There's Always A Next Time - Part 4

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-Part 1
-Part 2
-Part 3

Lynda Kept observing Ahmed's every habit, how he comes running to the school, few minutes late most of the time. How he spends the break with his friends, most of them were older than him and none of them was one of his class. How chatty he is and how much he makes them laugh..The thing that she enjoys the most, was the way he looks at her and the fact that he always salutes her when he sees her. There was something in his looks that makes her feel they are close friends, way closer than they seem to be. They don't speak much but when they do, they are friendly and familiar with each other.

She still couldn't have the courage to leave her friends during the break time, interrupt his conversation with his friends and spend the break with him even if she wants it so much. But maybe he's the one that should do that not her, he is the guy in the end not her, he should be chasing her, or so says every girl or woman around her and confirms every novel she read so far.

From his side, Ahmed was so into his friend's hard time. He offered him his full attention for that week. They have to make 500 Dinars by the next weekend and he knows that's not an easy task. 500 Dinars is the double of the minimum monthly salary of a worker in tunisia, so how are they supposed to make it in one week?

He ran to the park after school as usual and Samir had a surprise for him as usual. This time he gave him 20 dinars and explained to him that it was his share from yesterday's "mission". Ahmed refused to take it because he wasn't doing it for money but samir insisted and told him that he will never ask him for help again if he won’t take his share from the benefit everytime and he said to him:
-That's the rule, that's how it works. So, are you in or are you out?
Ahmed took the 20 dinars and asked him:"so what next?"
Samir seemed to have it all planned for the whole week, Ahmed had to skip some classes but it was really worth it for him, it was so exciting and fun.

First he asked him to bump into a man and put a letter in his pocket, he never knew what was in it, and he didn't ever try to imagine. Then he took him to a second hand clothes market to buy some stuff and sell it to their friends. After that they gathered all the guys they knew and led them to a conference to listen to some minister or some political leader that no one would go listen to him otherwise. That's how they managed to make 400 dinars in total.With all that money they went to the stadium and spent so many hours in the line to buy tickets for the famous "Derby Of Tunis", the most eagerly awaited match between the two oldest and strongest football clubs in tunisia, and they sell the tickets in black market about one and half and sometimes twice the original price.

With two days from the deadline they had 350 dinars each. Samir felt desperate and he got too stressed to come up with any new Idea. Ahmed kept begging him to take 150 dinars from his share but he wouldn't accept. He said he now has no choice, he has to do what he was trying to avoid all along. Ahmed wanted to be part of it but samir said it's too dangerous this time.

When he went home, Samir's dad told him they have to go to visit his uncle's family he said:"My brother Ali has escaped the country for good. It turned out that he was involved with "Ennahdha Party", the biggest and most dangerous illegal opposition party according to our president, and now the police is looking for him everywhere. We need to be there for his family in these hard times."

They went to Mr. Ali's house. His daughter Lynda was crying the whole time she was very concerned about her father's safety. But her mother was perfectly calm. She knew that this day was coming and she planned everything with Mr. Ali. She told them she would understand it if they wanted to keep some distance between their families because she knows that the police will keep observing her every move. She said:" Everytime we go to london he meets the party's leaders and he was the most reliable and official means of communication between the local party's members and those in europe, including the leadership. But now that he is uncovered, he escaped to Algeria for now until he figures out a way to become a refugee in europe like the others did."

At that night Ahmed kept thinking and imagining the worst case scenarios about Samir's plan. What could be too dangerous compared to what they've already done? It must be something very illegal or something mortal. He just couldn't sleep that night until almost morning.

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Since I'm still writing it, I'll be open to any suggestions or requests from the readers to make it a fun experience for everybody. Of course I have my own ideas about the big events so I'll be the one who decides how the story goes but I'll do my best not to be too dictator :D

Part 5 will be out next wednesday.