Episode 12
âwhere are we going to Mummy?â Kiki asks her mother as she opens the car for them to enter
âJust taking a drive sweetyâ she tells her as she belts her up with the seat belt âJust a drive into townâ
âWho is the gift for mama?â
âSomeone really really special to meâ
âMe?ââ
Megan smiles âYou? Yahl you are more than
extremely special to me, extremely, but this
person is also special to meâ
âokayâ
âOkayâ
She puts the car on drive and they head into
town. Today was her motherâs birthday, and like
today for the past four years she had driven into
town, went to her house, rang the bell and
dropped a gift on her parentâs birthdays or their
wedding anniversary with a note wishing them
well and beside the gifts, within is also a picture
of kiki, from when she was a baby and till now
that she is four years old, she drops her
address, her phone number and the school Kiki
was in, then she tells them they were outside
waiting.
Then she waits, by the corner with Kiki inside
the car with with her. One of them will come out,
pick the parcel on the floor and go in, and she
would wait in her car, hoping they would come
out again to beckon her in or leave the door
open for her.
But they never do, despite she waiting outside
with their granddaughter, they never come out,
they just never do.
She always returned back with tears streaming
down her eyes as she drives home. Her parent
didnât want to forgive her, and it hurts being
away from them, it hurts not able to have her
daughter know her grandparents. She had
dropped messages for them they never replied,
they drop the call as soon as they hear her voice
and it breaks her heart⊠everyday being away
from her parents kills her..
Especially when Kiki keeps seeing their pictures
and keep asking about them
âThey are in the city kikiââ
âWhy donât they come to visit, donât they want to see me?â
âThey do sweety, they want to and they
will,okay?ââ she had told her
Today, she was going out there again, and she
hopes that today would be the day they forgive
her and get to hold kiki and love her a she had
loves her.
She was parked in front of their house now,
âStay here kiki, I will be backâ
She gets out with the gift, she places the gift on
the ground, presses the door bell and goes back
into the car and waited.
She saw her mother come out, seeing the gift on
the carpet la!d out on the floor, she picks it up
and then looks around, she began to open it
when the door opens and her father comes out,
snatches the gift and tosses it away, he pulls his
wife inside and then shuts the door.
It felt like someone used a dagger in her heart.
The tears flows down ââmummy, why are you
crying?â Kiki raises her hand to touch her
motherâs face. Megan sniffs.
âI am not baby, something is in my eyesâ she
lies trying to hold back tears but it keeps
pouring, soon she is wailing holding unto the
steer wheel, her heart breaking over and over
again.
âMummy, please donât cry, if I did anything I am sorry, please donât cryâ Kiki removes the seat belt and hugs her mother, âPleaase mummy I am sorryâ she sobs wiping her tears
âMummy donât cry I am sorryâ
Megan cries for a long time, and yet, they didnât
come out, they didnât come out.
She puts her car on drive and heads home.
She turns away from the window from where she
was peering from, her eyes wet.. âItâs been too long Charles, too long ⊠I canât do this anymore,
I canâtââ she bursts into tears and runs up the stairs
âShe left us Ruth, she did, and I will not accept
her back, not with that child, never, she
disrespected me, disrespected us, she
humiliated us and left, brought shame upon us,
made us the laughing stock. I had to step down
from heading a good position in church because
of her and I wanted to get her married and
secure her future and the childâs but what does
she do, she leaves, runs away now she comes
back?NO!.. Iâll never forgive herââ
âBut she has suffered enough, out there on her
own for four years, taking care of a child,
pleaseâ
Ruth begs from the stairs
âNever, never !!ââ he shouts, Ruth runs further up the stairs crying, Charles turns flinging the cane he held away in anger âNever!â he repeats
A few days later, she had found another school
she was going to enroll Kiki into, making sure
the company supplying them wasnât the same
one supplying Kikiâs, there was no way he would run into her daughter ever again.
She was going to do that today after school, she
would tell the proprietress she was pulling kiki
out.
Sighing, she turns when someone knocks on her
classroom door,
âContinue your work kidsâ she says going
outside
âYes Divine?â
âI am so sorry but Child Services are here to see
you, I already pulled Kiki out of classâ
âI donât understandâ Meg says frowning âWhy are they looking for me?â
âI really donât know, we donât want any one
getting worried and asking questions, they said
they were looking for Kikina and her mother and
⊠I donât know, they are in the library, please
comeâ Divine says, worry creasing her forehead..
âI really donât understand, please someone
should stay with the kidsâ
âIâll get someone Megan to do that, please follow meâ
âMy name is Deborah Teneka, I am from Child
services and we have reports that your daughter
is being abused by youââ the woman who came forward says looking from Megan and to kiki who is seated by the corner
âAnd who may I ask dared to spew such
ridiculous nonsense and lie against me and my
child?l ook at her, does she look abused ?â she
holds kiki and turns her around âNo bruises,
none!â
âSometimes bruises arenât Physical, it could be emotional as wellâ
âOh for Godâs sake!â
âKiki, are you scared of your mother?â the lady
turns to Kiki telling her to come forward
âNo, I am not. Mummy, why is she here? she is
scaring meâ Kiki goes to hold her mother
âYou see? A child who is scared of her mother
wouldnât run to herâ
âSometimes a child is bullied into believing the
threat to her life is actually her protector, but I
am sorry a report has been filed against you by
someone who believes the child is in danger and
itâs our duty to check, and if its indeed true we
would take the necessary precaution to save the
childâ
âYou will not take my child away from me, who
was it, who was it?ââ she shouts at the lady
holding tight to Kiki who was hugging her
âMummyâ kiki cries
âCalm down madamâ Deborah says
âNo tell me who was it. Has that person seen me do anything to my daughter, who the hell was
it?â
Someone was ushered into the room by another
Teacher,
âIt was me!ââ
They all turn to the door as Sean OâConner
walks in.
âYou B—–d!!ââ Megan breaths
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