Fate Of Mirabel - Season 1 - Episode 2

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Fate Of Mirabel - Season 1 - Episode 2

Mr Anthony: Pamela calm and take things easy. Clement is right, we keep forcing things on him and bend him to do our commands. We are talking about marriage here and you should understand it better that it shouldn’t be arranged and programmed like our business meetings. If they love each other then they should go ahead.

Mrs Anthony: I only want whats good for my only child, don’t you understand?

Mr Antony: I know and ofcuz every parent wants the best for their children. If Clara is not good and presentable the way you want her to be, she is a human being. She can be polished and taught everything she is to know to meet the standard and quality of a daughter in-law you need. Please give the child a chance to prove a good daughter in-law.

Pamela turned her gaze to Clara who was shivering and sweating profusely despite the powerful air conditioner on.

Mrs Anthony: Margaret! She called out to one of the maids.

Margaret: yes ma, she answered running.

Pamela: take her upstairs, prepare one of the rooms for her, give her something to eat and clean her up. I’m I clear?

Margaret: yes ma. She said and led her away.

Clara: thank you sir, thank you ma. She said with a trembling voice as she followed Margaret upstairs.

How it happened…..

Clara was the only child of Mr and Mrs Ephraim, her dad was once a permanent secretary of a ministry in Ghana while her mum was a big time fashion designer. At least they were wealthy and didn’t lack anything.

One fateful day her parents attended the wedding of Mr Ephraim younger brother in Nigeria and they were involved in a fatal accident. Clara didn’t attend the marriage because she was about to write her waec, so she was left behind with her nanny, a lady of about 25years while her parents embarked on the trip and promised to return soon.

The death of her parents came as her shock to her in Ghana and her mum body was not seen. The accident took place on a bridge where a big river which is linked to the calabar river was, and there’s every possibility that her body was thrown into the river when the vehicle collided with a big luxurious bus. Clara was subjected to nothing as her uncle, Mr Robinson went to Ghana and sold everything her father owned in the name of giving him a befitting burial.

She managed to finish her exams and relocated to Nigeria to stay with her uncle who never treated her as his niece. He kept saying her late father didn’t establish him and perhaps given him a good job or open a business for him because no one knows tomorrow, but he enjoyed alone with his family and giving him penny.

There was no magic that will be performed for Clara to go into the university but she was rather forced to hawk fruits on the road or sell along the roadside. She continued this way and endured the maltreatment of her uncle wife until she was 19. Then her uncle wife introduced her to an elderly man with wives and children older than her for marriage. Clara swore over her dead body not to marry a man already close to his grave for a chicken Change. The maltreatment grew so unbearable for her, that she had to steal from the uncle and took her little properties she had to Lagos, where she knew no body. She arrived Lagos late and slept in an uncompleted building and prayed endlessly for morning to come so she can find a house to stay.

Morning came and she saw a little place where she can afford to pay, she cleaned the place up and dropped her only bag of clothes. She was tired and hungry and she had only 500naira left with her. She hurriedly left the house to look for a job so she can survive and pay her monthly rent.

While she was walking on the road, she saw a little girl of about 6years old trying to cross the road without looking, with fear she ran and caught up with her. Unknown to Clara the parents of the girl was in the supermarket buying something, but the little girl; Anabelle complained she didn’t like the place but she was ignored, so she went out without them noticing. Soon Mr and Mrs Albert came out looking worried and was shocked to see their daughter held by the hand near the road.

Mrs Albert: Ana what are you doing here? She asked and grabbed her from Clara.

Clara: sorry ma, she was almost hit on the road because she didn’t look before crossing.

Mr Albert: oh my God! Ana why are you like this?

Annabel: I told you I don’t like that place but you insisted.

Mrs Albert: and I told you I won’t stay long right? Why do you have to leave! She shouted.

Mr Albert: thank you so much my dear. What’s your name?

Clara: I’m Clara by name sir.