CHAPTER SEVEN

The ‘big day’ had finally arrived for me as I sat on the edge of the bed. I thought about everything that had taken place from my father’s death to the revelation by my mother.

A minute later, I saw my sister at my door with a pink toothbrush between her lips, mumbling a word of greeting to me. I waited patiently for her to prepare for work, as I sat quietly in the dining room. Everywhere was quiet except the drizzling on the roof. The entire compound was so quiet in this new place.

Everyone kept to him or herself and the security was tight. Moments later, I beheld my sister in a bright red suit.

“Security here is as tight as your skirt.” I mumbled while Tarami drank a cup of water from the water dispenser, near where I sat. She soon put the cup away and sat opposite me. She fixed her gaze on me like a suspect in the middle of a criminal investigation.

I looked outside the window as the drizzling continued on the window, grass, flowers and cars outside.

“Tarami,” I began in a very sof