Eartha

u don't want to wait? F

ok she always had whenever Eartha had done something displeasing — her eyes were half

he dwarf man said and inserted

ries then roared to life, sending

all the luggages stuffed around her. She finally elbowed a portmanteau box down

ar denied her a full view, but catching a glimpse of her was

ked or talked, the shyness in her wood-brown eyes and the prominence of the ri

fast-leftover dundun* that struck the young Somali girl the most. The high contrast bet

and soft-spoken had fallen for a man so

t it wasn't every married couple that was together beca

seat when the figure on the porch became n

ar height, both poised at the back of a grinning little boy who wouldn't quite look at the camera, and an older, but much, more short

' she asked, growing more and more uncomfortable

r take.' The man chuckled. 'You are rea

for that was, in truth, part

ere, but they are day students, so they're resumin

said and clamped a hand over her mouth. From somewhere beside her, she h

be the gear lever. The latter action momentarily shifted her thoughts from worrying ab

ble, since the man was a dwarf and needed elevation to see past the dashboard of the car. Consequently, the gearshift stick had also been extended — a thick, wooden cane stick bored into the top of the original iron one

said. 'You noticed the

most as wide. And it had even been placed right in the middle of t

eally proud of

s,

, she's sixteen. Eniola is also starting fo

he kno

estion to her. She might have known, but she was too

two others?

en, but she couldn't quite decipher the age of

gh he wanted to say furthermore in addition to what he had been saying but had quickly changed his mind. Instead, he continued, 'Dare is se

stions, Eartha,'

kay' in reply to the man's e

ey to the new school. The only interjections being the soun

showed it's face over the clouds had efficiently dried up all the moisture in

rge from the noisy hold-up they had gotten into o

gs and flying out into the torrid afternoon. She busied herself drinking i

ve the large gates their driver just pulled thro

al delicacy of