One morning, I woke up feeling so sick, tired and heavy; it was like a 50kg load was being placed on me. I was just sleeping around and vomiting. My aunt was so mad that day because I had burnt the food I was preparing because I slept off while cooking. I heard her telling my uncle that she thinks I am pregnant. My uncle had hushed her, and said I was probably tired.
The next day, my uncle told her that he is taking me out to help do something’s in the factory. My aunt agreed and I left with him. He took me to a hospital where they ran some tests and confirmed that I was pregnant. He told them to abort it. I didn’t protest, but then…
I heard the doctor tell him that he needed some money to get Anesthetic so that I won’t feel pain during the operation. The injection costs only 2,000 naira, but my uncle said he doesn’t have money to pay for that.
i know he could afford it, he just wouldn't pay...
So, I was wide awake and very much conscious when they removed the fetus from my stomach. I saw everything, and I felt everything… I cried, I shouted, I wailed, I pleaded, yet, no one paid attention…
As if that wasn’t enough, after the operation was done, I was told to have some rest, but my uncle said he had work to do, and he couldn’t leave me there. So, we went to his factory and he asked me to join the workers to off load goods from a truck into the factory. I wasn’t seeing clearly because of the amount of blood I had lost, I was still in pains, and I just couldn’t imagine how inhumane this man can be.
I did what he asked of me, and after 6hours, he asked us to leave for home. We were on our way when he suddenly branched into a bush and parked, he wanted to have sex with me again. I cried and pleaded with him, but he turned deaf ears to my plead, he said he knew how I felt, that’s way he was going to do it from the back.
Ohh God, that pain was more than the one I felt during the abortion. I just wished I could die, but God was so generous and didn’t take my life…
We got home that evening, and my aunt sent me straight to the kitchen;
“Aunty please, I can hardly move, I am so tired” I said almost in tears.
She paid no attention to me and she walked out. I looked at her back and I felt like stabbing her, how relieved would l I be…
Anyone would have thought that my uncle would stop this act of his after the earlier incident. However, he didn’t, it was as though things became worse. This time, he would sneak into my bedroom when aunty is asleep and force himself on me even when I am on my period…
The only difference is that he now used protection, and would give me some pills after each rounds… ohh.. Did I mention that he went four rounds at times?
I am just 19 and it’d been 6 years of living with them. Six years of mystery and pain, years of tears and agony…
Thing were not like that at the beginning…
I was the only child of my parents, my dad was a successful mechanical engineer and we were happy
We had gone out to have fun in an eatery and was on our way back that day, when it happened…
My dad had packed his car beside a bridge and asked me to go buy recharge card for him across the road. By the time I came back, I didn’t see the car anywhere, all I saw were lot of people gathered around what seems like a truck that caught fire. That’s funny because that happened to be where my dad had packed his car and we were not driving a truck.
I went closer and asked what had happened, they said the truck had fallen from the bridge on a car; on my dad’s car. I felt a heavy weight on me immediately, I passed out…
I could still remember my aunt’s words on the funeral;
“Don’t worry my dear, what your parents couldn’t do when they were alive, I will do that and much more for you”. Sure she did a good job…
All of my dad’s estate was handed over to her, so that she can give them to me when I am 18. A year has passed now, and she has never spoken about it. I tried asking her about it last week and she beat the heavens out of me, accusing me of calling her a thief…
I was going to the parlor to tell her dinner was ready when I heard her talking to someone on the phone;
“I will send her there now, make sure you kill her without a trace, and let it look like an accident…. Good, I trust you… let me now see how she will have the mouth to ask me for any property…”
Then she called me;
“Aduke!” I didn’t wait for the third time this time before I answered. “Go to the super market and get some magi for me”
We had enough at home, but I didn’t even protest, I was too shocked to…. It was 11pm, Magi by this time? She should have at least looked for something better…
I left, then, I saw them… those my life had been handed over to… I tried to run, but that will seem suspicious... I am doomed, didn't know what to do…
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