BROKEN ANGEL

Regina's P.O.V

Moira and I have known each other since highschool days.Its really funny how we met really, we laugh about it all the time, because it is that funny.I remember that day I had dressed up in this cute balloon dress to go and meet up with a guy I have been talking to online for a couple of months, and the first thing I see when I walk in to that restaurant is a girl, almost my height but a little taller but my age I guess, wearing the same dress same color as I am.

On another day, with another person, I would have hated that dress and never wore it again, but after that day Moira and I have had matching outfits so many times we've lost count.Anyway so I walk to her table and she is like

"Girl, I have to admit you won the challenge you look so damn cute in that dress,am Moira by the way you can join me if you wish"

" Thank you,am glad to,and I am Regina, friends call me Gina for Short,nice to meet you Moira".

" Nice to meet you too Gina, friends call me Ira for short, actually I am here to do something crazy,and am alittle nervous,I could use a friend,so you and I friends from now on."

"Tell you what,am also here to do something crazy and yeah am nervous too, because I am here to meet a guy I've been talking to for months and I am gonna be meeting him for the first time"

"Tell you what Gina,am here to do exactly the same thing,I know am fourteen years old my mom would kill me if she knows am not actually out with my cousin, but I had to do this because this guy is so cute, and what a coincidence this is,we are here, dressed up in the same dress, to do the same thing."

Yeah, and the coincidence continued getting bigger, because we actually came to meet the same guy,a p*****t for that matter.I didn't get a boyfriend that day but I got my best friend for life.And we have been inseparable since then.She is the ring am the ring finger,am the arrow she is the bow.

Today Ira and I are graduating from medical school,she is gonna be graduating has a dermatologist and me a pediatrician.I love and adore babies so I chose that, whilst Moira, because of the birthmark on her face, she chose dermatology, I find it a complicated course, but she is a genius by birth so it's all icecream for her while I struggle with my books all the time.

After I was done with my makeup it was now time to turn my wardrobe upside down looking for something to wear.Its not like I don't have clothes to wear, I have, lots and lots of clothes such that picking out one to wear is tiring.Ira and I decided that we won't be shopping this time round for our graduation since we have lots of clothes.Most of the time, coincidentally, we always end up twinning with our clothes, so today I chose to wear Ankara dress made by moira's mom for the both of us and hoped that she will also show up in a dress like mine,she always does.

I looked in the mirror one more time before I walk out of my room and I felt quite satisfied with my final look.My braided hair was in a high bun,an off shoulder red and black Ankara dress, black heels and Gucci body spray.My makeup was all that I wanted to achieve.Unlike Moira, who is a natural beauty, I have to sit in front of the mirror for hours before going out and still use filters when taking selfies, yeah, I guess that's how much of a damage there is.

I get into my car and am ready to head to the university which is roughly a twenty minutes drive from my home.Yeah I chose to go to the community Uni, why,one because my bestie also chose it, two my mom who is gynaecologist would be home alone if I went away since my elder brother and my dad were in the army and we only see them during holidays,so I chose a school that is just twenty minutes away from home.My mom still had her patients,so she would be joining me later, so before she comes I'll just make use of auntie Sabina (moira's mom).She is so sweet, loving and caring and to her, Moira and I are her twin daughters and she treats us like we are actually sisters.

Before I start my car, I decided to call my chumchum to see if she is ready for our graduation, but she bet me to it, she called before I could.

"hello bestie, how are you chumchum, I was actually about to call you before you called"

Silent

"Bestie"

silence

"Chumchum,Ira really, who calls and keeps quite"

More silence

"Moira, you, just wait if I catch you ehh I will......."

Wait is that uncle Michael's voice,and what is he saying to Ira, I increased the call volume so I could grasp what he was saying because it was more of a background voice. He was saying something about how Ira was created after God had had breakfast or something like that.Okay, but why was his torn weird today, I have always heard hime tell Moira how beautiful she was, but why does it sound weird today, like it was not a compliment from a dad to a daughter, it was like, like from a man to a woman kinda compliment.And why was Moira quite, why did she call and didn't say a thing. Wait, did she call me so that I could here the conversation she way having with her dad, but why, something didn't feel right about this whole situation, something was definitely wrong and maybe she called me to hear all this so that I could do something about it.

With that, I started driving towards Moira's place, which was afew blocks away from my place.Due to the graduation, there are too many cars driving down my street today and since am driving in the opposite direction,I got stack, wow, just fantastic, why does everyone have to own a car and just decide to use it today.Five minutes ten minutes and I start beeping my car and just when I am about to curse the guy in front of me, I hear Moira scream from my phone, and with that I got out of my car and run towards her home without caring that I had blocked ten other cars behind me.

I reach Moira's place sweating,I banged and rang the doorbell at the same time.A voice which I recognized immediately shouted from the other side.

"Old your horses before you break the door and get me in trouble"

Babu, Moira's gateman, opened the gate and gawked at me has I was trying to catch my breath.

"Pretty girl, why are you panting and out of breath, is someone running after you, and why are you crying?"

I didn't even notice the tears until he mentioned them, but I didn't have the time to answer his questions, I really had to get Moira first.

"Babu, is Moira in, I really need to talk to her, it's urgent please?"

"The young miss is still in the house, I heard her sing this morning and I haven't seen her go out since yesterday, it's only, eeh, madam Sabina has gone out, even Master is still in the house too"

" okay Babu,thank you, I'll go and see her now, thank you again".

"Okay Pretty girl, watch your steps or you will break your legs, kids, how do you even run in shoes that high".

As soon as I got to the living room I called out her name.

" Chumchum"

But she didn't answer, and since this was like my second home and I knew all corners and cockroaches, I ran up the stairs towards her room.

I didn't knock the door, I just went in, and the scene I walked into left me tongue tied.And everything went silent to the point where I could hear my heartbeat that was so loud due to running.

There on the bed, that Moira and I have shared since childhood during our never ending sleep overs,the bed that we turned into a battle field for pillow fights, that same bed.

On that bed, was my best friend Moira, with her face towards the door, her eyes just staring at nothing, she looked dead, like if there was no life in left in her.

And on top of her, was a man I saw has my second dad, the man who called me pretty girl first and made everyone else to follow suit. Why was he on top of my chumchum, and why was she naked, and he was...he was also naked from the waist.Wait, wait Gina, close your eyes, open, everything is still the same, close again, open.He is still on top of her looking at me and she underneath naked looking lifeless.

What is going on here, did they, no, did he ..so this why Ira wanted me to hear her conversation with her dad, this why she was screaming for help it was because.....it finally hit me and I finally found my voice...

"Uncle, did you...am did you ra....a..a..pp..pe Ira"

He got off her, got out down the bed, untied moira's hands and mouth, put on his trousers on and belt...folded his handkerchief, put it in his back pocket.And I stood there and watched him, he walked over to the bed, scooped Moira up and walked inside the bathroom, put her inside the bathtub and walked, went over the bed and took out the bedsheets dropped them on the floor and walked and stood in front of me.

"Pretty girl, your Uncle Michi didn't r**e your sweetheart Chumchum,so let's correct that sentence shall we, it's uncle did you make love to Ira, because that's what I did".

"But she is your daughter uncle, why..how could you do that to her uncle?"

" Shhh Gina,I didn't do nothing to her, infact I made her a complete woman, you should be thanking me actually, because me a responsible dad took her virginity, otherwise she would have given that to some i***t who would have used and dumped her after"

"Uncle you are a monster, you...."

" Yeah a good monster that gonna turn bad if you don't shut up and pretend like you saw nothing here today, this whole thing never happened and you, pretty girl walked in and saw nothing at all.So Gina, this uncle of yours wants you to walk into that bathroom help your friend to take a shower and in the next twenty minutes I want you girls down stairs and I'll drive you to school for your graduation,and don't forget, not a word to anyone..you know I can always kill you both and make it look like an accident and also cry so much at your funeral".