The broken ones

Drop out

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Since Monday is a holiday, it's a three day weekend, and they have it all to themselves. After the homecoming, students must be drained and tipsy from the afterparty, which is why they needed a three day off from school.

Unfortunately, Bea was busy finishing her missing works up until now. Due to the excessive amount of lessons being taught for the past couple of days, she had a hard time keeping up hence being pestered by Carl.

Focusing on the mathematical question she was trying to solve for an hour now, a knock resounded from outside her bedroom door. "come in!" She yells, her eyes still fix on the question.

Her bedroom door slightly opens, and instead of her siblings coming in to annoy her, it was her mother. "We need to talk Bea." She greets.

Bea, who seemed a little annoyed for being bothered, turns herself to face her mother. "About?"

"Your Grandma is currently at the hospital with your aunt watching her. I'm also running short on money so I can't afford bringing your siblings to daycare. You need to watch over them from now on..." She says.

"But mom... " Bea rejects, trying to find an excuse that will be admissible enough for her mom to believe in. "I'm still tutoring Jenny..."

Her mother doesn't say anything as her eyes averted to the stack of papers on top of her table. Before she could ask something, Bea promptly tells another lie.

"They've been giving us too much homework these days." Bea tells her. She couldn't tell her mother that she skipped classes for two weeks, and has been slacking off in everything due to an incident that still haunts her every minute of everyday. However, if she doesn't turn in all her missing works on time, her mother will eventually find out by a phone call from her teachers or worse, Ms.Polly.

A sigh escapes from her mother's mouth before she could talk. " Fine. I'll think of something then..." She tells Bea, gazing back to the stack of papers before walking away.

"What's for dinner ?" Bea asked. As usual her mother ignores, and without answering her question, she opens the door and steps outside. Bea scoffs before returning back to her school work. Although she was used to being ignored often by her own mother, a part of her would still shaken every time it happens. But no matter how much it hurts her, at the end of the day... Bea must accept it and live through it.

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Without Edna's dad around anymore, she had a hard time readjusting herself being alone at home all the time. Due to her mother working 12 plus hours everyday, Edna isn't aware of how her mother was struggling to pay off bills on her own.

Waking up with mere pain on her arm from the fight the other night, she struggled to at least get herself changed, and prepare herself for her dance practice. When she got her bag packed with extra clothes, water bottles, and her wallet filled with money from the allowance she saved up; she got out of her bedroom and sees her mother at the kitchen. " Hey mom.." She greets her with a sly smile, trying not to provoke her mother because of the tiredness displayed under her eyes.

From the clock hanging on the wall near the refrigerator, it's 11AM in a Saturday morning which means her mother will be going to work in an hour.

"Edna..." Her mother says before Edna could even escape from her. With her bag strap slinging on top of her shoulder, she angled herself around to face her mother.

"Yes ?"

"You should drop out from school and help me earn money." Out of all the crazy things she had said before, this was out of the line.