Dear Papa, Episode 2
Anne Iyiola@anneiyiola910527
10 months ago
**Dear Mama**
Until one day, I couldn't take it anymore, I walked to the sitting room after her dad and I put her to sleep from her, I got down on my knees with my Bible. I cried like never before, praying to God, I cried until I slept off.
I woke up by six in the morning tired and drained but with determination I cooked, woke my husband to get ready for work and also prepared Soteria for school. We dressed up for our daily business, did our morning prayers and left. Throughout the journey on the bus to her school she was quiet, she only spoke when it was important to, I had gotten tired of trying to start conversations with her because she just stays quiet and lost. When we got down from the bus, I walked her through the gates, she gripped my dress tight and won't let go.
“Soteria?” I called, she didn't let go or look up to me.
“Soteria?” I called again, I bent down to look at her face, I saw tears streaming down her cute face.
“What happened? Don't you want to go to school?” She looked at me and ran inside the school.
I was baffled throughout that day, I walked to my shop not too far I remembered what Soteria's principal said when she went to meet her asking what was wrong
“Mrs. Joseph, your daughter is intelligent for a four years old, she knows how to read and write, and she spells really well for a four years old” then it clicked, if Soteria couldn't tell me, then she could write it, I would encourage her to write. I walked to the store and decided to do something, I went to a store and bought her a pink diary. When she came back from school, I called her and gave her the diary.
“ You can write anything you want about your day, about what it is going on at all” I said with tears in my eyes, she took it and sat on her little chair and placed the book on her table in the kitchen. I watched her scribble something's in her pink barbie diary, after a while, she stood up and left, I went closer to the book, I saw drop of tears on the first page of the book, and then I squatted and what I saw shattered my heart.
Dear Mama,
I am sorry for making you and Daddy sad, people are mean to me in this school. Ada and Tiffany are not talking to me… And my teacher keeps touching me and making me cry. I don't want to go to school again.
Dear Papa, #AVoiceInTheWind
Episode 2
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