Mama: Amaka! Amaka (her mother’s voice woke her up,
she sluggishly stood up from the bed and went outside
and saw her elder brother and sister peeling cassava,
she hissed and passed them and went to the kitchen to
answer her Mum.)
Amaka: Mama you called me?
Mama: yes Madam Chiamaka, i did!
Amaka: good morning (frowns)
Mama: it is now that you remembered to greet?
Amaka: what did i do again?
Mama: come on will you shutup! Your brother and sister
that are older than you never replied me in that manner
and it is you that is just 16 years old that will do it, try it
next time, and I’ll show you what you don’t know, foolish
girl!
Amaka: Mama am not foolish!
Mama: chineke, there’s nothing i won’t see in this house,
don’t worry, it is because you’re living with me, one day
I’ll send you to someone and then you’ll know that
people have different life styles.
Amaka: me am not going to stay with anyone oo.
Mama: get out of my sight (she picked her slippers and
threw it at her and amaka ran out)
.
.
Night came so fast, their father came back from work
and instead of amaka to go and help her mother and
siblings in the kitchen, she went and sat outside drawing
what noone knows on the floor, and suddenly she
received a slap on her head and she stood up
immediately and saw her father standing there.
Amaka: Papa what did i do?
Papa: you don’t know what you did?
Amaka: did you tell me?
Papa: you’re possessed!
Amaka: i am not!
Papa: come on will you go to the kitchen!
Amaka: am not going!
Papa: then you won’t eat this night.
Amaka: me I’ll eat this night oh.
Papa: we shall see( the old man left her, he later had a
discussion with his wife, one of his friends had told him
that his son needed a househelp, the man suggested that
amaka would go and stay in the city with the guy they
were talking about, when they told her, she refused but
later agreed saying that she was even tired of staying
with her family, they ignored her words and two weeks
after the discussion, she left for lagos……
TBC……
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