Episode 61

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Akrem was kissing Ines..

I should rather say it was Ines who was kissing Akrem?

I mean, from the angle I was standing at, it was evident to notice Ines standing on her toes, her neck flexed up, she looked in a very prominent position that the one can't falsly assume she was a weak flower taken davantage of.. I guess, almost guarantee, she was the one to start the kiss!
Being the journalist that I am, analysing such details comes by nature, even when I don't intentionly want to have this kind of thinking process, I still end up going through it to the point of almost perfection when my logic is objective. In my head, I have already reconstructed the whole scenario which led to this very unexpected kiss the moment I stood in front of them.
And it was like this: Azziz's sudden admission to the hospital revived his sad memory in Ines's heart, her being reminded that he only took advantage of her and never actually fell in love,  her womanhood was utterly hurt again. Akrem said some romantic motivational words then dismissed himself like a respectful knight, Ines's womanhood was excessively restored, by excessively i mean she was so much moved that she even launched after his heels, caught him off guard, then a kiss was planted!
The one we were unfortunately witnessing.
Eliyas on the other hand, definetly wasn't interested in doing the same task which I unreasonably did, in his eyes, there was only one thing happening: a strange man kissing his unwedded sister, as for the rest, it was insignificant.
Let me make few concepts clear for you, this passionate "kissing" out of the wedlock is a big "No" in our society, a bigger "No" in our religion, or at least that's what it is for conservatives such as my husband and I.
So yes, Eliyas won't just stand aside and applaud for them.
What made this whole thing even more uncomfortable and torturous is that it seemed they were never going to stop kissing! It was by far the longest, most "wrong in every way" kiss ever on planet earth!  I understand the feelings Akrem must have had for Ines, he loved her to the point of almost killing someone for her sake, but the one must still have some awareness of his surrounding when kissing his freaking boss's sister!! In his freaking boss's house!! 
Eliyas soon ran out of patience, He steadily walked towards them.. Slowly like a beast about to attack, his aura was spreading cruelty and fierceness, he looked so terrifying that I, the irrelevant person who was standing in the opposite direction, felt scared to the bones!
_" Eliyas." I whispered his name.
Well, my only purpose of doing this endlessly selfless and generous action, namely calling this deadly beast's name, is to notify the people who were about to be murdered of the presence of their predator, by doing so, I was consciously forsaking my innocent self in exchange.
Ok, I'm maybe exaggerating a bit here, there won't be any murder nor I will be even scalded, but this doesn't mean nothing bad wasn't going to happen to them!
The couple indeed heard me, consequently and heavenly finally, they moved away from eachother. They stood still like lifeless statues, staring at both Eliyas and I with aghast faces.
Ines seemed to be the first to get her soul back, she whispered almost unheard:
_"Brother?"
You see, She's indeed very smart, since this was the best moment ever to call him "brother" in my opinion, Ines never calls him like this, choosing this very moment to do so was a tactful move, reminding that beast that she was his beloved sister will definitely incite a bit of affection and mercy inside his dark heart.
As for Akrem, he was obviously forsaken.
Being the person that I am, although I refused such injustice, I still decided not to intervene at all.
Still, I decided to stay there just in case things went so overbored, then I would perhaps give some objective contributions.
I expected to witness a big drama, however, to my greatest disapointment, Eliyas took a deep breath then just coldly ordered once he stood in front of them:
_" Akrem, you go to my office now and you wait for me there, we need to talk, and Ines, you go back to your room until I call you."
And of course, he didn't forget my highness, he turned to look at me again and said:
_"come Noursine, I'll help you go back to the room."
I don't even need to tell you how disappointed I was, I felt so dispirited for being dismissed that even the symptoms of fever that I didn't feel earlier I started to feel them at that moment.
While heavily walking towards Eliyas in order to follow him back to our room, Ines who finally obeyed to Eliyas's order and who happened to walk pass me looked at me with a deathly pale face then made a lot of "help us!" signals.
Well, objectively speaking, she merely looked at me, but I didn't need to invest a lot of observation skills to notice her call for my help and intervention.
It was at this moment ladies and gentleman that I cruelly recalled all the bad things this woman did to me, from accusing me of things I didn't do, of words I didn't say, she even invited Lydia to the house despite knowing her intentions towards my husband, remembering all the struggle I had to go through thanks to that, my resolve was clear: It's time for me to be the bad villain!
In fact, being the not so scheming person that I am, I decided ultimately that the most evil thing I could do at all in this situation was just to not do anything at all, which was my initial plan anyways, so all my "I'm the bad woman now" transformation was as useless as dressing up to go out in this neverending night!
While walking back to our room with Eliyas, he was so quiet, so calm, If I weren't his wife I would have assumed he was unaffected with what he saw, but he wasn't.
Once we reached our room, It became evident that Eliyas was not Ok at all.
He calmly said to me as soon as we walked inside:
_"Just now, you were not surprised."
I was about to start changing my clothes when he said this, so I stopped, and I turned to look at him.
He didn't say anything else, just calmly waited for me to speak.
His inclination was clear, that since I was not so surprised seeing them kissing, it means I already knew something, although I decided not to make this whole matter my business, it became useless to maintain this resolve since Eliyas already involved me in the matter.
I honnestly said:
_" I'm in no place to judge anyone, nor to speak on their behalf, but If I have to be fair, I have to say that Mr Houdil should not be held responsible for this, it was clearly Ines's doing, you saw them too."
He didn't say a thing after I finished speaking, he only kept watching me change my clothes very pensively.
Then once I finished and lied down on the bed under his weird gazing thing, he finally started moving from his robotic state.
He took the thermometer, then measured my fever again.
It was almost back to normal.
He sighed in relief, then immediately walked out of the room without any more word to say.
I waited for him to come back for a couple of minutes, but the next thing I remember was waking up in the next morning ( almost noon) to see an empty bed, and to find out that while I was sleeping both Akrem and Ines were driven out of the villa.
Of course, the source of this info was Nana, god bless her, she waited pasionately for me to wake up so as I tell her everything that I knew, the only thing that prevented her from shaking me to wake up earlier was Eliyas's advice to let me rest to recover my health.
And yes, i didn't even guess this, she told me her self.
No matter how hard she tried to bribe me to speak, all I said was:
_" I was very sick yesterday, I don't know what happened."
Although she clearly didn't buy this, she still shared every thing that she knew with me since she had no one else to chat with.
According to her, Ines was sent back to my in-law's villa, I guess she was in a very bad state that my mother in-law who never bothered to contact us called Eliyas and spoke with him about this matter, to which he surprisingly replied:
_" There's someone who asked for her hand and she accepted, I sent her back so as she lets you know so you arrange your meeting with him later and all the formal procedures, if you have your objections you can investigate his background although I doubt you can ever find a better husband for that daughter of yours."
_" who is the groom?" I curiously asked.
This question was very logical, since there were truly two probable condidate, actually, after the happenings of the previous night I strongly believe it was Akrem who won the race after all.
Not only they so passionately kissed, Akrem too is more than qualified to marry Ines.
To my surprise though, Nana replied:
_"and who else! The lawyer! The nethiew of that dispicable woman! I don't see what's so good about him, He doesn't even speak our language! Your husband gave his father's name to Souad (Eliyas's mother), I thought she would object immediately, but she didn't say a word though!"
I felt surprised although this was very expected, a little disappointed too.
As I was thinking, my phone suddenly started buzzing.
It was closer to Nana, so before I had the chance to extend my hand and take, she had already glanced at the screen and said:
_"Your husband is calling, pick up!!"
You see, she has a very poor eyesight, but when it comes to spying, her eyes become sharper that a sniper's.
I sighed desperately then answered the call:
_"Are you awake?" Eliyas said the moment I picked up.
I sighed for the second time.
God bless my husband as well, even on the phone he has to ask "are you awake?" instead of saying "hello" or "good morning" like normal people, I mean, it can be somehow reasonable to ask me every freaking morning whether I was awake the moment I open my eyes since I can for example be sleepwalking, or my eyes are just tired of being shut for long ours so they slightly open, but doesn't my picking up the call clearly mean I'm awake! How can I possibly be asleep!?
Although it was clear to the dumb, I still cheerfully said:
_" umm, good morning love."
After I said this, Not only Eliyas was thunder struck and rendered speechless for a long time, the reason for that is even clearer than my being awake: calling him love. Nana too felt awakward and she swiftly left the room afraid of hearing worse than "love", which is quite reasonable, since my husband is very much naughty although I don't talk much about that feild, If an "accident" should be mentioned to justify Nana's running away, then I should speak about the one happening only few days earlier.
I was lazily lying on the bed when a servant walked inside the room after I gave her permission then she informed me that Nana was waiting for me at the guest's hall with Ines.
I nodded heavily, then I soon walked down to join them.
There wasn't any thing happening at all, it's just that Nana enjoys chatting with people to the extremes. After minutes of listening to her about everything Ines finally gave up and she left the hall, so I was left alone to keep her company until it was almost dinner time, at this point, the door finally opened and Eliyas walked inside after coming back from work to share the responsibility of being grandchildren to that woman.
Although Nana was initially talking about something I don't remember, she suddenly started discussing our having a son!
She said:
_" Noursine has been taking fertility medication for a long time Now, I know the doctors said it's hard to have a child, but I'm sure they didn't give her treatment for nothing! You have to try more now! And Eliyas you have to stay by your wife's side and cheer her up and make her happy, they say children come to the happy houses!"
Although I dearly love Nana despite everything,  but sometime's she can be so insensitive that I find it hard to endure her words.
When she finished speaking, I generously volunteered to explain how the medication worked for her, being a journalist, my explanation was akin writing an article, I invested all the knowledge I had from science class, from books and documentaries, from doctors worlds. my knowledge was so vast and profound, plus i expressed it so explicitly that even Eliyas's cheeks turned red not to mention Nana's.
After a long torturous scientific speech was made, Nana suddenly recalled that she missed el maghrib prayer and she immediatelly left the hall.
I guess Eliyas was very tempted with my smart talk, because not even seconds had passed since she closed the door when Eliyas suddenly pulled me towards him and whispered:
_" How about we try harder now?"
I was so ashamed on his behalf that I dignifiedly reminded him:
_"we're in the guest's hall Eliyas! Anyone can come in! Plus you haven't even changed your clothes yet, and it's almost dinner time."
_" we don't have to go all the way." he shamelessly whispered although it seemed like he was going for "all the way" business!
I tried to push him, and objecting again I said:
_"It's really innapropriate now!"
My objections were soon interrupted in a manner that silenced them.
Sometime later, I shamelessly whispered while finding it hard to breathe:
_" Ok, but not all the way."
I don't know how much time passed after that when we suddenly heard the sound of slamming the door violently.
We both were alarmed and turned to look that way, to our surprise, the hall was empty, as it turned out to be, someone must have walked inside calmly who we didn't even notice, then this person witnessed what should not be witnessed then quickly left in embarrassment slumming the door shut violently.
After throughtout thinking my conclusion was that this intruder can not be from the working stuff, If it was the case, they would have left the room ever calmer not to make us notice their coming at all, it was undoubtedly either Nana or Ines.
But by later observation, I realised it was Nana after all.
One of the key evidences i relied on was her avoiding the sofa we were on as if it was the source of plague ever since.
Since She has been very shied after this incident, I used this to my most advantage!
In fact, when I called Eliyas "love" on the phone, my purpose was to make Nana leave the room since after almost an hour of being interrogated I started to lose the will to deny seeing Ines and Akrem the night before!
But somehow, Eliyas ended up being so emotionally moved by this little word that he forgot to ask how I was doing or to explain what happened when i was asleep, he  suddenly suggested after a long silence:
_"Noursine, prepare your self for going out, I'll come to pick you up within an hour."
To take a leave to come take me, he must have been greatly moved!
But I still objected:
_"My fever is gone and I'm much better! There's no need to go to the hospital!
To my amazement, he explained:
_"we're not going to the hospital, I'm taking you out in a date."









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