That same night, she waited for him in the dining room as she kept looking at the food she had prepared for dinner. He was unusually late that night. It was almost ten p.m., and she thought maybe he wouldn't come home and she should just go to bed. But still, she couldn't stop getting worried. She hoped she could talk to him that night about her phone and if he was in a good mood. About going to school.

She had been thinking of not giving up on her dream because of her father. She would love to go to school. She had even applied at one school not...