‘Hello?’ I picked up the call on the third ring, walking out of the main entrance of the University of Sahababad as I struggled to manage the files in one hand and the phones in another. ‘Hello? Who is it?’ I asked again when a mysterious silence greeted me from the other side.
‘Best of luck!’ I heard Farhana yelling from somewhere behind and turned around to watch her hanging by the canteen with her friends, who passed me a tight smile. I showed her thumbs up and she winked back at me as I hurriedly walked out of the lobby.
‘Are you even listening? Hello? Who do you want to talk? I am hanging up, okay?’ I yelled, looking for a taxi that could take me to Hussein’s office, but none appeared in my vision. ‘Seems like I ain’t audible.’ I mumbled more to myself than to the caller. ‘Jeez!’
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