The Promise
Wednesday morning, my alarm went on. And with my eyes closed I try to find my mobile phone under the pillow with my right hand, and there it is. I open my eyes and check the time on my phone, 6 AM it says. I dismiss the alarm and close my eyes again to sleep.
‘Mama wake up now.’ Mallory said. ‘What time is it baby?’ I said. ‘It’s six hundred ten, Mama,’ she answered, tapping my face for me to wake up. ‘Tell me once you see number 6 and then 30,’ I said as I tried to sleep again.
I am too tired and sleepy. I just fall to sleep without knowing how long until I hear a woman’s voice. ‘Hey Irina,’ the woman said. The voice sounds more like a grown up and that couldn’t be Mallory. ‘Mama wake up.’ I open my eyes and see Mallory with aunt Grace. ‘Oh, Aunt Grace,’ I said. ‘It’s
