Eliza Haque is just another ordinary girl. She has a loving family, and even more loving friends. Recently having just graduated out of Imperial with her Criminal Psychology degree, she finds herself unemployed. What could be more frustrating than n...
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I get into the lecture hall early for once. Not being grounded means that I get to go back to spying - even with all my questions unanswered. It was a relief to finally be out of the house; and in some ways away from baba. This morning I had left before either of them had even gotten up - they would just pressure me into making a decision there and then.
Getting my notes out, I quickly review the past few lectures I had attended. How I managed to get into this course is beyond me. I can't do maths, I will never be able to understand it. The only thing I've got from one of these talks is that mathematicians actually use radians more than our basic knowledge of decimals.
Technically we've all been living a lie.
The hall starts to fill in, as time slowly passes. I look out for George skimming past all the unfamiliar faces. I was sat in one of the seats towards the back; the ones that barely ever get filled up.
After a few more minutes, I see George coming in, chatting with two other girls. Wow, a lot must have happened in the past few days that I've missed. He sees me and waves, before making his way through the crowds of student to reach me.
"Hey!" He says, "how are you?"
"I'm well, you?" I reply. The two girls also follow him, and they all sit in front of me.
"You liar," he says, I suddenly become alert. "You haven't been here for over a week. And don't forget that fainting episode you had at mine."
"Well, I'm here now," I smile. "I was ill, but I feel a lot better now."
"You never replied to my passes or picked up my call."
"As I said, I was ill. But we're speaking now."
"Sabah take good care of yourself."
"Thanks, I will! Anyways, what have I missed out on mister! Who are these two girls?"
He points towards the girl sat on his left, she had dark brown curly hair with bright red lipstick on. Her skin was porcelain. "This is Luciana. Luciana, this is Sabah." I smile and greet her. "And this is Tazia." He says pointing at the girl to his right. She had bleach blonde hair with tanned skin. The complete opposite to Luciana.
"It's so nice to meet you two,"
Silence overtakes the room as the lecturer walks to the front. He puts his bag down and turns around to greet the class, as he does I realise I recognise his face.
"George, when did we get a new lecturer?" I whisper to him.
"Oh Mr Khan? He's been here for about two weeks now." Two weeks? I must have not been paying much attention at all.
"Aleem Khan?"
"Yup." He says, now shushing me. Obviously being the maths geek that he is, he's more interested in the actual content than helping me figure out why a Business man like Aleem would be lecturing in a subject like maths.
