"What do you mean she’s not here??"
“She’s not here, yet. Don’t worry, she’ll be here soon.”
“Rida, she has been gone for two days. She had skipped classes, too! Yet, you didn’t tell me about it. Aren’t you worried about her?”
Dylan was holding his emotions. He was so worried about Sam, yet Rida didn’t even bother reporting it to the faculty or to their school administration.
Rida took a deep breath before she calmly responded, “Sam is okay, Dylan. There’s no reason for me to report about her absences. Besides, she also informed her teachers.”
Part of what Rida said was accurate, except that it wasn’t Sam who went to her teachers. It was her and it was Killan’s instruction. She couldn’t tell Dylan that it was his brother, as she didn’t want to pry into Sam’s personal affair. Besi
