"We don't want idiots in our group, this group is for rich guys only," Barbra said on top of her voice, referring to poor Elsie, who had just joined her new high school. Elsie never knew the reason behind Barbra hating her, but all she knew was that Barbra was even willing to kill her just from the way she loathes her with passion.
Frequently, Elsie was complaining to her grandmother, Grace because of the beastly behaviour her colleagues show her in school, especially the way they discriminated her because of her lower social status. Most of the people like Barbra came from a wealthy family, so they just hated her because she was simply poor and nothing else. But everyday Elsie was lamenting, Grace used to comfort and hearten her, advising her not to be a failure like her mother who chose to take away her life living a young helpless being in the hands of her grandmother. She took Grace as her role model, and condemned her mother. She never wanted to be irresponsible like her mother who never cared about innocent her.
After the death of Lucy, grief tormented her entire family. All the blames were on Grace as she was considered irresponsible on her daughter's life. Being a single mother, Grace was driven away from her cradle land. They threatened to take young Elsie by force, as they believed Grace had no ability to take care of her. Grace was adamant, so she sued her entire family because she believed that she was the one who could take care of her granddaughter well and no one else. Lucky enough, she managed to win the case and all rights on Elsie was given to her.
This caused conflicts between her and her family as they took everything she had, that belonged to his husband, who was the son in the family where she'd been married. She was then excommunicated with young Elsie, not knowing where to go with her.
Grace chose to go and live in popular slums of Nairobi with this young girl. She worked very hard to ensure that she had taken care of her, and provided her anything she needed.
Elsie was a bright girl. Although she experienced some difficulties in her education, her bright mind made her be loved by her teachers as well as her colleagues. Due to her bright mindedness, she managed to pass her primary education very well, and she was called to a prominent international high school.
It was on an admission date where new students were expected to be admitted in school. That day, Barbra woke up in ego, and her normal bevy of six girls, Becky, Stella, Myra, Mercy, Suzie and Nina, who were considered "Boy hunters" due to their behaviour in seducing their male classmates using their curvy features.
"Hey everyone, I'm delighted today because there is a boy who's joining us today, he's been learning in New Orleans but now he's come to Kenya, so he'll be joining us. He is known as Travis, and for sure, no one should go to him because he's mine, we share the same estate," Barbra said to her friends proudly. Becky seconded her because the entire bevy were from wealthy families.
Myra was a daughter of a minister of water. Barbra's father was a renown international businessman. Stella was a daughter of a governor. Suzie was a daughter of a prominent writer in the country. Nina came from a family owning a certain company that supplies sugar in the entire region, and Mercy's father was a governor.
These girls would do what they wished to do anywhere because no teacher would dare to say a word to them. Their background made then rude, and sporadically, they could even control what their teachers would do, how the entire school.
Travis was admitted in this school, and he was taken in the same class where these girls learnt from. This delighted Barbra as the two knew each other, so she took the advantage of it. Barbra introduced Travis to the entire class, and he was warmly welcomed by his colleagues, and their class governor, Miss Patel, a girl with an Indian nature, officially welcomed him to her class.
She assigned him a locker, next to Elsie's seating position. This angered Barbra, and so she decided to go and relocate his seating position from Elsie's place to her place. Travis, being new and the person he knew well was Barbra, accepted to relocate his seating position. Barbra then whispered to Elsie, telling her that Travis is not his type.
Elsie was stressed. She asked herself many questions. It really hurt her when Barbra told her this as her friends jeered at her. But Patel always stood on her side, whenever these girls mocked her and hearten her to focus on her dreams as the past is dead. On the other side, Travis also noticed this, but he assumed since it was his first day at that particular school.
Elsie often complained to her teachers on how these girls mistreated her because of her lower financial class, but they gave it a cold ear since fighting with the girls was like risking their jobs. For instance, Mercy would even spit at her, simply because her father is the area's governor and Elsie could do nothing. Patel frequently tried to talk to these girls, especially Myra who seemed to be easily convinced, telling her that the actions they were doing weren't good at all, since they were dehumanising their fellow sister and lowering her confidence in learning.