A Friend's Mysterious Tale
Day 6 of my writing challenge. Prompt - Tell Someone's Story This is a story about my childhood friend whom I haven’t seen for more than 3 decades now since she left for Saudi Arabia to work as a domestic helper. Her name was Lolita but she was fondly called Lolet. She was living opposite our house where I grew up and spent most years of my life . I am not sure if she was the same age as me or a year older. I thought she was taller than me because her body type was bigger. She was a nice person. A good daughter of a very nice couple. The 4th child of 6 siblings. She was beautiful, kind, very responsible and industrious, doing almost all the household chores back then. We were not together during our elementary days. She went to a school nearby and I went to another school with my oldest brother and had to stay at my grandfather’s house during weekdays and go home on weekends. So whenever I was home, we always try to make up for the days that we didn’t see each...