Both Adyan and Dad stood up, terrified at the last words Mom uttered before she dragged her crying sister out of the living room. Kassim sat there unshaken, he couldn't believe these words could ever come out of his Mother's lips. He thought she loved him. Albeit he knew that she loves Adyan more, but he couldn't imagine himself being disowned by his mother.
He felt a thread of sweat forming on his forehead despite the chilly morning wind and the air conditioner that's softly blowing on their skins. He could feel the wrath of the almighty slowly seeping into his heart; at the same time, the fear of the yaumul kiyamah! He made his mother cried and she was helpless that he forced her to utter those words to him through his actions.
He stood up and and scavenged for his phone in his breast
