Ayuna (not her real name) is a girl with a golden smile. She shakes my hand and sits next to me smiling she doesn't talk much but every time our eyes meet. She smiles.
Hi I am Ayuna, I am 17 years old, she pauses in silence. I stopped going to school when I was in class 8, they sent me for my birth certificate to register for the main exams and I couldn't get it. I have been working as a house help ever since but it never works out and I always find myself coming home. Her pauses are loud, I dont have much to say, I just wish that I can go back to school or at least learn about hair dressing so I can also make sense out of life.
At this point I realise that she is not comfortable and I draw back my questions. She looks at me and smiles again, her voice is barely a whisper but her hope is loud. The house becomes so silent, he mother sends her to the shop then tells me her story.
We are not broken, we are becoming - again and again
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