Oversleeping and insomnia

Oversleeping and insomnia .

Short story.
Written by: Awny Seif/Cairo. 2023.
From the first night of her married life, Ahlam , the twenty-three years pride, realized that her next days were not as rosy as she imagined. The invitees expelled from this marriage ceremony from the palace of Mr. Hussein, a sixty-year-old businessman. Mr. Hussein and Ahlam entered the bedroom and he begins to change his clothes . Ahlam said:
_ Please lower the light, because I’m embarrassed and want to change clothes.
Mr. Hussein stretched on the bed and lowered the light with the remote control. Before she completed the changing of her clothes she heard the sound of his oversleeping .She said in herself – falsely – that he might have been exhausted by today’s fatigue and party.
Mr. Hussein woke up early at 6:00.He ordered the maid to make breakfast. He went back to the bedroom to wake his bride and told her:
_ After breakfast we will go to the club to caress the morning breeze, and drink my coffee. This is the first daily routine you know about me. I like to drink my first coffee at the club around the corner. About an hour later, the two walked out of the palace door, Ahlam has a gloomy face, eyes marked by sadness. Surprise, a new luxury car with a red strip of silk or stan, and Mr. Hussein said:
_ This car, marriage gift, it’s your car with your driver. Your first gift, sweetheart. Ahlam responded to her husband:
Thank you, your love and gifts are my dear husband.
The evening comes in a running way. They both went to bed. After a while, she heard the worst music – that she’s going to get used to – that was his sleep snoring. This situation lasts a few weeks and she is persistent without talk, but inside her, it is a fire burning, an endless torrent of ideas, and pent-up physical desires that grunt the bones and burn in the guts. One day, she wokes him up from his sleep, and asked him:
_ Will you just sleep?
He answered her:
_ Yes, at night I can only sleep.
She spoke about her marital rights as a wife. He told her he couldn’t, and he told her:
I’ve been sick for two years, and I can’t do this marital duty, I can’t do love .Ask for anything else and I’m yours. Don’t give yourself up on ordering, order!
Ahlam knew she was a social view wife only. And she won’t take her marital rights from this man. Months have passed. She got a severe kind of permanent insomnia, and a deluge of crumbling thinking almost went crazy. Are you asking for a divorce? Can you face this selfish rich man? And you are the poor one who found the magic lantern and it’s giant ! But how to get rid of insomnia and body needs, and keep this money resource that meets requests with a single itch?
Four days each week, Mr. Hussein wakes up, goes to the club, sips his coffee, doesn’t come home, he goes to inspect his works and factories. Three days, sipping his coffee and going home, he and Ahlam didn’t go out for a walk until once a week. Every day, he goes back to sleep ,his body and soul are weak. Ahlam preyed upon by insomnia at night, setting fire to this twentieth body. And the night looks like conspirator, it comes running, she’s good at killing the time during the day.
On one of the days when Mr. Hussein was absent from the house by day, Ahlam called her driver to go in,served him juice and a dish filled with red apples and bananas. It’s not long. The driver realized from some harsh hints hidden between words that he was forced to have a relationship with this young lady. If he doesn’t, he’s going to lose his job, his livelihood. Not only Ahlam did this, but she had a brilliant thought of acquiring someone, acquiescing in time of need, day or night. The driver works his time and returns home.
Ahlam asked her husband to give up the services of Hajj Abdul Sattar, the garden worker who cares of the trees in the garden. And that’s for his old age . She convinced Mr. Hussein to pay him a permanent monthly pension. She decided to announce a job as an agronomist or College of Agriculture student under graduation in a newspaper. To be assigned to the garden care function. After the announcement, many came to meet the employer .After interviews, Ahlam agreed to Badouy. A young man from remote governorates, who came to the capital to study agriculture at the university, at the age of 20, he has a strong body, long, wide-shouldered, handsome. She provided him with a permanent stay in one of the garden’s rooms, and equipped it to make it fit for living. She agreed with him on a tempting monthly salary. Badouy started working, She woven her thread around him, and obstructed his feet in her trap. She lavished him with gifts, bought him romantic novels and some books of poetry of Nazar Qabani and Farouk Goeda. She provided him with a computer, in which she put her own file, filled with romantic movies and beautiful romantic songs. She tilted his heart with female tenderness when she wanted to avenge herself of life’s punches. She exploited his youth and energy