Many teens dissatisfied at home, run away thinking they will enjoy greater freedom perhaps by living with a new boyfriend, only to find out that they have ''jumped from the frying pan and into the fire.''"Our family circumstances are completely changed. The door is open.”
What was it like before? strict? she had to keep up western traditions? did Asifa go against them prompting shame to the family?
“When she left she wrote on the wall ‘Dear parents, don’t worry about me I’m 17 now’. But at the bottom she said ‘Mum I will never forgive you’,” Khadijeh said.
This is interesting, there is a direct message to start with, parents, so both mum and dad. But then, she directs the last part of her message to her mum. "I will never forgive you"?
Did her dad take matters into his own hands that the mum is completely anywhere of, or vice versa?
Could the phone call just be an act?
Somehow i cannot help but think this is something that may have happened to Asifa and that after a month or so, she realized this and tried to call her family but was stopped.
Maybe she has since been too scared and/or controlled, to get the chance to contact her family again.
Wondering if she ended up living in the Middle East or languishing in a refuge camp or even holed up with a large family in a European or UK disadvantaged community somewhere?
For that matter, maybe some rich old man scooped up the teen and has since kept her beholden to him and quiet?
Complete speculation, imo. fwiw.