Chapter 2 2

Vigilance with its wide shoulders blocked the door of the house surrounded by corroded tin walls, the door of the house whose owner had not asked about it even with a two-line letter since he left him seven years ago... her treacherous husband and the father of her beloved child.

Tears fell from her eyes and her eyelids flooded.

He had just come with his shaven face as it was the morning of his last departure from his house, and with his thick black spiky mustaches, but they fit perfectly with his face.He told her with a hoarse laugh: " I'm back!" Then he added:"Why are you staring at me in such amazement? I'm back. I've come from a long way. I'm covered in symmetrical dust. Come on, warm me up. Sit me in front of you and wash my head with soap and water as you did before!"

Sarah's face flushed.

Many years ago .. since she was a bride dragging herself behind her husband's tails .. she came with him here from her bustling city, full of life .. her father died while she was still a baby .. she served her mother in strangers' homes to support her, and washed hotel covers and sheets. and the inmates' underwear, and then, unable to bear the heavy burden of living, she married a person whom she knew nothing of, thinking that she would obtain a loaf of bread without trouble.but how? The question here is about the man himself.

The man used to earn money .. but he spends whatever he earns on the same day in theaters , cheap nightclubs, and night houses on his lusts and bodily desires, and on wine and wine.He was mean in every sense of the word, so the woman had to leave her daughter (Sara) alone at home and go back to knocking on people's doors to wash their clothes. She first worked for Sarah, her daughter. Later, she worked with love and conviction in order to secure the wine and pleasures of her decadent husband! As soon as her husband takes her in his arms, he cracks her bones, and generously gives her boundless pleasure and ecstasy.

was about eight or ten years old at the time.A child who does not care much about life, attends her lessons in the third grade in one of the city's primary schools. Under the folds of the black and white-domed bodice her child's body bore a head full of the joy of sweet, fragrant little dreams. She was enchanted by the cats chasing each other with lightning speed , and the baboons drawing rough , sharp curves as they flew through the clear blue sky . Perhaps she would continue to be fascinated by this fascination throughout her golden childhood.

One day, however, she woke up to her mother's screams, writhing in severe pain, and when they quickly carried her mother on a stretcher to the big city hospital, Sarah's feet touched the ground, as if the atmosphere of blue space, saturated with joyful dreams, had flown away.ok but mama? Where is her mother? She knows where the mother went .. They took her to the hospital, but, everyone who goes to the hospital must come back!

They, even if they lose the freshness of their cheeks, and if their eyes turn dark, they return to those who left them at home, and they embrace their children in their arms. She is the mother (Ola) who returned from the hospital with a younger brother, her aunt (Bahia) who returned from the hospital and was supported on crutches, the mother (Aisha), the mother (Fatima), and the mother (Narjis)...

One evening, her stepfather came home, staggering drunk as usual, and murmured:"Heh! You... Enough!" She immediately broke off crying. She ran her tears to her guts, but where are her mothers? Where is her mother? Why do n't you come back as other mothers and aunts? Do not count even without the freshness of the cheeks .. even if with gloomy eyes .. it is enough to return, even if with crutches!

With teary eyes I asked him:"My Father? ". And sharply replied:"What is there? ".

I murmured begging:"I was going to ask a question but..."

The man was pouring wine, and with his eyes half closed, he muttered from over the table:"What do you want to know? Are you going to ask about your mother? Your mother won't come back, she's dead. Forget her completely."And he added, with a tongue crooked from the effects of wine:"I will bring you a young mother soon!" Here you are lost!

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Here, at this very moment, Sarah's bright days ended, and the world became dark, rather - the world had completely darkened in her eyes.

She does not want another mother. She is ready to bear her father's reproaches and reprimands, and even to bear his blows, provided that no other mother comes. But her father did not listen to her at all.He first brought in a spoiled young girl to play his stepmother, and after a month...five months, and one day, did the woman run away? Or that her father sent the woman to her father's house for her reckless behavior?Sarah didn't know about it .. and what would it matter to her if she did?

Three months passed.

And this time he brought a new stepmother who was older than the previous one, but this was the entry into the house of a man who slipped like thieves in the absence of her father and said to (Sara):"Go and play in the alley, girl, and do not open your mouth and say something to your father. If you do, by God, by God, I will turn your meat into a meatball!"

Horror filled her heart, Sarah did not say a word, she knows that he is only her stepfather and not a real father, and his treatment of her is very abusive, and because he loves women very much, he will not believe (Sara) and lies that, and worst of all, he will be convinced With the woman's words and agrees with her, then it is clear that he will beat his young daughter without an iota of mercy.And one day, when that grim woman disappeared from existence with that man who came to the house like thieves constantly in her father's absence, her father healed all his anger from his daughter-in-law:"Come here, girl!" To answer him in glory:"Yes, papa."