In her faint indicative house, Hana ponders: "I wish I never met him." Then she recalls how charming and gentle he was those days. If she had a chance to repeat her life, she thinks, she most likely will change many things; but she knows that wishing would not alter her life and fantasizing is only an escape. She is aware that she lives in a real world with sweet and cruel people; only the one person that she wants to be sweet is cruel. She is exhausted of solving daily problems. The other day she had a call from Farhad's school. He has missed many days of school for the last three weeks. The thought of her son's behavior reminds her of the days her brother, Van, missed school. That vision frightens her so much that for a while she can not breathe.
The next day in a meeting with school principal, Hana realizes that Farhad has missed ten days of school in three weeks. He has forged her signature on all the excuse notes; therefore he has been allowed to attend classes. Hana, shocked, looks at those notes. Her son had done a good job coping her signature. Should she know the consequences, she would not be so honest to tell the principal that she has not written those notes. Farhad finally says what he has done in those ten days after an hour of arguing, yelling, and Hana's weeping.
"I was going to White Rock Lack with some other boys. There, we rented boat for water skiing."
So it has been more than one that missed school; in fact five of them. It takes Hana three days of missing work to solve this problem. The action costs Farhad two credits. Hamid never finds out about it; since he does not care to know his son's problem at school.
Tehran-
To Be Continued
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