Challenge novel by Asmaa Nada chapter 2

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obtained a scholarship to study postgraduate studies in media. Years and years passed and I was busy with my studies and then my work. After I returned to Egypt to live there and continue my professional life I went to the place of the house where she was. The girl learned that the home had been closed permanently and the children and its workers were distributed to different places after a scandal of a major case that revealed the abuse of children and the falsification of their age papers. I was very saddened by the loss of any trace of the girl. Then I returned to my home but the story did not end there. After several years a surprise happened. I did not expect it when my older sister invited me to attend her daughters engagement party to the son of a senior officer who had retired from his job and now owned the largest chain of restaurants in the country. The party was truly beautiful and during the party something happened that I could never have expected or even imagined.

I was sitting at a table opposite the platform above which was the kosha the place where the grooms sit when a girl wearing the official uniform of a waitress approached me adorning her face with a bright smile then she kissed me warmly and said

Its you Mama Nahid. Youre the only one who used to come to me in the orphanage. Dont you remember me? Im Rima.
Happiness moved to my heart as soon as I said her name and my hands quickly embraced her face then I hugged her tightly to my chest and whispered to her.

My beautiful little brown girl I cannot describe my happiness now. I searched for you a lot when I returned to Egypt

but I found that the house was closed. Sit next to me and tell me what happened to you and where life has taken you.

Before she could answer a loud angry voice came from behind her making the girls body tremble
Voice Did you come here to work or to waste time by talking to the invitees? Hurry and go back to your work otherwise you will not have a salary.

The girl did not speak and tried to move away but I grabbed her hand and prevented her from moving and then I forcefully sat her next to me at the
table. I looked at this speaker who was the butler in the grooms fathers villa and I motioned for him to come closer and as soon as he approached I told him

If one pound is deducted from it you will lose your job. Go tell whoever hired you that Ms. Nihad AlRigdawi sat down with one of the workers to talk to her.
The man smiled gently and apologized for what he said and that he thought the girl was neglecting her work and harassing the guests then he left. Rima sat next to me and looked at her eyes which were filled with tears of sadness accompanied by a look of brokenness then I whispered to her.
Tell me everything about you everything since you were young about nine or ten years old when I traveled abroad to work.