Chapter Six

In the year to come things gradually managed to settle, Sarah got a graduate assistantship and was teaching at the university with a tuition remission, thus was supporting herself through school, and upon graduating began to teach at various institutions throughout the country. She became the sole bread winner for the family, and prided herself in being so resourceful. Nour got a job as a teacher also, in a high school nearby, the pay was weak and feeble but it was enough to sustain herself without relying on her sisters mercy. Nai did what she could only manage to do, she cleaned houses of elderly ladies who would pay a little more for someone kind enough to not ignore them.
They were living off of half of what they were living off of with their father, but it was miraculous, poverty had granted them peace and happiness. Nai removed the Hijab that she wore, the girls began to make friends and bring them home to meet their mother, both boys and girls. Their plight in effect restored their freedoms and this was a gratitude that all of them did not take for granted.
Nour's faith had been proven accurate, and her sister and mother were utterly grateful to her for all her struggles, but Nour as a result of her industrialization became a little colder, a little less dreamy, and a little rougher around the edges as a result of these hardships; her mother feared that her daughter would never be the same.

But this was the least of their worries, for on that night who should come knocking at their door other than…