The Night Before Goodbye

When Mahnoor woke in the morning, there was a new kind of silence in the house. Abbu had come home safe and well, and Ammi now knew the secret. Mahnoor opened her notebook. Last night's final line was still there: The wire broke, but Abbu was saved. She thanked God in her heart and thought that today might be better than the days before. Yet in one corner of her heart there was also fear. Miss Shireen had said there…