Elh Jasmine T. Del RosarioHumss 12a1The Thief“Bye mom, I will buy you everything you want after I sold thisbanana”. After saying goodbye, I shed a tear in the sidewalk of the street. Itis so hard to see my mother smiling while dying in pain. She has bonecancer stage 3 and we can’t afford the surgery. I know that she’s dying. I’monly 12 but I know that she will leave me any time soon. My father left uswhen I was 1, and after that we never hear anything from him.I need to sell all this banana for us to have meal tonight. “ouch!”, Iscream after an old lady collided on me. I stand up and gather my banana,and walk away. While selling, I heard a loud scream. “You thief! You stole mymoney! Call the police!”. It was the lady who hit me. I don’t know what todo. I didn’t do it.I was afraid of the thought that police might arrest for the things Ididn’t do at all and worried about my mother’s condition who’s sufferingfrom bone cancer. So, I try to keep myself together to handle this situation.“What’s wrong with you old lady? I didn’t steal your money where in fact,you are the one who bumped me when I'm selling bananas” I said. But thelady is stubborn “No! That’s not true! I saw it myself you stole my money”,she responds aggressively. “I didn’t really do anything” I respond calmlyhoping she will simmer down. “Give my money back or else I will sue you”and she starts to be brutal, she slaps me forcing me to give her money back.“Please Please. Don’t hurt me. Don’t send me to jail because my mother iswaiting for me, she is in pain now. I can’t lose her.” I’m desperate that I startbegging and crying in front of the old lady, even though I did not steal hermoney. Then I saw a man approaching us, I am anxious thinking that he isgoing to help the old day to sue me. But to my surprise, he held my handand cover me from an old lady and said “She does nothing, you just made itup.”But the old lady got more angry "Are you saying that I'm lying?!" said
