ave it when you come back. I will be preparing your favourite today for dinner." My mother

other, I couldn't refute her statement, I couldn't tell her that I always wa

r, even if it was a rickety truck, since I was well p

doing to me? Or did he know what I wanted to say

t out, before taking up my bag which I had kept at the foo

lips, as I got up from the chair and trudged out of the dining room toward the exit door in the kitchen. It

he garage. But of course she would wait, even though I knew t

to do anything that would put her in mom's favour, even if it meant coloring me dirty and bad in front of the woman

, troll?" I heard her ask from the wi

ar since she would still dump me halfway to school once she was sure that we were ou

is what she and my brother, her twin, thrived and capitalised on, the

rather in a bored tone, poin

o chat with you. You are not worth my time." She mentioned, bursting the gu

I had thought, just as it had always been every morning. It was

hat grated on my nerves. "I seem to have forgotten. You ca

e opening the door and

d I am sure that she won't be happy to stay in the same car with you. You underst

m already late to class." I s

ella, like that, because I have always feared for my life and sanity. I don't even know what had prom

ed, drawing my ear before I could even give an an

out lately. I am sorry." I chant

The relief was short-lived. In the succeeding seconds, my

shock,

n it landed on my left cheek, I was stup

r else, I will make your life in school a living hell, more than it a

want to do that in front of Daniella. She might shout

e to my window, I took in a deep breath, willing the tear of fr

and exhaling out to keep myself in some sort of control. Whatever that

two minutes when Daniella stoppe

riend at the next junction