A VIRGIN'S ORDEAL

EPISODE TWO

Mena was sound asleep when Mr Umukoro yelled her name.

"Mena!" Mr Umukoro shouted as there was no answer.

"Mena" He called again as he walked into her room and met her sleeping.

"Are you mad?" He said as he kicked her chest.

"Will you get up you animal!" He said as she stood up frightened and coughing seriously.

"You must be mad and stupid, I've been calling you and you're here busy sleeping abi?" He said as he slapped her.

"Infact, Get out of my house now!" He thundered as he pushed her and kicked her from behind. "I'm tired of seeing you, I'm tired of keeping a dirty thing like you in my house, Just get out!"

When he finally pushed her out of the room, her eyes met with her mother's.

She stared at her for a while and then turns away...

Her mother wasn't at fault after all. She couldn't say anything because she loves her family, she was only trying to save her head.

She could see the tears in her eyes as well as hers.

Brother Efe wasn't around, he had gone to Lagos to stay with their Father's brother to learn a trade.

She saw nothing else to do than to be her father.

"Daddy, please I'm sorry, I won't do it again I swear!" She pleaded but all her pleas fell on deaf ears as he pushed her outside the house and kicked her, she fell down with her face down.

She turned to look at her father once more and she went bitterly and quietly. He, on the other hand, entered into the house and locked the door.

She wept for sometime and got up, she started into the dark.

She thought about her family and how she was going to survive without a family of her own and this made her weep more, she wished she had not been born, she knew this was the end of the world for her.

Crying won't solve the problem, she thought as she wiped her tears.

"God!" She whispered as she walked through the dark that night without seeing a single soul.

Where was she going to go from there? She became confused.

She got too an uncompleted building and stood in front of it, she was just starting at it without a thought.

"Should I sleep here? Or just keep on walking till morning?" She said as she turned. "I can't sleep here, it's better I continue walking" She said as she heard noises coming from the other side of the road and she could see the source of the noise were a group of boys carrying Cutlass and others were holding guns also, so she quickly ran inside the building and took refuge there, she could the sounds of their feet as they passed by.

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It was about 12:30am when everything in the vicinity became creepy.

Mena was sound asleep in her place of rest when she felt someone standing astride over her.

She tried to jump but she was pushed down. She opened her eyes and saw that a man was astride over her with his pants pulled down halfway and his male organ was erectile. She noticed he had removed her underwear without her knowing. She tried to scream but he showed her a pen knife and she became scared.

He lay on her and r***d her! She felt excruciating pain but could only groan because of the fear that her throat might be sliced with the knife her held over her neck.

When he had had his full, he pulled out of her and was looking rather happy, he climbed down from her and pulled back his pants on, he leaned towards her.

"You're so sweet dear!" His voice looked deep and scary, he laughed and quickly peeked out of the building.

Mena on her part lay still, unable to figure out the action that was carried out on her. She cried till her eyes were bereft of tears, she could do nothing but cry.

This had never happened to her before, and she wouldn't believe it if someone had told her it would.

But here she is! r***d by someone she didn't know.

What would happen to her now? What was she going to do now that she has no where to go? Should she report the case to the police? How will they figure out the person who had done it? These were the maddening thoughts that buzzed her mind while she continued to stare at the darkness. She didn't know what to do as she kept crying and mumbling questions to herself and suddenly, something strucked her mind.

"What if I get pregnant?" She thought for a while and referred back to her mother saying a woman gets pregnant when only when she had started her monthly flow, she wanted to cry but she just couldn't. She had started seeing hers already and a man just had a c**************e of her.

"Oh my God! Don't let this happen" She said as she shut her eyes.

The following morning, Mena woke up to the sound of a cat meowing at the other side of the building, she quietly sneaked out of the building.

She had not walked for long when she saw a shop with a sign past which reads: SALES GIRL NEEDED.

She stared at the mirror-like glass that was placed at the front of the shop.

She could see a young girl of sixteen looking tattered and pale. She could notice changes in her body. Sure was loosing weight gradually, why won't it be? She hadn't eaten for the past two nights. She was really devastated.

Gradually, she peered at her body in the mirror and she spotted changes she had taken for granted. Her face was now oval-shaped and darker.

"What's wrong with me?" She asked herself.

For a moment, she saw madness stare at her! Her thinking tumbled and she became upturned.

She remembered last night, The r**e incident and she felt like fainting at that moment, she only shed tears and walked on.

She got to a shop where a woman was busy selling food, she could see that people flooded her shop to buy food but there was no one to help her out.

'She could help the woman and she would give her some money' She thought as she approached her.

"Aunty, please, can I talk to you?" She said as the woman didn't respond.

"What's it ehn?" The woman shouted as everybody's attention was drawn to her.

"Please.... I..."

"There's no free food today, just go!" The woman shouted again as she continued selling her food.

"No... Is not what you think ma...." Mena tried to tell her that she was not one of those beggars that came there for beg food but to help her.

"I came for...." Mena said as the woman pushed her to the ground, she almost hit her head against a stone that was close to her.

Everyone's gaze were now fixed on her, she also watched them watch her, she was so ashamed that she let the tears that had gathered in her eyes to flow down her cheeks. She hated disgrace so much! She wished she had hit her head against the stone and had died earlier.

"It would had been better" She thought as she quickly as she stood up and walked away even as people were still staring at her, even when she turned, she could still see their eyes burning through her back.

Her tears continued to flow as she wiped them and entered into a shade at a corner and sat there.

"God! I'm very hungry?" She yawned heavily as tears dropped from her eyes.

She laid down on the on the cardboard and few pieces of cloth that was there in the floor, she just stared at the people walking by and she knew they would think she was mad but she didn't care either.

She was only tired and hungry.

She yawned again.