2 . October 4, 2009. * Kay watched the young woman he had been tailing for the past month, jog from his vantage point across the road. Jasmine Adewole-Smith, the only surviving relative of Mr. Donald Adewole-Smith. It hadn’t taken long for Kay to decide that Jasmine, would be the easiest bet to get close […]
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JASMINE’S SECRET Book One “To those who abuse: The sin is yours, The crime is yours, And the shame is yours. “To those who protect the perpetrators: Blaming the victims only Masks the evil within, Making you as guilty, As those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent Or go down with the rest.”
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JASMINE’S SECRET . . . 0 . The girl came awake with a jolt, eyes staring out into the inky darkness. She saw nothing. Her heart thudded hard against her ribcage. Heavy beads of cold sweat trickled down her body onto the already soaked sheets twisted around her limbs -a consequence of her thrashing. .
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Chapter 17: A Shared Bond. The thirteenth day of Ramadan dawned clear and bright. Naasir awoke with renewed hope and a determination to make things right. There was still the nagging fear of the unknown but Ummu Sulaym’s visit last night made him optimistic. He also tried to push to the back of
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Chapter 14: The Courage to Let Go . After the Qur’an class, Naasir sought Muneer’s opinion about what happened earlier at Ummu Twins’ place. Since Muneer was also male, he felt he could provide some Islamic-guided insights into the situation. . He didn’t give specifics i.e mention his name or Bushrah’s, rather he asked in
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Chapter 13: A Time for Reflection Ramadan, Day 11 The following days progressed wonderfully for Naasir. He went to bed every day looking forward to his routine for the next day. He looked forward to making Sahur and Iftar (whenever he could) with Ummu Sulaym and Nusrah. They were actually teaching him how to prepare
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Chapter 12: The Value of Empathy After ‘Asr Naasir waited at their neighbourhood mosque for Muneer. He took the opportunity to continue practising his recitation until Muneer arrived. Most of the letters were easy to pronounce, however, he still found a few — ع , ح ,ض— a bit challenging and if there ever was
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Interlude II: Of memories best forgotten… One year ago. Bushrah hurried down the path away from the school library, books clutched tightly to her chest. She had just finished a study session with two of her classmates and it was almost closing time. As she passed by the new science lab that was not yet
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Chapter 11: A Fateful Encounter At Mr Phillips’ office, Naasir apologised for missing the first class and promised to be consistent, going forward. “Did you come up with a basic curriculum to guide you?” Mr Philips asked. Naasir shook his head. “No sir, I did not.” “It’s no matter. You’ll share Bushrah’s.” “That reminds me,
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Chapter 10: Ripples of Discontent Naasir was running late for his appointment at Lend A Hand. He was late because he had overslept. And he overslept because when he reached home after Subh, thoughts of everything he had done wrong to so many people kept haunting him. It was as if a covering had been
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