"Hey honey, how was your day at school?" Mrs.Klent asked,
"It was fine, I guess," Sheylia sighed.
"What does I guess mean?" Her mother asked while sitting down at the kitchen table, knowing that something happened with her daughter.
"My day was good, fine, okay," she said, "Now I have homework to do so I will be in my room if you need me," Sheylia said as she grabbed her backpack and headed up the dark, wooden stairs.
Her mother sighed as she pushed herself out of her seat, and started gathering all the ingredients for their supper.
Sheylia plopped on her bed, stomach first, with her feet dangling off the edge. She pushes her self up and sits on her bed staring out her bedroom window.
"If I told my mom she would either not believe me or tell me that it isn't a big deal, or it was accidental," she mumbles to herself, taking in a big breath, holding it for a few seconds then releasing. Falling back onto her pillows, she grabs one and hugs it.
"I should tell Mia, she would listen and believe me.. right?"
"Well all I can do is hope and believe that she will believe me, because I can't keep this to myself anymore, I need to tell someone.." she tells herself, hugging her pillow stronger and staring up at the ceiling.
After a few more minutes of silence she decides to get up.
"Now, Sheylia pull yourself together you have homework to do!" She tells herself while sitting up and pushing herself out of bed. Putting on her fluffy navy blue slippers, she walks towards her desk and gets out her homework.
After an hour and a half, her sister comes in,
"Hey, it's time for supper so let's go," Zoe says while leaving the door wide open. Sheylia turns off her music and heads downstairs towards the kitchen, hearing the sound of metal clashing against glass as her family eats. She enters the kitchen and sits in her assigned seat.
"So Sheylia, how was your day, what did you do today?" her father asked while shoving a spoonful of turkey soup into his mouth. After swallowing he looks up at his daughter waiting for her to respond.
"My day was fine," she said while mixing her soup.
"Okay, well what did you do today?" He asked again,
"Nothing really," Sheylia replied,
"Well you went to school for the day, you had to have done or learnt something," her father said, trying to strike up a conversation with his daughter.
"I don't know, I ran in gym, nothing interesting," she says while finishing her last spoonful of turkey soup. Sheylia gets up and puts her dishes in the dishwasher.
"Thank you for the supper mom, I'll be in my room." Says Sheylia. Once she gets in her room she puts all her books and binders back in her school bag and grabs her diary. As she flipped through the pages, trying to find a blank page she spots an entry she wrote in spring.
It read:
April 13 2019
Dear Shey,
Today I had a bad day. But before I get into that, I want to say that I have listened to BTS's new album like 100 times, but that's okay! The bad thing is, my mom called me to tell me something. Lyde (the actual devil) was already there waiting for my mom to tell him something. Well when I was standing there listening to my mom HE touched my poor little butt for like two minutes straight, IN FRONT OF MY MOM! But the sad thing is, she didn't see him do it....he was also standing really close to me and at one point I heard him breathing SUPER heavy and loud but then stopped, like he was CLOSE. I'm too scared to move or turn around and look at him, so I just stood there and died. Is this sexual assault or sexual harassment?? Imma look it up tomorrow.....and when my mom was finished talking to me, I quickly turned around and went straight downstairs (to the basement) BUT OF COURSE, when I turn around about to leave, he brushes/presses up against my like side butt cheek thigh part. I don't know what it's called!!!! I need to tell my parents about this before something bad, very bad happens!! But for some reason I'm too scared to do it!!!!!!!
Stay strong and love ya Sheylia
Goodnight 💕
Once Sheylia finished reading her diary entry she slammed her diary shut and threw it somewhere in her room. Groaning, she gets up and makes her way to her bathroom, forgetting that she wanted to write an entry today.
Splashing cold water on her face she looks at her reflection in the mirror,
"Why do you let him torment you?!" She splashes water on her face again,
"Tomorrow you are telling Mia and she is going to help you make it stop, okay? Okay," she tells herself.
After she brushes her teeth and does her skin care, she flips the light switch off with her finger and makes her way to her dresser. Taking her clothes off, she pulls one of her drawers open towards her and grabs a red oversized t-shirt, and pulls it over her head.
Turning off her nightstand light, she crawls into her bed and under her covers. Sheylia grabs a pillow and hugs it, helping her calm down and drifting her off to dreamland.