Lies

In the evening, when sick, I go to bed early without doing any of my homework. Lying in bed tired and alone, the thought of giving up obstructs my mind. How I wish to throw my fights away and fall into an eternal sleep…

I have long got used to living away from my family, but it breaks my heart when taking pills by myself, realizing that no one knows, no one cares…

Being sick, all I want to do is lying in bed, waiting for the fever to fade away. But life is not that easy. I wearily get up from bed to cook dinner (though I don't wanna eat), for I know that it would get worse if I skipped my meals.

Being sick, even the food I cook tastes unpalatable. How I miss Mom's dinner so…

Sometimes the headache is so great that it feels unbearable. How I long for a caring arm. How I realize I need my family so bad!

At night, when my throat hurts so much that I can't even make a sound, how I wish to turn back the hands of time, to the moment when I was a boy who sat behind my Dad, on a motorbike, travelling around the Capital...

The next morning, in my life, I wake up early and go to school – like I have never been sick at all.

----Short Story----
(Wednesday, October 15, 2008)