A Night With The King

“What is your crime? I already know your name is Sophie,”

Leah asked and Sophie wondered if she could be honest with her, she did bring her food and was one of the few people that have been nice to her so far, both she and the good old lady were the only people who have been nice to her.

“I didn’t commit any crime, I lost something precious, they think I stole it but I didn’t,”

She explained.

“You worked for an influential family?”

“Yes, I worked as a palace maid,”

She revealed.

“Aha, that explains a lot about why you were sent here directly, that king will be the end of justice in this kingdom, it was worse before he came and he made it, even more, worse, poor and irrelevant people like us can’t get justice because the ruling king only plays fair to the rich.

Leah said bitterly which lead Sophie to believe she must have a beef with the king, it was obvious that she hated him.

“Why are you so sure the king is evil, I mean yes he is but, you seem to have a deeper hate for him,”

Sophie said and wished she hadn’t said the words because Leah’s expression changed so much.

“I do, I hate him so much, if I ever meet him I would kill him too,”

She let out bitterly, Sophie wanted to defend the king for a reason which wasn’t okay with her, she wanted to protect him, he was still the father of her unborn kid, the baby. She suddenly thought holding her tummy, she didn’t know if the baby will make it but still.

“What did the king do to you that you hate him so much? I thought you were already here before he got on the throne?”

She asked removing her hands from her tummy, she didn’t want attention drawn to it.

“Yeah, I hate him, if not for him I won’t be here still, I would have been free, but here I am wasting away in prison,”

Leah let out.

“I am sorry, but what happened?”

Sophie asked. She just wanted to know how bad the king was, maybe then she won’t feel the need to want to defend him, she needed herself to hate him so much, not like she liked him before.

“I was going to be released on parole, six days before that day, he suddenly decided that all women jail should be moved to the palace prison since it wasn’t in use and the other prison were overcrowded, it would have been nice if he had let those of us that were almost set free go but no, the evil man said we are not fit to join the society and dumped us all here, I would have been free and watch my daughter grow but that man,”

Leah said with so much anger, Sophie felt her pain and she couldn’t help but think, what if her baby makes it? Will she be taken away from her? Will her child ever get to meet her? She just couldn’t see that happening and it hurt so bad.

“I am sorry,”

Sophie said.

“Don’t be,”

Leah said and suddenly got up and left, Sophie sat alone in the room for a long time, her mind going in different directions but nothing helped, no matter how she thought about it, there was no way out, she just have to wait for what tomorrow brings and just live with it.

She fell asleep after long hours of just staring at nothing in particular.

Sophie was woken by cold water being dumped on her, she opened her eyes so fast wondering what was going on and where she was, it took a moment to piece together everything and sadness washed through her when she remembered where she was.

“Are you going to keep laying down or do you wanna get up? This is not your father’s house where you can sleep for as long as you want!”

She heard a woman say before another heap of water was dumped on her, she quickly got up trying to dry herself up, it was so cold, Sophie wanted to tell her she didn’t even have a father no to talk of a father who owns a house, she had no family, if she did then she wouldn’t be facing this much alone, she was alone in this world and the only person who would have been her family might not make it through this with the way things were going.

“You could have just woken me up the normal way,”

Sophie yelled. She was no pushover, just because she was in this situation doesn’t mean she just have to bow and take everything being thrown at her.

“You are talking back at me?”

The self-acclaimed queen yelled grabbing her hair.

“Let me go, that hurts,”

Sophie cried but she didn’t and she was bigger than her so Sophie couldn’t easily free herself from her.

“You bitch, I don’t think you wanna live.”

She yelled in her face and pushed her so hard that she fell on her back.

“What the fuck is wrong with you? Why would you push me like that?”

Sophie cried, pain shooting through her, she stood up and it took a moment to steady herself.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Why? Because I can, now if you don’t want me to do more than push, you will do as I say,”

“What do you want from me? We don’t even know each other, why are you so mean?”

Sophie asked, she watched as she walked close to her.

“I am going to let you get away with talking back at me for just today because you are new but don’t think you can do what you did today and stay alive,”

She said pushing her again before pushing a bucket in her hand.

“Go get me water, the one in the restroom here ain’t running,”

She instructed. Sophie wanted to say no, but then Leah walked up behind the self-acclaimed queen and shook her head, she took the bucket and walked out with her clothes still wet, she wondered why the bully didn’t use the water she dumped on her to do whatever she wanted, heck, she didn’t even know the way to the tap, it was early in the morning and she already felt horrible, walking about with no sense of direction in wet cold clothes was the worse thing that can happen to anyone in the cold winter season in Otano, her life was a mess.