Chapter 46

AMARACHI

  It's been three weeks since Nne left us. Today is her burial.

It all felt like a dream to me.

She was fine that day so how did she just die?

I stared blankly at the sky as if the answer was written on it.

  The environment and atmosphere made me want to gag.

People were wailing and crying.

"Amarachi o!"aunty Lydia suddenly cried out as she came over to me with some weeping women behind her, trying to restrain her.

She hugged me so tightly as she kept on calling my name.

I just sat on my spot as she kept on crying onto my shoulders.

  "Nne is no more o! Who will look after Amara o?!"aunty Lydia cried out as she held onto me.

The women behind her kept on trying to restrain her.

"She was like a mother to me o! A mother to Amarachi o!"

  I sat on the spot, emotionless as aunty Lydia kept on crying