Past
April 2009
"Amani you know you can't stay in there forever right?" I knocked on the bathroom door for the untempt time and slid down to sit on the floor, my head on the door. She's been in the toilet for the past one hour and I knew she was doing what she knew how to do best now, cry.
"Amani please come out because of Allah" I heard some sniffing, water running, throat gargling and shuffles before she finally unlocked the door and came out. Her fair face was red and puffy from hours of crying. She slid behind me and went to lay face down on the bed.
The past weeks had been the most trying for Amani. The day Mum threw her and her things out, Ammi had instructed me to pick only her school bag and leave the rest of her things there. She had dragged Amani, who looked so shocked lik
