PART 1"ONCE UPON A TIME"

PART 1
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
©️Opeyemi Akintunde
Inspired by THE LIVING WORD

Rachel sat on the dining chair of her new home. She looked around appreciating the beauty of the place she was going to be refering to as her home from that day.

She had come in as a maid. She hoped to serve this family well. She hoped she wasn't going to be thrown out of the house in less than two months which was the highest number of days anyone had accommodated her in their home.

Some people called it " Bad Luck". She had been told she always brought evil along with her wherever she went.

Why? She couldn't tell...

She had heard on several occasions that life was full of ups and downs, but her life broke the law. Her life had been full of "downs", never had she experienced any "Ups".

" Rachel, come over!" She heard the voice of her new madam. The woman had told her to wait on the dining chair while She had followed the agent to his car.

" Yes ma!" Rachel jumped up sharply. Like something from a Slow motion clip, Rachel's sharp movement somehow made the glass centerpiece on the table fall on the floor. Rachel went after the glass but it was too late. She watched in horror how the glass shattered in pieces. That was exactly how she felt at that moment.

Her hope shattered!

Rachel fell to the ground wailing...

Kemisola was taken by surprise as to why the maid was wailing over a broken centerpiece. She was wailing like she lost a loved one...

" Hey! It's just a broken centerpiece. It wasn't intentional my dear...anyone could have made this mistake. Please rise up..." Kemi said but Rachel was not hearing anything she was saying...

" Let me just die! I am tired oooo, I am just a misfit in this world"

" No! Hey! Where is that coming from?" Kemi said

Rachel picked one of the broken pieces and slit her wrist...

" Oh my!" Kemi screamed. Everything her late husband had told her about not getting a maid was playing back in her head.

"Girl... what are you doing? Do you want to kill yourself in my house and get me arrested. I told you this is nothing. It's not a big deal."

" Madam, you don't understand... I am cursed, anything I touch breaks, any house I enter becomes a shadow of itself. Amongst my parents' children, I am the only illiterate. My parents have given up on me. I decided to work as a maid so as to survive but I have been in 18 houses in just three years. Something terrible always happens wherever I go. "

Kemi was speechless at the girl's emotional outburst.

The girl was right. If all she said was right, then it was enough reason for her to leave the world, but she wasn't going to let that happen in her own house.
She was not ready for such.

Kemi picked up her phone, dialed the number of the agent ....

" Hello Madam!" The agent said on receiving the call

" Sir, you need to come back and carry this load you brought here." Kemi said

" What ma? Which load?"

" The girl you brought here, she is possessed. She is cutting herself."

" Ok ma" Harry the agent replied. Kemi was able to pick the calmness in the agent's voice...

He sounded like the scenario was not new.

" I will be waiting.." Kemi said before ending the call.

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" I am going to drop this girl, three homes have rejected her in two months" Harry concluded. Rachel had just signed up with him two months back and the first two places he took her to, they returned her after spending few weeks.

He had thought this would be better for her as the woman was widowed, but here was the woman calling to return her back in less than an hour.

" Nawa ooo, which kind of bad Spirit does this girl possess?" Harry grumbled as he made a U turn at the round about.

To be continued

NOTE: This piece was written with the intention of touching lives, feel free to share but please be mindful of the writer by not erasing her credits and that of the HolySpirit who Inspires her. May men be mindful of you too, may you not be deprived of the Credits & blessings due to you in Jesus name. God bless you.

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Written by Opeyemi Akintunde
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