
Episode 1
oga buy this one o, this unripe plantain sweet pass the ripe oneâ Deborah screamed as she ran after the moving car, the man ignored her and she retreated back to the camp of hawkers near the Abak rd. traffic light.
She sighed, today had been the worst day since she started hawking, life hadnât been very easy since their father had abandoned them for his new wife in the village.
He had wanted an heir, a male child who would carry forward his name, her mother had only given birth to her and Enobong, her only sister.
She was then diagnosed with an infection causing her womb to be removed through surgery.
Her father could not bear the thought of being married to a âbarrenâ woman as he called her and with the help of his family he got married to another and abandoned them in Uyo.
âwetin dey ur mindâ? Sara the garden egg Hawker asked, she was her best friend around here, others did not flow well with her while the other young girls envied her because she was extremely beautiful and had lots of customers.
ânothing, just that today has been a very bad day, and my sister needs money to register for her upcoming NECO examinationâ, âso na why u dey worry like this?
U no get work, instead of to worry, u no pray make dis God send us customerâ, Debora simply sighed and continued swimming in her thoughts.
She often wondered when her life as a hawker would come to an end, she was not getting younger, but she had to do this to increase the income for feeding.
She prayed desperately in her heart for a favour from God, she needed to breathe, to sleep without waking up early to run to the market to but ingredients for her mother to prepare moi-moi for the student cafeteria in the University of Uyo.
That business had helped them a lot, her mother had rented a little shade in the student market and they usually patronised her, her mother was a hardworking woman, she kept telling her children that one day, anyhow, they will one day study at the University of Uyo.
Deborah smiled and wished that day could come quickly, she had finished her secondary education
for three years now but due to the obvious conditions she couldnât go further but she believed
Strongly that her dreams would not die, she remembered how she sneaked into lecture halls to have a feel of what it felt like to be a student, but the students always knew her as the Hawker and looked down on her shabby dresses thatâs why she stopped attending the lectures.
What made her quite known was her beauty, many times she had heard the students especially females whisper â she is too fine to be a hawker, God forbidâ, yes she was too beautiful, but how could one change their parentage? many boys on campus had approached her but she turned them down because she didnât believe in premarital relations, and her mother had raised them with a firm her.
âbe proud, hold your head high even as a poor girlâ she remembered her mother instructing them, one of such male student advances had gone sour that was how she met Captain her best friend on Campus, she had served a group of rough looking boys and one made advances towards her, when she declined he broke the glass plate and began ranting.
âwho you be sef, na only u dey dis skul, see dis dirty a-s girl oâ, and he started making calculated efforts at her, before he could lay his hands, a bottle smashed his head and he fell down bleeding, by now the attention of the Security was drawn to the scene.
âwhat have you done to him?â she had cried to her savior, âGirl you should thank me, this guy is a troublesome dude and he is known around here, so basically I saved youâ, she sighed âthank youâ, when the security arrived and recognized the person who was being hit, they hissed and turned back.
âif I ever see you here again, I will break your head into tiny bits and send them to the Lordâ her saviour said pushing the guy outside roughly, he wiped his hands and returned, â my name is Felix Eggon, am known as captain thoughâ.
âDeborahâ she replied hesitatingly, he smiled â donât you have a nickâ? â like Debbie, Debo baby or Yellow sisiâ he teased, this made her laugh, she shook her head, he was silent for a while and suddenly lifted his face âsweet chocolateâ, âwhatâs thatâ
She asked, he simply replied, ânicknameâ, and thatâs what everybody even her own mother came to call her.
âpick me at the airport, we are almost on the ground baby, luv ya babyâ she said sweetly, Morgana Esio, was the luckiest woman in the state, at least that is what she thought, she was an accomplished legal practitioner c-m fashion designer, the only daughter of Chief Charles Esio Peters, coming from a high-class family she had met the most wanted bachelor in the state.
Aniebiet Briggas, an engineer by profession, the manager of three branches of Briggas Construction Companies in Africa popularly known as BCC.
Aniebiet was all a woman could dream of, all her desire, he was not just physically appealing but he was very rich and hardworking, and that was exactly the kind of man she needed to maintain her high-born status.
She had dated him for about four years now and her love for him grew stronger by the day, but it bothered her, as they landed on the ground, she wondered if he felt the same way, its not as if he didnât care, but she knew for a fact that she was his most long-standing girlfriend.
Aniebiet had dated strings of women dumping each when he was tired, this made her have more hope, maybe he loved her thatâs why he held onto her for so long, and because she loved him she had overlooked his flirtatious behaviour.
She walked briskly from the plane and walked towards the waiting area when she spotted her worst enemy, Inemesit, her one-time best friend who had an affair with Aniebiet, â who am I seeing here?â she sneered.
Morgana ignored her and moved on, âseriously, you are getting too old for this, why do you act like youâre better than me, remember you also cheated on him with my boyfriend, so revenge is beautifulâ she stopped and walked towards her.
âI slept with your boyfriend? But you told me you didnât love him, and you knew very well what Aniebiet meant to me and you stabbed me, back off,â Inemesit did not flinch, she simply stared back at her, â what do you want from meâ?
Morgana asked, â I need your help, there is a big fashion show am organizing and you have the props I just may useâ, Morgana was about to say no, but this girl needed to be taught a lesson, and she would do her dirty, she smiled and walked off â Okay, meet me at the Drokieâs, we will discuss thereâ.
She spotted Aniebietâs car and increased her footsteps, he came out and hugged her, âwelcome darling, how was your tripâ? she hugged him and whispered â am tiredâ, after packing her luggage, he pecked her forehead, she smiled and they drove off.
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