UNPREDICTED
CHAPTER 1
Life can be so "complex and complicated. "
in one way or the other, no body ever had it all easy. Life is just like a tossed coin, it can either turn good on one face, and bad at the other
we all face and react to the complicated aspect of life differently.
I wake up everyday, trying to Make each day count and Make the best out of my life.
It's also said that when life "trows you Lemons, you make 'lemonades' out of it.
I intend, not to only make lemonades out of it, but as many "Jars of lemonades" as i can make due to what life has always trown at me.
Nobody ever knows whats gonna happen in the next minute, what turns your life gonna take, what kinnda friends you r gonna meet on the way, and the Impacts everything summed up together is gonna make on you.
My Name is Sonia, and this is my story…
I cried as he inserted his di*c in as this was my first time ever having an intercouse, the worst part of it was he is a stranger someone i had been speaking with for over a year with online.
On getting to see each other physically, we had an intercouse.
Alot of things ran through my mind as he was still on me.
why couldn't he wait atleast till the following day? of course i know i had agreed on it with him before i came, but can't he just at least be human enough to let me have my rest since i was so tired from the long Journey i had travelling from Rivers state down here to Lagos state? and on the same night still had sex with me and also right on the same roof his mum laid. Him not putting that into consideration made me feel like he is a selfish person and that was a red flag for me. But being someone very introverted,naive, very young and shy, I kept mute, and still decided to let it slide and keep going.
I Know you all must be wondering why a17 years old girl would or what I'm doing in a strangers place not just that, but let him have sex with me.
Like i said previously my name is Sonia..
FLASH BACK TO YEARS EARLIER
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I was borned into the family of Mr and late Ms Federick Okoro.
I am 17 years old, average in height, light skinned in complexion and thin.
I'm a very beautiful young and intelligent young girl born into a family that is not well to do, and all i just want to ever do was to help my dad.
My Mum past away before i was a year old therefore, i never got to know her not even a picture of her was shown to me,as her pictures was said to have vanished into thin air.
well, i wouldn't blame my daddy, my mum is a though person herself.(i will share more about mum later on and how i found out about her).
So, when i was was still little, i often fall sick and due to my sickness, i didn't get to join my mates in Nursery school i often stay at home and wait till they get back from school.
Then i will often disturb them e. g my cousins, in other for them to atleast put me through what they have learnt in school. They are the only ones i could easily speak to. They are always happy to do help me out and as time goes by, we became best of friends.
I continued that way till after about two years later, then i was almost 8years old when my Uncle named Mr Joseph who happened to be my dads younger brother came for a Christmas visit.
Before now, i often speak to them on the phone but had never seen them due to distance. They usually come are during Xmas for holidays.
On this particular december when they came visiting, my aged grandma who often takes care of me due to her illness and can nolonger take care of me, pleaded with my Uncle and his wife to take me with them and of course, with my dads consent.
Thats the only way she feels like i can have a better life and Education,
My stepmum wasn't even helping matters out, as she never liked me. how wrong my grandmother was as things went into a different direction when I got home with them.
After 1week, when my Uncle and his wife has overstayed their holidays and wsys about heading back to their base in another state, the wife helped me packed a few clothes and foot wears. I had my bath and off we go.
My Uncle and his wife leaves in a two room clean apartment, they had no child uptill thieir early 40s. Therefore, she is partially happy with me staying with them.
the wife must have been happy at first when i came to stay with them.
she took care of me at my first and second month, but afterwards she started changing towards mewhen i was enrolled into a primary school (primary 2) cos i looked bigger than my age as of then.
After school hours, i will treak back home, change my cloths and then join my Aunt at her work place.
Speaking of my Aunty's Job, My aunt is a Baker. Technically, She works in a Bakery.
I will work with her till night before going back home.
Things started getting tough for me when her attitude towrds me gradually changed.
She will often time when I'm supposed to be back at school and join her at the bakkery to assist her and whenever i am a minute late, she will order me to kneel down as she will wipe me.
after that, i will still go back home fetch allot water into the drum until it gets filled up, not just that, i will also go to the market almost every day after school, cook, wash and package food inside flasks then bring them back to the bakery for them to eat.
All these weren't easy for me as i will not only do all that in my uncles house, but also in my Aunty's Mother's house.
By the time all these things where happening, i was already 11years old.
Life was extremely tough for me.
I just have to endure it all for the sake of my Education.
CHAPTER 2
I cried every night wishing why death left me all alone in this difficult world, and took my mum. I havent experienced what it actually meant for a person to be loved and cared for by her parents. Mum please come and take me with you! i will often say in my heart. I will cry till i doze off.
All i know is that i have to survive in one way or the other.
There was this particular day i came back from school very late cos i decided to have a little nap at home before heading to Aunts Bakery. I mistakenly overslept and when i checked what the time is, it was already past 5pm in the evening.
Oohh my God! i ran off from the bed and quickly changed my cloths to a casual outfit. By the time i got to To her work place, she already kept a very long cane wait for me.
I was so scared and wished the ground could just open and swallow me.
When she saw me, she grabbed the colar of my shirt and pulled me towards her, while trying to pull me close, her nails scratched my colar neck and blood ozzed out from it.
that doesn't stop her from hitting me.
she still took the cane and gave me the beating of my life.
To her, she said i was already going to a mans house thats why i was late.
she called me a prostitute and also treatened to report me to my dad.
i cried that day and pleaded with her not to tell my dad cos it was true and my dad will not be happy with me.
Unlike most of my age mates that are always happy to go home after school hours, i wished to remain at school and never go home cos of how sad they always makes me feel.
My uncle in question is always on a business trip and not always how could he have known everything going on in his home? well on this particular issue, when he came back, He asked what happened to my neck as i had injuries on them due to the beating and pulling.
i told him his wife did it.
H got angry at his wife and reported the issues to her family.
He was so mad at her that how could she ever do such a thing to a little girl?
He even almost got seperated from her.
After much pleading from my Aunty's family, He let go off the separation as the wife promised not to do such again.
If anyone has seen where she was pleading, they'd think she has actually repented.
Unkown to me, that was the beginning of her wickedness.
she will often blame me for trying to separate she from her husband and hated me for it.
i could go days without even eating and she doesn't care. she will make me miss classes just for me to work for her at the bakery even when she have workers to do the job.
All i could do at this moment is to pray to God silently for things to turn around.
that still doesn't stop me from reading my books and ensuring i never repeats any classes despite the fact that I don't have much time for my studies anymore.
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When i turned 12, i had my first menstrual cycle, although i was already prepared for it cos our teach thought us what it is.
She thought us everything we needed to know and how to keep our hygiene and ensure we take our baths regularly.
My aunt in question,when i told her about it, she looked at me and said : if you like, keep sleeping around with men, this time you will definitely get pregnant.
your period simply means you r now a woman and can easily get pregnant.
take the advice or leave it, its up to you she said.
I bought the sanitary pad myself with my little savings and wore it without removing the top paper as i didn't know how to actually put it on and i was shy to ask my friends.
Later on, i learnt how to wear it properly.
After my primary school, i was among the students that passed their first school Leaving Certificate (FSLC).
with the help of my Uncle, i bought the common entrance examination form.
i filled and sighned it and waited for the exam day.
I was so happy not just because i will be entering secondary school, but also because i had a male crush who leaves in the same compound with us, but later changed apartment. i cried the day they moved because he often helps me with my house chores, i never liked him then, but i actually admired his handsomeness.
He is so tall and Cute and also kind to the extent of helping me out with chores whenever I have a lot to do at home.
you guys now saw the reason why i cried when they left? that's also the same reason why I'm so happy i will be in the same school with him. I only realized how much I missed him when they moved out from the apartment and left me. I felt alone once again and wished he had never left.
So finally, i wrote my common entrance exam and fortunately for me, i was among one of the students that passed the exam and was admitted into the school.
My Uncle paid the necessary school fees for me and bought me some new note books and a school bag.
He also paid for my school uniform,
and I resumed the following week. Words cannot express how i felt on the day of my resumption.
All thanks to my Uncle, without him i wouldn't have made it this far despite the challenges,I'm still so grateful to him and not minding his wife.
CHAPTER 3
My Secondary school was such a sweet and at the same time a bitter experience as well. It was a mixed school of both girls and boys compared to my primary that has just girls. which makes me wanna freak out whenever i come in contact with boys.
whenever they approach me, i will give them attitude and not Let them speak to me all because, i wasn't used to their presence nore speaking with them.
after my common entrance exam, i gained admission into one of the best schools in town and also a mixed school. Compared to my primary school, i had much friends and admires than haters.
After my Uncle purchased the necessary school items like the school books, bags, shoes. he also paid for my school uniform, which will be given to me by the school.
He paid for my school fees lastly before he left for work.
I was admitted into jss1c (Junior secondary 1c) class.