Tracy scoffed.
“One day your goodness will put you inside trouble.”
During break time, Tracy noticed something.
“They didn’t call your name for unpaid school fees today. How come? Have you paid?”
Joy nodded.
“Yes.”
Tracy’s mouth opened in shock.
“How? Your aunt finally gave you money?”
Joy didn’t answer.
Then a junior student passed them, looking sad. Joy stopped him.
“Why are you sad?”
The boy’s voice was low.
“My mother is sick. She is in the hospital. And I have not paid my school fees. They said they will send me home tomorrow.”
Joy didn’t even think. Her heart moved before her brain could argue.
“Don’t worry. Tomorrow morning I will pay your school fees. And come to my house this evening. I will give you money for your mother’s hospital bills.”
The boy’s face lit up like someone had turned on a light.
“Thank you, Senior Joy. God bless you!”
He hurried away smiling.
Tracy stepped closer slowly.
“Wait. Joy… is there something you are not telling me? You and I know you are poor. Where will you get money from?”
Joy swallowed, hearing the old woman’s warning in her head like a bell: Don’t ever tell anybody.
She forced a small smile.
“Tracy, I’m not sleeping with anybody. God will provide.”
Tracy laughed, not kindly.
“I will watch you. Something is going on.”
That evening, Joy locked herself in her room, placed the white pot on the floor, and stared at it like it was alive.
With shaking fingers, she touched it three times.
“Please… I need money.”
Money appeared.
Joy clapped her hand over her mouth to stop herself from screaming.
It was real.
And from that moment, Joy began to do what she had always done—help. She paid school fees. She bought hospital medicine. She fed hungry elders. Quietly. Carefully. No noise. No pride.
But kindness in a small village never stays quiet for long.
Two days later, Tracy walked into Joy’s compound and whispered poison into Joy’s aunt’s ear.
“People are saying Joy is sharing money like a billionaire,” Tracy said, lowering her voice like she was doing a good deed. “And they say she is sleeping with men. That’s where the money is coming from.”
Joy’s aunt’s face turned red with rage.
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