my mummy

Camile sat on a bench in the park sighing heavily as she spoke to herself, " isn't it because I don't have money that I came all the way here to look for a job and I can't get an appointment to be interviewed because I have to pay a huge sum of money. Where am I supposed to get $900,000 from that's almost a million, now I have to go back home and try to raise at least 60% of it if I really need the job, sigh, what to do now?" As she thought to herself, she saw a child walk slowly to the end of bench she sat on and sat down, she looked downcast and she is a very beautiful girl, she had a full blonde hair on her head that made one feel like patting it. She smiled at the child and looked away, starring into space as she thought of what her next move is going to be. She sat starring into space for like two minutes when she started hearing sobs from the other end of the bench, when she turned she saw the beautiful child looking at her and she was crying. She moved closer to the child and asked "hey sweetie, why you crying?" She just continued to stare at her and cried even more, then she opened her tiny arms indicating a hug. Camile looked left and right but she didn't see anyone so she asked again" where are your parents? why are you here alone? and why are you crying?" The little child wailed even louder and opened her arms wider. With no other choice and a little hesitation, Camile opened her arms and hugged the little girl. She cried for two more minutes before she stopped. After the child stopped crying she didn't let go of Camile but she said, " you smell really nice and, it's calming, and you're so soft" then she raised her head to look at Camile and she exclaimed "wow you are the most beautiful person I've ever seen" then she touched Camile's hair and say "and your hair is so soft too. Are you an angel? then she gasped as if in realization "Are you my mummy? yes you must be my mummy and you've come to save me right? Daddy, he has been very mean to me frequently recently just because I told him I needed companion which he did not provide, am I wrong mummy? am I? I am a girl, I need someone to talk to, someone who would share my feelings with me cause I can't possibly tell him everything right? like the boy I like, the last and first time I ever told him I like a boy, he scolded and grounded me for seven days and he said that it is enough that he allows me attend the kindergarten else I'd be home schooled. Mummy am l wrong, can't I share my emotions with my daddy? just because he says so, and just because I don't have a mummy by my side? I am different from other kids? am I not right mummy am l not? am I different? the beautiful girl asked as she began sobbing again harder this time and hugged her tighter. Then slowly she raised her hand and hugged the girl pressing her face against her chest, she felt like this was her child she was hugging and she needed to comfort and console her for all the times she has not been there for her when she was crying like she is now. But then again what child just throw themselves at strangers and assume they are their mother, isn't she afraid of strangers? Has her scary father according to what she said not warn her about strangers, who let's their 5 or 6 year old daughter roam the park alone, assuming people to be her mother

"uhm baby, where's your father? why do you think I am your mother? are you not afraid of strangers? you shouldn't walk around alone calling people your mother ok"

" No, you are the only one, it's because daddy said that my mother was beautiful and that she had soft hair and smelled good and that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and you fit every discription right so I thought you are my mummy not a stranger, I am well aware about strangers, I won't ever look at anyone or talk to them but I feel like you are my mummy. I think it was your presence that drew me here and I don't even know where daddy is and I am sure he doesn't know where I am either, but I don't want to go back with him anymore, I want to go with you mummy, take me with you". Just as Camile was going to reply they heard a smug voice from the side it was deep and it sounded angry. They both turned around to see a man's silhouette,he stood there with the sun behind him so his face was not clear.

"I ask again what is going on here? he said as he took a step closer making his face clearer and he was a really fine man

"Ellie what do you think you're doing? Now get down let's go home. I will forgive you for the stress you put me through but it'll never happen again, I will not forgive you if this repeats itself, now let's go". The man said but the child snuggled closer into the hug and said" No daddy I am not going with you I'm coming with mummy and I'm going to stay with her from now on you're too mean daddy". she sobbed

"What" he said in disbelief. "Elena Campbell if you're not down in two seconds I'll drag you home and I'll double the punishment I had planned to forget, now get down quietly let's go home and I'll try to pretend none of this happened".

" No daddy, you won't scare me today cause mummy is here now". Elena replied

Caleb sighed in frustration and turned to the woman carrying child on her legs.

*she still has the guts to hold her when I'm this pissed and she lets my child call her mummy does she want to die* he thought then said to her

" let go and put her down this instant" he ordered

"I'm sorry mister but I can't, the way you threatened this little girl is scary. Is she really your daughter? Didn't you see she was crying when you came? Can't you at least ask what is wrong with her or talk to her calmly? What adult threatens a child? Are you really qualified to be a father? Camile countered. A stunned Caleb Campbell stood there with his eyes going colder and darker with each sentence, each question she asked

* The nerve of this lady, does she have a death wish?*. No one has ever spoken so boldly and blatantly or direct to him before. As long as he remembers everybody is afraid to even say as much as a word that may offend him, when this woman has said a dozen full to him in just less than 2 minutes he had met her, she had made him angry but she was going to pay for it.

" If you still value that you are alive and whole right now, let go of the child and let her come down" and with that he started moving towards them. Camile who was frightened by the bloodlust she felt around him stood up quickly and backed away from him still holding the child in her arms pressing her head into her chest as if to protect her from the danger coming, with each step he took she took two. She kept backing away without knowing there was a pit behind her with her focus on the man coming towards her she didn't notice the where she was going.

* There's a pit behind, there's a pit behind her and they'll fall into it if she continues walking backwards*

"stop moving" when she didn't stop he stopped and raised his hands " ok I stopped, don't take another step backward" when she stopped he said " drop the girl and back away slowly" *yes he wanted her to fall into the pit, that's payback for making him angry but first she have to drop his child then she can fall alone*. Camile who was still frightened by him shook her head without a word. Seeing as she shook her head he got even angry and started walking towards her with the intention of snatching his child from her arms but she started walking backwards again and before he could do or say anything they fell into the pit. He ran with his hands stretched out to hold them but they already fell but he saw the lady hug his child tighter and squeezed her body into her's to avoid the child getting hurt.

Camile felt herself loose balance and knew she was falling into some kind of a hole, she became alarmed, was that why he had said she shouldn't take another step back he should have said said it better but no he chose not to. No time to think now they were falling she and the child she was hugging so with that thought she pressed the child's head with one hand into her bossom and with her other hand she tightened her hold on the child and pressed her into her body to shield her and possibly lessen the impact of the fall on the child and right after that she felt her back hit the ground and she felt pain all over her back and her leg and then she blacked out