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I didn’t know what to do. My eyes had been looking for Amirhosein for few minutes now. I finally found him. He and his friend were walking to the car. I darted to reach him, but before I could reach, they revved the car and left. I followed the path of the car with my eyes, dumbfounded. I didn’t know whether to be angry with Amirhosein or thankful. It didn’t matter anyway. Because he left without saying a word to me. I looked at my watch. The first school shift/ the school’s morning lesson was over by now. Thousands of unanswered questions kept running through my mind, and on the other hand, I was afraid the school would call my home. So I ran to school with all my might. When I arrived at the front door of the school, I couldn’t breathe anymore. I’d put my hands on my knees and kept taking deep breaths, when I heard a familiar voice and raised my head.

“Don’t you feel like you came a bit early, princess? Are you waiting for us to roll out the red carpet for you?”

Ms. Asadi, the school administrator, stopped me. I really wanted to give her one of those comebacks of mine that I always had ready, but I didn’t have the patience to argue anymore, and my mind was busy enough.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t catch the school ride today. So I had to run to school.”

“That’s okay. Now run from here to your house because I’m not going to let you in today. Come with your father tomorrow.”

I put on a meek face and said,

“Ms. Asadi, please.”

She interrupted me and said with a ridiculous smile,

“Do as I say. By the way, time your running, too. We might send you to the marathon! You seem to have the talent.”

Just what I needed. I gave Ms. Asadi a cold “goodbye” and turned around angrily and went back the path I had run. The last moment, it was clear from Ms. Asadi’s face that she expected me to insist more on being allowed to go to school. But I wasn’t in the mood.

However, I didn’t want to go home because my mother would chop my legs off and I couldn’t give her a proper excuse for returning home. So, the logical thing to do was to avoid a 100% fight and not go home until 2:30. I stood on the side of the street and took a taxi.