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Along the dispute of an election of the president in Smallville High School, candidate Paul Chan is severely injured by a swarm of bees. Pete decides to promote Clark. Books like Maze Runner have infiltrated the young adult fiction genre since the pentalogys debut in 2009. Awardwinning author James Dashner crafted a post. GMT, 5 August 2. 01. Melissa Powner on a school trip with her good friend and schoolmate Shafilea Ahmed. Melissa Powner and her circle of schoolfriends initially didnt take Shafilea Ahmed too seriously when she told them how scared she was of her parents, Iftikhar and Farzana. She said to me that they would kill her one day, recalls Melissa, 2. Chester Crown Court on  Friday as both parents were jailed for 2. English born Pakistani girl squeezed between two cultures. Recalling Shafileas dire warnings about her parents, Melissa reflects My response to that was naturally to say, No they wont, theyre your parents. But she would insist, No, honestly, they would kill me. I thought she was exaggerating. I couldnt imagine any  parents doing anything like that, but. I was wrong. There are parents who do these things for reasons. However, Melissa, as Shafileas closest confidante, soon realised the severity of her friends plight. The so called honour killing that has shocked Britain was preceded by months of physical and verbal abuse. In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Melissa reveals l Shafileas mother tried to strangle her, then kept her off college for more than a week until the bruises and scratches faded. How she helped plan Shafileas ill fated ten day escape from the clutches of her parents and joined her on the run. Her fears for Shafileas safety led her to raise the alarm only days after her parents had secretly murdered her. Living in Great Sankey, one of many. Warrington, a commuter town for both Manchester. Liverpool, Melissas world could not be further from the rural. Pakistani village both Shafileas  parents came from and where they. Honour killing Iftikhar Ahmed, 5. Farzana, 4. 9, of Warrington, Cheshire, suffocated their 1. Shafilea with a plastic bag because she refused an arranged marriage. Inside the courtroom Iftikhar Ahmed stood impassively as the verdicts were given while his spouse wiped tears from her eyes with a tissue. The three month murder trial heard how. Melissa and other friends, along with Shafileas teachers, tried to. Unravelling While being interviewed about the robbery, Alesha Ahmed revealed to detectives she had witnessed the murder of her sister Shafilea picturedMelissa, now a secondary school. English teacher, recalls a bubbly, optimistic girl whose only wish was. The pair became friends at Great. Sankey High School in Year 1. German class for talking. Shafilea was a girly girl who wore. She had a really optimistic outlook and. Melissa. The following year, in sixth form. Melissa grew closer to  Shafilea. Over cups of tea in the. Liverpool Road, Warrington, where Shafilea shared a bedroom with her. Wed be having a moan about our. Mine want to marry me off and send me to. Pakistan, as if it was a flippant threat. I would say, No, they cant. If you dont want to marry someone, you just dont marry them. And shed say, No, no, seriously, thats what will happen I wont have a choice. She told me on a few occasions how. We tried not to talk about it too much. Melissa describes Shafilea as a. A level. subjects of Sociology, History,  English Literature and Business. Studies. She says the sixth form was like a family, and both girls had. But her parents interpreted any acquaintance with a boy as sexual. Shafilea told her how her parents. I cant wait till you go to. Pakistan thatll teach you a lesson. Melissa, who was a key prosecution. Shafileas. mistreatment At one point, her parents found numbers of boys on her. They kept her off college for a week after that, probably to let the bruises go down. Melissa Powner, back row second left, with Year 1. Shafilea Ahmed, centreOnce, she told me shed been dragged. She wasnt sure why. Shafilea had such spirit. She told me once. She told her mother it didnt hurt, so she hit. Victim Shafilea as a child with her mother at the familys UK homeShafilea made sure the glass of milk. It was her way of showing that. Her parents even forced her to reveal. PIN of the Barclays Bank account where she put her savings from a. Melissa, who was with her when she. The bank assistant told her someone. She always. tried to make light out of a bad situation and I remember her making a. Shafilea tried several times to leave. Alesha, then. aged nine, went missing from primary school for a short time. In February 2. 00. Shafilea made her most. Melissa. Shafileas father had already booked. Pakistan and, with the possibility of a forced marriage. Melissa says For a while beforehand shed been bringing clothes into school in carrier bags and keeping them in her locker. None of us had a car, but a friend we knew as Mushy who was a bit older had one, so we brought him into it. In the early hours of February 1. Mushy real name Mushtaq Bagas, described in court as a boyfriend of. Shafileas was directed to Shafileas home in a mobile phone. Melissa. At an arranged time, Shafilea climbed out of a. Friday. night taxi shift, was in the habit of locking the family in the house. After two nights in Blackburn, at the. Bagass brother, Shafilea was brought back to Warrington amid. The siblings Mevish, left, and Junyad, right. Led away Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed were two. She stayed at Melissas house for a. Shafilea got a taste of how lonely life on the run from her parents. She was hopelessly split between her. As Melissa puts it Theres a big. If she had left, she would have done. When her mother was calling her on the mobile, trying to persuade her to go back, Shaf would say,  Mel, what do I do  She missed her younger sister who. Shes just. like me, she reminds me of me and I worry about just leaving her. Melissa is at pains to point out  that. Shafilea, and at various times, social services. Police and school authorities have faced criticism. Crucial evidence The arrest of Alesha Ahmed ultimately led to the conviction of her parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed picturedBut the ten days of freedom came to a dramatic end when Shafileas father abducted her on the way to college one morning. Shed been staying in a hotel that. Melissa. Suddenly she said, Oh my God, Mel, theres my dad. We both froze and he pulled over in his car. I said to her, Run, run now But. I kept urging her to get. He pulled up beside. Dont let him get me, dont    He took her by the arm and I said. Leave her, she doesnt want to go with you. He was icily calm not. Hysterical and in shock, Melissa ran. But when officers arrived at her home, Shafileas parents had already. Pakistan and no marriage. It was all a lie. Shafilea was returned to school by her. Scouring for clues Forensic officers comb the riverbank next to the River Kent in in Sedgwick, near Kendal, Cumbria, where where Shafileas body was found. Grim discovery Shafilea disappeared in September 2. River Kent in Cumbria the following FebruaryWhen the police and her father left. Shaf included, says Melissa. She was trying. to tell us it was OK and she wouldnt have to go to Pakistan, and I. She said her mum was begging at her. But none of us believed it we knew. I. had a strange feeling about it, that this was the end of her freedom. Porky Pig That`S All Folks Mp3. Shed made the decision to go home. We knew it was game over. But none of us realised how quickly things would move after that. The last time Melissa saw her friend.