"I will be better than them. I'll show them that I could be a perfect child too!"

A young girl makes a supposed plan to be better than her siblings but in the course of achieving the plan, she makes a lot of decisions and mistakes that end up ruining her life. Or did it?

A MILLION TEARS

A month had passed after that incident so it wasn’t so fresh in my mind anymore. Ovie had apologized several times and was even now paying me more attention than before but trouble was brewing, I could feel it. If I thought I had issues with sleep before, now I definitely had a problem. All I wanted to do was sleep all day. 


“Dara, are you okay?” Mummy Tiwa would ask me. Lately, she looks at me suspiciously too 


“I’m fine. I just don’t have enough time to sleep” I’ll joke to remove the look in her eyes because it made me nervous 


“Dara, you are looking so beautiful lately. What’s the secret?” this one from Shola. 


The secret is the same food you are eating. I wonder why it’s not doing the same thing for you” I joked. Inside, I was a quivering mass of panic 


The questions had been the same everyday for over a week now. It was getting easy to pretend it was one of those things. 


Chapter 11