LEADING TO LOVE

CHAPTER FOUR: THE TRAGEDY

AMANDA POV

I stayed in the hospital for two months before getting discharged, but still on medication and through out the two months the man didn't come by at first i was waiting and wishing for him to come at least to apologize.

Today is quite a great day starting with my mother waking me up helping me with my morning activities after which she went to the market while my sister Emilia went to school. At first i thought i was going to enjoy having the house to my self but now am so bored i can't wait for them to come back.

I woke up like two minutes ago and i have been sitting in front of the gate waiting for my mother and sister, this is really odd never have my mother or Emilia stay out this late am still in my thoughts when someone touch my shoulder.

"Amanda, what are you doing outside by this time?" i turn around it is Emilia. I am so happy that i hug her before telling her have been waiting for her and mum.

" let's go in you are still not well enough and mom must have something to deal with if she didn't come back today she will return tomorrow so stop worrying okay?" She ensure me which helps me in calming down and stop me from having negative thoughts.

The next morning Emilia wakes me up and help me with my morning activities before going to school and am alone again but this time around i am not feeling bored but rather lonely.

A knock at the door wake me up from sleep, i get up to open the door two women and a man is standing in front of me at first i thought it was our landlord that send them but then i noticed that they are wearing the same uniform people that works in the hospital usually wear. Before i could say something i heard a man's voice

"is this the home of Mrs Benita Vincent?" the man that came with the women asked. All i can do is nodding my head a lot of questions is running through my mind.

"is there any adult at home?" the man ask again this time around i speak telling him no that am the only one at home and how i can help them. The man insisted on speaking to an adult which i told him that my elder sister Emilia is not yet back from school, surprisingly they agreed to wait for her. I didn't let them in but gets a chair out for them to sit on while waiting.

Not up to one hour Emilia return from school i told her about the people waiting for her so she went out side to meet me i didn't quite pay attention to them again about ten minutes Emilia comes in with tears in her eyes to i am surprise is an understatement i run to her asking her what the matter is with a face full of tears she said the unspeakable.

"Amanda mummy is dead"

I really think she is joking or playing around Emilia play too much but this is an expensive joke, how can my mother be dead as if she reads my mind,

"the nurse said she was involved in a fatal road accident which involved the bus she was in crashing in to a train no one survived except her she was immediately rush to the hospital but didn't make it out alive the hospital send these nurses to inform the family about the situation, Amanda what are we going to do now? who will help us with the burial? you know mum don't have any relatives and dad's relatives will never help us they hate us, what will we do Amanda?"

I can see my world coming to an end. This leaves me with a lot of questions too like "how can mummy leave us? why did she leave? did i annoy her? is she angry with me? why did she leave me? who will take care of me? who will listen to my complains? who will take care of me when i get sick? she didn't wait for me to buy a car for her?............

I am not crying, i can't cry. I feel like someone just press the stop button on my life. I ask Emilia what will happen to mum which she reply with "i don't know" we are here with no parents or family.

It is five a.m , i still have not close my eyes to sleep i tried over and over again but sleep didn't come i got up to go out and get fresh air, i am just walking around the street some cars and buses some times pass by i don't even know what is going on in my mind, i don't know what to think, am just walking with no destination i remembered all the fun times, my mother was and is still my best friend i can't believe i won't see her again.

Some one pulled my arm which makes me remember i am still walking on the road but this time around am walking in the middle of the room.

"hey little girl what do you think you are doing, you want to kill your self?" i look up to see the woman that i met at the hospital, the woman that knows the strange man. She pulled me to the other side of the road and ask why i was walking in the middle of the road absent minded?, why i am crying?, before she can finish asking her questions i break down in tears.

When i finally calmed down, the woman repeated all the questions she had once asked, i don't even know how or where to start so i keep quiet she goes on to ask me if she can take me home which i just nod my head we didn't enter the car she came with she walk back with me.

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