Chizie is now five months old and growing to be a very handsome boy. Even Lota is beginning to move on with her life as Sade has gotten her a private tutor who is preparing her for the upcoming exams. Surprisingly, she could remember many things from her academics which made learning not to be difficult for her. In the past few months, she has asked Sade many questions and to some of them, she got answers but to the others, there were no answers for them. She even asked for a picture of her ex-lover so that she can see what he looks like and know if their son looks like him but unfortunately, Sade told her that she and Bobby were living in a truck which they drove from one place to another and that was the same truck that was involved in the accident that claimed Bobby's life.
Sometimes Lota just sits and cries as she seems lost in this world because she can't even remember the face of the man who she was once in love with and also had a son with. She has just decided to live through life and take everything one day at a time because she believes that she will regain her memory someday and when she does, everything will become clearer to her. Most times, she is very grateful for the kind of people that surround her because they never make her feel like she is a single parent or that she has made some mistakes in the past. Sade and the maids in the house all love her son and her son is also used to all of them.
Chizie is being treated like a prince as he never lacks anything including attention and Sade has been a very responsible and exemplary grandmother to him. Sade told Lota that she would like her to travel out of the country to study medicine but she disagreed with Sade because she doesn't know why, but she feels that she should remain in the country for now and she promised Sade that after her first degree, she will go abroad to continue her studies because by then her son would have grown up a little and have a sense of where he belongs.
Most times in her dreams, she dreams about a very handsome man with dimples just like her son. He always tells her how much he misses her and how much he loves her. Most times he will tell her to hang in there and wait for him because one day he will come to take her and their son so that they can become one family. The first time that Lota had that dream, she got very scared and she told herself that she doesn't want to die as she believed that the person she was seeing in her dream was Bobby and she knows that Bobby is dead. She later asked Sade if Bobby had dimples and sade they told her that Bobby has no dimples and the only person who had dimples was her late mother.
Her mind was put to rest after she was assured that the person who she was seeing in her dreams was not Bobby. Lota finally told herself that maybe she was seeing that person because her mind conjured the person up so that she can talk to him and tell him about her problems because she has been through a lot and she feels lonely sometimes.
Every time that Lota tells herself that she will ask the person his name, she ends up forgetting and only remembers when she wakes up from her dream. Mr. Handsome Dimples, as she always calls him, also told her that he has a daughter who is same age as Chizie.
For now, Lota does not really care about meeting new guys or associating herself with them as she has told herself that she has been a failure in the past according to the stories that she has heard about herself so now is the time for reflection and rebranding. She told herself that she will work so hard to give her son a great future so that he will be proud of his mother every time he thinks about her or hears her name.
Lota has been working so hard to the point that even when people are asleep at night, she will be awake studying because there is a nanny taking care of her son so that he doesn't disturb her when she is busy. She really thanks Sade for all of that because without her, everything that she is doing right now wouldn't have been possible and she has really learned a lot also as she told herself that if Sade can forgive her and accept her back after everything that she has done, it only shows that she should be willing to do the same for anyone who will also offend her in the future. She promised herself that she will use her results from the exam to apologize to Sade as she hopes to perform very well and also make her son proud of her even though he cannot understand what she is doing right now.
The day of the exam finally came and it was done online as there were measures put in place to make sure that nobody cheats during the exams. Lota was very happy when she saw the questions because everything that she was looking at, looks very simple to her as she was done even before the time that the exam was supposed to be over. She smiled to herself as she told herself "one of the best ways to concentrate in this life is to eliminate every distraction. I promised myself that I will become a medical doctor even though I do not remember that promise anymore but I will make sure that I fulfill it. I do not want to be just any kind of doctor, I want to be one of the best."
After the exams were over, Sade took Lota to where she and her mother once lived under the bridge but did not tell her that she once lived here as she only told her that they once came to this area and she noticed all those poor people and began to cry. "I could remember vividly that on that day, you told me that you must become a medical doctor so that you can help poor people like all these people living here to survive because they do not have access to good health care which makes many of them die unnecessarily."
Lota did not doubt anything that Sade was telling her because looking at the people who live under the bridge made her very sad as tears began to drop from her eyes. She couldn't believe that there were people who live under these kinds of condition and were also happy because she saw some of them discussing and laughing while some children were playing. She looked at her son and got scared that he doesn't contract any disease from a place as dirty as this.
Sade knew that Lota could not remember anything after seeing this place so she used that opportunity to feed on her emotions as she said "my dear you can see that happiness is free and it is also a choice. I know that you feel very sad because you can't remember anything from your past but sometimes, the past does not really matter as the present and the future are the most important things in our lives. You don't need to remember your past for you to be happy. The fact that you survived and you are alive with your son is more than enough reason for you to be happy and in every decision that you want to take in this life, I will want you to always consider your son and put him first because he is at the centre of your life right now. You are now a woman and no longer a girl so when you make decisions, I would like you to make those decisions like the woman that you are and not a girl. Just look at your son and see how much he adores you. The smile of your son alone is enough to make you happy if at all there is nothing that makes you happy on this earth. Do you know that when you were still in a coma your son was crying so much that we did everything we could to pacify him but he refused to stop crying, but when we brought him and placed him on your chest he stopped crying and started sucking on his finger which was a sign to us that he was hungry but he needed his mother first because even as little as he was, his mother was most important to him than food."
She looked at Sade once more and said "after what I have just seen in this place today, I want to assure you that my past will not matter to me anymore because a past where I could see all of this and still deviate from my goal after promising to help people who are living like this is not a past that I wish to remember. I don't care what you or anyone has to say about my past but I can tell you that even though I do not remember my past, I know right now that I was very selfish. There are a whole lot of people who are suffering on this earth and need someone to help them. Bobby must have been a very convincing young man for him to make me abandon all of these dreams just to be with him, but I have learned my lesson not to ever deviate from my goal because I have seen what I want to work for and the people that I want to help. Henceforth, I will always put my son and these people first in every decision that I make."
Sade feels very happy as she told herself that she has not made any mistakes by getting Lota away from Kamsy. She told herself that one day, Loter will thank her for what she has done for her because she was brainwashed to love a man who bought her like a slave and also maltreated her. She looked at Lota and told her that never again will she allow any man to make her deviate from her goal of being a medical doctor and a humanitarian.
Both of them left the area after their visit and Sade noticed that since that day, Lota became very serious about her studies as she began to do certain researches even before it was time to know if she has gained admission or not. Lota now has two obligations in this life. One is to her son and the other, is to every poor person who is suffering and have no one to help them.
That same week, she joined amnesty International and became a very active member and it was almost like she became obsessed with justice and health as she joined a host of many other groups which were all involved in helping humanity.
Most times when Sade tells her to take things slowly, she always tells Sade that she has wasted too much time doing the things that she is not supposed to be doing while people are sick, suffering, and dying. Although she'd always pretend like she doesn't like what Lota was doing sometimes, but every time she sees her head buried in her books and in research papers, she feels very happy as she tells herself that she has gotten her baby back because this is the Lota that she used to know and not the one that fell in love with Kamsy and abandoned all her dreams.
It's been a month since Lota joined a group in her state and she has been so active that her humanitarian works are being recognised. She recently attended a meeting where her name was called so that others could recognise her.
She was told that it has been brought to their attention that she goes out to feed the poor and even provide medical help for them as she pays some of their medical bills and even try to get justice for those who have been dealt with unjustly.
Since the day that Sade took her to the bridge side and she saw all of those people, she took it upon herself to always go there and provide help for those who need it. She goes with the maids and her son and when they go there, they take clothes, food, mosquito nets, and certain essentials including money. There are times that she has gotten some hoodlums arrested after getting complaints about them and how they rape some women at night.
She told Sade that she will build a community for the homeless and she also told her that she is organising a program where the poor can go and learn different crafts which can also aid them in providing for their families and get them off the streets because she also plans on getting them tools which they can use to start up their various businesses.
At nineteen years old, Lota had children who she was paying their school fees in different schools as she has promised herself that she will try her best to educate over fifty thousand children before she leaves this earth. She told Sade that she must work and earn more money not for herself but for all those who depend on her.
After Lota woke up from her medically induced coma, Sade told her many false stories and also gave her her father's wealth which she is using for a very good cause now. She never told Lota the kind of man that Fred was when he was alive and she also never told her that her father's name was Fred. Fred had different businesses which are still thriving and his son has gone haywire and as nobody knows where he is, everything that Fred once owned now belongs to Lota. Sade tried her best to make sure that she shut down his illegal businesses which were thriving as she never wants any of those to be connected to Lota in the future because she wants the girl to have a clean record as she has decided to make the world a better place. Every time that Sade looks at Lota and her willingness to help people, she says to herself "Fred, can you now see that the rejected stone has become the chief cornerstone? Everything that you did to destroy your own daughter's life jas finally backfired and she is the one enjoying your wealth and using it for a good cause today."