"...you have to go. Go and don't come back again. Don't ever come to see me again." These were words from a mother to her child.
Uche, a fifteen year old girl, toughened up by life on the streets. The streets of Warri, filled with children, unloved and abandoned with no other place to go.
When her sister turns up dead and her mother doesn't do anything about it, she goes to Rachael for help, a worker at a rehabilitation centre and together, they try to find out who killed her sister since the government doesn't care enough to catch the killer. At the same time still trying to free herself from the clutches of the streets.
Unknown number:
"I know your secret."
I stared at the text for so long. I didn't know what to do or what to say, it's probably not meant for me. I was about to drop the phone and go back to sleep when my phone notified me of another text.
Unknown number:
"The one you're trying so hard to keep, Vivian Ajayi."
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Vivian left Briars Secondary School Akure to go to Royal Gates Academy in Abuja, thinking she has escaped the tragedy that befell her and also made her an outcast in school, but it came back hunting her on her first night in Royal Gates Academy. How long will she be able to keep what happened? How long will she let it hunt her before she speaks out?