Chapter 1

I was 12years when I lost my father.... Things was so difficult for my mother and my siblings....my father's as so many properties..in a week later my father family sent us packing without taking a pin unannounced.. nowhere to go,no one comes to our rescue...

We began to sleep on street.to eat was very difficult for us... and my mum began to search for work and she saw a place where to do babaijebu and they do pay her by 5% and depending on the sales.my mum hardly put on a smile because the depression was too much for her.she always think and cry day and night because she feels lonely and couldn't do anything without my father.....

My father left her with 3 children and she doesn't know where to start from.....after my father desmises we couldn't go to school.but the little she as we managed it with her.In the middle of the night I woke my mother to discuss with her about letting me go out there to look for jobs so we could raise money for us to live under a roof. "you have a point". my mother said.

The next day I stepped out there to look for jobs which I see.....I saw a sales girl work where dey do pay me 15k monthly...I and my mum raised some money to get a room apartments.my mum took my sister's to a new private school and bought them the necessary things they needs for the term.

on one Monday morning my sister's set to go school and on their way to school they had an accident and my mum got a call from an hospital... immediately my mum got the call she leaves whatever she is doing to get their on time..... when my mum got to the hospital area she as to crossed....she focus on where she is going she couldn't look the road before she crossed and a truck jam her and instantly she gave up a ghost

I was at work when I get a call but I couldn't pick it because I was attending to customer..... and where the scene happened is not far from where I worked.My boss friend Mrs tee comes in with unhappy face..

"good afternoon ma, what happened because this your face isn't good ma?" I asked

"An accident occur there", Mrs tee said..." according to what I heard they said she is on her way to visit her children at the hospital and got herself into an accident and she died instantly" Mrs tee added

"Ahhh......aaaah jesus, I feel so sorry for her ooo... sorry ma can I take a look?"I asked

"...no problem but I want to be on my way ooo nobody to take after the shop" Mrs tee said , "then I will have to close it then" I said and run out of the shop to take a look.

I got to the scene, I saw so many crowd surrounded by the corpes and people felt pain for her. on getting closer to the corpes it happen to be my mom.. I can't understand exactly what I feel at that very moment.

tears stucked in my eyes...I walked closer to her slowly...I could barely feel my leg...

my mother was there laying lifelessly on the ground in her own blood.

I fall down on my knees in front of her, as I cried my eyes out...and rolling down on the floor begging her to wake up, people was dragging me but I couldn't let go later on I fainted and people tried to wake me up which I did...

after some hours I pay a visit to the hospital where my sister's are... one is awake and the second one her condition was critical which lead her to comma.i told my sister that I will come back to check on her, I don't tell her about mom, I don't even know how to tell her, as she was no healthy enough....I had to be strong for my sister's.

I need to bury my mom and I don't want her to be taking to mortuary... but I need some money to take her corps to her village where I can bury her because there's space in her village....I went back to my father house to ask for their assistance on getting there I meet my father aunt...I greeted her properly and fall on my knees in front of her..

"Aunt Betty...my....my... mother...is dead and needed a little help from you please...I need to bury her... but am very broke ma...I just registered my sister's to school... anything will be fine please, just to cover my dead mother..." I said to her as tears flow down from my eyes.

Aunt Betty look at me with no emotion...it was like she did not care about what I just said..

"Coming here won't help you Eniola...I also have my own problem here...I don't remember me be the one who kill your mother....so please leave and find help else where...." Aunt Betty said as she get up and walk away from me...

I felt lost... like I don't understand, she's my father's sister, how can she be this cruel... I get up, knowing there's no help here, and walk out of her house...

On getting home,I called my friends all of them were giving me story...but one of them help me with 5k and I added the little change with me and I did the proper burial

after I get home, I shower and prepare some food to take to the hospital for my sisters to eat... getting there I meet the doctor and he asked to see me and I told him to give me some minutes...I woke my sister for them to eat... "where's mum?" my youngest sister Tolani asked...

"Mum was very busy at work and she begged my boss for me to come stay by you" I said, not dare to look at her eyes, as tears has already filled my eyes

".....oh that is good of her... what a lovely mum". Tolani said.

I went to see the doctor and he said I need 500k for my young sister Ife treatment, tears roll down from my eye... because I don't know where to get that huge amount of money and it can't be priced and I had less than 2wks before her treatment could be done.

No...I need to get my hustle up... I can't lost another family.

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