Yubiidsan Senathirajah

Yubiidsan Senathirajah
Esther’s Diary
Dear Diary, Chanda, my best friend, took care of me when my family was scattered all over after my parents died; in fact I even got raped, but Chanda took me in. Even though Mrs. Tafa thinks I’m a bad influence to her, she still thinks of me as her best friend and believes in me. I helped her get through her mother’s funeral; it was really hard for me to handle her sadness. She had told me how she’s suffering from tiredness in her life was after her mother passed away, because she had to handle all the chores in her family take care of her siblings and at the same time work as a teacher. Now I’m worried about her, how she’s experiencing traumatic dreams. Chanda’s nightmares happened every couple of weeks, but now it happens almost every night. She told me that in her dream she would see her mother and would converse with her, but her mother had vanished after Chanda had told her that she was going to go search for her siblings who went to play hide-and-seek. A machete had appeared into her hands in the midst of cutting the bushes in search of her siblings, but once she found them a storm had struck. Chanda told me her siblings and herself were thrown onto the ground by the storm and once it was over all the children ran toward Tiro and all of the children said, “They’re coming!” Chanda said she asked who was coming but none of them had replied back, and suddenly her siblings were also screaming that they should head towards Tiro, but then they both had clung to her waist and said, “It’s them! They’re here!” I’m worried about her, because it is frightening Iris and Soly, her siblings. Another reason is I think her dreams is showing how much love she has towards her family and doesn’t want to lose anyone again. I recommended that she either talked to Mrs. Tafa or Mr. Selalame regarding her dream but she insisted she wouldn’t do either. She wouldn’t talk to Mrs. Tafa, because she doesn’t like