"Wake up Pam, Wake up" Her mother shook her energetically.
                 Pamela opened her eyes and was surprised to see her mother "or was she now in the hospital?" She asked herself.
                She turned to study the room.  It was their house and her room, she looked careful at her body, and there was no injury.
               "It's alright Pam, it was  just a dream.  It's over, okay?"  soothed Mrs. Phillips looked at her child lovingly.
     "Now, tell me about the dream"
                   "No! no!" came her Daddy voice behind the door.  "Pamela my baby,bath now, it is three in the afternoon, we have an evening outing before the night service ".
                 Mechanically, Pamela had her bath and seated herself opposite her father.
                She was disappointed that her lunch was tasteless. She was not sure if she ought to be glad or sad that all along, she had been dreaming. She could not really state when and how the dream started, everything about her dream looked real.
                The rest of the family ate their food happily anxious to go out except Pamela.
                "Tell us about your dream" urged David whose ear had been itching to get the full gist of the dream, Which had sent his younger sister screaming. David her senior brother.  She tried to relate her experiences to her attentive, curious and interrogative listeners.  At the end, they all laughed and exclaimed:
                "It was just a dream".
     "Yes it was just a dream, I guess it's because you have always wanted to travel to Lagos and your mummy fear that this was not a safe time to go to Lagos.  Now come..." he held her palm,  "Next Year we were both take a trip to Lagos right?  And seriously, those fearsome things do not always happens. Okay?"
              "Okay daddy" she smiled caressing his palm on her.
              "Merry Christmas" David cooed,
              Pamela grew excited, laughed, cried and asked for more food. She ate her chicken lap enjoyably and danced to the car.
             "Today children, we are going to Abraka beach okay?" announced their father, brandishing the car key to his blue volks wagon
                "Yeah"
                 "Yes"
                  "Yo"
                   They screamed simultaneously, as they leapt into the car to celebrate a perfect season.
         In the next day which was school day, the school bell rang continuously summoning students to the Assembly ground. From different parts the school compound, students came running to the school Assembly ground.
                The weather was full and so was Pamela Phillips, this was the second assembly held today and for quite some reason, she did not feel like attending.   She leaned on the dormitory wall and allowed students to pass by.
              Some minutes later, she became alone as the other had left the dormitory.   Being alone did not help her to relax rather it worsened her well being. for a fleeting moment she thought that she caught sight of the disciplinary master, looking into her hostel. 
               This meant trouble: Mrs Ideh, the disciplinary master as if suspecting to meet a student inside the hostel thundered, with a closed eyelids.
                "Before I open my eyes, any girl inside this dormitory should move out now. If  I am forced to search in .
            Why is to day a bad day for me?" Lamented, Pamela.   Mrs Ideh voice kept on thundering.
              "The short black witch " she mussed when she heard her approaching footsteps, like a leopard she leapt on to a bed in a hidden Corner and got engrossed in her thought . Like lightening a rope like substance slashed across her back. She sprang up wildly her legs almost buckled when she faced Mrs Ideh, frightened. Frustrated, she felt like tearing her up to pieces.   Emotions stirred roughly in her.  A been caught in her throat, she began to cry. She began to plead for forgiveness that the report should not get to her Father or her mom that they will not be happy it might lead to she been pushed by her parents.
             She promised Mrs Ideh that she never try it again, and the was the second time she will not be going to the assembly ground and because of this, Mrs Ideh begins to suspect her to be one of the bad students in the school, those bad students are those ones that do not attached class they normally come to school very late and they abuse other students and they do not obeyed their teachers they do not have note books and always frighting other.
          This time one of those bad students who is popularly known and referred to as baddest among  them the other of them usually respect him and was the leader among them usually follow him like the way Jesus Christ disciples and he usually send them message to go for him.
           The time he saw Pamela coming and begins to asked his friend who she is that he was very surprised to see such a beautiful girl in the school and she is not his girlfriend, he then told his friend that he is going to tell to her to become his girlfriend that he loves her. Getting to where Pamela meet her and he was tried to touch her but she never wants to give any chance.
              He began to use forced on her but Pamela threatened to report him.
                  "Irritant" Pamela cried out.
                  "Ass hole" retorted Benedicta gripping Pamela shoulder very hard.
                  "you lousy nothing will you let go off me?" screamed Pamela.
                "Flat buttocks, I will dear with you today, do you think it was Yesterday that I left you are yours chewing gum friends?" look! Babes do not toy with me. Wreck for the likes of you who do not like, but I will deal with you " he gripped Pamela tightly, shutting her made up eyes countlessly  she was four feet tall and was gifted with a shinning black skin, She had flock of big girl friend because of her body shape.  Many times she had been caught sneaking away from the dormitory at night in company of some boys, who after bribing the gate man were allowed into the school premises secretary, she would have been expelled who was anxious to help her educationally since Benedicta was the only child of her poor parents.