Young Stress Part 3

I woke up the following morning rather confused and so lost.I woke up beside my sister who was wide awake just staring blankly in the ceiling just waiting for me to wake up.
When she notices I am also awake she lifts me up and leads me to the kitchen,where granny was still sitted beside the three stones,smoke coming out from the fireplace and covering the entire kitchen.
Sipping her tea,she notices our faint footsteps towards her.She looks back and smiles at us.
"Come here my children.." She motions us to a three legged stool and since we are tiny,we squeeze to fit on it looking at her with those kind of hungry eyes.
Okay you know at the countryside;well. At least those days  we never had anything like brushing our teeth.Grandpa though would cut a stem from a cypress tree,chew the tip and give it to you for tooth brushing.Don laugh,I still see people do this even this  elite times.
Grandmother,is kind enough to give us a cup of tea and some arrow roots. Well,they tasted really good. I thought. We had a great breakfast,I must say.
And for the days that followed,life was typically so tricky especially for me.
I mean having to put up with the bully cousins and uncles,missing my mum and dad since both of them lived five hundred kilometres away a from us  and learning how to.defend yourself against everything hostile that came my way.
My sister soon forgot about me and made new friends. Girls and boys of her age I mean and since I was too young and a little silly may be,she drifted from me.
I had to be alone or at some points be with those of my age and suffer under their control. Being hit,slapped,pushed and insulted by others. I was so weak,too weak to voice,too weak to slap or hit back and only weak enough for tears.
I would cry most of the time.Each time this would come i would miss my dad,miss my mum,and miss all the good times before.Tears were my daily bread.The only thing I would do to relieve my troubled heart.
Days went by and I learnt how to survive. I mean,defending myself from harassment,eating as fast as I could like everyone else,and make friends too.
And my best first friend was found.Eunice.

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