Inevitable Family

For as long as I can remember, I was only seven years old when my life seemed almost completely perfect. My family was a seemingly looking bright, happy and wealthy . This was a lifetime breakthrough that has come to past after years of struggle and endless disappointment from my dad's work but finally everything was looking bright for him . My grades were continually good and my mom's business had never been better. My life was perfect but little did I know it was all about to crumble to dust. It was another day of a successful pop quiz I did in class with me coming up the top yet again . Not quite a surprise to anyone that knows me. They all seem to believe that am a genius but I don't see myself that way. Am only like that because I study day and night till I wear myself out . I do this so as not to disappoint my tirelessly working parents who provide all I need in a heartbeat so the only thing I owe them is a perfect grade. So as I came back home that fateful day ready to show my parents my quiz results when they get back, I was surprised to see my dad sadly sitted on our parlour couch weeping profusely. My really happy face suddenly changed into a grieved look like some kid who just lost her pet dog . As I took a bit step closer to sympathize with dad, my mom appeared from nowhere standing in front of the entrance door giving a sign to see myself to my room. I reluctantly walked straight to my room with loads of questions going through my mind about dad's sudden grief. I decided to find out myself what was wrong then I went to my room's door to eavesdrop on what my parents where talking about then I overheard my dad crying profusely to my mom telling her all that happened to him at work . He said; honey I don't know what's going on with my work anymore . For the past few days I have been experiencing difficulties in controlling the workers in charge of loading goods into the containers for exportation. My dad is a marine engineer, his work is based on seeing to the clearing and forwarding of goods in the wharf. Contacting importers on informations on their goods and preparing the papers for transporting them . I can tell why he is facing these difficulties because for the past six months, his work has been really booming and his formerly uncompleted building in the village is almost finished thanks to the breakthrough he's been having. The only thing left to do to the house is the painting and cleaning up the house and some few other things. I know you are wondering how I know all this but what can I say my room is really close to the parlor and their room , so I have been doing alot of eavesdropping. But also thanks to this enormous breakthrough he's been having, there has been alot of reckless spending and partying with my dad. He spends alot , drinks alot more these days and worst of all comes home late. The worst of all is when he gets back home drunk, he starts insulting me, my mum and my siblings. I just thank God it doesn't result into domestic violence. My dad's is a well cultured and well mannered man with so much respect for women. He would never hit a woman no matter how drunk or furious he is. So thanks to this new side of his , he's become a reckless spending and it's become concerning to me at least because my mom doesn't really seem bothered by this new habit but I guess she will come around some day. As I continued eavesdropping, I overheard him say he lost his position in his office and most of his importers . I didn't really understand what this meant but the way he sounded seemed like he had lost everything. Then my dad continued as he said; I am no longer my own boss , I have lost my importers because my friends turned them against me because I brought them too close to my work affairs and they destroyed me from the inside. Even after all I did for them . I gave them employment and even introduced them to the powerhouses of the office only for them to turn my importers and bosses against me. I should have heeded to your advice when you warned me against them. You warned me to take it easy with the help , to do it stage by stage but I was blinded by the love I had for my friends that seemed like brothers to me but now it took me job and betrayal to realize that no one can be trusted. Am sorry honey. Am sorry for not listening to your advice. Overhearing all my dad said to my mum completely broke my down to silent tears because I didn't want them to hear my crying. As I stood closer to the door and pepped out of the room I saw my mum calming my dad and telling him that he shouldn't worry that all will be well but then my dad stood up furiously and yelled saying; All will be well you say, I just lost my source of income, my wealth , everything and you say don't worry? I am back to where I started, am back to square one. I have failed my kids, you and this family. He finally said as he entered his room depressed and heartbroken. He seemed really broken and very sad. My mum entered the room with him to sympathize continuously with him. As I say them leave to their room, I broke down completely asking myself all sorts of questions like ; Where did we go wrong ? Just as I was questioning our faith my brothers came home from school at a pretty late hour at about 6pm . I was too deep in thought to even realize that they weren't back from school yet. Just as I heard their noise I came back to earth. Living in a family slightly big is not much of a deal but it's very enjoyable not alone being the only girl in a family of four children. Me and three brothers. One older than me and two younger ones who happen to be twins. People that make my life worth living for. They extremely mean the world to me. Living as the only girl in this family is far from what you think. The pampering, love and attention? NO. We live equally in this family. Sometimes I don't feel like a girl. Now am not saying am a tomboy and definitely not a girly girl but just normal in my own way. So let me get back to my story and pause on my personal life history. As my brothers came into my room and saw me looking really depressed and devastated, they came really close to me and started consoling me and asking me what happened. I turned to my big brother and started narrating sadly what had transpired in the parlor recently. After telling them what had happened, we agreed not to make it obvious to mum and dad that we are aware. About two months later, we resumed a new term and a new class but surprisingly, daddy hadn't paid our tuition fees yet . It was unlike him cause we had never been even a day late to pay our fees. But then I realized that he had just lost him source of income so obviously he was unable to pay them early. For the past two months we had been living off my mum's business. Feeding, clothings and other petty things we needed. No wonder we haven't even been having lunch those days .