I think I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t have to bother myself with people’s issues anymore. It looks like people take you for granted when you are nice to them and even take you for a fool. I have been advised several times not to let what I go through affect my personality but hey sometimes, pulling back I think is better than to have some wounds that would be very difficult to heal. Trust me!
There’s this girl I met during my last semester in uni through a next door neighbour in the hostel I resided. This guy kept telling me about a girl he was taking care of in school because she was a pauper. I was so touched by her story that I wanted to meet her badly. I finally met this girl and her story I heard again was just too bad. She told me her parents passed away when she was just a kid and that she stayed with her half sister in Kumasi who paid no attention to her at all and that she had to struggle to pay her fees. I immediately opened my arms to this girl and told her to come to me if she ever needed any help and that she was now my sister. What even made me like this girl most was when she told me she is a prayer warrior and that she loves to pray at dawn and cannot sleep if she doesn’t get to the field to pray. Little did I know I had opened up to a demon. I made this girl so free around me that she’d get up in the morning and the next place would be to my room to search for food. I was never worried about that since I thought I was a blessing in someone’s life. What even hurts me most was the fact that I introduced her to someone I have always respected and cherished my whole life. She met this lady and also lied to her about herself just as she did to me. Apparently, she even told my mentor about a scholarship she had been awarded and that she needed GHC1500 to process her documents to study in the United States for some time. Hmm, I just bless God I found out who she was before someone offered to sponsor her. I remember a time I took her to the mall to shop for her because she had told me she never had the motherly love and that no one cared about her. All I wanted to do was to make her happy; I would call this girl right after my lectures and ask her if she had had lunch even when I hadn’t had mine. Another stupid thing I also did was to introduce this girl to my boyfriend!
The whole truth about this girl was revealed when my boyfriend and I realised that her conversations with us did not tally with who she told us she was. This girl who told me she had to fast for some days because she couldn’t afford gari was the same person who was now telling me she used to drive Mercedes and that some prominent people in Ghana were her friends. We started to raise eyebrows at what she was now telling us but who were we to judge someone. A guy who was also in the same hostel and claimed to know the girl in question back in Kumasi was apparently looking for me to warn me against the girl since that was what she did to get the attention of others and dupe them. The girl was a number one fraudster and a liar who had played her tricks on many people on campus but what baffled me and still does is the fact that she was a member of many societies on campus and even had the guts to run for leadership roles in some of these social groups when she was not a student. Well, that is another issue for another day as to how someone who is not a student found her way in a hostel as a student to swindle innocent people. She told me she was a student pursuing languages with majors in Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese. I don’t even know how and why I believed her when there was no way someone could be offered to read more than two modern languages in the university. I gathered courage to confront this girl and ask her if what the guy told me about her was true and that was when she started to rattle more lies. It looked like nothing good ever came out from this girl’s mouth and the most annoying sentence she’d make before lying again was, “let’s put God in the centre”.
If I should write everything that was revealed in the end, I won’t sleep this evening but the whole truth was that the girl was not a student in the uni, she was a thief and a pathetic liar. I cried that day when I interrogated her and she told me the truth (which I don’t really believe everything she said). I also got to know that the money she was looking for was to get an agency to help her travel with the intention of not coming back and surprisingly, she had five (5) names she used everywhere she went. We woke up the next day and we were told she moved out that dawn. I’m sure she might have relocated to another place to continue defrauding people but I pray people will really know who she is and not fall a victim.
I was told she said to someone that I have disgraced her and made people who respected her know who she really is and that she’ll deal with me but I want her to know wherever she is that I didn’t do anything and that her cup was just full. If anything should happen to anyone she must rather suffer because she has hurt people and not me and besides every truth that was revealed to me I think was from God and not me. I forced the truth out of her when she thought she had won the hearts of people with her blatant lies.
Sara or whichever name you are using now, know that He who lives in me is greater than He who is of this world and my God has also promised me that He’ll let my enemies eat their own flesh as if they are eating bread and drink their own blood as if they are drinking wine and I also want you to know that my God’s words never goes back to Him void which means whatever He says must be accomplished so you better make the right choice.
To my mentor, my role model and my inspiration, I’m so sorry I brought this devil into your life. I know I didn’t do well by not really finding out who she was before introducing her to you but I’ve learnt my lesson. I pray you find a place in your heart to forgive me. I always think about this issue and try to forget what happened but I feel this girl has hurt me so much that I can’t forget. I pray that God will replenish everything you sacrificed for the girl. Once again, I’m very sorry. I’ve learnt my lesson a hard way.
To my pals out there, please be careful of the people you meet in life because they may be demons with angels’ wings.
