FADED

"Leave me alone. I really wanna sleep. Can't I just stay in this damn house and sleep all day like every other person?" I moaned.

It came suddenly and I tell you it wasn't pleasurable at all. It was a slap right on her left butt cheek.

"Until you can start making your own money then you can sleep for as long as you like and eat without any care in the world" Freda's mom said with pure anger and irritation in her voice.

It was a holiday though. Summer. Who did not love summer? Everybody but Freda. It was hell in a cell. It was like prison. The only thing she did was to make sure everybody ate to their satisfaction before she considered herself worthy of food. She cooked, swept, cleaned, mopped, washed... Let's just say she was both a daughter and a maid... But she did not give a damn because what she only desired was to be at peace and feel like there was nothing to worry about.... But that was never gonna happen. As much as Freda wanted to just feel free and be like every other normal girl, she couldn't.

Freda described being a normal girl as one who had her nails, hair, shoes and clothes all looking glamorous.

It's not just that someone who had friends who wouldn't betray her nor back stab her nor make fun of her. But she knew all those things she desired would never happen. Never come to pass. It was one out of the bunch of weaknesses she had.