Chapter six

Faris came closer to me .

"Do you love me?," He asked whispering .

I was getting ready to answer him when Dalal cut the moment off by screaming "help,"

Faris was holding my hand when Dalal screamed asking for somebody to rescue her , he squeezed my hand before leaving to see what's happening.

The distance between me and the gate isn't long. I can hear what's going on, I heard Dalal cursing and shouting  and then boys' voice telling her to shut up.

"Oh kaho sharraf il7abeeb," said a guy. That voice, his voice, I heard it before but I can't remember whose voice it was. I'm trying my best to remember ,yet I couldn't recognize it.

"Wakher 3anha la wallah anaseek ismk," said Faris.

Oh my god what are they doing to Dalal? Faris is mad, he's mad because somebody's doing something to Dalal and she's not happy about it. Faris is trying to help her and it's something new, they hate each other. He has never helped her, or I think.

I wanted to go to see what's happening , to help. But I'm stuck in my almost dead body, useless.

 "Is it karma trying to get me? Is it because I froze people and now I'm kinda frozen? Is god doing this to see how faith and patient I can be?," I asked myself questions that needed to be answered, but I didn't hear no answer.

"Okay bahedha bas 3ala shar6, ityeeblina o mil chlaab," a heavy voice said. They meant me, didn't they? what do they want from me?

"Mo gabl ma tgolole shloun ligaitona," Faris said angrily .

Oh my goodness, I know who they are. The boy gang who teased me earlier today. I knew that I heard their voice before, my brain never fails me.

"Please, please, please. Let me go," Said Dalal with a shaky voice followed with a boy voice laughing.

"Shloun ligainakom? Li7agna ree7atkom," the boy said with a strict voice, nobody laughed. It sounded like a joke but why they didn't laugh?

"Yalla al7een glnalik al7een khali9na w yeeb your Purdandent ," The boy said.

[The word purdandent does not exist, I made it up]

"Pur what? Shga3d tkharbi6?,"Faris said.

"Into 3yal mno?," My mother's voice.

She finally came, I felt so relieved. For the first time I'm glad and happy to hear her voice.

"Asfeen khalte wallah makan qa9dna shay bas kina bnkalm il Purdandent ," Said one of the boys. I then heard Dalal's footsteps, The let her go.

"Sa'altkom so'al riddaw 3alaih," My mother said with a strange tone.

"N9na 3yal agent 009 w n9na agent 505," one of the boys talked after a long minute of silence.

What are they saying? I can't understand a thing they're saying. Nothing of what they said made sense.

"Yalla ro7aw w ra7 you9al 7ag ahalkom khabar bille9ar," My mother said as she closed the door after they went out.

"How does mama Mariam know their parents? And what with the agents? Why did they get scared when they saw her? I am purdandent but what Is it?," I questioned myself.

"Wain Rawa?," My mother asked.

Faris led her to me. She ran to hug me and then put her hand on the back of my head.

"Did she say something about having a headache?," She asked and Faris nodded.

"9ar ilyoum shay unusual?ya3ne shway ghareeb?," She asked

"Except what has just happened with the boys,no," He was lying, I want him to lie.

"Hmmm, okay," My mother said. I don’t think she believed him.

She then excused us to go get stuff to heal me and asked Dalal to go with her, Dalal followed murmuring, They talked but I couldn’t hear their talk.

"What just happened is the reason the word "weird" exists," Faris said.

Faris's mobile rang and he picked it up.

"Hala yemma….Eeeh ana eb bait khalte Mariam kane khamis dgayeg wakoun bilbait, " He said and then hung his blackberry up.

"Yalla 3ayyal ana waray shalaih tawa omme daga m3a9ba tgoule ard ilbait," Faris said.

He kissed my forehead and left saying that he'll call me tonight.

"Faris kissed my forehead," I thought, blushing.

If he did it yesterday I'd say "eww gross" or something like that but after what happened today? His kiss felt like heaven even though it was just my forehead.

Mama Mariam and Dalal came back. Dalal was holding a box filled with spices taken from the kitchen and in my mother's hand was a huge old dusty book and she held a medium sized bowl with a knife in the other hand.

"Ra7 ta3awerain shwayya bas hathe il6areeqa ilwa7eeda 3ashan tgoumeen," said my mother with a forced smile on her lips.

I got really scared. She's going to use a knife to heal me, she's not even a doctor. I wasn't satisfied with what's going. I had bad feeling for the whole "Mama Mariam healing me" thing. 

Chapter five.

I couldn't talk. I lied down staring at the ceiling unable to move any part of my body and I started to think " I passed away, didn't I?,"  

I'm not dead. I don't think I am.

I heard the door opening and Faris's voice kept calling on my name. He shacked my body trying to wake me up but I didn't respond.  I heard footsteps coming from the stairs . I knew that It was my sister because of her noisy flip flop.

"Shfeeha Rawa? Shsawait feeha?," Said Dalal lowering herself to sit right next to me to check on my pulse.

" Walla masawait feha shay yait shft'ha 6ay7a," Faris replied. I guess he was scared , I can tell from his tone.

Dalal hates Faris. He hates her too! I know that there's a reason behind this but whenever I try  to open the subject with them they shut me up telling me that my "wild imagination" has to take the blame. I wasn't imagining, It's obvious. They hated each other for a reason and I will find it out one day.  

The strange thing is that Faris never keeps a secret away from me but why is he keeping the "Dalal" one ?

Anyway, Faris said that he's going to my upstairs room to bring his mobile to call my mother and Dalal went to bring me water I don't even know why.

Now I'm all by myself still staring at the ceiling laying on the cold almost wet floor. I can smell the dettol I bet my mother cleaned the house before leaving.

I tried to get myself up, tried to move but I couldn't make it, tried to scream but my voice was somehow gone . I can see , I can hear and I even can blink but why not talk? I needed to talk, to scream , to say something.

The back of my head started to ache again. Why me ? why is this happening to me? from all of the people on earth god chose me but why?

Dalal finally came back. She started to give me water. I can't drink, can't swallow. "will I die starving?," I started to think. I brushed the thoughts away. I didn't want to be concerned about silly things.

She mistakenly pour the whole glass of water on my shirt. She's making everything worse. I wanted to punch her not because of what she did, but because I was really mad and scared but I can't move so I didn't punch her. Even if I'm moving I won't punch her , I'm the version of a quiet, calm and peaceful girl.

Faris came down saying that he called my mother and she'll arrive soon. I felt his soft big hands holding me, he carried  me to put me on the couch.

"wa akheeran a7ad 7as feene," I thought .

Dalal said something about the weather being cold and headed to the guests room. I wasn't giving attention to what she was saying, I was already sinking in the river of my thoughts. Faris came to sit next to me in the same couch and played with my curls.

"I don't know if you're listening to me or not but I want you to stay strong. I'll be right next to you like I've always been . I'll pick you up when you fall down. I love you not as my cousin or as my best friend ,no. I love you as the caring beautiful sensitive girl. I LOVE YOU" I felt warm water drops in my hand, what was it? I realized that it was tears. Not mine of course, It was Faris's. He's crying, Faris is actually crying. I've never seen him crying he has always kept his feelings for himself. He's in love with me.

For me? Love is a huge word. I've never expected anybody to share the love word with me, my heart started to beat faster I was scared and happy at the same time.

We've always called each other names, he saw my ugliest faces. I've never expected him to love me that way, I cried with a emotionless face.

"Reeh you're crying, you can listen," He said while drying my face with a napkin.  

"see, I want to ask you questions; if your answer is yes blink once and if it's no blink twice," He was talking really fast, this is the excited Faris I'm sure.

"should we tell anybody about your power?," He asked still talking fast. The question is really hard. I decided to blink twice.

"okay then I'll keep my mouth shut. Is any part of your body in pain?," he said and I blinked yes.

"Oh god, where? Your stomach?," he said.  I blinked twice meaning no.

"your back?,"he kept asking .I blinked twice.

"Then it's got to be your head, right?," he finally said It the moment Dalal came in to the living room saying : what a freak. Who are you talking to?

"I'm a smart freak," he sighed and explained the situation.

"Sometimes you can be a bit genius ,"she said laughing

"So is it your head?," Faris asked again and I answered yes.

The door's bell rang joined with loud knockings

 "It has to be mama Mariam," Dalal said running to open it.

Faris got closer to me .

"Do you love me?," He asked whispering .

I was getting ready to answer him when dalal cut the moment off by screaming "help," 

Chapter four

Faris was freezing, the bad guys were freezing . I took a deep look around  the place but nothing moved . I then realized that the last thing I was thinking of when I saw the boys heading to Faris is to freeze everything . was it a coincidence ? Am I still asleep? maybe I was just dreaming and I would wake up any minute from now.

I tried to wake myself up. Closed my eyes several times, hit my head with the palm of my hand and pinched my cheeks but nothing happened. I felt really crazy by trying to wake myself up but I was really nervous and I couldn't think of a better thing to do. My Legs couldn't carry my thin body's weight . I fell down on my knees crying. I was shocked and scared.

Voices in my head started to say that crying won't help solving any problem, that I should stand up and take action and that I should use my brain more often.

Other voices started to say that I'm weak ,useless and that I won't fix what I did.

I tried to shut the second  voice up and I did it, I didn't hear it again.

Now I have to remember how I exactly froze everything. I remember imagining every single existence not moving to stop the fight between the boys and Faris. Maybe all I have to do to free them is to imagine the opposite? If yes then I should imagine that everything is moving, dogs barking, birds flying and bad boys running with knifes. I then started to think that if I freed the boys they will attack Faris. I tried so hard to free Faris. I closed my eyes , imagined him moving, imagined him walking and talking. I tried , tried and tried.

"what the fuck?," somebody whispered these words. Was it Faris? I kept my eyes closed. I really wanted it to be Faris, I didn't want to be disappointed.

"Rawa, Reeh" Said the same voice but louder. Now there's no doubt about it being Faris. Nobody calls me "Reeh"  but him plus it was his voice.

I opened my eyes, turned my head to the right and saw Faris looking around with strange expressions on his face.

I ran to hug him. I was so glad to see him back to normal. He hugged me back and said: what is this? Laish w shloun chthee mtjamdeen?

I told him I'll explain later and we should escape. Of course I didn't forget about my dogs;I freed them too before going.

Me, Faris and  my Chihuahuas ran to my place. The streets were quiet . Faris kept begging me to explain what's happening and I kept telling him that I will explain everything when we reach my house.

When we finally arrived to my house I noticed that my mom was in her car, not moving. I realized that I froze everything in Qortuba. Probably in the whole Kuwait and it's possible to be the whole world.

I opened the house's gate giving Faris a grin. We entered the house. I walked to the shelf which was hanging right next to the TV Helping myself getting two green apples one is for me and the other is for Faris.

I told him about everything I knew, what happened and gave him my expectations .

"and that's exactly what happened. Cool, ha?," I said while biting my apple.

"So cool. Now you have to free everybody. Do you think you can? I think it's harder to free billions of people than freeing one person," he forced a smile.

"Okay then I'll try my best," I replied blinking.

I sat on the floor . legs crossed and tried to free them but nothing happened.  The next time I closed my eyes and tried harder. I pictured all the kind of people walking, Mama Mariam driving her car, traffic jams, that boy gang looking for us, birds flying and noises from our neighbors. The more I focus the more the back of my head aches.

"Try a bit harder," Faris screamed.

"I will only if you shut up and get out of the house," I replied while sweating and keeping my eyes closed.

He obeyed me and left the house. I tried harder one last time and the last thing I heard was Faris talking really loud screaming "my girl, you did it,".

"he meant that everything is back to normal?," I thought .

I couldn't talk. I lied down staring at the ceiling unable to move any part of my body and I started to think " I passed away, didn't I?,"