Hals letter.

Dear Hal,

I want to let you know that where I am from and what my family has been through that family means everything to me; we stick together through thick and thin kind of like a tradition. The thought of letting my father go back to that horrible place which could get him in serious trouble just hurts me, I can’t leave him, I am scared and I am sorry….

By the time you read this I will be on the bus with my father on my way to the airport ready to be flown back to Pakistan.  You have done more than enough for me, you’ve felt like I belong here and I am just like everyone else, you made me feel more comfortable around others and I wasn’t afraid of being myself. My father, well let’s just say he didn’t want this at all to happen, he felt like your family was very welcome and that not everyone in the world is horrible.

Brackley is such a great town, I really enjoyed my time living there and meeting your friends and new people. People are so different to me, I see them differently but there your friends so I don’t care how rude or mean they are. There different, different is okay?

Hal, I am sorry I left, I wish this wasn’t the way it had to end, I sometimes wish I never had met you just so that I wouldn’t have made you hurt inside or even feel hurt myself.

I can’t sleep at night because I am scared, scared to sleep, scared to live, what if the same happens to my father like what happened to my mother.  I am scared Hal…..

I hope to see you again Hal, sometime soon, not one minute goes past where I don’t think of you, I miss you and need you. Once again I am sorry if I have caused problems within your family or friends….

Goodbye Rhanda