Chapter 12

Majed moved with some of the boys and they started loading the furniture into a large place. The girls and I helped them, but Manar was pushing me with non-heavy things so I could carry them, while she and Iman were carrying the heavy things like the rest of the boys. Usta Saeed, as they called him, was sitting from afar, watching us and smiling with him. An old person. After we finished moving the furniture, we heard the voice of Hajj Majid calling to us

“Girls, come after me.”

We moved behind him carrying some bags containing our clothes and two blankets until he arrived in front of an office where Usta Saeed was sitting and said:

“Girls, do you want anything else from me?”

Saeed: “Thank you, Uncle Majed, but did you arrange the place upstairs as I told you?”

Majed: “Yes, the place is ready to receive girls and any other service”

Saeed: “No, thank you. Go and finish your work, then hand over the keys to the storeroom to the girl named Iman”