Sister Debby batch 3

*SISTER DEBBY*
*Episode 5*
After crying for hours, I dragged myself to the bathroom to wash away the bloodstains. I spent time scrubbing myself, I was able to wash away the stains but I wasn’t able to wash away the pain in my heart.
I decided to burn the bed sheet because washing it will bring in bad memories. After crying for more hours, I finally slept off. Fortunately, my first lecture the following day was by 12 am so I had enough time to rest and think.
By 11 am, I managed to prepare for school. If not for an important test I had by 2 pm, I won’t have dared to step out of the room. Before leaving my room, I ensured I took some pain reliever to stop the throbbing headache and body ache.
While working to school, I noticed people’s eyes were on me but I ignored them. Getting to the class, I sat down and lay my head on the table when a distant friend suddenly came to inform me of the latest news which made me more miserable.
Pelumi: Debby, haven’t you seen the pictures that are all over the school?
Debby: what is it about?
Pelumi: picture of a guy sleeping with you
Debby: what?? Please take me there
On getting to the notice board in my department, I couldn’t stop my tears from flowing. It was indeed the picture of the boss sleeping with me, people couldn’t stop staring at me because they believe the guy in the picture was my boyfriend. Who would believe that I was a victim of rape?
Pelumi took me to the school garden and started asking me questions after she made me sit down.
Pelumi: Debby, what went wrong?
Debby: please, believe me, I was raped by three men last night
Pelumi: Jesus! Ohh, sweetheart, I am sure you will pull through
Debby: it hurt so much. I don’t even know who I offended to have gone through such pain
Pelumi: it’s okay dear, I was also a victim of rape but God help me to pull and am sure you will pull through
Debby: thank you very much, dear, I really appreciate this
Pelumi: you are most welcome dear
I manage to write my test then head back to my room. On getting to the house, I met Kate raging.
Kate: So this is who you are right? This is what you want to repay my family with after all were done for you right?
Debby: it’s not like that
Kate: shut your stinking mouth you pretending liar, what is not what? You disgust me
Kate walk out of the house while I walk slowly to my room. Before I could sit down on my bed, Pastor’s call came in. Instead of listening to my own side of the story, he told me to vacate the house and look for how to pay my fees for my final year because his family can’t stop caring for someone who does nothing but drags their family name in the mud.
To say I was shattered was an understatement before I could digest the Pastor’s word, I got a message from my Campus Pastor that I was needed in the church the following day.
Twenty minutes after I read the campus pastor’s message, Rapheal called me that he was outside my lodge. I wash my face and went outside to meet him outside.
Me: hi
Raphael: so this who you are huh?
Me: let me explain, please
Raphael: explain what? You keep telling me you are a V-rgin while you are a s€× addict
Me: s€× addict?
Raphael: yes, you are a filthy w—e and I regret ever meeting you.
Me: are you also walking out of my life?
Raphael: yes, because you don’t worth good people
With that Raphael walked out on me. That was the most painful part, the only guy I gave my heart to also chose to disbelieve and leave me more shattered.
*SISTER DEBBY*
*Episode 6*
I couldn’t sleep that night, I just kept crying and wishing I died along with my parents.
I decided not to go for lectures the following day because I was not able to bear the look on people’s faces. I went out of the house by 4 pm for the scheduled meeting in the campus fellowsh¡p.
Getting into the campus church, I was expecting to meet with just the campus executives but to my surprise, the church auditorium was jam-packed with students who wanted to hear the full list.
With my head bow to the ground, I walk straight to the front of the pew where the campus executive sat. I was asked to say my side of the story, I took the microphone and started to talk but was interrupted by Raphael.
Me: I am sorry ill news about me keep flying around but the fact is that I was a victim of rape
Raphael: (shouted from the congregation) liar, your boyfriend was the one who sent out your nude pictures so please stop claiming that you are a saint
Hearing Raphael speak like that to me broke me more, I couldn’t stop crying, coolval stories in fact, I was too broken to continue speaking. When the campus executive saw that I wasn’t saying anything again, they passed their judgment on me. I was relieved of my position as the choir leader and was to be in isolation hence, no campus student was to relate with me.
After hearing their verdict, I thanked them and dejectedly walk out of the auditorium. On my way home, I stopped at a drug store and got some sedatives with the mind of killing myself with overdose.
I got to my room, scribbled some words on a piece of paper then took a bottle of water from the fridge and was about to use 15 tablets of the sedatives when I suddenly heard a voice.
Voice: you don’t need to kill yourself, this is just a phase that will pass away with time
Me: I can’t survive this, it’s just too much for me to bear
Voice: suicide is a free ticket to hell so why not face it and become a conqueror
Those words made me had rethink. I wiped my tears and decided to face it. I decided to stop going to the campus fellowsh¡p and start joining services online. Pelumi offered to accommodate me and also decided to speak to her mom on her behalf just to see if they could help with part of my tuition fee.
After our third year examination, I suddenly felt sick and after undergoing a test in the school laboratory, I was declared six weeks pregnant. When I was just beginning to heal, the issue of pregnancy came up. I was more shattered, how on earth will I cope with a fatherless child.
Getting to my room, I decided to end my life but that same voice won’t just let me. Based on the agreement, I was meant to move in with Pelumi the following day but I couldn’t, I don’t want to disturb her with an unwanted pregnancy.
Very early the following day, I took my clothes and left the school for good but not without leaving a note at Pelumi’s doorstep explaining things to her.
I was happy I was a prudent spender. With the money in my account, I board a bus to the Eastern part of Nigeria, Imo state precisely.
*To be continued*