Changes

Living in a small house in the eastern region with my mother and dad was a mysterious thing. I had no friends, no family member who came around for us to chat or play ,I had always complaint to my dad that I was sick and tired of living in the small house, and The troubles that always came to us from our landlord because of some little mistakes we made in the house ,so my father suddenly started a building project in Accra and soon it was ready for us to move into it. one week later we moved to the new house but to no avail nothing changed for the best my brother Tony who had just finished writing his examination to go to the senior high school came to our house for the long vacation to live with us .

He was a real tragedy to me and we fought almost everyday. Because of our relocation I had to change my school and things weren't going smoothly for me because I had no friends, because I was a newcomer ,but I wanted a friend and someone who would care about me. One day as I came back from school wearing only my pants and my underwear I remember that I had not swept the porch in the morning before going to school so I took the broom and went to the porch and started sweeping, as I started sweeping I heard a strange voice from where I didn't no, I looked around and I saw a girl and she asked for my name but I ignored her and entered the house after 5 minutes I came back outside and to my surprise she was still at the same spot in which she had called me she asked for my name again but I pretended not to have heard her and I continued sweeping I went inside the house for 2 minutes and came out again but this time she was still there smiling at me. she spoke to me in a nice way but I ignored her ,she asked of my age but I pretended not to have heard .

After two days the same thing occurred but this time Tony my brother was around with me so when she came out and started talking to me Tony climbed up stairs to talk to her because it seemed they were friends and already knew themselves. I was very surprised seeing my brother Tony with a friend because since he came I had never seen him with a boy not to talk of a girl the way they both looked at themselves puzzled my thoughts and in fact I can truly say my brother liked this girl, because the way he spoke to her romantically I have never heard him speaking like that .I went upstairs but I had to leave immediately because it seems I was interrupting their romance as they spoke i listened to my brother and the girl and I noticed that something has changed having a girlfriend at my brother's age was not surprising for me but what surprised me was the girl having my brother as her boyfriend. My brother was 16 and I could not believe what I saw ,I later gathered the courage to interrupt their romance and surprisingly the girl started talking to me and paying no attention to Tony again ,so Tony excused himself and left and as we talked I got to know that she was called Bella but Tony called her Bell which means beauty in French and she was not that small as I thought ,she was 14 years old and in the same class with Tony but different schools .

whenever I came back from school I went to my usual spot, Bella always came out and asked me why I was wearing only my underwear in the presence of my brother I told her it was my house so I could wear anything ,but Bella warned me and told me to be careful and she told me that she was giving me a year and that I'm going to change.

And truly I'm now 12 and I can't even afford for my brother to look at me wearing only my pants I believe there are so many changes in human beings especially in girls ; the growing of the breast ,the widening of the hips ,emotional changes and menstruation also begins to.I feel Bella was very true and she continues to be my friend she's now 15 almost 16 and I assure you that her relationship with Tony is more than Romeo and Juliet, see you in chapter 2 and always remember that no condition is permanent.