“Naya Aurora, you are hereby sentenced 30 years to jail, for kidnapping, robbery and harassment.” The judge stomped on her mallet, as Naya’s court hearing ended. Naya hadn’t cried or pleaded her case. Her eyes were on Lovelyn who was grinning happily. She could tell the insecurity in the lady’s face. Lovelyn suspected something was off and she was scared. But she couldn’t admit it because she was afraid of the truth. Naya’s eyes moved from Lovelyn to Hailey and her smile returned again. She looked childish, as she grinned happily when taken from the stand to the Hazards who wanted to speak with her one last time. “Now you will be in the place you deserve,” Lovelyn said with a smirk. “All husband snatchers deserve a special cell in jail!” “Lovelyn, it’s an enough,” Brett tried to calm her down.“What?! She kidnapped our Hailey! I have the right to say whatever I want to her! She deserves all the humiliation she can get. She is a clout chaser! A gold digger! An illiterate!” “Lovelyn!
Naya sat in the dirty cell, counting dirty pebbles to kill boredom. Her new friend, Zara, joined her as she cleaned the dust off her butt. “So you will be a free woman soon?” Zara smiled happily. Naya happily nodded. “They will prove my innocence and give my daughter back to me,” Naya explained. “I am so happy for you,” Zara confessed. “There are so many selfish people in this world. I can’t believe we still have soft hearted individuals like this. Doctor Dorris deserves a nobel award. Do you know the risk she is taking for you right now?” Naya laughed. “She understands my pain. She was my gynecologist all through my pregnancy and knew when my mum died. She was like a second mother to me all through. I am not surprised she feels my pain and chooses to help me.” Zara hugged her from the side. “That cruel Lovelyn will know her place soon. By the time you show her the DNA results, she won’t be able to utter one word. I cannot even imagine her stunned face after that.” Zara mocked.
Zara thought Naya was crazy for not saying anything, but Naya held onto her trust in Doctor Dorris. “Doctor Dorris will handle things well. I do not want to spoil things for her. I am sure she knows what she is doing,” Naya said with hope. “It’s been one month, Naya!” She screamed. “It’s been one month since she promised to help you. It has been one month since Brett asked you to speak! Why do you still have faith in her? She is obviously not doing anything for you. She doesn’t care if you die here or not. All she cares about is her pocket and license.” Naya thought of what she said and began to make sense of it. No way! There was no way that lady would betray her like that. She wouldn’t accept that. “Stop it,” Naya was getting angry. “I have my full faith in Doctor Dorris. I will come back, I know it. Stop being so negative about it, you are not helping.” “I am not being negative, I am being realistic. Remember when I told you she deserves a Nobel prize. It was because she was j
Brett felt hurt by the news he heard about Naya’s rebellion in jail. No matter how many times he tried organizing a meeting with him, the jailor found one reason or more not to help him. “She is a dangerous beast,” the jailer said. “We cannot risk a reputable man like you seeing such a prisoner.”“She is hurt,” Brett tried to explain. “I need to talk to her. There is something she isn’t telling me!” “I am sorry,” the Jailer apologized. “But I cannot let you see her.” Brett groaned and hung up the call. As soon as the call went off, Lovelyn thanked the guard for his help and handed him a huge bundle of money. She had a smirk on her lips as she rejoiced over the evil deed she had done. “Brett thinks he can sympathize and help this girl,” she said to herself. “I will allow that. I do not know who she thinks she is to claim another person’s child as hers. Does she not have any shame? Some people are just so selfish and greedy. They do not look beyond their own needs.” She hissed and
As Naya watched the newer prisoners help her with her tasks, she threw Huge Basky a confident look and went to the phone booth. Since their last fight, the lady hadn’t dared to come on her nerves no matter what. Everyone saw her as the new intimidating lady, and she loved it. When she arrived at the phone booth, she took a deep breath and called Brett’s phone number. It’s been years but she still remembered it. “Hello, Brett speaking,” his deep voice said on the other end. For some reason, a sudden fear crippled her and she couldn’t speak. “Hello?” He repeated but she said nothing. She shut her eyes together and hung up the call immediately. She wasn’t sure what happened to her. Why couldn’t she talk? Wasn’t that her chance to just tell him the truth? Gathering her confidence, she called him back again. “Who is that?” Lovelyn asked as she walked in. “I don’t know,” he confessed, staring at his ringing phone. “The person isn’t saying anything.” Lovelyn rolled her eyes and picked i
Early that morning, Naya went with the rest of the prisoners for an early morning jog. As they jogged about the prison field, doing some annoying frog jumps she found irritating, someone caught her eyes. It was a quiet young lady who was struggling to keep up. She looked sickly and looked like she could faint any minute that morning. “Everyone help!” Naya alerted everyone’s attention to the lady as the girl bent down to breathe. “She needs water! Someone get her water!” Her inmates really wanted to help so badly, but they weren’t sure of what they could do. Drinking water could only be gotten from the cafeteria and they had no freaking access to the cafeteria. Naya frowned at their useless effort and gazed around for help. She caught sight of a tap and led her to it to have a drink of water. As she drank slowly, she patted her back and turned to the others. They had stopped jogging because of them. “Continue without us!” She screamed. “We are fine.”They nodded and went on with the
“Those tears speak a ton of what you are going through,” the lawyer said as she caressed her back softly. “There are some things we do not need words to convey. We just let the actions do the speaking.” Brett couldn’t agree more. “It’s fine, Naya,” Brett told her softly. “I am here to help you out. Just confide with us and tell us what we need to know, okay?” Naya cleared her tears and nodded. She took a deep breath and tried so hard to control the pain in her. It was just too hard. “So,” the lawyer pulled out a document. “As I can see here, you’ve been locked up for 8 months now if I have not been mistaken. You were charged for robbery, adoption and harassment of Mrs Lovelyn Hazard.” “I never did such a thing,” Naya defended herself. “She has always been the one harassing me. First she took my daughter from me and then she lied that I tormented her through the robbery. I didn’t even know they would force me to rob the Hazard’s mansion.” The lawyer understood. “It is fine, brea
Lovelyn watched Hailey do her assignment in peace. Her mind couldn’t leave the events of that day. Her husband almost caught her in the jailer’s office. Luckily, he got distracted by another guard who informed him of Naya on the sickbay. Lovelyn hissed as she showed her disappointment. The person she paid to murder Naya hadn’t done it right. The stupid prisoner called Huge Basky or whatever couldn’t even complete a simple task. She turned to Hailey for a while and thought of an idea. “If I won’t get Hailey, you won’t,” she thought to herself before bringing out her phone to search for Naya’s picture. As soon as she saw it, she smiled and showed it to Hailey. “Who is this?” She asked Hailey who twisted her nose. “Witch! Take her away from me!” Hailey pushed the phone from her face. Lovelyn smirked. “Why is she a witch?” Lovelyn asked. “They might all call her your mother eventually. She will one day want you to call her Mama. What will you call her instead?”“She is the witch in m