It's 6:30 p.m. at Al Salama's house,
The mother Nora furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at her small watch: "We're going to be late, and the girls aren't ready yet"
She starts calling them down stairs:
"Lina, Arwa...if you don't come down within 10 minutes, I will go first with your father. You follow us with Sami."
Lina: "Mama wait ! The eyeliner is killing me here!! Please don't be both against me…
I don't want to go with Sami! His driving is terrifying!"
Arwa: " his car is so dirty, I will not go to Rima's wedding in that car..it's embarrassing "
Sami's giggle is heard while he lying on the sofa busy with his phone:…"Problems come to you even if you are asleep"
The mother turns to Sami and sits beside him: "Oh God, give me patience…
Sami, do you remember what I told you to do?"
Sami still looking at his phone: "Yes ~…I should help my cousins welcome the guests. and bring my grandmother back from the wedding."
Nora: "good…and clea…"
The father Ahmad came in: "Are you ready to go? …Where's the girls, they're not ready yet!"
"Sami, you take them to the hall"
Sami: " I would like to help, but I have been excluded."
Arwa came down wearing a grey A-line tulle l dress with light pink flowers scattered on it..she styled her black silky hair with a classic bombshell hairstyle.
Arwa while running to wearing her Abaya: "I'm ready to go, where's my scarf?!"
Nora: "There,… LINA!"
Lina: "Coming, I am just wearing my shoes !!"
Nora: "Arwa, put more blusher on your cheeks.. I can barely see anything of it."
Arwa: "Mama!! it looks fine "
Noura's eyes evaluated Arwa's appearance, Her daughter is 25 years old, with wheatish skin, wide eyes as the colour of the desert surrounded by thick eyelashes, and her wavy black hair reaches her waist:
"Good ..you look good"
"we have to arrive before the guests to help with your cousin Rima's wedding…..LINA!!!
Arwa: "Mama, can I wear the yellow diamond set that my father gave you"
Nora: "The unmarried lady just wears simple jewellery, the earrings and the watch you wear are more than enough."
Lina came down in a hurry wearing one shoulder black dress: "I am here"
Nora:"...come upstairs with me, We agreed that no black dresses."
Lina: "No, you said we are late!"
Nora: "It's a wedding! Who wears a black dress at weddings? Either you are at a funeral or you are a grandma!"
Sami snorted with laughter.
"It's hard to live as a woman"
Lina: "black is the king of colours"
Noura sighed while thinking of turning a blind eye to Lina this time..she is still 20.
wedding parties is a good occasion to search for the appropriate brides, Nora knows that.
Ahmad looks lovingly at his daughters and gets closer to hug them: "You've grown up beautifully"
Sami finally dropped his phone, stood up and wore his brown Bisht and perfected his white Qutra then took a turn showing off in front of them.
Lina looked at him with half-closed eyes: "stop seeking praises…"
Sami: "Did ask for it from your pocket!"
Nora's eyes were full of glitter looking at her son and getting closer to him holding his cheeks: "look at my handsome son, look at those royal features"
Sami hugged his mother as his mother kissed his cheek.
The jealous Ahmad: "Sure…he takes after his father."
Nora answers without looking away: "no, he takes after my father"
Arwa:" I thought we were late!!"
Lina:" I am so excited for Rema's wedding, I will dance till my feet fall."
Ahmad: "I will be in the car."
Nora followed Ahmad: "Arwa, Lina!"
The girls going out: "Coming"
Sami pulled Lina's hand and asked in a whisper: "is Yara coming to the wedding?"
Lina: "…of course, It's her sister's wedding".
Sami looked away but kept holding Lina's hand and remained in his silents.
Realization suddenly dawned on Lina:
"Oh right, I almost forgot... Yara called me today"
Lina gave Sami a sly grin
"She asked me to sleep over, since it's the weekend …."
Sami: "I'll drop you there from the hall…but make sure she will be with you!!!"
Lina: "Ok!, but make sure to clean your car"
Sami: "Right"
After the two girls left the house, Sami went back to lying on the sofa thinking about Yara, his first love, his childhood friend…
he loves everything about her, even her flaws and the letters of her name…
they were just friends when she started to cover up her face, she was in middle school, He never saw her face after that, of course, he heard about her from Lina sometimes, but all he knew was that she is a quiet girl, easy to be scared, which was one of Lina's sources of amusement. Later he knows that she loved the color purple, romantic novels, and Barhi dates…
Sami starts to laugh when his thoughts reach Barhi dates!
How adorable!
He thought that Lina pranked him when he asked her about Yara's favourite food!
But it turned out to be true.
His chain of thoughts took him to the blessed incident two years ago, when he was still a college student, It was the first spark of love in his dry heart and it shook him to the core, His heartbeat began to speed up as he remembered…