Precious mother alighted from the tricycle after paying the driver. She was disheartened to see her stuff and belongings all outside and precious still in her school uniform.
Precious Greeted her mother as soon as she saw her before hugging her. She always found comfort in her mother's arm.
Grace sighed, when precious had called her to tell her of her situation, she had to go see her boss and asked if her daughter could stay in the mansion until she found a new place to stay. It was really hard for Grace to gather enough courage before speaking to her boss as he was a man who didn't give enough chances to be spoken to.
There were strict rules in the mansion, your family couldn't stay with you. Grace's boss had allowed Precious to reside in the mansion because he took a liking to the girl and her intelligence.
After getting their stuff and stuffing them in the booth of the taxi, they got into the taxi and left for Lekki peninsula.
The day was already dark when they arrived at the mansion, although it would be Precious' third time in the mansion, she couldn't help but admire the tall, wide building.
The mansion was like those ones you'd see in a Korean movie, painted white all through with a water fountain in the middle of the courtyard and guards positioned in every corner of the house.
The neon lights even made it more beautiful since it was night and she twitched her eyes as she kept walking towards the mansion.
Precious mother led her to the other side of the mansion, that was where the workers resided. There was a boys quarters at the back of the mansion built like that of a two story building with individual rooms each. Precious couldn't count the number of cars parked as they were so many.
If the exterior was captivating, the interior would obviously sweep you off the floor. Her mother and her with their loads with them, climbed the stairs until they reached her mother's room.
The room was really big, like three times bigger than their self contained apartment back in Victoria island. The room was painted in cream colour with maple wood flooring. The window was humongous and the room also had a wardrobe.
Precious couldn't fathom just anything yet, the last time she was here, the room colour was lemon but it seemed they've renovated it. Although she couldn't really remember how it looked like when she last came here which was two years ago.
She and her mother arranged and settled in for the night, precious was really tired and she decided to take a break off school tomorrow knowing she needed it for what was to come for her.
Jeremiah paced around in Bethel's room, it was past 7pm and he was feeling bad. His conscience had started to prick him when he found out he had accused Precious falsely.
He called Amanda telling her that he had exposed those that hurt her and hurt them too and when he mentioned it was Precious; Amanda got furious.
She was really angry with him and told him he had done the worst thing ever and she was going to break up with him if he didn't make things right by apologising to Precious.
He had hurt the poor girl and made her the new victim for the entire school.
The next day, he went in search of Precious but couldn't find her. She didn't come to school all through and he felt bad. Could she have left the school?
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Precious prepared for a new school ahead, she didn't go to school yesterday and she began to panic. She heaved a sigh as she waited for what was ahead for the day before walking into the school.
Precious walked calmly in a way it looked like she was counting her legs until she was dragged to a tight place. She winced in pain before looking around her to figure out she was in the female's restroom.
She saw the people that had dragged her and they were Beauty, Blessing and Dorathy popularly known as the BBD.
"Precious Gabriel, the pauper with no shame and IQ who is obviously a social welfare student and spending from our money! Welcome!" Beauty spat out clapping her hands.
Precious heart began to race, she knew it was the beginning of her misery and there would be more coming from other students.
Her eyes began to glister with tears and she held on tightly to her bag.
"You know what we want from you?" Dorathy asked with her voice low, dangerously walking closer to Precious and pushing her head lightly.
"We want you to leave our school!" Blessing spat out.
Leave the school because she was poor? Precious was pissed. This wasn't just right!
"But it's a....a..." Precious swallowed the lump in her throat before speaking up. "A school for all." She defended.
They all laughed hysterically. "School for the elites and not for paupers that stinks like you!" Blessing spat out with her tiny voice which irritated Precious.
"I was even wondering how she got the scholarship?" Dorathy stated.
"Maybe her mother slept with the principal!" Beauty deadpanned.
Ouch! Precious was hurt. They could say trash to her but not her mother.
"Don't drag my mother into this!" She gathered the courage to tell them.
"Really? And what would you do? It's possible and it's even true and I'm sure your mother gave the principal a good dick sucking for him to..." Beauty was cut off as Precious hand landed on her left cheek.
Blessing and Dorathy gasped.
"Bitch!" Beauty lamented before raising her hand to slap precious and spatting on her; but they were not done yet as Dorathy hit Precious's head against the wall making her wince in pain. They all gathered together and beat her leaving her in an almost unconscious state.
It wasn't until past break before Precious was able to stand up to her feet with so much pain and tears in her eyes.
She felt cheated and she felt it was unfair on her. She wept!