Kessy sighed then sat on the sofa close to Michelles bed before letting out hot breath with her lips slightly opened.
" What ever it is you should let it out and free your pretty heart from the stress" Michelle encouraged her.
"About the record you asked off me earlier icantdoit" Kessy said but Michelle couldn't comprehend the last part. "Nervous huh, you don't have to be_ now close your eyes and take in three deep breath slowly" Michelle told her taking her hands as she gives it soft massage.
"Now assume you're the only one in here and say whatever it is my dear" Michelle said further now massaging her forehead gently.
"I could not take the record earlier because I don't know how to write neither read advanced words" Kessy revealed but Michelle kept massaging her forehead for few seconds then stopped.
"Kessy you don't have to feel bad about it and it's not too late, you can still do that if only you want too. Education doesn't have age limit my dear" Michelle told her calmly but Kessy was surprised at her reaction.
"You're not gonna mock me for being a beauty without brains or better still i should go get some wealthy man and get married rather than waste your beauty in the four walls of a school" Kessy said to which stunned Michelle.
"It seems my pretty girl has gone through the needle's eye" said Michelle.
FLASH BACK : TWENTY YEARS AGO,
"Papa why don't I go to school like my younger siblings" little Kassandra asked her father.
"Ha, it's a waste effort, you'll get some wealthy man to marry, so you have to be a good wife to him" Mr Bold said
"But I want to study papa" Kassandra told him but he sneered at her
"You'll only learn domestic skills, dance and play our traditional music and most of all how to please your husband!" He told her walking away but the little girl pleaded holding his legs.
"Get off me will you!" Mr Bold bellowed kicking her off with his leg and walked out not caring about the little Kassandra who had her head on the wall.
"Kessy my dear, you have to listen to your papa" her mother said to her as she attended to the injury on her head.
"Mama why does papa hate me, my brothers are all going to school but me?" Kessy asked but as usual her mom will only close her eyes.
Kessy was determined to learn so she tried her best to win her father's love by learning essential domestic skills, dance and their traditional musical arts.
She was well known all through the neighborhood and beyond of how amazing she is in playing most of the instruments and her dance just like the butterfly.
At a age ten she got alot of admirers who some wanted her for themselves while others for their sons but she will always scheme her way out but her father would punish her by sending her to his construction site to work.