Falsely Accused

Five

Falsely Accused

Chapter Five.

I am officially frustrated and the pain comes all over again. There are tears rolling all over but I don’t have a choice. 

I can’t yell, I can’t shout, I can’t run after her, I can practically do nothing in my situation.

Rue moves forward and wipes the rolling tears. It has been me crying and shedding tears all the time.

Baby Neilan just brought so much happiness in my life, but the moment he was snatched away from me, I felt betrayed and all the happiness faded away. More so by the very person who killed its father and committed its mother to this fate.

I need you, Neal, wherever you are just watch over our baby.

Despite everything, I know you left me the best gift ever. Thank you so much Neal.

 My son isn't even called Nealon, he is called Neilan and above everything else, I hope he is safe for me. He is all I have left by now.

Why did you have to leave us, Neal? Anyway, wherever you are, RIP. I will never accept your demise and promise to watch over our son for our sake.

I will totally lose it if anything happens to him.

My champion has to stay alive and kicking for me.

What kind of a sister is Naomi though? I thought our parents taught us better.

How to love one another and have to have our backs, to care for each other.

I thought since I had a big sister, I would not suffer.

Why did things happen like this?

Two men walk in astride and each goes to each of us and start strangling both of us. I am too weak to struggle so I make a quick prayer and surrender to my fate. Rue is fighting and kicking but it is pretty obvious she is losing it too.

Just then when its dimming out, Rue's dad walks in momentarily freezes on the spot before h acts on impulse with a dash of adrenaline and in a quick kick hits the man strangling Rue who slumps in a corner like a sack of sand. He then charges at the one holding my limp self but the commotion attracts the prison warders who rush in and subdue the assailants.

"Dad!" she calls desperately as she moves to hug him. "Please help her. Her sister just took her baby away from her."

"Don't worry, I am going to unveil the mystery, I know it will be a bit hard but I will do my best. 

"Thank you, dad." Rue answers.

When I open my eyes Rue and her dad are looking at me as the doctor is still investigating me.

“Thank you,” I say to no one in particular.

"Don't mention it, my daughter. When you leave prison I want you to come home with us, you are welcome anytime."

I blink so many uncountable times to keep the threatening tears at bay. I need to pull my s**t together and gather all the energy I can master so that I am ready to fight once I get out of prison.

"You will get out baby girl. Don't lose hope."

My subconscious says to me and I nod absentmindedly.

"Dad," Rue calls gently and we both turn to look at her, "what are her chances of getting out of here.'' 

‘’She will just have to trust me.’’ He is really confident as he says that and I have no option but to trust him.

‘’You are going to help me out of here aren’t you?’’

‘’First things first my daughter,’’ he just called me his daughter. No one has ever done that since dad died. He was always my favourite person. ‘’I will get you out and then get your baby, your sister is a lunatic and she is not supposed to stay with the baby.’’

‘’How did she know I was here?’’

‘’She must be having an insider and my sources indicate that it is that Bubble Bee.’’

‘’So she had a hand in the two stabs at my life?’’ I ask desperately hoping that the answer will be no.

‘’Not confirmed yet but seemingly.’’

I give a loud and very audible sigh, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was her, she cannot even let me bond with my kid so she is a monster.

But why would she do that? I will find out I swear.

‘’That’s gross. My own sister wanted me dead?’’

‘’I know right?’’

‘’I already hate her so much.’’ Rue says and I shake my head.

‘’Don’t hate her, she will just come around. For now, her mind is shadowed and I know she will get it back.’’ 

‘’Stop being naïve Nada! That is someone who is obviously looking for your downfall, be very careful with her.’’

‘’Okay I will but remember, she is still my sister and at the end of it all, blood is thicker than water.’’ I say looking at her and she frowns at me.

‘’I know it is, who told you that just because she is your sister she can harm you?’’ she says annoyingly and I smile faintly.’’

‘’I get your point.’’ I say retiring from the argument.

I need to think and the argument isn’t doing me any good. I look at her and she looks away. She must be feeling my pain.

 ‘’Who called you dad? I am sure I didn’t make any calls.’’

‘’The doctor is my friend and when he thought there is something off about Nada as his patient, he called me.’' 

‘’Wow! That doctor is your friend?’’ she asks with interest and the dad nods.

She moves closer to me and leans towards my ear, ‘’things keep getting better.’’ She whispers mischievously and I smile at her then she winks at me.

 ‘’I need to get going, you guys stay here.’’

‘’Thank you, sir,’’ I say and he starts to walk away. He turns just as he is about to get out.

‘’Rue!’’

‘’Dad!’’

‘’Don’t leave Nada alone, I don’t trust anyone in here.’’

‘’Trust me, dad, I will not do that.’’

‘’Take care you two.’’ He says as he turns on his heel and walks away.

Rue takes that moment to go get something for us to munch while I take that very precious moment to remember how I met him.

He used to play this song by Dolly Parton a lot.

‘When you think about love.’

*Three Years Ago.*

I loved my spot so much, I could go rest there a number of times, most of the times when I got stressed up, I would go and sit there. Alone with no one to talk to.

He kept coming around, I didn’t like his guts and when he could try to talk to me, I would walk away instantly and go without looking back

One thing though, he was quite unique.

He looked at me with his brown eyes and very sexy, pouty and kissable lips. Trust me it took me a long time to notice that.

He looked like a Greek god and many are the times I could steal glances at him without him noticing. I stopped visiting that spot because I never wanted to be bothered.

I was just from a very awkward heartbreak and never wanted to be with someone, not just yet. It got so boring without seeing him.

I realized after some time that I really needed that unwanted company, so I resumed visiting my spot.

One evening as I was just about to leave the spot, I heard a very sweet sexy and familiar voice calling from behind.

‘’Hello, Nada,’’

I turned swiftly to look at him but I bumped onto a very hard body I stumbled a little bit but his hands went around my waist automatically to stabilize me.

Our eyes met and held for almost two minutes without a word.

I realized there and then that he was cute, very cute.

He broke the contact and moved his eyes to my lips.

I knew I was supposed to move away from him but that never happened. I closed my eyes to anticipate whatever that would have happened but guess what!

He called me gently and asked me to open my beautiful eyes.

Embarrassed, I took a deep breath and opened my eyes and that’s when I realized he smelt really sweet.

All along I had not realized that he had a white beautiful rose in his hand. Believe me I was so much disappointed that he didn’t kiss me but I cleared my throat so quickly hoping he didn’t even think about it

I looked away in embarrassment, but he caught my chin and gently brought me back to face him. Our eyes met again but this time, he spoke in a bid to break the awkwardly brewing silence

‘’Please accept this simple gift, I love you, Nada.’’

That was so straight forward. He didn’t beat around the bush so that gave him almost 70% of the trust.

‘’Why would you want to love such a broken woman like me?’’

‘’Because I love you. I don’t care about you being broken, I just love you.’’

‘’How long have you loved me? I mean I just met you a few weeks ago and you have been stalking me so how did you even fall in love with me?’’

‘’Please accept this flower first.’’ He requested and I picked the flower from him but threw it away. I know that was so gross of me but I hate drama and since there was already a small crowd forming around that place, I walked away.

That didn’t make me feel like a hero though. It made me feel like crap, I hate disappointing people so that made me feel like crap I was so mad at myself.

I walked away briskly without turning to look back.

‘’Nada!’’ bubble bee calls startling me and probably bringing me back to reality.

How did she even get here? What's her motive?

‘’Yes,’’ I respond calmly, I have no energy to fight but am burning with rage and I feel the anger building up in me and smiles.

“Relax vulnerable angel. I come in peace. Just to welcome you over. You know am your nurse?” before I could answer Rue interjects at the door.

“You wish. What are you doing here b***h?” she asks and the bubble bee turns to me with a mischievous grin and asks.

‘’Are you okay? Should I call a doctor?’’

‘’I am fine, why would you ask if I am? Haven’t you caused enough damage already bubble bee? ’’

‘’You are crying Nada but am not done until you help me get my last instalment.’’ She replies and Rue asks what we are talking about. Before I answer bubble bee cats walks out with a grin. When Rue turns to look at me she puts on a concerned look.

“Are you ok sweetheart?”

‘’It’s just the pain but trust me it’s nothing I cannot handle, I am sure it will go away quite soon.’’ I say and she shakes her head.

‘’Who are you fooling Nada?’’ she says angrily and I blink, her almost shouting is just out of place.

‘’What do you mean who am I fooling?’’ I ask her in the most humble manner I can master.

‘’I know what you are thinking.’’

‘’Eh hee! you do? And what would that be?’’ I ask raising an eyebrow.

‘’You are thinking about Neal, I know you too well to get lies from you.’’

‘’You are smart girl.’’

 ‘’And you are dumb?’’ she asks with a smile. ‘’Now, take your tea, you haven’t had a meal in like forever, they will be delivering a meal here soon for us.’’

‘’Yes, mummy,’’ I say with a smile, a very faint smile.

*Elsewhere,*

Rue’s dad gets to prison and asks to see the warden in charge of the prisoners.

He is directed to his office but not before being asked a myriad of questions.

‘’Good afternoon sir?’’

‘’How can I help you?’’ he is really rude but Rue’s dad is wise, he is going to record him and use that against him later.

‘’I wanted to request that you don’t use the bubble bee as Nada’s nurse, she almost killed her and we don’t want to take chances.’’ 

‘’And who are you to make such requests?’’ he asks rudely. 

‘’I am her attorney and I am sure she needs protection.’’ 

‘’Says who?’’

“Me”

 ‘’The same person seated in front of you, is he who is in authority.’' 

‘’Wow, so you want her to die just because you are in authority?’’

‘’None of my business.’’

‘’Are you even listening to yourself?’’

 ‘’If you don’t stop that I will kill you then have her killed.’’

‘’Are you threatening me?’’

‘’Take it as you wish. And just so you know, the file has been submitted and no one is going to do anything about it. And did I tell you you have a beautiful daughter? The problem is she is as stubborn as the father I now see. No one has ever turned me down! No one except Rue! She couldn’t have stayed in here for all the time she did. Our twisted society you say, mmm?’’

‘’Who are you working for? Aren’t you supposed to work for the people?’’

‘’As I said earlier, that is none of your business.’’

‘’So you will just let someone who attempted to kill her care for her?’’

‘’That’s my work, so, that’s what I will do. You shouldn’t come here to interfere with my job.’’

He lifts his hand high in a bid to show that he has surrendered.

‘’I will go then, thank you for your time.’’

‘’Don’t ever show up here again.’’

He walks out and heads back to the hospital.

A few days later, I get discharged and brought back to prison, Rue’s dad has been working day and night to get me out but it is proving difficult.

The bubble bee welcomes me but I know better than not to fall for her cheap gamble, I look at her with a very hard face hoping that she stops being an ass.

She looks bitchy and opportunistic.

Someone else brings my food and she sneers, I know she wanted to be the one bringing the food so that she could poison me yet again.

It is deep in the night when I feel a body next to mine. She must be thinking I am asleep because she keeps talking to herself.

‘’I must make sure you die today. That i***t must pay me my balance.’’ She says and I wish I could hear the name of the facilitator.

The i***t as she puts it.