"Leave me alone, Dianne!" I protested, shaking my cousin's hand off my shoulder.
"Mirabel, I'm only trying to help. Think about it na. Your dad is dead and your mother is insane...!"
"...my mother is not insane...!" I screamed at her, raising my previously bowed head.
Still calm, Dianne smiled at me, "How long will you keep lying to yourself?"
"Stop!" I warned - more like pleaded - dramatically turning my gaze from hers.
"I'm only trying to help"
"Don't" came the response, "Please...leave me" I begged once again.
Dianne shrugged in surrender and stood up. She silently walked to the door. I felt her turn to get one more look at me, her distressed and depressed cousin. I just kept staring out the window at nothing in particular, shedding those thin, lonely stream of salt.
"Just think about it" she urged me one more time.
I frowned. There was no point thinking about it anymore. I had made my decision.
*****
Mirabel is everyone's favorite. Loved by God, decorated by nature, taken care of by Janet her mother and Collins her father, lusted after by men, envied by women and admired by children. Somehow, something from somewhere or someone takes her sunshine all she sees are dark and heavy cloud with no silver lining.
How does Mirabel handle her grief? Read Handling Grief to find out.
She sighed and inhaled the cold air of the dark room, snuggling under her covers. The only light illuminating the room was the light from the TV.
Everything was going smoothly, until she heard footsteps approaching from the hallway leading to her room. Her room was at the extreme of the hallway.
The footsteps stopped right in front of her door-- then a knock on the door could be heard.
"Ani" she heard a voice from outside call
That was the day Her life changed forever.
If she had known how things would turn out, she never would have opened the door for her drunk father to get in.
"Come here darling" he had said in a gruff tone and she made her way towards him and rested my hand on his shoulder.
A move she regretted her whole life.
It felt like her world came crashing down as he did the unthinkable.
She had so many sleepless nights due to that worst night of her life.
The tension in the house was brewing, but her mother was never really there as she was too busy with her career to notice the changes in her daughter or the cloud of tension that hovered around the house.
To top it all up, she was also dealing with bullies in her school.
Waking up every morning was something Juanita didn't look up to
Everyday she hoped she would not, but to her dismay, fate had other plans for her.
Would Juanita be able to get justice for herself?
Will she be able to defend herself from bullies in her school?
Will she be able to gain her mother's love and attention?
Continue reading to know more
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