Remind me of your mother



It was 6pm again, and the shivers caught Ola. 6pm was her daily hour of horror. 14 year old Ola who lost her mom a few years back had just started growing breasts, she didn't even know what the breasts were meant for until her step father noticed she had started growing some. "Ola what are those on your chest? Bee stings?" ...embarrassed by the question, she didn't know what reply she should give her step father. He has been a father figure to her since she was little. Her mother ran away from her first husband due to domestic violence. That's what happens when a poor man marries four wives and have no money to take care of them. And Ola's mother couldn't run back to her family, they were the one who married her off to an over aged husband at the first place. Her only choice then was to run away to the city with her 4 year old daughter. In the city, she met peter a taxi driver who picked her up from the park that same day she came to the city. Peter finding out she had no place to go chose to take her in. Ola's mother; Ginika saw him as God sent but to peter, she was his short cut to marriage since he didn't have enough money to marry a wife. 8 years into the unholy matrimony, Ola lost her mom to cancer and since then lived with Peter. But for some months now since Ola started going through puberty, she became Peter's short cut to having fun. Every 6pm after his daily hustle, peter comes home to relax with Ola. The little girl couldn't fight back but tries hard to be out of reach, so she hides under the bed daily once it's some few minutes to 6, hoping that peter will be drunk enough not to notice her absence. It works for her sometimes but most days, peter drags her out and sexually abuse her repeatedly until he falls asleep, leaving the poor girl to weep all night. Ola had this phrase of horror in her mind "remind me of your mother". Peter had replaced the beautiful memories of her mother with pain. Each time he rips her clothes off her body, he yells "remind me of your mother". Ola has no sweet memory of her mother anymore, it's been replaced with horror and pain. It was 6pm and Ola was scared again, the last time she tried having her friend over to avart the horror but peter sent her friend home the instant he got home and still had his way. Little Ola's mind had no new options, but today she had decided to put up a fight, not a struggle but a fight! Peter came home as usual and pull her out from under the bed, reeking of cheap ethanol and cigarette, he slapped Ola twice "why do you have to stress me each time?" Ola was already fuming and trying to gather enough courage to fight. "I hope you made a nice meal, because I'm very hungry"...Ola was wondering if he was hungry enough to drop dead. At that point, that was her wish. He threw her on the bed after he ripped off her clothes. He was pulling off his polo shirt from the top and got to the point where shirt covered his face, before he pull it entirely off, Ola grabbed her mother's pen knife from the side of the bed where she hid it. Peter couldn't skip his phrase of horror, "remind me of your mom", but it seems Ola was about sending him to meet her mom... 


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