Memory: 21

‘ You want to tell me something?’ Khalid sat while staring at Tasnim, finally opening his mouth after a two-minute silence.

Tasnim hesitated. This was Khalid, not Hanna. At least, Hanna will be able to listen to her. They gossipped a lot, furthermore they were girls. But she can…

‘ It’s Adam?’ Khalid guessed while taking the glass of coffee off the table.

Still, that question did not help. Instead, it got Tasnim more confused because she was very close to spilling everything but she was actually afraid of the answer. She was scared that she could not do what she had to do.

‘ Tasnim?’ Khalid called her name again. And Tasnim nodded her head.

Khalid looked at Tasnim, hard.

‘ Aneem, this is not hard. Contrary to popular belief, men are not complex.’

There was something welling up in Tasnim. At least with Hanna, she wouldn’t be too blunt.

‘ If we like you, we will show some effort,’ Khalid said matter-of-factly. ‘ How long has it been?’

The question. THE QUESTION that Tasnim actually did not want to answer as she will be forced to calculate how long she had been throwing herself at Adam.