CHAPTER 36

 A small girl with brown hair cried looking at her. She looked so pitiful, her eyes were sunken as if she had not slept for weeks, she was soo skinny you'd serve water in her collarbones. Agatha walked near her and squatted trying to talk to her,

"Why are you here?" The girl breathed heavily trying to talk,

 "W…Wa…Water." She strained to talk pointing at the dispenser near the door. Without wasting time she took the small plastic cup on the floor and served water in it.

 The girl drank the water like a starved animal. She asked for more cups till she was quenched. The two girls sat and the girl had energy to speak.

 "What… happens here is human trafficking…," She breathed as if she had heart problems. "My parents sold me… because they used a lot of money to pay for my medical bills..." she paused after speaking tears rolling down her cheeks.

Agatha heart was almost out, she couldn't stop her tears, and how did it feel to be in her place. Even though her parents were poor they never mistreated her and her siblings.

 "My mom worked as a bartender and she would bring me with her… Men would try everything with me but she never said anything," The girl sat straight looking at her scars around her hands.

"My dad left us after he found out that I was sick and married an older woman," she took Agatha's hands and looked straight into her eyes, 

 "I may survive or not but I'll never forget this day…" Her pale face had a small smile. "There's a book down that cupboard, page twenty… find that girl and give her this." she took a small perfume like bottle and retrieved the book.

 Agatha walked out the room holding her heart and made an excuse to go home.

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After Khalil was told everything, his life was not the same again; they went back to their country after not finding something useful.

Sage's former house was burned to dust and they couldn't retrieve anything. What they didn't know was that someone followed them. 

As Alan was about to drive left, a car come from nowhere and smashed their car, hitting several cars and everything else was a blur. 

 In the accident, men in black took Sage's an conscious body, that's all Khalil remembered.

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In two days Khalil woke up from a coma and found her mum sleeping next to him holding his hand,

 "Mom… it hurts." His mom woke up and pressed the bell and the doctors ran in. He was checked and he now had time with his mom.

 "Can you not do that again, I was worried sick…" bead like tears ran down his mum's face making his heart ache, "Can you please not scare me again?"

 "Sorry mum, it won't happen again." He assured. Only then did his mom stop crying. Her mom was remarried after Khalil's dad death.

His life with his step family was not easy; his step dad was soo strict and made him work hard to prove his worth to the family. Of Couse his mom knew nothing about that, the man would say,

 'You are so lucky that I love your mom if not…'

"Mom, I have to tell you something," he said in a small voice and her mom knew that, it was going to be a long conversation.

 "Since dad died, I met this friend and he changed my life." He looked out the window trying to find words. His mom was the easiest person to talk to but he was scared of destroying the big relationship they had.

 "Your gay I know…, son I've known this for quite a long time… and I was waiting for you to tell me," He was shocked beyond words. How, where and when?