Devilry?

By Waithaka Samuel

Regina Wangu was a seducer brought up in a local village She engaged in sex with her teacher at an early age. She later entered into real crime. Murder and drug trafficking were her daily activities. Wangu finally died and awarded a unique burial.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Waithaka Samuel
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005886769

Waithaka Samuel

I am a retired professional teacher. I trained as a teacher in1985 and taught up to 2919 when I retired early. Currently, I do content writing, editing, and proofreading.Writing is my passion. I have written several manuscripts awaiting publication.

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Title: Devilry?

The Innocent Guilty Girl

Author: Waithaka Samuel

Copyright:WS2022

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Author’s note: All characters depicted in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older.

Preface

This work is pure fiction. The characters and their names are purely fiction.

The names of various places are real (some not real) but this does not necessarily mean that the activities took place in the named places.

In case of any resemblance to the names and behaviours of the characters in this book, I owe no one apology for the coincidence

Waithaka Samuel.

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Wangu’s lust for men and material adoration leads her to robbery, murder, and sexual and drug abuse. Her behaviour enables her to be in contact with people of various calibers, she travels wide and her success leads her to a unique burial.

Waithaka Samuel.

Chapter One

Nature played its role. The sun rose with its beautiful yellow warm rays penetrating through the cracks of the wooden wall, windows, and doors as Regina Wangu struggled to dress up and hurry back home. Nevertheless, it wasn't the right time for her. It was already late. She thought, better late than never. The night shift was so enjoyable for her that she didn't attempt to close her eyes until the last few hours before dawn when she had a short nap.

She banged the door behind her cursing nature to have naturally repeated its course. She had never imagined a morning finding her at the place. This was due to the danger that faced her after all she had done willingly and yet unwillingly. How do I face my parents at home and teachers at college and yet I am late to go home and college. She thought seriously. Now that I am late going home, from which hell will I tell my parents I were especially my dad who is now eagerly waiting for me as if I am on a return journey from the moon? Anyway, come what may I hope blood is still thicker than water. She argued as she walked towards her home.

On her way home she met with her collegemates happily going to college. She tried her best to avoid them by hiding in the maize plantations along the temporary road toward her home. They were hurrying to college after the weekend. This being a busy day of the week everyone had to be at college early to carry on with Monday morning duties before the assembly. On one difficult occasion, Wangu almost jumped out of her skin seeing her brothers and sisters in front of her with their peers. She hurriedly carried her trembling body into the farm to avoid recognition from them.

At home, her father; a retired bus driver, and her mother who had been a stable housewife since her day of marriage were busy with small-scale animals husbandry. They practiced semi-zero grazing. Their cows and goats were to be fed adequately with a balanced diet of napier grass, Lucerne, oats, maclick supper, potato,peels and other foods for the production of first-class milk, meat, hides and bones to cater for the family needs - food, clothing, and school fees.

Kihenjo wa Gatitu five feet ten inches, black, with a few grey hair decorating his small round-shaped head had acquired his one-acre farm through hard work during the last few years before his retirement. He had to put aside his earlier expenses on beer, assistance to his relatives and friends in need, visits to relatives and friends, celebrations such as birthdays and, holidays, smoking cigarettes, and rush for new fashions so that he could save a good sum of money to get himself and his family a farm and a house to live in after his retirement. He saved every available coin from his little income as a driver

"Magiri: He called his wife.

Yes. She responded forthwith.

Hasn't Wangu come?. He asked in a harsh tone as a loving father who cared for his children. His fatherly wanted to know the whereabouts of his sons and daughters at all times

She is in the house. She has just arrived. Answered his wife.

Kihenjo was a father who loved his family, an elderly man in the village, and a man who always reasoned and differentiated between right and left and between good and bad. He was not like many who embarked on solving problems before them without putting his temper under control.

Having heard that his daughter had at last come, he was on one side of the matter comforted that his daughter had not disappeared as many did by either being abducted or committing suicide. On the other side, he was filled with thoughts on how to solve the problem that he foresaw cropping in his daughter's behaviours. It was Wangu's first time spending a night outside without her parent's permission.

Any time is tea time, especially for Kihenjo who was used to taking tea when confronted with problems. The beverage helped to alert his mind and hence solve any problem effectively

In their iron-roofed rectangular house, Wangu and her mother were taking tea. Magiri carried out her traditional cross-examination on her daughter.Wangu had to play her cards well. She formulated a story about what had happened to her since she left home for church on Sunday morning. To defend herself and maintain the parents-child good relationship, she told her mother that on the material day she went to church and after church service, she accompanied her friend to borrow a book from her friend Konyu, she said that immediately they arrived at Konyu's home the weather decided to punish her. Her friend after finding that the rain continued to pour advised her not to leave for home in the pitch darkness. To convince her, Konyu told her a fierce story about a girl who was reported missing after she had been raped and later found dead after being thrown in a river. Konyu didn't give the names of the village and the river in her story. As a good liar, Wangu told her mother the formulated story. To put herself o the safe side. Her mother listened to the story attentively but she had some doubts about the story. She very well knew that adolescence is a very hard stage to control and this being her daughter's stage, she questioned herself; could this be true or not ?

.''Can Wangu who had never spent a night out before without our knowledge formulated a story and yet this being her first time? How can I prove whether these are lies or not and yet I don't know this friend of hers? If I go on with the findings and find that it is not true, what effects will this bring between my daughter and me? My God, what do I do now?"

These and many more questions and arguments disturbed Magiri who also remembered about Kaharuka's daughter who was the only daughter in the family. She had lied to her parents severally but at last, she ended up being a spoilt girl. This brought a lot of shame to Kaharuka's family. Kaharuka was very much ashamed of being a village headman and a prominent businessman. All the blame even though, went to Kaharuka's wife who was blamed for not playing her role as a mother to guide and counsel her daughter who is now a bar-maid at Nyotoka Bar and Restaurant. She is a mother of four with no identified fathers.

Magiri. Kihenjo called out.

Yes. Magiri responded as she thought about what she was going to tell her husband about her findings. This worried her very much because Wangu might have given her lies and later the truth might be brought to light. She knew that her husband would blame her for formulating a story with her daughter to cover up the matter. Will I be second to Nyahangi - Kaharuka's wife? She argued.

The day was not hot. Under a Mukinduri tree sat Kihenjo and Magiri holding discussions on their daughter's unbecoming behaviour while Wangu peeped through a small window in her bedroom. She was observing her father's facial expressions and feared that he might lose his temper and contact his master whip for action. He had a five feet flexible whip, which was feared by his children. The whip enabled him to stand about three feet away while he landed hot whips on the offender while locked in the house. Once punished by Kihenjo no one dared repeat the same mistake. Thank God, he didn't contact the whip. Otherwise, Wangu could have cursed the instinct that drove her to spend a night somewhere in a wooden lodging.

Kihenjo was a man of discipline. He was to restore discipline in his children. He had no written down rules but he was a wise man who could judge from a distance. This being his daughter's first offense of its class, he cooled down and didn't give any comments but in his mind, he considered Wangu as a first offender,and therefore he decided to call it the first warning in himself. He did not necessarily interrogate Wangu. He had heard enough from his wife, Magiri.

Regina Wangu helped her mother with the tiresome and monotonous kitchen chores. She performed the kitchen chore to her best to please her mother. At some fSometes before lunch time, she was sent by her mother for vegetables from their small kitchen garden as her parents drew water for their animals from a borehole within the homestead. While she was picking the vegetables she couldn't afford to face her father who was just a few meters from the borehole. She made sure that she hid her face. She feared that her face might read and interpret her guilty.

She had many thoughts about what the father would comment and do after her mother had told him the story, she (Regina) had formulated. To comfort herself she argued that if her father had been annoyed and not satisfied with what he had been told by his wife then he would have jumped on her for punishment with immediate effect. This didn't happen. In her conclusion ,she thought that she had at last conquered her old parents. But would she repeat the offence and if so what would happen to her?

Lunchtime and food were ready on the table. Wangu had vowed to show her parents that she was hardworking by doing the correct thing at the right time. She did all this to cover up whatever bad feelings her parents might have had. Her father sent her to bring home some napier grass from the farm after lunch. She obediently did as told by her father who didn't show any sign of being annoyed. He had swallowed everything as a loving dad.

Wangu, after finishing with farm work, went to the kitchen to prepare supper. She made sure everything was in order. She would hate anybody who would have known the true part of her absence the previous night, they would have swallowed her alive. Alive with all her between that had been feasted on by her male partner all night through

Regina Wangu in her bed at night took a long time before she fell asleep. She had a reason for this. She was celebrating her victory over her parents. How can an old man and woman defeat a young beautiful girl of my age? She thought, Oh! No way. They cannot whatsoever. She had a long review of how Sunday night was with that fellow who had done things the way she had for long looked forward to doing. To her, this was a fought battle that she had easily won. She was happy to have gone through without difficulties. She found herself a lioness and found that her parents would not stop her from going on with whatever she wanted to do. Furthermore, my many friends are enjoying life in this world. Why not me? She thought as she rested in her bed. Where would she end up with her life enjoyment? What sort of life does she want to enjoy? The future will elaborate better.

Chapter Two

Good morning class.

Good morning Sir. The class answered in a chorus

How are you?. Teacher Kiruhi Kioi went on.

Sit down. Kioi finished and the pupils sat down with thanks. All these went on while his eyes were fixed on Regina Wangu. She tried to hide what had happened on Sunday during the day and at night.

The classroom was an admirable ideal classroom and one could not doubt that the old philosophy of education had well been spread. If Plato happened to resurrect, the first school he could pay his first visit would have been Mukamo college to see how his philosophy and others had been implemented successfully.

Teachers at Mukamo college were very hard working and even though the performance in the college was not very colorful, the efforts of the teachers deserved encouragement. Teachers worked hard in class work and extra curricula activities. The college excelled quite well in games, drama, and music. The nearness of the school to the area education officer made the teachers always prepared and work hard because the officers could come to the college at any time for inspection without necessarily making an appointment. Even at times the,officers would pass by the school compound on their way home from local breweries. There was an occasion when an officer came to the college drunk. He couldn't control himself, he urinated behind a classroom and forgot to zip back. Teachers and students observed a daylight-free film. It was pathetic.

After marking the class attendance register, Mr. Kioi summoned all the students that were absent the previous day. The absentees went in front of the class. They included among others Regina Wangu who had missed college following the Sunday lesson with her master.

The absentees knew quite well that they couldn't escape punishment. To everyone's surprise, Mr. Kioi forgave them and advised them not to repeat the mistake. This was a surprise because he rarely forgave trespassers and to the students,this was a special day that they thought the sun would set to the East! Fantastic!

Regina Wangu with her friends went back to their respective desks. Regina knew that she was the cause of the unusual Kioi's deed of forgiving the pupils. She was not surprised by the forgiveness. She knew she was her classmates' saviour. She sat back at her desk and gave her teacher a meaningful smile which he replied with a lot of care. No one learned the couple's smiles.

Time passed by and the bell for the end of the lesson went without a systematic conclusion, Kioi felt relieved. He had been looking forward to the bell to ring so that he could leave. Thirty-five minutes that he had spent in the class that morning sounded thirty-five solid hours. He was not settled at all. He behaved like his mother just a few minutes before his birth time. The atmosphere in the class had changed. Two persons who ate each other in heavy darkness had wished the day would never break and find themselves in class as teacher and student.

Kiruhi Kioi a six feet teacher black and heavy, a chimney smoker, a beer taker, with teeth that resemble the Molo red volcanic soil - some of them longer than the others like those of a saw, a married man and a father of six with a daughter in the same class as Wangu in Mukamo college left the class after his lesson, with the last smile to Wangu. She answered back making sure that no one saw, especially Kiruhi's daughter Nyambura who was her best friend at college and in the village. Nyambura had not known that she was a friend of her father's friend. She couldn't raise any suspicion about such a relationship.

Chapter Three

In the Principal's office, at eleven in the morning, sat the college management board members. The meeting had been confined to the discussion on the issue of the construction of a practice room in the college. The Principal Mr. Ojwang a black short and stout fellow wearing artificial eyes had a rough time educating the parents on the significance of such a construction in the college. Some of the parents didn't find the need for practical room in the college! They feared expenses.

Come in Mr. Ojwang answered a knock at the door. Mr. Ambala came in.

Can I help you? asked the Principal authoritatively.

Yes, but it seems you are so busy. Let me postpone till some other time.

Ok. Accepted Mr. Ojwang as Mr. Ambala left. He had come to break the big secret between his fellow staff-mate and his student to the Principal for further action.

The Principal went on with the meeting The current education system brings in new changes in our learning and teaching process aimed at bringing up able and useful members of our society. The system takes its course practically in almost all areas of learning and teaching, therefore this being the case, teaching and learning facilities are of vital importance in our colleges. It is, therefore, our task to make ends meet so that our children may acquire standard education as other children in other parts of the country.

The board held discussions as to how the money would be raised to bring up the college. They resolved to collect money from every parent in the school for the intended project.

"For now,