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Episode 29

I began to take steps backwards towards the mirror again.
ā€œdaddy please I did notā€¦ā€¦ā€

I had barely finished the statement when the first swipe of the leather belt landed on scalp.

I burried my head in my arms, to protect my face from my fatherā€™s battering.

Swipe after swipe landed on my body, it stung more than a bee. One swipe hit the wall mirror, and it came crashing down in pieces.

Ighalo rushed foward to my rescue, seizing my dadā€™s arm in the air, giving me a little breathing space.

I fell to the floor and began to weep. Flashes of heat, coupled with tears and hot sweat ran across my body.
ā€œHold her, check if she is still intact.ā€ Dad commanded, as he struggled to free himself from Ighaloā€™s grip.

My mum was already on her feet, she turned towards Osas who had just joined us in the room.
ā€ hold her for me.ā€

As Osas began to walk towards me. i started to imagine what would happen.

Osas would hold me down, while my mum parted my legs in the full view of three adult males.

It would be a terrible embarrassment when they all discover that my hymen was broken.

I couldnā€™t take it anymore. All the remorse i felt disappeared. A new feeling of anger and bitterness swelled inside me, i felt like exploding.

I grabbed a piece of the broken mirror on the floor, and made it visible to everyone.
ā€œOsas, donā€™t come close to meā€ I yelled at the top of my voice, pointing the Sharp object at him.

The anger and ferocity in my voice, coupled with the violent wave of tremor surging through my body shocked everyone.

They stood in amazement, with eyes wide open. The sight of me with the fragment of broken mirror must have terrorized everyone.

Osas equally stoped in his strides and withdrew. An uncomfortable silence followed.

I looked around the room, and had a clear site of the door. I dashed straight for my bed, raised my pillow grabbed my phone and headed for the door.

Everyone gave way and allowed me through. I ran towards the sitting room, hoping the main door was not locked.

Ighalo ran after me, calling out to me, as if he knew what i was thinking.
ā€œElla wait, please donā€™t go, wait Ella, Ella.ā€
His pleas fell on deaf ears. I opened the main door and ran out, into the open.

It was around 7pm, and a little dark already. I could barely see were i was going.

I unlocked the main gate, and headed out into the streets, running straight ahead. Where i wanted to go, i had no idea.

But i resolved not to return to that house that night. I was ready to stake it out alone in the open.

I was out on the streets on a cold night, i had run away from home. I put on my phone, and began to make calls, trying to find a place to lay my head for the night.


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