Chapter 96

At this time, I noticed a certain tension in the house. Nobody talked to each other as much as we did before. Especially my parents. They could spend years chatting nonstop like two long distance lovers who had just met for the first time but everything begun to shift towards mute hostility and silent treatments. What was worse was that nobody laughed as much as they did.

The only person that had me laughing once in a while was my oldest sister, the one who had told me that she would vote against me if I were to ever faceoff against our father in an election. She was a nice person. Really nice. But as for the rest of us, we were sour people – at least during this period.

I remember that at that time, my mother paid less attention to us when we were doing shifts in her shop and any little mistake that was made with the money on our path, or we let a customer we knew was a family friend take something on credit, we were toast and dead.

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