Chapter 13

Now, reader, let us be fair about narrating the events of my life with the events of my brother’s life. It is enough for me here to talk about me, and I will write to you what he told me about what happened to him, as Waseem said.

After my life settled down with my adoptive family I began to go to school, where I was enrolled in the fifth grade of primary school, there I met a male again who was in the sixth grade of primary school.

Our friendship was so strong that when a quarrel occurred between me and my classmates, he would come and defend me, and also if he quarreled with someone, I quickly defended him. His classmates in the sixth grade of primary school were afraid of me, as I was strong in build, unlike my male counterpart, who was thin in body but quick in his movement and intuition.

Zakaria always came to my house in the evening to help him study mathematics, and he used to help me study the English language. Zakaria lived with his father in an area clos