PRISS

Raising my head, there she was again, Feyikemi, the witch.

"Are you deaf?"she shouted.

I sniffed and rolled my eyes.

That act got her irritated and she flared up.

"I really don't know why Foyin adopted a pathetic fool like you, you should have ended your life beside that gutter, I really can't fathom why, ...what my best friend saw in you but I can't blame her sha  it's because she's a barren sort of," she spat on me.

My eyes opened widely, I couldn't believe what Feyikemi was saying, so she was this kind of person no wonder she had no other person to ply her adulterous trade with than with her best friend's husband. What right does she have to call mom her best friend after what she'd done? she's no doubt a callous swine.

"How could you be this heartless?" I screamed being upset, I was really worked up by her torrents of abuse of Mom that had come to be a daily dose now. Why would she shamelessly be cursing a friend she betrayed, why did she have to mention I was an abandoned undesirable object? Why does she always make me feel out of place? Why must she rubbed it on my face that I was adopted? Why must she remind me that I can never be loved? Why does she have to make it known that I was only brought into this world to suffer? Why? Why? Why?

Feyikemi's eyes opened to the fullest extent I had ever seen, it was the first time I talked back. I knew I was as good as dead but I couldn't take it any more, my limit has indeed broken and I couldn't say if I was prepared to take what would happen next.

"Are you talking to me in that manner?" she scrunched her eyebrows, "Foyin didn't train you at all, well I can't blame her she cared and loved for you because she couldn't make babies and certainly she'll die being a barren woman, I am Kolapo's wife and the mother of his children, she is just his plaything, it's better she doesn't come back to Nigeria and I pray she dies in the States or else I'll help her put an end her pathetic life," and with this she slapped me real hard on the face.

Frozen and staring into the hypocrite's eyes, I felt like strangling her. Why is her heart filled with stone? I looked at her with disdain and contempt hoping I could really get the chance to teach her a good lesson, she had to accept I was her senior in this house, though I was adopted as she wouldn't make me forget but I came into this house before her, before her mischievous legs walked into this house.

"Don't you dare give me that look, you bitch!" she shouted hitting the pillow on my head with a scornful look. I glared at her long enough to infuriate her more that she pulled off her nail pointed shoe heel as she'd just got back from a party and dug it into my forehead as I screamed hysterically with blood gushing out onto my face.

She stripped me naked and left me groaning in pain, and with so much pains I shouted and screamed but it was all to no avail as no single soul offered to help. The gash in my head, left untreated added to the many scars on my body. The pain became more unbearable as she packed into the bin the leftovers all in a bid to ensure I didn't eat dinner. 

So have you tried convincing your Dad to give you my Mom's number? Don't forget to inform me about mother if you hear from her. Tell her I miss her and really want her to help me out, to get me out of this hellish cage."

Regards,
Your lovely pal,
Priss.

That was the ending of the letter I wrote to Cliff explaining to him in the little beat I could what I was going through without my Mother and I sneaked out of the house to the post office where I have been known either as a  regular customer or the tattered girl, sometimes they do pity me and help me send it for free and I couldn't be less grateful so far the money with me wouldn't be enough by next month.

Fortunately for me, when I got home, there was no one around, feeling a pang of hunger and with a grumbling stomach, I prepared concoction rice while hoping Feyikemi wouldn't find out.

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