My Bitter Tears
Many years ago in a community called "idikpa atai" in Nsit Atai LGA Akwa Ibom State where I was born into a very poor family. I grew up to here history about my mums pregnancy of me,
Mum said " oh daughter you tormented me in the womb,I had body odour in your pregnancy, people could barely come close to me due to the smell and my physical look. you lure me into eating cocoyam I never liked initially, my pregnancy journey of you was shattered but there was a beautiful lady whose name was JULIET.
Juliet would always come to assist me with house chores and the farm work, she was all I got all through the pregnancy journey till the day you were born. When Juliet heard the news about your arrival ,quickly and happily rushed to the market to get some food items to prepare a hot pepper soup yam for me to eat oh Juliet was too nice to me.
In return of her kindness to me, I decided to name you after her "Juliet " that's how your name came about. I realised I was actually born differently from my siblings .
My late father was just an ordinary bike rider that could barely raise money for our needs, little money my late father realises from his daily hustle keeps missing in the house my father became frustrated and kept praying to God for his financial leakages and finally God revealed to him what has been swallowing his money whole and behold it was a human in the animal form which was my evil uncle.
At my early teenage age,my aunt came from Lagos seeking for my parents permission to follow her back to Lagos, wow my aunt's request was granted...
To be continued
next episode
Title " My Journey to Lagos "