HER CLAP-BACK

Chapter 6

We woke up the next morning tired, my body was sore, it took so much to stand up, i walked around and saw an orange tree i quickly climbed on it, to feed my grumbling stomach, as i walk back i saw Matilda sitting on the floor and scribbling with her hand.

" Hey" Hey" we greeted ourselves

"Where did you get that?"

"There's a tree out back, you care for?.

"Of cus, why not! please i want" Matilda cried

"Here, I walked to her and let her have some of the orange

"Thank you" She whispered

"You're welcome"

"I miss my Mum,

"I do too, i wish we can reach her, those wicked men burnt Dad in his car"

"You know," Matilda shook her head.

"You know what baffles me the most? It's that man; we could have been killed but he let us go.

"Yes. He's so nice" why did you tell him we were lost? And our father missed us?

"Do you know him? aren't we good as lost right now? Do we know where we are headed? So we are lost. The preceding event just didn't tell us all that we've managed to face in such a short time. We continued walking our way, we were wandering in the woods for five days before we saw a water lake "Look there Matilda, it's the water Dad made reference to, we both stared at the water and walked towards it, We started trying to walk across the water

"Hey Matilda i have a plan"

"What's your plan?"

"They're big woods here why don't we carry one and try putting across the lake, like a pathway?."

"That's a nice plan, but we are too weak to carry anything" We have to make ourselves strong then, Yvonne said, it's either we carry it or we swim this huge water! So which do you choose? We both carry the stick or we swim."

"Okay. Let's carry it then.

There was a plywood laying there on the floor, since we were too weak like Matilda said, we both carried the smaller one, move towards the water and let it fall the other way like a bridge-like walkway

It was difficult but we finally achieved it. I remembered seeing that in a movie i watched at home; and here we were practicing what we watched. We managed to move across the sea to a different world entirely.

We saw beautiful houses,

There was one enormously magnificent mansion that we headed towards, and there was security everywhere. We saw beautiful houses, some of which looked like ours, some of which were shady, and some of which were dilapidated.

"Who are you?" A man asked us.

I didn't know what to say "Please let us have water and we would go" Matilda pleaded . The man looked at us again and left to get water, There was an elderly woman maybe the age of mum, but she looked older "Come here, why are you standing there". We walked towards her, The security brought the water for us "Ma, i saw them outside the gate, and they requested for water".

"You may go kabiru" Who are you?

"Why ask?" Yvonne asked her

"You showed up at my front gate, and you ask, why do I ask?". Are you aware of who I am? Are you aware of where you're? You little child.

"We're just exhausted, Ma'. Please don't get upset with my sister. I'm really sorry. Matilda told the lady that we had walked a long way.

"You look familiar," the woman said, taking another look at Yvonne.

"Not at all. I don't know if you thought I was someone else."

Yvonne answered "How old are you?" The lady was amazed. "I will soon turn eleven years old.

"Where are your parents?"

I was unaware of the events, but I recalled Dad being in the fire.

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