The Suspect

Chapter sixteen- Explanation

Chapter sixteen

Explanations

Ameera and Jaya's Dorm:

Days passed and Ameera avoided not just Adham but all of her friends. She didn't want to talk with anyone. She slept when Jaya was in the room and woke up when she left to avoid her questions. They knew that Ameera and Adham were hiding something and that's why Ameera avoided them and Adham was again so cold and silent, back to square one.

Ameera knew that she couldn't avoid them for forever but she didn't want to have to see him and speak with him so soon. She needed time to change the picture she had of him, as a really good person wrapped in a harsh exterior to a suspect of the murder. However, she couldn't understand if he was a suspect what is he doing free why didn't she know of this. There is just some missing pieces or maybe she just didn't want to believe that she trusted the wrong person so easily. Ameera had liked him, as a friend; she saw the good in him and really did trust him.

Sunday morning came faster than she wanted. Ameera didn't sleep all night thinking nonstop about everything, she was now getting ready to go meet Adham in the café shop they had agreed to meet in last week. Ameera looked at herself in the mirror; she looked so tired dark circles around her eyes with zero make up, paler than usual with chapped lips. Her outfit was totally effort less just a yellow comfortable sweatshirt and black skinny jeans and black caterpillar boot-like shoes. She left her hair after lightly combing it and just wore her black sunglasses in an effort to hide her dark circles.

Downtown Café:

Adham sat, waiting for Ameera, wondering if she will actually show up. He seriously wants to see her and explain himself. He hated the look she last gave him, the look of betrayal and disappointment. Adham felt so guilty and powerless. He knew that he should and he wanted to tell her the whole truth, not leaving anything out, but he can't. It was more than that he can't just tell whoever he wants to tell and that never bothered him until this moment.

He straightened whenever someone pushed the café's door open and then his shoulders would fall back in disappointment when he saw the strangers slipping in. Then, he saw her red hair as she slipped in through the café's door.

"Good morning. What about we sit outside better, better atmosphere and lighting?" Ameera greeted coldly and rudely. Well he expected that. Plus, he can't blame her. Adham just shrugged in response so she nodded in satisfaction, exiting as fast as she had entered. Ameera looked around and decided to in the far right corner beside the decorative fence. She immediately got out her laptop, after they both sat down. "Let's just start by searching through the sonnets and jot down the names of those we like okay?"

"Yeah, bu..." She cut him off before he can complete his protest.

"Good. Let's begin." She turned her attention to the laptop sitting between them and began work. Adham saw how tired she looked through them working, and when she placed her sunglasses on top of her head he could see the dark circles around her eyes and guilt ate his insides.

Two hours and a half later Ameera started collecting her things, saying how that's enough for today she was too tired to complete and Adham just nodded in agreement. It was too much, the tension. They were so uncomfortable while sitting together for the first time. Just Ameera started to stand to leave; Adham immediately held her hand to stop her. Ameera raised her eyebrow in question, her sunglasses still on the top of her head, and pushed his hand away. "Can you please sit down for a minute? I won't bother you again but you need to at least give me a chance to explain." Ameera stayed looking into his eyes for a minute or something and when she found what she was searching for she sat back down.

Adham smiled in appreciation but Ameera just looked onto him coldly and he realized he needed to start explaining soon.

"I won't deny that I was suspected of the murder, but that's in the past tense. They don't even have enough evidence for me to get jailed even for one day let alone a week. When I got questioned that was before I realized the relation between you and this murder and I know I was at fault when I didn't tell you but you have to understand I never had friends I never had to tell anyone anything about myself. I'm sorry I didn't tell you and I'm sorry you had to know in that way, but I swear I have o relation to what happened with your sister, I didn't even know her. I was framed just because I was in the same place but that was long before your sister's murder." Before Ameera could try to ask "Before you ask, I can't tell you why I was there and with who if it had anything to do with your sister I swear I would tell you but this is not about your sister or even about me. There is just some stuff I can't tell anyone they are bigger than me and you."

"Why should I believe you?" He flinched at this and her cold tone.

"You can ask the head officer working on the case. I won't lie in something like this."

"You didn't tell me"

"But I didn't lie and I wouldn't. I'm sorry I didn't tell you because it had something to do with you and I swear I was going to tell you but I guess I was late. Ameera, though you have to understand something you don't know everything about me because there are some things I can't tell you soon, but I promise you, you will know everything in the right time."

"Not knowing this and hearing it suddenly was so horrible I felt betrayed and I hate this feeling. Thing is for some reason I trusted you and for some weird reason I still do trust you until this moment. I hate myself for this but I've always followed my guts and they are telling me to trust you. But I swear to god Adham if I found out that you hid something else, that is yours to tell and had to down with me again, it won't be pretty even if it meant going against my guts."

"I promise you this won't happen again."

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