One afternoon, I went to Aafiya's house to get something.
That's when I saw Rayyan sitting on the floor, carefully building a pyramid using playing cards.
His uncle worked at Airtel, and he had brought many decks of cards.
Rayyan was building a delicate card house, placing each card slowly and perfectly.
For some reason, I became curious.
I walked closer and asked,
"Can I join? Will you teach me?"
He looked at me for a moment and said,
"Only on one condition… you won't get angry."
I crossed my fingers and said,
"Pinky promise."
And that was the moment everything slowly began to change.
He started teaching me how to balance the cards.
One by one.
Carefully.
And somewhere between those fragile card pyramids…
our friendship quietly started growing.
But Rayyan was still the same mischievous boy.
He loved teasing me.
And most of the time…
I didn't even realize that he was slowly becoming someone important in my life.