The Truth

I woke up and opened my eyes, I was tied down like a dog. Then, I saw Tina and I said in my mind; how come I didn't see this coming. How did I get to trust or have a friend like this. So, Henry was right, I suspected Henry not knowing it was my so-called friend that my mother trusted with her heart and even gave the keys to the house. I couldn't say a word 'cos I knew no one is coming to help me not even God.

"So, you cannot say anything now bitch?". Tina said. Of course, I gave her my response "I have nothing to say to a betrayal, a failure and an ungrateful Human like you".

She gave me a hot slap on my cheek and said to me "At least, I did not get raped". That word she kept saying got me angry and I felt like biting off her lips but I couldn't.

"Do whatever you like with her one more time, boys" she said to her friends. I thought in my mind Oh No, not again;God I might totally not have any value for myself if this happens again, My God please save me, I sobbed quietly. Then, one of the boys forcefully loosed my shirt buttons and tore my clothes. I felt ashamed as he puts his filthy hands right in my breast and pressed it. I screamed "Stop please, stop I beg you" I cried, Tina and her friends bursted into laughter and then the other one went for my skirt and pulled it down with force and removed my pant steadily as he rubs his hands on my laps. I was irritated, ashamed and angry but I was helpless.

At this point, I knew it was all over and this time, I'm going to be raped a second time right in my consciousness by the same people, the first time I was unconscious but this one I will remember till the day I die and even after death my spirit will never forget it.

Then, I said "Come closer" to the one whose hands was on my breast and he came closer to me, I bit his ears so hard and I almost pulled it off, Tina stabbed me right on my laps, I screamed out loud and they shut my mouth up with a punch on my face, That was the last I knew, then I lost consciousness for a while.

I opened my eyes and saw them laughing, I looked at myself and Yeah, it happened again and no one could save me. God, why did you let me suffer like this, what exactly have I done to deserve this Oh God, I cried bitterly while they laughed so hard at their achievement.

Tina said "The sins of the fathers shall be asked upon the children, Chloe!". I was shocked at the statement she made and I asked her "What sins of my fathers?"

She giggled a little and said "The ones your father committed darling".

My father!, how can that be possible, my father has been gone for some years now and how is it possible and I wasn't that close to Tina then, so how! Yes, I know my father was a monster in human form who deserved an exclusive death but I just didn't get why i was being punished for the sins of my father.

"It all happened in the past and getting my revenge took me a while that I had to get closer to your mom and to you, Chloe" Tina said.

What could have transpired between my father and Tina. Then she said "Your father came to our house as my mother's boyfriend, i never really liked him but i wanted my mom's happiness and for the very first time, my mother was sincerely happy since the death of my father. I tried to love him 'cos of my mother, we later got closer to each other and on a fateful day, my younger sibling paulina came over, she was just 9 and she was sleeping in her room that night when I heard a scream and it got faded. So I thought it was a scream from our neighbours so I didn't bother 'cos I was scared of going out since my mom went for a short 3 days trip".

Tina was crying as she was saying this, I didn't know if I should feel sorry for her or for myself already, but I was more interested in knowing what happened.

She continued "And then, all because of my mom's trust that she had in your father to stay with us, it costed me my little sister that night. Waking up in the morning, I went to my sister's room and saw her still sleeping by that time which was unusual, I tapped her to wake up but she didn't respond and i tried checking her pulse and realised she wasn't breathing well, I tried lifting her up and discovered that she was soaked in blood, did she hurt herself! No, then I removed her blanket and realized the blood was from her private part, I screamed so loud and your so-called father rushed in and pretended as if he knew nothing about it and then she was rushed to the hospital, she was dead before we got there, an autopsy proved it to be a rape, I asked myself could Mr Dave rape my sister, or someone broke into the house that night or through the window and got her raped? I kept questioning myself.

I couldn't call my mother 'cos I knew she might go crazy wherever she was, so I didn't bother but instead I waited for her to come home and before the night she came home, I kept regretting and blamed myself for not standing up that night to check up on my sister when I heard the scream, i was so stupid.

Then, he pretended he didn't do it and I couldn't report or hold him as a suspect because he was my mom's lover and she wouldn't had believed me. My mom came home the third night, she asked about my sister and I bursted into tears right in front of her as I couldn't hold back my tears, she knew something was wrong the moment I cried and she just sat down and asked me what happened. Then, your father Mr.Dave answered her and said 'something bad happened dear, it seems someone broke into the house through her window and we didn't know what happened and we lost her?"

"You lost her as in how?, like both of you were home and you lost her, how?" My mom asked curious.

And Mr. Dave responded and said "She got raped and killed dear" he pretended to feel hurt and cried bitterly. I looked at him with a very angry heart but what can I do!

My mom was shocked and she had an heart attack, we rushed her to the hospital. Two months after, your Dad said he couldn't cope with my mom's ill-health as it is tiring to him and he left, I was left all alone with my mom and each day I never stopped thinking about my sister and how I could have saved her that night. I blamed myself and then I started drinking so as to get rid of the memories, later to smoking and to drugs.

I was so young and fragile, your dad indirectly made me an addict of these things, Chloe.

There was a night I went out to drink and smoke as usual, then walking back home tipsy that night, I lost my pride" she said.

"How?" I asked.