SARÉ by Olowojesiku Deborah Iyanu
Episode 4
When I got home later that day, my mom bounced on me. After using her hands, she went into the room to get my father’s belt which she also used on me. That was the first day my mom would ever get so angry. She didn’t bother about the fact that the belt was injuring my skin, she kept on beating me till she had no strength in her. I kept screaming my Dad’s name but he locked himself in the room. My Dad happens to be a calm and gentle person so, he let my mother do all she could just to show how disappointed they were in me.
Done with beating me, my mom went into the kitchen only to return with ground pepper which she was ready to put into my vagina. She said she wanted to show me that there was something sweeter than a man’s manhood and that is grinded pepper. She commanded me to remove my panties but I kept pleading with her, before I could say anything, she poured it on my head which made me scream so much. My scream made my Dad run out of his room, he pleaded with my mom to let him in but she refused. While my Dad was pleading to be let in, my mom was trying to force my panties down to pour the grinded pepper before letting my Dad in but then, my Dad opened the door with a spare key and stopped my mom.
Dad: It’s okay, honey. Let her be, she has chosen the path she wants.
Mom: Akanji, leave me alone, let me teach her a lesson she would not forget in a hurry. She went to school and just after a year, she came back with pregnancy. The annoying thing was that she went to the guy’s room and even had the guts to think of having an abortion. Who taught her that? She is just seventeen for crying out loud.
Dad: My love, come with me.
Mom: Akanji, you are offending me oh, let me finish what I started. I want to pour this pepper into her vagina maybe that will teach her how to zip up.
Dad: You have already poured it on her head, that’s okay.
Mom: Akanji! Akanji!! Akanji!!!
Dad: Please.
Mom: Bimpe, what I did is small, you will pay heavily for the disgrace you brought upon us.
Dad: It’s alright, darling. God will give us the grace to bear the shame.
My Dad led my mom who had started crying to the room. From his words, I knew he was broken but was just trying to be strong for my mother. Truly, that day was one I couldn’t forget in a hurry. My eyes, ears, and nose hurt for hours, initially, I couldn’t open my eyes for almost five hours.
We couldn’t have our usual family devotion the following morning as everyone was unhappy. For my parent to be unable to conduct the family devotion which we hardly miss means they were greatly devastated. I passed by my parent’s bedroom that morning wanting to know why there was no family devotion. Before, I would have walked in after knocking but I couldn’t even knock because I was ashamed of myself for bringing so much shame and unhappiness to my parent. I never knew my plans would backfire, probably because I messed with the wrong guy. I stood in front of my parent’s bedroom only to hear them discussing me. I could sense that Mom was weeping, her cracked voice showed that she couldn’t sleep the previous night.
Dad: Maybe we should let her marry that boy, his parent is willing to let that happen.
Mom: That boy isn’t the man meant for her, I know what God told me about her when she was in the womb. She has a ministry and her husband is someone who would give her ministry maximum support. Surprisingly, the Holy Spirit told me her husband is someone we know but He didn’t reveal him to me. With the way our daughter is now, she would make that young man miserable.
Dad: What about the shame? I feel like a failed father. I drew her closer to me so that she wouldn’t have any cause to be deceived by boys. I taught her everything she needed to know, didn’t I fail after all?
Mom: Come on, you are the best father any child can have. Bimpe just decided to follow a dangerous path.
Dad: Should we send her to the boy’s family, she can stay there till she delivers.
Mom: No, they would indulge her. She will stay with us till she delivers, and I will teach her the lesson she needs to learn. You see that pepper, I will pour it into her private part.
Dad: You don’t have to do that, it won’t reverse the situation. More so, that’s extreme.
Mom: Akanji, warn yourself oooh. Stay out of this. By the time I am done with her, she will never sleep with any man till she gets married.
Dad: Babe…
Mom: Don’t try to convince me.
With tears dropping from my swollen eyes, I went back to my room. I wished I could turn back the hands of time, I wished I never embarked on the mission of sleeping with Papa. But then, my wishes couldn’t reverse the situation.
Papa traveled to my house the following day which was surprising to me. I was thinking I wouldn’t get to hear from him again especially when my phone, laptop, headphones, and every one of my electrical gadgets had been seized by my mom. He was so surprised to see injuries all over my body. My disfigured face made him not to recognize me. He came to drop the letter from the school authority stating that my admission had been deferred for two years and to see how I was doing but was shocked to see me badly injured.
He was able to come into my room because Mom wasn’t around. She came back forty minutes later with a larger quantity of pepper, she was about to ask me to pull my panties when she saw Papa sitting at one corner of the room. Papa prostrated immediately he saw her and stated his reason for coming.
Mom: Well, Aunty, pull your panties and let me do what I want to do. He doesn’t need to leave since he has seen your nakedness.
Me: Mommy, I am sorry. I will never sleep with any man again.
Mom: Your plea can’t stop me. I will not rest until I have emptied this grinded pepper into that vagina of yours. I just want to show you some sweeter.
Papa: Mommy, please, pour it on me.
Mom: Bro, it’s time to leave, you can come some other time.
To be continued.
