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By Neda Najibi
April 2001
The Iranian

Hengameh and Sirus - Part 2

Sirus helped Hengameh move into her friend's home where she rented a room. But she felt she was intruding on her sister and brother-in-law and decided to move out after two weeks.

She dated Sirus for a few weeks. One day he took her to lunch at Your Place restaurant in Encino. Sirus informally proposed marriage. Hengameh told him that she couldn't even think about it; she was not even officially divorced.

They continued going out and each time Sirus presented himself with a single naked red rose. There was a party at the Tea Room club in Irvine and Sirus planned to pick up Hengameh from her sister's house. Her mother had come into town and they were all visiting. Sirus brought Hengameh six red roses when he came to pick her up.

Allow me to describe Hengameh. She is approximately five-feet four-inches tall, has short dark brown hair and medium brown eyes. She wears a natural tan and is beloved by anyone who interacts with her. She looks like both Salma Hayek with short hair and Julia Roberts, she is breathtaking. Her heart is as pure as Mother Theresa and she is as sexy as her mind will allow it, yet she is conservative, classy, educated and just an amazing woman.

Sirus is about five-feet eight-inches, recently accepted into dental school at the University of Southern California. Nothing is impossible to him. He is almost bald and has walnut eyes. His confidence and desire for Hengameh make him very attractive. He is a handsome man, but not a debonair or gallant in looks, ye definitely in demeanor.

Sirus looks at Hengameh as if she's the only woman alive. Hengameh accepted the roses and took them into the house while she had Sirus wait outside. She handed the flowers to her mother, who commented on how beautiful the roses were and this pleased Hengameh. It was as if somehow, her mother's attraction to the roses was an approval of her dating Sirus.

Mind you, it is not so much that Hengameh is being asked to go out and sleep with this man; it is just that since she has been through a rough time, her family wants her to be occupied. And if Sirus can take her mind off of her husband's adultery then all are happy, including Hengameh.

However, Hengameh didn't know if she wanted all this attention, approval from her mom, or roses from Sirus. She just was not sure what she wanted. And to expect her to know was cruel!

Hengameh and Sirus drove to Irvine and danced the whole night. They both enjoyed it. It has been approximately two months since they have been seeing each other and Sirus is still a perfect gentleman.

A week later they went to the mall, and Hengameh tried on some clothes and they did some window shopping. Another week had past and Sirus picked up Hengameh and they went to a nameless secluded bar overlooking Santa Monica.

Before they went into the bar he pulled a box from the back seat and handed it to her. She was excited and the box was from Guess, she looked at him and then opened the box and saw that it was the suit that she tried on a few weeks ago at the mall. She couldn't believe that he was this thoughtful, actually she could.

She was about to close the box when Sirus told her to look underneath the skirt. She took out an envelope and opened it and immediately closed it and told him she couldn't accept it! She said she just could not do any of this!

Tears filled her eyes and Sirus told her that the money was to help her with her legal expenses and did not want her to stress over the money. Sirus said he had no intention of hurting or offending her. She closed the box and they went up to the bar.

Hengameh explained she was happy and worried at the same time. Happy because Sirus is a great guy and worried that she would end up hurting him. He