Chapter 4 – The Truth Revealed?
Rose came out but instead of the sitting room, the nanny had ushered her to her parent's room. Her mother stood on a pile of clothes, while her father was on the phone. The room was turned upside, no doubt since her uncle and the nanny ransacked the room, they had left it that way. Good, it will be easy to confront them.
She walked up to her mother and just as she opened her mouth "mother….." her face was covered with a hot and heavy slap, she looked at her mother in confusion "Mom, why did you slap?"
"Why did I slap you?" her mother asked furiously, she then point to her room "you want to tell me what, you were thinking; look at our Rose, what do you have to say?"
"But... but I didn't do it," Rose said in tears.
"Then who did? You are the only one in this house Rose or are you gonna say it's your uncle; huh?"
She looked at her uncle then nodded "yes, they both did it, I don't know why."
While her parents stared at her with disbelief, her uncle spoke "see, I told you; she is never responsible, she is never at home when she does comes back, it's late. The last time I had tried to question her, she did this to me." He said as he showed them the scar my pen caused.
"That's not true," Rose screamed in horror
"How dear you….." her mother raised her hands again to hit her, her father who had stayed quickly intervene "that's enough honey." He said, as he took her mother's hands, then looked at the nanny "take care of this mess." he walked out.
"Yes sir." Mrs Lola responded with a smiled on her face.
Her uncle followed after them. Rose stared after them, the pain she was feeling right now, was nothing compared to what she had felt before.
She felt betrayed, hurt and abandoned as she walked to her room with a defeating look. She became distant, she couldn't eat properly, and she always stayed in her room. A lot of things happened after that, more lies were told against her by her uncle, but what made her parents lost complete trust and hope in her, was that the contract to the ten billion naira deal her mother was to seal, one she had been working on her months, suddenly disappeared, no one could not find it anywhere.
Because she could not come up with a better contract in time, it's was given to some unknown person with a better contract, and that meant she lost the deal. A once in a lifetime deal was gone in the drain.
Mom could not recover from it, no matter what dad did. That night when Rose went to sleep, she had seen Mrs Lola coming out of her room, when she confronted her, she claimed she had gone in to dress her bed.
Rose made a terrible mistake that night; she didn't bother to check for anything suspicious and just went to sleep. After all, that as happened, she taught everything was over but she was in for a shock.
The next morning, Rose was woken up with a bucket of cold water, shocked and soaked she jumped out of the bed and saw her mother withstanding over her with a furious expression "Mom what ..."
"What is this?" her mother asked s cut off, while slapping her with a piece of paper she has never seen, and was half torn "why is this with you Rose?" she asked her mad "you want to explain to me, why this was found with you Rose?"
Rose stare puzzledly from her mother to the document; she has never seen it before; why was her mother asking her about it "mother, I don't know; I have never seen that document before…. So I don't understand what you are asking about."
Scorning at her Mrs Black repeated "you don't know what am asking about?" she then turned towards the maid, Mrs Lola "she said, she doesn't know what am talking about?"
"Rose..." Mrs Lola called at her in a worried voice; which of course was a pretence "remember last night, I saw you hiding something under your bed when I asked; you said it was your shoe."
Rose looked at the serpent of a nanny, and frowned "what are you talking about?" she looked at her mother then back to the nanny "there was never a time, I said such things to you."
"Of course, I know you are scared, you have always been so full of mischief; I just never knew it was this much." The nanny continued as she tried to pat Rose on her shoulder.
"Don't you dare touch me, you serpent?" she said and spat on her face, obviously this was their plan, and she was starting to wonder why they were quiet all this time. This must be the big plan there were talking about; making her take the blame for all their treachery but no more
Rose wiped the water on her face and stared head on to Mrs Lola "is this what you were hiding in my room last night when I caught you?" she said confidently "so this is the 'big plan' both you and my uncle had, to blame your…." Before she could say anything, she felt something big hit her on the heard, she fell in pains, when she reached her hand, and touch her head, they were blood, rising her head; her mother was holding a wooden chair in her hands with a dangerous look on her face; she had hit her; she knew her mother hated her and had no faith in her but she never knew it was to this extent "mother, you….." she tried to speak but could not, and her mother just stared at her, while she felt her strength drained from her, because of that she could not keep her eyes open.