Chapter seventy-one

Charles

Ruby had another seizure. But it was bad. So bad because it happened at school, again. I was called by the school authorities that morning to come and take my child out of the school premises, that she was scaring away the children. It hurt when I heard that.

Although she had missed a lot in school because she had ran away. But I knew she would meet up, and catch up with everything. She was really smart. Too smart for her own good. She had always been the top of the class, since she started school. Just like the way I was in high school.

That morning, Ruby had seem perfectly fine when I had dropped her off at school. I gave her a tight hug and promised to take her outing after school hours. And barely thirty minutes when I arrived at the office, I was called on the phone, that she