Chapter 2

"Nanny, I dreamt about mum and she wished me a happy birthday but something scary happened." I started shaking while recalling the dream and my nanny asked me to tell her what happened in my dream and held me in consolidation. "An...An...An...And then mum was shot in the head." My nanny instantly burst into tears and this made me to have bad feelings about what was happening" She hugged me so tight as she wept and did not say a word.

I lost appetit and waited patiently for my parents in my room. It was 12:00pm in the afternoon when I heard my dad was home so I ran to him only to see him in tears and swollen eyes. "Dad where is mum?." Immediately,he hugged me so tight and continued crying and everyone burst into tears which got me more confused and frustrated. "Dad why is everyone crying and why is mum not with you?." Still my dad said nothing and carried me to my room in his arms in bridal style.

On reaching my room I burst into tears as well as my dad was not saying anything regarding the situation. Minutes tuned to hours yet my dad was still crying. I went further to tell my dad the dream I had about my mum, but that worsened the situation as my dad wept loudly sitting on the floor. I curled myself to his chest and cried with him quietly, that was how my birthday ended.

I was about to leave my secret hideout when I heard my stepmom saying, "Have you seen Clara any where around?" She asked someone but I don't know who the person was "Yes ma, she went to get Miss Claire's dress", The man replied my stepmom. " Come here!" she came closer to my hide out, she did not know that there was a room in the grave house. "I want you to do something for me, I want you to kill Clara, let no one know." I was so shocked on what I heard that I felt like I should pass out. "But ma she is your daugh...." the man have not finished his sentence before he was given a slap, the man asked for forgiveness for making such statement, my stepmom promised the man a house, a car and a million if he accomplish the task successfully. The price was high and the man gave my stepmom his words, I was so shocked that I could not move from where I was standing. A lot was running through my mind as I sat down on the floor confused. I had no where to go because my dad's relatives and my mum's relatives thought I was dead so I was so confused that I stayed in my hideout. I heard Claire calling and cursing my name and I knew why, it was because I was with her clothes, shoes,bag and jewelry which were very expensive. It has been quite some time I wore expensive dresses but remained quiet in my hideout till mid night. I looked at the mirror and started having thoughts on what to do. I decided to change my identity, first I removed the eye contact lens my stepmom always make me put on but my blue eyes made me look exactly like my mum which will make people recognize me with just one look, at this point I was confused, so confused that I felt like ending my life till I remembered that am with Claire's stuff so I decided to going through Claire's stuff that I got from the store to know if there was anything abstract I can find. I searched her stuff and found eye contact lens inside, I open it and thank God it was grey colored eye lens which suits my cool skin tone very well. Good thing my stepmom had not dyed my hair for the second time. After my father's death, my step mum came up with a bad idea telling the world that I was dead and made me became a maid and dyed the colour of my hair and gave me black eye contact lens which made me look different so people could not recognize me. I had to find another way to escape her evil plans. I was in the room thinking hard on what to do but after putting on the eye lens, I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed i look much different and prettier. I listen to my environment to make sure that there was nobody near the grave house to enable me come out without alerting the guards. I successfully Came out of the grave house but I almost bumped into a guard. Thank God that I saw him before he could see me and I hid in the grass. I could hear my step mum shouting and screaming my name saying that I should make sure that wherever I am I should never come back because that day will be my last day on earth. I thought on how to leave since the guards were on patrol waiting for my return without having the knowledge that I was inside the premises already. Suddenly I felt someone's hand on me and I was about to scream but the person closed my mouth avoiding jeopardy of my escape. When I looked up, it was my dad's right hand man but had been lowered to a common guard by my step mum who made his life quite miserable because he was not in support of most of the things she did. He was the only one who could still recognize me in my impersonation. "What are you doing here little Clara,your life is at stake!" He asked with a low tune. I told him that I already knew my stepmum's evil plan. He was quite surprised and took me by the hand and guided me to a secret path I never knew that existed, It was actually an old gate which had been long forgotten and was covered with grass. He told me to go far away to avoid being killed by my wicked stepmom. Tears roll down my eyes as I hugged him and told him that I will surely be back and when I'll be back I will be stronger than ever, I held my luggage that he gave me and I left through the back gate. Truthfully I wondered on the street not even knowing where to go, this made me frustrated. I decided to face my fears and return home to face my death. I was walking and thinking without being careful on where I was going and before I could realize that I was in the middle of the road, I got hit by a car and I blacked out.