Chapter 7 – Rough Seas IV

Then something told me that if I went in I would never see my mother again, so I turned my back and walked with my sister down the street to the bus stop and from there we took the bus to the nearest terminal with the certainty that we could continue our journey. Safe path, what was in my head, we were just children, but that didn't stop us. When we got there we asked the workers for information and they were ready to give it to us and shortly after they asked us if we were alone, my heart sank in my chest with fear of being taken into custody in an orphanage and then never seeing our mother again or even worse, into temporary custody. It was my father's, we were going to go back and they wanted to take us to another state, I would never see my mother again, despair came over me and I simply ran away immediately, the dress I was wearing was torn, I loved it so much because it was my mother who made it with scraps of fabric. Luckily, the bus was on the platform as the workers had said, and when we got off, we boarded and the return trip began. We passed through two more terminals before catching the bus, which really brought back a mixture of fear and courage that came from within me. Arriving in my neighborhood around three-thirty, we were stuck inside the terminal thinking about what the next step would be.

At the time, my mother was not home, so I had the idea of ​​going to the house of a friend of my mother's from church who liked me a lot. We were in a terrible state, dirty, with torn clothes and barefoot. I went out without flip-flops. The idea simply came to me, and now we were almost home. So when I rang Elaine's doorbell, hoping that she would be home, the voice finally appeared, asking who it was. So I said that it was me, Elaine Julia. She knew the whole situation. I had never seen anyone arrive so quickly coming down from the fifth floor. Mercy were Elaine's words when she saw us, her son was there, and then she asked everything, amazed at the situation and how we came back, we told her everything that happened and then she said that everything has to be done well girls, you stay here at home until I get back from church because if you go now there will be time for your family to send you back with a court order and your mother can still be arrested, so we spent the rest of the afternoon at Elaine's house and it was very good, we took a bath, ate a lot, we were very pampered, everything a child loves. Later that night everything went as planned. My mother found out at church that we had run away and we were doing very well.