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Morning at Galaxy Apartments

Huma knocking on the door "Sanem get up girl its 6 don't you have school see even yigit is ready before you come on I won't come again to wake you."
"Mom I'm up I'll come in 5 mins." Sanem shouted while dressing herself and packing her bag in hurry.
"Mom see hmm I'm ready and I'm leaving please don't ask to do breakfast cause I'm already very late I'll have it at school don't worry."Sanem said
"Di see today I'm ready before ." Yigit teased Sanem.
Sanem was angry and said
"shut up you are younger than me act like that I'm late for school other wise I would..."
"ok stop now I can't these everyday fights of you two come go now even I need to go to work."Huma scolded them.

"Mom well I'm going to work on an assignment with Leyla after school so I will come home till 2 for few days" Sanem lied to her mother as she was going to meet Can and not for assignment. She didn't feel good at first but even knew that her mother would never allow her to meet Can if she had told her the truth as earlier also her mother never allowed her to be friends with anyone other than Leyla.
"ok but make sure are home by 2."-Huma

"mom your leg hasn't even recovered fully how can you go cancel your morning work I'll go on your evening shifts you should rest." Sanem said.

" Sanem I can't cancel my work dear they won't give me my salary and don't even talk about going in my place , how many times have I told you, you both will never do the job that I do you both will study hard and get a good respectful job ." Huma told Sanem.
"Mom I can't see you like this can't these rich do their own work for few days ." Sanem said in disappointment.

"Sanem come on girl go to school don't get yourself involved in these things and ahhh don't behave rudely with Leyla don't get your anger out on her , its not her mistake that she was born to them and forget what not Ms Kaya has done for us , we are here thanks to them you both are good friends nothing can change this ok." Huma said .

"mom don't be that much thankful to them they make you work like hell and what are you talking about they giving us shelter and blah blah they could have given us one of the small apartments if they really valued us but instead they gave us this basement because they consider us only as servants."- sanem

" Sanem be always thankful for what you have dear what they gave us no one else agreed to so be thankful girl remember what we not we have suffered before having this , they saved us form that miserable life , I know that Leyla and you are very good friends never let anything ruin this."

Sanem agreed to her mother somehow but wasn't happy and left the house by making weird face.
"Good morning Sanem. "Leyla greeted Sanem.
"good morning "Sanem said in a low tone .
" what happened everything ok you look low." Leyla asked.
"Nothing I slept late after studying thats why I must be tried. " Sanem replied.
"ok miss studious but cheer up we have games period today we did a lot of energy. " Leyla said.
"ok ok"- Sanem
Sanem was actually not happy because of mother's condition but later she reminded herself what her mother told her and decided that her friendship will not be affected in any way and went cheerfully with Leyla to school.

At 12.30pm
Sanem and Leyla both got down at bus stop after their school.
" Leyla I won't be able to come with you to home I will go to one of my mother's work houses from today you know her leg hasn't fully required so I will help her from today so you go yourself ok."-sanem
"ok I'll go ,easy work to you bye bye"-Leyla
"ok bye bye see you"-Sanem
After Leyla went Sanem went to the cricket ground where she yesterday met Can .
when Sanem reached the ground she saw that Can was already sitting on the bench.
She went and plucked a thorny stem from nearby bush and went from behind and pricked him with it.

As soon as she did it Can screamed "ouchhh" and turned around to see who it was and saw Sanem laughing at him.
He rubbed his skin and said " on our second meeting only you did this you will have to pay for this wait I will take a nice revenge you will then scream and I will laugh. "
Sanem still couldn't stop herself from laughing and continued for like next couple of minutes.
"ok fine you continue laughing I'll go we will meet tomorrow ok bye."saying this Can started to leave just then Sanem held his hand , trying to control her laugh and said " sorry sorry sit down I won't laugh well I was just trying to prove that I am not always serious and short tempered person and even you are not always the cool type person ."
Then they both sat down.
"ok I got that you are not 'why so serious type' person but this won't change the fact I will take a revenge on you and see I'm warning you before hand only so always beware when I am near by"-Can
Sanem smiled and said "ok ok so this is a challenge, I accept it lets who wins."
"Good lets see who wins, well wait what is scar on your forehead. "-Can.

Sanem as she points towardsthe scar on her forehead "oh this one , well there is a interesting story behind it."
"well then I am interested tell"-Can
"I was 14, one day I was quietly sketching in my room just then my younger brother came inside and all of a sudden shouted " you ate my chocolate I know I kept it so that I could eat it with my friend, you always do this" and then snatched the pencil from my hand hit my forehead and the moment I started bleeding he began to cry even before I could feel the pain and cry and till date I don't know what for I cried that day because I was hurt or I saw my brother crying. "-Sanem

Can laughed and said " oh my god I should feel sorry for you but actually I don't instead I feel it is funny. you know even I have a younger brother and he also always keeps complaining about me to our mother whenever I tease him or steal something of him . And in reality I don't enjoy the teasing part as much I enjoy his after reaction and his running to mom for complaining ."

"yes yes ofcourse that part is the most entertaining thing ,I also really enjoy when my crys mom Di did this mom Di did that and even my mom knows that I do such things on purpose. "-Sanem

"I think all younger siblings are like this
annoying yet entertaining you want them but still you don't want them ."-Can
"yes exactly , I think we should go its already been an hour I really enjoy talking with you just about us no one else no outsiders no problems and life troubles its like a detox we should do this everyday ."-Sanem
"yes we can and on sundays we should play midnight cricket. Now I also think we should go."-Can
"yes we can play lets go ."Sanem says and they both leave . while they were going Sanem turns and shouts "Next when we play I'll bat first. " and then runs. Can from behind hears it and smiles.
They both then continue meeting for the rest of the week at cricket ground and continued talking with each other.
Sanem at the same time felt guilty for lying to her mother and decided that she would tell her mother gradually and convince her.