Hatred on a girl child episode 11 – 12

Hatred on a girl child

Episode 11

Wrath and fury filled up my heart when I espied that I have given birth to a girl child.

In truth,I was in a black mood and I felt like going gentle into that goodnight.

The nurses were comforting and I kept weeping.

Ben had come and take his responsible wife Miriam home leaving me in the hospital for the second time.

He had earlier told the doctor to tell me that he doesn’t want to see my girl child in his house that if I want to have a place in his home that my child shouldn’t be seen anywhere in his house.

My heart gave me one big thump that nearly made me faint when the doctor told me what Ben said to him previously.

“What will I do now?” I queried myself.

“Should I take her to the village? No!
Mama will be infuriated if she hears that Favour had bitten the dust” I said in my mind.

“Should I take her to the orphanage? No! some childless couples might adopt her” I kept pondering.

“Yes,I will take her to Mama,she will grumble and rant the way she likes and afterwards she will hush down” I muttered while meditating.

“Madam,this is your bill” one of the nurses said as she gave me a long slip.

“My God!” I roared because the bill was enormous and I did not have any money.

I lowered my voice and asked “Nurse! I don’t have enough money with me, can’t you people reduce the charge?”

“No! ma, nothing can be done about it” the nurse replied.

My heart was in my mouth as I did not know the next step to take – Ben seized my phone and I know not of any number upstairs.

“What will I do now?” I asked myself as I drag my disheveled ebony hair that grew up in nine months after it was being shaved off completely by Ben and his wife.

“Stop that young woman!” A woman that previously gave birth said.

I turned immediately and looked at her. She was smiling broadly like a man who won a lottery.

Bewilderment and astonishment filled my countenance.

“See, young lady,I passed through this circ-mstance before bréaking the back of the beást. I believe you can pass it too, God will surely see you through” She said with his face wreathe in smiles.

“Apropos of the hospital bill,I will beg my husband to pay for you and I. I will tell him your condition” she uttered with a low tone.

I was froze with thoughts “Does this kind of human still exit?”

I knelt down instantly and started thanking her continuously but she ordered that I should stand up that it was nothing.

I relaxed my mind and I was happy as Larry when her husband came and paid the hospital bills. He also gave me some money.

I left the hospital grinning from ear to ear although I was a little bit depressed.

I boarded a tricycle that took me to the bus stop where I boarded a bus that will drop in Aba.

Before I knew where I was,the bus had gotten to Aba – it was already 4pm that day. I headed to the house because it was close to the bus stop.

When I got home,Mama welcomed me dearly.

The first thing she asked me was “Where is Favour?” My mouth started shaking and she asked again with a thunderous voice “Where is Favour?”.

“She have joined the choir invisible” I responded.

“Which choir? Your church choir? why did you allow my small grand daughter to join the youth choir?” She kept asking, asking and asking.

“No! she did not join any choir – she is deäd” I said with my voice shaky.

Mama stood up immediately and started yelling, scre-ming and shouting. She rolled down the earth and continued to roar.

“Mama I have cried and my eyes are now tearless! I gave birth to this child I am carrying yesterday and Ben did not care to come” I uttered with tears streaming down my cheeks.

Mama now sat down as though she was downhearted and I narrated all that transpired to her.

“Ben said that he doesn’t want to see this innocent child in his house,so that is why I brought her here for you to nurture her. I must make sure she enrols in a good school and feed well like other children” I said thoughtfully.

My mother concurred to take care of her and I was on cloud nine.

The next day,I went back to the city and when I reached to the house,I saw my luggages and my bags in front of the gate

Rain was wh¡pping down on me and I knocked countless times but no one opened the gate.

I was bundle of nerves and hot tears was drizzling from my eyes like a rain.

EPISODE 12

I was crying my eyes out when I saw my luggages outside the portal gate. My heart shattered into pieces as I kept knocking. Unfortunately,no one opened the gate.

I sprawled out on the floor pondering intensively on what to do. I had spent all the money given to me by that Kind man in the hospital.

I had no money to go back to the village and I couldn’t look for a paid job cause my husband seized my CV and everything regarding my education.

Rain was falling heavily and I carried my luggages on my head and moved to the Bus stop –it was very far and I trekked for two hours before getting there.

“Oga, please help me out!,My husband pushed me out and I have no money to go back to the village” I begged an affluent man in his car,he was being held by the traffic.

The man drooled a saliva at me “Get out! you beggar” he said and drove out.

More tears emerged on my cheeks and the smell of the acidic saliva was fetid.

“Oh! God” I grumbled and sighed heavily.

” Young lady What are you doing on the rain?” A man asked.

I turned and saw a handsome man. He was dark skinned and his l-ips was pink. Truly,he was fascinating.

“Where are you heading?” He added.

“I am going to Aba and unfortunately I have no money,my husband pushed me out” I said with my mouth shaking like a leaf.

“I am going to owerri but I will pay your transport fare” He said and chuckled.

I knelt down instantly and started thanking him. He told me to stand up and he helped me pack my baggages in the boot.

I was happy as a flea in a doghouse. “God is indeed wonderful” I said in my mind.

I had kittens when I noticed that the man was at glancing as though he was lustful.

At 9:00pm,we reached owerri and the bus spoilt–It’s tyres ran flat.

The driver tried as much as he could but the tyres was totally flat.

People came out of the bus and started looking for a cab to board and I was bated breath.

“Come and sleep in my house tonight, it’s not too far from here.” The man that paid my transport fare uttered.

At first,I didn’t concur but later on,I decided to spend a night in his home.

Instantaneously,we boarded a tricycle which took us to his house.

When I got to his house,I kept looking at the long sofa and the humongous television set in his sitting.

He welcomed me and offered me a drink not knowing he had poisoned it.

I gulped in a little of the drink and I fell asleep immediately. I couldn’t explicate what had happened to me.

In the morning,I woke up seeing myself nâked and feeling pains all over my body. I was full of rage and fear as tears of pains and misery flowed freely down my cheeks.
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To be continued