COMMUNITY SERVICE

After dressing up for school,I pick my backpack and place it on my back and I was going to go to my dad to tell him I am off for school and I was shocked to see my parents crying together. I stood trying to think back to why they could be crying.

The last time I saw them this way was when my mom’s leg was cut and was confined to the wheelchair.

I climbed down the stairs and when they heard my footsteps, they quickly dried their tears.

My dad was faking his smile, you can see through him that he is forcing out his laugh.

He had a paper beside him, I stood in front of them asking if all was fine and my dad was like.

“ Honey, we are fine, it…it’s…..” he stammered and I pick the paper beside him on the couch and he was going to collect it from me but before he could pull it out of my hand, I had read through the paper.

Tears dripped down my face and my dad came to embrace me.

“ Hey, I will sought this out” he said.

“ We have been evicted from our house dad, we have unpaid loan, how will you even do that when you have spent everything saving mom’s life? I asked.

Then my mom began to blame herself for not dying when she had an accident few months back.

I turn to her , I crouch down on my knee beside her and held her hand.

“ No mom, you cannot think that way, I need you, my siblings need you, dad need you that is why he saved you with everything he has, you do not have to blame yourself for this, I guess life is just playing tricks in us” I said.

I embrace my mom and then my six year old sister and nine year old brother chorused and ask what was going on.

We all turn back to them both dad and mom didn’t even know what to say, I had to go to them and embrace them.

“ Personal issues dear, you need to get going to school before you get late for your classes, school bus will be here soon” I said.

They were going to ask questions further and I had to quickly go to help them pick their back pack and drag them out of the house.

I try hard to push back my tears but it drippped down, I quickly dried my tears.

The school bus arrived and I help my siblings into the bus, I bid them bye , I stood for a while and didn’t want to go back in, I just continued to school with so much in my heart.

I was crying and didn’t noticed a car was about to it me, it was the screeching of the car and noise of the people that made me realizeed I was on the road and no more on the walk way.

I turn around and my eyes met with that of a man who had once asked me for something ridiculous.

I hissed and walk away from the road.

I turn back at him and he was still standing staring at me as I keep walking away, then a loud nose of lots of car made him get back into his car.

“The idiot has caused lot of traffic staring at me” I muttered as I look back and continue walking.

I got to school after walking about fifteen minutes and I was shocked to see his car inside the school premises but he wasn’t inside the car.

I walked into the class room and took my sit, I laid my head on my table then suddenly there was silent then there was this familiar voice.

“ Good day everyone, I am Dean Melville , I am on a community service and I have been assigned to take you on a physics classes for a month but I will take you for the two month as a volunteer” he said.

I looked up to his face and we kind of locked eyes , I had to look down to my backpack and bring out my book while I could see girls whispers to themselves saying he is young and hot.

Dean and I are never strangers, we have once met that he offered to have sex with me in exchange of helping me few months ago that my mom had an accident.

Then I needed to get myself an important text book and it’s quiet expensive, I couldn’t ask my dad because he is trying to use all the money he has to save my mom’s leg from being cut.

I didn’t know him from anywhere then but because I saw that he was looking calm and could afford to give out $10 dollars , I offers to summon courage to beg explain my problem to him and beg for his help but then he said, he would give me better that what I asked for that we should have just some time sex.

I spit on his face and refuse and here he is standing planning to take my class on a full term? I know he will deal with me. I have never been a good physics student and it literally means he would mock me for this.

He began to teach and most girks weren’t paying attention while I wasn’t either because we being evicted from our home is lingering on my mind, the man standing in front of me teaching us is also a problem to me because I have call him so many names before and I am a bad physics student and since we have this financial problems, I haven’t been that active with my studies, I have been dealing with bad marks.

He taught us for some hours and gave us some assignment which I don’t even know how to even solve.

“ I walked out of the class as the alarm for a change of lesson rings then I heard him call out my name.

I heard him but didn’t answer then he said.

“ I know you heard me and you just didn’t want to answer, I am sorry for the other day, forgive me” he said.