Days passed quickly as clouds passed over her presence in the village of ( Western Arch ).
She always sits and spends her time at home while Adam and Talan go either to work in the field or to fish in the lake and the cave during the day and come home late. This made her feel bored because of her inability to leave the house except at night, for fear that one of the residents would meet her, and questions would multiply about her or her identity would be revealed.
As for the short period that she and Adam were spending together, He just treats her and talks to her in his rude manner, and sometimes he tries to comfort her because of the pain in his heart that continues to grow and increase day by day with her presence around him, and doesn't leave him in peace. And the proverb also gets her the most insignificant thing he does towards her.
They both didn't understand the reason behind it but they were sure that whatever was going on with them they should stop it soon or talk about it before it got out of control.
And here is another bright day when she is sitting at home and drinking tea with Adam in silence until he broke the silence :
-(Do you remember the time I asked you about your heartache?)
-(Yes.. why ?)
-(Do you still suffer from it?).
-( Yes ?).
-(Me too, but it only happens to me in your presence).
She blinked in confusion, then answered:
-(Yes. Me too. I think that your hatred for me and my fear of you caused us this heartache)
She finished, taking another sip of her tea, avoiding looking into his dark glaring eyes. when his lips spoke :
-(I don't think so. Maybe we...by mistake...).
His speech was interrupted by Talan's sudden entry while saluting them, then he advanced towards Amalia smiling:
- (How are you, my dear? Does he treat you well?).
She just nodded her head. Adam waved his hand and said:
-(hello ! I'm here, you know).
The other laughed at his friend's reaction, then replied:
-(Actually, I came here to invite Amalia to go out with us to the cave. She takes a little walk to change the stifling atmosphere of the house a bit . She didn't run away to be imprisoned in another prison.)
Amalia replied:
- (A picnic to the cave?).
Adam added:
-(Yes, did your mother leave us another place to go for a walk?).
He tried to tease her with his words, but he was surprised by her response.
-(Wonderful. So when are we going?).
Talan replied in the same enthusiastic tone:
-(Now if you like, since we all agree.)
While they happily chatted, Adam kept thinking to himself, wondering how excited she was about the cave picnic that she didn't even get upset or pay attention to his teasing.
He started to suspect that there is something she is planning, and in the midst of his confusion he remembered something.
-(Hey! how are we going to get her out of the house without anyone making a glimpse of her with that face?).
Then he turned his eyes to her and added:
-(Don't you have any clothes or hats to disguise yourself? other than this old tattered dress?)
She nodded, saying:
-(I didn't have time to collect my clothes before escaping).
Talan enters:
-(Don't worry about that, I've already figured it out.)
He went out for a few minutes from the house and then came back quickly with a lot of dresses and hats in his hand.
They rushed towards him to help him , and grabbed the dresses from him and put them on the table, while he fell on the sofa to rest from the weight that had been removed from him.
As soon as Adam saw the sewing pattern, he learned of its provenance, and Amalia checked the dresses one by one with excitement.
-(Where did you get all these dresses from?) she asked curiously.
Adam smiled:
-(From our friend Laila. She is the only seamstress who makes such luxurious and elaborate work).
Amalia just nodded her head, not knowing why she suddenly became upset and lost her enthusiasm for trying on dresses.
Talan carried a yellow dress with wide black stripes and approached her with a smile.
-(Put this on, you will look very beautiful in it.)
She smiled back with pink cheeks of shyness and thanked him.
The other looked at them as they exchanged smiles like lovers, and it bothered him and his heart began to ache again, and he did not know why seeing her smile at another man made him so angry. Even if that man was a loyal old friend.
All he knew at that moment was that he only wanted her to smile at him.
He took a deep breath and then said:
-(You, flaming! Are you going to keep wasting time? Or are you going to go up and change out of your tattered dress?)
She was carrying the dress that Talan had chosen for her and going up the stairs quickly until Adam's voice behind her stopped her again:
-( Wait! ).
Then he carried another red dress with a wide black line around her waist, highlighting the beauty of her figure, and climbed the stairs to her, so he took the first dress from her hand and gave her the one he chose.
-(This will look better on you, now hurry up).
Blood pooled in her cheeks again and she ran up to the room to change it. While the other one went down the stairs, smiling at her shyness, and Talan scrutinized all his movements and laughed to himself at the stupidity of his friend, who fell in love with the girl he thought he hated without his knowledge.