The day I was supposed to leave came quickly and I considered the trip quite successful. My stomach was surely very swollen of all those mangoes, but oh, they were all so worth it! I said good-bye to my aunt and cousins and thanked them for their hospitality. And so the trip back begun. I was tired because it was only 5 am. I still couldn't understand Egyptians with their unbearable times for travel! By the time my uncle asked me whether I was hungry, I was already asleep.
I woke up to the feeling of our car slowing down. I rubbed my eyes and corrected my scarf. I noticed that the sun was already high up. I took a quick look in the mirror in the front of the car and I saw my uncle's worried face as we stopped in front of a wall made out of loose bricks in the middle of the highway. In front of it stood a line of Egyptian men who looked like they were wearing some sort of uniforms. I was just about to ask my uncle what was going on when he snapped nervously:
"Put your sunglasses on. Now!"
I froze for what seemed like forever but probably was only a quarter of a second before I managed to slip them on. My scarf got messed up in the process. But I realized that this wasn't the time nor the place for fussing. Something in my gut was sending me alarm messages, at least in the point when the men, who were armed, told us to step out of the car. My uncle stepped out slowly, opened my door and gave me his hand. As I was slowly getting up he whispered:
"Not a single word, Amina."
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Under the Sun
مغامرةJump into the burning heat of the Egyptian Sahara desert and try to find a way to survive out of it with Amina. This story has it all: adventure, character development and, of course, some love!
