DENIAL

The smell of trees emanated from everywhere, and the sound of murmuring water flowing without stop, the air smelling fresh. Awad thought that he had dreamed of a terrifying nightmare and that he had woken up from it. He slowly opened his eyelids. He looked at the ceiling and found it wooden, but he could not move at all. So, he is now sure that, it was not a dream that Mr. Aziz had saved him, and that something had happened to his family, but all he thought was that they badly injured or that what he had consoled himself, after a while Mr. Aziz entered the room at miserable look

Awad, in a frightened, shaky voice, "why you are crying, sir"

Mr. Aziz, "No, I don't cry"

Awad, "Are my wife and children, okay?"

Mr. Aziz, "Don't worry they are fine, they are receiving treatment in other rooms, they are in the same condition as you"

Awad, "I want to see them myself"

Mr. Aziz, "Look how you are, your whole body in a cast, and your face is smashed a large part of it. Wait a few days, until you get better, and I will, I'll get you to them myself."

Awad, "Are they, okay?"

Mr. Aziz, "Yes, never worry"

Mr. Aziz had known from the doctor, that treating Awad's condition is critical, and it is very difficult, because it has psychological dimensions, that he cannot bear any tragic news, so he tried as much as possible, to hide everything from him. After many days passed, Awad felt that his family had already died, but his soul continued to deny, and give wrong hope, that they are still alive, or at least one of them, but He was afraid to prolong the question so that he would not face the truth. His health condition became fine, and Mr. Aziz felt that it was the right time to know the whole truth. Mr. Aziz tried to pave him, and tell him what had happened. He approached him and asked him to hold himself together. Before he finished his speech, Awad interrupted him, and asked him, "Why did you let me live?! Dying with them is a hundred times better than living without them"

Mr. Aziz, "did you know all this time, but you did not hide it?"

Awad, "I already know everything. I'm not an idiot, even if I was a careless father. At least I can remember the ending, but my heart was refusing to admit it, you didn't answer me why you let me live!"

Mr. Aziz, "who am I to decide your life from your death? It is God who left you to live, and surely this is for a reason"

Awad, "There is no reason for me to live"

Mr. Aziz, "maybe you can't understand the reason for your life now, but at least you must punish those responsible for what happened to them. You must make sure that he is punished, and I will help you.

Awad, "Will you help me, to take revenge from your nephew? You want me to believe that!"

Mr. Aziz, "what you didn't know is that He killed my brother, and tried to kill me too. He is not my nephew. He is a demon in the form of a human being"

Awad, "Will you help me?!"

Mr. Aziz, "Of course, I will help you with all my strength, believe me"

Awad, "will you allow me to take revenge on him without being sad about him?"

Mr. Aziz, "God has instituted retribution so that everyone can take what is due, and when we prove to the police everything that bastard has done, he will spend the rest of his life in prison."

Awad, "police!! What retribution are you talking about?"

Mr. Aziz, "I don't understand you"

Awad, "I am the one who will take revenge from him. I will not hand him over to the police or anyone"

Mr. Aziz, "what!! Why would you do such a thing?"

Awad because the only thing I want is his death, that is the only punishment I will allow happening"

Mr. Aziz, "but….."

Awad, "I know very well the sensitivity of the situation to you, so I excuse you from helping me, I can do everything on my own"

Mr. Aziz, "Awad, did you forget your words, about opening a new page?"

Awad interrupts him very nervously, "New page!! Did he step on my feet? He wiped out my family, He stole my happiness, He stole my life. I will never leave him to anyone"

Mr. Aziz tries to calm him down,

"I considered your family my family, I have been waiting for Friday to come to you, especially Karim. He was the closest to my heart"

Awad is relieved and remembers the scene of Karim's death, and the last word he uttered, "I love you dad"

Mr. Aziz speaks to himself, "I will not leave him alone, I will pretend to help him until he reaches his goal, but I will never allow him to kill anyone, not because he is my nephew, but because I am afraid that this innocent soul will be desecrated."

Mr. Aziz, "Well, Awad I will help you to the end Nader deserves this, he is a killer"

Awad, "will help me?!"

Mr. Aziz, "yes, of course, think about how to take revenge as you wish, and I will help you from behind"

Awad relaxes a little

Mr. Aziz, "what is wrong with you?"

Awad asks about the place of their burial. Mr. Aziz tells him that he has buried them in his special cemetery, and when he is completely fine, he will take him to them, and tell him that it is better to travel with him to the states because Nader is still looking for him because the police have not found his body until now. After all, Nader is naturally skeptical. He did not believe, that the corpse had drifted with the stream of water

After several weeks, Awad recovered, and he was fine, but his face was full of scars, which slightly changed his features.

Mr. Aziz took Awad to the cemetery, and Awad sat at the tombstones. When Awad saw their names written on it, his feet could not carry him. He fell unconscious, and anyone sees his features, he will know that he must be dreaming of his little family, maybe at their little house, that has not yet been completed.

When he woke up, he felt their presence around him and started talking to them, and laughing with them. It was prepared for him that they were talking to him so that Sara appeared in front of him, and he started talking to her and talking to her, but when he approached to touch her, he found nothing but a mirage, at this moment Awad's features changed completely. He spoke to himself, "I must take revenge for Their death "

Mr. Aziz approached him and knew from his look that the time had come