Nihat, Leyla and Muzaffer were having all their days trying to keep Mevkhibe and Aysun apart when Sanem and Ayhan turn the corner.
"Aysun, listen, for so many years you've been our neighbor - "
"We're too late!" Sanem hisses as she pumps her legs faster to get home. "We're dead!"
"We?!"
They reach them and Aysun purses her lips. "Here she is now, princess Sanem," she rolls her eyes.
"Sanem?" Nihat looks down at her knee, interrupting himself in trying to calm down Aysun. "What happened darling?"
Mevkhibe and Leyla also look at her leg.
"I just fell down. It's nothing serious dad."
"You're bleeding, how is it not serious?"
"Lying deceitful people!" Aysun snaps, ignoring Nihat's concern over Sanem.
"Mom! She didn't mean it," Muzaffer says quickly to Nihat and Mevkhibe, laughing.
Next door, Melihat has a small bowl of seeds that she is chewing on as she watches the drama unfolding.
"Listen here - " Mevkhibe starts to say in a dangerous voice and Leyla steps in.
"Mom, mom, let's go inside. Please?" She glares at Sanem while Mevkhibe stares daggers at Aysun. "Look what you did Sanem! What's wrong with you?!"
"Oh you don't even have anything to do with this!" Sanem snaps back. "But you just have to stick your nose in!"
"Sneaky woman!" Aysun screams at Mevkhibe, unable to contain herself. "Nuisance?! My son is not a nuisance!"
"Mom, mom calm down!" Muzaffer holds his mother back. Ayhan helps him while Mevkhibe rips from Leyla.
"Oh I can barely - Here, come here you, you call me sneaky?! Be careful of your next words woman I will - " Nihat pulls her back as she shakes her head.
"Aunt Aysun, please stop, calm down," Ayhan begs when the woman kicks against the hold on her.
"Mevkhibe!" Nihat says sternly through his teeth.
"Mom, let's go, people are watching!" Muzaffer looks around at the gawking neighbors. They were used to the two women but not this late at night. "Come on - "
"No! Wait, I have one question," Aysun holds up a finger and then without waiting she turns to Nihat and Mevkhibe and asks, "if you weren't planning to give your daughter why invite us to ask in the first place?!"
"You - !"
"Aysun!" Nihat snaps, having had enough. "Mevkhibe!" He was getting red in the face. They quiet down and look at him. "I've asked nicely, I've been silent, no more! My blood pressure's through the damn roof! I've had enough! Muzaffer, take your mother home! Go! Shame on all of you! Everyone's watching this spectacle! Go home!"
"Wait a minute, let me answer the question," Mevkhibe steps off into the street and glares at Aysun. "What was it? Why did we invite you over? Well, you asked and I invited you because we've been neighbors for years! That's why I said come over for dinner! And I never said we'd give her away to you! Did I say that?!"
"Like we need your daughter in the family! I don't need her!"
"Aysun, you leave my daughter alone! She's not interested!"
Sanem felt an odd pride at this as she nods along with her mother's words. She's been conveying this for years.
"How can you want to marry into this family son?!"
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Early Bird (Erkençi Kus)(Part 1)
أدب الهواة* (A Turkish Series Translation) A young woman named Sanem Aydin lives with her overbearing but loving parents, who have certain ideas of how she should be living - and it doesn't involve her working at her family store full time. They thinks she s...
