The Curse Of Blood

Chapter 1

Summer a beautiful summer in Syria , a country? no! ، but a home for all .

Jadd and Jean moved in with their father's family, after their mother ran away with her ex-husband.
Jane's new life began like Cinderella story, but the happy ending would not be hers.

Jean a copy paste of her mother beauty , has light brown hair, thick and long curly. Her face is slightly round, has white skin and her eyes are brown, resembling the eyes of a deer.
She woke up from the dream she was in and said to herself while yawning : "Oh, this is a new dream... conversations... situations, huh, I don't understand any of it!!!"

Suha is a 23-year-old girl, tall and with a very thin body, like a mummy. Her hair is dark black, soft and long, her eyes are dark brown, and her skin is wheatish. She is Jean's cousin , entered the room with such force that she almost broke the door. She looked at the room and then at Jean and shouted, "You idiot, didn't you wake up? Get up. It's 10 in the morning. You have to do the housework and prepare breakfast. I'm hungry!!! "

Jean rose to her feet and looked at her Full of hatred. Hatred towards her, towards the room that was not hers, towards everyone in the house, and towards the life she is currently living, all because of her mother.

"What is this look? Get up, you idiot!!" Suha shouted again after she slapped her hard in the face. Jean fell to the ground from the force of the blow, and her face became red and she felt severe pain.
She did not dare to deter her or say anything to her, but only replied that she would put on her clothes and come immediately.
Jean began to wear her old, shabby clothes, and her tears were flowing abundantly as she called out to her mother in her heart to come back and get her out of this hell: "Mother, why did you leave me, oh mother, why?!"

Secretly, there was someone who had been constantly watching her since her birth and hearing everything.
No one could see or hear him.

"Has the sleeping princess woken up from her slumber?" , Grandmother Maria a 77 years old, resembles a seal in shape, has a bald head that is barely filled with gray hair, and has brown eyes that can barely be seen, and her skin is wheatish. She said in a sarcasm.

"She is getting dressed and will be with you in a second, and if she does not come, I will teach her a valuable lesson," Suha said with a smile full of evil.

"Take it easy on her, we don't want her to spread false things here and there " , Suha's mother said as she was trimming her nails. Her name is Rima, she is 46 years old. She also resembles a seal in size, her dark red hair is long and soft, her eyes are dark brown and she is wheat-skinned, with barely a brain in her large head.

"She is right, Suha be gentle with her, even with Jadd" her grandmother ordered her.

After a few minutes, Jean left the room and went to do all her work and to help her brother Jadd with his affairs.

"Jean, my mother is not coming back, isn't she?" , Jadd asked . his eyes filled with sadness at the loss of his mother. He is 11 years old, three years younger than Jean , He is a copy of his sister exactly in appearance, as if they were twins.

She smiled at him and hugged him tightly, and lied to him because their mother would never come back: "She will definitely come back, one day I'm sure".

As summer ends and fall begins, the doors of schools and universities begin to welcome their students.

Jean wore her school clothes, dressed her brother and took him to his school and then she continued her way to her school.
It was the first day for both of them, and their school was not like foreigners' schools at all. They lived in an area called Al-Jahiz. Their schools were close to the their home , it only takes about 5 minutes .

Jean entered the class, there were only girls wearing a uniform a pink shirt and navy blue pants, all of them had their hair tied up and most of them wearing a hijab.
Jeab sat on an empty seat and took out her books from her red bag decorated with the phases of the moon. It was her mother's gift to her if she was able to enter school one day.

"Hello, can I sit next to you?", asked a girl with soft, dark brown hair that was very long. She was short in stature , a sharp face and has a slightly plump body. Her eyes were dark brown and her skin was white .

"Oh! of course, of course please have a seat."

"Are you new?" , the girl asked.

Jean looked at her with a look that did not want to talk or answer anything, but she answered anyway: "Yes " .

"Oh, it's bad behavior on my part to ask you anything before I say my name. I'm Tala by the way ".

"Jean" she answered coldly and lookedAway .

Tala smiled at her and was confused by Jean's coldness, but she did not care and took out her books as well.

The first two sessions consisted of an introduction and explanation of the materials .
Then the first break bell rang and most of the girls went out to buy food.
Jean never had money to buy anything, only a small sandwich and a bottle of water, which was barely enough to satisfy her hunger.
Since she started living with her father's family, she had never tasted delicious food for months. They fed her and her brother bad food, which caused her and her brother to become weak. Their body are very thin, and they appear tired from lack of sleep.

Tala looked at her and felt that Jean was very hungry and tired, but she did not ask her about anything.
She just shared her food with her, and Jean welcomed that.
After the school ended, they both took each other's number, despite Jean's refusal. She tried to set boundaries, but Tala insisted that at least she takes her own phone number.
Jean accepted latter, but when she returned home she deleted it and went to her room to rest before she left to do the house work.

After she finished all her duties, she sat on her bed to draw on the iPad for some time.
She started drawing a picture of her mother in the form of a cartoon while recalling her memories of her. When the clock stroked midnight she turned off the lights and fell into a deep sleep. She the woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to pray two rak'ahs to God to release her and her brother from captivity , return their mother to them and After that she went back to sleep.

The invisible person returned again , he sat next to her, looking at her with eyes full of love. He removed a lock of hair from her face, then approached her ear and whispered a woman's name: " Cecilia ".

Jean woke up frightened by what she had heard and looked everywhere, but there was no one there except her brother sleeping in the bed next to her and her grandmother to her left.
Then she started crying and tried to think of the name she heard and felt very familiar to her, but she didn't know why , she just closed her eyes again and drained in her sleepiness.

In her sleep she repeated the name "Cecilia" along with a very beautiful melody , 7 times.
She heard the melody on a night that filled with a full moon while she was painting the beautiful scenery , it happened when she used to live with her mother Reyam, in their large and beautiful house in an area called Al-Muhajirin .