HeavenOasis

Mum and dad were always fighting. I walked away from our house and began to think about what Kate’s mum said about me. I wish to be a normal kid like Kate. I wish to normal life. I wish to go to school like other kids outside our neighbourhood. I wish to be able to speak fluent and correct English instead of the Pidgin English that I was born and grew up with. Finally, I wish to leave our neighbourhood because I realized that all the residents in our neighbourhood were bad. I cried and blamed God for creating me in the first place in the kind of place where I find myself and to the kind of parents that I have. I said that God must be partial for giving Kate normal parents and giving me bad ones. Before I met Kate, I’ve always decided to be like Axe. He was the  ruggedest  and most  cashy  among hemp dealers in my neighbourhood. Apart from having money, he was also said to be the strongest because he was twice my dad’s size and the tallest man I’ve ever seen. Ax had many wives a

(continued from the previous part) Kim was learning how to cook. Few weeks after the funeral, Rose and john were finally persuaded to return to school, leaving only the four of them at home. Before she left however, Rose called Angela and Kim aside and frankly told them to take care of their parents, especially their mother. “She will never get over this grief.   She is a mother and to a mother, whatever evil that wants to befall her children should befall her.   But what she needs now is not grief but happiness, she needs to learn how to laugh again and only the two of you can do that. If you both are always happy in her presence, she too would be happy eventually. Do you both understand?” “Yes” they both chorused and she hugged them in turns. “I la you both” she said, faking American accent and this brought rusty smiles to their faces after weeks of grief. “Now, you both look prettier with the smiles” After she’d gone, both Kim and Angela began working on their assignme