His Sexy And Delicate Rose

CHAPTER ONE:THE BEGINNING OF THE END. Splash! I woke up to the sound of water splashing on the bed. The door was widely opened and my siblings were nowhere to be found. I heard muffled sounds coming from the living room. Taking deep steps, I exited the room only to find my mom on the floor bleeding. Did I expect my doting father to turn this way? I stared at him all I could see was this hidden smirk like a sign of accomplishment. That was the beginning of the end of my love for him. After reviving my mom, he sent her out to the cold. Such a heartless act I couldn't take it anymore. I approached him with tears in my eyes. ' please let my mom in' but he ignored me. The next day, I went to school looking tattered. All I ate was a biscuit and coffee. Another question I ask myself till this very day is what kind of a dad give his six year old coffee. As the day ended, my big sister and I headed back home. We prayed that we will be given food by our grandma. One would wonder if it was necessary to pay a grandma to take care of her own grandkids.Well that was the case for us. My four months old brother was asleep and my mom was away. There were no one else except our cousin who lived with us.My grandma had a soft spot for him.She would always feed him all sorts of delicacy while we are watching, making our hunger grow more. One night, my dad came home only to throw my mom bags out of the house. He sent her back to her family's house leaving our baby brother who was breastfeeding. We cried begging him to bring her back but he didn't. My big sister and I were tasked with the responsibility of taking care of my baby brother. We could not go to school again because of the fear of leaving him alone with my grandma. We fed him, clothe him and did the works of a mother. Finally we went back to school, this time with our baby brother. He was now a year and some months old. We were denied access to our daily biscuit on the claims that my father did not pay her. We were so hungry that my big sister had to eat flowers to satisfy her needs. Meanwhile, I snuck into the shop and stole an onion which my baby brother and I ate. We felt pathetic watching our cousin eat better than us. My paternal aunt came over. she was the mother of my cousin who lived with us. They were discussing issues related to my dad and mom. She, my aunt, called my big sister and I and boldly told us to our faces that our mother was a witch and she will not come back for us. My sister took me away because I was already crying. I had hoped that my mom would come back for us. Night came and we went to our Dad's room. I asked him if it was true that my mom was a witch and she was not coming back for us. He was filled with anger and told us our mom will never leave without her kids. That caused a fight between my dad and his sister. He sent her away and asked her not to step a foot in our house without his consent. I knew that there was still this love he had for us but his love for his mother was greater than that of us. We were always second to his mom. After some months, my mom finally came back. This time with my baby sister whom she was pregnant with before she left the house. My father refused to allow her back into the house with claims that she was his biological daughter. While she was outside in the middle of the night, my dad and his mom rained curses on her. They mocked her saying ' She will always come back because of her so called children ' I finally understood why Dad said she will come back. He knew we showed her vulnerable side and she would do anything to protect us. So he played his card well. My mom slept outside the house for days until he finally allowed her to enter inside. Everything my mom worked for was taken away from her. Even her blooming kerosene business was also taken away. She had to start from the scratch. They cut her out of the picture. My mom had to find a job at the local school where she began teaching. My brother kept falling ill and whenever my mom tells my dad he will just yell at her. So, the owner of the school which she worked at gave her some money which she used to to do a medical check up on him. She found out that my brother was suffering from malnutrition. She figured out that we were suffering from the same illness. So she took a drastic step and bought separate cooking tools which she used to cook for us. She made sure we ate the six classes of food and as day goes by, we were healthy again. My grandma noticing the changes, packed all the cooking ingredients and made a new law. The law says that only she was allowed to measure the ingredients we will use to cook. That was a slap to my mom's face. We were also banned from eating any fruit in the compound. With all this that was happening, my dad turned a blind eye to it , to him we ceased to exist. On a particular Monday morning, my mom was preparing meal for my siblings and I. My grandma entered the kitchen and told my mom to go and sweep the compound. You may think this is just a normal small compound but it isn't. We lived on a three acres of land which was blessed with coconuts and other fruits. My mom agreed to do so after feeding the baby but it didn't take long. My grandma came into the kitchen grabbed an iron flask and began hitting my mom on the head. For the first time in my life, I saw my mom defend herself. She grabbed it and threw it on the wall. Then she told her that she was going to sweep it. Few hours later, my dad rushed into the house and slapped my mom. Then he told her that he wanted her gone before he gets back home. His grandma also hit my mom in the presence of her son and he didn't say a word.He just stared at her as she hit my mom. We panicked as our dad would come anytime soon.My mom was already shivering at the thought of him. We waited for a while before retiring to bed. While in the bedroom,we could not sleep. I was praying that my dad forgets about the matter. We heard the sound of the door opening, there were voices like that of my grandma and him. we waited for a while and then boom !!! the door came crashing down. He immediately pounced on my mom and was beating her . He stripped her of her clothes as he beats her. It is a very big disgrace in the African home that your kids should see the parents nakedness.I was crying alongside with my siblings. He kept on hurting her. We were crying alongside with my mom.He pushed us against the wall. We tried pushing him away but only got hurt. Then he took the glass mug which was on the shelf and hit her on the bed.She fell down on the floor and was bleeding heavily.