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  Eyad responded to Binyameen’s statement:

  “But the Knights Templar were defeated and burned in Europe until they were gone…”

  “After the attempts to exterminate them in Europe, those who remained of the Templar fled to Scotland, reorganized, learned from their mistakes and rebranded themselves: The Freemasons, from there the spread and toke control of the world’s banks, governments, educational, media and religious institutes!”

  Binyameen raised the coin he was toying with to his eyes and said:

  “And today they control the real money! Eighty percent of the gold on earth is controlled by masonic organizations, and they are about to destroy all currencies via economical crises and wars they engineer to force the world to yield to their new world order and their currency (The Global Pound) allow me to introduce to you a real currency”

  As he said that he tossed the coin flipping in the air until Husam caught it and say:

  “And what do we have to do with all of that?”

  Binyameen’s response was abrupt and surprising, as his fest flew like a bomb shell towards Husam’s face, slamming into his cheek throwing Husam violently into his seat, Binyameen’s face cam close to Husam’s face and said as he examined the bruise near his eye:

  “Come on Husam… An eye from an eye… take your revenge… show me your superpowers

  Husam smiled as he felt the bruise, Binyameen kept his eyes on it watching with astonishment as it turned from blue to red to pink and vanish quickly… Husam said calmly with a smile on his face:

  “What eye are you referring to my friend?”

  This time the response came from Eyad, but in a crescent kick that landed on Binyameen’s face throwing his dark glasses into the air before his hand reaches out and grabs it in speed; and Eyad triumphantly followed up:

  “Right on! An eye for an eye, but you must defeat the student before you can challenge the master! Husam taught me martial arts as he had learned them from Bruce Lee personally”

  The triumphant moment that had overwhelmed Eyad vanished suddenly when he noticed what the dark glasses Binyameen was wearing had been hiding, Binyameen slowly turned towards him as he placed his glasses over his nose, and for a second his eyes were visible, in fact they were not eyes, despite the normal appearance of the first but it was lacking the glimmer of life, it was an acrylic prosthetic eye, but the other was something else completely!

  *****

  A child’s heart is naturally inoculated against stress. Their innocence distracts them from the world around them, even if the hearts of those around them was in dire stress and agitation. Jumana and Elyaseen were cheerfully playing, while Hawjan, Sawsan, Jumara and Maram’s hearts almost stopped! Jumara who had loved her husband so dearly that she almost her life as well as her child’s for the human he was madly in love with, is now face to face with her; and regardless of the universe the female is still a female, hear jealousy would ignite for no reason, and when it does nothing in this would could take out that fire. But Jumara broke that rule, something inside of her changed when she saw Sawsan, turning her jealousy fires into rivers of tears, she hugged her and started sobbing, then Sawsan and Maram joined her with tears. As for Hawjan who was the most worried about this meeting, he just froze observing this situation unfold. Jumara came down to her knees in front of Jumana, looked her in the eye, kissed her forehead and held her tight in her arms as if she was her own daughter. As for Maram, will she forgot that she was seeing jinn with her own eyes for the first time and tried to calm everyone’s emotions:

  “How about we all sit and take a deep breath, you must be exhausted from the trip”

  Jumara looked at her as she tried to hide what remained of her tears with a smile while she said:

  “You must be Husam’s sister, am I correct?”

  “You also know Husam?!”

  Hawjan replied after they had all been seated:

  “Eyad and Husam are my best friends, we meetup once or twice a week”

  Sawsan cut him off in a voice that carried sorry and scolding:

  “Hawjan, how are you?”

  Hawjan who had wished Jumara never lived this moment, replied calmly:

  “Praise God, as you can see, we are all well…”

  “How is your mother? How is your grandfather?”

  “My grandfather died, and my mother died three years later, the same year your father died… my God bless their souls”

  “My deepest condolences Hawjan…”

  “And to you…”

  Jumara, who’s jealousy started to awaken, said:

  “Hawjan, Elyaseen and I only have each other ever since grandfather, mother and my brother Xanam died”

  “Xanam?!”

  Asked Sawsan as she probed her memory trying to remember that familiar name, then Jumara realized after it was too late that she should not have mentioned Xanam who was the source of many of the disasters that fell upon her family. Sawsan repeated the question to show that she remembers Xanam well:

  “You are Xanam’s sister?!”

  Hawjan intervened:

  “Xanam was deceived, and he lost his life trying to save Jumara and my son Elyaseen”

  Maram again tried to lighten the mood:

  “So Eyad and Husam’s Tuesdays and Thursdays are spent with you? Where do you go? What do you do?”

  Hawjan turned to face her as he smiled:

  “We have been practicing for five years now”

  “Practicing what?”

  “Practicing materializing and possessing… I learned many things from Husam and Eyad”

  “My brother Husam was possessed by jinn?”

  “Never in my life had I seen someone with a purple aura as strong as Husam’s, the only person who still has full control of his consciousness even when I possess him”

  Sawsan asked after forgetting all her stress, sorrow and reproach:

  “But you told me that the only way you can materialize in our world was if you…”

  “If I sold my soul to the damned and became a Marid?”

  He looked at Jumara and gently held her hand as he said:

  “God bless Jumara, she was the one who taught me how to use my powers”

  Jumara’s cheeks turned red and her female ego nurtured:

  “I learned how to materialize when I was a child, after that I materialized in many shapes, I even materialized as Jumana, Eyad’s cousin…”

  Sawsan gasped:

  “So you are Jumana?! I should have guessed!”

  Hawjan replied:

  “Jumana risked her life for yours more than once, she materialized in your form to stop the wizard that was trying to scam your father my God bless his soul… abd the wizard almost slit her throat”

  Tear escaped Sawsan’s eyes again when she realized the sacrifices this jinni had made for her:

  “So that is why Eyad insisted on naming our daughter Jumana! I don’t know how to thank you Jumara, without you my life would have been lost, and I would have never married Eyad!”

  Jumara’s angelic face blushed, and she leaned on her husband’s shoulder:

  “Thank Hawjan not me…”

  Then to shake of her blush she went on:

  “Hawjan and I have the ability to move between your world and ours, but our powers need practice to master, it is much harder that you imagine, but with practice it gets easier, but staying in your world is very exhausting, everything is heavy, we feel like we are suffocating all the time, and we can only maintain our bodies here for a limited time”

  Sawsan observed Elyaseen who was busy playing with Jumana and said:

  “What about Elyaseen? He does not seem tired”

  Jumara replied with a smile:

  “We had materialized about an hour ago, we can maintain this for about an hour may be two more… but what is strange is that Elyaseen despite his age can easily materialize and never seems to get tiered on it”

  Hawjan added:

  “Elyaseen inh
erited all of the Fayhee’s powers, I moved far away from all the devilish kingdoms in fear that they would want him!”

  Maram got really excited at the same time she was getting pretty terrified of the thought that jinn can actually materialize, and asked curiously:

  “And can we go to your universe as you come to ours? Did you try that with Eyad and Husam?”

  “We did… but they were all very terrifying experiences”

  Sawsan’s memories started to bleed out again, she looked to the floor and said:

  “All of those years, you and Eyad hid this from me! I will never forgive either of you!”

  “What you went through was not an easy thing Sawsan, any anxiety could have risked your life, we had to be sure that you are cured before ewe let you know everything! Eyad toke me to a director he knew in Dubai to record me as I told the store you saw in that video”

  She exchanged a cunning smile with Maram who’s plot worked on Hawjan and said:

  “I did not see the movie, Maram was the one sent you that message from my phone, in any case Eyad promised me to show it to me when we get back”

  Jealousy stated to eat at Jumara, so she decided to end this chat about Hawjan and Sawsan, and said as she gazed at Hawjan:

  “That is ok, I guess we all need to watch that movie when we go back! By the way, where are Eyad and Husam?”

  “They just got a chance to sell a movie at Hollywood; so they flied out to New York and will be back tomorrow”

  Hawjan pulled out the phone that Eyad gave him, he looked surprised when he looked at the location app that linked his mobile with Eyad and Husam’s phones, his surprise echoed in his voice as she said:

  “Really? They are going to America? Strange!”

  Jumara was tensing up, not because of her jealousy of Sawsan, but because of the security guard who had been glassing at her every now and then and making calls on his cell phone while his face showed clear stress, her instincts told her that danger was lurking, she threw a worried look at Jumana and Elyaseen where she had started playing the piano and he was learning and joining her in playing, Jumara turned to Hawjan and whispered:

  “Hawjan, look at that guard, look at his aura, see that receptionist who is talking to him, my heart tells me something is not right”

  Sawsan’s instincts joined in as she said worried:

  “Jumara, what is wrong?”

  “That guard was watching us and making calls, him and the girl he is with are very agitated as if something is about to happen!”

  Sawsan’s worry grew, and then everyone got worried when the guard and the girl rushed out of the hotel, Jumara shouted:

  “See? Told you something was not right!”

  And as she finished her sentence a middle eastern looking young man wearing a leather vest barged into the hotel holding a device with a button at its end yelling:

  “Allaho Akbar… By God I have been blessed!”

  And he pressed the button…

  And the explosion echoed!

  *****

  Two seconds exposed what Binyameen’s dark glasses were hiding, two seconds shattered Eyad’s enthusiasm when he saw Binyameen’s prosthetic eye, and that thing that rested in his other eye socket. That socket was stuffed with complex intricate combination of motors and gears hidden behind a crystal dome with a central lens and two other side lenses. Binyameen put back his glasses to hid all of that, and rushed to his feet saying:

  “it seems that Eyad’s intuition is much faster than your own Mr. Eyad! I was not surprised that he noticed that I was blind from our first meeting”

  Eyad felt guilty when he realized that his kick had slammed into a blind man, but Binyameen refused that gilt and started throwing punches at Eyad while shouting:

  “You will really feel sorry if you ever look at me that way again! I have lost my eyes, but my sight is sharper that yours could ever be!”

  While he said those words Eyad was trying to face those punches as some of them managed to dive in between his ribs and others colored his cheeks, those punches convinced Eyad that Binyameen was an opponent that you don’t want to undermine despite his single bionic eye, so he toke a fighting stance and a fierce Kong Fu battel stormed between them, its casualties were the large screen and most of the cups and plates that were on the table, but Binyameen was by far winning. Husam interrupted that battle with a calm statement:

  “So that is why we are heading towards Solomon’s temple!”

  Binyameen answered him as he caught his breath and fixed his shirt:

  “I never doubted that you will discover this from the start of this flight”

  Eyad looked out the window:

  “What? We are rally going towards dawn… We are heading east!”

  “We are heading towards Israel… Consider it your second home”

  Said Binyameen as he headed towards the cockpit, the pilot jumped out of his seat giving way to Binyameen who entered a command to the plane’s systems using his own code, a command that no one can overturn: a free fall that will start in 60 second. Then he continued calmly:

  “Gentlemen our flight ends here, the plane will free fall in fifty-three second!”

  Elyana jumped towards the cabinet that held the parachutes and put one on while handing a second to the pilot, Binyameen the remaining three parachutes and threw one of Eyad then put on one, as soon as the pressure inside it dropped Elyana opened the plane’s door, then Binyameen gave his final formal decisive statement:

  “Mr. Eyad, Mr. Husam, welcome to your first test, we are now entering the costal lines of Israel, your task is to stay alive!”

  Elyana jumped out of the plane followed by the pilot, then Binyameen stopped at the exit holding the remaining parachute and continued in the same decisive tone:

  “Oh, I forget to mention, you must survive with one parachute only!”

  As he said that he tossed the remaining parachute out the door and threw himself after it at the same moment that plane started its free fall towards land with Eyad and Husam still on board with one parachute!

  (4)

  Here… or Somewhere?

  P eace of mind…

  Tranquility…

  Unjustified happiness…

  A little bit of confusion…

  This is the mixture of feelings that everyone feels when they come to Somewhere.

  Her limp body was carried by the calm waves, her shut eye lashes were tickled by the shy breeze, pushing her gently towards the beach, leaving the comfort of the waves to the comfort of the soft sand. She slowly opened her eyes while maintain her smile; she saw me standing in front of her, smiling back at her. I spread out my arms to help her up, her smile widened, I knew she was going to recognize me! Water drops slid down her whit silk dress as our steps started chatting with beach’s sand and we continued its dialog… my yarning forced me to ask:

  “Maram, how is Husam?”

  “You are Malak, right? I recognized you from Husam’s paintings!”

  Although I watch over him every moment of the day, almost to the point of counting his breaths, but I am still a female; that melts longing for my love and from my love’s longing for me every time I see him, Ever time I hear his name… And Maram is also a female, she knew what was boiling in my heart, so she comforted me:

  “Malak… Husam lives with us in body only, but his mind, heat and soul live he… with you”

  “I truly miss Husam!”

  “Lucky him”

  “Lucky me”

  “You have no idea how happy I am for him; the greatest blessing God sends to someone is a guardian angel”

  “God sending you an angel is a blessing… but bless is you being the angel living your entire life for one person who holds you and year heart, and lives in your soul”

  Maram suddenly realized something:

  “Malak, what brings me here? Did I die?!”

  Her memory was confused and foggy, but she asked calmly, death had no fear in her tone after she w
as dipped in the calmness of this place.

  “No Maram… you did not die… Yet”

  Maram did not remember the suicide bombing that happened in the Marriott Champs Elysees Hotel, where her body was thrown towards the marble wall slamming her head and start to bleed. She forgot all of that, and looked around her… the waves, birds, gardens, and Husam’s city towers in the horizon; she filled her lungs with the cold breeze sainted with flowers and then exhaled slowly as she said:

  “I can see why Husam is attached to this place, and you…”

  “Husam left everything and went back for you Maram… and now you too must go back to him. I entrust Husam to you, you are his angel in life, and I am his angel here…”

  She did not hear the last of my words as she vanished from in front of me… exactly as Husam vanished from my arms.

  *****

  Survival…

  One word that summarizes your existence! One word that separates your life in this decaying world, from your next life in the eternal world; it summarizes all of your worries, dreams and instincts. Every desire built into your bodies and souls is but a manifestation of this singular instinct… all the desires that you lust over: money, fame, power, children, romantic relations… all of them but mere tools in your eternal struggle to survive… survival makes you hold on to life even when you are giving up your last breaths.

  But… There is another kind of survival, survival for those who deserve it… there is no comparison between the struggle to stay alive, and the fight to stay with who you love… and for those you love. This kind of survival is stronger and deeper than the instinctive survival drive that humans share with all living things. This kind defies the laws of the universe… and create miracles!

  The explosion shook the Marriott’s lobby and its shattered the silence of the Champs Elysees in these early hours of dawn, nails and pointed metal balls flew out of the explosive vest in every direction at speeds exceeding eight thousand meters per second as the C-4 particle exploded… in other words the shrapnel only needed a fraction of a second to cut through Elyaseen and Jumana’s bodies who were playing the piano in the middle of the hall. But Elyaseen was faster!