Chapter 5

 "Mam Rosy,so u are leaving us?", Thonia asked.

 "Thonia,I don't have any right here, you know your aunty now owns the house and what she wants will be done", Replied Rosy.

 "Mam Rosy please don't go,we can beg her to let you stay", said Alex.

 "I don't think she would accept", Rosy said.

 "I can't stay here,we are going to come with you mam Jane",Alex said.

 "Yes mam we are coming with you", said thonia.

 " No you two don't have to do that, you can't just run leave the house because of your aunt and her kids, this is your father's house and no matter what,it Still remains your father's house", Rosy said.

 "But mam Rosy they are very rude and arrogant",Alex said.

 "Like can you even see the way they are behaving as if the whole house belongs to them", Thonia said.

 "Calm down my dear, don't worry everything would be fine", Rosy said.

 "When!!, you keep saying everything would be fine, when!!!?",Alex asked.

 "Alex calm down I know it's not easy to bear but just trust me everything would be fine one day",Rosy said.

 "Mam Rosy am going to miss you,so we are not going to see again", Thonia said as she began to cry.

 "Stop it thonia I'll be coming to visit you two some day",Rosy said.

 "Mam Rosy l will miss you too", Alex Said

 "Am going to miss you two very much",Rosy said as tears roll down her cheek.

 "Come here you two", she said as they embraced each other.

 "Em,I have to go now.promise me that you two won't fight with your aunt's children?", Rosy asked.

 "Mam Rosy I promise we won't", thonia said and Alex looked at her.

 "Alex please don't do that, to avoid putting your self onto problem", Rosy said.

 "But what if they first look for trouble", Asked Alex.

 "Always be on your own, talk to your sister and do what you are meant to do", Rosy said.

 "Okay mam Rosy,I won't fight",he replied.

 "Okay, am leaving now so you two take good care of yourself",Rosy said.

 "Let's see you off", thonia said.

So they followed her to see her off.

After Rosy left, aunty peace treated thonia and Alex like a slave in their own father's house.she collected their phones and laptop and gave it Ifeoma and Michael. Mean while the youngest among them, Victor was just five years old. Thonia and Alex would be the one doing all the house choice while Ifeoma and Michael would either be in their room pressing their phones or in the sitting room watching movie.

Time came for thonia to go back to the US for her third year, when she told aunty peace about it, she yelled at her ferociously and told her never to mention such a word ever again.

Thonia weeped for days because she was never going back to school anymore and also because it was just the beginning of them suffering.

One morning, thonia was washing the dishes in the kitchen when aunty peace came in.

 "You are not done yet you lazy fool!?, what were you doing all this while?", she asked.

 "Nothing ma", thonia replied.

 "Did you say nothing, look at how this whole house is messed up and you are here washing the dishes since!, anyway I won't say anything to you. Let me go to the market and come back and you've not finished all the house choice, only God knows what I will do to you", said aunty peace as she hissed and left.

Alex was sweeping the compound when aunty peace came out of the house.

 "Good morning aunt",he Said.

 "What's good about the morning, did you even washed the car I asked you to wash?", she asked.

 "Yes I did",he replied.

 "Now get out of my sight and open the gate",she yelled at me.

Immediately Alex hurried and opened the gate for her to leave. After she had left,he closed the gate and went back to continue his sweeping.

While he was still sweeping, Micheal came out of the house with a heap of clothes.

 "Alex!",he called.

Immediately Alex left what he was doing went to see who was calling him, only for him to see that it was Micheal.

 "Yes!,why are you calling me",he asked.

 "Wait, when did you have the gut to talk to me that way,I see you don't have respect for me anymore", Micheal asked.

 "Please I need to finish my work before your mom comes back", Alex replied.

 "You know what!,I want you to take this clothes and wash them cause am going out with my friends tonight. and I want you to wash them now so it would dry on time and you would take it to the drycleaners shop", Micheal said.

Alex didn't say a word.he was just looking at Micheal in anger.

 "Why are you looking at me that way, would you take these clothes and get out!", Micheal said.

Then Alex carried all the clothes.meanwhile, those were his clothes that aunty peace took from him and gave to Micheal. So he took the clothes to the back of the house where he would wash them.

 "You better make sure you wash those clothes to be neat", screamed Micheal and he went into the house.

Thonia was still tidying up the kitchen. As she was arranging the plates , mistakenly one of the breakable plate slipped from her hand and fell on the ground and broke into pieces.immediatly she began to pick up it's broken pieces.then Micheal came in.

 "Wow!, good thing you broke a plate,I wonder what my mom is going to do to you", said Micheal.

 "Please don't tell her I beg you", said thonia as she pleaded with him.

 "So you don't want me to tell my mum that you broke a plate?", asked Micheal.

 "Yes please don't tell her", she replied.

 Fine!,under one condition",he said.

 "What's that", she asked.

 "Only if you would come to bed with me",he replied.

 "No I can't do that,I can't do it please", she said.

 "If you won't come to bed with me,then forget about it.my mom will know you broke a plate", he said.

 "I would never have sex with you, go ahead and tell her I don't care, go to hell!", she said in anger.

Then he slaped her.

 "I hate you!, you are so wicked", said thonia as tears roll down her cheek.

 "You are just sheading a crocodie tears.i just told you what to do in order to be free but you refused.fine!,I guess you would explain to mom when she comes back", he said as he left the kitchen.

Then thonia began to cry because of what aunty peace would do to her.

Ifeoma and Victor was in the sitting room watching TV,then Micheal came in and frightened Ifeoma and she screamed.so Victor began to laugh at her.

 "What's wrong with you Michael,are you okay", Ifeoma asked.

 "There's nothing wrong with me and besides am hundred percent okay",he replied.

 "Please don't scare me like that anymore", said Ifeoma.

 "That reminds me,am going for a party tonight, can you come with me!?", asked Micheal.

 "Yeah!, sure I will go with you", replied Ifeoma.

While they were still discussing about the party, they heard the horn of their mom's car.