Chapter 3

        Le pouvoir du Courage

                 Kiekie's POV.

(Jouez la musique pendant que vous lisez/play the music as you read)

              Edited

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I was pushed to the ground. I landed hard on my kneels leaving a cuts  on my kneels. Cleo rushed to my side lifted me up. It was after school. We were at the gate waiting for our tricycle rider to come for us. I was standing on the side waiting for Cleopatra because she when to buy chocolates. She went to buy our favorite chocolate "Sofi chocolate" . Sofia's chocolate are the best in Liberia. I love her chocolate.

I have heard that she is a woman who is shorter than average humans. I heard she was 3'4" at first.  But she later got sick after her 25th birthday and grew a bit taller at the height of 4'5" . It was funny at first but I realized she suffered from a rare growth deduction genetic disorder.   I heard that she's married to Antonio Haywood. He's a tall man at the height of 6'3".

I was cut off from my thoughts when I was forcedly pushed to the  cement floor. Cleopatra rushed to me putting the chocolate in her bag to help me up.

Are …Are you okay? She asked. She stutters whenever she is very angry. When she is angry she is like a bull. She was angry because Chucks and his minors came to harm me.

Narrator: Oh, really? Do I look like a bull  or behave like a bull when I am angry?

Keke:  Yes! That's the truth. Pumpkin, you know I only speak the truth.

Narrator: ( rolling my eyes) Ah….Huh. I love this new side of you!

Keke: Back to my story!

Narrator: You are…..

Keke: Not.. Another word!!!!

You can literally see smoke through her eyes, ears, and nose when you use your third eyes. When she's angry.

Before I could reply, Amanda spilled a bottle of red juice over Cleo and I messing up our white shirts. Will this be removed from our uniform shirt. I wondered.

That always happened! It had been happening for eleven freaking years! My parents didn't give a damn! Cleo was the only one who stood up for me. Those demons always tried to make my life miserable!

HOW DARE YOU? Cleo said each word filled with venom. She looked  more angry then ever before!

Chuck smirked. Chuckling at Cleo's question asked to him. "Did you hear someone speaking?" He asked his followers rolling his eyes dramatically like we were shooting a Lollywood firm.

"Oh! Now you are deaf, right? After hurting my friend." She said burning with rage. She hated seeing me hurt. She had gone through hell itself and came back!

I couldn't speak. I was afraid of them. Afraid that they will hurt me more. Sometimes, they pitch me until my fair skin turns red. Other times they pull my hair.  I remembered Annette locked me up in the girl's bathroom before. I missed all of my classes that day. That's why I was afraid to defeat myself against them.

I couldn't do anything to them because Chuck was the head of their gang. Chuck's dad and mine are business partners. My father won't want me creating a conflict between  he and his best business partner.

I hated seeing my better half hurt because of me! Those three  made me really angry but I couldn't do anything. I was afraid! My parents  didn't care about me, except my oldest brother who sometimes tried to show me concern; whenever my parents and older sister were not around. He was afraid to allow them to know that he treated me like human. His fear was if dad found out that he care about me he will be strip of his inheritance. My family despise me! I was like a demon born in their family. 

"She deserved it! More is coming for her because she has stolen Chuck's mark, she has taken away everything! He, doesn't deserve that low  mark in chemistry, we all know that she is a dummy! We all know that she isn't worth anything her family despise her!"  Anna exclaimed.

"Look who is asking an abandoned bitch!" Amanda, said to Cleo.

I saw hurt flashed in Cleopatra's gold brown  eyes;  with a blink she covered it up with the deadliest smile, ever!

Their commotion caused others to gather around us. That statement broke the chain, that was stopping the angry bull.

Cleo rushed to Amanda and slapped her in the face. I gather some courage as I started to pull Anna's hair.

I decided to think about my family later. It won't change their ways towards me. It gets worst everyday! I am too numb to care!

Chuck was trying to stop Cleopatra who was turning Amanda's dark skin pink  by scratching her face.

Annette was also trying to stop me from pulling out Anna's hair.

A student  form our class who I don't clearly remember,  rushed back in the fence to get the principal or the  dean.

We were still fighting when Miss Cary came along with the dean Mr. McKendry they pull us apart.

Miss Cary was angry with us!   She knew we had good characters. She was so mad because we decided to participate in a fight for the first time. She send us home and called our parents.

Edited January 21, 2023

10:47am Greenwich meridian