Getting to the front door, I met some group of my classmate who had come with some of my books, my sport outfits and accessories, every thing that belonged to me in school.
So many thought was going on in my mind, could it be that the school was relocating?,does it mean we have to keep all those in our various houses?, does it mean am no longer in the sport team because I hadn’t shown up for training?, a whole lot of thought kept coming in.
I looked into my mum’s eye and I could see she was confused as well. I ran over to where they were standing and smiled (yeah, that was fake), they didn’t return the smile as one of them hugged me so tight and broke into tears. Mum came to join us and ordered us in.
As we settled on the Sofa in the sitting room, mum served them water and some fruit juice, as they drank the water in silence, then I decided to ask breaking the long silence, “what is wrong ?”.
They looked at each other, at the loads they brought and then back to my face, now one of them who is in a junior class, broke into tears again, now I became more scared.
The head girl who led the group stood up and sat beside me then she revealed the reason behind the stunts they had been pulling, I had been expelled from school!
They said the school already knows I am pregnant and HIV positive!, now I wondered how that was possible. I just got back from the hospital and the news had gotten to school already. I was confused, and felt the doctor had betrayed us.
I was angry and bitter. My mum came around and comforted me. She asked the head girl how the information got to school and she revealed that she was the one who reported to school as one of the nurse at the hospital happened to be her sister who had told her even before we got to the hospital which was two days back.
Explaining that her reason wasn’t to make me feel bad but to avoid more troubles that could come up next like stigmatization when the secret finally leaks or the shame me having to drop out of school for being pregnant or maybe abortion.
She said the school’s decision wasn’t more of an expulsion but an advise to withdraw from the school in order to ease the inconveniences.
It was a sad day for me. I felt like I belong to the other world, I wept and wept profusely as the thought of the visit from my school mate earlier that day kept rolling in my head. Dropped out of school, pregnant, and HIV positive. What else is more for a little girl in this world?
Poisoning myself was the next option or stabbing or deep my head in water till I’ll breathe no more. As I was still thinking I heard some strange sounds as someone was screaming and shouting for help.
I decided to go downstairs to check what was going on, then I found blood gushing out from the kitchen entrance, I quickly rushed to check what was goin on then I found the unexpected
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