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 It was nightfall. I felt a grip on my neck. Then a soft whisper. It was him. 

"Shh." Anthony said. 

"No, please. Not again." I whimpered.

Mom and Dad weren't around and now he had an opportunity. 

"Please why can't you understand you're my brother?" I cried. 

Anthony had been very fond of me ever since I was a little girl. But then my brother was taking advantage of me, sexually. 

I had had enough. I was tired. I never told our parents about it. I was determined to stop this. 

"Let me go, Anthony. Please." 

"I love you so much, Anita. So so much. I wish you were never my sister." He said and kissed my cheek.

I grabbed a pen from my lamp stand and struggled with him. 

"You've always been mine, Anita. You're mine." He said. 

"Not anymore!" I screamed and struck. 

The pen got to his eye. 

"Argh." He screamed and staggered. 

I stood, grabbed my car keys and ran. I needed the police. 

"Come back here!" I heard him scream but I ran faster. I got into the car and began to drive hazily. I called both Mama and Papa's phones but no one answered. 

"Fuck it!" 


"You can't run away, Anita. You're mine." I heard. I turned back and there was my brother behind me. 

I screamed and swerved into a nearby tree and I knew no more. 


Well, the rest is left to tell. We both got burnt but I survived. I live to tell the story now. And with certainty, I have my life back. 

#Fiction

#Wednesday


©Emmanuella Ajaegbu

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