the search

MY FRIEND

Though the room was dark and you hardly saw anyone except when the door was opened,I still covered myself for I was only a child with a body  that had just began to develop and that made me so insecure.I remembered when i had just become a woman and my maama had explained to me what to do while I cried, she later punished  me because I could not stop crying saying she would give me a reason to cry.As I recalled all this i could not stop the tears from running and I let them flow. I cried for my family, for the betrayal, for luck of justice, for my situation,for generally everything that had happened to me but most of all I cried because I knew that I could not do anything about it . 

As time went by, the room became colder and my body began to react, my body began to grow more hair, but it was not so cold as I thought it was for it became worse and I began to hold myself so tightly,I hugged my legs as I used my hands to rub them and my entire body while I sat against the wall.I kept on doing that for some time because I could hardly tell whether it was days or weeks for  there was no window where you could see the sun . 

I was really curious about the people that I was living with for all this time and it seems that the gods answered my prayers though in a twisted way because all over a sudden someone who sounded like a female began to sob  so loudly and within a second the door was opened and there came in two white men with an oil lamp  revealing her kneeling next to a body of young boy that looked to be my age. His body was so pale,with opened eyes and his body did not show any sign of movement. The woman next to him held him so tight once she was finally able to see him,her eyes were filled with tears as she continued to sob.

"Get off him" the muzungu said with no sign of sympathy and he grabbed the boy as though he were a sack and dragged him out as the one slapped the woman since she was trying to hold onto him.They came back after some time and left the oil lamp there and then for the first time after they closed the door,there was light in the room which excited me until I realized that I was still naked .

As the days passed, the room became colder and my body was at the limit. I watched as everyone began to hang themselves for warmth while I was coiled up in my corner thinking how you could do that when you were naked. "You know you will die if you don't join in" a girl with a petite body told me . She was hugging a boy that looked like her except he was very tall and had a darker complexion than she did. I could not look into her eyes so I decided to look at her nose that was really slender . I think she noticed that I was scared so she came closer to me and told me in the most friendly tone I had heard in forever , "please come and join us"   

AM SO SORRY THAT I DELAY TO UPDATE, BEEN VERY BUSY AT SCHOOL . HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS CHAPTER AND BY THE WAY MUZUNGU MEANS A WHITE MAN LOVE YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU