chapter 75

INAYA -

"You're looking very beautiful Inaya" Hamza commented once, in the summer of my second year in college.

I remember I was a guest at Ines's birthday party when Hamza Filladi said these words to me.

when Mrs. Filladi called our house's line one summer morning and she personally invited me to her daughter's birthday party I was beyond surprised that I initially thought she called the wrong number. Since we were on college vacations at the time, I naturally had to go through the struggle of going back to D city from my hometown on a 6-hour-long bus trip and staying in the empty student residence risking my own safety in order to attend to that party, it was quite a struggle in fact, but even when I initially wanted to refuse the invitation my grandmother threatened that she will kick me out of the house to the student residence for the rest of the summer if I did that, so I, of course, had no choice but to go eventually.

At the time, I was so nervous and had no idea what to wear