Take Me Home

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Jona has read a lot of books authored by black writers. Each time he visits the library to lend a book is always gets attracted by the title of those books written by black writers. As a black boy in a class filled with learners from all over the continents of the world, he wanted to find out more about his heritage.

His intonation with English isn't as pure as other kids but he was proud that he could still communicate with his classmates. Jona and a few other black boys had been taken into the displaced persons' home their newfound home.

Some of his new friends are very nice but some of the boys sought any opportunity to bully him. This act was unknown to the teachers.

One evening, while the boys were done with the practice of the cricket game, one of the huge boys in his class accosted him, threatening to beat him pulp if he ever turns up for the par to be of the game. Other accomplices of the bully stayed close and moved on when he had done threatening Jona.

On the day of the next practice, Jona was nowhere around the cricket pitch. He created that the boys could gang up against him. He would rather spend more time at the library reading up novels written by black writers.

He had read up all text in the library that it became boring to go there again.

Two days before the cricket game with Beverly High was to be played, Jona wrote a letter to the sports director who had neem heels over his absence from the team that he would love to withdraw for sake of his hurting knees. His excuse seemed tenable, hence Fabian obliged him.

On the day of the match, Jona was present in the stadium. He wished that Beverly High wins. While the match was being played, the opponent was leading. And at full time, Beverly High lost and crashed out of the competition.

After the match, Jona came down a showed his support for the team despite being bullied out.

Meanwhile, when all literature in the library do not catch his attention anymore, started reading books on how to develop video games.

A year after, he had develops three different video games with the help of his technology teacher. The games were screened by the censor board and made a lot of sales. As a schoolboy, he had made so much wealth for himself.

He became the talk of the school. Even as an asylum seeker, he was still determined to make a difference.

Back home in Sudan, his eldest brother is autistic. Something he found rather disturbing since his illiterate father does not want to come near. He felt how much his brother would be suffering.

Since the war broke out, his autistic brother, Jordan had been abandoned. Who knows whether he survived unrest in southern Sudan.

Fabian wanted him to stay back and continue his research into more games but all that mattered to Jona were to find his brother.

One of the features in his last game was that the bullies played a pivotal role in bringing out the best in him.

Fabian accompanied Jona back to Sudan to locate his autistic brother. When they arrived in Sudan and reached Jona's hometown, they got a baffling report that Zullum, Jona's autistic brother had been returned to the colony of lepers.

They made all efforts to find Cullum. It took them three weeks to find him far in the eastern part of the province.

The whole nation is devastated sake of the destruction that came as a result of war.

Staying back a fee more days, When Jona and Fabian saw that Zullum could be of immense advantage to them back in Newzealand, they tracked back to continue their trade in the newly developed video game.

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Wow! I was amazed in your article that you wrote ☺️ by the way I'm Newbie here ☺️☺️

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Welcome to read.cash @Valjosh

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Thank you. Wish you all the best @Pearlkel

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Beautifully written... Maybe later in life, when jona becomes a tech billionaire, he would sponsor research on finding the cure of autism

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