The Night Of

Suhad

When I was little, I used to have sleepovers at Uncle Junaid's along with Bhai. Mom and dad used to drop us there sometimes for a night and sometimes they even left us there for a few days while they sometimes went on a quick vacation. For that limited amount of time, I used to get a new home, a new room, and two more people to play with. Being the only girl I used to get the complete guest room to myself while Bhai used to bunk with Farooq and Fawad. But that was temporary, this wasn't.

I looked in awe at the tall building as we got out of the car. Shadab's mom, my mom-in-law had said they lived on the tenth floor. While our apartment was on the fifth floor of a ten storied building, this was the double of that. Shadab took out my suitcase from the trunk of the car, like the gentleman he was, and lead us inside the building. The doorman greeted Shadab and he said something to the doorman to which he turned to me and mom-in-law and greeted me too.