The Pain Of The Poor - Episode 15

 

 Thanks once again, is still your girl nnenna, and to those of you whom I may not have responded to their comments am deeply sorry for that.

Here is another enjoy. ....

My own daughter is not a piece of toy anyone can play with, so you can go and do your worst but tell your daughter never to cross the path of the lioness again that's if she makes it out a life  hahahaha father laughed them. 

That night my victory was celebrated, for it was like a warrior returning from a war victories  for my father.  But I was happy though because I got to eat two big meat that night alone (smiles ) oh I didn't tell you guys I love meat alot, so who else does ? Alright you can live that in the comment box .  

Now let go back to the  story, 
  Though I was happy outside but I bleed right inside of me. 

The next day Joy's parents were once again at my school to report me, but as God may have it my principal dismissed the case saying that the fight didn't take place during school
Hours and because of that he couldn't do anything. 

No Mr principal you still have to do something na,  Joy father said as I stood in the principles office waiting for my faith to be decided by the principal,  but what do you want me to do then? the principal asked them, Alright since you no know your work I go teach you myself call the people way dey there yesterday make you begin ask them wetin happen then you go find out say you get the devil for school here. Joy's father said.

And this made my principal very mad and judging by the look on his face he couldn't wait to dismiss this annoying man hahahaha.

So to please him Joy's father the principal then asked me of those that were with us when the fight toke place and I told him, then they were sent for

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. After he had questioned them, they got to know that I only defended myself from my tormentors which was joy. Her father was disappointed for he expected me to be the guilty one and it turned out to  be  his daughter the saint.

Read " Blood And Water " by the same author ( Nnenna books )

. So he left my school in so much disappointment and shame . 

Believe me, that was the last time I ever saw or heard from joy ever again. she never got back to school but some people said she was taken back to Lagos. so that day marked the end to me being harassed, Assaulted, Bullied or even Humiliated by my follow students but in school and a home too, Ukraine and her friends came back to apologize for all the  hard times they gave me and promised never to do such again,I was so happy that they have come back to their senses and are asking for my friendship back so I forgave them and we became friends back but I never trusted them again.

Now back at home, things were still as bad as it was if not worst. This time around it wasn't my mum and step mom but my mom and dad though it was my step mother's doing, it so happened that  she told my dad that she too would like to start a business, which happened to be a good idea, so father gave her money to start one and it so happened that she had to go for mother kind of business. 

Everyday she will come home complaining of how mother steals her customers and all that, a week in to it she opt out of it saying it wasn't her kind of thing. Now again mother is a member of one of the popular village women meeting, in this meeting they support their members financial like giving them loan and also fighting for the right of a women. 

Then my stepmother came again and said that was the meeting she wanted to join, then father asked her why that particular one she said she liked their objectives so she wants to join them. 

The next meeting day mother took her there and introduced her as her co-wife, she was welcomed by every member of the meeting. Few months later they had to take wrappers for one of their members child's wedding, and that was when Scala got  boosted, or let me say monkey went to the market and never returned home. 

Mother got her own wrapper using her money but my stepmother wanted father to get hers for her but mother won't hear that not till father gets me all I need for school, apparently mother got fed up with father not caring about my education anymore and decided to put an end to it that day. Emma you won't  be buying anyone any wrapper until my daughter's school needs are met if not this house won't contain us she fired,  Haba what is it now! Is it because am an orphan that why I get treated like this by you and your family and you people do everything she wants because you don't want her parents wahala. Is that it? Mother said, then father replied saying but you have your own wrapper why don't you want her to have her own? And that was when my stepmother chipped in saying my husband Shebi you see it now thank God  o you are here now, then mother answered them "which wrapper? Is the one I bought with my money or which one, very good then if she wants one let her go and work but if you must buy it for her my daughter's school needs must come first. That how the fight started and mother in the meaning of defending herself pick up a motel pistol against my father if not for the neighbors who came on time I don't know what would have happened. 
Now father asked mother to pack out of the house back to her parents house, after so much pleading from  friends and mom meeting people father reconsidered and let her stay but not after mother had been given a  fine by her meeting people, one week later mother paid the fine and everything went back to normal. Three months later mother's younger brother died in a car accident and mother and father had to travel to mother's village living me at home with my step mother.

Before they left mother left me a strong warning not to look for my step mom's trouble and do any work she asks of me then they left to be back in three days time.
  As they left my stepmother sent me to the village market to get her some food stuff, which I did and after the food was cooked I wasn't invited to per take in it , I didn't feel bad I only went in and ate the food my mother left for me before her journey and went to bed for the night. 

The following day I wake up did all I can do before going to school, then I returned back from school to meet the shock of my life. It was just too unbelievable that I didn't know when I shouted "mother! What are you doing".

But friends what do you think I saw here doing ....