WALK THROUGH WALLS

FIFTEEN

" Mum, sister wants to talk to all of us." Cai came and told us as he handed the phone back to me.
" Ok then. Let me connect it again to the TV." I connected the call and after some seconds, asenah' s smiling face was seen on the screen.
" Hi again. I just wanted to see you and request you to take care of my mum and brother. I know dad is there but knowing that they have all of you also makes me happy. I know that I will one day meet you face to face but for now,I believe is ok also. Uncle Felix and uncle Bambam, welcome to the family. We are a huge family but as they say, the more people the merrier. I know they are crazy but you will get used to them. They should take you to the seniors of the family, then you will understand where they get their craziness."
" Senah, unadhani uko mbali sana siwezi kukuchapa aah!" I asked getting mad
" There is no point of that Lensah, she is just a kid." Tuan said.
" Wow uncle Mark you know Swahili. This is interesting."
" Even your dad, Kai and Tae understand Swahili they just don't talk that much." I told her.
" Ok then I have to hung up now. There is a very long line for this one phone. Mum, dad, we will talk again during my visiting day ok. Bye everyone I love you all kisses..."
" Bye Asenah" we all told her and then the screen went blank

After that I disconnected the phone and the room became silent again. Bambam, Jackson and Felix were looking at Jimin and I. I knew that they had a lot of questions to ask. Tae also noticed this and decided to bring more drinks because as we always said, the story behind Asenah's existence need us to be drunk so that we talk it out without hiding it out. Kai decided to bring a box of tissues and placed them near Jimin and I. It has been long since we talked about it and being that it was the main reason we met today, it marked the beginning of our meeting.

" I guess we can start our meeting now. As you already know it has been six years or more since Lensah left the country because of Asenath, now she is back so we need to discuss the events of her coming back and...." Tae started the meeting.
" Sorry for disrupting you but can we talk about Asenah and how she is Jimin's daughter and her ..." Jackson said.
" Tae, I agree with Jackson, they should know the whole story so that they understand our fear. As you have said, they are part of the family. I know that Jimin, Cai, Mark, you and I know the story and these three don't know it. If it's ok with Jimin and Lensah, let's just tell them the story." Kai said.
" We don't have problem, do we my heart?" Jimin asked me
" It's ok. I will tell you my story, why I left South Korea six years ago. I only ask one thing, please do not pity me. I accepted it already. Is it ok with everyone?"
" I think I speak for the three of of us when I say that it' s ok." Jackson told me.

And with that I told them about the nightmare that has been haunting me for the last years. The nightmare by the name KWON JI-YONG

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It was six years ago. We were leaving school for our vacation. As normal, I always wait for Jimin being that his hometown was not near so he used to go to our place before going home. We had our usual meeting place. That day I was the first to reach there. It was an abundoned building between ours and their school. This day, it was not the same because when I reached there, there were some boys sitted there and from the look of things it was kind of they were waiting for me because when I arrived, they told me that they were eagerly anticipating my arrival. At this moment I was so scared. I didn't know if I should go back or still stay there because I had promised Jimin that we would meet there.

When I wanted to turn back they surrounded me. They told me that they were there to help one of their junior friend to be a man and I was the lucky candidate for that year. I looked around and noticed a young boy standing behind these boys who seemed to be seniors. The boy was panicking. It seems that they had forced him there. These boys were from Jimin's school.

Then they cornered me, pushed me down and three huge boys pinned me down while another one stripped me naked. They were a total of six boys including the junior who I later came to know his name as Kwon Ji Yong. One boy was on the look out, the last boy was massaging Ji Yong's shoulders threatening him in the process. I tried to shout for help but my cry fell on deaf ears. They even took their ties and inserted inside my mouth so as to shut me up.

I could only cry silently as I witnessed my innocence being trampled on by this boy who seemed to be the same age as I. I could see that he didn't know what he was doing because it was the boy who stripped me that was giving him instructions while the one who was massaging him earlier was recording the event. I remember that I cried so much that I fainted in the process. The pain was so much to bear. I remember waking up in the hospital after two days.

From the incident, two months after missing my monthly visitors, I found out that I was pregnant. Jimin decided to take responsibility. Apparently he was the one who found me lying at our meeting area after he meeting Ji Yong crying near the area. At that moment I think the other boys had already left him, while threating to post the video if he said anything that happened there. He had a panic attack when he saw Jimin.

So here I was, a fifteen year old girl, pregnant because of rape. The school ignored the story. They even forgot that I had one time brought glory to the school. I was so traumatised much that my parents saw it fit for me to go back to Kenya and finish my studies there. I joined high school and managed to do my KCSE, the national exams in Kenya, passed well and joined the university to do my bachelor's degree in Education. My parents were very supportive of me. They helped me accept my situation.

My family back in Korea was also very supportive. They tried to follow up the case but apparently, in a country where the rich rule, there is no justice. My father told them to let it be because God was the ultimate judge.