Five years ago,531Please respect copyright.PENANAK3vzaZNveQ
February 13th, 2010.531Please respect copyright.PENANAAg3RDhyUkk
Mpunde Girls Secondary School,531Please respect copyright.PENANAFOlQBbm8pR
Zambia.531Please respect copyright.PENANA4SX2CtHu3W
I gasped for air as I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYbenRhkrxB
quickly sat up on my bed, holding my burning throat and feeling my lungs531Please respect copyright.PENANAdBOD2x0LGz
ache as air quickly flooded in. For a moment, I thought I was drowning 531Please respect copyright.PENANABWQKSrmdbb
in water, but I was actually taking in air. I coughed out a little and 531Please respect copyright.PENANAfuaGLBeqMz
opened my eyes. The lights in the dorm were all turned on and the bunker531Please respect copyright.PENANAR9zJkx7DPs
beds were all empty. For a moment, I panicked as I quickly got out of 531Please respect copyright.PENANAkcukC655wu
bed on the bunker bed below, looking around the dorm. There was no one 531Please respect copyright.PENANA37Ngs8XDdM
and I felt scared and worried. I quickly looked out of the window and I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAPd9qEgLVnn
realised that the sun was rising up from the east. I couldn’t help but 531Please respect copyright.PENANAxG8dYT0Ve5
sigh in relief, but then again, I realised that I was running late and 531Please respect copyright.PENANAF8bnlQBl4c
my dorm mates were obviously hitting the showers in the ablution. And I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAPA1YiHnJFY
was the only one left in the dorm.531Please respect copyright.PENANAnIQOdeOUtU
I quickly grabbed my 531Please respect copyright.PENANAftka5mUVpz
toothbrush, toothpaste, my bath towel and cloth. Quickly slipped my feet531Please respect copyright.PENANAIaFJ2vZeEI
into my bath slippers and when I turned around the corner of my bunker 531Please respect copyright.PENANAwWoLAoDMlb
bed to grab my bucket, I realised it wasn’t there. I sighed, this time 531Please respect copyright.PENANAzYuguLySMZ
in frustration.531Please respect copyright.PENANA8fHRVwBVF0
Obviously because I knew531Please respect copyright.PENANAz0x4lNOiMS
who took it. If it wasn’t my bunker mate, then it was probably one of 531Please respect copyright.PENANAwbecnYAKso
the dorm mates. In my nightdress, I rushed out of the dorm and headed 531Please respect copyright.PENANAdyCewOncoG
for the ablution. The ablution was one place where I found it so 531Please respect copyright.PENANAQ0GxHZwq7Z
repulsive to be in. Despite it being cleaned every day, it was always a 531Please respect copyright.PENANA0CIhVa5ZAE
surprise how it gets messed up and flooded afterwards. When I mean 531Please respect copyright.PENANAMz5mSnLSFW
messed up, I mean the toilets is one thing you wouldn’t like to see 531Please respect copyright.PENANA17x2stKlaC
first after you eat a meal. For a moment, I wonder if we really are 531Please respect copyright.PENANAbjWoSK6j80
girls or sometimes we act like boys who like to leave a mess. We are 531Please respect copyright.PENANA6BHDy2sGUK
“GIRLS” for crying out loud. And as far as I know, we need to take care 531Please respect copyright.PENANA2CevB5jNZx
of ourselves and the environment around us. Looks like being in boarding531Please respect copyright.PENANAoC1ChbE9tr
school, you get to know that sometimes things aren’t always what you 531Please respect copyright.PENANAIChDyJEqWn
thought it ought to be.531Please respect copyright.PENANA9HJR3YML6X
On either side of the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAtQjzsnEaEW
ablution were the shower side and the toilet side. In between was a 531Please respect copyright.PENANAzZ0E1mP4WK
passage where people could move around and line up their buckets to get 531Please respect copyright.PENANAyYUOiSq2MX
into the shower cubicles. When it gets flooded, it’s pretty hard to move531Please respect copyright.PENANAtRurMnBJkD
around and many people have slipped and fallen. Trust me; it’s not a 531Please respect copyright.PENANAOlPbVSPA6M
pretty sight when you see someone falling on their back into the water, 531Please respect copyright.PENANA7dgDw1nEMe
which was probably dirty. Luckily for me, that hasn’t happened, yet. I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAg8KpSYMFND
wasn’t pushing my luck on that one. One day, I would probably fall and 531Please respect copyright.PENANAhftfC6XlAr
hopefully I wouldn’t break my bones in the process. At the far end of 531Please respect copyright.PENANAGJVeHv3iHs
the ablution were sinks where you can go and brush your teeth and wash 531Please respect copyright.PENANAqayByvY4kR
your face. And by the corner was a store room where we kept the cleaning531Please respect copyright.PENANANrXKjl91r8
materials for the ablution.531Please respect copyright.PENANA5cWj6DNoRJ
I stood by the door of 531Please respect copyright.PENANA9sqVhP8sIu
the ablution, and as usual, there were queues of buckets all lined up, 531Please respect copyright.PENANAPqIX6hmFyG
their owners standing beside them waiting for the shower cubicles to be 531Please respect copyright.PENANAyKCM2yAp1l
vacant. I looked around for my bunker mate and I couldn’t see her on any531Please respect copyright.PENANAj54HiMhIDP
of the queues. I considered her to be in the shower and so I went by 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYC5JtmDrXA
the sink to brush my teeth. The ablution was flooded again and so as 531Please respect copyright.PENANAaGV8UAcR3A
always I had to be careful, taking a step at a time.531Please respect copyright.PENANApuOVZSFLgB
When I finally got to 531Please respect copyright.PENANAE8Qd5XVymF
the sinks, all in one peace, I suddenly felt a jolt of pain in my head 531Please respect copyright.PENANA9kgSDUAiIg
as though I was just struck by lightning. It felt more like a migraine 531Please respect copyright.PENANAecAFtPCLfE
and I held my head, almost screaming out in pain. I saw a dark image 531Please respect copyright.PENANAuLu56gT6jt
flash before my eyes and for a moment, I thought the lights went off and531Please respect copyright.PENANAUbzaDd2Pua
come back on. But when I looked around everything around the ablution 531Please respect copyright.PENANAkDeSBoaCit
seemed to be normal. Usually when the power cuts, we girls like to 531Please respect copyright.PENANAHE691ehOi3
scream, a lot, except for a few of us who are already used to the dark. 531Please respect copyright.PENANAI95cH22IIb
This time, that wasn’t the case. Everything seemed normal and I felt 531Please respect copyright.PENANAk7O4YXLnvs
maybe I was being delirious.531Please respect copyright.PENANAUqcbmJUQ4y
“Hey, Diana, are you okay?”531Please respect copyright.PENANAcG0gic1j1V
I turned to the last 531Please respect copyright.PENANA48OwtdA41c
shower cubicle which was closer to the sinks, and there wrapped up in a 531Please respect copyright.PENANAqRZJqjE6nT
pink towel stood my bunker mate, Christine. And just as I expected, she 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYU1MLFW6qV
was holding my bucket. She slowly walked over to me, trying to avoid the531Please respect copyright.PENANAs0LCCoudWm
dirty ablution water from flowing into her bath slippers.531Please respect copyright.PENANAvgggH1jjNP
“Are you okay? It looks like you just saw a ghost,” Christine had a worrying look on her face.531Please respect copyright.PENANA0Zsykscg0b
“No, I’m fine, just a little ache in the head, that’s all,” I replied, trying to act normal when I really wasn’t.531Please respect copyright.PENANAzL9NRn3c3j
“You had me worried, I thought you saw something like a ghost.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAY70aeMAVWV
“You know I don’t believe in such things as the ghosts that haunt people around school.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAFYIFeiztP4
“Well, you better believe. One day it might just visit you,” Christine said that with a laugh. All I did was scowl back at her.531Please respect copyright.PENANAO0YRJmbpKI
“What happened to you 531Please respect copyright.PENANA82xBe2MpJZ
today, anyway? You’re usually the first to wake up when the morning bell531Please respect copyright.PENANA93W8ktgCm2
rings. But today you slept like a rock,” Christine added on, this time 531Please respect copyright.PENANAuqrdxkLh72
there was a concerned tone in her voice.531Please respect copyright.PENANARlLJcgyegD
It hadn’t occurred to me531Please respect copyright.PENANAJYTUlNqZdD
that I had never heard the morning bell in the first place. I was 531Please respect copyright.PENANABs2bc96CPc
always the early bird and I was never a heavy sleeper. I was always 531Please respect copyright.PENANAXfnOD7yosi
sensitive with whatever sounds I get to hear. But today, I hadn’t even 531Please respect copyright.PENANAXkrnVToNRx
heard my own dorm mates’ footsteps as they always rush out and into the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6RDLRN1qL
dorm.531Please respect copyright.PENANAhV4vC0sjjs
“I guess today just wasn’t my day,” I replied, shrugging my shoulders.531Please respect copyright.PENANA69ciktR6wg
“Well, you better hurry 531Please respect copyright.PENANAHGkPFDv0I1
up then,” said Christine, handling the bucket over to me, “you don’t 531Please respect copyright.PENANAeHRjrzNYsD
want to be caught by the prefects when it’s time to clean up the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAzXxdqyLYTg
ablution. And that’s not how you want to start the day.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAlQjabBzxqc
I scowled again as I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAFTbbdYb0TX
took the bucket away from Christine. As I mentioned earlier, the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAQBvROmPt99
ablution always get cleaned. And we the pupils clean it with the senior 531Please respect copyright.PENANApOHlweYELV
prefects as our supervisors. At 6:30 AM, everyone should vacate the 531Please respect copyright.PENANA6d4yDA4HG3
ablutions so that the assigned group of pupils put to clean up the 531Please respect copyright.PENANA7goySkcumN
ablution should do their work. If you’re caught still in the showers, 531Please respect copyright.PENANAST5Z6zLr5i
you would obviously have to join in the cleaning process. And that 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJZgnNMatt0
proves to be twice as difficult when you know you’re also assigned to 531Please respect copyright.PENANASY3wkfROfe
another area to clean in school. As soon as I finished brushing my 531Please respect copyright.PENANAg2ve6kcrd8
teeth, I quickly got out of the ablution to fetch water by a nearby tap.531Please respect copyright.PENANAAlnchyRh9U
Most of the showers never worked in the ablution, henceforth, fetching 531Please respect copyright.PENANAR3DLyZzIRv
water outside.531Please respect copyright.PENANAUy2lSzWdpi
Luckily, for me, there was no queue and I did things as fast as I could.531Please respect copyright.PENANAio0dEiK86h
Afterwards, I went back into the ablution and quickly found a vacant cubicle.531Please respect copyright.PENANAFXwyhJRDMr
After getting cleaned 531Please respect copyright.PENANACavl7sJVVB
up, I wore my beige school uniform, clean white stockings and I had my 531Please respect copyright.PENANALAVvl3Mvoh
black shoes, neatly clean and polished. I looked at myself in the mirror531Please respect copyright.PENANAngkhZ3XsxR
and made sure my short afro hair was neatly combed. I had cut my long 531Please respect copyright.PENANA5wG6bVPo51
hair a year ago before coming to this missionary school. As usual, one 531Please respect copyright.PENANAHeYkLJ0FlB
of the rules was not to come with long hair, especially if was it was 531Please respect copyright.PENANATalM202FXg
permed. They strongly insisted on natural hair. I had to cut my hair 531Please respect copyright.PENANAHsom2U8wcr
when I was going into grade 8 and I felt it was pretty unfair. But after531Please respect copyright.PENANA9SKFZqcMmG
that year, I kind of got used to it. Surly they were just trying to 531Please respect copyright.PENANAyvb7W9ezVK
promote equality amongst us, but there were a lot of things I never 531Please respect copyright.PENANAmf8pqYbO7N
found amusing in this school.531Please respect copyright.PENANAKBUbmzwIoB
Mpunde Girls Secondary 531Please respect copyright.PENANA7hBgoD4g9L
School, a Catholic school run by the Hand Maid Sisters. Located in the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJeCvShNnVM
Central Province of Zambia in the town of Kabwe, but pretty much away 531Please respect copyright.PENANAR28BHHCGFk
from civilisation. When I say that, I mean the school is located far 531Please respect copyright.PENANAZG7aB013yL
away from town and deep into the bush. It’s located in the farthest 531Please respect copyright.PENANA7bUFi9CXOh
rural part of Kabwe.531Please respect copyright.PENANAu3u4qBLduG
When I first came to 531Please respect copyright.PENANAM6cI2RSxnt
this school to write an aptitude test to go into grade 8, I was greeted 531Please respect copyright.PENANAZpsr3phh3B
by the lovely surroundings of the school. The lawns of the school were 531Please respect copyright.PENANABBE9jz0L0K
properly well cared for, and there were beautiful flowers everywhere. A 531Please respect copyright.PENANAFFkzojDQSa
beautiful Catholic church was situated right outside the school grounds,531Please respect copyright.PENANAimNq16AzMP
meant for the local people that lived around that area and for us 531Please respect copyright.PENANA2EzzZdLlno
pupils. The attractive colours painted in different Catholic symbols, 531Please respect copyright.PENANArUTGqkzjly
inside and outside the walls of the church were astonishing to look at. 531Please respect copyright.PENANAhdhKrPT0mB
It looked more like art in my eyes.531Please respect copyright.PENANAiiKpwF81zK
At that moment, I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAsGrXBcjstO
thought things were going to get better in my life. The school was 531Please respect copyright.PENANACnZ31bWyHG
beautiful and the Catholic sisters and teachers who introduced 531Please respect copyright.PENANA2EF29LJJb3
themselves to us girls and our parents, seemed so kind. And I was 531Please respect copyright.PENANAfTTYidopEI
Catholic, so attending mass wasn’t much of a big deal. I thought I was 531Please respect copyright.PENANAtKLC54ZQTN
going to love this place and make it more like my second home. But 531Please respect copyright.PENANArL9wrM9Otv
things weren’t the case when I got to know the school a whole lot 531Please respect copyright.PENANAW4MpChiu6F
better. I remember a certain friend of mine back home tell me that,531Please respect copyright.PENANAvseUPbkm0a
most Catholic girl schools in Zambia were highly recommended because 531Please respect copyright.PENANAGRFQLauiAT
the Sisters were strict and pupils are disciplined. As far as I had 531Please respect copyright.PENANAHtKsqa8Ds0
known, most Sisters were meant to be kind and loving, not strict and 531Please respect copyright.PENANAWaOcQmc0Rm
mean. It looked like I had been stuck in oblivion for quite a while in 531Please respect copyright.PENANAC140xCievH
my life, that when I got to know what my friend truly meant, it was like531Please respect copyright.PENANA1aTazYaPPx
a hammer blow to the head. One's thing for sure, I didn’t like this 531Please respect copyright.PENANA8dmlgKwFDn
school. Every time we begun a new term, I would pray for the three 531Please respect copyright.PENANATYljHPdatX
months to pass by quickly. Whenever I came back home, it felt like I had531Please respect copyright.PENANA1Bo6EkRiDw
just come back from a beat-down, and as usual, losing the match every 531Please respect copyright.PENANABQLxup4UKl
time.531Please respect copyright.PENANA2dUgV2q8mo
The school was strict 531Please respect copyright.PENANAKZuswwDoZH
and on point with their rules, I felt like a minion under their control.531Please respect copyright.PENANAHDKOHLlcAE
Any little offense you make, they will take you as an offender. They 531Please respect copyright.PENANAi7UMwpwTI8
were strict with how you kept the rooms and the surrounding areas clean.531Please respect copyright.PENANA3brhB1beRf
If they found that nothing was clean or things were out of place, 531Please respect copyright.PENANAnrYyH1TSKZ
whether in the dorms or in the surrounding areas, either one of the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAKHsT6wirLR
sisters or one of the teachers on duty, would call the pupils assigned 531Please respect copyright.PENANAV7hXnEodvU
to cleaning the area or the dorm, out of class to go back and do their 531Please respect copyright.PENANA7JqDEUzwoF
work properly. And by the end of the day they are given a punishment, 531Please respect copyright.PENANAIQbjSZ7DoQ
which was usually to weed the garden, clean the poultry shack or sweep 531Please respect copyright.PENANAu7PR38YdLi
up the leaves in the orchard. To me, that’s like working twice as hard 531Please respect copyright.PENANAFvWUbmRTuQ
as you usually do on a daily basis. There was nothing you could do about531Please respect copyright.PENANAt10Y7ROj86
that anyway. That wasn’t the only that ticked me off sometimes. Most 531Please respect copyright.PENANAjFBQpqnRXi
prefects were mean and complete jerks towards us. It’s even much worse 531Please respect copyright.PENANAaSfzhRHP7H
when you were in a lower grade. That meant more work, and if things 531Please respect copyright.PENANAeggiAbjgPG
weren’t done right, punishment in the worst way, cleaning up the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAkFELqYD8Z4
disgusting ablution or weeding the entire garden, with your hands. And 531Please respect copyright.PENANAd06eLNaNlG
they always had a special day to punish offenders. If you know you were 531Please respect copyright.PENANAvLATzy5rrD
late for classes or attending meals and your name was written in any of 531Please respect copyright.PENANATD47STgMiQ
the prefect’s books, just know you will find yourself on the offender’s 531Please respect copyright.PENANAnJFVmfG9PL
list which is always stuck on Thursdays. That means after classes on 531Please respect copyright.PENANAo1TQHfXs4X
Thursdays, the first thing you would want to see first is if you’re on 531Please respect copyright.PENANAkGOtb3wxwA
the offender’s list. If you aren’t, then it’s just a time to relax. If 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJ3yDCIyI3I
you are on the list, get ready to thoroughly clean up the whole school, 531Please respect copyright.PENANAEiUtQ9nv7A
you aren’t going to get off that list so easily if you didn’t work. 531Please respect copyright.PENANALdIgNHv3Ke
You’ll just find yourself on the other week’s offenders list.531Please respect copyright.PENANAJsxNA09yOb
Enough about what ticks 531Please respect copyright.PENANApxyYiBfv6b
me off in this place. It was 7:00 AM and that meant it was time to get 531Please respect copyright.PENANAmbs2VOuxNo
to work. The way we were allocated to our places of work is according to531Please respect copyright.PENANAjsrPZuLBOR
dorms. There are 10 dorms in school. The size of the dorm also depends 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJzb1Qpzkiy
where you’re allocated to work. For example, the second biggest dorm 531Please respect copyright.PENANAsNXMVBDEqZ
called Dolores, which I’m in, usually worked in big places like the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAEm4WtgXghQ
orchard. And smaller dorms like Xavier A, usually worked in smaller 531Please respect copyright.PENANAwEnkl7LMvr
areas like the kitchen area or the ablutions.531Please respect copyright.PENANAgYXjKk4z2j
It was time to go to the531Please respect copyright.PENANA6knHv3mu9G
orchard, and as usual, we were always greeted by the sight of leaves 531Please respect copyright.PENANAcMxbooaA49
everywhere in the morning. Most of the time, people would usually sweep 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJQrBALzU8P
up the leaves with a rake, but here, we would use brooms made up for the531Please respect copyright.PENANA0hw6xl87vs
strongest tree branches. It was more than enough to sweep up the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAv0qBkpdhNm
leaves. So, we got to work with the brooms. Since there weren’t enough 531Please respect copyright.PENANAJZPdhE21tT
brooms, most of us had to wait until one finishes her potion and gave it531Please respect copyright.PENANAAfYUgL40Tx
you. I was one of those waiting today and I stood under a tree. 531Please respect copyright.PENANA2xL3bAk8NE
Christine came up to stand beside me. Our dorm prefect, Chileshe, stood 531Please respect copyright.PENANAw56P1uV2hU
in front of us, doing her duty, to supervise.531Please respect copyright.PENANA7REsZgmtpB
“Hey, are you going to tell me why you couldn’t wake up today?” Christine asked, nudging her elbow to my side.531Please respect copyright.PENANAUViYteorgV
“I don’t know,” I replied. “And you are such a bad bunker mate. You couldn’t even wake me up.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAShpzqyzXZY
“Huh?” Christine looked confused as she looked at me. “I tried to wake you up, but you were as still as a rock.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAmhlFJlrUCV
I now stared back at Christine with a frown. “Are you sure? I didn’t hear you at all.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAbZ8xYWuHvW
“Not only did I call out to you, but I shook you too. You didn’t even budge at all. It was like you were dead or something.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAsjbWHHxTvB
I shook my head. This 531Please respect copyright.PENANANCWq1HLGVY
was ridiculous and Christine was taking it like it was one big deal. If 531Please respect copyright.PENANAAt0NwFrQAK
she was going to start talking about ghosts again, like she usually 531Please respect copyright.PENANAZETnPpgcfM
does, I didn’t know what I would do to her that would land me in serious531Please respect copyright.PENANAdQuUwPzSYQ
trouble.531Please respect copyright.PENANATpk3U3IIQt
“Christine, all that just happened to me today. It’s not like it’s going to happen again,” I said.531Please respect copyright.PENANAAAI72vXrA3
“Diana, you had me worried,” said Christine. “What if you didn’t wake up?”531Please respect copyright.PENANAE0JzuQ2fJf
“But I woke up, didn’t I?”531Please respect copyright.PENANAQtS8bvCmxA
“Somehow I feel that there is something you aren’t telling me.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAniCylAAJBZ
I grew startled by what 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYYxihV3db3
Christine said. I was just about to ask what she meant by that when 531Please respect copyright.PENANAFNgMB6Fmg3
Amanda came back from sweeping her potion and Christine was quick enough531Please respect copyright.PENANAc3BOrLPKqJ
to get the broom before anyone else. I could feel that Christine was 531Please respect copyright.PENANAsczEt1zhdm
really mad at me and the confusing part about it was why she was taking 531Please respect copyright.PENANA6tu9SfmBi8
all of this seriously. If I wanted an answer, I was so not ready to get a531Please respect copyright.PENANAGYOoAQzBIm
ridiculous one from Christine. She was so superstitious about things 531Please respect copyright.PENANAue4SfXH9G9
and I wasn’t coping with all of that ever since I first came to school 531Please respect copyright.PENANAvzCxBRNufR
and learnt mysterious things that I wasn’t even willing to know.531Please respect copyright.PENANAQUaICSUZzr
Amanda came to stand 531Please respect copyright.PENANAUD6erXA1AN
beside me as we watched Christine head towards her portion of the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAUSJBf9vboz
orchard. I drew out a breath of air. Amanda who had a bunker bed right 531Please respect copyright.PENANAUqfo7oXfEx
next to Christine’s and mine, looked over at me. By the look on her 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYLYEMZtKkj
face, I could tell she knew what Christine and I were arguing about. I 531Please respect copyright.PENANAtove4PG6aw
wasn’t even ready to hear what she had to say. Hearing from Christine 531Please respect copyright.PENANAV4WIMKjihr
was more than enough.531Please respect copyright.PENANAA51LPVSbbQ
“I wouldn’t be so mad at Christine if I were you,” said Amanda.531Please respect copyright.PENANAXrD0JVRgy8
“I’m not mad at her,” I said, “I just feel that she is making a mountain out of a mole hill.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAxU1hacRphA
Amanda folded her arms 531Please respect copyright.PENANALDz6ARB2xR
across her chest and leaned in closer to me so that people wouldn’t hear531Please respect copyright.PENANA7aRlhCs7zi
us. “I was there when Christine tried to wake you up. You didn’t even 531Please respect copyright.PENANAC9qBMsVGC9
move an inch. You just laid there. And you looked, I don’t know, dead.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAG0SoOmWc5l
As far as I had known 531Please respect copyright.PENANAhsyUVwdv99
Amanda, she was one person who always aired out her honest opinions 531Please respect copyright.PENANAbUPIcZDKT8
about things and she was one who wouldn’t even lie. She was quite 531Please respect copyright.PENANAvWAKNArZe9
terrible at it if you ask me. I knew what she was telling me right now 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYznad44U8K
was the truth. I swallowed, still finding it hard to believe what Amanda531Please respect copyright.PENANA5oFnmQLQ4L
had just told me.531Please respect copyright.PENANAJtmhQWL2ss
“If I was like that, why531Please respect copyright.PENANAbCk98V0PvM
didn’t you call the nurse or inform one of the prefects?” I turned to 531Please respect copyright.PENANASwLR9awCiU
face Amanda, her brown innocent eyes staring back at me.531Please respect copyright.PENANArYnoQRukiQ
“Christine was scared 531Please respect copyright.PENANAQIvwT2uNwg
when she couldn’t wake you. She almost freaked out and I told her that 531Please respect copyright.PENANAu41gjDmb1m
you would be fine, that you were just in a deep sleep. I told her to 531Please respect copyright.PENANAw81IZp2Enh
leave the dorm and that I would watch over you until you woke up. We 531Please respect copyright.PENANAr4vPOf6v5W
didn’t want to attract any attention among the dorm mates until we were 531Please respect copyright.PENANA9Dkk00ncUf
sure you were okay.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAPTvW1NbYRB
“Where were you when I woke up? I didn’t see you and the whole dorm was empty.”531Please respect copyright.PENANABOeHF2O6gZ
“I was standing by the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYCYsdlr2O7
door of the dorm when you woke up. And to be honest, you woke up in the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAoZ45VqYVZX
weirdest way possible. It was like you were given CPR and was suddenly 531Please respect copyright.PENANANzwS5yfrHr
revived.”531Please respect copyright.PENANAfdyJ6uGjSp
Now that Amanda had 531Please respect copyright.PENANA6LpujDlBp9
mentioned it, I did wake up in the weirdest way today. I felt like 531Please respect copyright.PENANAuwhdLe4Xme
someone had pumped in water into my nostrils when it was actually air. I531Please respect copyright.PENANAQwY0JBaZjx
could still remember my throat burn and I held it again without even 531Please respect copyright.PENANAhSe3ECxj5h
realising it. I looked up at Amanda and she gave me a sad smile.531Please respect copyright.PENANANzPCenGlgN
“And you told Christine?” I asked when I obviously knew the answer.531Please respect copyright.PENANAmCN34x3x9p
“You know I couldn’t lie531Please respect copyright.PENANAkTqnIZbfBN
to her. She was worried and she has every right to. And so was I. What 531Please respect copyright.PENANA9IdLyNamCP
if you never did wake up? Have you ever thought of what would have 531Please respect copyright.PENANAqPr9Hb6nVu
happened if you had died in your sleep?”531Please respect copyright.PENANAKakKB6nlxK
I took in Amanda’s 531Please respect copyright.PENANAY5mf4KnAGk
questions into consideration and I looked at Christine who was busy at 531Please respect copyright.PENANAIv3bOs9XHj
work. It was obvious that she was avoiding me. I swallowed hard and 531Please respect copyright.PENANAHMnF3nMLl3
stared off in a distance. All Christine was trying to do was help me out531Please respect copyright.PENANA8sQ7gVg6pB
and I was acting like a complete jerk. But she couldn’t blame me for 531Please respect copyright.PENANAC8cWp4QCWh
it. I didn’t even know what had happened to me in the first place.531Please respect copyright.PENANA1Ia02JyPKQ
It was now my turn to go531Please respect copyright.PENANAWRyQT0hGVD
and sweep as I took the broom from my fellow dorm mate, Chilufya who 531Please respect copyright.PENANASgHhQOJTKJ
was a grade ahead of me. I went to my portion under a few guava trees. 531Please respect copyright.PENANA2jLLGYduO6
Before I could bend down to start sweeping, a sudden wave of pain gushed531Please respect copyright.PENANAGuxxC6DLk8
down upon my head. The pain was so unbearable, that I almost screamed 531Please respect copyright.PENANAwIZzkkI6z7
aloud as I held my head.531Please respect copyright.PENANAf7wLD6Inen
As I looked around the 531Please respect copyright.PENANAD4wxHbTBoi
place, everything seemed blurry. I tried blinking my eyes a few times to531Please respect copyright.PENANAgaAVayc1g6
refocus my sight, but that didn’t seem to work. I leaned onto a tree 531Please respect copyright.PENANASnrh1q8hWF
for support and I soon felt a jolt of dizziness and I felt like I would 531Please respect copyright.PENANAM745KKreMT
throw up at any moment. Soon, voices of concern surrounded me and I felt531Please respect copyright.PENANALZXs7PixML
a warm familiar hand hold my shoulder. I saw Christine looking at me 531Please respect copyright.PENANAnlmrw8aotZ
and with our other dorm mates surrounding me.531Please respect copyright.PENANA4XynA9OEVS
My vision was still 531Please respect copyright.PENANASwXZu8wHWU
blurry and my head ached like hell. What was even worse was the fact 531Please respect copyright.PENANAiIay4ZvEep
that everyone was talking and I couldn’t get a thing they said, not even531Please respect copyright.PENANA0Ryq0VAlpE
Christine who was right next to me. I felt so confused that I was 531Please respect copyright.PENANA7PH59qlerJ
afraid of running mad with all the noise. I looked around and I noticed 531Please respect copyright.PENANAjsJTZFbOhu
that my vision was getting worse. I could notice a few of my dorm mates’531Please respect copyright.PENANATANk8zAaMr
faces including the dorm prefect, Chileshe. I saw Amanda at the far end531Please respect copyright.PENANAQppgo8cfF9
of the crowd, looking scared. And I noticed someone standing right 531Please respect copyright.PENANAS58FrILRx7
behind her.531Please respect copyright.PENANAZM49HX0MzR
At that moment, my 531Please respect copyright.PENANAYfdLN0PBhB
vision cleared when I saw the tall person who was standing behind 531Please respect copyright.PENANA3p0z2x3Pay
Amanda. I felt a burning sensation run through my body, but I was 531Please respect copyright.PENANABMq0YzJdwv
sensible enough not to scream. I continued to look at the tall figure 531Please respect copyright.PENANAwnAQDMB44K
and out of nowhere, a flood of images rushed through my head in a quick 531Please respect copyright.PENANAmda8Ycda5f
flash.531Please respect copyright.PENANAOdsXKHctEG
Right before I could figure out what had just happened; I was falling into a pit of darkness, right into oblivion.
531Please respect copyright.PENANAOCCEYILmcE