Story of a Survivor - Season 1 - Episode 20

5 years ago

Story of a Survivor - Season 1 - Episode 20

Today I wash my hands off your case! God is
my witness that all my dealings with you
Children have been transparent! Your Mother’s Three million five hundred naira and fifty thousand naira has been paid into Caroline’s account today! The money is yours to use and make something out of this life for your selves!

I threw myself prostrate before him and
begged him not to be offended, Pauline and
Silvia joined me but Caroline simply stood by
the door staring at us.

I have done my best for you. He continued
even as we were begging him. You can still
reach me at my house if you need me but
today is the last day I will address you as one!

Today is the last day I will step into this
house! He dropped his raised hands and looked at Caroline straight in the eyes.

Caroline! He barked. I am greatly disappointed
in you! You stood there and watch your
Boyfriend hurl insults at me? He even
threatened to beat me up! We were barely
from the Bank and you started announcing to
the world that your mother’s Money has been paid? How daft could you be Carol? You did not tell your Sisters here that have been
suffering with you all the years first but an
outsider! In fact, I cannot fathom what has
entered you! T thought you were smart!

Well I have been rudely reminded of my status
in your lives; I am not a family member!

The most painful part is that you could not even caution your Boyfriend, rather you were
pacifying him. That is the same thing you
would have done if I were your real Father! My
dear you have lost it! As a first daughter you
have lost it! As a wife to be you have lost it!

At twenty years of age? Do you know that
Nkechi your mate is marrying this December?

You cannot pilot this family your Parent left in
your care! No! You can’t because you are
weak! He gave out his sadistic laugh and said.

I am sorry for you. Well, remember the story of the ten talents I told you four years ago.

Caroline was sobbing while the three of us
were still begging him as he went to his car
and drove off that night.

Three weeks after that fateful night that Mr.
Chinedu left our house. I was yet to know the
way forward for my Family. My Sisters went on
a shopping spree and bought new Clothing’s,
Jewelries, Cosmetics. They bought very
expensive Electronic Gadgets and got an
Electrician to set it up in the House. They also
rented a bigger Shop at mammy Market and
Stocked the Shop to full Capacity, they
employed a sales Girl to assist Silvia in running
the Shop.

I had waited impatiently for three weeks to
receive my own share of the money but the
way things were going I knew it may never
happen. Although we all wear each other’s
Clothes because we are all of same size and
shape, clothing was the least of my problem
because I had been clothing the family for
almost two years.