HER ADVERSITY: Chapter 41 – 50
By Obianke Prosper
Chapter Forty Eight
GRACE POV
“What are you saying Ella? Why wouldn’t you say hi to her?”.Nancy frowned slightly at her daughter who smirked as she munch on a bread.
“I don’t want to Mum, I don’t feel like”.Ella said and Nancy sighed, turning back to me.
“Am so sorry for that Grace, she doesn’t really like strangers”.
“It’s okay Nancy, I understand”.I said and went to the sink filled with used dishes.
I took a sponge and a dishwasher before pouring the dishwasher on the sponge. I turn on the faucet and water filled the sink before I turned it off, then I began washing the dishes though I thought of Ella. She doesn’t like strangers right? Then that means she doesn’t like me.
HER ADVERSITY: Chapter 41 – 50
Breakfast was served and I helped Mum and Nancy arrange the dishes and foods on the dining table before I went to call everybody for breakfast.
After we were done eating I washed the used dishes before going to my room. I took a novel from my backpack and began reading, I didn’t even know when I fell asleep.
I woke up some minutes later due to the sound coming from my phone. It was ringing.
I took the phone on my palm and I smiled when I saw the caller, it was Kyree.
I had given him my phone number the next day after he got me a present, he insisted and I found it hard to refuse.
I swipe the answer button and then I heard his voice.
“Hi Grace”.
“Hi”.I said but then I heard him chuckle.
“Are you laughing?”.I was confused.
“Of course I am”.
“Why?”.
“Because your voice sounds so different on phone. I’d thought a chipmunk was talking to me”.
“You are not serious”.I rolled my eyes.
“I am. Your voice is beautiful and tiny”.He said and I blushed a little hearing the word ‘beautiful’.
“Thank you”.
“So what are you doing at home?”.
“Nothing, I was actually taking a nap before your call came in”.
“Oh! I woke you up?”.
“Yeah”.
“Am sorry”.
“Please don’t apologize”.
Then silence followed. I found the
silence uncomfortable and I searched for words to say.
“Um, what about you? What are you doing at home?”.
“Am currently calling you”.He said and I giggled.
“What a joke Ky, please be serious”.
“Okay, I was actually playing a video game before I thought of calling you”.
“A video game? What’s the name?”.
“The terminator”.
“Oh that game. Have heard of it, it’s very interesting and it’s like Dave’s favorite video game”.
“Dave? Who is Dave?”.He said and I smiled knowing that he doesn’t remember the name of my brother.
“Guess”.
“Huh? Guess? I actually suck at guessing”.
“Just try, you might be lucky”.
“Okay Dave is your classmate, boyfriend….”.
“What? No. I don’t have a boyfriend, okay? He is my brother, the one who doesn’t like you”.
“Oh! I think I forgot his name but can I ask you a question?”.
“You already asked Ky”.
“You see, you’re the one joking now and you keep telling to be serious”.
“Sorry. Ask your question”.
“Why does your brother hate me?”.
“Hate? He doesn’t hate you, he just dislikes you”.
“Why?”.
“Hmm…”.I paused. I didn’t want to tell him that Dave dislikes him because he thinks he loves me. “Nothing, I don’t really know”.
“Seriously Grace, your brother is weird. At first sight he already dislikes me…Wow!”.
“Maybe he has a reason or reasons. He can’t just dislike you for nothing”.
“Yeah whatever, I don’t like him too. He is too bossy for my liking, are you sure he ever smiles?”.
“W…what? He do smile, okay? He is not like Jas….”.I paused, realizing what I was about saying. Jasper. Geez! I can’t believe I still remember that arrogant jack.
“Jas what? Who is Jas?”.
“Nobody”.
“You are lying”.
“Am not”.
“Gee, am curious Grace. Who is Jas?”.
“I just told you it’s nobody, why can’t you believe me?”.
Just then I heard the door creak open and Ella walked in with a blank face. She reminded me of Dylan who always tries to hide his emotions.
Her eyes dropped on mine and I gulped hard before concentrating on the call.
“….Hey?! Grace? What aren’t you speaking? Are you mad at me? Am….”.
“Kyree let’s talk some other time, alright?”.
“Why? Is it because I asked you who Jas was? Am really sorry, you must be annoyed”.
“No, it’s not that. I just wanna hang up, we’ll talk later”.I said and disconnected the call before glancing back at Ella who was standing, staring at me.
“Hi”.She said to me and I gasped lightly, surprised by what she said.
Why is she talking to me? She doesn’t like strangers, right? And what is she doing in my room?
“Hi”.I replied her and a smile which I knew was forced appeared on her lips. She’d look more beautiful while smiling, so why keep a blank look on?
“Can I sit?”.She said but before I could say yes, she sat on my bed a little closer to me.
“Okay you must be surprised seeing me here, talking to you but it’s just that am bored and I need someone I can talk to”.She sighed, rubbing her palms together. “Hope you wouldn’t chase me out?”.
“What?! No, I wouldn’t”.
She smiled again as she stared down at her short legs which didn’t reach the floor.
“So we didn’t get to introduce ourselves properly at first sight, don’t you think we should introduce ourselves again so that we can get to know each other?”.
I was getting surprised by her nice gesture but I nodded anyways.
“Alright, am Ella. Am four years old though I get mistaken for a six years old kid”.She said and I smiled.
Who wouldn’t think she is six years old when she reveals the grumpy part of her?
“I came from this country and I was given birth to in this state. Am in kindergarten class two but I do stay at a nursery home after school and during weekends I stay at my mum’s friend house, Joyce but I do call her Jolly. She is really nice and do take care of me like am her child”.She said and I stared at her confused.
“Why do you stay at a nursery home after school and why do you stay at Joyce’s house during weekends? Don’t you have a home?”.
“I have a home. My mum picks me up from there when she is done working here and together we go home, eat dinner and sleep and then the next morning I got to school but if it’s Saturday or Sunday I go to Jolly’s house”.
“Okay but can you answer my first question?”.
“Yeah, the answer to the question is not really known to me but let’s just say my mum is protective of me. She hardly allows a mosquito to bite me, she loves me so much that she can’t risk keeping me alone at home”.
“Oh! What about your dad? Does he like this protective side of your mum?”.
“My dad…”.She sniffed, biting her lips. “He is dead, I don’t have a father”.
The expression on my face changed instantly and I regretted asking her that question.
“Am so sorry, I didn’t mean to ask….”.
“No, it’s okay, am over his death already”.
The sadness on her face immediately disappeared, bringing on an emotionless look.
“I didn’t even get to see him, mum said he died when I was in her womb but she never really like to talk about him, she always flare up if I ask about him, maybe she doesn’t want to remember him”.
I sighed but gasped when something hit me.
Ella is four years old, so how old is her mum? Isn’t Nancy twenty or twenty one years old?
“Ella how old is your mum?”.I asked and just as she was about answering, she heard her mum calling her from downstairs.
“Ella!”.Nancy must have noticed her absence.
“Oops! I gotta go”.Ella said walking to the door.
“No, please wait”.I said and she turned back to me. “How old is your mum?”.
“Huh? Why are you….”.
“Just answer the question, Ella”.
“Okay fine. She is twenty two years old”.She said and exited the room while I gasped, looking surprised.
Nancy gave birth to Ella at eighteen, unbelievable!
HER ADVERSITY: Chapter 41 – 50
Jasper was in his house, a two bedroom flat which was located in a street a little bit close to where Dylan resides.
He was busy sharpening some knives which he would use to punish some few boys who had angered him. He wanted to punish them by sending them to their early graves and when he mean it, he will do it.
He smirked happily as he stared at the blades of the knives which were sparking so brightly, they are sharp enough and they look ready to taste blood.
He dropped them at a table when he noticed he felt strange, he knew that feeling, someone unfamiliar was here in his house, in this room.
Before he could turn he felt an object placed on his neck, without even seeing the object he concluded it was a gun and he raised his hands in surrender.
“Who are you?”.His voice was thick and dry, he definitely wasn’t in the mood for games.
“Shut up ba$tard!”.The unknown said but with his voice, Jasper sensed he was a male. “I ask the questions, I get the answers, do you get that bitch?!!”.
Jasper did a small nod, frowning as an angry look crossed his face.
“Now tell me, where is that brat, Dylan?”.The unknown asked and Jasper chuckled, a laugh that lasted for seconds.
This however angered the unknown and he hit Jasper on the head with the gun twice.
“You son of a bch, answer me or else am gonna waste the life out of you!”.The unknown threatened as he licked his lips in pleasure.
He definitely was enjoying the way he was threatening the killer, Jasper.
“Duncan sent you, huh? I know he did but believe me, am gonna tell you no shit!!”.As soon as Jasper completed his sentence, the unknown shot him in his right leg twice.
Jasper groaned loudly in pains but the unknown covered his mouth, making Jasper unable to scream.
“I give you ten seconds, ten damn seconds and if I hear nothing good from you, you are gonna end up in hell”.
“No!”.Jasper croaked, holding onto his leg which was pumping out too much blood. “I freaking don’t know where he lives but I know someone who can tell you his location”.
“Who dmmit?! Talk you punk!!”.The unknown frowned annoyed and Jasper sighed. He knew he was lying and putting someone else’s life in danger but he got to save his ass first.
“Her name is Mrs Skylar, she is Dylan’s maid and she lives in Hill-Bills Road, block seven”.
The unknown smirked, greatly satisfied with his work well done and without wasting anymore time, he hit his gun hard on Jasper’s head and Jasper fell on the floor unconscious.
He then exited the house to go in search of the woman, Mrs Skylar who Jasper mentioned.
HER ADVERSITY: Chapter 41 – 50
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