November 10, 20xx

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Nov. 10, 20xx
8:37 P.M.

Dear Kath,
                I just came back from the visiting Jenna. That's a lie. After I visited Jenna I hang out with Chard because I needed comfort.
               Jenna started talking to me! She asked me how school was and about how Chard and I are doing.  The nuns stopped by too. So I kept Jenna company while Tita Rica talk to them. I couldn't help but to hear Tita Rica wails as she confide to the sisters. Tita Rica informed them that Jenna cries whenever they ask her to remove her clothes, so she could take a shower. She covers her body and begs them not to hurt her whenever the nurse would help her undress. Jenna would ask for her mother all the time. I couldn't forget what she said to them. She said, “Binaboy nila anak ko! But I can't even seek for justice!”
              Jenna and I listened to all these because they were loud, even though they tried to murmur among themselves. Jenna couldn't help crying too when she heard all that. I tried to comfort her while she sobbed on my shoulder. She later revealed to me the unspeakable things they did to her.  I asked if Brad was there, and she said he wasn't.
             “There were four of them, and all of them took turns raping me.” she said trying to clear her voice as she spoke. ”They would laugh whenever I asked them to stop. And they would hit me whenever I resisted. I felt like an object.”
             She told me what disgusting things they put inside her and I don't want to write any of that here.
            “Was Brad one of them?” I asked her.
            “No, he wasn't there. They didn't cover their faces, but I could only recognize Jerwin. But I think two of them are his cousins because they look like Adoros. I remember their names: Arnel, Jeremy, and Ronald.
            “I really thought I'd die. I thought they'd kill me. That was why I was so surprised the were letting me go,” Jenna continued. “But Jerwin told me that the only reason why they're freeing me was because they knew I wouldn't be able to do anything, anyway. He said even if I go to the police they have people in there.” She told me he threatened to kill her and her parents like they did to her brother if she sues them. She said, “He made me feel like I'm better off dead.”
            I didn't know what to tell her, so I just listened to her as she poured out everything to me. She cried until she fell asleep.
              After I left, I met with Chard to cry my heart out the way she did. It felt like she passed some of her pain to me, but I know I'll never fully know the suffering she went and is still going through. I'm so angry! But I don't know how to relieve myself from this anger. I wanted to murder Jerwin and his cronies to pay for all the torture they've done to Jenna! I want them to die!

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