Rockstar’s Teddy Bear

THE EVIL TEDDY

It was a hot sunny afternoon in Abuja , the Abbey's were running late to pick the I daughter from school , their appointment with Doctor Andrew at the fertility clinic of Las Pamas Private Hospital , had taken more time than they envisaged. They were behind schedule to pick Lilley from school at Asokoro. Michael swerved the car from side to side , through the heavy Abuja traffic on a Monday afternoon, the impatient Abuja drivers swerved their cars from side to side all struggling s to get out of the traffic at once , the blaring sounds of car horns polluted the peace and tranquility of the city .

"Don't brush my car o! If you try it , I won't take sorry o! You'll sell your car and repaint my car!" Michael yelled at taxi driver who had left his lane and was getting too close . The Kabu Kabu driver who had beat traffic, refused to stop for Michael to pass .

The Traffic lights were useless to the drivers, nobody obeyed the traffic lights except they saw the police men with their lemon green vest hanging around the light .

"Oga don't brush my car oh! I am warning you!" Michael whined down the tinted windows and barked at the driver .

"Because you're driving range rover, make we leave road for you abi?" The man said refusing to move his green and white Abuja colour Golf three car ."Come just come we go see who him car go spoil idiot! you go tell me if na your papa get the road." the man said and sat at the middle of the road.

"Please Michael let him pass , we're not driving to Sokoto, that's the devil using him." Jessica begged her husband . He let the man take the lane . "Some of this Abuja drivers are maniacs. This man is just crazy ." Michael said covering his wife's hand in his . Jessica wiped off the beads of tears rolling down her eyes .

"Come on Baby don't you believe God ? He's going to give us another child . Forget what the doctors said , they're not God ." Michael said and kissed her , she broke into tears .

"Babe this is the fourth IVF , what's wrong with me ? Doctor Andrew has told us if this one fails , that we should give IVF up . we've wasted over thirty million naira and it's not working ." Jessica said , tears pouring from her eyes .

"Doctor Andrew doesn't have the final say , only God does , if God gave us Lilley he'll give us the number of kids we want , stop crying , even if doctor Andrew is the best doctor in the world , God is the biggest doctor , he will give us our babies ." Michael said rubbing his hands on his wife's belly .

After a thirty minutes drive they arrived at Asokoro . Michael Drove the black Range Rover Sport SUV into the parking lot of Laurel Strickland International School , one of Abuja's finest schools , they had arrived twenty minutes late to pick Lilley . Michael waited in the car while his wife rushed to the waiting room to fetch their daughter.

The school compound sat on a large expense of land , a four storey building, that twisted in a U shape , on both sides , a green carpet grass covered the fields , the basketball court was the only red floor in the compound , surrounded by giant marsh fence .

Jessica got into the school waiting room, a Nanny sat with Lilley trying to console her , they were both not paying attention to the cartoon character of Sponge Bob playing on the flat screen television.

Jessica rushed to her daughter and embraced , she hugged her tight and cleaned the tears from her face , she had cried so much that her head was hot like a rice cooker.

"What happened to her ?" Jessica asked turning to the nanny still embracing her daughter.

"Ma I think Princess and Oma bullied her." The Nanny said ,Jessica turned Lilley. "Baby talk to me , what happened to you ?" She asked . Lilley refused to speak , she kept staring down at her black shoes and white stockings.

"Come on Baby you know you can talk to me ?" Jessica asked her daughter, Lilley glared at her mother with a teary eyes , she nudged her on . "Mummy I was on my own , I didn't do anything to Oma and Princess, with their friend Lillian , they just started hitting me , they were calling me a witch, they said I was the one eating all the babies in your womb ." Jessica turned white , she was already going through a lot of trauma struggling to conceive , not just for herself but for her daughter, who was always getting depressed ,weeping herself to sleep each night for not having a sibling .

Jessica was enraged , she led Lilley to the office of the Proprietor on the second floor , she didn't listen to any of the teachers asking to know why she was looking furious .

Jessica got to the door of the proprietor of the school, she pressed the door bell on the door , the voice of Mrs Melinda rang from inside of the office .

"Who is there ? Please check who is at the door." The door creaked opened as her secretary went came face to face with Jessica whose eyes were red and teary .

"Is Mrs Melinda in the office ?" Jessica asked the secretary who was wearing a white dress shirt and a red pencil skirt , a long Brazilian Hair poured down her shoulders , she was standing on the hoofs of a black high heels like an Arabian horse .

"Yes ma , is there a problem ?" the lady asked . "Tell her Jessica Abbey the mother of Lilley Abbey in Basic five wants to see her ." Jessica, she got a handkerchief from her purse and wiped her eyes , the door creaked close and the secretary disappeared into the office , soon she returned and invited Jessica in .

Mrs Melinda's office was well furbished , it was so cold like a cold room , the Air conditioner was blowing very loud , a large brown Mahogany table sat at the middle of the office, near the door , a big Apple Desktop computer sat on the table with paper files . Shelves surrounded the office , glasses covered the segments that housed the awards and and laurels the school had won in various academic and stop competition.

Mrs Melinda looked up from the screens of the desktop , she got up on her feet , lips so red like red roses , she was a beautiful young woman of thirty nine years , she was dressed in a navy blue suit and pencil skirt, with a white underwear shirt , she stretched her hands to Jessica who shook her before sitting on the black chair that was offered to her .

Mrs Melinda took off her glasses . "Mrs Jessica I heard you have a compliant." Melinda said interlocking her fingers , she sat back on her black office chair ready to listen . "I was in the hospital this morning , My appointment delayed me till about three thirty P.M when I came to pick Lilley, I saw her crying , Mrs Melinda its not my fault That I've been trying to have finding it hard to have more babies , or Lilley's .This isn't the first time those girls are doing that . I tried to know why she was crying , she told me it's Oma and Princess again , they've recruited a new friend to join them bully my daughter." She said with tears pouring down her eyes . "We pay five hundred thousand naira every term just to make sure our daughter is in a safe and conducive environment to study , but its becoming toxic Mrs Melinda , we've requested for a change of class but you have simply refused , how long would she continue being abused by the girls ?" Jessica asked