Mary My Student

Episode 29

The footage opened to me resting in my office before Mary came in and stood with one leg on chair baring her white p@anties. The camera zoomed in on her p@anties because there was something printed on it, it was LOVE written in bold letters.

The look on Mary’s face has evolved further from anxiety to terror then finally to horror. I was enjoying myself. There was also this shocked look on Mary’s mother’s face and everything unfolded before her very eyes.

The footage ended with me giving a short laugh then saying ” foolish girl.”
Mary was no longer crying, she was speechless, she has been rendered dumbfounded, her scheme has been uncovered.

Her mother who had been sympathizing with her all along turned against her. ” Mary, so this is true? So this is what you have been doing? You made that man to lose his job and good reputation because he would not agree to your foolish idea, is this what I suffer day and night go send you to school to do? If you wanted to do prostitution why not go to Italy. That’s where your age mates are going, instead of you putting the lives of the innocent in danger, oh I am finished, my daughter has killed me.”

” Mom it’s not like that, it is li…………” Mary tried to foolishly defend.
” It’s like what? Ashawo, 419, if you talk nonsense again I kill you there, it’s like what?”

I turned to the policeman and said ” officer I have given forth the evidence of my innocence and as they say cameras don’t lie, what do you want me to do now?”
The policeman was too stunned to speak for a while. He was really shaken from what he witnessed.

He then spoke ” Mr Wilson, we are sorry for everything that happened, we shouldn’t have doubted you, but we have found out you are innocent and as it is this would have would have fetched close to 25 years in jail. But how come, who gave you the idea that made you act so fast?”

” Officer you know after what happened to Mr Collins, I sat down and thought, I knew Mr Collins wasn’t a type of person that would rape even when he is drunk. From then I felt I was the next target, I was sure I could feel the bull’s eye on my back. So l decided to put things in place in case it happens. I thank God that it didn’t happen before I could install those cameras. She though she was smart but I have shown her I am smarter.”
Though in truth all credit goes to Rita Dominic as she was the one that gave me the idea, because I didn’t even feel myself as the next target as I claimed. I was bound to be taken unawares, but I couldn’t mention her there so as not to land myself in trouble.

The policeman turned to Mary’s mother. ” Mrs Jasper, we are sorry but we have to arrest your daughter for false accusation of rape while also trying to get an innocent man into jail.”

Mary’s mother was terrified, ” officer abeg don’t arrest her. ” She pleaded. ” Please forgive her she would not do it again please pity me, she is my only daughter, her father has died for a while now, she is all I live for now.”

” Madam we are sorry, but it is this same thing the government is paying us to do, they pay us to root out blackmailers, manipulators and other similar atrocities, we are sorry we don’t forgive here at the police station. Jack!” He spoke to the other policeman, ” handcuff her, the other policeman moved producing a pair of handcuffs from his pocket then holding Mary’s hands behind her back. I then heard the click. There was something special about the handcuff clicking locked, it sounded like a swoosh of a sword before it cuts into something. It was like a lawyer’s mallet signal a discharge and acquitted case. It was so special.

As the policeman was about to lead her away he stopped and said to me ” Mr Wilson, I’m sorry this happened, I myself have been a victim at once, I went to jail for ten years over a crime I didn’t commit, I was framed for murder and it was the love of my life who fought tooth and nail to root out the root and got me out of jail and got me back my job, while those involved in the scandal were punished by the law, I married her immediately the coast was clear and we are still living happily today. I’m sorry it happened but good thing you are proven innocent quite early.”

With that he led Mary away.
Mary’s mother was crying, wailing and begging but it didn’t help.
I pitied the woman, she thought her daughter was right, not knowing she was blindly assisting her in her tricks.