The Detective Sisters Club Files; Once Upon A time, The Genie's Lamp

V// We Sleep In A Barn (which is suprisingly comfy)

Amina leads us down the road, telling us about the houses and stuff like that. Suddenly a thought crosses my mind.

"Hey Amina, I forgot to ask you but..... What country are we in?"

She looks at me with a surprised look on her face. "You mean you don't know? Well we are in Saudi Arabia of course!"
         
Saudi Arabia. My mind plays the name over and over again. Holy shitzu! All the way to Saudi Arabia? My God. My friends has looks  of shockness pasted all over their face.

"How did we end up from USA to Saudi Arabia??" Celestia exclaims.

"I know right! It's really far from each other." Adira adds.

"I wonder how will we even get back to US." I wonder out loud.

Amina looks at us with this weird look on her face. "Wait, you mean you guys are all from New York or somewhere in US?"

"Yeah......."

She looks at us. Well, Celestia in particular. "You know, I saw someone that looks a lot like you a few months ago."

Cece raises one eyebrow. "Really?"

"Yup! Which is really honestly quite funny 'cause the guy is a spitting image of you if, that is, you were a guy with short hair and slightly taller."

"Wait, wait." Celestia holds up her hands. "Are you sure I look like similar to that fella?"

"Definitely."

I turn to Cece. "But that's funny isn't it? You don't have any siblings at all."

"Mmm-hmm, and as far as I know, Lizzie here is the only one with a brother." Adira jumps in.

"Not to mention he's extremely hot." Celestia giggles.

I look at her disgustedly. "Oh please! There are much hotter guys out there than Evan. And you are talking to his sister you know."

"Oh look!" Amina interrupts us. "There's my home." She runs towards the house. And opens the door beckoning us to follow her. The house is two-storey and stands alone there is a barn at the back of the house with a few horses there.

"Papa! Mama!" She yells. "Iam home!"

There is some shuffling around and a friendly face appears.

Must be her mother. Doesn't look very old, most probably in her 40's.

"Hello." Amina's mother greets us. "It's always nice to meet mina's new friends."

"Hello!"

"Hi!"

"Hey there."

"Mom." Amina says. "This is Elizabeth." She points at me. "Adira." Pointing at her. "And Celestia."

"What beautiful names!" Her mom exclaims.

I beam. "Thank you!"

"So anyway. Mom. My friends here are tourist and they don't have any place to stay, plus they practically saved my life from bullies...." Amina trails off, muttering that last part rather softly.

Her mom smiles. "Well of course they can stay here! But..." She frowns. "You all have to stay in the barn though because we don't have enough rooms. I hope that's alright with you."

"But it's really comfy and cosy in there, it doesn't reek of animals at all." Amina adds.

I look at my friends, they both nod okay. I turn to Amina. "Sure, why not?"

"Great!" She exclaims. "I'll show you the barn now."

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She brings us outside the house and around the corner. There is a stable there a locked up one. It's sort of like a room, like a place they keep all the hay. Amina unlocks the door and pushes it open. The smell of hay drifts out of the room.