Chapter 1

" Hi, Everyone, My name is Aseel "

"I'm a girl from modern Egypt specifically from Luxor, Pharaohs' land.

"In modern Egypt women have every right to choose their life partner themselves, but this does not apply on the women who live in Upper Egypt."

"You may ask why, let me tell you that the situation is totaly different in upper Egypt"

"because Upper Egypt is one of the most hard-line areas of customs and traditions in Egypt."

"Especially in the rules which it regulates the relationship between men and women."

" So whenever any girl reaches the age of marriage there, her father arranges marriage for her with a good man to marry him."

"& She may already gets married to him, before she even sees the shape of his face. "

"Or be one of the few lucky women who have the guts to snoop behind the doors to see his face.

"I am 18 years old, and I am now big enough to get married."

"Nowadays, My father is attempting to arrange a marriage for me with another man named Hatem.

" A man I don't know anything about him except his name, I even could not see his face yet."

"To be honest I have not exactly been looking forward to this arranged marriage because I'm a dream girl. "

"Yeah, that's me, Ever since I was a child, I always watched the stories of princesses

and I always dreamed of my prince Charming who would come one day to me and take me to his palace on his white horse."

"but when I grew up, I started to adore and addict watching love stories of vampires

& became captivated by their supernatural power & how they are well wicked (so evil)with everyone, but so protective & kind with their beloved ones

then all my dreams about my prince charming changed & wished to get married to a vampire to protect me with all of his power & sacrifice himself for me if need be."

"I know that some of you would say that I'm a crazy but I assure you that I'm not & I know very well that reality & dreams are quite different things

Despite of that I kept waiting for my vampire for so long time."

"But, unfortunately until now I couldn't get a prince's love nor a vampire's love yet nor even a natural human's love. "

"that's really so sad, after all those beautiful dreams, Now I'm gonna marry a man without falling in love with him. "

"& will get an arranged marriage, not a promise from the heart.

" I'm very depressed & feeling down because of this, so I decided to have a walk around."

"though, In Upper Egypt women aren't allowed to get out by themselves

nor go out of their families' houses unless absolutely necessary and in that case they must be accompanied by their fathers, brothers or husbands

Not that only but they will be have to wear bourda(It's a black clothes looks like a sheet, Women put on their head to cover all their bodies from their heads to their toes)

because here It is a shame for strangers to see any part of women's body، Even strangers are not allowed to see women's faces."

"Therefore I put my bourda on me & Sneaked out my family's house to walk around to have some fresh air"

"but unfortunately I got lost & so far I don't know how to go back to my home.

"I have been searching for two hours & still unable to find my way to home

Until when I will remain lost in this scary place?

I can hear alot of sounds here, I don't know whatever they are sounds of animals or insects or what?

I don't know anything about this place, When will I be able go back home?

I should haven't come here from the very beginning...[ Stomach growling].... I'm so hungry & so scared

" What am I supposed to do now?"

By: Rahma Ali

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