Jenny’s eyes leaked as she cried herself to sleep. Ever since she’d entered the Light Institute, things had not been OK. Her condition was the complete opposite of light. She was stuck in the dark.

“How could he ask for sex? How could he ask for something as priceless as my virginity? Has he lost his mind? Doesn’t he have children who he wants better futures for? How could one man be as evil as evil itself?” she whispered helplessly as she cried herself to sleep.

The morning was bright and so full of life. The smiling sun shined frankly from the Far East. Doom Street was crowded as usual, with people moving up and down, going about their normal business. Some were students like her, while others were working people. Store owners were trying to open their stores, while homeless Zoegoes (criminals) tried parking their belongings on the street corners, and in front of the stores where they usually pass their night. Car loaders were yelling from one parking to the other, while conductors waited eagerly for their cars to get full.

As she walked reluctantly down the paved road, she wished her own life was any good. Unfortunately, it wasn’t; it was the complete opposite. She had lost both her parents during the Ebola crisis. And now she so close to losing her scholarship; the only piece of hope she had left. While walking down Doom Street, men were held at main stage by her beauty. However, her mind wasn’t on their looks and what they thought of her, but rather, her mind was stuck on figuring out how she could escape the immoral proposal of her principal. She wished he wasn’t the one who had control of her scholarship. She only wished he wasn’t at all, so that she could show him that being a monster was a total disrespect to her womanhood and to her innocent body. She would have taught him a lesson that he would have never forgotten for the rest of his life.

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Tell us: What was Jenny expected to do in order to get a scholarship?