Dear Anita
Episode Three
Sleeping with our neigbour was one of the worst things she could do to me.
That day, I came back from school and Liam wasn’t yet back.
I was hoping to come back to lunch but they was no lunch.
I dropped my school bag then headed to the bath room to freshen up, so that I would look for what to eat.
“Where are you going?” I heard my mom’s voice echoing from the house. I stayed silent until she came closer to me.
“Anita, I’m talking to you!” she screamed for the second time, flinging a cāne at my face.
“Good afternoon, mom,” I greeted, but there was no response for a minute.
Finally, she replied, “There’s nothing good about the afternoon,” pretending to cry.
If my husband was here I would have had lunch but you kiłłed him”.
She said aggressively. If only she knew she was mēssing with my mēntal hēalth but she just didn’t care.
“Come with me Anita, I need you to do something if only you need lunch” she said softly.
I followed her outside and she held my hands to one of our neighbour’s doors.
I had to ask her what we were doing there, but she remained silent.
She then took me inside the house and left me there.
I was taken aback when Mr. Edward, our neighbor, came out of the bathroom and locked the door.
I had no idea what was going on. He looked at me and asked, “I hope you know why you are here?”
I shook my head because I didn’t know why mom forced me into the house of a stranger.
“You will know soon,” that’s the last thing he said to me.
He turned up the volume on his speaker, and I knew I was in trouble.
He forcefully pułled at my clothes as I screamed for help, but no one came.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t scream because no one will help you. Save your strength,” he said calmly.
I screamed because I felt my dad will save me from this horrïble man.
Dad was always my Saviour, saving me from bad people but he was gone, if only I had seen his inhaler.
Mr Edward forcēd himself on me, I laid in silence, cursīng the day I was born into the world.
I would have still being in heaven or somewhere or born to a good family.
When he was done, I was lying in the pōol of my own blōod and I was very weak. I couldn’t move my body.
I watched him pick his phone to call my mother, “I’m done he said”, come and take the money.
She opened the door and saw me lying on the bed so weak, she didn’t say anything to me.
She just collected the money from Mr Edward then left the room.
Shortly she came back to the room, “come and clean yourself, she said.
I struggled to get up from the bed taking a step and then another, I almost fell and she didn’t care.
I went to the bathroom to wash off, I lied on the floor while the water from the shower poured on me.
When I was done bathing, I was still bleeding, I boiled water in the kitchen then used it to touch down there.
It was extremely painful and each pain reminded me of how I lost my precious father, the only person that cared about me.
I was done and I went to my room, wore my clothes and threw myself on my bed imagining a better life and escaping from whatever was troubling me.
I had slept when I heard a knock on the door, I didn’t want to open the door until I heard Liam’s voice.
I limped to open the door and he came inside my room. “What is wrong with your legs”?
He asked as he closely examined my body.
” I’m fine, I hit my leg on the school locker when I was rushing to return home”.
I lied as I went back to lie on the bed,only I knew the pains I was going through.
“Mom said I should let you know that lunch is ready,”he said excitedly.
I replied, “Tell Mom I’m not hungry, you can go and eat.
” He opened the door and left the room while I locked the door, crying myself to sleep.
Thessycute Ekene
