Growing Up

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"You are growing up. It's time for you to find yourself a good man," said mother as her fingers caressed my hair, pullling away tangled strands.

An unsettling feeling pooled in the pit of my belly.

I was fifteen. I was still so young to be married in my opinion. Yet, in this society girl's were bearing young. I didn't want that life for me, but I still wanted to make my mother proud.

I did the only thing that would end this conversation. I smiled and nodded my head.

The lie had been set.

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