GATEWAY

I am a child from a polygamous family of seven. My dad, Mr. Freddy Richard is married to two wives. My mother Luisa his first wife and Cynthia my stepmom his second wife. My mom had me as her only fruitful seed after countless miscarriages, while my stepmom has 3 kids, two daughters who were twins named Kiran and Amira respectively, and a son named Xavier. I apologize for the rough introduction, guys my name is Hailey Amoral Richard I am the eldest child of Richardson a diligent, noble, and well-respected family of seven who resides in a remote Hamlet in South Africa. my dad Mr. Freddy Chris Richard is a wealthy, wise, and well-respected noble businessman, and my mom (Luisa Rosaline Richard) who, although I had a scarce memory of, from the words I heard about her from our neighbors I find out that my mom is a good, nice, friendly and kind-hearted woman. My stepmom (Cynthia Stacy Richard) and her kids are just another aspects of my life, that you all will come to understand as the story continues. The story of my life began at the tender age of five after the heartbreaking death of my mom. My Dad was always on the highway traveling from one place to another and was rarely at home. Therefore I was forced to live with my cold-hearted stepmom who maltreated me because of the envy she bore in mind over my late mom and me. I once heard from my mom's friend that when my stepmom was married into the father's house that was how she made trouble with my mom never giving my mom peace of mind, always picking up fights or arguments with my mom. some of her neighbors even blame my stepmom for my mom's death, but they all whisper this among themselves, not having the courage to say it to my stepmom's face. My stepmom was so fond of finding faults in all my doings, that she even went as far as getting a seven-mouthed whip that she used especially on me, she made my life a hell on Earth. I always weep, cry, and even once tried to commit suicide at the age of twelve. I hated the way life turned out to be but couldn't help myself, I had to continue enduring and praying that one day I to find a light at the end of the dark tunnel. Furthermore, I was always forced by my stepmom to do unwonted tasks, house chores, and errands that even a child of 20 could not do and to worsen it with an empty stomach. At the age of six I was forced to cook, fetch water and firewood (although we had a four set gas cooker)my stepmom would never let me use it for cooking whenever my dad isn't home she would assign me to fetch firewood from distant places, plow large plots of farmlands ain a day, fetch water to fill all the drums and gallons in the house every day, whenever there is any single remains of water from the previous day she would tell me to throw it away and ask me to fill it up with a new water, I would mop the house up to ten times a day, boil water for my siblings whenever they want to bathe which was up to seven to ten times a day, wash their clothes and undies, she so much pampered her kids to the extent none of them could do anything while the girls are busy talking about fashion, polishing their nails, gossiping fighting over minor things like clothes makeup etc. or sleeping, Xavier was either playing, smoking, wooing, and having s*x with girls, following his friends to do evil, gambling or duping and playing pranks on people this has resulted to fight between my stepmom and several people my stepmom never correct her kids, so they all became corrupted lazy youths. At the age of twenty-two when my mate and even my stepsisters were either preparing to get married or to enter their first or second semester in the university, I was still in high college class 2 to be precise. At this time, my stepmom tried her best to hinder me, she became so cruel to me to the extent that all our neighbors were talking ill about her maltreatment.