Siblings In Love

Episode 6

Omolala : why am I even listening to your bull shit?..she turned to leave. I knew it, I am making a point but how do I go about it now? I thought to myself. Just as she turned to go, I continued. Now I didn’t continue because I want her to feel bad and let me go, right now I am really interested in her story so I decided to probe on..

Ella: How do you expect pain to leave you if you do not feel it so it can leave you?

Omolala : I said shut up! …She held her head as she screamed. She came to me, “what? What? What? What do you want to hear? Just what do want from me??..she was breathing heavily

Can you imagine, the one holding me captive is asking me what I want from her?
Now I pitied her small.

Ella: “Let it hurt you. Let it drain you. Let it destroy you. For only after your destruction will you rebuild an extraordinary masterpiece of your soul and say I OWN ALL THAT I AM! So go ahead, crumble, feel the pain, don’t fight it”.

Omolala: You done talking? Now shut up

Ella: “I know you miss the old you, you do know that the former you is better….

She dragged my hair and shouted shut up, shut up, shut up! You don’t know anything. Nothing at all!

Ella : Ouch my hair, you can talk me. I promise to listen, even help you if I can.

Omolala : Ion need ya help. Guys!.. She called out. Beat her up.. She instructed and rushed out. I recognize some of them, almost all of them are from my school.

They beat me ehn, oh God. I was beaten to pulp. I refused to eat any food. By now I was vomiting blood, so weak and bruises all over my body. Oh my fine skin! Mom used say “Ella be mindful of potholes to avoid falling, so you won’t end up with scars when you grow up”. As a result of mom’s care for her daughter’s beauty, I didn’t have up to 5 scars on my body as of yesterday but now, it’s uncountable just hope it’s not permanent. Wait, am I mad to be thinking of my skin in such situation? ..definitely.
I didn’t see Ella again through out that day till the next day next in the evening. And don’t forget that exams is fast approaching, just in five days time.

Omolala came in with a tray of food. Fried rice and chicken, Hollandia yoghurt, canned water. And a first aid kit, she sent the boys out….

Omolala :Hey

Ella : …no response

Omolala : you have to eat something
Don’t forget am still tied to the chair, am very weak, so am not going to waste the little strength I have talking to her. She untied me, oh finally!

Omolala: I brought you food, eat something.

Ella : …cleared my throat, “am making it easier for you to kill me, so why bother? I said weakly

Omolala: smiled “you haven’t changed at all”

Ella: Am not the type to change”…she came closer and tried to clean my face, I shook my head. She tried again, I still refused.

Omolala: Calm down lemme clean your face, I won’t eat you”. But I still refused

Ella : you made me like this, so enjoy the site of it ok?

She closed the kit, ate the food small and said “you see, it’s not poisoned”
I really wanted to eat cox I was famished but I don’t even have the strength to. Will she feed me? Well if she’ll, then I’ll eat.Just as if she was reading my mind she took the spoon with food in it trying to feed me. I stared at her for some seconds, collected the spoon from her and started eating. I was really rushing the food. After a few minutes of silence, she spoke..

“yunno I used to be a very good girl. My Dad died when I was little so twas just my Mom taking care of me. She loved me alot”. By now I was done eating, didn’t finish it cox I became tired of eating. So, what happened? I asked

Omolala: “things became very hard when I was about to write my senior waec. You don’t know I was the S.P, did you?

Ella : Well, that’s a surprise

Omolala : I know right? I asked her to remarry cuz twas heartbreaking toiling all night to make ends meet. They was this man disturbing her to marry him, so I told her to marry him since she loved him, and she did”..now I am fully interested to hear her story

“The man happened to be rich so he sent my Mom abroad when she was about to give birth and twas the same period I was waiting for admission so twas just my stepfather and I… He raped me”

Ella : what?

Omolala: “yes, he raped me, when he came again and I still refused him, he seized my phone and sent me out of the house. I had no where to go cuz he was based in Port Harcourt while I grew up in Osun, so I was kinda stranded. I had to sleep under the bridge. That night three other guys who I still don’t know raped me again…

Ella : raped again?

Omolala: Yea, guys forcing themselves on you. Isn’t that rape?