Wrap Your Arms Around Me (English Version)

Chapter Five - P&B

Dodi set foot inside his father's villa shouting "Assholes!", Diana suddenly woke up in fear and a thousand thoughts began to pass through her head: why was he so angry? Was she perhaps wrong? Did she no longer love him? Had she argued with anyone? Diana put a hand on her forehead in a melancholy way and began to hear the sound of his footsteps louder, he violently opened the door and entered, he looked at Diana and her expression immediately softened, she felt better seeing him, he was so tender... Dodi sat next to Diana and put his arm around her neck, then he held her close and started crying, he felt Diana's arms around his waist and it was she who spoke first" What happened?" "This morning I went out to get some things to furnish our house in America, when I left the shop two passers-by attacked me and tried to rob me, I reacted by elbowing one of them and then running away, I was very scared and now I feel a mixture of anger and sadness... Luckily I have you, you're the only one who accepts me for who I am..." Diana kissed him on the cheek, took him by the hand and asked him "What's wrong? Is it Dodi? Why do you talk to me like that? I don't like seeing you sad, you're always sunny, cheerful and fun..." they smiled at each other and Dodi felt reassured as he guided Diana's hand while caressing her face gently, immediately afterwards he replied to his question "Here is Diana... The fact is that I am not normal..." "Why? You, on the other hand, are more than normal, you are made of flesh, hair and chest hair, like so many other men" he explained to him with a sincere smile, he reciprocated and replied again "Because I'm Egyptian..." "Ah, that's all? So? It's not at all what you say!"

"It's normal for you to think like this, you're my girlfriend and I'm like the others for you, this is the first reason why I love you, you've never been horrified by what I am! My father and I are very ashamed about this, he fought hard to have English citizenship but it wasn't granted to him because he was Egyptian, I also tried to integrate when I served in the military but my vocation was and still is in the world of cinema, there I can be what I have always dreamed of, but unfortunately I am not... I have too many demons who enjoy tearing my flesh and devouring it... He and I thank you very much for your immense goodness..." "So 'Is that what you really want?'

"Being Normal"

"And what do you mean when you say you want to 'be normal'?"

"I intend to say that my Egyptian belonging is accepted once and for all... That you become my wife and mother of my first child..."

"I understand very well that there is a lot of evil in the world, we can defeat it, it's true, but it all has to start from you, let me explain better: you must be the first to accept your Egyptian belonging once and for all, then the others will do it, you know very well that I want to be your wife and mother of your first child, why do you ask me?"

"Because I fear that from one day to the next you won't love me anymore"

"It won't happen, I fought so hard to have a man like you by my side, who loves me and respects me, you really changed my life" they were still hugging each other... Diana closed her eyes and her lips opened a little a while, Dodi immediately understood that she wanted to be kissed because that was what he wanted too, so he did it, it was a long kiss that for Dodi had the flavor of freedom, understood as talking about one's torments without fear of being judged and with a strong desire for change, making corrections on these things that he had always feared and from which he had fled for years, Dodi continued to kiss Diana passionately, let himself go and began to lift her shirt "Dear!"

"Love, what happened?"

"Don't undress me now, please"

"As you wish" she smiled at him, then proposed "What do you say? Let's go buy something?" "Yes darling" Diana got up from the bed and stretched out her hand towards Dodi, who without thinking twice slipped his fingers into Diana's. Mohamed saw them leaving the villa and smiled, as they walked, she gave him another kiss on the cheek "Didn't you take anything in the end?" "No, I wanted you to be there too"

"Dodi"

"Tell me"

"I was thinking about something..."

"Yes?"

"When are you going to tell Kelly we're engaged?"

"Not long darling, I can assure you."

"Ah, but I advise you to do one thing: I don't want it to be so bad, you have to speak convincingly, making valid speeches"

"I just can't follow you, Miss"

"The other time you told me that you shouted at her at the top of your lungs "I love Diana", I'm sure she was perplexed, you should explain yourself better"

"Do I have to persuade her?"

"Yes" he replied laughing, he started laughing too and they started singing "Mr. Persuasion", they entered the shop singing "I don't care if I look like a total idiot right now but I'm having so much fun with you!" "I think so too", without thinking much, they continued to sing improvising a choreography inspired by the "Grease" ballets, in the end they managed to find a bit of seriousness and that farce could be considered over "It was fun even if I felt an idiot" "True, an experience worth repeating"

"Of course, with the only difference that next time we will be in a mental hospital, rather than a shop!", Then she pointed to a sofa among those on display and turning to Diana said "Do you like this?" "Enough"

"Tell me, how should we furnish the house of our dreams?"

"I don't know, there's nothing here that I like, sorry" and she kissed him on the lips "Don't worry, I won't get angry, I don't really like this furniture either, I just wanted to get an idea" Diana nodded and they went out holding hands hand. While they were on the way home, Dodi thought about what Diana had told him about Kelly "Diana" "Tell me everything"

"I'm uncertain..."

"On what?"

"On the subject of Kelly, we have already addressed it together and I love you very much but I don't know whether to talk about it with my father, I'm afraid he will call me an idiot..."

"Why would he do that?"

"Because everything was ready for my wedding with her, but then you arrived, who are the woman of my life... Now I want to make all these plans with you because I finally know for sure who I want to be with, I'm a very short-tempered person and no one has ever managed to stand up to me like you can, you are my rational part"

"And you are the irascible part of me" she remained silent for a moment, then she started speaking again saying "You talk to him, later, if something goes wrong, you can vent to me" "Yours are the only arms where I want to be when I need help vent to me and it's also your hands that will have to dry my tears, like you did this morning" as soon as they arrived, they hugged each other "While I talk to my father, could you stay with me? When you see me perplexed, hug me or give me a caress, without it I would feel like a shit and the anxiety would take over" "Yes" as soon as they entered, Dodi said to his father "Diana reminded me of something, can I talk to you?" "Sure, let's go, do you want to come?" Dodi begged her again with his gaze and she nodded, as soon as they entered, he began to see the living room as Freud's study, he sat down, lowered his head and settled himself better in the armchair "See dad... There's one thing I would like to talk to you, but I don't want to seem like an idiot like you think, because thanks to Diana I realized that I'm not one"

"Yes, what is it?"

"She and I have often talked about marriage and you know that soon I was going to get married to Kelly, yesterday she called me and I just shouted "I love Diana" and I was done, I would like to explain everything to her and leave her permanently but I don't know what words to use to make me take you seriously..."

"Explain that sentence to her better, telling her who Diana is and why you are so in love with her. I'll tell you more: I didn't like Kelly either..."

"How come?"

"She didn't inspire anything good in me"

"And you're actually not entirely wrong, I had grown fond of her and it certainly wasn't pleasant to feel ridiculed for my physical appearance, especially if that person was my girlfriend at the time"

"You're absolutely right, my son, now relax and phone Kelly."

"Okay, I can try" after hugging his father, he left the room with Diana, that short conversation gave him all the confidence he needed to face Kelly.