Three days after complaining bitterly to

my father, he called me in his chamber

and told me he would like me to go live with

his elderst sister (Ugochi Nana) who lived

alone ever since her husband died.

She was 60 years old and wasn't so heathy,

Her kids were all grown and married and

all lives in towns.

Her poor health conditions wasn't good with her

Loneliness and so i was asked to go live

with her and she was a very good person too;

"so i heard from people.

I obliged to my father's demand as i was

Already praying for redemption from my

Step-mother's evil ways.

I left my father's house to his sisters house

With high expectations and thanks to the

Heavens i wasn't disappointed. Auntie Ugochi

didn't just take very good care of me, she treated me so much love as if she had birthed me.

It wasn't too long that i grew fond of her and started seeing like the mother i never knew,

I took good care of her and always prayed to

Heavens that she could get better.

Weeks gone with her and her health was getting

even worse, what was a seemingly controllable diabetes and high blood pressure soon became worse

One morning i woke up to her not being able to

Come down from her bed, wait what? Yes exactly

What it's looking like, it's a stroke.

This hit me hard, very hard!

How was i going to cope with this new challenges?

How was i going to take care of a 60years old woman

all by myself?

So many thoughts crowded my mind, i felt like

running away, but then i wasn't going to be what

I condemned my step-mother of, I wasn't going

to return this woman goodness to me with

Wickedness.

She needs me more than ever, so i will stay

I said to myself.

Not so many people from the family knew how bad

The situation was and i didn't bother telling my father,

Because i knew he would ask me to return home but

then my mind was already made up.

Weeks gone and her condition kept on deteriorating

It seems as though my prayers weren't reaching heavens.

I bathed her, feed her, cleaned up her poo

as though i was dealing with a helpless newly

born baby, this wasn't an experience anyone

should go through not even my worse enemy. I muttered.

Weeks gone to another phase of misery and suffering in my life, till something happened.

One evening, i noticed she demanded for more

attention, which was kinda of unusual, she didn't

want me to leave her side. One minute she needed

Water, and the next minute she was feeling hot and needed air.

This sudden usually act of hers got me a-bit uncomfortable, but i managed to put myself together.

I succeeded in getting her to sleep while i laid down

on the floor close to her bed.

The night was a smooth one, i mean she didn't

wake me up in the middle of the night for her usual needs

another unusual act but i was so tired and didn't wish to wake her up, rather left her to sleep all night long.

Woke up early in the morning to check on her

and and clean her up too but to my biggest shock, she was dead.

The old woman gave up, i slept in the same room with a dead woman all through the night? Heavens!!

I immediately felt sick in my stomach and rushed out to vomit.

Fear took captive of me, i was shaking.

I didn't know what exactly to do, was i to cry out

for help or run?

I ran out to the neighbors house and alerted

them of what has happened, they all followed

me back to see the dead corpse with their own

eyes.

I was devastated and traumatized, the neighbors proceeded to inform my relatives of what happened and soonest the news of my aunt's dead soon spread all over the village and to my father's ears.