Chapter 4

!Cancer

Faj2a al doctor g63 afkari

?What afkari

In my mind ma kan fie la klmt cance

The doctor : shofi momkin kater enno ma ykon cancer !e7na lazm nt2kd 7nswelk ash3a w 9ora

I didn’t answer him back

The doctor : 5li emank w th8tk bellah akbar

Mariam : doctor mata 7nswi al 2sh3a

The doctor : lazm da7en b2sr3 wagt

Sawet al 2sh3a w al 9war

While leaving the hospital kan fi 3ndi amal 14 % ykon ma 3ndi cancer

Mariam was holding my hand w e7na 6al3en I saw a guy maksora yadu and his mother said : salamtk ya waldi ma tshof shar wallah mt 5oof 3lek

The guy : omi la tdl3eni bzyada tara a5d’ 3la al jaw you know huh

His mother : 7bebi wallah glgt 3lek

The guy : allah y5leki le w ma y7rmni mnk

I was looking at them zay a child who was looking at someone took his toy w kan byl3b feha

Knt btfrj 3lehum zay al ma7roma mn shay

Yes knt ma7roma mn omi

I thought ya retk ya mama m3aya

W bnfs al wagt I didn’t her to be with me I didn’t anyone to share this pain with me

7atta law it was mama

Wgft b n9 al 6areg jalst at6l3 3la the guy and his mom

I was crying , knt ma2hora ya mama

Mariam’s POV

Loma stopped bn9 al hospital and she was crying and looking at a guy with his mother

I didn’t know what  i was supposedto do 

?Should I tell her hey stop looking at them

Or

!!Loma tra this lady is not your mom

!Actually I was crying too

Faj2a ma ashof ela loma 6ay7a fel ar9’

Me :LOMA LOMA WAKE UP

!LOMA PLEASE WAKE UP DARE

The guy and his mom came and the woman said : 5air? Eash feeha

Me : LOMA WAKE UP please nadu ay doctor

The nurse came

The nurse : don’t worry she will be fine inshallah

A5doha I don’t really know wain

Almohm a5doha the doctor 6al3ni bara al 3’rfa and said : la t5afi 7f79ha

I got out from the room and start crying

That woman with her son

?She said : 5air eash moshkltha

Me : wallah ya 5ala 7kaya 6awela hadi al bnt 9a7bti w..

?She said : w  eah goleli

Jlst and I told her the whole story

I know it wasn’t mn 7gi agol l ay a7ad but she seemed really good

The guy: 7aram allah yshfeha

His mother : eash ma kan lazm tklmu abuha

Uff wtf ! what should I say

Al7mdllah before I say anything the doctor came

?Me : 5air ya doctor

The doctor : ma t2l2esh do5a base6a a36enaha ebra mhd2a bs mmkin thlws 3la athrha shwaya 3shan keda ma ts2alohash as2la ketera w t3boha

Me : inshallah ,I was going to to enter the room bs the woma's voice came

?Mmkin ad5l at6mn 3leha m3aki

Me : aked ya 5ala

Her son entered m3ana ma a3rf laish hwa yd5l I told his mother to enter not HIM

LOMA’S POV

While I was looking at that woman and her son I felt dizzy w I don’t remember what happened after that

mariam d5lt 3ly with a guy and a woman

mariam : loma 7bebi ma tshofi shar

me : mariam bdi amshi al beet

mariam : 7bebi lazm trta7i awal

me : where is my mother

mariam looked at me with ;o on her face

the woman td5lt

?the woman : 7bebti a7sn da7en enti

me : mariam yallah  

The guy : al7mdllah 3la alslama

Me : mariam yalla nmshi al beet mama btstnana

I saw mariam crying okay a3trf I was habla by saying that bs knt 3la athr al 2bra

The woman : mariam 7bebi a36eni rgmk 3la shan at6mn 3la loma

Mariam gave her the number

6l3u klhum barra al3’rfa

Mariam’s POV

Me : 5ala shukran 3azbanaki ma3ana

The woman : lah 7bebti mo bena yser t6mnena 3leha yallah laith

So his name is laith

Laith : ma tshof shar

Me : shukran

I went to the doctor w t6mni 3la loma

A5dtha w mshena al bet and felsyara ma galat shay kant saktaa

LOMA’S POV

I entered the house and l7sn 7a9’I ma kan fi ay a7ad

I immediately 6l3t 3’rfti

It was 4 PM

So nzlt  al9ala and I told the maid to tell the 

driver ennu bdi a6l3 

d5lt al syarai told the driver wadeni magbrt *** law sam7t

we arrived so i told him to leave the car and anything bara 

jlst at6l3 3la al magbra then start saying b9ot 3lai while crying: MAMA SAM3ANI 9A7 

MAMA T5YLI LESSA B3RIF E7KI LBNANI

HAHA MAMA BTTZKRI LAMA 2LTELI ENO A7LA LAHJEH ALAHJEH ALBNANIEH YES YOU ARE RIGHT 

KTEER 7LWEH AL ALHJEH ALBNANYE

MAMA SHT2TLK KTEER 

W KAMAN LA T5AFI 3LAY IM FINE 

MAMA ANA KBRT W 9RT 16 

MAMA B3D AKMN YOUM YMKIN ARO7 LEBNAN LA T5AFI R7 2OUL L TETA W 5ALATI ENNO ENTI ESHT2TELUN

MAMA BT3RFI EASH YMKIN ALYOUM AW BUKRA AW B3DO W B3D SENEH NT2ABAL BELJANAEH 

ANA KTEER 2RBT MNK YA EMMI 

MAMA ANA 3NDI CANCER 

YMKIN KTER 2REEB ASHOFK YA MAMA skt shwaya i was crying w 3let 9oti aktar

 MAMA HAHA BT3RFI SHO DNYTI BALAKI BALA 6A3ME

ENTI MNEE7A? 

MAMA LA T5AFI I WILL VISITE YOU SOON 

YMKIN BS AZOR 2BRK AND YMKIN ASHOFK BELJAMNEH

I LOVE YOU MAMA 

B7BIK YA 3OMRI