The Bright Sunny Days
It was a very scorching sunny day in a small village of Toluca valley of Mexico.Like every other day Miss Luna, a 16 years old girl was late for her school but she was unable to go school directly as she is the only one to take care of her family.
she immediately cooked the morning breakfast at 9 o'Clock when her neighbours already had their breakfast and school children's and office workers were gone to their respective works. Mr. Toham a very talkative nature person had his day off from duty ,he was a constable in police department and a batchmate of Luna's father ,he always tries to enter into family matters ,he shouted with a loud voice "oh !poor girl! you are already late for your school and haven't made the breakfast yet your mom must be very hungry ". Now, you may think that if Luna's mother is hungry then why don't she cook food by herself ? That is because she is unable to do,as she has hemiplegia (half body paralysis)since from last 4years due to brain tumour surgery in December 2014 and her husband left her because of her paralysis and married another woman, due to this Luna's mother had complained a case against it and getting 50% of her husband's salary.
I think it is enough for the readers to understand how the family condition was at that time. The separation of loved ones,illness,family responsibilities, taking care of her school going brother,doing her own studies was too much for a 16 years old girl to handle .Every night while in bed Luna cries a lot ,her pillow knows it very well .Its only in the night when Luna sleeps and dreams of her family to become a happy and loving family again.
But maybe the dream of Luna was fading slowly because the more she was going towards her wish the more she was facing the realities of life .Four years later after her mom's brain surgery Luna had her same routine all day but has made some friends in her school,beside her family Luna also started spending times with friends and because of that he was having fun with them after a very long time . Slowly Luna loose interest in household chores and most of the time started hanging out with her friends, everyday she wakes up in the morning re-cooks the last night's food serve it to her mother and brothers and leave for school ,she comes back late from school in evening hours , immediately cooks meals for the family, serve it and went to sleep again because of this day to day routine ,the house became very messy, dirty, unclean and the personal hygiene of the paralysis mother was also not maintained. Luna's mother friends stop coming to their house and every villagers were gossiping about them,Luna was ignoring them as she was giving more attention in spending time with her friends. One afternoon Luna gets a call from her friend Jasmine..
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