ABUSED…
Episode 11
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I am weak from the day’s ordeal too much drama happening to me lately, first Ade now Reuben. I’m at lost on where to go but I have to run for my life.
I was behind our compound thinking of what to do when and where to go for safety when I heard foot steps running downstairs without wasting time I ran towards the gate speedily
” Catch her , catch her. She is running away” that’s mother’s voice but I didn’t stop
I was almost out of the gate when Obinna, a young bachelor living in the boys quarters caught me
‘ please let me go” I shouted
” You don commit abi. You want come run☹️”
Soon the other neighbors caught up with us and held me. I struggled to free myself but my strength couldn’t match theirs
‘ Where you run go? You don kill person you want come leave matter for our head abi? So make police come carry us” our opposite door neighbor bloated out
I was held like a criminal everyone looking at me disgustingly, mother soon came down crying profusely and yelling
‘ This evil child has ruined me😥😥. Ruth after all I have done for you. I harboured you feed you and you choose to pay me back by killing my fiance. ” She was crying recklessly and the neighbors were trying to calm her down.
Soon ambulance arrived alongside the police officers. Our compound was crowded as a crime scene, I was the center of cynosure as everyone and his mother were outside looking at me, shaking their heads in disgust.
Reuben was carried downstairs into the ambulance he has lost consciousness from the bleed or maybe he is dead. The police were speaking with mother I can’t tell what they were actually saying but I knew it’s all about me, then she turned with her teary eyes and pointed towards me.
My heart beat increased as they got closer to me where I was held down, I bowed my head in shame. Never have I thought I would face such public humiliation in my life. The whole neighborhood would hear my story and probably judge me wrong😭😭.
” She is the culprit” mother said
” Who is she to you?” one of the officers asked.
She looked at me with hatred written on her face, she sniffed
” My niece, her parents are dead so I took her in🤨”
My heart sank by those words that made me feel horrible, I am good to be associated with dead persons I knew not
” What actually happened Madam” the other officer enquired
” She stabbed my fiance in her room and tried to escape.” She cried out
The officers were jotting down something on their note pad looking at me suspiciously,
” Officers, take her. Madam we are taking your niece to the station for questioning and thorough investigation. Handcuff her”
” Do whatever you deem fit. This girl has been a thorn in my flesh. Have I done wrong by taking her in after the demise of her parents? ”
I raised my head up and looked at my mother in bitterness and hatred. Something changed inside of me I can’t explain it. I thought I would cry and plead my course but I didn’t bother to.
I was handcuffed and taken into the police van to the station. I was questioned and ask to write a statement. My hands shook I couldn’t write anything.
I was thrown into the cell where I met my fellow prisoners. A new world for me, I was wondering how I ended up here and what is in stock for me I cried at the state which I was in😭
It’s been a week staying in this place with other prisoners no one has come to visit. Adjusting to my new environment has been difficult for me; the smell, dirty, mosquito infested and six troublesome prisoners have been my lot. The first I was thrown into this dungeon; I was teased and mocked as I happened to be the youngest among them.
” Heys! You, your papa! Come here😠😠” the chubbiest amongst them thunder. I became weak
” You no dey hear. Mama dey call you. Go pay homage” another slim figure said
I walked up to her and got hit by another fair lady
” You suppose bow for oba. Na she be oba for this zanga” she bellowed
I followed her instructions, bowing to her
” Wetin be your name and wetin carry you come”
” My name is Ruth. I…I… Committed murder”
They all shouted loudly
” Mama this one get liver gangan. Wo murder. Omo kekere ni🙄😏.”
The slim figure said.
The Chubbiest who happens to the leader signalled for them to keep quiet and the room went still
” Hmm. At your age, you dey commit murder. Who you kill and wetin happen? She questioned
” One Mr Reuben, he tried to rape me”
” Na him you chok ham. Ha! Na capital offense you commit. You better pass some people wey them release after two months for cell yet she steal officer glass and phone on her way home” The whole room dissolved into laughter as they all looked at one dark girl, she should be in her late twenties, sitting at the edge of the room.
” For this world na me dey rule, address me as oba and you gat pay your dues, if you do anyhow you see anyhow☹️.
Oya make una do her welcome party”
I thought it was a feast of some sort but I received slaps and beatings from my co prisoners expect for one who withdrew to the other end of the room.
I thought about my life and the journey that brought me to this point and I hated life more. I got to know there names as; Sandra the leader, Kris the slim one, Anita the fair one, Kate the thief, Helen, and Ella the one who didn’t participate in beating me.
Soon I got acquainted with my new found family, we got to share our stories and for the first time in my life I felt some sort of connection to these strangers. They all pitied me after getting to know my story
‘ See if your mama no value you, we dey gan. She deny you remember say Dem denial Jesus. We don be family like this o. As e be say no person wey don come check no worry we gat ur back😉”
Kris assured me
I got to learn she was here on account of stealing one of her client’s money and was thrown in here by her boss who didn’t want to loose him as he was well known. She is the owner of the brothel Kris works in. Helen the quiet one was imprisoned for killing her neighbor; she narrated that she had a fight with her neighbor’s wife only for her husband to hit for her to reciprocate the slap he fell down and that was it, he died instantly.
Ella was caught stealing from her boss so he had her thrown in prison and Anita stabbed her husband and Sandra was caught trying to sell someone’s child. I have criminals as family now but I love them because they make me feel belonged.
” Who is Ruth?” an officer yelled as he unlocks the door. I stood up to indicate I was the one
” Na you, you get visitor” I wonder who it was. I followed behind as he led me to another room.
I saw her, the woman that denied me, what was she doing here.
‘ Madam see her. Na twenty minutes una get” he informed
I stood at almost at the entrance leaning on the wall with my hands crossed
‘ Hmm. You see where you have ended your life Ruth. In prison, you are a criminal. You are just like your father, a criminal☹️.’
‘ Have you come here to tell me about my history before I was born woman or you have come to rain abuses at me as usual. There’s no difference living and living under your roof’ I spoke boldly to her much to her surprised.
Her mouth was a jar baffled with d boldness at which I spoke to her. She blinked twice as she adjusted her suit to regain her posture
” I can see you have grown up to talk back at me. You should be thanking you stars that Reuben survived your attack. This is where you fit in, this walls are where you belong. He still recuperating fine and hopefully I will prevail him not to press charges but you will spend a long time here.”
” Better than being under the same roof with a monster🤨”
” What?”
“You want to hit me? Dare it Damilola Kunle Williams and I will make sure that this scar on my face shall be a souvenir to you.”
” The guts for me! You have met your kind I see. ”
” You are heartless, you didn’t bother to ask what transpired…”
” Everything was crystal clear Ruth. I was told that Reuben visits often when I travelled by neighbors. Oh you thought they don’t see☹️… ”
” Really! Who invited him over”
” You called him crying you were feeling lonely”
” What? I did what”
” Oh shut up you witch. Your father ruined my life and now you want to snatch the one person that came into my life after so many years. You seduced him”
” Lies!!!”
” Really! Lies. You called him over begging that your were lonely, he was on your bed and you were n***d beneath him, he was still clothed and your towel was lying on the floor. You knew I was coming back this week and you planned it to spite me. Your plans failed woefully Ruth. Reuben relayed everything to me.”
” And you believed him”
” Of course you wanted him to cover your tract for you when you shameless sold your body to Ade.”
I was shocked how she got to know about Ade, a tear escaped from my eyes. I sniffed and look away from her.
” You see. You are a prostitute c*m murderer”
With that she stormed out of the station. I was left all alone and the tear fell in torrents not just because of mother outburst I just remembered that fraud of a guy I foolishly gave my body to, he deflowered me and discard me like a rag😭😭💔..
To be continued..
