𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑹𝑫 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑶𝑽
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Derrick had taken Sonia home that early morning when her mum wouldn't stop blasting her phone with calls and texts.

He could tell that her mum was worried sick about her.

When he finally arrived at her estate she was reluctant to get down but after a while she finally spoke.

"I just want to say thank you for saving me, the guy would have probably had his way with me if you didn't come. Thank you so much." Tears were now clouding her vision and Derrick sat there awkwardly.

"Hey its okay." He engulfed her into a warm hug and they stayed like that for sometime before he released her.

She got down and gave him a small smile, waving at him and he waved back before his car drove out of sight.

Sonia took a deep breath and prayed silently for her mum to at least have an emergency meeting at work so she wouldn't be at home.

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG LADY?" Her mum asked in a loud voice as soon as she stepped in. She was still clad in the robe and bonnet from yesterday.

"Mum-"

She started but was cut off. She mentally rolled her eyes she wasn't in a mood for all of this right now. She just needed to rest.

"Do you know how worried I've been? I almost called the police at some point." Her mum yelled at her again.

Sonia was tired and weak to engage in all of these with her mother right now. So she quietly sidestepped the raging woman and made her way towards the staircase.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING YOUNG LADY?!"

"MUM THAT'S ENOUGH!" Sonia equally screamed back at her own mother.

Her mum looked at her like she couldn't believe she was her daughter.

"Why are you suddenly angry? If you can remember you were excited for me to go to this party and have 'fun'. And mum I think you should know that I had almost gotten raped in the process of having 'fun'."

Realization dawned on Sonia's mum that her daughter almost got raped.

"Sonia I didn't know-"

"Of course you didn't know. This is your fault. You should have never made me go to school in the first place. I loved being homeschooled but no you just had to let me go to a school where I don't have peace of mind."

And with that Sonia stormed off to her room making sure to bang the door shut.

Tears lingered in Mrs Ubong's eyes. She just wanted to make her daughter happy.

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Derrick hit the steering wheel hard in anger. He couldn't believe Empress will stoop so low.

He texted Empress asking her to meet up at his house so he can get to know why she did what she did. She replied with 'I knew you missed me'. Derrick rolled his eyes at the response and switched off his phone.

He wasn't really in a good mood today. Today is his mum's death day.

He walked up to his room door opened it and slammed it shut. He later took a warm shower and laid on the bed with his eyes closed.

"Dad no!" Derrick had cried out to his dad who continuously hit his mother.

Her sobs where what could be heard in the entire household. Daphne was in his arms also begging for mercy on behalf of her mum.

In a blink of an eye his dad brought out a knife and swinged it into action to his mum's direction.

Derrick woke up at that moment, breathing harshly. His forehead was covered with sweat despite the air conditioning in the room.

He looked around and saw everything was in place the way he left in his room. Feeling depleted he decided to go downstairs and get water to drink.

As he was about to descend the stairs he could here sobs coming from his sisters room. He had a mental debate whether to comfort her or not because this wasn't the first time something like this happened.

He was about to ho downstairs when he also heard a scream from her room. The scream sounded muffled like someone was forcing her not to scream.

He slowly opened the door and to his greatest surprise he saw the unseeable.

He just couldn't believe it.

This could not be happening.

He didn't know when a sudden anger engulfed him. How could the man he called a father commit such atrocity.

Derrick's vision was suddenly red he ran to the bed, grabbed his father away from his sister and punched him. Blood spilled from his nose at the impact.

He looked at his sister who was still shaken. She looked like she had seen a ghost.

Then he looked at his father who was still lying on the floor struggling to get up as more blood came from his nose.

He couldn't just believe what his dad had tried to do. What would have happened if he didn't come on time? Fuck! He exclaimed as he paced back and forth the room.

"WHAT THE FUCK DAD!?" Derrick yelled at his dad.

The man burst into tears and for a minute Derrick was seeing a stranger. What ever happened to the man who showed no emotions.

"I'm sorry she just looked so much like your mum. I couldn't help myself." Derrick stared at his father with disgust as the words came out of his mouth.

Derrick, exasperated then turned to his sister who was silently sobbing.

"Daphne..." He trailed off not knowing what to say to her. She looked so vulnerable and broken at the moment. He reached out to hug her but she jerked at his touch.

She stood up from the bed and ran away from the room, Derrick ran after her shouting her name as she descended the staircase. He finally reached her and grabbed her hand.

She jerked her hand from his and looked at him with bloodshot eyes.

"What do you want Derrick!?" She yelled at his face.

"I'm just here to apologize."

"Apologize for what exactly?"

"I..." He trailed off, practically not knowing what to say.

"You know what, it's funny if you ask me. For three good years Derrick you watched me suffer and cry but you didn't do anything. You just watched."

"It's now that I almost got raped you decide to do something."

"So let me just ask you, if I wasn't almost raped would you have reacted the way you did?" She asked with tears in her eyes.

"ANSWER ME?!"

"I...you." Derrick couldn't say a word.

"That's what I thought. Goodbye." He watched as his sister left his presence. He felt like a failure and a bad bother.

Derrick feeling weak and tired went to his room, changed into a black hoodie and black joggers. He went to his drawer and brought out a packet of cocaine.

He needed to leave the house. This place was to suffocating for him.

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Sonia was at the park dancing to a song she doesn't know. But it felt nice. It's been ages since she danced an right now is a perfect time.

It's been 5 hours since she yelled at her mum, after staying in her room for a long time, she came out and saw no trace of her mother. So she concluded she might have gone to work.

She thinks shouting at her mum was totally unnecessary, she saw the sadness in her mum's eyes as she said those words, but what is done has been done.

Feeling bored and lonely at home, she decided to come to a nearby park which was empty. Music was playing somewhere that she didn't know of. She just decided to dance to the tune.

She suddenly heard the rustling of tree branches which made her stop her movements. She turned around but saw nothing there.

She heard it again and looked up only to see a guy wearing black and a black hoodie covering his face. She suddenly felt trepidation. Who could it be?

"Who is there?" She asked, her voice trembling with fear.

The silhouette figure standing didn't say anything just stood there like a statue.

She decided to run away from here to be safe. But unlucky for her that's when the figure started walking towards her.

She ran but the figure was faster than her. The figure in the black hoodie grabbed her by the arm. She screamed but the figure put his hand on her mouth obstructing her from screaming.

"Relax it's me." The figure removed the hoodie obstructing his face and Sonia felt relieved that it wasn't a serial killer.

"You scared me guy." Sonia said placing her hand on her chest.

"Sorry about that." He apologized.

"It's no problem, so why are you here?" Sonia ask Derrick as they found a bench close to them and sat on it.

"To clear my head." He responded in a small voice and Sonia knew that wasn't the reason but decided not to push it.

"What about you? Why are you here?" Derrick also asked.

"To clear my head." She responded while smiling and Derrick chuckled.

They basked into a comfortable silence for a while before Sonia decided to speak up.

"Have you been smoking." Sonia gestured to the pack of cocaine in his pocket.

"Yeah." He said feeling ashamed.

"It's nothing to be ashamed of, I guess you have a reason for doing it, right?" Sonia said.

"Well, yeah but I can't talk about the reason, it may trigger my past." Derrick bowed his head down.

"It's okay I understand."

Derrick looked at Sonia and he was blown away by her beauty. She's so perfect, with a fair skin and pink lips.

Derrick's eyes lingered at her lips for what seemed like forever.

Sonia looked at Derrick and found him intently staring at her. She suddenly felt nervous by his piercing scrutiny.

Derrick put a falling strand of her locs back so he can see her face very well.

Sonia's breath was caught in her throat. His stare and touch were doing things to her.

"You are beautiful." Derrick said leaning further and she couldn't help but do the same. Their lips were just inches away from each other.

A phone ringing stopped their moment and it happened to be Sonia's phone.

"My mum is calling, I better start going it's getting late." Sonia rushed out her words, still nervous at the fact that they were about to kiss.

"Okay bye." Derrick watched as she left the park and a smile tugged at his lips.

He has never felt this way before.

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A/N

Merry Christmas guys❤️✨

We thank God for keeping us through this year.

So how are you spending your Christmas? Me my family is having a party. So I will be in the kitchen all day cooking☹️🙄.

Thoughts on this chapter?

This is my first tine writing in third persons pov. How did I do?

Pls vote and comment my loves.

Bye ❤️