Maram went out to the balcony... the most beautiful part of her friend Mona's room is this balcony... it directly overlooks the garden of the house that her mother takes care of herself... Maram leaned on the edge of the white fence and... took a deep breath... smiled as she savored the scent of the gardenia flower that crept into her carried by the soft breezes that caressed her white cheeks... suddenly she was startled by Alaa's voice to realize that it was coming from below... right below the balcony... she made out the murmurs of Mona's mother as she tried to calm someone down, most likely a man... his voice was angry as he tried to suppress his tone... for a moment Maram imagined Mona's parents arguing, she felt embarrassed and was about to back away quietly to leave the balcony when the man's voice rose to realize that he was not Mona's father... the man said with pain "I can't forget... I can't... she lives in me... she lives in my heart... she is the soulmate, Najat... every time I say I've gotten over it, I stumble back to seeing her on some road, and my pain is renewed as if she had broken my heart only yesterday and not a whole year ago" ... "Rowdy footsteps that Maram assumed were the man's, while the sounds became clearer to her ears. She felt the two of them moving from under the balcony to the middle of the garden... Maram stepped back a little to stick her back to the adjacent wall so that they would not see her. Her embarrassment was overcome by the curiosity of a teenager to know who this man was who was complaining about his lost love like this... She raised her head a little in a failed attempt to look at him without either of them noticing her, but she couldn't and she didn't risk more to reveal herself... She heard the voice of Mona's mother saying sympathetically, "Ahmed, don't do this to yourself... Accept your fate, my brother... Shahd is now married to another man..." Maram was gathering the threads in her head when her thoughts were lost with his trembling voice as he said in a voice oozing with pain, "She... is pregnant, Najat... is pregnant with his... This child was supposed to be mine... Oh my God, what is this torment?!" Maram gasped as she felt a hand pat her shoulder, but she acted quickly to stifle the rest of her gasp with her hand as she looked at her friend Mona angrily, then whispered, "You scared me!!" Mona smiled mischievously and said in a whisper as well, "You deserved it because you took advantage of my absence in the bathroom and eavesdropped on my mom and uncle's conversation..." Maram blushed a little, so Mona laughed lightly, then reached out to pull her friend inside.