Feeling that she did not hear an answer from Malik, Rosiana returned her greeting. Rosiana peeked through the living room window and saw Malik sitting in the hallway leading to the kitchen. Rosiana was both surprised and panicked at Malik’s condition. So she banged on the door of Malik’s rented house again.
“Mal? Hey, Mal? You heard me, right?” called Rosiana.
Outside of school hours, Rosiana always called Malik by his name because they were the same age. But at school, Rosiana called Malik with the appendage’ sir’ to honour her profession as an educator.
Since Malik was staring as if he hadn’t heard Rosiana’s call, the woman was desperate to open the door of this house and burst in.
“Mal? Hey, Mal? Are you okay?” asked Rosiana as she sat across from Malik, shaking his statue-like body
