Train Ticket
Taha Heikal
Egypt
At the ticket booth, the line stretches, and the train is about to arrive.
Everyone urges the cashier to quickly dispense tickets.
Time passes,
and fear grips everyone.
Voices rise.
Suddenly, Saeed sees her approaching the women's line, which seems less crowded!
Saeed feels suffocated from the long wait.
He's going to discuss his doctoral dissertation, and if he's late, the dissertation might be lost.
He calls out to her in a low voice, "Why are you late, Nagwa?"
Here are the two tickets before the train arrives.
She takes the money hesitantly and goes to the cashier. She receives the two tickets, hands him one, and keeps the other. At the arrivals corridor, she asks him, "Aren't you Nagwa?"
He replies, "And the money is the price of one ticket."
They travel together, get to know each other quickly, and reach the end of the journey, exchanging addresses and phone numbers. She thinks, "It's him!"
Khaled!
It's not him!
He resembled her colleague Khaled, who used to accompany her on her trip to university, protecting her during the intense traffic.
He called her on the phone to set a time for the visit to propose to her, and she politely apologized, saying that she would always remember Khaled.
She promised him that she would never be with anyone else.
But he passed away in an accident, and she felt like crying, but then she remembered Khaled patting her shoulder, reassuring her, "I am by your side, Najwa, and I will never abandon you."
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