Chapter Thirty Four

After much promising and promising that she would be alright with Urs, Rowi, Seb, David and Dany finally went, leaving Fara and Urs alone at long last.
‘They worry too much’ Fara laughed to Urs when her friends and their new partners had gone.
‘They care about you’ Urs told her, gazing at her as he spoke.
‘Like you do…’ replied Fara, staring back at him.
‘Yes, like I do’ Urs smiled at her. He reached out a hand then put it away again.
‘I don’t wear an engagement ring…’ Fara then said, looking down at her bare finger on her left hand. She hadn’t noticed him reaching out then changing his mind.
‘I’ve got it. I was going to…to give it to you later’ Urs lied. Well, partly lied. He did have the ring. He just wasn’t planning on giving it to her. Until now when the idea had suddenly come to him in a flash of inspiration.
‘Right. Ok’ Fara nodded shyly.
‘We’ve dinner planned. On the roof. To watch the sunset’ Urs smiled. He made a mental note to arrange that later with the hotel manager. It was the most romantic thing he could come up with at such short notice. Normally Urs liked to plan things well in advance. He crossed his fingers mentally, praying that that would be ok.
‘Sounds…romantic’ Fara blushed.
‘I do try’ he smiled, bowing. He thanked his lucky stars that she hadn’t noticed the panic in his voice.
‘And we fell in love, at first sight?’ Fara then asked, looking up at him again as she asked.
‘I did. With you’ Urs smiled again.
‘Here, in Luxor?’ Fara asked, sweeping her hand around the room as she spoke.
‘No. At the airport. Back in Gatwick’
‘Oh. Right’ Fara nodded, not knowing what else to say. She couldn’t remember Gatwick. Or the flight here. It felt so new, so strange to her.
‘We were in the queue, in WHSmiths, I was buying a newspaper, you two romance novels’ Urs reminded her.
‘I write…romances’ Fara smiled, remembering something. A distant memory? She didn’t know. It hurt her brain to try and remember.
‘Yes. You do’ Urs agreed with her, ‘I read your manuscript’ Urs then reminded her.
‘God. Poor you. You must love me!’ Fara laughed, feeling slightly embarrassed as she mentioned the ‘L’ word now.
‘Yes. I do’ Urs nodded.
‘Its awful, isn’t it?’
‘No. Its…brilliant. I don’t read much. But I really enjoyed that’
‘Thank you’ Fara lightly smiled and blushed again.
‘Do you…want to go for a walk?’ Urs then asked, smiling at her.



Ok. I would like that. I’d better get dressed first though’ Fara was still wearing her pyjamas. Still sitting up in the bed. I must look a mess she thought to herself. Fara always suffered from something known as ‘bed hair’ where her hair was a complete mess after laying on it for even a little while. And everyone had seen it! Embarrassing! Double embarrassing!
‘Ok’ Urs smiled, ‘I’ll be back in a minute, ok?’
‘Sure’ Fara agreed.
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It didn’t take Fara long to get dressed. It actually took longer to sort out her hair. It was, as predicted a complete mess. She brushed it and tried to tame it. But it wouldn’t go as she had planned. Maybe love really was blind then as Urs seemed to love her no matter what she looked like. She then found a skirt amongst her things and a t-shirt to wear. The skirt couldn’t be hers but she put it on anyway after discovering that it fit her. That surprised her somewhat. Urs, seeing her in a skirt, stared at her legs.
‘What?’ Fara asked on noticing him staring at her.
‘You’re wearing a skirt…’ he mumbled, pointing.
‘Don’t I usually?’
‘No’
‘Oh’
‘You look…good’ Urs smiled. Resting the temptation to wink at her. He didn’t want to seem like Seb to Fara even though her in that skirt was a lovely sight to see. She really did have nice legs he thought, trying not to stare too much at them.
‘Thank you’ Fara lightly blushed at him.
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I hope Fara will be ok…’ Rowi said to Seb as they walked along by the Nile hand in hand.
‘Her accident…’ Seb agreed.
‘Amnesia can be bad. Her memory may never come back’ Rowi sighed.
‘Which, may be good news, for Urs’ Seb smiled.
‘Hmmm…him calling himself her fiancé’ Rowi agreed.
‘He did ask her. Fara did except’ Seb reminded her.
‘Before they felt out’ Rowi reminded Seb then.
‘But they seem ok now…’ Seb said.
‘Until, or should that be, if, Fara regains her memory’ Rowi sighed again.
‘Then I hope she never does’ said Seb.
‘I actually hope Fara does’ confessed Rowi, ‘because it would be better then living a lie’ she sensibly pointed out that tiny little fact.
‘Hmmm…hadn’t thought of that’ Seb admitted, smiling at Rowi.
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‘Maybe we should contact Cydalia and Carlos…tell them what has happened’ David said to Dany as they suntanned themselves by the hotel pool side. Not usually the sun tanning type they had both run out of Guidebooks to read and where now deciding to act like any other couple they could see around them also on holiday, and lay on sun loungers and sunbathe themselves.
‘No. Let them enjoy their honeymoon’ Dany replied, rubbing suntan cream into her arms as she spoke.
‘What sort of wedding are we going to have then?’ David then asked her. He was currently rubbing sun cream onto Dany’s back as he asked.
‘One at home. With all our friends and family around’ smiled Dany, turning her head to look at him.
‘That, would be nice’ David agreed.
‘With a best man for you and bridesmaids for me’ Dany added.
‘Urs, Rowi, Fara and Cydalia then’ David smiled.
‘Hmmm’ Dany agreed, gazing at her fiancé.
‘Urs, is the best man’ David quickly added.
‘I know honey. Although, he did look rather good in his Gallabya outfit’ Dany smiled at the memory.
‘Ramses II lived that night’ David agreed, also remembering.
‘Perfect casting by Said at the onboard shop’ Dany smiled.
‘With Fara as his Queen Nefertari’
‘Hmm. Exactly’ Dany nodded, touching David’s face as she spoke, and gazing at him with love in her eyes. David returned the loving gaze.
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Fara and Urs were on their walk alongside the Nile.
‘I really wish you could remember me. Remember us’ Urs told her as they walked.
‘I wish I could remember too’ Fara sadly sighed, ‘but I can’t’
‘Not anything?’ Urs asked, looking at her. Wishing there was something he could do to help her get her memory back.
‘No’ Fara shook her head sadly.
‘What can I do? To help you remember?’ Urs then asked her.
‘I don’t know’ Fara sighed.
‘Would…would talking help?’ Urs then asked, licking his lips as he spoke.
‘Maybe’ Fara shrugged. She tried not to groan as she watched Urs lick his lips. Something in that action stirred her deep down inside. A feeling in her stomach. Butterflies or something.
‘Anything else? Anything?’ Urs then asked, running a hand through his hair.
‘There is something…’ Fara whispered.
‘Go on?’ Urs asked, sounding hopeful now.
‘Your touch…it seems….familiar somehow’ Fara eventually told him.
‘My touch?’ Urs asked, looking at her as he spoke.
‘Yes’ Fara shyly nodded, looking back at him.
‘Ok’ he smiled, holding out a hand to her.
Fara shyly smiled back and took his offered hand in hers. As their fingers touched she felt something. A spark of recognition. Then as suddenly as it came it went again. They carried on walking along the Nile, hand in hand. Heads almost touching.
Cydalia and Carlos had a wonderful three days before they had to leave Cairo and go back to Luxor to meet up with their friends again before leaving Egypt to go home. Cydalia wouldn’t be going home thought to England. No. She was going to go with Carlos and the rest of IL DIVO on to America. The group had a tour to plan and promote.
‘Then, after the tour we will go on to Spain’ Carlos told his new wife, ‘to show you my home’ he wiggled his eyebrows as he spoke and winked at her.
‘And I can look up a few relations that live there’ Cydalia replied.
‘Then we can have a big party to celebrate our wedding’ Carlos said, gazing at the beautiful woman he had married sitting before him.
‘I’d like that’ Cydalia smiled back, ‘I love you Carlos Marin’
‘I love you Cydalia Marin’ he smiled back.