#gram-lith
# Farida-Ahmed-Farid
chapter one
In Shubra El-Kheima Hospital
Gram: By God, Papa, I am present, I promise you. But you do not tire yourself and the Prophet.
Abdel Latif: No, Gram. You won't silence me with your words. If I die, I will die angry at you.
Gram: Why is that, but Dad? I promised you to go around with a groom before Wael returns from the army.
Abdul Latif: It's one week, love. If you don't bring a groom and you marry me before the week ends, you won't marry Wael your cousin. I won't leave you for your uncle's children. Not for your mother's husband.
Love crying: Enough, Dad. Enough of what I'm in. The first time I see a woman going around with a groom and getting married, and her father keeps him in the world for a few days.
Abdul Latif: Who told you that you have seen every thing in the world. Do you know what you are, 18-year-old girl. Gram? I don't want you to come to the hospital again except with the groom.
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Gram left the hospital and went back to her house. She found her sister Ghada waiting for her
Ghada: Dad, what do you do, Gram?
Gram: My father is dying and wants to die before him. Why did you not go to the hospital?
Ghada: Because I know what he will do to me. My nerves are tired of this issue. Oh love, I don't understand him. I want you to get married, why before he dies. They don't have the children of your uncle, I mean.
Gram: No, Ghada, not the children of your uncle Saeed, nor the children of your uncle Ahmed, not even the children of Jalil your uncle who is in the country. I will never marry from the family.
Ghada: What will you do with your father? Would you rather prove your promises to him until the cancer eliminates him?
Gram: Spin me, Ghada. I have something in my brain like this. I remember why my old colleague, our neighbour.
Ghada: Yes, sister.
Gram: Ah, why not. He and I have been in love for some time. I will try to reach him and he can agree to help me.
Ghada laughed hysterically at her sister and her naive mind. Finally, she said: I am going back to my Josie. It is good that you will leave me with your words.
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Gram entered her room. I sat at the computer. I opened Elvis and wrote the name of my childhood friend. In the search I found dozens with the name
Laith Sadiq Al-Minshawi
I searched all the names for pictures of him. Finally she saw a picture of his father. I made sure it was him. I sent him a picture.
Laith Izek. I am Gharam Al-Mansouri, remember me. We were neighbors in Sayyida Zainab. Remember me, Laith
She took a picture on her phone of them at his birthday party and sent it to him. She waited hours for him to respond. She slept on the chair while she was waiting.
Finally, I heard a notice. I opened the message
Oh, you are still alive, love. How can I tell you? I still remember me
Of course, I think of you. You miss me, Laith. I tell you what. It came out as you wanted. And it didn’t come out, you see
No, you are joking too.
I mean, you're talking to me from China
Look, love. I work in the company’s branch in Egypt. But I will travel with the new designs to the main branch in Singapore. Currently I am there. You know Huawei. I am part of its designers team
Seriously. I can't believe. I'm so happy for you
They kept talking all night. Gram told him about her problem and she finally said
And frankly, this is the reason for my words with you. I turned to you for this
Because exactly I do not understand
Why I don’t know a man other than you. Even in secondary school. Dad entered me into a girls’ school only. I didn’t have a relationship with anyone. From the other side, I don’t know anyone else to help me.
He was silent and did not reply. She said
look, I know it was a shock. I don't want anything from you. I want you to agree to marry me until Papa dies. Then we get divorced.
He was silent for a few minutes. She felt that he wanted to refuse, but he did not want to embarrass her. She wanted to absolve him of embarrassment and apologize to him.
She saw his message
Oh, love, you are saying that your father is between life and death. And it is very difficult for me to return to Egypt this week. So we will do it how
Gram
Not a problem at all. You hire a lawyer and get married. As people do
All right. My soul is reassured by your father. I will set it up with the lawyer and I will speak to you. Send me your number and email so that I know how to speak to you.
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Four days after the consummation of the marriage...Abd al-Latif died. Gram lived in long mourning for her father. Ghada came to her one day and said to her with consolation: And then, Gram, you will be sad like this forever, my sister, Papa God have mercy on him.
Gharam sadly: his death broke me very much, Ghada, the most difficult thing is that you know that someone who is dear to you will die, and when he dies, you feel defeated and the pain of no one is left behind, his sense of the fire of parting is still leading me, Ghada.
Ghada: There is no god but God, may God have mercy on him, but you don't want to go like this, you must go out, return to your job at least, and also the man of his time came back to Egypt and called you and your phone convoy attended.
Gram: a man, a man who is.
Ghada: Your husband, love.
Gram: Josie Maine.
Ghada in shock: Yes, sister, you have lost your memory, and you don't have Alzheimer's. Suddenly, I'm talking to you about Laith Al-Minshawi, a childhood friend, the man you married to your father.
Gram: Laith, I completely forgot about him, I want me to do this for him, what is the salvation, Papa died, and I remained free.
Ghada: Free, you are an idiot.
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In the afternoon, she opened her phone, looked for his number, and called him
Gram: Hello, peace be upon you.
Layth: Peace be upon you, what love, a month in the case of your phone convoy, what, my daughter, do not talk to me, you know the world in it, what do you have?
Gram: Papa is dead, Layth, salvation.
Laith: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Stay for God, love.
Gram: Survival is for God alone, the important thing is now, you have returned to Egypt and he is not a traveler.
Laith: I came back early and we must meet, I gave you an address, come to me as soon as possible, in important words we must talk together.
Gram: Of course, of course, I am coming to you now.
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In uncle Gram's house
Wael: And then, Hajj, a month has passed since my uncle’s death, and there is no news about her, I want to talk to her before I return to the army again, before this vacation is over, I mean.
Ahmed his father: What do you want from it? Why did you get married before my brother dies?
Wael: I don't care about this, I know that she married someone else, forcibly because she was afraid that she would marry me. May God forgive you for what you feared from me and the whole marriage.
Ahmed: We are my son.
Wael: Of course, Hajj, you hit my mother and your harsh treatment with her until she committed suicide, and her father beat her mother until she got divorced and married another man, and my uncle Jalil and his cruelty towards his wife, you all made her and her sister afraid to marry from the family, I thought that I was like you and her father’s marriage, you were afraid I don't give her the same treatment, but I love her since she was young, and I was in her, hey, but she allows me to sit with her for one time, and I know that I will convince her of me, by God.
Ahmed: There is no need to talk about this now, my son, Gram got married and got divorced, and the time of her husband returned to Egypt and went to him too, I mean, you want to go to her, why, you will convince her how to divorce from her husband and accept you.
Wael: I don't care about all this, I know what to say to her, and I will let her make her forget how and she pleases me, but I can only meet her.
Ahmed: By God, you are free. Go to her. See her still in her father’s house. She did not go to her husband. Take her address from Ghada and go to her, and keep telling me what her husband has done for you. When you say I am coming to apply to your wife.
He looked at his father angrily, got up, went to his uncle's house and did not find her, he decided to go to her sister, and he would not leave before he took a gram address from her
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F Villa El Minshawi
Gram was astonished by the luxury of the place, I called Laith and he was standing outside his house, I waited a minute
She saw an elegant man, very handsome, his body well proportioned, her heart pounding violently, when he smiled at her and said, "Be sure that you arrived so quickly, come here."
I went in with him, brought her a drink
She said happily, not knowing her source: I can't believe that you are sitting in my head, as if time has gone back to me for many years, I have changed, Laith.
The man was silent and said vaguely: I am not Leith, Gram.
Gram confused: Not Leith, oh, who are you?
Man: I am Fahd, his little brother.
Gram: Walith Finn Omal, huh, tell me to come and meet him today.
Fahd: I am the one who told you to come, and I am the one who spoke to you from the beginning, sincerely, so that he does not even know that you are his wife.
She looked at him horrified, and almost lost consciousness from shock.
Continue in Chapter 2
