Chapter 15

I can feel my heart racing faster. It’s been two weeks now since we left the house; it feels like it's been ages now. On reaching the door, I held the knob and twisted it, but it didn’t latch; I forcefully shoved it open; my eyes were shut down seeing how messy and unkempt the house looked; my father wasn’t around and he left the door open; what an annoying father!

"Hello, is there someone in here?" I yelled, and my mother looked at me as if I were a visitor. It’s my house, and I'm just behaving like a visitor.

"Jas! Are you alright? "Don't you see we are home now?" My mother said it clearly to me.

It looks like a place where an armed robber came to rob my father. I hope they adopt him. I pray silently as I shut my eyes.

"I thought you guys wouldn't come back again." My heart shattered into pieces upon hearing his voice. I sobbed, thinking something bad had happened to him. I will be grateful to my maker. As I opened my eyes, I saw him looking like he was unkempt, his skin so tan