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ething, but when I opened my eyes to check who it was, I was suffocated by something that made me sleep. When I woke up, I realized I was not in my room or the "compound" I looked a

elia?" I asked. She looke

iling. Oh my God. I hugged h

eard you

ong story

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I just have to be strong for her. She needs me. I studied and trained hard. Girls had tried to ask me out, I had refused them, my friends thought something was wrong with me, bu

y father left

, Ma

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u mean by e

after it until you come of age, but I think he didn't want you to know." I was

ink you can cheat me? Look, I want my properties when I get bac

ve fun before I left for home. We were drinking and having fun. I got tired and went to rest. While sleeping, I

her body in

ir," he

aged and treated by an elderly woman in an

ound you in the water. You would have been long dead." I

I was taking my time to recover. I went back to my apartment, got my things, and left. It's better this way if

am here now. Come, see, we are not even in the town anymore, we are already at sea. This way, we can live the life we

re with your brother;

have

ng. Please take me back; I need to get them out of there. I don't want them to st

. I promise you, I'll

a

that people had been following us. Now they are coming closer. I held my sister's hand, and we started

you people?" The

ow, your father se

where. A man with a hooded mask came forward and punched them. He beat them up until the

, Sir." The person laugh

a man,

as Aunt Amelia, Mom's lover, who was 'dead.' We got s

e, I am not dead, look." I touched her

h like your mother. She wo

w where our

where she was staying only to get ther

our daughters when we get home." He held her by her arms when he turned around and saw us. He

to our mother while sh