FIONAThe splash of cold water jerked me out of my sleep. I should be used to the inhumane way she woke me up, because she always used a bucket of ice water on me every morning, but I still shivered uncontrollably as I sat up on the bed.“Get up, you useless girl,” My mother shouted at me, as I tried to blink water from my eyes. “You are already late for work!”She continued nagging as I tried to put my drowsy self together.“You always go late to work…”I stood up from the bed.“Third count of laziness and I am sure that they will fire you…and you cannot get fired, we need the money…”I slipped my feet into the bathroom slippers that were by the side of the bed.“ Your siblings came home from school, earlier this morning, they said that they were not allowed to enter the school grounds because of lack of school fees.”Hearing those words made me topple over an overflowing bucket of water that caught the water leaking from our rotting ceiling. That was the third strike this week, afte
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