"Dirty Pig! what are you looking at? the way you are looking at the book as if you can read..." She said to Deborah laughing at her as she walks away.
Of course Deborah is already used to all of this, the name that everyone in the class calls her. "Dirty Pig"
They bullies her every now and then because of her poor dressing and poor appearance, appearing very dirty always, and it wasn't her fault but the fault of her Aunty that took her in.
Deborah is just an orphan who was forsaken by the world, she was living at the village with her parents before their demise she was the only child and the only daughter and so after the death of her parents her auntie promise her heaven and earth deceiving her to follow her to the city.
And Deborah was completely deceived and she agreed to follow her to the city and this is the outcome now she can't try dare tell her auntie that she wants to go back to the village, they will probably kill her on a low key and then transporter to the village for burial.
She have been living in a hell with her auntie, they don't even give her good clothes to wear to school, they don't make up her hair, they don't do anything for her, not even feed her well, the good did it for her is to pay for her school fees every term.
And so she always appears ugly because she is not taking care of herself and with that everyone inside the class bullies her every now and then.
She have just one friend in the whole school and it seems like her friend hasn't come to school yet although they are not in the same class and her friend is always the one visiting her, she can't afford to visit her friend in order to avoid bullies from other classes adding to the one she is already facing now.
She was holding a book in her hand which she was trying to read but of course he finds it so difficult to read a book just like she find it difficult to read other books.
She's not brilliant, although she can read minor words but can't read hard words in her book and that is adding to her Frustration.
"A Must Read" she was given this book by her parents before their demise, she was stood to read it alone and not with anyone and that is why she is trying so hard to study in order to learn how to read so that she can finally find out what was written inside that book.
When she was with her parents she wasn't going to school because she came from a poor family and they can't afford her school fees she only started school when she came to the city.
"Dirty, Dirty, Dirty pig, will you not bath today...? of course not, dirtiness is healthy!!" another girl that stepped into the class said to her and that is the popular song they used to sing for her but like always she ignored.
"A must read...!? A must read? everybody look! the Dirty pig, that cannot read is trying to read a book that is called a must read how's that going to be possible?" The girl shouted as the whole class laughed and mocks Deborah.
She immediately closed the book and then put it back inside her bag out of shame.
"Really... why then are you trying to hide the book? come on bring it out and read it aloud for all of us!" She yelled at Deborah but Deborah took in a deep breath.
"Cynthia, I have no quarrel with you! can you please just keep off from my seat!" Deborah yelled at her angrily as Cynthia looks at the class in shock.
The is the first time she's trying to speak back at bullies since she came into this school.
"Wow, the popular dirty Pig now has the guts to speak back at me, I'm impressed but you see that book? you must bring it out let's see what's written in the that is hand for you to read" Cynthia said and quickly grabbed her bag but she grabbed the bag as well and they started dragging it.
"keep off from my bag I Am telling You Now!" Deborah yelled at Cynthia who was seriously dragging the bag with her as if she was the one that bought it for Deborah.
"Keep off from the bag you bully!" A voice thundered and grabbed Cynthia's hand and all eyes flashed on the girl and it was Deborah's friend Maryam.
Maryam is 16yrs putting her on the same age with Deborah, fair in complexion, Maryam at least takes care of herself and so she withstands any bully and defends herself at any time though she was having similar issues with Deborah.
"Wow! a friend to the pig is as well a baby pig!" Cynthia said to Maryam and then decided to keep off from Deborah's bag and left their presence.
"Thank you Maryam, seriously I have been expecting you, what took You So Long?" Deborah asked while Maryam waves her head and breathes out in a sigh of relief.
And with her reaction and sudden silent Deborah could tell that everything is wrong again.
"Baby girl...? what's up with you? having issues again? you want to talk about it?" Deborah asked she picked up her bag and they started taking a walk while discussing.
"Deborah, honestly it has finally hooked me and you might probably not see me in school ever again" Maryam said to Deborah and Deborah was saddened and shocked to hear that.
Maryam is her only friend in the school and if she lives who will she talk to and who will be her friend, she will become a lone wolf and all of course a laughing stock to the whole school.
"No! please don't say that Maryam, you are thinking about leaving me alone in the school? who will I talk to? why would you even think of changing school?" Deborah asked and she was so bothered that she is about to lose her friend, her very good friend.
"You are not understanding me this is not my choice, it is about my auntie" Maryam responded.
"Your auntie? what's up with them wouldn't they allow us to breath for once? what has she done this time?" Deborah asked because she shares the same problem with her.
"She has been threatening me since yesterday all along and I don't know what to do, she have something she is using against me which I cannot disclose not even to you, she said that I must stop school and join prostitution to make money for her, I don't know what to do, Deborah" Maryam broke the shocking never expected news to Deborah.