The theatre was full with people trooping out while some were going in for their lecture. Mimi had just successfully meandered out and casted her eyes around. She took some steps and checked behind the building but couldn't spot her chauffeur.

She dialed his number but it wasn't going through. When she was tired of trying to reach him, she found a spot under the shade of a tree and sat. How could he do that to her? Didn't he know she was extremely tired today? Well, he's going to pay for leaving her wait for him for this long.

It seemed like a joke to her when she sat for more than twenty minutes but he wasn't here yet. She dared not to call her mother because they just had another rift on top of the other.

Her mother had heard her telling her father that what she did at the orphanage was just a show. Although the boy reminded her of someone special, the tears were all a facade to draw the media's attention and nothing more, and also, to make her mother withdraw the punishment.

Hajiya Maryam had revealed herself from behind the curtain and made it clear to Mimi that her tactics to make her change her mind would never work until she's sure Mimi was not pretending.

"Nothing will make me change my mind! If you're going to change for the sake of Allah, you better do that perhaps I will have an overview on your case." Hajiya Maryam had snapped at her and left her. And, since then, they didn't talk again.

Mimi glanced at her wristwatch for the second time in a minute and hissed. Her phone vibrated beneath her purse. She gently uplift her books and brought out the phone.

It was Maama.

She cleared her voice and picked the call. "Where are you? Or have you run away from home and forget to change your simcard?" Hajiya Maryam yelled in a voice that made Mimi's liver quivered.

"I.. Umm... The chauf.."

"Cut it there. Take the public transport and come home right now." Hajiya Maryam regretted every action of hers towards her daughter. No matter how unsafe taking the public transport was at that time, she couldn't help but make Mimi have a taste of it.

"Maa-" Mimi realised that Maama had cut the call. She stood on her feet and began to trek to the bus stop where she had seen others normally go.

Once she reached the place, she saw almost forty students standing. She decided to ask someone how things were done. Mimi looked at the faces of the girls but none of them looked like she could ask them a questions. Others were secretly pointing at her and she got the reason why.

The video. Almost everyone must have seen her on the news. Well, at least people will think of good about her.

"Has it been always like this?" She asked a guy whom seemed to be so engrossed in his book. Mimi turned her face away as if she wasn't the one that asked the question.

"It is. Far more than this." He answered without lifting his head. Mimi looked at him and saw that he looked familiar. Right on cue, he lifted his head. It was Ameen.

She never liked him but at least seeing him here gave her some relief. Without asking for his permission, she sat beside him on one of the SUG chairs.

"Who gave you the permission to sit?" He glared at her. Mimi ignored him.

"I am in no mood to fight today." She told him fanning her face.

"Seems like daddy's girl has been abandoned today."

"The same way a pompous guy's abandoned too." She mimicked him.

"I have been using the public transport to come to school." He shrugged. Mimi sharply looked at him.

"You didn't just said that."

"I did. Pappy's new rule anyway. I did my degree at the States." He flipped a page.

"Why are you telling me?" She pursed her lips.

"Turned out Pappy find my characters unappealing to him after I was back so he sent me here for my masters. Imagine." He ignored her question and continued talking. He did it all on purpose so that she won't think he was a degree chaser like her.

"Hmm." She turned her head away. Just then, a yellow bus came to a halt and to Mimi's surprise, people began to fight their way in. Ameen also got up and made his way to the bus. He dragged someone back and made his way in.

Mimi was dumbstruck.

Was that how it takes for one to catch the bus? It had to involve fisticuffs and so on. No, she was no gambler and so she can't fight her way in.

When she was tired and no other bus came, she decided to check on Leek. There too, Leek's contact was unreachable. Mimi concluded that luck was not on her side.

Mimi didn't reached home until after Maghreb.

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Short and filler chapter I know😌
Vote nonetheless.
One chapter to go to get our guy back!