oor'

all final ye

ddenly came to a silent still. The authoritati

side of the stage. As for the rest of t

led when the announcement end

with you. Please, please, please." Like every other final year student, her eyes were wide with panic, clut

nior academically. Our families are very close.

holding on my composure. "Everything will be ok

ve Mano.

nd you, Mahnoor, go outside now." A prof

no.

. Looking helplessly at each other, we both start walking towards our destinat

pt for Nida Abdullah and

. I turned my head to see the source of the voice and my e

" I breat

d do anything, a crowd of final year girls rushed past me, pushing me out of the door. After a long struggle against the crowd, I was finally able to

reciate that because of them, education has become equal and compulsory for everyone. Even the kids of lower-class families are now able t

n. If the chosen students are boys, they are forced to join the gang or they will be banished from the city, without leaving any t

or they are married to the gang members instead. I am now afraid for Kanwal. She will definitely be for

f the girls are gone with them long ago. At that moment, I felt like killing every professor for not feeling even a little shame for telling me this. I took out my phone

*

with you. I want to see Kanw

possibility that all the top leaders of Bla

my spine at the mentio

ll they b

already kno

is asking to marry

by anger, "How could he?

ahnoor." A

or

dn't know that he hasn't moved on and still waiting for Kanwal. Still, how can he be so selfish? Ahad knew

ammad, he doesn't like to eat alone. Y

f you." I whispered,

on the bed, thinking about Kanwal being married off to a killer. 'Y

heard Bhai's voic

" I gr

or not?" He said angrily. Bhai is one of th

quickly got up and ran

the stallion of Cimarron. After it, I cleaned up the kitc

ocus....

ning it, I glanced up at the moon. The full moon shone brightly against the dark sky and its radiance together with the light breeze felt refreshing. I looked at the clock, it was one in the morning. Papa and Ami have sure

at someone was indeed playing a piano. The melody sounded beautiful. It was long be