The next day, the family decided to leave their comfort zone and play outside at the beach. The only two men in the family wore their swimming trunks, the three young ladies wore simple plain red palazzo pants and red t-shirts. They covered their heads with Arabian turban caps. While Seema wore a simple long blue dress with long sleeves and covered her head with a wrist length hijab, she wasn't going to touch the waters anyway.
They walked hand in hand happily on the white sand beach, singing an Arabic song "yalili, yalila" by Noor radwan and Zain dagga.
They all went together to put their feets in the beachface so the waters could touch their feets while they scream in delight. Soon, Farida bought lifesavers for each of them, but Seema refused to swim, saying that she's too old for that. The younger ones and Ali bathed in the water while Seema watched and laughed at them, until jasmine called to tell Seema that they had arrived at Florida and we're heading to the resort.
Seema announced it to the family and everyone was happy except for Farida, she was afraid that Fahad would tell her parents what she did to him at his office. She didn't even know whether she should apologize to him or pretend she's never known him.
At twelve in the noon, the family went back to their suit and got ready for the guest's arrival. Seema and the girls had already cooked the food and snacks for everyone, including the guest.
Soon, Seema saw jasmine and her children taking their luggage to the suite right next to theirs. Fahad could have booked a lavish suit at the other side, where sudais was staying but he decided to let his mother stay right next to her friend.
"Welcome, my friend." Seema approached the newly arrived with her family, except for Farida who hid in the bathroom to avoid being seen by Fahad, claiming that she wanted to bath her children, but for how long will she hide from him.
"Seema! It's so pleasant to see you." Jasmine greeted and hugged seema as the children watched the happy women in amusement. The children greeted each other while the parents pulled at the children's cheeks.
"Someone is missing, where's your daughter?" Jasmine noticed.
" Oh, she's bathing the children in the bathroom, she's coming." Seema replied.
" I can't wait to see how grown she is now." Jasmine said and the Ali family escorted them inside with their luggage. Seema invited jasmine and her two kids over for lunch and they accepted the invite and went there after they've freshened up.
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Afaan had urgently taken his family's private jet to Florida, so he could check up on sudais who had switched off his phone and gone to sleep right after isha payer.
At six in the morning, Afaan arrived there and met sudais who was already awake, staring at the sun set. Sudais was surprised seeing Afaan so early in the morning and made fun of him.
Even though Afaan was jet lagged and needed to rest, knowing what was happening to sudais was the only thing he wished to do. Sudais explained everything to Afaan and showed him the videos and pictures. All the pictures didn't make sense to Afaan except one that caught his attention. It was the wretched guy Samar, and two other ladies. One was the girl he recognized as Mandy, she bullied farida at school but they later became good friends. His eyes could not believe it when he recognized his fiancée, zaynerb with her hand wrapped around Mandy's shoulder.
"Did you see what I'm seeing?" Afaan asked his brother, sudais was drifting to sleep on the couch when Afaan spoke.
"I didn't really go through them properly, they don't make any sense." Sudais replied.
"I bet you haven't seen this one." Afaan said and handed the picture to his brother.
Sudais's face laced with confusion, he was not expecting to see that.
"She never said she knew this idiot." Sudais said, sitting up.
" I know, Let's go through the vidoes." Afaan said.
"Watch the third one, you'll be shocked." Sudais and Afaan dragged sudais's laptop closer to insert the disc.
Afaan watched the video and raise an eyebrow.
"You honestly thought I'd be shocked, I have told you before, it's a set up." Afaan said, surprising sudais that his brother is always right.
Afaan paused the video and frowned.
"I bet you have not seen this as well." He said. Sudais stood up and sat beside afaan to see the video. There was someone holding a camera up and capturing samar's assault on Farida. When Afaan zoomed in, it was non other than zaynerb. She was hiding behind a maple tree.
The brothers shared a look with frowns on their beautiful faces. Sudais stood up and ran a hand through his hair with the other hand on his waist. Afaan knew what that action meant, sudais was baffled and he was about to break down.
"Calm down sudais." Afaan said and stood up to comfort his brother.
"What does that even mean?" Sudais said, frustrated by everything.
"It means that zaynerb was there when the event took place and she knows the whole truth. But I'm not sure if the pictures she took were the ones Samar gave to you that day."
"They are Afaan, she took those pictures!" Sudais yelled and kicked one of the glass stools that was close to him, the glasses scattered around the place.
"It could be possible that she planned it." Afaan said and sudais turned to his direction sharply.
" Why would she do that?" He asked.
" You married Farida secretly when you were already engaged to zaynerb, have you forgotten that." Afaan replied.
" She said she had forgiven me. They even started to make friendship before the whole cheating thing happened." Sudais said, he could not believe zaynerb would do that to him.
" I'm so sorry brother." Afaan said.
Sudais began to pace back and forth while afaan watched him.
" What should we do? I know, I'll tell aunt marwa everything thing." Sudais said, going to get his phone but Afaan stopped him.
" What are you going to tell her? How will you do it and what do you suppose will happen to her, she has a heart condition." Afaan reminded sudais and he reasoned.
" First, let's get you back together with your wife." Afaan said.
" How? She doesn't even remember me."
"She will, we'll make her." Afaan assured and sudais nodded.
" I have a plan." Sudais said.
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