his life back was dead.
There was something missing, the drive, the motivation to move forward, to wake up, to move, no hope shining on the horizon
Although he started to forget Tasneem abstractly, it seems that his life stopped at some point.
The day his car fell into the river and boredom seemed to eat away at his life.
A person without hope can never struggle with life.
Life will not leave him alone
Days know no mercy and have no heart. Laura distanced herself from him after he did not respond to her.
She also lost her passion for getting it.
After he lost his sadism, he became a normal person to her, he did not scream, he did not complain
His charm is gone.
Tharwat had made sure to kill all hope in Tasneem's soul. When she saw him testing his gun once, she asked him what he would do?
He said I will kill Mahmoud if he comes near you
She knew he was capable of it, somehow they reached an agreement that even if Tasneem's life returned to normal she would never allow Mahmoud to get close to her.
He succeeded in tying his life to hers and she accepted that.
It was very clear, he said word for word, I will forgive you, but I swear if you report to the police or try to escape, I will kill Mahmoud.
Even if the police catch me, I'll get out, I'll kill him and you
He initially allowed her to roam around the apartment and then go to work. He kept an eye on her and she showed commitment to his rules.
She had to give up her life with all its pleasures and freedom for Mahmoud's life and she accepted her fate.
He arranged a meeting between Laura and Tasneem without his knowledge, of course, in order to give her the freedom to choose.
Laura said that Mahmoud needs you, Tasneem, and that his life ended after he lost you.
She said that she would help her and that she knew that Tharwat was assaulting her. She tried to lure her into talking.
But Tasneem did not complain. She said that her life was going well with Tharwat and that he treated her well.
Then she has no intention of going back to Mahmoud in any way. He is a disgusting person and she does not love him and has no feelings for him!
How do you expect me to go back to him after he used to beat me and make me slip?
Mahmoud is a big bastard
He's a really big asshole, Laura, and I advise you to stay away from him.
But he needs you, Tasneem. You can meet him once. Tharwat won't know about it. At least you can see him and check on him after the accident.
What does it matter to me? If he dies or is even paralyzed? I am a married woman and I have to protect my husband.
Let it rot with its strangely beautiful music, its wonderfully incomprehensible drawings, let it burn with all its charm and beauty, let it go to hell.
Tharwat listened to the recording of the conversation on Laura's phone. He seemed satisfied with its content. He said it would serve the purpose, and asked her to show it to Mahmoud.
Mahmoud also listened to the recording of the conversation with great attention, and asked Laura to keep the recording of the conversation so that his conscience would not torment him about what he would do later.
Mahmoud went up to the roof of the house, played the CD, lit a cigarette and drank a cup of coffee.
Listen to the recording of the conversation on loudspeaker.
The nurse was with her at the time, listening to the conversation as well.
Mahmoud asked her what do you think?
The nurse said, Mahmoud Tasneem is a married woman and you should stay away from her, don't wait for her
Mahmoud asked her again, what do you think about it?
She said the conversation is clear, Tasneem hates you but there is something I didn't understand
What did Mahmoud ask her?
Let it rot with its strangely beautiful music, its wonderfully incomprehensible drawings, let it burn with all its charm and beauty
Mahmoud smiled, it's a hidden message he said
The nurse said what do you mean?
Mahmoud said, "This whole conversation was different. This was Tasneem's way of saying things when she wanted something other than what she was saying."
I did not understand what the nurse said?
Mahmoud said Tasneem was forced to say those words, her tone I know, Tasneem is terrified and afraid of something
There's something bothering her and I need to know what it is.
Believe me, Mahmoud, you are complicating things. Yes, that sentence is not coherent with the conversation, but it does not confirm anything.
Mahmoud said while staring at the road in front of him, “I know Tasneem, I understand her.”
The one who was talking here is not her
Then didn't you ask yourself why Laura recorded the conversation?
Did the justifications she gave about her fear for me and her concern for my welfare convince you?
I understand women, this damn Laura played herself too hard and maybe it's time to open some books.
At least wait until you recover, yes I need to wait some time but I am worried about Tasneem
Can you do something for me?
What did the nurse answer?
Meet Tasneem and ask her to meet me.
In what capacity did you ask the nurse?
Then you can go to her without beating around the bush and ask her yourself
Mahmoud said, "If what I'm thinking is true, there's a danger to Tasneem's life if I try to meet her."
What are you thinking?
I will tell you
But maybe it's time for me to regain the spirit of the past that left me
Call Laura, ask her to meet me.
If you ask why? I mean why didn't I order it myself?
Tell her that I collapsed after hearing the recording, I cried and all night while I slept I hallucinated her name
You have to make her understand that you called behind my back because you felt sorry for me and that I will go to the apartment tomorrow evening.
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Tasnim
I gather my strength and prepare the table, I cook different types of food. For more than two months, before Tharwat tied me up and beat me, his appetite was unusually good. I don’t know when this belly that he pats while smoking suddenly appeared on him?
I'm not interested but he's strange, his tone is rougher, I can't stand to look at him or hear his words but his tone is also different, rougher
His grip, which was once gentle like a girl's, became hard, his fingers grew like sausages, his manner was harsh.
Watch him devour plates like a disgusting monster.
How much that scoundrel has changed and become a real monster I don't know
Mahmoud
When I dress up I look like a stylish bastard, I dare any woman to stand up to my charm
Are you done, Casanova?
Watch that nudge on my shoulder, leave the mirror and turn around to face the kindest face I know!
If you gave up those moisturizers that you smear on your face, would you become more beautiful?
By the way, it is none of your business and you have no right to comment on my appearance. I am beautiful, I like myself, and please don't embarrass me.
Every girl wants to look beautiful, my problem is not your hostility towards cosmetics!
It just makes me feel like you're fake, Toha.
The nurse's cheeks flushed red, when will she leave?
after a while
Please be careful?
Promise me you won't do anything stupid?
I'll try when the beast inside me moves I can't stop it, Toha
May God keep your monster away from me, Mahmoud
Don't worry, I don't think of you that way, Toha. You're the last person I'd think of taming.
I have strict rules that I will not break, and what about you? I pointed to her face.
Below my expectations
You are so ugly and have no manners, Mahmoud? Disgusting
Thank you Toha, where do you want the roll?
Help yourself
As I walked towards the door, the nurse followed me. Did you forget your watch?
Leave it there, it's not time yet
You'll be driving alone, be careful, I don't want another accident that would have me staying near you for another two months?
present
I drove to the apartment, climbed the stairs, and sat in the living room waiting. I thought Laura wouldn't be long, she had to.
I heard the doorbell, took off my shoes and walked over to open the door.
Laura? I said in surprise when I saw her.
How did you know I was here?
I passed by your house, Madiha told me that you are in the apartment
"You could have waited until I got back," I said in an emotionless tone.
But you won't wait, she threw herself into my arms, hugged me, I put my arms around her
I carried her to the bedroom
I threw her on the bed and covered her with kisses.
How long have you wanted me and kept it a secret?
Two months ago exactly?
Strange? Laura said as she kissed me, then she added, “I didn’t feel you changing towards me?”
I am a person who succeeds by hiding my feelings when I want to. Never bet on my resistance, you will lose!
When was the last time you met Tharwat?
Laura flinched and trembled, she moved away from me and said, “I haven’t seen him since we visited you.”
I lit a cigarette and choked on it.
I didn't realize you had such a strong relationship with him, Laura?
In life, plans change, Mahmoud.
Have you met Tasneem?
Why are you mentioning it now? You said it was a story and it's over?
My kisses rained down on her, you're the one who changed, Laura
What do you mean? Laura asked worriedly.
I mean since the accident I feel you've changed? Did something happen that I don't know about?
Don't say that Mahmoud, please. I haven't changed. Don't say that again.
Laura was strangely anxious, so much so that she lost interest in my kisses. Her body froze and became lifeless.
Breaths fighting in the belly of a flute
I lit a cigarette and sat on a bench next to Laura, she put her head in my lap
I said Laura, can you tell me if something is bothering you?
She stared at my face for a minute, contemplating my features, sensing the extent of the change that had affected them.
Her skirt was caught without her noticing on her hip. There was a fresh burn, a crushed cigarette in her leg.
When she saw me staring at her leg, she quickly lifted her skirt, stood up, and said I have to leave now.
You just came?
We'll meet again, don't try to call me?
She closed the door behind her and went down the stairs.
She quickly got out of the car and hid behind the wall. She threw herself into a car that was waiting for her and disappeared into the crowd.
I drove my car at a crazy speed behind her until I saw the car that was waiting for her (Tharwat's car).
I followed the car that cut through the streets towards a quiet area where old houses stood.
The car was parked two streets away. They got out of the car and climbed the stairs of an old four-story building.
I followed them, before I went up the stairs, I asked the guard while handing him a 200 pound note.
Do you know them?
The guard stood up gratefully and put the paper in his robe pocket. He said, “The apartment is on the fourth floor!”
I asked him since when?
The guard said, smiling, "About two months."
All the threads lead me to a certain period, days before and after the accident.
She quietly climbed the stairs to the apartment on the fourth floor.
I put my ear to the apartment door
I heard Tharwat's screams and Laura's cries.
I thought for a minute about breaking into the apartment. At the last moment, I stopped, turned around, and went down the stairs, hearing Laura's screams.
Before I left, I said to the guard, "Didn't you see me?" and gave him another bill.
He put the paper in his pocket and said, "Who are you anyway? I didn't see you."
She smiled and said goodbye to him.
I drove my car again at full speed towards Tasneem's building. I remembered the address. Laura had mentioned it to me once.
The guard stopped me and asked me where are you going?
I said Professor Tharwat's apartment
Professor Tharwat left a long time ago.
And his wife asked him?
He said I don't know, I mean it's not my problem
It's not your problem if I go up to the apartment too?
As I was climbing the stairs, the guard took out his phone. I heard him talking to Tharwat.
There was a sign on Tharwat's apartment. I knocked on the door many times, but I didn't get a response.
I shouted, "I am Mahmoud, Tasneem!"
I heard movement inside the apartment but received no response.
I continued shouting, "It's Mahmoud, please open the door?"
Finally, the footsteps approached the door and stopped behind it.
I said open up, I'm Mahmoud.
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Open the door? The sound of footsteps stopped right behind the door.
I know you can hear me, open up Tasneem?
A heavy silence fell, she seemed hesitant and unable to make a decision, her freedom standing just a step away from her
But what is the price?
Tasneem? Please open the door, the way I look standing here like a bum suggests I'm some kind of harasser!!
please go away
A faint voice came from the inside of a dead person.
Open?
I told you to go away, please, I don't want to see you again
Tasneem, is it me Mahmoud?
I know who you are, please leave and don't come here again!!
You've mastered the role of deception to this extent?
Yes, I am a deceiver and a traitor. Get out of here, before.....
I hesitated for a minute, then added that my husband should come.
I don't want to see you here ever again.
One word, Tasneem?
I said go away, oh God, leave me alone please, enough, enough and I broke down crying
I heard footsteps running up the stairs, I climbed a few steps and disappeared
Tharwat was running, his stomach shaking in front of him without a note. He opened the door of the apartment, rushing like a bull.
Moments later, I heard Tasneem's voice. She was screaming and kicks were raining down on her.
She was defending, screaming, I swear I didn't open the door for him, I swear
Tasneem's screams continued, then I heard the sound of smashing pots in the kitchen and Tharwat screaming that he was here.
I will kill him
I went down the stairs towards the street, leaving everything behind, convinced that Tasneem didn't really want me.
I'd better disappear from her life.
I passed the guard who looked at me angrily before taking out his phone and making a call.
I walked towards my car, opened the door and before I drove off
I came down again
I stood on the opposite side and lit a cigarette, thinking about everything that had happened.
I was about to leave when I noticed Tharwat in front of the building's door, dragging Tasneem behind him.
He threw him into his car, got behind the wheel and drove off down the street at top speed.
I almost caught up with him but then I gave up, feeling there was no point in catching up with him.
On my way back I called Laura several times but her phone was off, dirty game I muttered, they're all bastards
In this life there is no person who can accept us as we are without stating his conditions
Even if he did and knew our truth, he would inevitably leave.
Scoundrels have no covenant
But he leaves behind a tormented soul and a bloody heart.
I arrived home around sunset, Touha was waiting for me, eagerly and eagerly she asked me what happened?
I told her I don't understand anything
She said just tell me?
I said Tasneem refused to see me
I told her what happened
She asked me in surprise, you left like that without defending her?
I said yes
She said you are an irresponsible and stupid person, don't you realize that her husband is torturing her?
She did all this out of fear?
I left everything in a moment. I was in my car and drove back towards Tasneem's building.
When the guard saw me, he frowned and said, "You again?"
What do you want?
I put my elbow on his chest and pushed him against the wall.
I shouted where did Tharwat go?
The guard almost choked, he said how would I know?
I said I'll kill you, I was serious and the guard knew it
He said, "I swear I don't know." He was very angry and talked about moving to another place that no one knew about.
I pressed on his neck more until I almost crushed it. The guard's eyes teared up.
He finally said, "All I know is that he took her to an old building, another apartment he owned."
I left the guard and drove my car towards the other apartment whose address I knew. The guard welcomed me and told me many things.
But he said, Tharwat did not come here.
Once again I drove towards Laura's apartment, it was locked, her pretty neighbor told me, Laura left her apartment some time ago
She was carrying her bag and apparently left the building.
I ran after my disappointment and returned home
As soon as Toha saw my disappointed face, she said, "Did you miss the opportunity?"
I said yes
Days passed while I punished myself for what happened. I refused to eat and killed myself with cigarettes.
I kept watching Tharwat's house and Laura's apartment for long hours, but no one showed up.
Apparently, both of them evaporated and disappeared from life.
I called Tharwat and Laura's workplace, they haven't been there since that day
All roads were closed in my face, I had to live with the feeling of loss
I was the reason for all of this
Fifteen days later I was having breakfast with my mother and Madiha who was browsing the newspaper.
I was devouring bites without appetite, absent-minded, she said to Toha in surprise, “Look here” and handed the newspaper to me.
I pushed the newspaper away from me, I said I don't want anything
She said just look?
It was an accident page, a news item with a large picture of a rotting corpse holding a picture of
I stared at the picture, it showed Tharwat's face but it was distorted
I quickly read the news details. A rotting body was found dumped in a garbage dump. A sanitation worker reported it.
Forensics say the body died more than two months ago.
An ID card was found in the victim's jacket.
Name: Tharwat Abdel Wahid
The police were urging anyone who knew the body or had information to inform the police.
I stared at Touha, then at the news.
If the body is Tharwat's, who is the other person?
I saw Tharwat the day I went to Tasneem's apartment, I put my head in my hands
I'm going crazy!
Tharwat should not have been the owner of that body.
"Unless?" Toha said with a smile.
I said what?
She said someone else impersonated her.
I said his face and appearance?
Then I was distracted for a moment. This person I saw was fatter than Tharwat, whom I saw the first time.
He had a big belly, and a hoarse voice.
Toha said, "Is this possible?"
I said we will know everything, I took out my phone and called a police officer friend of mine, I talked to him for a minute
He said this is very difficult.
But I begged him
He was silent for a minute, then said, “I’ll meet you there. Don’t be late. I can’t promise anything, but I’ll do what I can.”
I left my car in front of the morgue door, my friend the officer was waiting for me
He said I spoke to the medical examiner, he agreed to let you see the body.
I followed the officer until we reached a closed room. He opened the door and said, “I will wait for you here. Don’t be late.”
The body was lying on a table, the forensic doctor removed the intestines
Chest slit
He said, "Please, I don't have time. I've never broken any rules in my entire life."
I approached the body and stared at the wrinkled face. It was Tharwat's body.
I asked the coroner if you could determine the cause of death?
He said it requires further examination, but look here and pointed to the neck.
This poor man was strangled in a horrible way.
You mean wealth?
The doctor understood what I meant, smiled and said, “Yes, we have confirmed that the body belongs to a person named Tharwat Abdel Wahid.”
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(O Allah, grant us good opinion of people and grant us the ability to forgive.
Tharwat's organs were outside his body and the forensic doctor was searching inside.
He said there was no trace of any drug!
The victim did not resist his killer or did not give him the opportunity
I said what does that mean?
I'm not sure but maybe he had a relationship with the killer and didn't expect his betrayal, I mean familiarity, friendship, caught me off guard
There was nothing else to do, I left the morgue and headed to the civil registry. There I looked up the name Tharwat Abdel Wahed after impersonating my police officer friend.
His family had died in a fire and only Tharwat and his sister, who were outside the house at the time, survived. He had three brothers and a sister.
Tharwat had a twin brother with the same date of birth as him, there was no doubt that he was the one impersonating him.
I didn't worry about the reasons that made him kill his brother if what I think is true
Because there was another thought forming inside my mind, a crazy thought that made me believe that Tasneem was in imminent danger.
I went to the address that was registered to Tharwat in his house that burned down.
There I met his neighbors and they assured me that they had seen the burned bodies and that they had no doubt that the entire family was dead.
I asked about his sister and they confirmed that she had gone far away and no one had seen her since the day of the unfortunate accident.
I called the coroner again after he gave me his phone number. I said to him, “I ask you one more favor and I promise you will never see my face again, even in drawings.”
He reluctantly agreed, saying, "You only bring trouble."
I asked him if he had performed autopsies on the bodies of a family that had arrived five years ago?
He said, How should I know? It has been a long time since what you are asking is impossible.
but!
Records are kept, you can look at the books and point to the entries written on them, fire victims
I searched through old books dating back five years. There, I found the family record and photos.
Each photo has the name and cause of death recorded on it.
The report indicated that they died from severe first-degree injuries, completely burned.
I asked the forensic doctor about the possibility of error in the procedures followed in these cases.
He glared at me angrily and threw me out of the morgue.
I put on black jeans, a white shirt and a comfy jacket, put on some smart shoes and thought carefully about the meeting places in the city center that one of the women had pointed out.
I had a cup of coffee while waiting for my flight to the city. I didn't want to leave too early, as someone might notice me loitering in a half-empty cafe and I wanted to avoid that.
The most important thing for her is to stay out of sight so that no one notices my presence. I must not be in a conspicuous position.
I used to monitor all the places that any normal person might go to, but neither Tharwat, nor Laura, nor Tasneem, not one of them has appeared since the last time
I knew that Tasneem was in great danger after the intentions of Tharwat or the person who impersonated Tharwat became clear!!
I couldn't find Tharwat's sister's address. She had simply evaporated or been swallowed by the earth. I asked myself, "Why did she leave?"
How come no one has seen her since the incident? I have not found a convincing justification for her to leave the entire neighborhood because of a fire.
Why did she throw everything behind her, what horrible memories made her disappear and cut all ties with the past?
Even her name, Taqi Abdul Wahid Ahmed, didn't help me at all.
The address registered on the ID card is the address of the burned house.
Since then she has not renewed her ID card and has not appeared
A damned, dirty capital where anyone can easily disappear unless the police are looking for him, of course.
The police?
I remembered my officer friend and the possibility of helping me, so I called him immediately. He asked me for some time and said, “Don’t pressure me, Mahmoud.”
I forgot everything when the police officer called me and sent me Taqi Abdul Wahid's address.
The nurse insisted when I called her to come with me, she said stop where you are
You don't fit the role of a police detective. You are handsome and elegant, and half of the victims will fall in love with you. You are reckless and miss some important points.
And you are Sherlock Holmes?
Nurse Madiha shouted, "Shut up and wait for me. I'll catch up with you right away."
Even though she left my job, she still considers herself responsible for me in some way.
I had to drive for five hours to reach a basement in an old house, which was used as a warehouse in the past.
A thirty-year-old girl opened her eyes to us, her face wrinkled and her body thinner than an ear of corn.
She didn't seem pleased to see us and asked us to leave immediately before she made a scene.
She was about to slam the door in our faces until I said your brother is not dead
She hesitated for a minute before turning towards us, her whole body shaking as if she were about to die.
She said what do you mean?
I said I don't mean Tharwat, I mean his twin brother
You are a crazy person, get out of here
I said there are people in danger please help us
She slammed the door in our faces with obvious indifference.
I told Madiha that there was a secret behind it, we had to find a way to convince her to talk to us.
She said it is impossible if a woman closes her door, she will never open it again.
I don't have it with me, I said, taking out my phone number and address. I approached the door and said in a clear, audible voice,
I feel the extent of your suffering and that you do not want to remember the past
But there are others who will drink from the same cup and you know what I mean?
I got your address. You have to think about how long Tharwat will remain hidden before he shows up here?
He won't knock. He'll break in like us, and no one will save you.
I pushed the paper under the door and we left.
On our way back, Madiha asked me what I meant by all those hints?
I said nothing
If there was something I thought would not be long in coming
I drove the car while humming an old song.
Madiha said, "Can you tell me why you sing? All these troubles and you still sing?"
I looked at her angrily and said, "I only sing when I'm torn apart inside."
I said goodbye to Madiha under her building and returned home frustrated. If I hadn't had a hand in that problem, I would have left it behind.
But I am drowning in the mud, I am the head and trunk of this problem
Taqi Abdul Wahid did not call me for a week, during which I had gone twice to check on her.
She never leaves her room, I don't know how she lives?
Women do not give in easily and do not talk about the past.
I can imagine what Taqi Abdul Wahid was going through, I excused her
I was a monster in the past, only looking for my lust and knowing what someone like me is capable of.
Bored, I chased a fly on the roof of the house. I sat listening to music, flipping through the pages of a book without interest.
Hopeless and passionless, my feet sprawled on the table and I smoke a joint.
It was ten o'clock at night. The rain had been falling for an hour without stopping.
My phone rang, I glanced at it and ignored it. Toha called me twenty times asking if Taqi had called me.
Oh God, how can you kill a woman's curiosity unless you don't kill her herself?
The phone kept ringing stupidly, I said yes Toha!
She said he's here.
pious?
He stands on the other corner, the rain is drenching him, staring at my room.
I asked her who?
Tharwat said
I said Tharwat died
She said that's what she thinks.
I asked her, are you sure?
Yes, how could I not know him even after all these years, I watched him from the balcony of the hall
From the kitchen it is him
I said don't move from your place I will come right away
I put a licensed Belgian pistol in my jacket pocket and walked towards her.
I covered the road in four hours, the street was empty, I knocked on Taqi's door, she opened it for me quickly
She said he left
She let me in this time, after I sat down she went into the kitchen to make two cups of coffee
I looked at the dilapidated room, a chair missing its leg, a rotting wooden bed.
old blanket
rotten food table
I said to myself that girl is dead
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After I made my cup of coffee, Taqi Abdul Wahid came back
She sat on the edge of the bed after putting the tray on the floor. She was very nervous, and it seemed that she was about to make an important decision.
I noticed that her hands were shaking, her index finger was moving on its own, she was clenching and unclenching it,
Her facial features changed, as if she had been shocked to death.
I was waiting impatiently for her to speak, she started to speak and said drink your coffee,
She raised the coffee cup, took a sip, put it aside, and began to tell her story.
It's him, I'm sure, he was standing there under the lamppost watching me, I don't know from which filthy grave he rose again
I am very scared and she started crying
I left her until she calmed down. He was a devil, not a human being. He treated us harshly, even his parents were not spared from his brutality.
She cried again, she was digging a grave in the past and taking out what was inside on the table in front of us
A rotten corpse reeking of miserable memories.
I was asleep when he started feeling my body, then I screamed, I thought I was dreaming until I saw him standing in front of me half naked
He slapped me in the face, he beat me up, I was bleeding but that didn't stop him
He was drunk and did not know himself. Taqi cried again until I felt sorry for her.
I said you can stop here.
I shouted, "No, I've been carrying this burden on my shoulders for years. It's time for someone else to carry it with me."
He did it again and again, he treated me like his dog, I couldn't open my mouth, he swore he would kill me and kill the whole family
He would beat me up when I defended myself, until my stomach swelled up, and I didn't know what to do.
I told him about the disaster he had caused. That day, he took me to a remote apartment and locked me up there for seven months until I gave birth to my child on my own.
Do you know how much pain I went through? I screamed until the baby came out.
I asked him to abort it, to make it go away. I begged him a thousand times, but he refused. I didn't know until later why he was insisting on that.
He was a bastard from an illicit relationship between a brother and his sister. I used to spend whole nights crying, waiting for him to come and do his madness.
When I gave birth to the child, I felt sorry for him. I knew he was not to blame for what happened, but I decided to kill him.
But he stopped me, snatched him from my hands and I never saw him again.
He brought me home, he had convinced them that I was working as a maid for people he knew.
My phone kept ringing, it was the nurse's compliment, I didn't answer her, but she kept calling me, I put the phone aside, I had a headache and didn't want to answer her.
Taqi replied
After that, the signs of grace appeared on him. He wore new clothes and bought new furniture for the house.
When I asked him, he told me that he sold the child and made a lot of money from it.
Enough money to live the life he wanted
He said we have to do it again, he said, "Oh sheep, give me another baby."
Do you know that's what he said, his sheep?
Then I decided to kill him. I had to wait another two months, and I was pregnant with the second child. I took advantage of him being alone sleeping in the house and set fire to the house.
I didn't know that my parents had entered the house without me noticing until I saw their burned bodies.
I saw him dead, I attended his funeral, how did he get out of his grave again?
I was about to ask her, what did you do with the second child but
I received a message from Madiha, the nurse. She called me immediately. I waited a minute after that. I apologized to Taqi for allowing me to answer the phone.
I went into Taqi's kitchen so she wouldn't hear me and called Madiha. I heard her screaming, terrified voice.
He's here, save me Mahmoud, break down the apartment door
I asked her who?
Madiha continued screaming, then Tharwat said, and the call was cut off due to the sound of her screaming.
The world spun around me and a film fell over my eyes
From behind me I heard Taqi's voice. I did not notice her presence. She was standing behind me.
She said, "I'm sorry, Mahmoud. I'm sorry. I won't tolerate him doing what he did to me again."
My head started spinning, I staggered, I leaned against the wall
I shouted what did you put in the coffee?
I looked at the table and found a small box of sleeping pills. Are you complicit with him?
I had expected this to happen, I only took one sip of my coffee
Taqi Abdul Rahman took off her clothes, she said, look here so you understand, I struggle to see wounds, stings of fire, pieces of torn flesh that had barely healed
A lash mark ran down her back, my eyelids closed and I fell to the ground.
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I opened my eyes after a short while. I was tied to the seat and Taqi left. With all my strength, I slammed the seat against the wall, part of it shattered. Before I hit it again, my chains came off.
The tie wasn't tight, did you do that on purpose?
I pushed open the basement door and went out, crossing the street to the other side just as Tharwat and two other people entered the room.
I looked for my gun, the pistol, but I couldn't find it. It was Taqi, so I took it before she left.
I hid behind a tree and I was still feeling a headache. Tharwat came out after a minute, cursing and swearing.
He got into a pickup truck and shouted at his men, "Bring me that bitch!"
I called Madiha in a miserable attempt to dispel my doubts, like someone clinging to the smile of a traitorous girl whose mornings might make you more beautiful.
Groaning, coughing, groans, groans, no words, you don't need an eye to see it all
Rather, a big heart that can accommodate all the foolishness of the world
I imagined her lying on the ground, covered in blood, fighting for her life, blood gushing from her veins.
I ran to my car which I had deliberately hidden in a far place, threw my staggering body behind the steering wheel and took off.
The apartment door was open and Madiha's beautiful neighbor was bent over her, crying.
I rushed towards her and bent my head down until it fell on her chest.
I had a weak pulse, begging for life.
I carried her in my arms and went down the stairs. Her eyes were open, surrendered, staring with a terrified face from which blood was oozing.
She struggled until she raised her hand and pushed his hair away from my forehead with her fingers before smiling.
"You're a fucking idiot but please don't die?" I screamed as I laid her down in the backseat.
I drove off, honking my horn and cursing everyone who got in my way.
The porter shouted at Amin at the hospital as I was taking Madiha out of the car. I carried her again in my arms, put her on the stretcher and pushed her forcefully towards the elevator. Moments later we reached a long corridor. I was screaming until the doctors rushed towards me. They took her into the operating room and slammed the door in my face.
Through the glass I watched her unconscious, being injected with IVs, and I prayed, don't die, don't die.
I collapsed on the seat and put my head in my hands, hitting it hard, frightening a child who was in his mother's arms.
Time passes, time does not pass, but it passes despite its cruelty. She planted the corridor a hundred and fifty times, coming and going, before a nurse came out running towards one of the rooms and returned quickly.
I grabbed her collar from behind, tears were streaming down my face. I said, "Don't let her die, please."
The nurse pushed my hand aside, gently sat me down on the bench, and said, "Don't worry."
She's fine.
I said damn it, what do you mean it's fine, we're fine, it doesn't mean anything
No, we are not fine and we will never be fine. However, we are fine in spite of ourselves.
Really, is it enough to be okay?
She said, please calm down, you are disrupting my work, what you are doing is pointless
What comes late means nothing.
I gave up, curled up, took out a cigarette and lit it under a sign that said No Smoking!
I stepped on the cigarette butt with my shoe on the tiles that were dripping with disinfectant.
Under the watchful eyes of a cleaner, he moved his space with a boring mechanism, and I took out another one before I turned it on. A fifty-year-old doctor with practical features came out.
He said as he walked towards me, "Please put out the cigarette. You are breaking the rules!"
How is she? I asked him as I took a drag from my cigarette.
He ripped the cigarette out of my mouth, smashed it against the wall, stared at me and said, "You'll be fine."
Killing yourself with cigarettes won't help her.
I blew a puff of blue smoke into the doctor's face. It was in my lungs. I glared at him. Say she'll live?
He said she will live, her condition is good, she was severely beaten and some of her ribs were broken
There was internal bleeding and a suspected concussion.
But we figured it out.
Can I see it?
The doctor thought for a moment, then called a nurse and said, "Who is at the door?"
All my life I've been staring at things from the door, but I've never dared to go in.
I said it wouldn't be the first time.
She was lying on her bed, her chest rising and falling quietly, her body still and unmoving.
The nurse said she was under anesthesia, don't worry.
Your girlfriend asked me?
I said I don't love, I didn't love, I won't love, she means more to me than love
She asked inquiringly, "Is there anything greater than love?"
I said yes there is a purer love than love, love is just a curse that makes some weak people think they are better off before they get impaled
She said you are very strange!!
I am no stranger than you, who loves to see things his way and wants the whole world to follow him
I stared at her face, you like that doctor there, and I pointed to a young man in his white coat coming out of his room, his face sweating like he had just run a marathon, but he didn't care about you.
The nurse's features became displeased, and she said angrily, "You are rude. How could you think of such things when someone's life is at stake?"
I said, because I am a very strange person
You are deceived
Ugh, you're unbearable. She slammed the ICU door and rudely ordered me to leave.
She said if I ever see you smoking here again I'll have security throw you out of the hospital.
I said, take it easy, you fool, I'm leaving, leaving far away without any problems
The nurse got angry and shouted, "This is not fair. It is not fair to take out your curses and complexes on someone else just because you are hopeless or disgusted?"
I nodded and said, "You're right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We have to keep our pain inside and not bother others with it, no matter how close they are to us."
Yet you are deceived
"No use," she said as she ran away. Before she entered the nearby nurses' room, she heard her gasp.
It is the height of inhumanity if you feel that you are not well and that you are not okay to turn someone else's day into the same situation.
But I needed that, to release the flames of frustration that twisted and stung me inside me before I collapsed, to make someone else bear my greatest sin, my follies, my defeats.
Madiha opened her eyes after four hours. She looked really good after they dressed her wounds and set her fractures.
She was in a nap when the nurse I had just insulted nudged me and said in a stern tone that she was asking for you.
Why didn't you tell us she was our colleague? Before you launched into your boring life philosophy?
Come on, open the door and leave us alone
I pulled a chair and sat next to her, I said while examining her, "Are you okay?"
Madiha said, "Thank God. They told me you were collapsing outside."
I smiled, I never break down, Toha. If they told you that and it was true, you should realize that I would be dead!
Do you know why?
Because I'm a lonely person, wallowing in loneliness, I don't have anyone to cling to or who can extend a hand to me
I am an unbearable person, Madiha, and I have no intention of dragging another person through my puddle.
Madeeha said, I won't argue with you now, I'm very tired, please don't make Afif angry again?
Afaf?
Nurse Mahmoud, she is very angry with you!
I wanted to open her eyes before her heart suffered a huge loss, for the massacres of love are not punishable.
You look so perfect, Mahmoud, it's insulting. Do you know you're anything but?
I am not perfect, and I do not seek to be perfect, but I say the truth that some people reject. Let idealism rot in the stomachs of scoundrels.
I will apologize to her, she deserves it, I will not open her eyes against her will
Open my eyes to what?
I turned around and it was Nurse Afif standing at the door of the intensive care room listening to our conversation!
Are you spying on us?
I'm doing my job, someone like you is unpredictable, maybe you'll kill her??
I can't laugh, said Madiha, Mahmoud, and winked, meaning it's time to look like a normal human being.
I told Afif I apologize, I'm sorry, I crossed the line with you, it was a pointless conversation, I express my regret and I promise not to intrude on your heart or wander its paths again.
Did I do it right? Madiha asked.
She said kind of but you're still rude, you're very good at doing things and doing them against the same time.
I asked the nurse if this was enough.
She said, "Not before you tell me how your brilliant mind concluded that I love him."
And how did he allow himself to wander the paths of my heart?
I raised my hand in dismay, "We have to agree that what you're asking is not easy."
And you accepted my previous apology
Any further clarifications will come from within me and I am not forced to do so.
I accept your apology
The sparkle in your eyes as you stare at him like he's Einstein, your tenderness as you thrust surgical scalpels at him, and your cruelty towards others.
Your pupil deviates ninety degrees as you look at him from the corner of your eye.
Your unsteady stance, your weight on your right foot and its shaking, your desire to anticipate his words before he says them
Your eyes follow him in every move he makes.
Touching your veil whenever he looks at you stems from your desire to feel that you are beautiful enough in his eyes.
Your distraction, your wandering in its details
You weren't really worried about me? You were watching Afif while I was covered in water, about to die, and my bones were broken?
You know, Madiha, that I have my habits that do not change, no matter the circumstances.
Wait, Madiha
What else? How did you know he didn't love me?
Not now, Miss Afif, I said as I left the room. I need a cigarette.
Take care of Madiha for me and don't let anyone but me, even her father, into her room.
This is a damned, deadly story. It has to end somehow before my mind explodes.
The street was empty of pedestrians, the clock struck midnight, I drove my car
Towards the cemetery where the Tharwat family is buried
It was close, half an hour away and I was there.
I said to the cemetery guard, would you like two thousand pounds for a simple service?
The guard who had just woken up said,
I won't sell any body
I put the money in his hand to make him happy to wake up
I won't take any body, take me to the Abdul Hamid cemetery
The family that burned
The guard pulled out a lantern and walked ahead of me down a path that led through the cemetery.
Until we reached a cemetery carved out of the row.
The guard said, "I haven't opened it since then?"
I said it's time for them to smell the air
The guard brought his pickaxe and opened the tomb. He said, “I won’t go down with you. I’ll wait here.”
Remember how many bodies I asked him?
He said four
I carried the lantern down to where the shrouds were lined up next to each other.
Remains of life for people I don't know
I said as I opened the shrouds, violating the sanctity of the dead is a crime.
Luckily for me, they can't object.
The first shroud was apparently the father's.
The second mother
Third and fourth for two young men
Now I'm sure he didn't jump out of the grave at least, this damned man wasn't consumed by fire and wasn't even buried.
It was difficult to identify their features after such a long time. The only solution to confirm their identity was to re-autopsy the body, and this is impossible.
The guard shouted, "Get out of here quickly!"
I carried the lantern and left the graveyard
The guard said, "You are being watched." He was standing there and pointed to a point outside the cemetery.
Since when did you say?
Since you came, I thought at first it was just an illusion until it moved slowly and I realized it was a person.
How old was he?
It's hard to say, but he's a young man, maybe in his twenties.
Please leave before he calls the police, I left the cemetery thinking about the guard's words
20 year old boy what does that mean?
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After I started driving, I stopped the car and went back to the guard. I gave him my phone number. I said, "You'll need it."
What does guard mean?
I clenched my fist around his ID card, turned my back on him, and left, muttering nonsense.
I went back to the hospital. The sun hadn't risen yet. I sat on a bench outside Madiha's room, hugged my jacket, I needed to sleep, I fell asleep for a while.
When I woke up, the hospital was crowded with patients. Afif passed me without greeting me, as if she didn't know me. A smiling frame was on the wall.
I said, "Please, miss," and called her over. "Can I visit the patient lying inside the room?"
She said visits are forbidden, the doctor forbade her from speaking, I am following the instructions, sir, and she left me
Rot in the hell of the kitchen with a gluttonous husband who won't stop begging for food!
At the time of examination, the doctor allowed me to visit Madiha. He said that her condition was reassuring and that she would be transferred to a regular room.
Madeeha told me what happened to her from the moment she entered her apartment when she saw Tharwat, her running up the stairs, and closing the apartment.
He stalked her, tried to call me more than once
Smashing the apartment door, beating her mercilessly and breaking her bones
Nothing saved me from his hands except his phone call and my neighbor who started screaming
I said he didn't try to kidnap you?
She said no, he was disciplining me, he was shouting this is the punishment for everyone who knows you or gets close to you
He had a huge hatred for you.
Even though I have never met him before and there is no dispute between us?
I don't expect to hear him ramble on like, you're his mini version and you'll always be a dwarf, his little son and you won't outshine him.
Being a musician or a painter won't tip the scales in your favor.
crazy?
Madiha said, "On the contrary, he seemed to understand what he was saying and was determined to crush you."
He was saying Tasneem defended your life and that's the only reason he couldn't kill you.
Tasnim?
I gathered all of that in my mind, Tasneem locked in a close place, a close place that allows him to follow me and return to her at the same time.
Madeeha said, "I'm sorry, but maybe you should forget about it, Mahmoud. Tasneem isn't like before. Maybe she's carrying a child now!"
I never thought about that before, but it's true.
Even if I left everything behind, this bastard won't leave me alone, Madiha.
Oh, if only I could be one step ahead of him, one step ahead so I could keep an eye on him, so he could be the pursuer instead of the hunter.
We moved Madiha to a regular room. I told her I would disappear for a while, take care of yourself.
She said, "Don't worry, the police came here and took my statement." She described Tharwat to the police and accused him of trying to kill me.
You're stupid, Madiha. The police won't save you. You could have lied. If he finds out, he'll try to get rid of you.
I thought to myself, he's trying to get rid of you, this is what I need, bait, booty, I said goodbye to Madiha, I left the hospital and I looked around
I drove home, changed my clothes, and left through the back door after abandoning my car in front of the building.
If he was watching me I should know, I withdrew to a place far away but where I could watch our street, I was looking for Tharwat to someone else to watch.
After I got tired of watching without any benefit, I arrived at Madiha Hospital. Like the previous time, I watched the hospital from the outside until night fell. The street was crowded with pedestrians and vendors. I was looking for a needle in a haystack.
But I was determined this time to find a solution.
If they can't track me down by disappearing, they can't predict my movements or what I'm thinking.
I ate a sausage sandwich and wandered the streets until I reached our street at midnight.
There seemed to be a suspicious looking person who looked similar to the two people who had been following Tharwat when he raided Taqi's room.
He was standing far away from the building talking on his phone.
I followed him for minutes before I approached him, I was standing right behind his back when I said are you looking for me?
He turned around in terror towards me, I hit him on the back of the head and he fell to the ground unconscious
I got my car and put him in the back seat.
I drove my car to an empty spot, put him down on the ground after tying him up.
And slapped him on the face, open your eyes the dream is over, the angels have left
He opened his eyes in horror, he said who are you, why are you doing this to me?
I don't know you
I said I don't know you, but we will get to know each other now
He said while slipping out of his shackles, "Leave me, I have a family of children?"
I pulled a knife from my jacket pocket and ran it to his neck.
Don't kill me scream
The tip of the knife was stuck into the skin of his neck.
please i didn't do anything
Where is Tasneem?
Tasneem who? I have never known a female with the same name in my entire life.
Because they are rare, and I wounded him in the neck
I got up and kicked him in the stomach, "Listen, I said, I'm sick of all this nonsense. You're no good to your family if you're a rotting corpse."
I put his head in my lap like a cow and put the edge of the knife on his neck, I screamed and sang goodbye my friend
You are crazy what will you do?
I will kill you
But I am innocent, you took me off the street like an animal and now you intend to kill me
How will you meet your Lord with that crime?
I said God is Forgiving and Merciful
He started crying so hard that I almost believed him, then he said, "You're not a murderer, I know that."
I took off his pants and his trousers. I said, "Maybe this will help me remember."
He kicked his feet, shouted no, no
I will talk!
The address he gave wasn't far away so I drove off after gagging him and leaving him in the back seat.
When I arrived, I climbed the heaving stairs, and I started smashing the apartment door with my shoulder several times until it broke.
I was shocked by what I saw. Tasneem and Laura were tied hand and foot, lying on the ground without moving.
I hugged Tasneem and held her close to my chest. I said, “Wake up, my love. It’s all over.”
From behind me I heard a hoarse voice say as I received a blow to the back of my head, “The party hasn’t started yet.”
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The last one!!
He was
My body is lying on the ground, my eyes are covered with a film, and he is laughing. In his pants pocket, he has a rapid-fire pistol.
not
Able to move, I saw him carrying Tasneem, he disappeared before he came back again to carry Laura
I desperately extended my arms and stepped on him with the sole of my shoe. He wasn't the person I knew.
But he himself
He easily picked me up and threw me in the back of the car. Then I heard gunshots. The young man who was being held captive in my car was killed.
The car started speeding, he was recklessly crossing the speed bumps until the car came to a stop on a dirt road.
I opened my eyes in a room in the middle of the desert, with a tree standing in front of it. I was tied by my hands to the ceiling of the room like a sacrifice.
Next to me, Tasneem and Laura hung, their faces swaying, lying on their chests.
He was standing in front of the room giving instructions to another person whose features I couldn't see.
The shackles were tight and I couldn't free my hands. I raised my head in surrender.
If this is your end, make sure to die proudly. Don't be a coward, because death doesn't differentiate.
He sat on a chair for a minute, until that moment he didn't say a word. He just watched us strangely as if it was the first time he saw us.
He said after a long silence, I'm done being the second man. In the world of gangs, the second man does all the dirty work and the achievements go away.
To the gang leader, nobody remembers the second man.
Even fake history was made on the shoulders of imaginary men who were not immortalized in its books.
Then he laughed. I am a man without an identity, Mahmoud. There is nothing more dangerous than a man without a real personality, a coward whose actions do not express what is going on inside him.
He suffers to look the way others want him to look, he expects from them a word, praise, welcome, gratitude, so let all of that stop, we are done, let others go to hell with all their thoughts, because I, I, will not gasp to look good in the eyes of anyone in the world
Even himself.
He came close to me, then threw a violent punch at my face that split my lip.
It's a sign, a sign that I exist and I'm not a gelatinous or a phantom.
He took off my jacket and shirt, exposed my back and stung me with wooden sticks until I got addicted.
Tasneem and Laura started screaming. He said, "Don't worry, they're not screaming for you."
You are not that important, the mind works properly when in danger and only thinks of itself.
I said, why are you doing all that?
I don't know you and I have no relationship with you?
They also don't know me and they don't know why I'm doing what I'm doing now. He pointed towards Laura and Tasneem.
then
He cried out, What is the fault of all the tormented on earth? The sick, the weak, the poor
Lepers, vagrants, innocent prisoners, for what sin are they tortured?
Nobody thinks about them because they are sheep.
Their hands are honorable, clean, and white, so they deserve to be punished.
In this life, you either become a wolf or get eaten by hyenas.
This is not the time for truth, Mahmoudi. It is the time for begging, pleading, and last-ditch hopes.
Tell me and stare at my face? What is your wish?
I said to kill you!
He raised his hands in frustration and punched the wall with his fist, trust me this is not a solution
You don't know what's ahead
I am merciful, I have a kind heart and I want to relieve you of your suffering.
Someone called him from outside the room. He left us and went out for a minute. Then I saw him standing at the door of the room carrying an automatic rifle, and next to him was an armed masked man.
He said, "I'm sorry, there are urgent matters I need to deal with." He pointed the gun at me.
He put his hand on the trigger and I closed my eyes.
A bullet was fired, I didn't feel it, I said maybe Tasneem was killed, I opened my eyes
I saw the masked man lying on the ground covered in blood.
He quickly ran into our room and fired a dozen bullets outside.
Bullets hit her, penetrating the room's wall.
He shouted at the top of his lungs, "I will kill you, I swear I will kill you and rid the world of you," but he didn't point the gun at me. He just ducked around the door and fired the bullets outside.
He was shot in the shoulder and I heard him groan. He put his hand on his shoulder but held himself together.
And fired a burst of bullets out again.
Then he slammed the door, came to me staggering, took out a knife and cut my handcuffs
He shouted, "Get them out quickly!"
He untied Laura and Tasneem, opened the door again and fired several bullets.
He pointed to a spot on the wall and asked me to kick it with my foot. I kicked it with my foot.
A door-sized part collapsed.
He said go away and don't look back.
I took Laura and Tasneem out, and the sound of bullets was deafening my ears. I left them lying behind the room, and I went back towards him.
I said who are you?
He said leave before I change my mind
I said I won't leave before I know who you are. You are Tharwat!?
He said in pain, "I am the second man. Bullets rained down on us."
I had regained consciousness and saw three people standing behind a car from a distance shooting in our direction.
Give me your gun!
He said even you intend to kill me?
I said I would help you
He said no, you don't know him, he's ruthless, you have to run now
I said I wouldn't, I pulled the gun out of his pants pocket
From behind the room, I lay on the ground and pointed towards the car.
We were hit by a huge hail of bullets.
I heard the sound of his death rattle. I saw him lying on the ground, blood spurting from his mouth.
It's our turn, I told myself, we won't be able to escape. I fired six bullets.
On the car's metal, their vacation is a minute
The bullets were gone from the pistol and it was impossible to reach the machine gun.
Then I saw them running towards the car for no reason. After a minute, I heard gunfire from a distance. I took courage and reached for the automatic rifle.
Before I shot them, I saw them driving away.
I slammed the door of the room with the gun in my hand. I heard footsteps approaching.
Don't shoot. I heard a voice from outside the room. I came to help you.
I opened the door of the room slowly. There was a young man in his twenties, a miniature version of Tharwat, standing holding his weapon.
He said we have to leave quickly.
I grabbed him by the shoulder and asked him who are you?
It's not time to get to know Mr. Mahmoud. Help me move them to the car.
Laura and Tasneem helped us get to the car, it was about to take off
When I said we wouldn't leave him behind, he deserved a proper burial.
He said, "Give up your noble feelings now, he was about to kill you."
I said we wouldn't leave him behind, so we carried the man's body and put it in the car with us.
He said, I was watching him.
I said, and now he's dead, the story is over.
He said it wasn't him, it was the other person who led me here.
I said I don't understand, who is the second person?
My father said sadly
Are you Ibn Tharwat?
My uncle's wealth is dead?
I said, please I don't understand anything
That man killed my uncle Tharwat after he managed to find him because he helped my mother escape.
You are a pious son
He said yes
Your father is..... He said please don't say it, he's just the other man, I will never be his son even if I was a bastard son of a bitch
He raped my mother, locked her up, cut off parts of her body.
But your mother tried to kill me?
She was scared. You don't know what he did to her. She did what he asked her to do so he wouldn't hurt me.
My mother didn't know that damned man was alive, she saw him burning
How do you think he got out of the grave?
In this town, you don't ask for the truth.
Forensic medicine and morgue?
I regret to inform you that you are a big fool, Mr. Mahmoud. The forensic doctor is working on an important research and is receiving shipments of freshly deceased or complete corpses. Who do you think provides them to him?
This is a crime.
The crime will happen if I can't kill him, my mother is in danger
We arrived at what looked like an abandoned blacksmith's shop. He said we have to wait here if you intend to bury that body. We will wait until night.
I asked Tasneem and Laura if they could wait. They said in one voice, “We will not move from here until we see his body. You do not know what he is capable of.”
He's watching us now and we started crying.
We waited for an hour, and reassurance began to creep in to Laura and Tasneem. Laura said, “I didn’t know the truth about him when we got married.”
Forgive me, Mahmoud, for the rhythm of Throt and Tasneem has used me.
You were not part of the game.
He was torturing me and I didn't dare to oppose him. He was going to kill you, Mahmoud, and I love you.
After he disappeared from my life, he suddenly appeared. Laura cried. I said, “This is not the time for reproach. I will report to the police. They will take over the case.”
The young man said, "You won't. This is my issue and I will solve it on my own."
I said, you will lose your future.
He said, "For God's sake, what future awaits me? I live in the hope of getting rid of him."
I am the product of a sinful relationship, Mr. Mahmoud. I have lived in shame since my birth. The only thing that prevented me from committing suicide was the dream of killing him.
This is not a dream, it's a crime, believe me!
You cannot say or feel the words of the condemned to death, Mr. Mahmoud, because your neck is free.
Night fell quickly, we put the body with us and headed towards the cemetery. I was able to persuade the tomb chief, so he allowed us to open the grave. The young man and I lowered the body inside.
When we went out
There were two men tying up Tasneem and Laura while the real Tharwat was holding a gun in his hand
He said you saved me time, the cemetery is still open and he gave a sarcastic smile
The young man shouted, "I will kill you," and rushed towards him.
He shot him in the foot and he fell to the ground.
The young man crawled on the ground, but his resolve failed him.
One of the men rushed towards the young man and said, "I will kill him."
Tharwat prevented him, we will not kill him, a young man with his health is a treasure from which we will earn a lot of money, just like his brothers
As for you, your story is over. He pointed his gun at me and fired a bullet that penetrated my shoulder.
She fell to the ground next to the body of the deceased, covered in blood.
Tasneem slipped out of the other man's hands and threw her body on top of me.
She said if you're going to kill him, kill me with him.
He pulled her by the hand and threw her against the wall, saying, "You will not die today. You are carrying my child."
He put his foot on my chest, gave me a farewell smile, and a bullet came out.
He fell with his full weight on top of my body.
As the other two men ran away, I moved his body off me and crawled away.
Taqi approached and pointed the gun at his head and shouted, "Die, die!"
The whole package was fired at his head, which exploded.
Then she leaned towards him and started hitting him with the butt of the gun while screaming, “Die, die.” She pushed her hand away with difficulty. I said, “It’s over.”
We threw him into the grave and closed it.
We had to fight to get to the hospital without informing the police to protect Taqi and her son who also refused to go to the hospital after I shut the mouth of the educator with the end of service bonus.
Laura forced herself and drove the car towards the clinic of a doctor who had a relationship with Madiha. He removed the bullets from my shoulder and the young man’s foot.
After he informed us of the seriousness of the situation and that he disclaims responsibility for any side effects.
Taqi and her son left after an hour without waiting, while I stayed in the clinic for three full days under the eyes of Tasneem and Laura.
Tasneem was crying during it, cursing life, telling me everything that happened to her
I gave up my narcissism because of her, I knew I was the reason for all of this
She was determined to get rid of the child. I made it clear to her more than once that she would be my wife whether she gave up the child or kept him.
I gave her complete freedom
She said, I can't bear any part of him in my womb. She was adamant and asked her to wait until I could move.
I was next to her when she miscarried. She held my hand as if I were her greatest victory. I married Tasneem. I am doing everything I can to make up for the past.
Everything stopped at that moment, I buried the past behind me, Tasneem is my present and my future.
I hope the ending is good
To clarify, the second man did not appear until the last episode. He was subordinate to Tharwat's twin brother, carrying out his instructions and orders.
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