The Pain Of The Poor - Episode 11
Can my childhood get any worst,
For it was what they called from fry pan to fire♨ hmmmm how painful it is,
Few of my friends have started avoiding me,
Some of our neighbors don't answer my greetings anymore.
What is happening I began to wonder, not getting any answers from my thoughts,
I decided to tell my mom and dad about it and they assured me all was well but deep down I knew all was far from being well.
I thought all my worry lays a home not know that bigger one awaited me at school,
for a while I thought that going back to school was the best for it well relive me of the problems a home.
But I thought wrong.
For I wasn't able to concentrate on anything being taught by the teacher at school my mind was always somewhere else , am always in school in body but my spirit is always home wondering what will happen next, will dad get angry and beat up my mother or would that wicked step mom of mine strangle my mother in a fight or will they (father and my step mom ) send mother packing before I get home .
All of these questions and more will be dancing in my little brain all through the school hours and after school I make sure I get home fast and straight to my my mother's hut and if by any chance I don't see her in the hut I search around for her,
I go as far as opening every bag that wasn't in the house before I went to school out of the fear that she might have been hurt and kept in the bag.
I will continue like that till I find her.
Now we cook separately, when is time to collect money for food from father, my step mom will demand she be given the lion share,
Claiming that she was the new wife and as such be treated well and everything that is to be shared hers should be bigger.
But she had just her mouth to feed while my mother had three mouths to feed,
For the sake of peace once again, mother allowed it to fly.
And in other to support her (my mother ) own family she started a petty trade of raw fufu and from that day on my mother never asked my father money for food or anyother thing again now is father that now comes to her for money .
So I got angry and asked mother why she kept giving him the money each time he comes to ask.
My daughter your father, you and your brother are the only family I have so if I don't help out your father who then should I help ,
So my dear your father is not a bad man he loves us so much but just that some bad people are telling him bad things. mother said.
So Ada my daughter that's why I want you to study your book very very well you know my own parents didn't send me to school like you, said mother. Then I replied her saying " but mother am always afraid that I might not meet you at home when I get back, that father would have send you out of the house or even stepmother killing you like she use to say she would ".
Then she smiled at me but in between her smiles i could see fear All over her face.
Again she said to me am fine and nothing will happen to me, you and your brother has given me a enough reason to live.
So my dear go to school and learn very hard so that your story and that of your brother will be different from mine and that of your father too
All episodes of this story can be found here >> https://www.ebonystory.com/story/the-pain-of-the-poor
. And when you must have now finished learning you can help me and your father to take care of the family.
. .Read " Blood And Water " by the same author ( Nnenna books )
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Chai, good mother
Thanks Orji
Just like my mom
Wow nice