Dark Night

Episode 11

Blessing waited and waited for Gift to come and pick her up but he didnt come, then she concluded that he was still brooding over the previous day. With the help of some friends she was able to get home.

Ever since she started school she had always avoided Mrs Johnson and her troubles and Gift had always protected her from the wickedness of their mom. Today she prayed Gift would be in the house because she didnt understand why he wouldn’t come pick her up even if they had a misunderstanding. If he were not home, their mother would find any means possible to punish her.

When she entered the house, she knew Mrs Johnson was hone because she could already smell her presence.

Blessing: Good afternoon mummy

Mrs Johnson: what is good about the afternoon blind girl? What is good about the afternoon.

Blessing: sorry mummy.

Mrs Johnson: Sorry for yourself. Better go and drop your bag and take your miserable self to the laundry room and iron the clothes I kept on the table there.

Blessing: iron?

Mrs Johnson: the last time I checked, you were blind or have you turned deaf also? I said iron the clothes.

Blessing: But mummy, I can’t iron, I won’t be able to see the clothes or the iron.

Mrs Johnson: so of what use are you to me? If you can’t iron, come on get out of here and iron those clothes for me before I beat you up.
Blessing dropped her bag and managed to get to the laundry room, she started looking for the iron, she does not even know what an iron is because she has never seen nor felt nor used it before. She was still pacing up and down, praying for Gift to come to her rescue when Mrs Johnson came in.

Mrs Johnson: so you are still here, you’ve not ironed my clothes abi?

Blessing: am so sorry mummy, am trying to figure out what an iron is.

Mrs Johnson: Okay, be figuring out what an iron is let me figure you out. (She collected the iron and plugged it to the electric and when it was very hot, she pressed it hard against her back. Blessing screamed out in pains as she fell and roll on the floor.

Mrs Johnson: foolish girl, next time I ask you to do something and you mope around I will deal with you. That is what an iron is and that is the work it does. Stupid blind brat.

Blessing: (rolling and shouting on the floor) mummy please help me, mummy am sorry, help me please, mummy please dont go, somebody help meeeeee.

Mrs Johnson turned and walked out of the room and left Blessing on the floor rolling and crying.

Blessing waited on the ground for some time before she managed to stand up and walked up to her room. She started singing while crying.

”He knows my name”
”He knows my every fault”
”He sees each tears that fall”
”And he hears me when I call”
She kept on crying until she finally slept off in her blood and her tears.