My Baby My Girl

Episode 10

“No Divine, she is my daughter and it’s my duty to keep her safe, we can’t be too sure who those people are, she is a chiLd and might not know who poses danger to her, I just need her to be careful”

“I will mummy, I promise, I won’t play in the
driveway again I promise”

“Kiki!!!’’ Megan frowns “of course, he wouldn’t have smashed your ball on the playground because cars aren’t allowed in there, Kiki this driveway you don’t come to ever, you want to play, play inside or out on the field with your friends”

“I don’t have any friends” she sniffs
Megan opens and closes her mouth “I am sure
everyone wants to be your friend, you just have
to give them a chance”

“They bully me” she sniffs again
Divine bends to her “I’ll tell you what, tomorrow first thing you show me who has been bullying you and I will teach them why bully is a bad word okay?”

Kiki nods, she straightens up “Don’t be hard on
the kid Megan, it was a harmless gesture”
“I don’t like strangers coming near innocent
girls, much less my own, whoever he is. It’s the
duty of a mother to keep her child safe”

“I know Megan, I know, look I came and was
hard on him too but I realized that he was
concerned and brought her inside looking for her
ward and he felt bad for making a little girl cry
and he got her the ball, that’s all, innocent, there is nothing to worry about”

Megan sighs “Fine, I suppose I can’t make her
refuse the gift?’’

“No no no mummy please” she cries
“It’s a ball Megan, a harmless little ball with her name on it, come on!!’’

Kiki was pleading with her eyes “Pleaseee
mama, pleasee “

“Fine. But I mean it Kiki, no talking to strangers
and any stranger trying to talk to you or forcing
you to go with him or her, scream your loudest,
bite them and run”

Divine laughs, but it wasn’t funny but she laughs
“Do what your mother tells you okay?”

“Yes Aunt Divine” then she looks at her mother
“Do I still get an ice-cream?” she sulks
“Yes you still get an ice-scream”
Kiki jumps excitedly, holds her hands again and
began to pull her away

“Take care” Divine says turning and leaving
“So to Creamery mama?””
“Yes Kiki, to Creamery”

She enters her salon car she had been using for
a year now and pulls away, it wasn’t new but it
was useful.

---

“Boss, the deliveries are ready for about 10
schools, we have started the construction for the
mall at the end of Brook street and then the
design for the community church is done” the
man wearing a thick rimmed glasses says as he
stepped into his office.

“I was going through this files on the Grove’s
project and I noticed some discrepancies, who is
the team lead on it?”

“Its Tony Mcclure sir, from department D”
“Okay, have him check in with me, these are
inappropriate and it needs to be corrected before
sending them out. “

“Yes sir”
“Are the teams for the delivery set?”
“Erm about that sir, two came down with a flu
this morning, they haven’t come in”
“Its 10 am Peter, how come I am hearing about
this now?”

“Sorry sir, I got the calls about an hour ago,
must have slipped my mind”

“Then put others to handle it”
“Okay sir but it would be later today or
tomorrow, all free hands are at the construction
sites, the others are at the factory, the people
available now are the desk and in-house staffs,
and they are filling. I can take a few deliveries
and Kenneth too, but we need one more person
to do the rest because the schools are far apart
before we are done, the day is over“

“And we promised to deliver today, and I hate
breaking my promises” he thinks for a moment
“Load two supplies into my car”

“The Ferrari?”
“No the Ford“
“Okay sir”
“Make sure you all deliver the rest eight supplies
today, no matter how late, I hate a bad record”
“Fine sir”

---

The last time he was in this school was about
three weeks ago when he almost ran down that
little girl, he hoped she got the ball. He drove
carefully this time and checked his mirrors, he
didn’t want it to happen again or worse not see
it before it’s too late.

The proprietress loved the deliveries and some
teachers who were available gushed at the
standard of Uniform and texts they received.
“This is way better than the previous, way way
better… I wonder, do you do sports outfits?”
“Yes we do, how factory handles everything
clothing”

“oh marvelous, we used white and blue for our
sports but we want to change it to royal purple
and peach, with our name embroiled on it, would
that be possible?”

“Sure why not, but the price would be different
from this”

“Oh that’s no problem, show me a sample soon and we would discuss further“

“Yes Ma’am”

As he left her office after he empties his car, he
puts a call to the factory giving them orders.
Walking down the halls passing one door to the
other, he could see through the window teachers
talking and kids either repeating what they were
told or clapped or recited poems or alphabets or
asked to spell, he smiles walking out, but the
door to his side opens up and then he sees a
little girl coming out, she was cleaning her
hands and dropping the toilet paper in the bin,
he smiles walking towards her

“Hey Kiki, do you remember me, did you like
your ball?’’ he bends to her level
She looks up to him, then she smiles nodding
“Hope your mother wasn’t angry at you?”
She nods her head, then shakes her head
“She was, she wasn’t’?” he asks
Kiki shrugs, then he understands ”Oh! Mummy
says you shouldn’t talk to strangers right?”
She nods smiling

“Okay, my name is Sean, nice to meet you” he
gives her his hands to shake, she looks at it,
turns to look around then she places her small
hands in his, then smiles at him.

“You want me to walk you to your class?”
She nods, with her hand in his he asks her
where her class was and she pointed, he walks
her to her class… stopping at the door
“Have you made friends now?”
She shakes her head, her face sad, he bends
down and looks at her, there was something
about her eyes, too sad for a little girl “You are
a little jewel Kiki, and I am sure everyone would
love to be your friend, you just have to give
them a chance. I want to be your friend, can we
be friends?”

“But you are old”

He chuckles “She talks, yay!!!’’ he claps
Kikina giggles

---

Megan was pressed, she told the kids to recite
the alphabets from A-z and excused herself, she
came out of the classroom heading to the toilet
when she saw a man bending and talking to a
little girl, she turns away.

But her eyes shoots open when she remembered
they didn’t have male teachers in the school,
and parents usually didn’t come far down this
hall way during drop offs and it was almost
11am,..

Wait!! Why did that child just laugh the way her
daughter did.

OH MY GOD, KIKI!

She turns and starts to run down the hall
“Kiki!!! Kiki!!!”

She rushes down to her daughter… grabbing her
by her hand and pulling her away “who are you
and what are you doing with my daughter” she
places kiki behind her, her hand pointing at the
Knee bent stranger

He straightens up, raising his head up to look at
her “I am so sorry ma’am, I didn’t mean to
scare you, I was just trying to make her feel
better, my name is Sean, Sean O’Conner,” he
stretches out his hands to her.

Megan freezes when she recognizes him.

Dear Lord!