Hello friends, this is my first entry in this community,I was perusing as usual then came across this community and decided to explore it. The prompt is what I can relate to which made more interesting, I so look forward to participating and of course engaging in all prompt.
These memories still hunt me whenever I reflect on it, the physical mark is something I cannot erase.
"Senior Mary" I can't even erase her name from my memory. It was an all girls missionary boarding school, I was still learning how to live without my family. Senior students do take advantage of Freshers. In a bunk, there is an upper and an lower part, the upper part are for junior students while the lower parts are for senior students. The junior students are meant to do most of the chores for senior students of which bunk you are on. Senior Mary was my "bunky" as they call it (the senior I shared a bunk with)
So...there was this day I didn't know I was to wash Senior Mary's plates and rush to her class were they are sharing the food to collect her own portion rather I was hustling mine, after I was done eating I left for the hostel on getting to the hostel, a student told me that Senior Mary has been looking for me, why? I asked with my eyes wide open, just about when she wanted to explain, I received a hard whip on my neck, I screamed aaahhh! Turning to see who did that, it was Senior Mary.
What did I do wrong? With tears gushing from my eyes, I muted.
She asked, where is my food?
I was shocked, food? Which food? I replied.
She began to explain, you didn't wash my plate and you made me miss my portion?
I was just staring at her, too many questions running through my thoughts, was I suppose to go get her food? Is this how it is done here? Can't she do it herself? Did she really miss her own portion of food? I think She just want to punish me, but for what exactly? I only arrived few days ago. While I was still in my thoughts the next thing I heard was "open your locker"
hmm... What is going here? I asked myself.
Senior Mary told everyone that cared to know what I did wrong, that she has been watching me since I came, I haven't done anything for her she has been quiet until today.
Then she turned to me and said, since you made me lose my food I will sure have your provisions as dinner today, she said in an aggressive tone.
I stood by my locker, I was thinking of stepping out to report her but she has the cane and she is a senior. So I had to wait until I get a chance to leave the hostel, I was definitely going to report her. I actually thought she was joking when she said open your locker until she collected the key, opened the locker, she opened my cabin biscuit and took out as many as she can, opened my Milo and Milk, took as much as she wanted and took some sugar.
I cried like a baby, I made a move to leave the hostel and straight to the proprietor's office but she grabbed me and pulled me backwards and was questioning me.
where do you think you are going to? She asked.
Leave me alone! leave me alone!! Was all I could scream in tears.
She left me only because some other seniors intervened.
I went to the school compound, I sat down at the back of my class and cried my eyes out, wishing my parents were just around the corner they would have taught senior Mary a good lesson for flogging me and eating my provisions. Her cane left a mark on my neck.
Boarding house is sweet only if you are a senior, you would automatically have authority over Freshers and juniors. I wanted to report her badly but I was advised not to, that it will rather get worse. So I removed my provisions and kept them in a friends locker were it will be safe. I still don't know whose duty it was to let me know I was to do her chores🤷🏻♂
