Destiny is Undeniable

A short story created by the Owerri BEMORE Girls as part of their practical session for creative communication.

Once upon a time there was a girl called Ella, a native of Alaoma Village. Together with her parents – Mr. and Mrs Nneka Obi they lived in a happy family. However, Ella’s parents were poor and couldn’t send her to school. Ella’s parents had only one means of livelihood which was farming. Ella finally resolved that she will shape her future. She decided that she must go to school to become useful in life like other successful men and women she knew who also became successful after periods of hardship.

One faithful day, she went to a nearby school and was peeping through the window. Then the teacher in that class saw and called her. She asked her why she was there, so she explained all that she has been going through and how she has decided resolved to pursue an education. The teacher accepted her and gave her three weeks to pay her fees. But it wasn’t that easy for her, then on the third week when she was meant to pay the fees, she went to school on a Thursday but on getting there, the teacher sent her back to get her fees.

This really hurt her because they were to write an exam on that day. She was depressed and as she was crying on her way home, she heard a news that her parents had been killed by hired killers. She felt very terrible and down even confused; she didn’t know what else to do. Because she was the only child, she now became an orphan. After the burial of her parents, her father’s brother and his wife took her and stared treating her like a slave.
Her immediate relatives were very wicked towards her and her siblings.

Her uncles were very greedy. One day, they decided to send her out of the house so that they could inherit all her father’s properties. They took everything from Ella and her siblings but what they couldn’t take from her was her intelligence and her skills. She was a very good singer and also dances very well, so despite everything that they tried to discourage her, she never gave up. Ella was determined to conquer in order to achieve her destiny.

One she was walking on the street when a girl saw her and told her about a program going on in Owerri called BEMORE summer boot camp, then she decided to go and witness the camp. Although she didn’t have a good education background, she was naturally brilliant. When she got to the camp, she was very attentive in class and was able to learn despite the fact that she was behaving like a village girl without education, she still did well from the little experience she had in school that she once attended for three weeks.

When the camp was about to close, they were given an exam to write based on what they had learned there but nobody knew the plan of the first lady - who organized the camp – for the person who comes first in the exams. It was very surprising to everyone that Ella came out the best especially in the music and dancing competition that they did. Her performance was so awe – inspiring that she was given a scholarship from JSS 1 till completion of her university education.
She graduated ten years later, did her masters and finally became a very popular and famous musician. She soon got married to a medical doctor and they were blessed with two kids and lived a happily ever after.

NOTE:

In the story we tried to put into practice what we learned in the creative writing and communication class which are the 3 main elements of story writing – Character, Theme and Settings.
Our main character in the story is Ella
The theme of the story is Tragedy and Happiness
The settings include Alaoma village, farming (which represents occupation and livelihood)