Amina I have a headache, I feel dizzy, my knee is pulsing and my arm is splitting with pain, yet there is another thought that is rattling louder inside me than all else: is it a sin what I’m doing? What would my father, Nasirah or even Selina say, if they knew I have spent the night with two strange men? Okay, most of the time I was practically unconscious, still, I slept in a stranger’s bed, what’s more, I’m still there. I was looking for a doctor, followed the neon light on the wall, but reaching the steps, all my strength left me. I’m only realizing now how exposed I was, and I can only thank my luck – or let’s call it fate – that the man called Liam Parker found me. He tells me I was protesting when he wanted to take me to hospital, but honestly, I have no memory of that. Yet, I bel

