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and thunderstorms, hitting violently on the zinc, making me

something like this, was the

tration at the

his stupid instinct that ke

taxi that was able

, my legs feel numb for reasons I coul

o shout. I felt like my mouth was sealed and something was beating terribly on me. I was feeling the pains deep down in my heart but I couldn't cry. When I thought everything was over and then it happened again to my friend, my sister Rochelle, the one who harbored me in Alabama when I was lost. She took me in and treated me like a sister and out of a sudden, she was gone. Lying naked on the floor of our apartment with no cl

he abdomen of the disfigured body in front of me. "Fuck!" I cursed trying to get up only for me to see a white piece of paper underneath Rochelle's body. I struggled to get hold of the pape

d me, while not coming to get me and leave the people I love out of the equation". I shouted in the room, hoping

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as we planned but it's rather unfortunate that she didn't leave to see this day. I have been unable to sleep for the past few days. The horrible images of my mother and hers keep

sleeps this morning and was about to go to t

y back as I swung the door open. Yes, you can call me crazy, but I have no choice,

he knife, he hissed in pain, and the box he was holding fe

m unfazed .he wasn't expecting me to have pity right. I ignored the bl

close to me. Any deliveri

his other hand, holding the b

if that was a question or n

anything about the arm th

e not minding his reaction. I didn't have the time to exchange words with him because that might only irritate me and then leave me doing someth

did the same because that's how we usually have our meals

he dining table this evening, s

is washing the bedspread when it gets dirty". She always ch

ray of food to the floor, not minding the mess it would cause. I curled my body into a ball and brought my knee

d slept until the banging s

She always knocks on my door. Her mother has been trying to be friends with me, but I kept distancing myself away from them because I didn't just want to come home one da

trode to the door. I felt somehow skeptic

the door, but no one answer

eard her voice again "yes aunty Sofia, I want to give you some chocolates" she

to stumble backward and then my back colliding violently with the floor. I lifted my h

p from the floor when I felt a cold metal

revenge " I only told you what I hate and you decided to come back? " I fought back and he looked at me with an evil smirk on his face. He dragged me up, with his gun still on my face and I was now standing face

s to play, then I'm ready. "What do you want?". I asked with my gaze fixed on him.

. Everything reminded me of my horrible past. I was ready to play. After all, I have done this not only once

ooked at me with downcast eyes, mayb