She had graduated over a year ago. I had not really given any consideration to returning to school. I guess we kind of got use to having two incomes. ...hat was over now. I finally had a belly full of the snobs at the club and tendered my resignation by telling one of the arrogant jerks off. I was going back to school.It was these thoughts that were circulating in my mind when entered the house. I had expected my wife to be supportive and sympathetic. I was wrong. When she heard what I had done. There was so much to be done. ‘Such an important child at the hands of a prostitute,’ he moped. He removed two heavy suitcases from the closet. Samira came from the bathroom, wiping her face with a hand towel.Stumbling over one of the suitcases, she threw the damp towel to the floor. She threw the kurtas and skull caps into the suitcases. It was time Tariq return to the rest of the world.He strung up the blinds. The sun blared through the room. Samira kept packing, rhythmically moving from. ”I scowled at her some more but she kept on smiling at me. In the end, I couldn’t help smiling too. I got annoyed with myself because she’d made me smile when I was trying to be cross, but in the end I had to give up.“I suppose it’s a tiny bit funny,” I admitted.“That’s right. All we need to do now is get you sounding like an American and your transformation will be complete,” said Liz.I snorted at her. “What tha harpin’ on aboot? Ah alretty spayk layk ‘Murikans.” I exaggerated my Lancashire. Renniks”. A call from the Principal first thing in the morning was quite unusual.“Morning Les,” he greeted; “we’ve got a student from out of state and we haven’t been able to get his medical records released.”“So you want me to make some calls to—““No... no it’s in the works it’s just taking longer than we thought. The thing is the boy’s mother is getting upset because I can’t enroll him without them,” Dave Renniks explained.“I called Sheila over at the board office and she said if we got an up.