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....today mamuna was giving them  cooking lessons  on making new dishes  chicken jalfarezi and  labbshirin,  kaghan  mehek and annual were  in one  group,  diya, seena baji and  Nadya were together in another,  miss mamuna gave them  basic instructions and sent them all to  the hall  where they were to wait for her to join them 

Mamuna had asked to start with the sweet dish so  it can be ready and cooled in the fridge  , , mehek washed the chicken,  kaghan was given the task of peeling and chopping the fruit in the tray  she held,  making tiny cubes if the apple she glanced more than once  towards the table where  sawar was  to work,  but why were these boys so awkwardly  careless,  they all had  started to enter  the hall  together  yet  he was  still  not  around,  for sure he must be  held back by other boys in the lawn  , o God, why was she bothered,  she bent her head  towards the fruit basket,  her disturbed  glances flew frequently to the door, , helplessly she turned her gaze  again  but the boys were still not  coming,   meanwhile  anam picked up a box from her table to carry it back to hers, Maryam declared they had no salt at their table,  anam took the salt to her, , she reached her table  and  in walked  sawar, diler, amran  all smiles, kaghan  quickly bent to finish her task,  grating almonds and pistachios  after the freshly cut fruit,  mehek and annual boiled the milk  and  on the second stove  chicken jalfarezi  commenced, , step by step instructions were carefully followed,  the cooking was once  in a while was checked and stirred 

The boys observed the girls were seriously  and steadily  busy and  quickly  began  mixing their   materials  spices and  became  actively focused