Circle of Trust

part twelve

Mrs. Erica had continuously checked on Precious since the driver drove her in six hours ago, the doctor had checked on her one last time and she had repeated the shrill scream, the old doctor confided in Nuel's mom who happened to be a Nurse to keep a close watch on her as it seems the young girl was dealing with something only she could explain if she gets better.

Precious had slept the whole day, waking up by 12pm the following day since after the incident, she felt numb and all her body ached all over, she tried remembering what had happened the previous day and another batch of tears had started when the image had flashed into her mind

Mrs. Erica had come to check on Precious for the fourth time only to see her awake this time and in tears, she had calmly entered the room without the notice of precious who was deep in thought as the tears streaked down her swollen face. A light tap from Mrs. Erica was what jerked Precious out of her deep thoughts

"How are you feeling dear?" Mrs. Erica asked looking understanding, it took precious some seconds to reply to the question. "I have a splitting headache."

"you will be fine honey, I should inform the doctor you are awake while I ask the cook to fix you something." Mrs. Erica said standing up to her feet.

Precious was so grateful that the elderly woman didn't choose to ask her about the ordeal, she was not ready to relieve such painful experience. "Thank you ma, I'm grateful." Precious had responded before Mrs. Erica had left the room shutting the door behind her.

Mrs. Erica had barely left when her door silently opened as silver walked in to see precious awake, Silver had quietly sat beside her saying nothing, just looking into her features and gently examining the bruises she had on her face and lips

"How do you feel?" Silver asked after some seconds

"I wish I could just die." Precious had said with the tears now falling In Cascades as she buried her face into the pillow. "Hey stop that girlie you are not going anywhere, everything is going to be fine " silver comforted running her hands through precious hair as they both remained silent till a Knock was heard on the door. The doctor had let himself in bustling with a lot of energy

"Good morning Precious, how are you feeling today?" Doctor Demian asked knowing the reply

"I feel sick doctor." Precious replied as silver had stood up to excuse them.

The doctor went on with his examinations assuring her of her sound health In some days time, after the doctor was done with his examinations he had sat on a chair directly facing precious to ask her some personal questions

"Are you okay young lady, I know it is not my business but I'm really concerned. You screamed on two occasions I had come to run on you a medical checkup. Is it something you would like to share with me?" the elderly doctor had asked concerned.

Precious was silent for some moment before shaking her head. "I'm here whenever you need a listening ear." The doctor offered kindly.

"Thanks doctor." Precious had replied with a weak smile of her own, the doctor was about leaving when Mrs. Erica entered the room with the cook carrying a tray along.

"How is her condition now doctor?" Mrs. Erica asked signaling to the cook to drop the tray on the little stool beside the bed.

"She is doing better than yesterday." The doctor commented and turned to leave as Mrs. Erica and the cook following him from behind.

They had barely left when Precious phone made a beeping sound, she was really reluctant to check the content of the message as she was not ready to face the outside world, it was the way silver busted into her room holding her phone containing a video that made her curious to know what the content of the message would be.

"Precious, have you seen this?" silver asked passing her phone to Precious who was not ready to handle whatever content the phone had.

An unknown number had shared a video of the bet the guys had placed some weeks ago on Stephen wooing precious.

"why would Stephen agree to such a dare, it is so unfair." Silver commented looking unhappy.

Precious was silent even after seeing the video, guess she had experienced more damages than a mere dare and she had wished the pain she was feeling had nothing to do with molestation and more to do with a foolish dare.

Silver was still sitting with Precious in silence when Nuel busted into Precious room looking furious, that was the first time Precious had ever seen Nuel in such anger.

"What did the bastard do to you in the name of a lame bet?" Nuel asked looking into Precious eyes still holding his mobile

"You need to calm down babe, precious isn't strong for all the drama that is playing out now." Silver said standing up to hold Nuel by his shoulder.

"Don't tell me to calm down babe, precious is more like a sister to me and whoever tries to hurt the both of you is directly hurting me. Precious talk to me , what did Stephen did to you, is the dare part of the reason why you wanted to end your life?" Nuel asked peering into Precious face.

Precious who had been quiet since Nuel busted into her room didn't Know when the tears started falling in droplets, it was then Nuel heaved a sigh and went to sit beside Precious

"I don't know what you are passing through, but I promise to get to the root of the matter and find out what the problem is." Nuel assured precious holding her hands before turning to leave the room.

"whenever you are ready to talk, you Know where to get me. I love you dearly presh and I will never condemn you no matter what the problem is." Silver assured giving the still silent precious a hug before leaving the room..

It was some minutes later before Mrs. Erica entered the room to see precious had not even touched her meal and she had tears on her face. "darling you are yet to eat your meal!" Mrs. Erica observed sitting close to Precious calmly soothing her hair

"I'm OK ma." Precious replied quietly

"Feel free to share whatever is bordering you when you are up to it ok." Mrs. Erica said kindly..

"Can I ask you something ma?" precious asked fixing hurt eyes on Mrs. Erica

"Anything my dear."

"is it possible to let go of something that have hurt you real bad without thoughts of retaliation?" precious asked biting her nails

"Even the Bible asked us to forgive, sometimes it is not always easy to do so......but forgiveness make us free and no longer a slave to the things that hurts us so bad. Forgiveness is like setting a prisoner free only to discover that you were actually the prisoner, imprisoned by the desire to revenge." Mrs. Erica preached.

Precious was silent after Mrs. Erica reply as she played with the tips of her nails.

"Give it time dear, you will definitely heal from whatever troubles you." Mrs. Erica assured before gently patting precious on her shoulder..

"Thanks ma, you are more like a mother, Nuel is lucky to have you." Precious replied with a faint smile

"And you are more of a daughter. I wish I had a daughter like you, But all the same feel free to beep me whenever the need arises I will be there ok." Mrs. Erica assured before leaving Precious to go back to sleep, seems she needed to heal and she could only do that by having more time to rest.