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Episode 12

“where are we going to Mummy?” Kiki asks her mother as she opens the car for them to enter

“Just taking a drive sweety” she tells her as she belts her up with the seat belt “Just a drive into town”

“Who is the gift for mama?”
“Someone really really special to me”
“Me?’’

Megan smiles “You? Yahl you are more than
extremely special to me, extremely, but this
person is also special to me”

“okay”
“Okay”
She puts the car on drive and they head into
town. Today was her mother’s 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 parent’s 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
didn’t 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

“They are in the city kiki’’
“Why don’t they come to visit, don’t they want to see me?”

“They do sweety, they want to and they
will,okay?”’ 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,
“Stay here kiki, I will be back”

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 ‘‘mummy, why are you
crying?” Kiki raises her hand to touch her
mother’s face. Megan sniffs.

“I am not baby, something is in my eyes” 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.

“Mummy, please don’t cry, if I did anything I am sorry, please don’t cry” Kiki removes the seat belt and hugs her mother, “Pleaase mummy I am sorry” she sobs wiping her tears
“Mummy don’t cry I am sorry”

Megan cries for a long time, and yet, they didn’t
come out, they didn’t 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.. “It’s been too long Charles, too long 
 I can’t do this anymore,

I can’t’’ she bursts into tears and runs up the stairs

“She 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 child’s but what does
she do, she leaves, runs away now she comes
back?NO!.. I’ll never forgive her’’

“But she has suffered enough, out there on her
own for four years, taking care of a child,
please”

Ruth begs from the stairs
“Never, never !!’’ he shouts, Ruth runs further up the stairs crying, Charles turns flinging the cane he held away in anger “Never!” he repeats


A few days later, she had found another school
she was going to enroll Kiki into, making sure
the company supplying them wasn’t the same
one supplying Kiki’s, 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,

“Continue your work kids” she says going
outside

“Yes Divine?”
“I am so sorry but Child Services are here to see
you, I already pulled Kiki out of class”

“I don’t understand” Meg says frowning “Why are they looking for me?”

“I really don’t know, we don’t want any one
getting worried and asking questions, they said
they were looking for Kikina and her mother and

 I don’t know, they are in the library, please
come” Divine says, worry creasing her forehead..

“I really don’t understand, please someone
should stay with the kids”

“I’ll get someone Megan to do that, please follow me”


“My name is Deborah Teneka, I am from Child
services and we have reports that your daughter
is being abused by you’’ the woman who came forward says looking from Megan and to kiki who is seated by the corner

“And 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 ?” she
holds kiki and turns her around “No bruises,
none!“

“Sometimes bruises aren’t Physical, it could be emotional as well”

“Oh for God’s sake!“
“Kiki, are you scared of your mother?” the lady
turns to Kiki telling her to come forward
“No, I am not. Mummy, why is she here? she is
scaring me” Kiki goes to hold her mother
“You see? A child who is scared of her mother
wouldn’t run to her”

“Sometimes 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
it’s our duty to check, and if its indeed true we
would take the necessary precaution to save the
child”

“You will not take my child away from me, who
was it, who was it?’’ she shouts at the lady
holding tight to Kiki who was hugging her
“Mummy” kiki cries
“Calm down madam” Deborah says
“No tell me who was it. Has that person seen me do anything to my daughter, who the hell was
it?”

Someone was ushered into the room by another
Teacher,

“It was me!’’
They all turn to the door as Sean O’Conner
walks in.

“You B—–d!!’’ Megan breaths


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