Love or War by Asmaa Nada

and this was despite peoples ignorance of the origins of the girls family. Only they know that she works as a doctor in one of the most prestigious private hospitals.
It was her habit to wake up early before sunrise and prepare pastries filled with jam to distribute to the homeless homeless people on the way to the hospital. However at night memories of the past materialized before her eyes as she held in her arms a small box containing the last possessions of her family for an hour. A mans hand with dried blood stains belonging to her father and a womans threedimensional heartshaped necklace with a picture of a woman who appears to be thirty years old printed inside it.
The girl was sitting on her bed holding the box tightly to her chest with her eyes closed trying hard to prevent tears. The events of the past were repeated inside her mind this horrific incident that happened when she was nine years old. She began repeating what happened in her tongue and listening to herself so that she would not forget.
There next to the piano I was sitting on a small bench holding in my hand my cotton teddy bear with the missing eye. My mother was playing some classical tunes and suddenly the sound of the playing was interrupted by my father coming in running his body was bleeding from various parts and he was shouting in a loud voice.
Get up Maria carry Elizabeth and come quickly after me.
My mother screams in panic at him with sentences that are not connected and I cannot understand them well
What happened to you? Whats going on? Didnt we agree that you would stay away from them? Didnt you promise to run away where no one would know us?
There is no place far from their hands. I had no choice but to make them think we were dead. Hurry my dear. We have no time to discuss.
My mother grabbed my hand then pulled me as she ran towards the small secret door behind the fireplace iron from behind whispering quickly at the same moment she put a necklace around my neck.
My little girl do not make a sound and do not leave here no matter how many sounds you hear. Do not leave until you feel safe and there are no evil people as I taught you. Remember you must move slowly at that time to the bottom of the piano. You will find a box containing money. Take them and then get on the red bus with two decks heading towards it. To the ....... area and tell your aunt to maintain honesty as I asked her. Please you must promise me my little girl that you will do that.
I promise mama.
She gently pushed me behind the door into a small corridor at the end of a black dark wall then closed the door but my bear had fallen from my hand in front of the fireplace. My mother returned