Chapter Thirty Three

Fara was dreaming. She was at home. Elsa was there. And Laura. Her sister and her sisters best friend were laughing at her.
‘You, are useless’ Elsa laughed, pointing cruelly at Fara as she cried.
‘Completely’ Laura agreed, also laughing, she was also pointing at Fara.
‘You could never keep a man’ Elsa carried on, ‘I just snap my fingers and he’s mine. MINE’ she laughed at Fara’s distressed face.
‘You’re not having him. Not this time’ Fara told her sister, trying to stand up for herself for once.
‘Oh no?’ Elsa challenged, her laugher sounding like a witches cackle now.
Then Urs appeared next to Fara. He smiled at her. Elsa saw the smile and snapped her fingers. Urs didn’t move. He stood his ground. Watching Elsa as she snapped her fingers again and again at him. Still he didn’t move an inch.
‘Sorry. I don’t respond to snapping’ he told Elsa, ‘I’m not a dog’ he replied, glaring at her.
‘Oh Ursy…’ Laura purred at him then.
Still he didn’t move an inch, ‘Nope. Sorry’ Urs replied, looking away.
‘You didn’t go…’ Fara murmured in her dream, gazing up at Urs. She reached out a hand, touching his face in a daze.
‘Told you I won’t’ he replied, gazing back at her.
‘But…this is just a dream…’ Fara mumbled, looking up at him.
‘Is it?’ Urs asked.
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Fara woke up then. With a start. She sat up.
‘Where…am I?’ she asked, she asked, looking around. She didn’t remember anything.
‘Here, with me’ Urs smiled at her.
‘Who…who are you?’ Fara asked, staring at him. She didn’t recognise who he was. This strange man in her room. If it was her room. It didn’t look like her home. No. They were somewhere different.
Urs noticed the look of fright in her eyes.
‘I’m Urs…’ he told her, ‘your…’ he licked his lips, ‘fiancé’ he found himself saying.
‘My…?’ Fara asked, slightly shocked at this response.
‘Fiancé. Don’t you remember me?’ Urs asked.
‘No’ Fara shook her head. ‘Should I?’ she asked.
‘Yes’ he sighed.
‘Sorry’ Fara found herself mumbling her apologises to this strange man.
‘You hurt your head. I told that doctor you needed hospital treatment’ Urs muttered.
‘What doctor?’ Fara asked, scared now.
‘You hurt your wrist. Don’t you remember?’

‘No’ said Fara, looking at her bandaged wrist. She didn’t remember it happening. Her coming to have this bandage that now sat on her wrist. It was all new to her.
‘What do you remember?’ Urs then asked.
‘Rowi. Telling me about the holiday she had won’ said Fara, smiling lightly at the memory.
‘Nothing else? After that?’ Urs asked, his eyes searching her face for any sign that she recognised him. Knew who he was.
‘No’ Fara shook her head.
‘Oh…’ Urs sighed.
‘Where…where are we?’ she then asked. Noticing the heat she could feel over the noise of the air conditioning of the room.
‘In Egypt. Luxor’
‘Have I…known you for long?’ Fara then asked Urs.
‘Just over a week’
‘But you said…we’re engaged…’ Fara grasped at the bed covers covering her body.
‘It was love at first sight’ Urs slightly lied. Well. It had been. On his part anyway. So it was only really half a lie as far as he was concerned.
‘Where’s…Rowi? Dany? Cydalia?’
‘I’ll go and get Rowi and Dany’ Urs smiled.
Fara pulled her covers up to her chest. Not that she wasn’t fully clothed. Because she was. Dressed in sensible pyjamas.


The guy calling himself Urs was back barely five minutes later. With Rowi, Dany and two strange men Fara didn’t recognise.
‘Fara…sweetie’ Rowi rushed up to her, followed by Dany.
‘I…I can’t remember’ Fara sighed to her friend. At least she recognised her friends. That was some comfort at least she thought to herself, staring at the man calling himself her fiancé. Named Ooers? Did he say. No Urs. That was it. Urs. Strange name that. He couldn’t be English like she, Fara was. But he had no accent she could hear when he spoke to her.
‘Remember what honey?’ Dany asked.
‘Anything. I can remember Rowi winning that holiday…but nothing after that. Who, are they?’ Fara asked, pointing at David, Urs and Seb.
‘David’s my fiancé’ Dany smiled, pointing David out. He was the tallest of the men, with brown hair and friendly blue eyes Fara noticed.
‘Seb. My boyfriend’ Rowi pointed Seb out. Seb looked like a flirt. He winked at Fara. She ignored the wink.
‘And I told you. I’m Urs…your fiancé’ said Urs. Fara noticed his hair then. It was longish and curly. Long, like hers was. He had hazel coloured eyes thought she noticed. They seemed rather friendly she noticed, looking at him.
‘I don’t know you’ sighed Fara.
‘In your heart you do’ Urs told her.
‘I really wish I did remember…’ Fara sighed again.
‘You will…in time’ Urs then sighed.
‘Hey, I’ve an idea’ the guy calling himself David smiled.
‘What?’ Dany asked.
‘My video camera. Back in a minute’ David smiled again and then was gone.
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Fara looked around. She didn’t remember any of it. Not the room she was in. Nor Urs. Nor Seb. Nor David. She did remember Rowi and Dany thought. Thank god they were here she thought.
‘Laura…was here’ Fara then remembered, sensing something strange.
‘Yes’ Urs sighed.
‘You know Laura?’ Fara asked.
‘I used to’ Urs admitted.
‘Oh, right’ Fara nodded, puzzled.


David was back then. ‘Here it is’ he smiled, attaching his video camera up to the television in the room. ‘I’m glad I filmed it all now’ he said as everyone sat down to watch the television.
Urs sat next to Fara. He held her hand. She let him. Him touching her felt right. Natural. Right, she realised.
Seb and Rowi sat snuggled up as did David and Dany.
Fara sat, opened mouthed and watched. David had caught everything. All the sights they had visited plus nearly every conversation or exchange between Fara and Urs. Even him telling Marcia that he loved Fara. At the end, Fara was spellbound. She didn’t remember any of it but felt a little better after seeing it. It seemed, from David’s video that she and Urs knew each other rather well. If only she could remember it for herself then that would help. A lot. But she didn’t. She couldn’t for some reason.
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‘Well sweetie?’ Urs asked, turning to look at Fara.
‘I don’t remember’ Fara sighed, ‘but…it did help’
‘That’s good, isn’t it?’ Rowi asked.
‘I…I don’t know’ Fara admitted, shrugging.
‘But as you said, it helped’ said Seb.
‘Yes…’ Fara started to say.


‘Then that’s a start’ Urs interrupted, he had to stop himself from reaching out and touching Fara again, kissing her this time. Holding her in his arms. He so badly wanted to. But was afraid to just in case he scared her off.
‘Where is…Cydalia thought?’ Fara then asked.
‘On her honeymoon’ Dany replied.
‘With Carlos’ added David.
‘That…dark curly haired man?’ said Fara.
‘Yes’ Urs nodded.
‘He and Cydalia make a good match’ Fara smiled.
‘They do, don’t they?’ Urs agreed. Like us he slightly added in his head.
‘In Cairo?’ Fara then asked.
‘In Cairo’ Urs agreed.
‘Nice’ Fara nodded, smiling shyly at him.