She had chocked as she said this during her last visit with me.Then the tears welled over her eyelashes, streaming down her cheek.Cheeks that only the the two years ago had been so youthful and full of vitality, now had become Washed out and faded.
There was a sound of shoes thudding up the stairs-slowly,weakly.Each thud was a dry,muffled sound,hitting the wooden boards at regular intervals.she listened and said,"He's home"."I should go home too,"I answered, standing up.she kept quiet.Her infant son was trying to lift his big head off the mattress,teaching himself how to roll over. His head was so big,his forehead so full of wrinkles.His thin neck couldn't lift the watermelon resting on top of it. I went to the door. Before going down the stairs, I turned back one last time and saw her following me with tear-filled eyes. "In those days,how happily we lived".That's what her eyes said.But they weren't looking at me.They were looking at those months and years that had receded into the past.
Truly we had experienced happy days. Now I understand why people often reminisce about their childhood... That year,I was still a gril by the name of Be,and she was a girl called Thom.We were both twelve.Even then,Thom was already beautiful,and I was a bit more ugly than. I am now. I was as black as a crow ,and my hair ,exposed to the sun,had returned as red as corn slik,as unkempt as a bride's nest.My head was full of lice .Every time the newly hatched lice started to bite ,I went crazy from the itch and scratched my scalp until it bled. I didn't inhet anything from my father, except his sooty complexion, hooked nose and big eye that were protruding and insolent.I had two buck teeth that stuck out like the short wings of a mole cricket. Fortunately though, I was never unhappy about my appearance. After school,I roamed the flied catching crabs,picking up fish left behind in dramed poonds,stripping stickly rice off its stalk on the sly, using my fringes to dig for watermelon seeds... sometimes I hunted for duck egg laid in ditches.