Wrap Your Arms Around Me (English Version)

Chapter Eight- Once Burned, Twice Shy

They closed their eyes when the first light of dawn began to break, they had been in Sardinia for two days and everything was beautiful...A few hours later, Dodi began to turn over in bed and put his hand on Diana's face involuntarily, it was this to wake her up "Dodi! What the hell are you doing?" "Oh my god sorry, I didn't mean to wake you!" she began to look around her desperately looking for the clock, she raised her arms and with a worried expression she asked "But, can we know what time it is?" "It's almost eleven in the morning" after having had a first shouting conversation, they tried to calm down, Diana put a hand to her chest, turned to him and said "I know it wasn't your intention, but you scared me.. ." "I'm so sorry..." Dodi took her hand and kissed it "You're tirelessly romantic" "It's the least I can do, you know very well what I'm capable of, my darling" "Of course I know, but now I should go and change" he smiled and asked her "Can I keep you company?" "Oh my God, what a fool" he replied, putting a hand on his face, at that point, he limited himself to just saying "Okay" while he was changing, Diana felt that he had sent her a kiss and decided to reciprocate, then closed herself in bathroom, shortly after he asked "Dodi dear, are you ready?" "Of course, I'll wait for you with open arms, my love"

"Stop that"

"I'm serious, if you want, go out and see with your own eyes, don't you believe me?" She did and when Dodi saw her, her arms immediately fell dangling. "Is everything okay?" "Yes, it's just that you look divine in this blue costume, it matches the color of your eyes" Diana answered him smiling, then stretched out her hand towards her and asked "Can we go?" "Yes" they left their cabin to reach Mohamed, but they didn't find him, so they walked for a long time throughout the yacht, Diana decided to look out and saw that he had come down "Dodi! I found him!" "I am coming!" she screamed from within her, as soon as he reached her, he put his hand on her shoulder and asked "So, where was my father?" "He came down, let's reach him"

"Agree"

"He could have even warned!"

"Come on, don't worry... Don't get angry" at those words, Dodi calmed down immediately, turned towards her smiling, took her face and kissed her furtively on the lips, then they reached her father together "Good morning Mohamed" "Diana, good morning"

“Hi dad, we were looking for you” she said as she pretended to push him “Do you want to discuss today?” her father asked him with a hint of a joking smile, there, they started to fake a fight and Diana looked at the whole scene laughing boisterously "Do you want to continue wrestling or can we do something else?" asked Heini, Mohamed's wife, whose face was covered in embarrassment, then replied "Yes, I was going up, don't worry..." "Perfect, make a move as soon as possible" Dodi looked at her with contempt and said "I can't stand her , thinks she's my mother, this bitch!" suddenly, she looked back at her whole life for a moment. He felt a lot of resentment towards Heini, he was angry with her and ashamed of him as her father, how could he feel safe next to the person who abandoned him when he was only four years old? Mohamed Al-Fayed and Samira Khashoggi, a very influential figure in Arab culture for his writings on female emancipation, divorced in 1959 and this greatly influenced his life. One day, when he was five years old, he was ordered to clean the house, but he forgot and didn't do it, towards evening, he went to bed to watch television alone until he fell asleep, his father came home late because he had been out having fun with prostitutes, Dodi smiled in his sleep, he was happy to see him, with the belief that he had come to greet him, he called him by his first name, it was what he did when he was angry... He stroked his hair and woke him up "Emad, I know it's late, but you have to get up" "Of course?"

"Yes, I would like to talk to you"

“Can't you do it tomorrow?”

"No" he said regretfully, Dodi sat down on the bed and glued his eyes to his father as he spoke to him in a calm tone, the atmosphere changed when he saw that his father began to threaten him in different ways until he gave vent to his anger by cutting the wires of television with the aim of making him cry, he succeeded and seeing his challenging expression, he intimidated him by taking off his belt and then slamming it repeatedly on his back, when he finished, Dodi was left alone crying silently with his back exposed, he had disappointed him and before getting up he said to himself "If you don't come back you'll do me a favor". In 1985, Mohamed remarried Heini, a peer of Dodi, causing him a strong sense of shame "Don't you like my way of life?" said his father, Dodi raised an eyebrow with a disgusted expression and nodded, remaining silent as he was shown the door of the house saying "Then go fuck yourself!" he didn't even look at him, he was too busy petting zare Siam, the sweet Siamese cat he had on his knees "You deserve to go back to sleep in the hay in Alexandria, you are not really rich, mother and I know it well..." he said in a calm tone as he caressed the soft feline, Al -Fayed felt torn apart by words and didn't answer him. Diana also had a very similar family situation, her father had never hidden from her that she wanted a son and that a week passed before she was recognized. When in 1965, Lord Althorp and Frances Shand Kydd divorced, custody of their children was entrusted to him and eight years later, he remarried to the only daughter of the writer Barbara Cartland: Raine, who saw Diana only as another mouth to feed, right from the start, that young girl with eyes as clear as the sky, had broken many rules, growing up beyond her stepmother's hopes "What did you give me?" Diana often asked her, she replied by caressing her face "What I could, darling" then he looked at her and said "But how beautiful you have made yourself, my daughter... You look like the statue of a saint above the altar" "Take your hands off me " she said opposing Raine's false affection, she hated receiving clearly forced compliments and she knew it was said on purpose, immediately after, Diana made a small correction "But are you sure I'm your daughter? It doesn't seem like it to me..." and smiled . For fifteen years of her life, she was taught to cry in silence and obey orders from her husband Charles, but she felt that with Dodi it was quite the opposite... When she saw that he was absorbed in his thoughts, she tried to distract him "Hey Dodi, I know what it means..." Diana stood behind him and began to massage his shoulders, Dodi stopped her after receiving a kiss on her neck "Love" "Tell me"