"Kill her!"
"Let's burn her alive!"
"She killed her parents!"
"She killed her siblings!"
"She is a witch!"
The noise and the teeming crowd attracted Vero. She found her way through the crowd till she got a glimpse of a dark skinned, very thin girl, who looked not more than fourteen years.
She was surrounded by four stern looking women. They poked, slapped and cursed her.
"What's going on here?"
No one paid any attention to the brown skin middle-aged woman.
"Why are you hitting her, what's her offence?" Vero approached them.
"This is none of your business..." one of the
women eyed her.
Vero pulled the girl to her side.
"Who are you?" One of them glared at her.
"Give us back out neice!"
"She is a witch!"
"She must pay for her crimes!"
The women shouted at her.
The thin girl held unto Vero as if her life depended on it.
"Where are her parents?" Vero looked from one to the other.
"They are dead!" they retorted.
"She killed them, along with her siblings!"
"She must die!"
The women fired back.
"You all want to partake in a criminal act..." Vero pointed at some people in the crowd. "I am calling the police..." she reached for her phone. And in less than five minutes, the crowd dispersed.
"Give us back our neice!" The women
surrounded the middle aged woman.
"You want to end the life of an orphan.." She eyed them.
They kept quiet.
"When you all spend some time in the police cell, maybe then, your brains will reset."
The girl's aunt fled when the woman started making a call.
"Please help me..."
Vero looked down at the malnourished teenager.
"What is your name?"
"Amina Haruna."
"Where are your parents?"
She bit at the bottom of her lip. "They died in the fire..."
"Is there any other family you can stay with."
"There is no one else, except my aunts, they will kill me," her eyes grew wild with fear.
Vero nodded and glanced at the corner she parked her vehicle.
She knew that the sooner they left the area, the safer the girl will be. "Come with me, I will find a safe place for you to stay."
Amina broke down crying.
"Hey..."
"Th-thank you, ma."
"It's fine. Let's go."
Vero led the girl away. Amina kept looking back at intervals, hoping that her evil aunts wouldn't return and snatch her away from her saviour.
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