~||Why by Qing Madi||~
No dey put your eye for my business... Nobody holy pass holy Madeline
POV:Anita
I walk into the village of rural people with small children half dressed playing and clapping hands, while men sit on benches drinking from a bottle of cheap alcohol.
I could sight one in particular who holds a captain jack sachet who seem to be intensely looking at the little girl with a pink dress, she keeps playing without notice.
"Let's not do mama put em...who is in the garden a little small girl___ let's play that one"
"Noo no !
Let's plaaaaaaaaay pushu pushu mo"
The children start picking gravel on the floor when I call out to one of them, the little girl with a pink dress in particular but she doesn't hear.
I quickly walk up to her calling her out with ogel
she answers with yes big auntie, you dey find something
"What is your name?
"My mummy said I shouldn't talk to strangers"
"Can I meet your mother?"
"You know am?"
"Yes
Den wetin be her name"
"Okay how old are you?
8 auntie why you dey ask?
Look I don't have time, I'm here to help you I say bending down and holding her hands softly. The thing about winning childrens heart is just letting them see you the same way you see them, innocent.
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"Mummy person wan see you, she screams banging the wooden door
Why you dey bring stranger come my house her mother replies opening the door, without looking at me she repeats again
Why you dey bring, dey bring strangers she says hitting the girl harshly
Ma please I'm here to help, don't hit her, she's very beautiful and fragile, she's also very smart I assure you, I'm here to help
"Help!
Charity with no cameras, na evangelist you be?
See you go comot from my house oooo, I no like trouble"
" I need something, no someone, Robust is his name
She takes a better look at me before she says " come in then" while looking at me with a bombastic side eye
I walk into a small home with a chair of age and a small tv with a dead antenna from obvious observation. A small baby with only a black torn pant cries on the floor loudly while another hides from a corner watching me before she turns to me
Sit!
Ma ?
If you like stand that one concern you she replies carrying the baby on the floor to the old smelly couch.
Out of pity I reach to my purse pulling out a good amount of money
"Here's a good sum of money ma please watch your daughter very closely I say handing the money to her"
Why have you come here she goes straight to the point while hiding the money in between her bossom with no thank you
"Do you by chance know anyone with the name ROBUS
I mean why you wan see am?, before answering she continues to speak regardless
I knew it una rich people no like to come here anyhow until na election, and election don pass so as I see you I know say na something else
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Mystery / Thriller"Men will stain your white infact wear red, black or blue men will still find a way to stain it" I would have told 16 years old Anita that she should never get in trouble because of a gender with no dignity. Stamp their necks if you have to get to...
