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Dad please"

Dad please leave mom alone!

"Dad please"

I am Raynell, I'm just 10, being ten years old is no means a small feat though.I have a twin sister, Rachael, who is completely direct opposite of me, I also have a younger sister, Stephanie. I love singing, crocheting and writing, certainly twinnie hates them all. Biology tells us that twins are two or more identical offspring of same mother, but I completely disagree, except from physiques, my sister is a completely different person but guess what... I love her so much and in my next world if there is something as such, I'll chose my strange sister a thousand times.

The fact that my family is a warfront or maybe I should say a wrestling ring makes me feel demoralized. My father's house is a wrestling ring, with my mom and dad being the wrestlers, I and twinnie being the referees, our neighbors being the spectators, and being so unfair leaving the referee task for I and twinnie alone, Stephanie, poor girl, what she does is only to cry and scream for help, instead of help, more spectators arrived. what a worthless task Stephanie was doing.

I feel so awkward and emotionally battered. Mom's opponent has just left the house to his usual "God knows where". I feel for Mom what exactly is the problem? Don't men love their wives deciding to marry them? Don't women think before accepting their proposal ? Don't men and women court before getting married ? Or are people just forced to marry people they don't love? Don't worry these questions are not for you, maybe these are those questions we will ask Jesus when we meet him in the golden home up there.

Things are getting so complicated, oh no! Dr Leonard said that's much thinking and worries could cause high blood pressure. I think I'm the only one thinking about all these, while dad continues with his usual rugged lifestyle, and mum is indoors weeping and regretting her marriage perhaps as well as nursing the injuries given to her by her beloved husband. I don't think this was God's plan for marriage at first. Maybe before I clocked 20, I would have been a high blood pressure patient or I would have died of heart attack because I just feel frightened and ready to run at all times, Infact the adrenaline in my body is going to get exhausted very soon. When will all these stop? I keep asking, maybe one day dad will kill mum in their regular awful fights or maybe he will just bury her alive, no! hell no! I think I'll be a lawyer in the future, so I will teach men like dad how to treat their wives.

But, marriage should not be a" do or die" affair, was this God's plan for marriage? Or maybe this was the punishment women should go through for eating the forbidden fruit,

I don't think so,

Let's leave God out of this.

I'm sure this was not His plan, he always has God thoughts towards everyone.

Feeling sleepy already, Mom is not making dinner tonight, I don't think anyone even have the appetite to eat anymore. Moreover, twinnie is playing her violin as usual and Stephanie is with mom in her bedroom, perhaps sharing in her pains and regrets.

The house is as quiet as a graveyard or maybe I should say cemetery, except from the melodious sounds from twinnie's violin. I once heard Mrs Beatrice, mom's friend speaking of divorce when marital problems gets to life threatening condition. Isn't this condition life threatening? why isn't Mom making effort to do something before we are being devoured by our Lion King. Maybe mom still loves him or she still holding on the Bible because it says that God hates divorce but does God wants mom to die? What if mom is worried what people are going to say if she leaves? No I don't think so

As for me, I don't want to die yet, if things become worst I will leave this house, to where ? school ? church? aunt Catherine's place ? I literally have no where to run to. Leaving this house leaving mom, twinnie's and Stephanie behind to be devoured by dad might be the worst mistake of my life. I will remain here.

if it was possible to choose one's family, I wouldn't have chosen this war zone. I shouldn't be the one worrying about all these, mom and Stephanie must be sleeping by now. Twinnie's is still on her violin. I need to sleep

Dear God help my fami

" Goodnight Rachael" I screamed.