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....Bella returned from the college to find  fakhra sleeping  , she got a light jolt of surprise,  it had never happened before that fakhra slept  before her  reaching home from the college,   Bella put aside her wrap and bag and neared  the sleeping woman and called  her amma  but deliriously  dakhra began  mumbling,   ,  worried she held fakhra by her arm and asked her what was the matter,  ,  realizing  amma was in the grip of  high fever   she looked around  and quickly picked up amma  s mobile  , she thought of calling  hamza but unfortunately  the battery was low ,  throwing it  back on the bed cursing she  began calling amma,  pleading  her to get up,  in the  morning she was fine,  but   amma s   delirious  chatter   was  not understood    not a word of it,   she looked  for the charger, , her troubled mind could not sort things out and she  couldn't see the charger, , suddenly  remembering  Rebecca she  ran to her room,  Rebecca was half  reclining   in her bed   busy with her cell phone,   she  was breathless  as she began  to instruct her  to call help quickly  for amma seemed unconscious