Rita checked time and realized that it was 12 am. The exact time she's has been waiting for, contemplating with several thousand thoughts coming through her head.
She never wanted this. This was not how she planned to raised her child. She had dreams too just like every other girl out there. Dreams of getting married and raising responsible children, but how can she achieve that with no one to support her. The guy who put her in the family way had abandoned her and disappeared into the thin air. Now she was to carry out an irresponsible act.
With sweat of duress dripping down her face, Rita wrapped the cartoon with which she had placed her child in. She couldn't afford raising her alone, the poor innocent child.
While wrapping the cartoon, she had thought of a best place to drop the cartoon with the child inside. A place where sympathetizers could see and perhaps pick her up.
Twelve o'clock on the dot, she rushed down the street, burst out of another, checked the road carefully to avoid preying eyes, then cross over, walked down towards the end and dropped the child just Infront of a big building, a place she thought was the best.
She left, walked some meters away, then came back to see her daughter for the last time before leaving her for fate to take it course.
With tears on her face, Rita summoned courage to leave the poor innocent child behind.
Immediately she left the child behind, she walked a bit faster with regrets. Regrets of how she has brought an innocent child to the world and abandoned her to suffer. Everlasting regret that will keep hunting her but she couldn't help. It was her fate she had thought.
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The following morning passers-by flooded the scene where Rita had dropped her daughter with some placing curse on whoever abandoned such a beautiful child to suffer while others attributed what the saw to signs of end time.
Rita even heard from a neighbor that a child was found along the street without trace of who the parents could be.
But she acted so indifferently to the story. It was too late she thought.
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The child was picked up that same morning by a woman, a woman like Rita who abandoned her to fate.
Rita, on hearing the news, felt as if a heavy stone was taken off her head. She sobbed bitterly and prayed that God should take care of her daughter even if she may not grow to know her as the mother.
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Mariam, the good Samaritan that picked up Rita's abandoned daughter was a desperate lady who was looking for a child of her own after 5 years in marriage. She had done virtually everything to conceive during this time but she couldn't. She had placed her fate in God, while hoping for a child to come her way.
As fate may have it, she had found the poor innocent child in the cold morning along the street and picked her up.
Miriam was happy, at least she had a daughter sent to her by God.
She took care of the child like her own, showed her affection as her mother while waiting for a miracle to happen to her.
Weeks ran into months, months ran into years, and Rita's abandoned daughter grew to became a beautiful little girl.
She was nine years plus when Miriam finally conceived and put to bed a baby girl too.
With this turned of event, Miriam affection for Rita's abandoned daughter turned soured.
She maltreated the poor girl and made her go through hell.
On Monday morning, Miriam occupied by chores in the house and meeting up with work, directed the child to fed her new born baby with milk.
The poor innocent child did as was directed by mistress.
In about few minutes later, the new born started crying and Miriam on hearing this from the kitchen, rushed down to see what was happening only to see her adopted daughter licking her hand off the milk that dripped from the baby's feeding spoon.
She quickly summed that the girl had refused her new born baby food.
Out of anger, she collected the baby, placed on the sitting sofa, dragged the poor innocent girl, placed her hand on the tiled floor and used the pestle she had rushed down from the kitchen with to hit the girl's hand severally for licking her baby's food.
The poor girl burst in tears out of pains and there Miriam realized that she had condemned the innocent girl's hand.
NOTE:
Please don't bring to life a child you are not ready to cater for.
So many children are out there suffering from sins they never committed, passing through hell in the hands of those who call themselves mistress.
From accusations of stealing, eating as gluttons etc...
Recently, a woman bathed her 8 years old housemaid with hot water for eating her baby's food.
Save the child please 🙏.
✍️ Patrick Ekong ©
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