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SIRA

I have been sulking for a couple of minutes. I didn’t get it at all. Why couldn’t I do things the way I wanted for once? Ugh! I rolled on my small bed till I fell down on my butt. Ouch! It was not as though I had so many friends, so they had to restrict me.

No-one visited me at all.

I was literally a loner.

I had no-one.

Then, why couldn’t I have Cansil as my friend? I could remember how dad looked at me the first time Cansil had come over. It was as though he couldn’t quite believe that a male friend had come to visit me at all.

Was it because Cansil was a male, and not a female, so he found it hard to actually believe a word that I said? It was so annoying that this kept on repeating itself. My father should really get past his sexist thoughts and realise I wasn’t happy. I had informed them about this very fact the last time, but they had not done anything about it.

A knock…

Now, what do they want?

I walked over to the door, and sprang it open. Mom stood at the other side of t