On August 15, 2021, I had to go to university like any other day. News was reaching us that province after province was falling into the hands of the Taliban, and fear was slowly taking hold of me. But I still couldn't believe that Kabul would fall. We thought that if the Taliban entered Kabul, it would be through an agreement with the central government and not through war or force. In our WhatsApp group, my classmates and I had agreed to go to class the next day.