Melancholy...

Chapter 20

I spread my legs on the mat as I looked around the room quietly. It was around 2:00am and I was awake, deep in thought. Christian had left around 11pm after minutes of me persuading him to do so. Apparently,I had fallen asleep on his chest and had woken up due to the crow of a hen. He insisted to stay for the night, but I begged him to go after apologising for falling asleep on his chest and ruining his crisp white shirt with my tears.

Since he left, I had not been able to sleep a wink. So many things were going through my head at once. I was just confused. I was holding in my tears because I was tired of letting them out. Like damn,I was just a 17 year old wanting a normal life where I worried about was boys and how to please society. What did I do to deserve this? Why me?

"Dear God," I thought. "It is said that you are always right and your will is justifiable but God, I'm tired. I don't have energy to do this anymore. Please". My thoughts continued as hot tears slipped out my my tired eyes.

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I woke up suddenly and sat on the mat. I had been sleeping for roughly 30 minutes. After crying my eyes out earlier,my tired eyes closed and I let sleep take over me. But it was too late to have a good, long sleep. My mother was not around which meant that I had to get my sister's ready for school.

I squinted my eyes as I read the time on the small alarm clock across the room. It was 5:29am. My sisters had to leave the house around 6:30am since today was Friday meaning they had an assembly at school and I didn't like it when they were late for assembly.

I got up tiredly from the mat, switched on the light and walked towards the bed that Crystal was sharing with Mia and shook Crystal slightly. After a few turns and murmurs she got out of bed. She was a bit slow at first, but with a few persuasive words she brushed her teeth as I heated some water for her and Mia to use to bath.
Whiles the water was heating up, I woke Mia up. Just like Crystal,she was slow and tired, but she began to look more awake after I had brushed her teeth for her.

I didn't blame them though. Yesterday was a very very long day.

After the water got hot enough,I mixed it with some cold water so it became lukewarm and poured it into two different buckets,one for Mia and the other for Crystal. I helped Mia take her bath as Crystal took hers in the wooden structure we used as a bathroom. After this,Crystal got ready for school as I dressed Mia up. There was like to no conversation among us as we went around the routine. I was deep in thought and Crystal must have sensed this because surprisingly enough, she kept her loud mouth shut.

As Mia sat waiting for Crystal to finish dressing up, I fried an egg for them and toasted some bread in the frying pan. We had no cocoa powder or Milo or anything for tea, so it meant that they had to share one egg and two loaves of toasted bread as breakfast. After they had eaten, I escorted them to the junction and bid them goodbye.

Now it was me alone at home. Me and my thoughts. I didn't want to go to sell today. I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts. When I was going to escort my sisters, Sister Owusuwaa's shop was not open. It wasn't really early but usually at this time, she would have been around, sweeping the front of her shop.

After taking my bath I went into the room and locked the door. I was not even hungry. I stared at the plain white wall and the only word that seemed to ring in my head was money. I needed money terribly.

A knock on the door brought me out of my thoughts. I rolled my eyes as I looked through the louvre blades. "Oh shoot." I thought as I fixed my gaze in the person behind the door. It was the person I wasn't in the mood to see right now. Guess who?

The landlord.

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Q: how tall are you? You seem to be very short.
A: I'm 4'9😭. I was one of the shortest girls back in school 😪

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Arianna❤️