STORY TIME : The Life I Didn’t Wish For (Episode 3)
My mom positioned herself well on the bed, she sat so her back could rest onthe wall. She asked me to sit next to her, she took a deep breath and smiled.“Sholape”, she called out to me in a very low voice sweet and audible enoughfor me to hear her.
I answered with a little smile. She said; “my darling, tonight you will learn about your mother’s past”.“As you know that I don’t have both parents anymore, I lost my father at the age of ten. His demise made things change for my mother and I.
We were eating from hand to mouth as all family members abandoned her claiming she knew about her husband’s death. The suffering was much and it didn’t take long before I lost her too. I was exactly 14 years then.
I was in jss 1 which was form 1 in our days. I was very intelligent, I managed to get a scholarship for my secondary school education for coming out as best primary school pupil in my village.
.If not for the scholarship I wouldn’t have gone to secondary school. After mymother’s burial I came to live with her younger sister in Lagos.That was how I became a lagosian. I was enrolled in a public secondary school close to the house and I had to start from form 1 again.
I soon became the best female student in the school . By the time I got to form 3 which is equivalent to ss1 now, I had became matured and turn out tobe a damsel that had men lying on my foot
.Students and teachers alike were after me. I focused on my education and wonlots of quiz competition for the school. Our mathematics teacher then Mr Wright was very fond of me. Soon he started making sexual advancement towards me”.Then, she noticed the curiosity on my face .
She said “what’s it my daughter?” then I told her I was learning a lot from her story and I am feeling for her.She smiled. As she was about telling me some of her escapes with the teacherand how she exposed Mr Wright, we heard a knock on the door.
“Sholape go and check who is at the door at this odd hours of the night”.As soon as I opened the door, behold, I was surprised to see it was my dad.I opened the door for him to come in, immediately he came in, I quickly kneltdown to greet him.
“(Ekale sir) good evening sir”.“Evening Sholape (IYA E NKO) where is your mother?”” She is in her room” I replied. He went straight to mom’s room, not even a spare time to say hi to me and my brother.
He didn’t ask how we were doing.Now in mother’s room I can hear dad’s voice saying Bisola (mother’s name), where is my food. It was then at that moment I understood why my motherdidn’t eat, she was keeping her food for dad. That night I cried and really felt pity for mom
.I wished I could take away all her sufferings. Why all this sacrifice when the man is not even bothered nor does he care whether or not she has eaten. I was in my thoughts when I slept off.I woke up early the next day.
I was a bit happy I thought I would see my dad to explain things I have been in need of in school and what we lack in the house. I thought to myself if he could do them at least it will relieve the burden on her.
I quickly jumped out of bed I checked the time, it was 6:15am. I went to mom’s room knocked at the door, I heard mom ask me to come in. As soonas I opened the door, I checked for dad, but to my surprise he was nowhere to be found.I asked mother about him, she replied me that he just left the house
. I replied with annoyance and pain in my voice “without seeing us” .AWWW!!! that’s pathetic. I was down and broken, I can’t explain the sadness in my heart.
Mother came to me she sat beside me on the floor comforting me. She just knows how to comfort and encourage me and she did just that with her words. I looked up at her and I said mom what will I do without You??
I answered with a little smile. She said; “my darling, tonight you will learn about your mother’s past”.“As you know that I don’t have both parents anymore, I lost my father at the age of ten. His demise made things change for my mother and I.
We were eating from hand to mouth as all family members abandoned her claiming she knew about her husband’s death. The suffering was much and it didn’t take long before I lost her too. I was exactly 14 years then.
I was in jss 1 which was form 1 in our days. I was very intelligent, I managed to get a scholarship for my secondary school education for coming out as best primary school pupil in my village.
.If not for the scholarship I wouldn’t have gone to secondary school. After mymother’s burial I came to live with her younger sister in Lagos.That was how I became a lagosian. I was enrolled in a public secondary school close to the house and I had to start from form 1 again.
I soon became the best female student in the school . By the time I got to form 3 which is equivalent to ss1 now, I had became matured and turn out tobe a damsel that had men lying on my foot
.Students and teachers alike were after me. I focused on my education and wonlots of quiz competition for the school. Our mathematics teacher then Mr Wright was very fond of me. Soon he started making sexual advancement towards me”.Then, she noticed the curiosity on my face .
She said “what’s it my daughter?” then I told her I was learning a lot from her story and I am feeling for her.She smiled. As she was about telling me some of her escapes with the teacherand how she exposed Mr Wright, we heard a knock on the door.
“Sholape go and check who is at the door at this odd hours of the night”.As soon as I opened the door, behold, I was surprised to see it was my dad.I opened the door for him to come in, immediately he came in, I quickly kneltdown to greet him.
“(Ekale sir) good evening sir”.“Evening Sholape (IYA E NKO) where is your mother?”” She is in her room” I replied. He went straight to mom’s room, not even a spare time to say hi to me and my brother.
He didn’t ask how we were doing.Now in mother’s room I can hear dad’s voice saying Bisola (mother’s name), where is my food. It was then at that moment I understood why my motherdidn’t eat, she was keeping her food for dad. That night I cried and really felt pity for mom
.I wished I could take away all her sufferings. Why all this sacrifice when the man is not even bothered nor does he care whether or not she has eaten. I was in my thoughts when I slept off.I woke up early the next day.
I was a bit happy I thought I would see my dad to explain things I have been in need of in school and what we lack in the house. I thought to myself if he could do them at least it will relieve the burden on her.
I quickly jumped out of bed I checked the time, it was 6:15am. I went to mom’s room knocked at the door, I heard mom ask me to come in. As soonas I opened the door, I checked for dad, but to my surprise he was nowhere to be found.I asked mother about him, she replied me that he just left the house
. I replied with annoyance and pain in my voice “without seeing us” .AWWW!!! that’s pathetic. I was down and broken, I can’t explain the sadness in my heart.
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