PAINS

I told the girls that my head is spinning and they asked me to go and see the school doctor, that he will be at the school pharmacy, we had a pharmacy inside the school premises, I told them that I was not sick but the headache will stop if I can just sleep.

I managed to open the package and handed over some of the food to Rejoice, I told her it was an order from Andy for both of us, she collected it and they were just looking at me as I walked to my bed, they seemed surprised by what was happening, they didn't understand why I suddenly developed a spinning head and they wondered whether I was forming or lying to them that I had headache.

I lied down on my bed but my head continued spinning, I watched them muttering words with anger written all over their faces, I did not know why they were angry and I wanted to listen to what they were saying to themselves but I couldn't as my eyes became heavy and I started feeling dizzy and in few minutes I slept off.

I woke up in an unknown place, the hall was as big as  a whole town, I was not able to see the end of the hall because it was too large, I tried to look round as far as my eyes could see but everywhere was looking empty and no one was around. I looked round and I was the only one in that whole building standing.

I turned but still did not see anyone, I became scared and as I turned again to face the opposite direction, I saw an old man seated on a wooden seat at the middle of the large hall, I became confident and decided to approach the old man and ask him where we were, as I took the first step, the hall all of a sudden became crowded with so many people doing a lot of things, some were just walking around, some sweeping, some building, some writing, some children were playing while others sat down as if they were sad.

Everyone in the hall seemed too busy to notice my presence, I was shocked and I stood still because this can't be real, as a minute ago, I was the only one in this hall and now we are more than one thousand people and nobody cared what the other person was doing but something shocking happened which captivated my attention.

I heard a loud scream from the entrance and immediately I turned, I saw a man who was being flogged with a whip and his whole body was covered with his own blood, on sighting the man I began to cry and shouted "Stop Flogging Him!", but yet the guys flogging him continued and to my greatest surprised, everyone in the hall didn't stop what they were doing, they continued  as if someone isn't in pains, I was the only one who cared enough to beg the guys to stop flogging him.

As the man whom was being flogged saw that I cared, he rushed toward me and held my legs, he wasn't saying anything but he buried his face on my toes, the guys who were beati.ng him approached me and tried to drag the man, I asked them to stop and they looked at me with anger written all over their faces, that was when I realized that the men who were flogging that man were actually my brothers.

I was provoked; I asked them "Why are you flogging this man in this manner?"

They looked at me and said, "Do you care?"

I was wounded by their response and I asked, "What do you mean by do I care? Are you supposed to beat a grown up man in this manner, no matter what he may have done?"

"Are you not worst?" my immediately elder brother replied.

I was more furious and I asked him how am I worst? "Have I ever beaten a man like this before? "Have I ever caused anyone pain before or even a reason why someone sustained any kind of injury?"

They ignored me and dragged the man to the old man who has been sitting quietly on his seat at the middle of the hall.

I decided to approach the old man and tell him to help me and plead with my brothers to stop causing this king of severe pain to this man, seeing that he was losing blood made me more scared.

I approached the old man and complained to him about everything and yet the old man didn't even lift up his head or even make a sound. I became angrier at him, and I shouted at the old man, "ARE YOU HEARTLESS TOO?"

The old man at this point lifted up his head and looked at me, that was when I felt as if I have met this man before, but I can't really tell where.

He looked at me and said, "Flora, are you not doing worse than this?"

I became angry and asked him, "How do you mean?"

"Flora, everything you have seen is yourself and I in the shadows of another man, I trusted you, I visited you, I taught you, I protected you, I gave you all that you wanted because I need you, I told you that I have a special task for you and it will be unveiled to you when you get to your eighteenth birthday but you are still eleven and you've already desired to disappoint me."

"At first you lied to me twice but yet you felt no remorse, I bled because every single time you failed me, you remind me of the cross and it makes my hands bleed, it is obvious you don't know this reality."

"I kept on telling you Flora that you are hurting me by the words you spoke, the places you went to, I told you that I am not comfortable with those things and it's not like you don't know that I was the one making you feel uneasy but you derive joy in making me bleed, you are trying to help the man who you saw bleeding but you are the one causing him pains."