One winter night, the weather was very cold, predicting the occurrence of lightning, thunder, and perhaps rain. That night, she was sitting in her room on her rocking chair, next to her, the usual cup of coffee.
While she was immersed in her novel, she heard the sound of lightning rumbling everywhere, as if a war had broken out outside the palace, and the rain began to fall, one drop after another. The beauty of this view, so she picked up her shawl that was lying on her bed and threw it over her shoulders and went down to the garden to embrace that rain and touch it with her hands. Among the trees in the garden and their flowers, I heard a voice coming from the balcony of her room saying, “Come on, Monica, Mama, prepare dinner.” She was happy and said, “Yes, Dad, I’m coming.”
She innocently said goodbye to the rain and said to him, “I am going to eat and I will take you down again.. Peace, my friend.” Indeed, she returned to the palace to dine with her father and mother quickly until she returned to that rain that she had called her friend.. As she climbed the stairs of the palace, she stopped suddenly, and remembered something Her feet were paralyzed and her eyes popped out and she remembered that her father and mother had died in an accident last year, and there was no one else in the palace but her!
Her heart trembled at what she had heard when she was in the garden, and she began to ask herself. ..from the two of us?! Baba?!! Just daddy died
my mom?!! But Mama died, paralyzed in her mind, as she was paralyzed and unable to get up to her room, so she sat on the stairs of the palace and folded her feet to her chest between her arms, so she tried to reassure herself and said: I did not hear a voice for sure. This made preparations to sabotage the horror novels that she had read.
She was reassured a little and got up to go to her room, then opened the room door and she was asking God's protection, and indeed she did not find anyone. She closed the door and ran to her bed, saying: I sleep better than the horror in which I am in this. She did not sink into her sleep until she heard the sound of something falling on the ground, so she got up from her bed afraid of that sound. Then she looked towards the balcony curtain and was surprised by something shining behind her!!
Her heart trembled in fright and hurried to the door of the room to get out, and if she opened the door until she heard the sound of her two black cats coming from the balcony (Miyawo Miao) she lit the room lamp and made sure that the cat was the source of the thing that was shining behind the curtain and that she was the one who dropped the coffee cup that Selma left At the table a while ago.
Monica began to catch her breath and said: Praise be to God, and her cat looked at me with a look of wrath and said: - It is forbidden for you, old woman. Indeed, she opened her wardrobe and took a long black coat from it, then put it on and went down to wander again in the garden of the palace with the rain, which is her friend tonight. I got to the garden and here I stopped to be surprised that the place was completely dry with no water, as if no rain had fallen.
She was terrified, and her heart contracted, and she began to ask herself: “Where is the rain?! Is it also not raining?! what's wrong?! What strange night, Lord, did you delay the one who reads another horror, I deserve it?” And he began to think about whether she would go back to her room to escape from all these preparations for sleep?! Or stay in the garden to complete the night?! In the end, she settled that she would complete her night with roses and trees, so that she might be her gentleman this night. So she took off the coat she was wearing and put it on a seat next to the entrance to the palace, and began to wander once more to enjoy the beauty of this view. The cold hugged her and smiled.
And she began to remember her childhood days in this garden and remember her father's caress for her, who did not leave her for a moment, and her mother, who did not refuse her request, especially when she was saying to her, "Come on, Mama, let's play hide and seek." Indeed, her heart was very attached to her mother.
Salma started to remember all this and that, for how much she misses them..! During these memories and nostalgia for her parents, Salma noticed something black-black like a person standing in front of her with his back to her standing at the seat next to the entrance to the palace… Monica is surprised by this sight and asks herself: “Who is this?” “…?!! And while she was astonished, if she looked at the seat, she was surprised that the coat she had left on the seat was not there!
Then she looked again at this ghost standing in front of her and looked closely at him to be surprised that the one standing in front of her was wearing her black coat. Is this real?!! Umm Khayal?!.. She was silent for a while, waiting for him. She noticed that he was not moving. She thought that it was a fantasy, so she decided to approach him, for Salma is really known for her strength, especially after the death of her father and mother in front of her in the accident they were exposed to, as she does not fear anything but God. She said to herself: “Sure, this is a fantasy from Fantasies.” Indeed, she approached him to hold her coat, and then she reached out to him to give her his face, so she freaked out and fell on the ground…
Indeed, his face was very frightening, with black skin, bright white eyes, and a black spot in the middle of his eye. He had a very wide mouth with fangs resembling a lion’s fangs, but small, and a face full of blood, so this really is not of the human race!!”
Salma gathered her strength to get up from the ground and run quickly, perhaps to escape from that ghost that was chasing her, so she started running towards the inner door of the palace to escape from it, but before entering she stood to see if he was running behind her or what?! But she did not find him. She looked around the garden, but she did not find anyone. Selma was amazed at what was happening. Although she was reassured that this ghost does not exist, her mind asks what she saw?!…. So she decided to enter and climbed the stairs until she reached her room, so she closed the door behind her and lit the room's lamp and sat on her bed seeking God's protection from what she sees and asking herself why all this is happening to her?! And what will you do?!!
And while she was thinking, if the light in the room went out, Selma panicked from her place and rose to light it again, so if someone grabbed her from behind, Selma screamed a cry that reverberated around the palace, and the light came back on again, so she was surprised that the room was empty and there was no one else.
Monica was terrified of this, for despite her strength and the courage of her heart, everything she saw really made the heart stop beating. The poor woman sat on her bed crying until she heard the sound of the call to dawn, so she was reassured and felt that God was telling her I am next to you, so she got up to perform ablution and seek help with it... She actually performed ablution and performed her prayer and prayed to God to save her from what is in it. Then she returned to her bed, perhaps she would sleep tonight. She read the two prayers and then fell into a deep sleep. .
Until she woke up to the sound of the afternoon call to prayer, she opened her eyes to see the light of God shining from the balcony door, so she thanked God that he had saved her from that sad night. Something happens or something that explains the reality of this palace. While thinking about it, she remembered that there was a room on the upper floor that her father always warned her against entering this room for a reason he neither knew nor knew!!
So Salma decided to go upstairs and open this room, so she might find evidence of what was happening to her. Indeed, she went up to that floor with a lamp in hand to illuminate the place for her. She knows very well that this room is devoid of light bulbs, as her father told her. That this room is of a strange style that differs from the rest of the palace rooms, as there are drawings on its walls in the form of bloody fingers of a hand, and in each of the four corners is a black doll of frightening shape, and in the room there is only an old-style office, and cobwebs covered many aspects of The room Selma was terrified of those things that she sees, then she approached the office and began to open its drawers until she found some papers and took them, then she felt some strange sounds, and her heart contracted and she decided to get out, in fact this room is very scary.
So, she approached the door of the room, to close the door in her face suddenly, so she screamed with all her strength, then I heard a loud voice echoing throughout the palace saying: “The palace is haunted.” Then the door to the room opened again, and Selma hurried out with the papers that she had found in her hands, and she came out of The door of the room sees that ghost standing in front of her again screams Monica to fall to the ground unconscious.
After several hours, Selma wakes up and finds herself lying on the ground not remembering what happened. Then she regains consciousness and gets up to see the papers next to her on the ground. She remembers what happened to her, and her heart trembles and panics from her place and looks around her, but she did not find anyone, so she collected the papers and hurried to go downstairs and took a breath. She sat on a sofa next to the stairs and started saying, “The palace is haunted?!” I felt that something was not normal. But I will not leave the palace until I know the secret. I grabbed a glass to sip some water from it, and then began to open the papers in my hands. These papers were all gathered and had a cover written on it: - The murderer father, and Salma was surprised by this name!! I started reading what's inside those papers.
You see, the first page is written (Excuse me, my family, you deserve to die) Salma is terrified of what she reads, and that title attracts her to find out what he saw... So she reads on some pages to find that it says (I am Adel Tawfiq al-Wakeel. Walid) and (Taher), and one daughter (Habiba). John was my eldest son. He traveled to a foreign country to complete his studies, and since he traveled, his news was cut off, so I didn’t know anything about him. As for Walid, he was in the first stage of secondary education, and Taher was in the fourth grade of primary school. And Habiba was in the second middle school. I had a wife I really loved and still do, but one day I found out that she was cheating on me with my best friend, so the blood boiled in my veins until I resolved to take revenge on them in response to their betrayal of me. So I wished for death a lot, but I was afraid for my children of the injustice of life, as they are in the prime of life, but who will take care of them?! Who will preserve them?! My thinking failed and I went crazy.
Until I made the order that I had to kill them and I actually killed them and buried them next to their mother so that they would be comforted by her, they really deserve to die. After this crime of mine, I will sell this palace and kill myself, because I cannot live, because I also deserve to die.”
Her eyes popped out from what she read, and here Salma asks herself?! - Are the things that I see real?! And the palace is actually haunted because of the people buried in it?! Not all because of the life that I lived alone, and it made me imagine things that might not exist in the first place.. Salma kept thinking about what happened, and what she would do. Will she stay in the palace or leave it, until she finally decided that she would leave the palace irreversibly and return to her grandfather, who He tried more than once to force her to live with him because he was afraid for her to live alone, but she refused to leave the place where she lived.
But now the matter is different, as she can no longer bear everything that happens to her in the palace.. Indeed, the unit almost killed her. Indeed, she decided to go to her grandfather at that time, so she collected her things to leave this damned palace, then took her bag and left the palace door. It was late and there was no one there. On the road, the weather was black and there were no light poles illuminating her path, so she decided to go back to the palace and spend that night until morning came.
Indeed Monica came back again and forgot the gate of the palace is open, and if she enters from the inner door of the palace, the door closes behind her completely and she sees all the doors of the rooms open and close and she feels that the parts of the palace are shaking as if an earthquake has happened, so things fall on the ground, Monica screams and knocks with her hands on the door of the palace To find someone to help her, but she kept screaming, and if she finds in front of her that ghost that she sees every time he approaches her and extends his arms towards her neck, Salma’s voice stops screaming and she falls to the ground unconscious until the morning of a new and peaceful day is still lying on the ground Selma died terrified by what happened tonight Past or what?! .
At that time, outside the palace, a young man, nearly thirty years old, got out of his car in front of the palace, and looked at the palace gate to see it was open, but there was no one there. It is also open and wonders about it!! Then he went in and called Daddy!!! ..Mama..O Walid...O Taher..Habiba, where are you from...?! But to no avail... And if he looks at him, he finds Monica lying on the ground, so he is surprised!!
Get close to her to wake her up so he knows who she is and what's going on?!! Indeed, she overtook Salma and looked at him, and she was terrified and put her hands on her face and screamed. !! Are you mein?!! No, I don't want to die, get away from me, kill me.. You are not a human being. You are one of the ghosts who live in the palace and want to kill me, so stay away from her for a little bit to be reassured and tell her: Don't be afraid. I am a human like you and my name is John. When she heard, then she took her hands away from her face and looked at him and made sure that he was a human like her and not the ghost that she used to see every time, so she looked at him and said in a frightened voice, a heart-rending voice: Can you save me from here? Who will save you?!
Monica was reassured and started telling him what she was seeing and what happened to her, until she said while speaking: “This palace belongs to a man named Adel Tawfiq Al-Wakeel who killed his wife and children and buried them here. I'm crazy, then she continued, pointing with her hands to the paper that was on the table: But this paper is in every need. John looked at the papers and knew the truth about the death of a family. He was deeply saddened by what happened to them and their death in this way and regretted his interruption and tears began to fall from his eyes, when Monica noticed him, and she said : Why are you crying? Ahmed wiped his tears and then said to her: I am John, and the one who died, the countries of my family, I looked at him with teary eyes, so I knew that he too had become lonely like her, as she had experienced the pain and cruelty of loneliness and how much she had suffered. She said: “No, I cannot live here again, and my debt is with my grandfather, I have no one else.” Indeed, John agreed to her request and took her and took her to her grandfather and lived with him in order to obtain a part of the safety that she was deprived of for years. Indeed, he was able one day, specifically on the first anniversary of Their marriage John decided to surprise her, on that day John came back from work, so he entered to see Monita, the prayer is praying, and praise be to God that he has blessed her with him. :- where ?! John: Just get ready for an hour and you will know. In fact, I got Selma back, so he took her in his car. In the car, he asked her to tie her shawl over her eyes, so Selma was surprised, but she did what he asked her to do until they reached that place. He got her out of the car and grabbed her hands, then he took the shawl off her eyes, so Selmi was surprised in front of her in a mosque. Very beautiful and on a large area of land, then she looked around to remember that place, because she knows it well. Indeed, this mosque was built by Ahmed in the place of the palace in order to turn that terrifying palace into a safe place that Monica can come to without fear.
Monica was happy with what John had done and felt that he was the only one who crossed her to safety.. and that place became the one that reassured him and reassured her heart for him after it was a source of panic for her, so Salma began to respond to him from time to time..and here Salma writes her last words in Her memoirs, which she called “Peaceful From Weakness to Safety,” and she says (My husband is safety after God) and then writes at the end..Do not underestimate your loneliness, for loneliness kills the heart.
