It All Started With A DM....

Chapter 10 💚

I couldn't feel my legs. I couldn't even feel my body... Breathe, Breathe!

Hell, I couldn't even breathe. I was going to die. Somebody save me!

Some people had started laughing, guys especially. Few girls I recognised stared at me with pitiful faces.
I pulled myself together with my face high, I threw an hard look at Jude and my cousin. I felt betrayed.

"Most of y'all know the reason why we broke up shey?" he asked with a smirk.

Jude's guys that always followed him wherever he went to all seemed to be high with his words as they cheered him on.

"y'all know I don't do lesbians. It was hard to leave her but I just had to. I had to dump her and go for her pretty cousin here" he said easily as he pulled Moyin closer to him.

I knew I was going to cry anytime soon.
From left and right, I could hear talks:

"so that's the reason she only walk with those her 3 friends "

"and she's a fine girl oh"

"I despise Lebs ehhn.. Ayama "

" I knew it long ago with the way she use to push people aside "

Jude looked back at me with triumph in his eyes, I tried to remember what I did to him to get all these, and I remembered :

" Benita, you can't be the one to break up with me until I say so " he sent that to me on WhatsApp, the day I broke up with him.

He was taking his revenge on me by dating my cousin and painting me as a lesbian. Here in Nigeria.

" no!! It's a lie..... It's...

"you no go shut up.. You abomination" somebody from the growing crowd cut me short.

I wasn't sure if it was tears I saw in Moyin's eyes, I didn't care, I hated her.
I wanted to insult her,I wanted to beat her up, then Jude, then every other person but I couldn't...

I was blinded by my tears already, I could see people with their phone recording the whole incident.
I thought I would die at that spot, I wanted to walk away but I felt instantly sick.

"Idiots! Both of you and especially you low class fool and you call yourself her cousin "

It was Aisha and the girls, they came to my rescue.
Debra marched to where Moyin stood holding Jude and slapped her hard across the face, she would have slapped her again if Jude didn't intervene by grabbing her arm just like they do in Indian movies...Especially ... 'Mehek'

" you had better stop this now. Is it not true your friend is a lesbian, being her friend you might be one too... Abegi " Jude said to Debra.

" heyyy, better hold it there, don't think I'm like Benita. Forget you're a guy, I will beat you black and blue in front of everybody, nobody would recognise you again, I swear to almighty " Debra threatened.

Aisha and Olivia already held my arms taking me away.
" Debra leave those bastards, let's go" Olivia yelled in annoyance.
I could see Ben running towards us, with a worried face
" Kehinde, I just watched a video online, I mean, I was tagged and the video was just...."

Someone already posted the video online, I could imagine the caption :

Multi millionaire Engr. Ajayi Modupe's daughter Benita Modupe's lesbianism secret exposed.

Ben walked up to Moyin and said " you, your own case would be handled at home ".
She sadly looked down.

" And as for you Jude, no wahala na. We still get scores to settle" he said to Jude.
"sebi na this type small pikin thing you sabi do. No worry na, you don already price " He added with a smile.

He walked back to where I was and ordered
" Let's go " as he walked away leaving my friends to bring me along.

Olivia instructed me to sit at the back with Debra and Aisha. She sat at the front with Ben who was driving.
Ben had suddenly turned from my twin to my elder brother. He used to be Debra and Aisha's class mates being a science student, but now he acted like he was way ahead of them in different levels.

Aisha and Debra started making plans on how to deal with Jude's elder sister.

"she learns make up in the same salon with my elder sister" Debra said.

"since you know the place, we can go there, early one morning, block her and beat her life out" Olivia added.

"instead, we can pay some people heavily to go beat her up. I don't mind paying, no matter the amount " Aisha suggested.

Ben laughed as he turned the steering wheel "girls chill, there's no need to beat up his elder sister, I'll take care of everything myself".

"It's been long I injured somebody" Debra frowned.

"Benny, you haven't said a word since, are you okay? " my twin asked.

I coughed weakly, I felt sick already, my temperature was high.
" um Yeah, please can you drop my friends at their places ?" I asked.

Olivia turned back to look at me
" we wanted to go to your place with you "

I smiled, " no thanks, I didn't let you guys enjoy the party, I can't stress you again by letting you come to my place... Or if you want to go back, Ben can take you there " I added

" no ohh, I fit kill person ohh, especially that your cousin "Debra yelled in genuine anger, the other girls seemed to agree.

" why don't we go back.It's true, we'll scatter everywhere, beat up Moyin and Jude, then we'll beat up Janet even though it's for no reason "Aisha reasoned, Ben only laughed as he sped along.
He dropped the girls at their respective places and within some minutes we were home.

I already had missed calls from Fisayo and a whole lot of people. They saw the video online.
Ben didn't ask me if it was true or not because he knew quite well that it wasn't true.

Dotun was terribly angry at Ben. He watched the video and explained how his friends called him and asked if his 'sexy baby sister' was truly a lesbian. He was angry at Ben for not taking action immediately,

"and where's that Moyin of a girl? If she wasn't my cousin and a girl, I for kill am nobody go challenge me" he growled.

Tife was on my bed with me and he held my hand and kept on squeezing it softly, he knew what was going on and I tried to smile at him.

"Where's sister Moyin" he innocently asked. Ben told him she was still at Janet's place.

Dotun stormed out of my room angrily, he was making calls already.

"look Kehinde, I'll get you some drugs and I'll find a way to die down this issue. It's all over sha, people have been sharing the videos all around " Ben said adding more to my pains, he pat my shoulder before walking out of my room.

Mom would be back anytime soon and being the social person that she was, she would have seen the video. I couldn't hold back the tears. Tife looked like he would cry too

" look big sis, you're not a lesbian so don't cry."he whispered.

I wasn't crying for the false accusation, I was crying because of the humiliation I got. The videos went viral already and some people would conclude not minding if they heard my own part of the story or not. I was even scared to go online, I couldn't.

I also didn't want to pick my calls, I just couldn't.

I was also terrified because my dad was a public figure and news like this could be a stain on his reputation.
I was just so confused.

My phone rang again, Tife reaches out to get it.
He looked up at me and with big eyes, he muttered "daddy".