(Mrs. Williams is now home and is welcome very well by Alero)
Alero: Welcome, mummy.
Mum: Alero, dear. How are you?
Alero: I am very fine, mum and you?
Mum: Never better.
Alero: So mum, how is my sister doing?
Mum: Ah! Alero which sister do you have?
Alero: The one inside your belly.
Mum: Oh! That one.
Alero: Yes, that one.
Dad: Wait a minute! Who told you that it is a girl?
Alero: So Daddy, what are you expecting?
Dad: A boy, of course.
Mum: In nothing less than six months, we'll know if it is a boy or a girl.
Dad: I hope so. Alero have you eaten?
Alero: Not yet, daddy. The driver just brought me from the therapist's office.
Dad: Okay.
Mum: So, Alero you haven't eaten?
Alero: Aunty Rebecca will soon prepare my food.
Mum: No, let me do it.
Dad: No, you don't have to do that. All you have to do is to relax, you need very little work.
Alero: So mummy, how old is your pregnancy?
Mum: Almost three months.
Alero: That's good. Let me go and prepare your water to bath and then lay your bed. By the time you have finished bathing, Aunty Rebecca would have finished with the food, let me go an help her to quicken the process.
Mum: Thank you.
Alero: No problem. After all, it's my duty to make my parents as comfortable as they make me to be.
(Light out)
YOU ARE READING
THE DIARY OF ALERO
Fiksi RemajaAlero, Nigerian decent has dyslexia and is going through a rough phase in life with both family and school. Her brilliance makes her the main target of the witch-hunt of three girls in her class, headed by the daughter of a very rich and influential...
