Melike

Melike, that’s my name. I am half Italian and half Turkish girl, my mother was Italian while my father was Turkish. He always said to me: “Daima sadece kendinize güvenin, asla başkalarından yardım beklemeyin.” Meaning”Always rely only on yourself, never expect help from others.” At that time I didn’t get it, why he said so. But I understood what he meant 2 years ago. When my father died from a car accident, as soon as the news of his death came to us my mother couldn’t bear it and died from a heart attack. When they died my relatives from my fathers neither my mothers side wanted to take care of me. They said:” You are old enough to take care of yourself.”Never did I think that these people that always smiled to me and my parents face would be some hypocrites. Now I’m 16 years old as I wasn’t able to go to school as I had to work to be able to keep renting the cheap apartment I live in. But I know that my parents would have wanted for me to go to a school. I have moved alway from Antalya and moved to Istanbul as I heard that I can make more money there. Now i will finally go to school at the last year of my high school years. Next I will have to pay for tuition at an university. Tomorrow I have to go to school. I have bought the school form. I chosed to buy the boys form and discussed it with the teachers as I had more boys clothes at home left from my father. I will have to study hard as I haven’t been able to study for the last 2 years, I know my parents would be proud of me. Melike looked at the necklace her father gifted her. “ Baba, Annem( dad, mom) I miss u so much.” Melike held the necklace close to her heart. Tears dripped down her face. Her eyes became red from crying. It wasn’t easy fro her surviving, after all she had only herself to rely on. Minutes went by months and years but the image of her mothers dead and her fathers dead body didn’t leave her mind. Melike some times got nightmares about their dead, making her have insomnia, that’s why she decided to have night shifts as to relive her mind and make herself more tired to be able to sleep. Melike wiped her tears and stood up “ I have to be strong, I have to be strong to survive”

she took on her jacket and went to work at her Night Shift, she wore black jeans and a black t-shirt people at her work called her Yabani ( wild ) as she beat someone at her work for calling her mother:”a wench not being able to make money and look after her own daughter.” Melike smiled thinking about how she beat him. She was a master in kickboxing if only she had the money to continue doing it she would have reached the championship. Melike shook her head and went to work. When she arrived everyone applauded her-

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