Looking for Happiness

I couldn't remember what happened last

ou couldn't remember

ook at her again. "You must feel lucky

ucky to have a daughte

maybe your parents

her arms, sque

where they are

" I a

both the same, but she

Let's come inside before the

. I see nothing but a woeful little girl. I look like a clean beggar. Despite my white pants and my Amber Crombie pink T-shirt, I have a lot of grease on my face, mud stains on my pants,

the bathroo

I looked like

a joke to her, and I don't know how to make her happy or smile-she's just so hard to please. Unlike Sarah, who loves smiling and laughin

the entire house my family owns. I can sleep in this room because it's so clean and big. I proceed to the glass door, and wow, there

ven for just a week. Sarah knocks at the door; I pee

use these.

ay, bowing my

for me. I don't know how long I have been lost, but maybe they are happy I'm finally not part of their life. I'm sure, if ever they know I'm with Sarah now, they'll laugh at her

looks perfect and fits perfectly with me. I looked for Sarah and found

clothes if you don't have a

o her and sit on the

the street. I have to have clothes for the kids I

to understand it, but I'm not smart

om the street, just like

ed and get mad at me, but Sarah keeps on laughing at me like I am the reason fo

to my home to keep them safe and bring them

t kind of treatment from my family. I don't want to go back

t's all. I have to take you back

t. She likes me, and I like

ofa. "I mean, my mom used to say that there is nothing wrong with marrying at a very young age or at

you're a 10-

nd of weird talking the way I do?

're weird or old. It's just that

s like me talk like

do talk the way you do. I guess

e with you?" I f

seasons; the sound of the thunder and the lightning makes me feel that I am in that dark room where mom used to punish me. I always feel we

and the thunder that I'm afraid of. Sarah is not bothered

that." I say to her. I hug

When you grow up, you will realize that there are a lot of things that are much more dangerous than the things you are af

" I ask her if she's feeling

e are the same things I was

things you were afraid

gh to let it all go. But you

h you, just for a wh

. She thinks that my parents are worried and looking for m

worried?" she asks.

tell I ran aw

like you are

the rain stops.

ause no one likes me. My parents don't want me in their house. Why would anyone keep me? Sh

ences. Don't think I am judging you because you left your home." She puts her two fingers on my chin to make me turn to her. "I di

you do th

ndow, and smiles. "There,

looks back at me and forces a

head as a

hug, patting my back. "You can stay here a

I think this is what I can c