You Broke Us

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wish I could see him one more time, smell him and hear his jokes all day long. The messenger that I sent two weeks

s one year and we'll never be separated again...Oh how I h

followed her and caught her red handed. "Are you pregnant?" That question carried a lot of weight that she got startled and tripped to the ground messing her dress with the dark soil. "What are you doing here Loila?...don't you know this is

e thought of it tore her heart completely that she began to cry hysterically. Her sister Loila went to her and made to sit down on a nearby rock and placed her head on her lap and said "Sister you have to tell mama...she will help you" Lemayal hearing that raised her head quickly and held her sister's hand tight

er letter and I'll take it to him myself and wait for his response maybe Ezra did not wait for the reply" She said and smiled to her who looked at her with hope once more "You'd do that...for me?" "Yes you are my sister and we vowed to

I return..." She said hugged her when their mother came and gave her food with her blessings to leave. Both had made up a

what she was to look for" "Am sure she is alright...I believe I raised my two daughters to be fighters of what is rightfully theirs...she will be fine" She said and held her daughter's hand but that gesture did not go well for Lemayal. She felt nauseated and wanted to vomit...she wished her mother would leave her room and she would do her business as usual in the basin th

ears" Lemayal cut her mother in and just that broke all hell lose with a slap on her face. "How dare you Lemayal telling me to stop shouting?!...I will keep shouting...now tell me are you pregnant?" She still yelled and the latter holding her dau

tudy and make our community proud but you Lema have not only shamed me but also disappointed me!" Lemayal could not take it that she squatted to her mother's level and said reaching out for her hand "Mama when two people love each other they seal their relationship and that's what we did because I love him mommy" Her mother took her hand back standing she said "Love my foot...love is patience and sacrifice Lema...that's what I taught you...does he even know you are carrying his child?" She was quiet then startled by a yell "well...does he?" "I don't know" She said in a

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oing to the city and she did go but look what she did...opening her legs to every man who greets her! I w

that meeting. She only stood there in the middle of everyone crying silently while looking down. Oh how she so wished all tha

en continued "...you will have to marry Amatus and that baby in your womb will have to be removed just as the community rules state" The people present there begun bickering which seemed joyous to t

. Still seated there, Loila showed up and so wanted to know why people were leaving their compound some with disgust and some happy, some with expressionless faces. "What was going on here?" She

as looking as if the world is coming to an end and how her sister looked down avoiding eye contact...they had already known the truth and she was late to save her siste

went to fill the papers of school...so you both lied to me? Your mother? Loila I expected better from you" She said and went

ing in her heart that she ran in the house to her mother and knelt down before her bowing her head to her and said "Mama am so sorry I shamed you by breaking the rules...mama he knows of my p

sixty-five-year-old man...she would be the sixth wife...her innocent baby would be aborted...it was too much for her to take it in and then she kn

wanted to cry but thought she had cried too much begging for mercy but this time round...she was determined to leave that village for good that night. "Mama am leaving this village...I will not be married off to an old man and watch my child being ripped off inside me...am leaving with or without your blessings" "Can't you at least say goodbye to your mother?" "I left a note" She responded in a low tone. "Is a

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sleeping was out of question...she got out of bed and went to her sister's room which was empty and well-arranged close to no one

uld know about?" Loila took a step back and a lone tear fell from her right eye then said "That man that she so loves doesn't love her and doesn't even want to see her...you should have seen how he threw me out of his house" She said as her tears were coming in full swing now. The mother leaving the dishes said "You said he was waiting for her Loila" "I lied because I did not want to hurt her more mama...and when you denied her permission to leave, I was relie