Full Package Of Good And Bad

Eno was seated on the bed in the room she has been given. She felt like a discomfited prey. She could not even think of laying her head down on the bed for fear of the unknown. The woman had asked her neighbour who brought her here, Teresa, to give her food, but she has neither been offered food to eat nor water to drink. And she could not stop worrying about her sisters. She laughed at herself. She did not even feel like crying anymore. She felt hollow like an empty shell. A voice kept telling her she was doomed for life. And she didn’t doubt it all the while she has been in the room. There was a moment when she wondered if she should have left with that lady that had offered to take her away. But she doubts if she would be safe with that lady or she would have also be feeling this way if she had left with the lady.

Eno raised up her head from it’s bowed position when she heard the door open and someone stepped in. It was the Alhaja. The woman had a smile on her face. She sat next to Eno on the bed.

“What was your name?” Alhaja asked her. Eno kept quiet. Alhaja told her to just tell her the name her parents gave to her while she’s being nice. Eno shook her head. She didn’t like the woman. Her neighbour told her she was bringing her to an NGO but here she was and has not been asked anything about what happened in her family and what sort of help she would need.

“You should not act this way with your new owner. The senator can be very brutal, he won’t like you like this if you do not answer question. He bought you with a large sum of money”. Alhaja said to Eno. Then she tsk. She told Eno she was quiet unlucky since she was being bought by a cruel man. But it was her own gain she was able to make a huge profit off her. She told the girl to stand up and follow her. Eno remained seated. She refused to budge an ounce.

Alhaja opened the door and ordered the men outside to drag Eno outside. She was refraining from beating the girl up since she has already been bought. She wouldn’t want Senator Ojo to get offended and reduced the price.

The men dragged a struggling Eno out of the room. When Eno realised no matter what she does, she would not be able to free herself, she decided to accept her fate and went quietly with them. They out her in a car and left with her. She has no clue where they were actually taking her to, but she bets it’s her new owner. She wonders how much her neighbour sold her for to the woman who has just sold her off again.

“Life surely is a full package of good and bad. Some get the good, some get the bad, some get both. I think mine is worst. I got a bad package for ten people”. Eno said in her head.