A Father's Betrayal by Gabriella Gillespie

Author:Gabriella Gillespie [Gabriella Gillespie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909477193
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Published: 2014-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

The next time I saw Yas was a few months after my wedding at my family gathering. Yas told me she thought she was pregnant again. While I didn’t suffer that badly with pregnancy Yas did, and she looked terrible!

She would refuse to eat in fear that she would bring it back up, and because she wasn’t eating she had become so thin. Abdul’s family was doing everything they could to support her but nothing worked.

The biggest and best news that we heard since arriving in Yemen was that our sister Nebat, who hadn’t been able to conceive since she had been married, was now pregnant! She put it all down to Yas and me, saying that we sisters had brought her good fortune and that she would never be able to repay us.

Yas and I spent as much time as we could together. We knew this was a one-off occasion that brought us together, so we snuck out of the house to our mountain. I told her all about Ziad and his dysfunctional family and she told me about Abdul and his. They treated her well although financially it was a struggle. Abdul spent most of his time studying in college and she was helping him with his English studies as well as doing her chores.

Yas told me about the day she lost her baby. She said she was in a lot of pain and ran up to the roof in Gran’s house holding on to her tummy and crouching over in pain. It was just after my wedding and she was still in our village. On the roof she said she felt something come out of her and when she looked she saw something small. She described it looking like a small lizard with tiny hands and feet but without the tail. She said she and Gran buried it on the roof under a load of dirt. Yas and I stayed on the mountain and chatted for a while before we made our way back to the village.

I was only allowed to stay at Dad’s for two days because Ziad was going to Africa in a few days, and I was needed back to see him off. It was never easy saying goodbye to Yas but we always knew we never had a choice.

We would beg each other to stay in touch and promise to write. We held on to each other hugging, and would always have to be pulled apart. Granddad would even threaten never to let us see each other again because of how long it took us to say goodbye! Whichever one was driving away in the jeep, the other would run behind blowing kisses and waving, shouting how much we loved each other. My heart would break every time I said goodbye to my sister and I’d swear to myself I’d never lose touch with her.

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