All Chapters of NELLIE AND NAOMI : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The Story of Naomi and AnasIn a house shrouded in sorrow for years, Sami lived with his wife Rania and their only daughter Naomi. Illness had stolen Rania’s youth and health, confining her to bed, while Naomi became the angel of care—sitting beside her mother all day, administering her medicine, helping her bathe, and preparing her meals, as if the weight of the entire world rested on her small shoulders.Each evening, Sami returned home, sitting beside Rania, trying to ease her exhaustion after a long day of serving his wife. At night, Naomi took over, ensuring her mother was cared for until midnight, setting his alarm before he slept, letting her heart silently bleed.Days passed in this relentless cycle, a suffocating routine laced with faint hope that Rania’s condition might improve. Yet time was merciless, and her state remained unchanged, leaving the house filled with endless grief. Silence became

As the morning sun streamed through the window of her room, Naomi slowly opened her eyes, as if welcoming the world anew. She stretched her arms wide, a gentle smile lighting her face like a small butterfly dancing amidst the colors of spring. Life seemed to flow through her veins once more, and she rose to embrace the day with a vitality she hadn’t felt in a long time.She pulled the blanket off her body completely and stepped lightly toward the mirror. There, in her reflection, she adjusted her hair with her hands and noticed the subtle transformation in her features—she looked brighter, more at peace with her new life, as if she had reconciled with herself. She turned gracefully and moved toward the door left open since the night before, ready to face a new day.Naomi ventured out into the market, yet her perspective on the world had shifted. A confident smile played on her lips, and her steps carried assurance, as if she had left the sorrow behind the closed door o

Sea Water… and the Last Moments of LightThat evening, the sea exhaled a faint sigh, as if it already knew that this family was approaching the final moments of its last happy day.The sun sank slowly beyond the horizon, tinting the sky with soft shades of pink and violet, while the breeze brushed the edges of the shore with the scent of salt and warm sand. And in the midst of this scene, Kamel’s family laughed as though life could never turn upside down in an instant.Kamel stood in the water up to his knees, splashing small waves toward his wife, Lily—who laughed from the heart, making him laugh, making the sea laugh with them.Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Ryan leaped between the small waves, propelled by the winds of childhood, shouting his sister’s name:“— Nelly! Look! Look!”Nelly smiled, seventeen years old, wearing a simple swimsuit, her dark hair clinging to her shoulders from the seawater. T

On the following night, Raed did not come.He had grown used to returning every other day, slipping into the house like a quiet breeze no one noticed. But his absence that night settled on Nelly’s chest with a strange heaviness. She felt something she had never known before—a small hollow in her heart, the very place his presence used to fill without her realizing.After finishing her father’s care, she withdrew to her room, wrapped in a silence so thick that only his name could pierce it.She sat at the edge of her bed, staring into nothingness, thinking of him more than she ever should, more than she ever used to. It was as though Raed’s absence had awakened something new inside her… something like longing, like yearning—perhaps even like love for the first time in her life.---The next night, the doorbell rang.

– The Beginning of AttractionGhadeh, the stepmother, treated her with a cruelty sharp enough to bruise the soul—no kind word, no gentle gesture, not even the slightest attempt to embrace Naomi, who was already living on the margins of endless losses.As for her father, Sameh, he was nothing more than a faded presence—passing by his daughter like a shadow sliding across a wall, offering neither protection nor anger nor warmth… only a silence that wounded more than it shielded.That particular night was no ordinary night;it was the night something shifted inside Naomi.She felt utterly alone…No father, no mother, no embrace, no hand reaching for hers.Even her tears had no shoulder to fall on.She did not think of Anas much that night; exhaustion was str