HEART OF GOLD.
EPISODE 6
Frank cast his friends a suspicious glance and shook his head several times.
Frank: “I thought I had good people as friends, I didn’t know that you people are a bunch of dummies. How can you even think of advising me to r@pe my own girlfriend? Who does that?” he asked them.
Tam: “who doesn’t do it? Wait a minute, do you think they will come and tell you after doing it? You claim your girl is a virgin and she will not allow you touch her. I am telling you that the girl is just pretending and that she is giving it to some other people free of charge. The best way to find out is to r@pe her yourself” he said.
Frank: “and then what happens after I r@pe her?” he asked.
Sas: “guy, e be like say Tam make sense o. I been don dey reason am say that Liz no really like you. Yes, she doesn’t and that is why she refused to come and see you all the time that you were on admission in the hospital. I wonder how you two got back together” he said.
Frank: “I told you that she also fell ill that period” he defended her because he didn’t want his friends to know that she had abandoned him.
Sas: “if she truly loves you, why won’t she allow you make love to her?”
Frank: “because she is a v!rgin. Have you not been listening to our conversation or what?”
Sas: “so what if she is a v!rgin? Will she defl0wer herself? Abeg make I hear word jare” he said.
Tam: “Frank, me I have told you my own o, allow us arrange for you to r@pe this girl and afterwards you can continue dating her if you wish. If not eh, all these money you are spending on her will just be in vain and she will move on to another man as soon as you graduate” he said conclusively..
For days after the discussion, Frank thought of all that his friends had advised him to do and overcome by the pain of how she pushed him against the wall and abandoned him to die, he decided to give in to them and they planned the r@pe for the next week.
Frank knew all of Liz’ daily routine and so he knew that she ended her day by going to study in school till some minutes before eleven after which she will take a thorny, bushy and lonely path to her lodge since she could not get any bike or taxi to take her home at that hour.
On that fateful day, he and his friends who were masked and well covered waited in the bush in the thorny and lonely path for her.
After waiting for some minutes, they saw her approaching with her friend who was also her reading partner and they jumped out, frightening the two girls out of their skin.
They carried Liz and was r@ped and disfl0wered by her boyfriend
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Hours later
Frank was about opening the bottles of the drinks he was to share with his friends when he heard his phone vibrating from where he was charging it close to the refrigerator. He closed the fridge and picked the phone, it was Liz calling.
“Shit!” he cursed under his breath.
“Guys, please minimize your noise, its Liz calling” he said to his friends who were laughing loudly but suddenly went mute as soon as they heard Liz’ name.
He picked the call after taking few seconds to stabilize his voice and calm his nerves.
Frank: “hello, baby. Don’t tell me you are still awake by this time” he said into the receiver.
Liz: “baby, are you at home?” she asked.
Frank: “yes, why? Are you okay? Your voice doesn’t sound good” he said, feigning ignorance.
Liz: “I am on my way to your house; we need to talk about something”
Frank: “what is it? Talk to me” he said.
Liz: “don’t worry, we will talk about it when I come” she said but he interrupted.
Frank: “you know what? Just go back to your house, I am coming right away. I repeat go back because it is already late and it could get dangerous so I will come and see you” he said and dropped the call.
Frank: “guys, there is fire on the mountain, Liz is coming here” he said and before he could finish explaining, they all scampered out of the room, running as fast as their legs could carry them.
Frank shook his head and locked the door and hurried down to Liz’ house.
After the call ended, Liz’ friend convinced her on the need to return back to the house and wait for her boyfriend and so they went back in together.
Few minutes later, Frank entered.
“Where is my baby? What is going on here?” he said as soon as he entered the house.
Liz: “I am here” she said and started crying.
Frank: “baby what happened to you? The way you spoke on phone, I was afraid you were ill or something” he said taking her in his arms.
Liz: “it would have been hundred times better if I was ill. My God will punish all those who did this to me. It shall never be well with them. They will never know peace in their life. They will di….”
Frank: “hey! Thou shall not curse, remember?” he quickly interrupted with his heart beating fast.
Liz: “no, I will curse this one. It shall never be well with him. He will never find happiness..”
“I said it is okay. Now calm down and tell me exactly what happened” he said, cleaning her tears.
Liz narrated to him all that happened and Frank heaved a sigh of relief when she told him that she couldn’t recognize any of the guys including the one who had r@ped her.
Frank: “what! Are you telling me that you were r@ped?” he asked, feigning anger.
Liz: “baby I am sorry. The b@stard r@ped me and took away the v!rg!nity that I was preserving for you. Please forgive me” she said.
Frank: “look at what you have caused me, I begged you to allow me touch you but you refused. I pleaded with you all to no avail. Are you happy now” he said.
Liz: “I wanted to give it to you as a wedding present. I didn’t know this would happen, if I knew, I would have allowed you do it. I am sorry please” she was holding on to him as if her life depended on him.
Frank: “so what do you want me to do now?”
Liz: “I don’t want anything to change about us and that is why I am telling you first”
Frank: “so, I am the one who is not good enough to have your v!rg!nity right? Okay. So, tell me. What do you intend to do with the person who did this to you?” he asked.
Liz: “Ah, the person will pay. I will make sure I fish him out even if it means using diabolical means. The person will pay with his blood. I am going to the police right away for them to commence their investigation” she said.
Frank: “No! You cannot do that” he said suddenly and then regained his composure.
Liz: “why not?” she asked suspiciously.
Frank: “you are a Christian and God says we should leave vengeance to him. Just forgive the person and move on, God has a reason for everything that happens” he said.
Liz: “I cannot believe that you are saying this. Somebody from nowhere r@ped me, depriving me of the v!rginity I was preserving for you and you said I should let it go just like that without involving the Police? What If I have contacted some STDS from him? Or even pregnancy? I told you that the person didn’t use any protection”
Frank: “I know but even with that, you need to forgive. Do you know the scandal and stigmatization you will go through on this campus if people find out? Trust me everyone will find out once you report to the Police. People would even say that you were careless for following that lonely path late at night. And then they will begin to point fingers at me as the guy whose v!rgin girlfriend was r@ped. I don’t want that kind of attention. Let us just go to a private hospital in town and they will wash your stomach thereby flushing out any of his semen in you, that way you won’t get pregnant but as for vengeance, leave that for God” he said k!ssing her on the forehead and hopping that he was not giving himself away as the culprit.
Liz sighed and stared at him, eye ball to eye ball as if she was finding it difficult to believe him.
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Days after his father started living with them, the old man fell sick and all entreaties by Declan and his wife to take him to the hospital proved abortive.
Anytime they brought up the issue of going to the hospital, the old man would reply that they should leave him at home to die since his son had refused to donate of one his kidneys to him.
That morning, Declan and his wife knocked on the door to the guest room where his father was to greet him and ask after his health but the image that greeted them on the bed shocked them.
The old man was lying on the bed with a sharp knife in his hands and his pupils were dilated. Declan ran to him and helped him to sit up.
Declan: “father you don’t look good. Please allow me take you to the hospital” he said to him.
Stacey: “yes dad. Please allow us take you to the hospital for treatment and that knife you have in your hands is very sharp. Please bring it” she said and stretched forth her hands to collect it but he jerked away.
Mr Ogar: “I am not going to any hospital in Nigeria. You have always wanted me to die of this aliment right? Allow me die in your house” he said weakly.
“That is not true father, how can I wish that my own father dies?” he said in a sad voice.
“Move away from me, the two of you” the old man suddenly said, startling the young couple.
Mr Ogar: “since my own son has refused to help me regain good health, I have decided to kill myself and end all this pain. Yes, I am tired of living in this world with the reality that my own son whom I struggled so hard to train will not help his old and dying father. I will stab myself to death so that you can live to enjoy your life with your wife” he said and raised the knife up, aiming at his stomach.
Declan tried his best to talk his father out of committing suicide but the man was bent on taking his own life and so his son had no option than to grant his request.
Declan: “fine, just put down the knife, father. I will donate the kidney to you” he said and his wife nodded in agreement.
Stacey: “yes dad, there is no need taking your own life. He will donate one of his kidneys to you just like he has said. just put down the knife, please”
Mr Ogar: “how am I sure that he is telling me the truth? What if you change your mind after I drop the knife?” he asked suspiciously.
Declan: “I swear on my life, father. Just put down the knife”, he said.
After several persuasions and promises on the part of Declan, his father dropped the knife and his wife quickly picked it up and ran with it to the kitchen.
Mr Ogar: “If you change your mind about the transplant, I will quietly kill myself without your knowledge, I promise you that” he said to his son who sat down on a heap in the bed, the implication of the promise he had made falling fully on him.
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