We Are Able

Episode 52

Moses zoomed after the car, but we lost it eventually. Oh! So
painful! Moses drove me back to school just when the closing
hour bell rang. His father wasn’t pleased at all. He never knew
we would spend the whole day out of school. Earlier, when I
asked Moses if his father wouldn’t be angry with us, he assured
me he wouldn’t.
“Rose, my father himself knew something is bothering you and
he knows quite well that I know how to let people say their
minds,” Moses had said.

I perceived the man was only angry because we spent too long
outside the school.
I watched them speak in voice language. Perhaps they didn’t
want me to hear what they were saying. When they were
done, the principal smiled at me and signed, “Rose, for a better
academic performance and a good frame of mind, we are
changing your class.”

“Sir, please don’t change my class!” I screamed in sign
language. “I am very sorry for everything I did.”

“Rose, you don’t need to be sorry at all because I have
concluded that already…”
I looked at Moses…

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Re: We Are Able(a Touching Story) by SammyHoe(m):

11:27pm On Dec 08, 2014
The principal asked me to come with my guardian. I was
scared. What actually did Moses tell him? Why was he asking
me to come with my guardian? Would they report the case to
her? She would be very much disappointed in me for fighting.

Whatever it would cost me, I would not tell Mrs Omotayo a
thing, I thought. That day, when I got home, I just lay
somewhere like a bunch of idle broom. Biodun himself didn’t
know that I was around because the taxi left me behind when I
was nowhere to be found, although the principal informed
them that I had gone somewhere with his son.

I wondered how Biodun would feel. I hope he wasn’t nursing
any kind of feeling towards me anymore. If so, he was surely
going to be hurt if he heard that I went out with Moses, a son
to the principal of the school. I had just passed beside him on
tiptoes, yet he heard the sound of my footstep and spoke. I
didn’t hear the sound of his speech. I was silent.
I found myself in Chi….’s class. As a matter of fact, I was happy
being with him there. We were playing together as I taught him
sign language. He smacked my head and I pushed him lightly.

He must have accepted his fate. Afterall, being demoted does
not kill one, I thought. I was shocked when Chi… suddenly
gave me a hard knock on the head.
“What have I done wrong?” I signed to ask him, then my eyes
flashed to life and I saw Biodun standing over me. He had just
struck his stick against my head while he was walking to find
his way to the toilet by himself—la!de had slept off in her
bedroom. Sleep cleared off my face and I realized that I was
only daydreaming. I got up from the rug and began to make
for my room to have a proper sleep. la!de saw me and did
some signs to me to ask where I was. She had just woken up
too.

Biodun realized that it was me he hit on the head with the stick,
perhaps la!de told him that just now. I didn’t answer them a
word as I hurried to my bedroom. I was already getting fed up
with life—those bad dreams never want to let me be. I gave up.