The Agony of Beauty

packed their luggage, ready to travel home for the semester break. I was so reluctant to go

king so slow, Be

oulders and repli

tension. It's a good thing that you are going home already, at least, you will have en

r break. Though our destinations are different, we board our buses at the same park. Rapid tears dripped out of my eyes and I quickly wiped them before my frien

replied. She thought I shed thos

r Wuraola at this moment, I would have been the happiest to go home right now, I thought. Maybe it was my Mum or

er name, that might be a minus to my beauty and good looks, so I might

blame my mother for a little bit of negligence or should I say my fate is m

l so bitter right now and in this a

ays excelled in my academics and I earned the nickname 'Effico' wh

tried their best to make sure that

each other. Everything was going fine until Daddy died in a mot

because Mum never worked. She was a

out of the University because Mummy couldn't pay his school fees. My younger sister and I were withdrawn fr

, she had to ask me to stay with her younger sister who lived in Jos after I finished writing my Senio

gage ready to go with her. The day I p

ster wave at me at the park

ul young girl cry so much?' Asked the man seated close to us. My Aunt told him my plight. He only shook hi

ind-hearted man I had ever known. A few drops of tears escaped from my eyes as