VICTIMS (FJ & TEE)

     Fijabi stood with hot tears streaming down her cheeks as she watched her friend leave. She couldn't wave back. That was her only friend leaving the country after vowing to never come back. She hoped to join her soon but she had no idea how to deal with school alone the last few months left. Torera had been her best friend since she could remember and was the closest she had to a sibling.

     They were supposed to leave for the U.S together. But FJ wasn't ready to start all over though her father insisted that she changed her school with her friend. They were two different people. Torera couldn't bear starting all over. She was in her finals for goodness sake! She was scarred from that night too. She wasn't sure if she'd ever get over the terror and the guy's horrible dark face that came to mind whenever she saw any man. She could still hear the ceramic shattering. She had only a few months left and she would be a graduate. She wouldn't let any horrible experience hold her back. What should the other victims who couldn't afford to leave the country or change schools do?

     Curled up next to her mom in the owner's corner of her dad's 2016 G CLASSG65 AMG SUV 040, she felt someone starring at her from outside. She sat up to look out, and saw him look away. He was dark. The hair on her skin rose and her mind went back in time to that night again. She was suffocating.

     "Omo see as this one fresh! Alaga come see correct babes for this place o. Haha I go die here today!"  The guy dragged Torera up with her hair and called on their Alaga to come have his own share(Fijabi) while he tore her cloth. He roughly ran his hands over her and slapped her really hard when she tried to scream and push him away. He threatened to blow off her head if she didn't corporate. Fijabi had only read about rape cases in the papers. Now it was happening right in front of her. She couldn't think straight. Apparently the Alaga this idiot was calling was probably still busy somewhere else. While trying to clear her head to think, she caught a glimpse of his pistol at the corner of the bed. Trying hard not to distract him, she carefully grabbed the object, not surprised at the weight as her dad's own was quite heavy too. At that point she wished she took her shooting lessons seriously when they went to New Jersey the previous holiday. She hid it carefully in her back pocket and grabbed the two cereal bowls from the morning quietly. She flung one at the intruder and missed. It hit the wall and the noise was all over the room. He looked back shocked and immediately tried to get his pistol. Before he had a chance to realize it was missing, she put in all her strength into throwing  the second one at him. This went straight into his face and shattered right there. She must have broken his nose as she saw blood all over his mouth. As she was thinking of the next step to take, Torera took the insecticide from the window and made sure to empty it's content in the intruder's face. He fell to the ground yelling. FJ ran towards her friend, pulled her into the bathroom, made sure to lock it behind them and turned the shower on. She heard voices over the sound of the running water and swore to blow off anyone's head that tried to come meet them in there. "Guy guy make we dey go o e be like say them OPC don dey.... yeepa!"  He exclaimed, not ending his sentence. "Tiger, Rikky! Make una come help carry Larry oo time no dey again"
And they were gone.

     FJ watched as her best friend in the whole world slip out of her Zara Basic animal print jumpsuit that her mom got them both when she went to South Hampshire on an official visit just last month. The robber didn't succeed at getting into her but she could sense that Tee was trying to scrub his hands off her entire body.

     She heard her name from a distance and half opened her eyes to see who it was. She lazily looked around her to find her mother and quite a number of uniformed men around her. She was in school again. And her father made sure to provide maximum security for the remaining months she had left.
Her mom looked at her with so much affection. She held her so tight she didn't want to let go. She wondered if the remaining girls who were actually raped could tell their parents.
She wondered if they could afford to relocate and start over like Tee in some other part of the world.
Right there and then, she figured what she wanted to do later in life. She would help broken and abused girls to rise again. She would start a non governmental organization to teach girls of all ages to protect themselves all the time.
So those who couldn't afford to start over somewhere can get up again, stronger than ever!