Untill My Last Breath ✅

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Amal sat up on her bed "you should've told me before you came" she implied and Samira looked at her in utter disbelief, since when have she had to inform Amal before she appeared at her house.

Amal had being very hard and impossible since she came back from the hospital, she had been angry and mad at almost everyone and everything, and she had been pushing anyone that ever mattered in her life away, like it's up to her to shield them from her pains, little did she know that being distant and pushing them away only caused them both more pain.

Samira shook her head sadly
"I would've told you I was coming if you were picking my calls" she said and Amal looked at her unapologetically.

"Amal" she called with concern sitting down beside her on the bed and putting her arm around her shoulder "you have to stop fighting everyone about this, your sisters said it's not any better between you too. They are hurting"

They were hurting? Amal thought, hmmm, what do they know about hurt? They were not the ones dying, she was, she was the one who was hurting, physically and mentally, what do they even know about hurt, she was the one who's been drowning chemicals through her veins to prevent the unwanted cells in her body from replicating, she was the one who had part of her left breast tissue severed and removed, she was the one who's life was hanging by a thread and waiting desperately for her doctors to figure out and decide if she'll live at all and they talk about being hurt? how dare any of them talk about hurting, she wanted to scream but she refrained
"Please Samira" she said "not now"

"Ok" she replied with a wave of her hand, and Amal was glad she wasn't pushing
"How are you" Samira finally asked.

"Alive" she replied "and now that you are here, uninvited of course" she rolled her eyes jokingly "lets talk about something that isn't me or my pathetic life" she suggested and Samira agreed with a nod.

"Kamal has been calling me like crazy" Samira started "I'm thinking of changing my phone number but then he'll come to my house in person, I swear he's driving me nuts" she complained.

"You didn't tell him, No?" Amal asked, her eyes widened, she wanted confirmation

"No, I didn't" Samira confirmed

"You cant tell him"

"Why shouldn't I tell him, I still don't know why you are doing this"

"You can't tell him, no matter how much he stressed you" Amal was almost pleading and Samira cast her a questioning look

"He doesn't deserve this u know" Amal started

"No one deserves this" Samira cut in "but this is what it is, and Alhamdulillah, we'll deal with it together" she assured her and Amal smiled, then the smile faded almost as soon as it came

"Things might get messy Samira, already the people I love are devastated and battling a fight that isn't even their's to begin with, I don't want to drag another soul into this mess, my mess. He's better off without me, he'll get over this now faster than he ever will if he knows, I can't do this to him. It's Kamal" she concluded, the way she said his name smoothly, with all the concern in the world. It was golden.

"Oh my God" Samira gasped, then she looked at Amal in astonishment "You do love him" it was a remark rather than an accusation and when Amal just stared at her without saying a word, she jumped to her feet
"Amal Alkasim Sidi, you love Kamal?"

This time it was a question and again Amal just stared at her, she couldn't, wouldn't deny it.
She loves him, but she will love him from a distance.

"Haaaa" Samira lamented "the obnoxious Casanova?" She mocked and Amal eyed her "your words not mine" she hurriedly defended. She resumed her former place on the bed and then reality struck and Amal was right, Kamal didn't deserve this, he didn't, wouldn't sign up for this.

"What should I do?" Amal asked, there were tears in her eyes. Samira held her and for all she could've said at that moment, she chose to say the truth
"I don't know" she said regretfully, and she held Amal even closer, her heart breaking

"Now u know why he must never know" Amal sobbed

"I know" Samira said and she wished she didn't. Who ever said ignorance was no bliss? Now that she knew, how would she live with her self, knowing this had indeed inflicted a burden on her and she felt it was crumbling her already.

Torn between keeping her friend's secret and protecting Kamal, she would never betray her best friend's trust, that she was so sure of. She won't tell Him, but will he ever forgive her when he finds out about Amal? And it might be too late when he does, she doubts it. Kamal will never understand it was for his own protection and the fact that he was her cousin meant she was going to see him every now and then, that wouldn't help her situation, she thought.

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Salaam alaikum
Dearly beloved reader,

Thank you for reading the excerpt from my book 'Untill My Last Breath'.
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