A letter from Jan 16th, 2022

Time Travelled — 12 months

Peaceful right?

Kiran I just wrote a letter to you but I made it too vague. This time I thought I'd just screw it and add names, make it public. Makes it that much more exciting since people love drama, right? LOL. I know you don't like to read the sad and depressing stuff you write to get off your chest so I'm not going to go into that but I'll ask this: How is Jenny? How is your relationship with her? You got closer after she moved and you started talking a little about the sad stuff going on in your lives LOL. Do you have any concrete or semi-concrete plans to visit her in Australia? Or for her to visit you in England? Florentina? Jan? Nadeera? Have you met them in England? Do you plan on doing so? Has Jan moved to Bulgaria yet haha? Arub!! Are you roommates? Do you have plans to be roommates? Is she even still in Tbilisi? Did she transfer to another uni in Tbilisi or did she maybe transfer to a uni in Doha? Or did she just stay at TMA? Are you still in GD? - PLEASE TELL ME YOU ARE STILL IN GD. You've been staying with Arub in the city and we love her cute apartment and Arub herself but you are also having GD withdrawal symptoms. I realised that I really really do not want to leave GD. Like, I knew it before but **** does this confirm it. And the questions you're waiting for. Or maybe dreading? How is Narna? How is Aniza? How are 2 of the closest people in your life, the 2 people you somehow managed to ruin your friendships with, despite them giving you countless chances to try again? How is your friendship with Narna? Your brother-not-brother? The one you somehow managed to drain mentally? Are we better? I really really hope we are. We have a flight in 10 days together and we just had The Talk 2 days ago that basically ended with us taking a step back. These past fateful 10 days. Man, you cried. A lot. You had a panic attack. And a half. You were in a constant state of anxiety because you couldn't just TRY to talk. You left it too late. How is Aniza? Nizzy bestie? Are you still besties? I hope you are. She's like your little sister. She quite literally annoyed her way into your life and you both hated it and loved it. You fight like ca and dog and then eventually just go back to normal. But in your self-destructive ways, you kept hitting her by blocking her out too. And taking advantage of her ever-forgiving nature. Something you appreciated more than you expected, and something you ended up abusing. Is the chaotic trio still alive? You, Narna, Aniza? By this point, Noor will be there, right? And Sundas! Aniza's roommate is supposed to arrive next week and...I don't know if we'll meet her anymore. You, Aniza and Narna had the most chaotic sibling relationship ever. You'd laugh about it to people because you'd describe it as living like homeless people - living meal by meal. We'd go all day without food and then someone on the groupchat would say sooooooooooooooo who's cooking? And then you'd end up eating Aniza's food at questionable hours because it just always ended that way. You'd bicker and argue and fight like siblings. You could speak about pretty much anything. You'd opened up to them so much that I don't know if THEY realised how open you were being for YOU. You trusted them and confided in them. You were all one unit. Did you manage to mend this? I really hope you did. Especially before anyone entered the picture. I miss them so much. But I know that only in time we will know. Time and effort. Especially on my part. I hope that during the break I can keep talking to them. I hope that I can work on myself. I don't know how I'm supposed to prove myself when we're not together in the UK, but I've got to try. In shaa Allah it all works out, K. It made us think more spiritually too. We always KNEW but it's different when you're actually applying it to yourself. I love religion. I love the reminders that everything happens for a reason. That at the end of the day you're on your own path. Focus on yourself. If you really wish for something, PRAY FOR IT. Turn to Allah. He is the All-Mighty. So I pray for my friendships. I pray for myself. I hope you're mentally in a MUCH better place, K. You've been through stuff you didn't realise you DON'T want to be going through. You're not AS anxious as before, you're calmER, but it's still there. You have an exam tomorrow and you couldn't study. You just couldn't. You slept so much. I hope you passed BS3 and LS2 (which you're taking for the THIRD TIME!!!!!). I hope you sorted your apartment out and that you're in GD. I hope that you got to go home on the 26th. I hope that you found your passport in time. I hope that you can speak to your dad better. I hope that he was as understanding as you think he might be and that he'll let you come home and sort your apartment out later. Please update me. See you next year in shaa Allah. And in 6 months bc I clearly can't wait that long. K

Epilogue

1 day later

Kiran!

It took me a hot second to realise that it's been a year - a year!!! - since I had sent that letter. Another year, a different tragedy but...

Lwil we neo hte sa hitfa nto ernyal uor alst tticaarum ofr alalh sa ullf ni eno dna upt. U'aad dna siestr fa,thi.
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Ehugon apudet taht! koy,a outab se'tl.
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Itcagr onwd acbk oyeru' veol on rofm wiirgtn letnar i enigslef rou ohw hhaa npeereexci ruivepos dare ihtgr to arelt ont are ahtt ew ufn.
Ynnje arzcy si w,kon eftl i ,ho unv odog! neynj of - osrec!u. And nceo ehmo ioenicds lla dlot her ehs seadinfli us ewer ckab we. Iyntrg ym swa ot vglniae tcaf rwpa nriolagi thta asw adnruo duydb siogtnemh ym ahde it the eels iorageg. Rtgniy diauecnto ubt naesosr ot otu ess'h at stlli meho reh osplaren esh adh otsr. Ifle she nlggiow asw ehr dna dan vitihgrn sehs' anht os aeripph a go!a umch igvlni ssi yera si. Gania onos we i nac og!hneu etem opeh.
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Umch tsipaonriehl ruo omer letindyfie utb as nei!f dna ktla leef-ducspernee ndt'o aws era j we i. Do the ya,nayw i lyrtu gilr.
Afr oot tmen!om ayd toencrec noe eyfulohpl pasln het ton at teh on ni eturuf and. J lnangde omeistnn niviigst meeosistm. In lla !ohtuhg ogod emti.
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In ,rzayc dna jas'n ghitr seda'raen telf erlt'fsonian xen!t aguirb,al. Aomso!mert csine ogegair rsnisaus 'riknesua eskoedykrct- tion i dan mace wthi kttaca ubra pesirc epdse aer nda. Neoc npmttaaer mnraie adn si aslhl utb neahdepp! uorlwedfn ai oasotemrm we htat mero ew oudnf ngoheu giaznam 'essh nfnylui it a ircep agtsrnfnrrie. Ni sltil ear dg ew. Umldihlahala omg. Rnroahoy ehr neo 2 mrsmeooa!t tebs it nylo tgo awtidsonrs we soal eevr aehv ot vaeh anri eestrems rothe eht nda undilbig adn tngih aakt ubt ihst is swa opitpseo the - sebt esbt ew in -. Sdpen ew iomsev cnlae nad nad tacwh nda nad eensving veninge ookc ssltlro tgtree,oh ahbllaasahun aetk tegetrho ngtish ew. Hitw your kiel vngili fnrised tbes sit'. Rytul lh,aahlaasnbu gift si ti a.
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Akn ,erwe tuo anzai g,nag adn sa ldeifzz we - anarn. Sesne ,etroccr wasy galmyclraimta, htkin ahtt 'ndot all ubt aeskm i the it ni teamtr is tique hatt. It. . . Tsrats e'wve isd?ledosv esne send it tbu hewre tpteyr atsht' uhmc ohtre dna ehca baotu. Ustj ew nid'dt - tub ew dpeehnpa htat ywa znaia eahpnp erwe ghthtuo wodul wthi fediefnrt or ot giogn - hnoting utb tacs 2 osed ekli !wsya i arnan it and in aniaz ackb akem uro os. Hwat it ubt ti si is.
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Laso? mhcu ew're so etbter hlamuaildalh. Iselcyeapl pu ew of erignkba - tyrlu teh belsdse htat dfripisenh eentir thiw tteeds eth nad eerw rgpou. Ew of roaenth hgtni ihst, lsreidae tulfa - it utb ruoy on tnsaw' otp. Ta wy,llho tales nto. Enasssd twha adn so for lmabe mcuh adn gril. Pheipra aywyan, e'rew lhtiheera alaid!luhalmh and.
Turyl is evenr chertraac seh eht emt ndssua we itsdoouermmnrtf-yieseo-reevn llo! evenr ,bwt was ew.
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,3bs ir,gl idd !!ti 2sl yuo. Ti oyu idd. Idd ouy ti. Ew did sb4 l3s houtgrh adn laso cpsrade. ,llwe hpoe nimsrea ruo ,sl4 btu ont 'slhlaa heveow?r go lilw wlle exam idd ym ni. .
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Meti ddi had vneer a ti oru a veen fdin at idd ti iemt in 'wed ta i uro mheo eo,mh chmu but tlos! kpet kaem ustj dburaopc it( good ew ogdo aws oe!mh yoln asw that dan orf in paosstpr add we )enpeef,asigk tryept. Gngsitlurg llsit theer. Laalh aahs tmie ni whti.
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Rfo iss tthas' lla own.
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A ahsa in in allah! ese eary uyo.
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K.

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