Saying Yes to Adventure

It was early Monday morning around 6am on the day of resumption, after their first term holiday. The birds and the crickets were humming sonorously, giving Sophia who was a 17 year old teenager every single moment to enjoy her sleep while voices were echoing in the kitchen with the sounds of the kitchen utensils. She turned swiftly over and over again on her bed, which seemed obviously that she was having a sweet dream in her sleep. She kept on hearing steps are approaching which hinted her that her mother, Linda who is a professor in surgery is already awake.

She groaned, covering her ears with the pillow beside her as she heard her mother calling her from the kitchen. When Sophia’s mother saw that Sophia wasn’t answering, she undressed the Apron on her body and picked up a napkin from the cabinet to clean her hands, and then she came out from the kitchen and made advances towards Sophia’s room.

 “Sophia!!!” she knocked and called out three times, but when she saw that Sophia was not responding yet, she opened the door and entered her room.

Sophia was still in bed and as she noticed her mother inside the room, she used her blanket to cover her head, pretending to continue with her sleep. Her mother who stood still, scanning all her movement with her eyes burst into a deep laughter.

“Lazy girl, will you not stand up from there?” she questioned rhetorically.

 “Not now, Mom…” she cried out.

 “Come off it, my friend… You always wake up early during the holiday and now that school resumes today, you are still in bed by this time” she queried. Sophia who has been disturbed from her sleep by her mother retorted back, murmuring “Mom, it is still early for this…And now you’ve distracted me from the sweet dream I was having”. “Hey Girl, What are you murmuring about?” she asked, coming towards her direction.

Sophia rose up, stretched up herself while yawning and looked at the wall clock in her room. She turned to her mother and uttered sluggishly while covering her mouth "There is still more time left, Mom”. All what was going through on Sophia‘s mind while in bed was about her schoolmates who bully her in school.

 “Mom, can‘t I stay at home today… And even we are not going to anything at school today because it's our first day of resuming for second term" she complained to her mother. Seeing the expression on her daughter‘s face, her mother sat beside her and held her hands. “This is unusual of you, Sophia. Tell me what‘s wrong?”.

When Sophia noticed the expression on her mother‘s face, she hesitated for a while before she uttered “Nothing, Mom… I‘ll go and have my bath now”. Sophia stood up from her bed and murmured, stamping her feet on the floor to go inside her bathroom.

Just then her mother rose up to the kitchen to continue what she was doing earlier before going to meet her daughter inside the room. Few minutes later, Sophia came running down the stairs to meet her mother in the kitchen. She screamed “Mom, I am here”.