An eerily silence outbreaks in the ambience. She was quite, as though her life being taken out of her. Mom and Mama hurriedly rushed to her with tears streaming down her cheeks, they couldn't think of loosing Shafa! Yes, she wronged them in every way possible, but she is still their relative, the friend they had in the body of a cousin.
They slumped beside her head and Mama took her head and placed it on her laps. She leaned in, despite the pungent smell; and felt for the raspy breath coming out Of Umma's nose.
She looked at them and smiled amidst tears; "She's still breathing, let's take her to a psychiatric!" And the men rushed towards her and lifted her up, the women making way for them to the car.
She was admitted, and was given a room when Amna sat beside her and held her hand, cry
