That Winter You Came (Completed)

season 3 : Episode 5

It's always hard to say that a certain event occurred in this date or that with certainty and without a drop of hesitation, because i mostly remember only how the weather was or that i was wearing thick or thin clothes. that's another thing about wearing hijab, you can absolutely never forget that this event or that happened in summer.
I'd like to say that i remember My sister collapsing so suddenly in the middle of the street and me taking her to the hospital in the middle of June because my emotions were so stirred up in the heat of summer, that would sure make me look more affectionate towards my sister but that would be a lie.
The only reason i remember that it occurred in June was because i felt like my head was boiling in my sweat because of the heat.. because of my scarf.. And because my sister's little boy lied flat on the ground and started crying and rolling in the ice cream he dropped on the floor.
What started like a simple shopping tour between me and my sister in the june of 2015 ended with my sister suddenly falling unconscious in the middle of the street and her boy mimicking a crime scene.
Being the nurse i've been for the last few years, i successfully managed her incident. I knew she was faking it from the moment she fell like a princess on the floor, I figured out that my dear sister finally decided to exploit my being a nurse for her benefit and that is to tremble the heart of her neglecting husband,
So like an understanding sister i skipped all the formalities of flushing water on her face or pinching her forehead to make her wake up, and i decided to make her acting sound as genuine as my consciousness would allow.
So i stopped a cab, i asked people to help me carry her inside, and then i lifted her little boy from his ice cream bath, most importantly i called my sister's husband midway and made the incident sound like a matter of life and death.
I was so convincing that the heartless man reached the hospital even before the doctors finished handling her case, he found me waiting out of the examination room with kiku.
_" Mama" kiku mumbled with a crying tone the moment his father reached us.
That sight broke my heart to pieces.
To be honest, i hold no respect for either my sister nor her husband Sohaib, in my eyes they both stand equal on the scale of shame and rottenness. But what's making my hands tied and mouth shut is that little boy who's standing between the both of them with his innocent shaky steps.
_"hello sister Nadia.. Is Mimi doing better?" Sohaib finally asked after he caught his breath.
The smell of seasoned chicken and fried potatoes was all over him, he must have came rushing from his family's restaurant i thought, for a moment I felt apologetic for having such a scheming sister, but then that Casanova deserves to feel threatened and shaken from time to another.
_" i don't know how she is" i replied with an angry tone "maybe her blood pressure or blood sugar dropped, or maybe she just fell of exhaustion, what i can't understand either is how you left her in our house for two weeks without asking" 
_"that is between me and her sister Nadia" Sohaib calmly corrected me.
But then no one can Shut me the moment i decide to speak, so i looked at his hazel eyes that fooled my sister for so long and then i said: 
_" she and your son have been partly living on my salary for the last two weeks so that's no longer only between the two of you, when we untrusted Mimi between your hands brother Sohaib we untrusted her between the hands of a man with all the meaning of that word, and now you have a boy who will one day grow older and look up to the both of you. I didn't say a word for so long because i trusted the will of the both of you to be better parents for him .. But if ever i found that will no longer enough i will take this boy to the hands of his grandparents. Do you understand me ?" 
Sohaib only kept looking at me when i was speaking without a single reaction, I will always fail to understand him since we had so little contact.
But i knew that deep inside of him he had a better seed than my sister had, and that he still cared for his family.
He didn't say a word to me after that, he lifted his son from the ground and with a childish tone he said: 
_"shall we go see mama?" 
The doctor who found nothing wrong and who trusted my judgment as a nurse finished by saying that my sister fainted out of stress.
She and her husband barely made eye contact when they met, and other than the dry question he asked: 
_"how are you doing?" 
And her dry answer: 
_"better" 
They didn't say another word.
My sister was quickly discharged after all exams were fine, i was walking beside her holding her bag for her heading out of the hospital when we were surprised with some man standing in front of us.
He looked in mid his thirties .. He had a short hair cut, dark unshaved beard and he wore a light blue shirt leaving the top of it a bit unbuttoned.
He was a bit of a huge guy.. Not the muscular type though, but the type who was blessed from god with wide shoulders and tall physique.
But what caught my attention more that his huge build was the smell of perfume that our noses could catch even standing from a distance away of him.
_" thank you for coming Issam" Sohaib immediately said when the man was closer to us.
At that moment i didn't know that the strong men perfume that was lingering in the hot summer air was opening the last chapter of Ryan's story and I.
But even being oblivious to that.. I still hated Issam from the first sight.