CHAPTER 11-BROKEN FAMILY

MALIYAH POV

Every day, my routine was the same: waking up in the morning, showering, eating the same breakfast, fetching my friends, and going straight to the university where we were studying. We are now fourth-year graduating students as Physical therapists. We live a simple life, enough for us to survive. My parents can send me to school with a scholarship and eat three times a day. An ordinary family like us,  trying to get through and live a decent life with love and respect. But it was slowly fading away.

We grew up where our parents were very eager to finish college and have a good future. But sometimes things happened, and everything changed. Our life changed the day Ate Maze left, the day when my Mama raised her hand on me. After that incident, my Mom was spacing out and distant.

 I felt her anger, frustration, and disappointment in me and Ate Maze. She became emotionless, numbed, and always angry. Our so-call