🧖♀️MARRIED💞
Episode 5.
©Miriam Edem
I laid there on the floor weeping when I heard my mother voice,
“And where is Sharon! Sharon! She shouted hitting on the door and I wanted calling her but i found out i’ve lost my voice and i ended up coughing hard.
“Sharon! Why is no one here? I heard her said.
“Mommy! I used my very last breathe to call out and she heard me.
“Sharon! She shouted and hit the door open and ran in despite it was dark and she met me where I laid.
“What happened? Talk to me what happened? She asked lifting my head on her laps and that was where she saw I was naked.
“What did they do to you? She weakly asked but my cried replied her and she buried her face on my chest crying.
“4 of them mommy, 4 of them, I whispered to her and she shook her head painfully.
“When will you listen to me Sharon when? And where are they? Where are those bastards! She shouted getting up.
“They left, they all left, I replied and she leaned her head on the wall for a while trying hard nor to see but my state but she couldnt help it. She tried helping me to get up,
“Try to stand please, there is no one that can help you now, its already late, my mom said when I staggered with her but I couldn’t make a step. My mother could not carry me either, all she did was manage to take me to the sitting room, made me sit on the sofa there and ran out to look for help.
She came back with a bike, which the man helped in carrying me on it and she sat at my back as he drove me back to the compound. I was feeling so weak and My eyes were closing until the bike finally stopped,
“Sharon what took you so long! I heard sister Mercy voice because my eyes were closed, but I felt my mother jumped down from the bike that I almost fell myself because she was my support, if not for the bike man who quickly held me I would have fell from the bike. I couldn’t see what was going on because my eyes were dim, but a very serious fight went on and I felt my sisters taking me inside but my mother grabbed me from them and dragged me to sister Mercy,
“Are you happy now? Have you delivered her now? How dare you leave my daughter to rapists who messed her up and ran away how dare you! My mother cried out that everyone screamed in the compound.
“Eh! What did you say? I thought you bragged they were genuine God sent prophet? My sister who looks like a bouncer asked facing Mercy who was speechless. She couldn’t utter a word,
“Hey I said it! Do you know those people were busy hitting my breasts, and if I want to talk they will put oil in their mouth and spit it on my face and it will enter my eyes. I will now use my hands to rub my eyes while they will touch my breast, Chinenye spoke out and I heard a loud slap my mother passed to Sister Mercy that she fell from the heat of it.
“I opened my eyes so much and trained her alone so she won’t be like us. She grew up keeping herself and I saw myself in her, how could you let history repeat itself on her again and when I kicked against it you made it look as if I was keeping my daughter away from good. You got raped yourself didn’t you? How did it feel? It was only 1 man on you despite you proved to be so strong and stubborn yet he overpowered you, besides you were very matured when this happened yet you felt the pains and went into depression. How could you do this to my only daughter after knowing all I went through, you let her into the arms of 4 men, Mercy 4 men, how could you! My mother cried and all that happened replayed on my head instantly and I passed out.
I slowly opened my eyes after hearing voices around me, and I saw my father sitting beside me,
“This is all your fault, you should have let me take her but you proved to know too much, now look at your daughter, I heard my father said.
“You’re very stupid! In fact who told you about this? What are you doing here sef? When she was with you did you train your wife to be good to her step daughter huh? My mother asked.
“At least we gave her a comfortable life and would have protected her from this mess. Don’t I have children older than her? Has this happened to them? Just listen to the mess I heard that so called prophets came bathing my daughter naked and you agreed to it you’re so shameless! What kind of a mother are you! My father shouted that my mother stood up ready to tear him apart.
“Mommy, I whispered and that halted her and she looked at me.
“Sharon dear how are you feeling? She asked touching me and I tried sitting up which she helped me then I looked at my father.
“Why are you blaming my mother sounding as a saint and a good father when you’re a rapist yourself, I dropped.
“Sharon! My father shouted.
“If you were that good you wouldn’t have forced yourself on a 15 year old girl who wanted struggling to put food on her table, so you have no right to question how my mother should train me when you couldn’t train yourself to begin with. And its not her fault I got raped, she warned me but I didn’t listen because I wanted to be free. I didn’t want to be like them, I wanted to be a different person and do something no one has recorded in this family. How did that become a crime? How did I know it will turn out this way? No matter how I tried I still fell into the same story and even in a more pathetic way so blame it on me and not my mother, I said as tears rolled down my cheeks and my father bowed his head.
“Ssshhhh its okay dear don’t stress your weak body, you need rest, my mother said touching me and I cleaned my tears.
“And again you’re right daddy, you have the capacity to protect me and your 2 eldest daughters are all married, but could you do same for me? How did you treat me when I was with you? Was I even welcomed in your house that I chose to run back to my mother just because I was a bastard child right? I asked.
“Sharon please its okay, my mom pleaded.
“No mommy is not okay! What exactly is wrong with us? Why do we keep on being raped? Why can’t a daughter make a difference no matter how hard we try? You know the truth mommy that I am pregnant right? And to make it worst I don’t even know the child I am carrying or where I can find him. How long will this continue? I cried to her that she weakly touched my face and hugged me as she cried on me.
“Sharon no matter what happens you have my support okay, and this will not happen again, I heard my father said.
“I won’t allow that because I won’t keep this baby, I won’t allow that! I shouted.
“Baby don’t say that, if I have done same thing I wouldn’t have had you my child, my mother said.
“And I wish you never did, I don’t like this and I will do everything in my power to get rid of this bastard I am carrying because I don’t want to be stuck! I shouted.
“Sharon stop it, it has happened and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s an abomination and you should not be involved in it, my father said.
“What do you know about an abomination when you committed one yourself and told my mother to do it, I angrily said.
“Don’t speak to your father that way! My mother shouted on me.
‘Then tell him to get out of here, because the more I look at him I see the bastards who did this to me because he is not different from them, I said and my mother slowly looked at my father who got up.
“I guess I’ll see you when you’re calm, he said and left the room and I closed my eyes.
“I’m sorry Sharon, I’m sorry, I heard my mother said.
“No mommy forgive me, I never wanted this to happen I should have listened to you, I said holding my mother hands and she gave a smile cleaning my tears.
“You are so much like me Sharon and that made me so scared and extra cautious on you. I had the same feeling with you and I didn’t want to be like my mother, because your grandmother…… My mother began sleeping around with people husbands and it was so shameful. I had to go out to struggle so I can save up and leave the city, and that was how I knew about your father farm despite it was not in the village. Every morning I wake up very early to trek down there and work as a laborer, and when my money was almost there so I can join my friends who wanted leaving for the city, I got raped. I saw you grow up with this same burden and I was planning to send you over to my friends who succeeded in traveling that they should take care of you for me because I didn’t want you to end up like me, now this has happened, I’m so sorry I didn’t do that earlier you could have escaped this, my mother said and I was so shocked…………
TBC
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