Page 15 - Issue 59

ELITE
Vol.1

Issue 59

September
2023

Years passed, and the girls attended the best When his wife confronted him with evidence,
schools, wore the most luxurious clothes, and facts, and evidence, he could not deny it.
went to the most luxurious clubs. -Have you gotten married after all this life?
Their mother raised them to have good morals, Have you given up on our love? Have you
taught them to have good qualities, and taught forgotten how I stood with you? Have you
them to excel academically. forgotten my sacrifice of quitting my job?
Before she was forty years old, she gave birth -I got married young, and I worked a lot.. I
to her fourth child, and her husband was very took on great responsibilities, and faced major
happy with her. problems.. My life passed, and my youth was
His wife said: After dawn, sunrise, and noon wasted.. Don’t I have the right to live with
comes sunset. peace of mind.. and sleep soundly..
He looked at her disapprovingly: No, the sun She looked at him, hot tears flowing from her
will not set in our lives.. It will be Asal.. the eyeballs, and hot exhalation emanating from
time of praise.. what comes after the afternoon her lungs, and she pressed her burning chest
and before the twilight.. with both hands.. and said: Did you marry
Time passed, and Fajr graduated from someone who is only five years older than our
university and got engaged to her colleague.. daughter Fajr? Didn't you think about her
and her parents’ happiness for her was fiancé's position? He might leave her.
indescribable, because she would repeat the She added: Did you not realize that this
story of their successful lives.. behavior might prevent the marriage of
Shorouk was in the third year of university, Shorouk and Duha? Haven't you thought
Doha was in high school, and Asal was in the about Asal's attachment to you, and her
fourth year of primary school. inability to stay away from you?
The wife noticed her husband's absent- After gathering his belongings, he said: I did
mindedness, his absence from home for long not commit a crime.. It is my right..
periods, his frequent travels, his exaggerated She gathered her courage and said: What about
interest in his appearance, his unwillingness to your responsibility towards the girls?
hear anything about his daughters, his He became angry and said: You know that I
abandonment of pampering his youngest have been working and spending on my
daughter, Asal, his pardon of the rest of the education since I was ten years old... and my
daughters, his failure to respond to their father did not help me with anything...
requests, and the cancellation of many items of She said in a choked voice: “But they are girls.”
spending.. He didn't answer her, and they left.
She said: This is how the sun of our lives set,
and the night closed its curtains on our story.
He turned his face away from her and quickly
left.
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