Aslan MurabakAs soon as we left the room we headed for the office. Bern and her father were like a plague from Egypt, attached to my family. I know Faruk would not stop until he got what he wanted, his eyes on me all the time, as if to say I will win.Lemi was strange, my brother was in love. The Brazilian girl really got to him.Which makes me afraid because I have never seen my brother like this."My brother, are you okay?""Yes, I am.""Is it the Brazilian girl? What did she do to make you like this?""She chose to be with another man, my brother. Someone better than me. Someone who will be better for her.""How do you know that?""I saw her with him. And the two of them seem to get on very well, I hope she'll be happy.""She doesn't know what a wonderful man you are, or she would have chosen you," I put my hand on her shoulder "Sometimes it's not meant to happen, it has happened to me," I look at Bern, "I went to see it after a long time, that she wasn't for me.""That's not the
Aslan Murabak"My son, what will we do in this situation?", Papa finally understood my situation, "Faruk might try something against you, accuse you in an honour killing.""I don't know how we will do it, I am only sure that I will not marry that woman. I might pay someone to marry her or I might pay someone to leave here and never come back.""Things won't be easy, Faruk won't come out at a loss, of that you can be sure. Your marriage was a sure thing, since you were children. Bern is a princess, and this will bring problems for us.""Dad, I'm not getting married, I'm already married.""In a legal way, he can't marry Bern. His marriage to Diana," my brother takes a deep breath as he explains to Papa, "Their marriage, has a clause that nullifies, any other marriage for my brother, and we can't do anything about it.""You thought of everything didn't you, Aslan? You prepared so that nothing would happen to you, because you were going to know that I was going to force your marriage on B
BernThis time I would be able to tell someone what had happened to me. The moment I spoke to my brother, my father came to my side. And whispered:"If you say anything, to your brother, I will kill you, and you know I am capable of that. I'll make your life a living hell, you worthless piece of shit.""You already make my life hell, Daddy," my father held my arm tightly."I'm serious with you girl," this time he alters his voice and everyone looks at us."I'm not afraid of you anymore.""Stop it idiot girl. You know it was all for your own good.""Are you afraid daddy, afraid people will know, of what you did to me?" he holds my arm tighter, but I wait for my saviour to help me."Bern, my sister, is something happening?" Hassan appears from my side.Hassan knew him very well too. Papa knew that my brother would step into his shoes as ruler of our country, as his firstborn had to learn to be a man, a true male tyrant, just like him.My brother went at a young age to the army and never
Aslan MurabakThe two brothers entered the room and stayed there for quite a while, my father was meeting with Faruk, and probably the man was doing his head in, but my father already knew that he had nothing to do and that unfortunately Bern would have to go on with her life in another way. Despite everything, I felt sorry for her.My brother was also strange, I knew him very well and knew that something was happening or that he was hiding something from me. I was almost sure it was for the Brazilian girl and what was I going to tell him? Will she come back to you? Will she realize that she made the biggest mistake of her life and that she chose the wrong man? That she's the stupidest woman I've ever met for leaving a man like you and choosing any other? I wasn't going to tell him that, because I know he was already suffering.So I preferred to leave him in his world, with his thoughts, whatever they are. I was sitting in one of my favourite places in the house, a small room with a h
Hassan KaranI had come here for change. I had decided it was my turn to give my own life direction. When Bern calls me and tells me that our father was forcing a marriage on her with Aslan, I was very angry. I did not want this marriage to happen at all.We were children different from the others, many things I went through alone and didn't take my sister with me, the poor one was already suffering because we didn't have a mother. Actually, we did have a mother, but she simply did not care about us two, her children. We were at the mercy of that crazy man who did whatever he wanted with me and my sister. I saw horrible things inside that palace and now I find out that my sister, Bern, went through worse things.I was sent to the army, after I caught him making a girl of my age, concubine of some of the men who frequented our house. Days later, to my surprise I was suffering in the barracks horrible things, to become a real man. I still remember the words that were said to me when I s
Aisha MurabakEver since I was a little girl I knew my destiny. I know I will have to marry someone I probably won't choose, I don't like that, I just wanted to have the power to guide my life.When I went to college that I had my freedom, there I got to live as a girl from another country lives and it was a totally different experience. I won't deny that sometimes I went out without the veil, I put on jeans and a little shirt and let my hair down for a few hours. I felt strange at first I can't deny it but I was a free girl who could do what she wanted with her life.I keep a secret, just mine, something that few people know and I'm afraid of the consequences.I was in Diana's room, the conversation was so good. Knowing about their country and being able to talk freely is invigorating for me. Diana was a little bruised from the fall she had taken on the stairs, and we should thank Allah, that something worse didn't happen to her, because she could have been hurt more. When my two br
Aisha MurabakFinally, my first day of school. I had already mapped out a route and I would walk, the weather was cloudy, but I'll take my chances. I grabbed my stuff and went out, I tried to close my door and got a scare when my neighbour appeared, I let some things fall on the floor."You're pretty clumsy as well as distracted," he tells me."I just got scared," he ducked and so did I, our hands bumped and I was embarrassed as I didn't have much contact with men who weren't family."Are you going to college?", I confirmed.He took my things and we went downstairs. When we arrived at the door of the building, and I put my foot on the pavement, the water drops started to fall, I looked at the sky and took a deep breath."Come on I'll take you, I'm going to work" my strange neighbour finally spoke, "My name is John" he finally introduced himself."I am...""Aisha, I know," I looked at him strangely "I heard when you said yesterday."John was a strange guy. He came across as a serious m
Aisha Murabak"Hassan is the worst I have ever met. He came close and I really wanted to be kissed by him, my body was reacting to his. And he came really close to me.""Go take a shower and put some clothes on, that's no way to stand in front of a man."I was so angry with him, and the worst I waited for the kiss. Jose laughed at me and so did Diana."Who waited for the kiss, silly? That's normal Aisha" Jose tells me "And did John really leave? I was curious.""That day I went to the bathroom and took a shower, I was needing to actually calm my hormones. Hassan stayed in my room and since then, he became my shadow.""I wanted a hot shadow like that for myself" we laughed."He wouldn't leave me alone, and I hated him more and more. He was thick, rude and wouldn't let me talk to anyone. In college I had to stand with him on my side, the girls thought he was cute, they even talked to me. When I questioned my classmate who had called me to the party, he told her that she was not to appro