DECEPTION(ONE)

Angela ascended the stairs of the psychiatric hospital to go and see how Amanda was faring. She remained deeply pessimistic about the whole situation. She finally got to the ward and found her looking frail. Amanda had been tied up to her bed because she had become violent. Her eyes were closed but she kept on muttering something that she couldn’t make out.

When she saw Angela, she tried to set herself free from the rope that had been used to hold her down. Amanda who was then six months pregnant stopped struggling for a while and started to cry. Tears began to flow from Angela’s eyes as she couldn’t hold back anymore.

When she sat down to recollect the past events, Angela realized that she was partly to blame. If only she had advised Amanda against that charming scoundrel. 

She knew that he was a sleaze bag but she didn’t know why she didn’t stop him from seeing her.Amanda had been unsophisticated; she was simple and plain. And just when she decided to be lively disaster struck. The two friends had grown up together since they met in high school. They became close, very close.

 Angela could vividly remember how they became friends. Amanda and Angela were two different people. Their worlds were apart. Amanda was very calm and preached peace even though she was from a very rich family and could afford to be arrogant.

  

Angela on the other hand was hot blooded and made sure nobody got away with anything offensive to her. Her parents didn’t have much but survived the hardships anyway. She was always being punished because she never stopped fighting the other girls on campus.

That fateful day Amanda had bumped into Angela who became very furious and pushed her. As if that was not enough she rained insults on the poor girl ’oh what!...are you some  blind bat? Did you not see me coming? How dare u stupid girl’ she ranted. Amanda stayed quiet and just looked at her. After a while she turned to leave but Angela pulled her back and said ‘I am not done talking, you fool’ then slapped her.

Instead of hitting back like the other girls would do, she apologized and went away. Angela became ashamed and went over to her dormitory to apologize. ‘I am very sorry about what I did earlier…I didn’t have any reason to be upset because you apologized. Please forgive me’ she told her. That was how their friendship started and Angela always came to the defense of Amanda when there was any altercation.

Amanda was an exceptionally brilliant girl who had no friends because the other girls thought she was too dull so Angela became her best friend. The two shared everything and was seen everywhere together. Most students shied away from the two girls as Angela was very much feared.

 Soon some students began to spread false rumors about them. While some said there were witches, others said there were lesbians. Amanda would laugh whenever she had any rumor about herself whiles Angela would fish out the person and deal with her. This however did not stop them from being friends.