Chapter 2 Good Turns To Bad

Hannah was heading back from school with her friends, when suddenly a woman began to scream. " Thief! Thief! Thief! My purse!" The woman began to cry as she kept screaming.

Hannah was surprised, but suddenly, a man passed them quickly with a purse in his hand.

And Hannah knew that it was the thief the woman was talking about. She quickly left her friends and ran after him. Hoping to get the purse from him, and return it to the owner.

People began to pursue her, thinking that she's the thief. " Catch the girl! Stop right now! Hold her!" They kept screaming, but Hannah didn't care about them. Her focus was on the thief.

Suddenly, the man threw the purse away and ran off quickly. Hannah picked the purse from the floor and turned back. Heading to the woman.

The crowd began to drag her, but she told them that she's not the thief. She also made it known to them that the thief has ran away, but they seemed not to believe her.

They drag her to where the woman was, and she thanked them happily, showering prayers of blessings on them.

When she opened her purse, she couldn't find her money. " My money! My money! Where is my money?" She asked staring at Hannah.

" I don't know what you are talking about." Hannah said.

" Return my money now!" She yelled.

" I'm not with your money ma'am. I was......" Hannah wanted to explain when a slap land on her face, and she tighten her face in anger. " Why did you slap me?" She asked the man who slapped her.

" Return the money now, or else....." Said the guy angrily.

" Don't worry." Hannah said within as tears gathered in her eyes.

" Return my money now or else we will hand you over to the police." Someone yelled.

" You can do whatever you want, I'm not with your money." Hannah yelled.

" What is going on?" Alex, one of her friends asked.

" They are accusing me. I didn't take her money." Hannah replied.

" Shut up!" Someone yelled.

" You thought we won't catch you. Shameless thief!" Someone yelled, and they began to drag her.

" Let go of me!" Said Hannah. " If you touch me again....."

" This girl is a dangerous thief. She can't even plead." Someone said.

" Why will she plead for something she didn't do?" One of Hannah's friend, whose name is Raymond said.

" How did you know that she didn't do it!" The lady asked. " Oh! Seems like you are an accomplice." She added.

" Excuse me!" Said Raymond, furrowing his brow, but the woman didn't say a word again.

" If you touch me again! You won't like the other side of me." Screamed Hannah, pushing their hands away from her. But the more she did, the more they dragged her.

" Are you going to return my money or not?" The woman whose money was stolen asked.

" Go and ask the thief." Hannah replied angrily. " If only I knew, I wouldn't have gotten myself into this mess." She added.

" She didn't take your money ma'am." Said Alex. " We were returning from school, and when she heard you shouting, she decided to help." Alex explained, but everyone paid deaf ears.

" We found her with the purse! Don't confuse us." Someone said.

" Collect your money ma'am. don't allow this thief to escape." Another woman said.

"Let go of me!" Hannah said as they began to search her. But they didn't find the money.

Instead of letting her go, they began to beat her and asked her to call her accomplice.

" She might have pass it to them." Said a man.

" Stop beating me!" That was Hannah's last words before a fight broke out. She was able to injure at least 8 people before the police arrived.

Hannah was arrested and her friends hurried to her house to tell her mother about it. * * *

" I don't know why you find it difficult to listen to me Hannah. I have tried everything possible to change your lifestyle, but you keep making it difficult for me.

I don't want anything to happen to you. I have suffered a lot in this life in order to bring you up.

My father is rich, but look at the place I'm living. My only hope is that you will make me proud one day, and all my suffering will be over.

I pray that you stay away from those boys, I don't want anyone to ruin your future. You are all I have in this world Hannah. I don't want you to experience what I went through."Hannah's mother kept saying as she prepared to go to her shop.

Just then, she heard a knock on the door, and quickly rushed outside.

" Good afternoon ma'am." Hannah's friends chorused.

" Good afternoon." The woman replied. " Is there any problem? Where is Hannah?" Asked the woman suspiciously.

" Actually ma'am..." Alex glanced at others. " We were- we were- coming back from school, but something happened." He stuttered.

" Something happened to my daughter?" The woman's heart skipped a bit.

" Yes ma'am." Replied Tony.

" What happened to her?" Her mother asked.

" She was arrested by the police." Alex blurt out.

" Police!!" Hannah's mother exclaimed.

" They've taken her away." Raymond added.

" We just came to tell you ma." Said Alex.

" But what did she do?" The woman asked, already in tears