"Lamees."
"Lamees."
Lamees heard a faint voice calling out her name; she slowly squeezed her face as she struggled to open her eyes. Her body felt stiff and her breathing pattern was coarse, even moving any of her limbs felt like a very huge task for her.
She kept moving her orbs inside her closed eyelids as she tried to move her body all while she continued hearing someone calling her name, she felt almost as if she was unconscious.
"Lamees."
"Lamees!" the voice got louder in her ears which made her more uncomfortable, the proximity of the person to her was giving her anxiety since she felt the person breathing directly on her face.
"Lamees, come on, you can do this, please wake up," she heard which left her even more perplexed, the person continued begging and pleading and before she knew it, she felt droplets of water on her face which startled her. But for some reason, her eyelids seemed to be shut tight, it was impossible for her to open her eyes or her mouth to say something to the person at least.
After painful minutes of trying and enduring the droplets of water on her face, Lamees was finally able to flutter her eyes open as slowly as she could. As soon as she opened her eyes, her orbs were almost blinded by the intensity of the light so she shut her eyes back immediately. Her friend watched her with a look of optimism on her face and heaved a sigh of relief with a hand on her chest.
"Thank Goodness! Lamees, you're awake!" she said as Lamees fluttered her eyes a few more times before she finally opened them widely and take a look around, Lamees tried to sit up and her friend rushed to her side to help her up to sit properly before handing her the little water she had left.
"Lamees!" she said again in relief as Lamees stared at her confusingly and looked around for their third.
"What happened?" Lamees asked.
"You've been out for three days Lamees! Three days!" she exclaimed and Lamees's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.
"Three days?!" Lamees screamed and she nodded worriedly.
"Why, why happened?" Lamees asked and he friend shook her head.
"That's not what's important now Lamees, I haven't been able to find Muna since the attack. Luckily I found somewhere to hide during the attack and I didn't leave until everything was over and then I came around to see you lying on pool of blood with this bread beneath you," April explained as she pointed at the bread which was half filled with blood.
"I originally thought you had died and I almost lost my mind until I saw you breathing, I called some people over to remove the bullet in your arm and did everything I could to try to wake you up but it was all futile, all while I was finding Muna. And I am disabled which makes it even harder, you both have made things very hard for me to deal with, we have to find Muna," April ended her rambling while Lamees just stared at her confusingly, unable to understand and assimilate April's words.
"Where is Muna?" Lamees asked instead and April held her face in her palms, almost bursting into tears out of frustration and anxiety. Lamees watched her as she panicked, she noticed April was looking very dishevelled and in the wrong state of mind. She had grown visibly leaner than the last time she saw her probably from lack of food and all the stress she went through, but Lamees still found it hard to understand any of what she said.
Lamees's gaze went to the bread again and she furrowed her brows as she looked at the bread and tried to recall where she'd seen it from, but as she stared at it, she developed an headache and dropped her gaze immediately, rubbing her face with an exasperated sigh.
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Finding Muna: A Palestinian Novel
HorrorThis novel - Finding Muna - is a Palestinian Novel which shows how three journalists based in America navigate their ways when they suddenly find themselves in the middle of the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Muna, Lamees and April are excited to in...