worlds apart
Chapter 2: Episode 1
Tamara
I jumped up from bed,I looked at the time it was just 6 in the morning, thank goodness am not late for work today.
Life had really been unfair to me,it was really hard struggling to fend for myself at a young age.
there where times I thought I would die,but death seems to be far from me .
I was know in the neighbourhood as badluck, everyone kept their distance away from me, am just an 18 years old girl lonely and misrable.
I had no idea who my parents where,the orphanage that took care of me till I was 7 said they they found me at the dustbin just with a wrapper and my date of birth attached to my body so they took me in but since then things became bad for them so they threw me out ,I didn't give birth to myself I had been trying to survive since then, I turned into a thief just to survive, I stole from many places, most times I was caught and almost beaten to death, I wish I really die but no death was far from me .
I was bleeding for weeks nobody to take care of me, nobody to show me the love I had always wanted .
I was molested and rape twice on the street, that was the worst experience of my life, I was only 8 then, the man forced himself on me because I was helpless, I was raped by someone old enough to be my father.
a month later
quit stealing and began to do all sort of odd jobs, people distance themselves from
hard going to school so
my life is nothing
in my room and Watched my age mate go
I was living in was a one room apartment I had rented it this year but nothing was inside just a bathroom and an empty kitchen, I had
well don't be surprised that
shirt and skirt, I had only five clothes so I had to manage
on it away , that was the only thing I had for movement since nobody wanted to carry
got to the restaurant where I worked and quickly packed my bicycle
curse badluck lady is here my co workers said and burst
ingnored their insult well this is not a new thing it's being my
this food to someone my madam said handing me a parcel while I turned away, thank goodness she sent me
in my bike to the address I was given, I rode till