BETRAYED💔

CHAPTER 3:REAL OR NOT?

    Reading the letter, a happy feeling flooded through my body. At a point, I suspected it was Mum but I just put that thought aside. I took the letter and ran to Mum. I showed her the letter and said excitedly "I got a new friend?" Mum smiled and patted my head while saying "Make sure to write back to her," I smiled and replied with a small okay. I went into our bedroom and opened the drawer where Mum kept all the empty papers and test pads.

       I asked her permission and rummaged through all the papers. I soon found a nice piece of paper with the Disney princesses as the designs on the bottom left corner of the paper. I took the paper and sat on the chair. I wrote some drafts first before writing the actual letter as I wanted my letter to be handwritten beautifully and neatly. Once I was satisfied with the contents of my letter, I copied everything in the actual letter.

        I wrote it beautifully and rolled the paper neatly into a scroll. That very night, I put the scroll beside my pillow and slept peacefully. The next morning, I woke up and saw that the scroll was not on my bed. "Maybe Snow took it last night," I thought. It was Saturday and I had tuition at 10 am. I took a bath and ate my breakfast. It was 9 am.

      I took the storybook which was on the table and sat down on the couch, reading while waiting for Mum to get ready. Mum was teaching English in the tuition centre I go to. Mum was ready and we drove to the place. Mum walked me to my Science class before going to her class. I went in and sat in the front seat, waiting for Miss Sweety, my teacher.

         After the class ended, I walked to Mum's class as she has another class to teach. I sat near her table and started doing my homework. "How was class?" "It was great. We studied about magnets," I started explaining to her what we learned. As I was explaining, Mum's pupils entered the classroom one by one. Mum started teaching after everyone was there while I was doing my English exercise.

"Mum, I have a question,"
"What is it?"
"Do we say a university or an university?"
"It's a university,"
"Why? Isn't it supposed to be an because U is a vowel?"
"Yes, the letter U is a vowel but in the word university, you pronounce it as yu- like there's a Y in front. You still remember the vowel sounds I taught you right? For the articles?"
"Yes,"
"So, that's the rule,"
"Oh. Ok, thanks,"

        After mum's classes ended, we went to a restaurant to eat. Then, we went home. Mum got busy with Nitaa and Marcus as usual. I took a quick shower, sat at my study table in the corner of the living room and started doing my homework. I was just doing my homework and continued painting till dinner. After eating my dinner, I kept all my books ready for tomorrow.

      I woke up to the sound of Marcus crying. Mum also woke up and started feeding him. I looked at the clock,6:30 a.m. I stood up from my bed knowing I can't go back to sleep again. I am like that if I wake up, I couldn't sleep again, I won't feel sleepy. I took my clothes and went to shower. My day was like any other weekdays. Mum with Marcus and I will be doing my own work. Nitaa was at Grandma Sally's house as always.

~19 MAY 2014~

      Mum was talking to Grandma Sally and I was just quietly watching TV. They were sitting on the couch beside me. Mum was telling Grandma that we will be moving to our new house that Friday. Mum rented a house. It was her cousin's house. Since it was a holiday that whole week, we started packing our things into boxes to be brought to our new house. Then, Grandma Sally and I went to clean the house and arrange everything.

    The house was a double-storey terrace. Grandma and I went inside and looked around the house. There were three rooms upstairs--two bedrooms and a study room that has a door that leads to the balcony. There's also a bathroom beside one of the bedrooms. Grandma said I can have a room of my own and gave me the room near the bathroom.