All throughout the night, I couldn't focus nor sleep. I felt as if something was dragging my neck with a rope but the figure under the cloak continued encouraging me to read, that it was just a way to distract me.
I went for the exams that day and came back quite happy because I was the best and I got a scholarship which will take me through Elementary school, to college and down to the University. I also won a large amount of money.
I happily ran to the couple's home in order to break the good news to them but unfortunately I was chased by the couple, they said I was a witch and I have been eating up their unborn babies. I knew who was behind this so I left without uttering a word. I went to where I lived with the old woman but immediately everyone spotted me from a distance, I was chased with sticks, cutlasses and other harmful objects...
But how could she do this that everyone didn't want to see me around, I had never talked with anyone in the compound since I was a kid, I really didn't know why though. I was always on my own even in school, most people wanted to make friends with me but it wasn't my thing at all.
I ran and ran till I was tired and I stumbled and fell on the floor, the crowd that has being chasing me stopped and was about to start hitting me but suddenly a force from my body hit all of them and they started running back.
I thanked whoever that did that silently and after checking if the contents of my school bag where still in tact, I set out to leave the town...
I trekked for long passing through various large structures that I didn't know where roads and bridges. I thought they were some kind of statues or even a god that people in that area worshipped but I found people walking on them so I did the same.
I was walking with no direction in mind then a thought crossed my mind since I was done with elementary school, how about I find a place close to the college and settle down there then I can start from somewhere with the money I had with me.
I asked people for direction to the college and they described it for me... It wasn't easy for me to get a house because of the price, my inability to confront people about my problem or rather say my inability to socialize with them. I slept outside for weeks, it wasn't an easy one at all but I later got a house.
I paid for its rent for a year and also bought foodstuffs and other items I needed, I went to the school and showed them the form I was given on the day of the competition and in no time I was accepted.
I started attending college, it was quite different from Elementary school but I managed to cope. I was usually giving gifts as award for my excellence, good character and neatness. Many wanted to be close to me but they never got the chance, I only made friends when I was assigned to attend a competition with two of my classmates. I couldn't avoid them since we had to study together and from there we turned friends, they really helped me both in school work and other aspects. They taught and exposed me to various things in the modern world like cars, bicycles, roads, bridges, phones and so many other things. They'll usually give me money to teach them certain things and the cash actually went a long way in helping me but I didn't reveal anything about my private life to them.
They brought up the idea of studying at each other's place and I gladly accepted it but I later regretted my decision when I saw their houses. Whenever it was time for them to visit my home I'll always bring up filthy excuses but at the end, they still saw it.
I only lied to them that my parents were dead and I couldn't afford to live in an expensive house so I had to manage this little part of the estate as my home. They explained to me that it wasn't an estate but a ghetto, they also showed me the difference between a ghetto and an estate. One of them talked to her mom for me and I was employed in her mother's restaurant to work both as a waitress and a chef but instead of cooking I was in charge of washing plates and running errands. I was thought to always put up a smile since I was doing the job of a waitress. I did the job with my heart and soul solemnly devoted to it because I got free food from it and I was paid on a weekly basis. I actually saved quite a large amount of money all throughout the years I worked with her.
Things started clashing again the day a new teacher entered our school, she was a teacher from my elementary school. She called me out during assembly one morning then she told everyone that I was a vampire that I was chased out from my former resident because I usually ate up people when I was hungry, she told everyone in school to avoid me that I might eat them up if I get angry... I remained silent as she insulted, I knew she was being possessed so I let it slide but to my utmost dismay, everyone believed her including my teachers.. I lost my friends, my job and everyone around, I was no longer called for competitions... I would have also been sent out of school but the institution that was paying my scholarship didn't allow it.
And since then I've been managing with the savings I had and the errands I ran for the seer woman in my compound.