Broken Within
Three days later, she got a call one night from Hauwee, and from the sound of her voice, she knew instantly that something was wrong.
"Zeenah, I've got some bad news. It's about my mum . . . " As she went on, she felt weighted with shock and despair, and she strained to understand her as if she were speaking in a foreign language. Hauwee's mum had had a headache for about two days, and had fallen unconscious in her room - her dad had heard the thud from his room which was across hers. She was dead by the time she was taken to the hospital. A cerebral aneurism, they said at the hospital.
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry," Zeenah said, her voice tear-clotted. She heard the sounds of her blowing her no
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