chapter 11-revenge

We went to the hospital and mom was still not doing great but the police had already arrested Steve for questioning.He denied the allegations .He insisted that he had never done such and was not even planning to do so.Steve swore to them than he would sue them for wasting his time and tarnishing his image.Steve had already paid the commander of just to he could leave the case but the blackmailing was just for him to finalise the deal for when he goes to court.people from the community had already started spreading the so called gossip.after a few days they discharged my mother but still she was very quiet.we managed to do my sister's funeral,it's was small and quick since we did not want people coming in and starting drama.

We went to court with the hope of winning the case since by that time we had no knowledge of Steve endeavours,we had hope that Steve would be arrested for the sexual assaults but he was not. he paid them off.we were really disappointed about the outcome especially since those weeks were the hardest for us.The entire community had turned on us,calling us names and threatening us.They believed Steve rather than us.we did not get our justice which we deserved.

The community accused me of seducing Steve,they claimed that I was a protistute and that they had been observing me for a while now.People thought since I was in to fashion it's was a clear sign that I was into boys to much,I loved the attention from men, especially when I wore shorter and tighter clothes.I was told that I'm jealous of Steve wife and I want to break their marriage, probably even take her place .

After losing the case,we were more in danger and that made fathers family to finally chase us out since they felt like we are putting them in danger and at that point we had to go.The community had promised that they would burn us a life after the case had been completed.They did not care about the outcome if Steve was guilty or not.we knew they could do it without any doubt.

To them they just simply wanted to eliminate the problem.I was the problem,coming in and wanting to take their precious Steve away.They believed that even my mother and sisters deserve to go since they were all entertaining nonsense.we were clowns to them,our life's did not matter at all especially since we were females.They believed women always have mixed emotions hence that made every woman a lier.They regarded men as warriors the less men the less powerful the community would be.steve was a leader to them and so what is an army without its leader they said.

We not surprised at all,we knew that they would act like this since they adored steve.why would they support us we were nothing compared to steve.we had less relationship with the people for the community since we kept to ourselves.

So we ran away, searching for a safe place to stay.we ended up finding a room to stay in and rent,it's was small but at that point anything was fine after all we had taken few of our things hence the room was not full.still our mother had not fully recovered,we had been in and out of hospitals until she passed away.

Mother left us and it's was a painful experience for us.for the first time we felt how it is to live without a mother.losing dad affected us but it was nothing compared to mother.we were constantly questioning ourselves.we felt without purpose.

Now it was just me and my two sisters.we were very much confused and scarred but we still had each other.one thing our parents had taught us is 'no matter what we are going through as long as we still had each other,it's meant we still have another chance to fight back'.

We remembered those words and we prayed very hard.we knew that if we had God intervention in to our life's we would make it through.The following month we woke up and made a plan about what to do and how to handle the situation .we were done with the crying,sobering.we were done with people looking down on us.

We tried to push academically and financially.we were all involved in our home work or part time jobs,we helped each other anyway possible since we did not want to leave each other out.we wanted all of us to be just as successful.

My eldest sister graduated and managed to get a job,my second sister finished high school and got scholarship in a well known university.I went back to sewing and finished my high school.i used my money which I had got from sewing to study law.After years of us pushing we finally managed to build our home,we made our own brand in memory of our late sister and I took Steve back to court.This time I was not gonna let him win,I got other victims and evidence,he sure did not see me coming.we won the case and Steve got a life sentence.we were happy ,God had finally answered our prayers .

It's took us long to finally get our breakthrough.we lost our family members and we were challenged alot but at the end all was worth it.we could finally have goodnight sleep after living in fear for many years thinking that Steve could come for us.we had heard before that Steve had a gun so since he was angry at us for fighting him back and exposing him to everyone,we had just enough reason to assume that he would definitely come for us