The Rescue
872 Words
*****Back to when I met her selling sachet water......Mariam, what are you doing here?
I asked.
She replied saying “I'm Hawking Sachet Water” my mom stopped me from going to school and still want me to act like am in school by leaving the neighborhood with my school uniform, I have been selling this water for the past 2 years in this vicinity......I screamed oh my goodness!!
I have always seen her every morning going to school with her backpack, I asked her “Did you go to school today” she replied “no”........I was confused at the moment which resulted in hair scratching so I took a seat and sat down.
I asked her to sit with me but she refused to say that she needs to sell them off, so that it doesn't get hot because no one will buy them!
I concluded that I will buy all from her so that we could go home together... I needed some drinking water so I bought it.
I continued with my question...
ME ★ So you meant that you haven't been going to school for the past two years?
MARIAM★ I was but she stopped me from going to school saying that am a girl child that I wouldn't amount to anything after schooling.
ME ★ (my mouth opened in shock ) still meditating on what she just said, my facial expression changed into a frown.
MARIAM★ She said aunty e shock you?
ME ★ I burst into laughter, I couldn't hold it she made me laughed so hard that I forgot what I was thinking about.
Then we were going home with so many thoughts in my head, so does it mean that am a girl child, she's a girl child so no education for her?
What's the meaning of that?
Why starving her all the time?
What plan did she lay for her daughter?
Why is she doing this to her, she's just 11.
She's just a child.
Has she ever thought of the molestation and abuse that girl children receive these days when most men are just wolves?
Come to think of it, I have seen her with a man promising him that he would give Mariam out for marriage when she turns 12.
Who does that!!
Compiled with the maltreatment Mrs. Bola had been giving her daughter Mariam, I sighed and waved it off my head!
When we got home she started yelling at Mariam where have you been, this, and that!
What took you so long! Did you make sales today? Did you meet your boyfriend today? Were you playing?
She was just looking for an excuse to start hitting her.
So because she loves noise I ignored her ranting and went inside my apartment to bathe and make supper!
Not too long after we came back she started beating up Mariam I could hear her screaming and cry bitterly the torture was intense it seems to me that she has gotten an excuse to hit her, I wanted to go out and talk to her mom but I withdrew my speech because she is known for trouble and I don't want to create one, every other neighbor closed their doors because of the noise and no one wants trouble too, normally few of the neighbors would come outside and engage Mrs. Bola in a conversation about what resulted in her in beating up Mariam, few would come out to rescue Miriam from her cruel mother but at the end, all would regret doing such.
I came out of the room walking towards the main exit of the building, I saw Mr. Sam coming back his face was not cool it seems he was not happy or probably he had a bad day at work, I greeted him and he just waved his hand.
He came inside and he saw Mariam lifeless on the floor due to the wickedness and cruelty inflicted by her mom, at this point she fainted, she was bleeding from her teeth because of the maltreatment this got Mr. Sam very angry compiled with his unhappiness he yelled at her to stop hitting her,
everyone came outside because of the noise, they were shocked to see Mr. Sam trying to loosen his belt to hit Mrs. Bola as he was also ranting and complaining that this has to stop and he wants to rest!
She was dealt with so well, she had bruises all over her body, her eyes swollen, her lips torn due to the hard punches she received, her ass whipped she was in a bad state even the neighbors added some pain she was handled by Mr. Sam.
After that, she was taken into custody to sign an undertaking at the station in case any harm befall Mariam again, ever since then there was peace in the neighborhood.
Mariam was rushed to the hospital because she was unconscious and after regaining her health, a good samaritan took her away and she studied psychology and today she has a center where she advises and counsel people, after two years she was made Human Right Officer.
And she became the classiest woman who studied and help others from situations.
- Writer
