Chapter 8 Confronting Tina

"Are you sure? Is Sharon's place or Sharon's brother house?" Mama-Tina asked again, wanting to be sure, and Tina shuddered and replied, "Sharon's place."

"Hm.. If this is just Sharon's place, then why're your eyes these red?. What happened, Tina?. Did anyone touch you?" Mama-Tina asked worriedly as she moved closer to examine Tina, but Tina moved backwards away from her mother, and she stared downward.

"Tell me the truth, Tina, what happened?" Mama-Tina insisted, but Tina shook her head, not wanting to reveal the truth, as she said, "Nothing happened, mom."

Tina thought, "How can I tell my mother the truth, that Sharon's brother slept with me? No, I cannot do that. [Breaking mom's heart, no] Tina kept quiet.

Mama-Tina sighed, and she replied, "Fine then, go inside and take your bath, as I will be leaving soon with Jude to the market, as I am just waiting for Jude to be through with his breakfast."

Jude stepped out since he had finished eating his meal, and he smiled at Tina and stared at their mother as he stepped down their frontage, while Mama Tina spoke to Tina, "We will be leaving the house now. Since you're back, Take care of the house and don't allow any friends to visit or enter this compound again. Is that understood?."

Mama-Tina warned, pulling her own ear as a sighed if warning, and Tina kept mute.

"Are you listening to me at all?!" Mama Tina yelled again, and Tina replied, "Yes, mom."

"Good. Let yesterday be the last time that you went out with Prisca or anyone else. I don't want to ever see Prisca here again in our house, nor anywhere around you, and I don't ever go to her compound either. Come, Jude, let's be going." Mama- Tina left to the market with Jude while leaving Tina all alone at home, and Tina cried after her mother left with Jude as she went back, locking the small gate entrance leading into their compound from inside. She cried her eyes out as she walked back into the house, remembering all the things that Patrick did to her. It was not up to 24 hours, but Patrick had slept with her in the blink of an eye. In a twinkling, she had been deflowered as she felt irritated all over and remembered how Patrick had kissed her, and she moaned sweetly to her ears.

Tina remembered Patrick used to disturb her before, to become his girlfriend, but she refused, as she was a college girl and preparing for her school scholarship exam, as she was brilliant and she didn't want to have a boyfriend.

After crying finished, Tina took off her clothes and went to take her bath in their bathroom to properly wash off herself and remove all the sticking scent of Patrick from her, as his masculine scent still lingered around her. She also felt sour, pained, and irritated, remembering how Patrick took her pride and moaning, as she had never been with a man before, and she didn't want to accept him nor anyone else to become her boyfriend until she was legally married, but the deed had already been done, and Patrick had deflowered her by taking the one most precious gift that she wanted to gift to her husband on their wedding night.

Tina silently prayed in her heart that nothing bad should happen to her again, as she cried and asked God for forgiveness of her sin with Patrick, as she bathed quickly, and finally stepped out of their local bathroom and went into their room to dress up before eating her breakfast, as she was very tired. And so she retired back to their room to sleep.

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When Prisca got home after rushing out of Patrick's house, She was still bittered as to why some men could not be trusted, as she knew that Sharon didn't believe her when she told her that Tina would never agree to sleep with Patrick or to open her legs freely for Patrick to make her love her.

She had told Sharon, "Tina and Patrick weren't even talking, let alone for Tina to now go into Patrick's room to give her pride to him; no, I cannot believe that."

But Sharon didn't agree, and she only called Tina a pretender. So she left Patrick's house to go and confronted Tina by herself, as she kept on wondering what truly happened as she went back home.

"Did Patrick drugged Tina and r*ped her, or did Tina consensually agree to give herself to Patrick? No." Prisca doubted, as she knew that Tina was so stubborn and adamant on having a boyfriend, and she sighed and concluded it would be forced, but she felt truly sorry for Tina and still needed to see her first to find out what exactly happened?.

When Prisca got home to her mother's house, she greeted her mother first, "Good morning, mom," who was preparing to leave the house too, and Mama-Prisca paused and stared back at Prisca, and as usual, she didn't ask Prisca anything but only replied, "Welcome, Prisca."

Prisca sighed and rushed into the house to drop her handbag, and she immediately rushed out again to go out, surprising her mother, who immediately stopped her and asked her, "And where are you going again, Madam? You just came back home now and are not even saying where you went before? And yet you want to rush out again. What's wrong with you, Prisca?! Is it because I don't flog you or reprimand you, and that's why you're behaving silly and having the guts to be doing anything that you like?."

"No mother," Prisca frowned as she heard her mother's question: "Then first explain to me where you went to with Mama-Tina's daughter?... As her mom was here, and come on, start explaining?!" Mama-Prisca yelled, and Prisca shifted backwards and away from her mother as she replied, "We just went to see Sharon, that's all. We would've returned home yesterday, but Sharon wasn't around, so we waited for her, and when we were about to come, the rain started and didn't stop falling until night fell, so we couldn't return home again, as we wouldn't have seen a bike at that late hour."

"A Bike!" Mama-Prisca exclaimed, and Prisca shuddered in fret while her mother asked her, "Where is this Sharon friend of yours living, that you would've to take a bike to her house and go see her there?. Isn't she living in this village?" Mama-Prisca asked, but Prisca frowned and kept mute.

"Answer me?!."

"Mom.." Prisca frowned deeply, and she started telling lies. As she replied, "Mom, Sharon is living here in this village, but she packed out recently to her family's new house in the neighboring village."

Whereas Sharon was from the next neighboring village, she grew up in the city with her parents. But because Mr. and Mrs. Scott weren't able to live in the city again, they returned back home to their village house, which was still far away. But Prisca wouldn't dare mention that to her mother. That it wasn't even Sharon's family house, but her brother's house that they went to, as the neighboring village wasn't that far away from them, but Patrick later moved out and was living outside their village and in an open city. And it was quite far away from their village, but because she couldn't resist going there, she went to his place to see Sharon, as Patrick was rich and doing well for himself.

Patrick actually allowed Sharon to live with him, ever since Sharon complained of not wanting to stay in the village again with their parents.

Sharon was the second-to-last daughter of their parents, and Sharon had two older brothers (Victory and Patrick), and an elder sister too named Cindy. Sharon had a younger sister named Amanda, who was still living in the village with their parents and helping their parents, while Sharon ran out and preferred living with Patrick in the city, as Patrick was living alone and more accommodating than their eldest brother named Victor, who was an army officer and living in barracks, as he was very reprimanding and didn't even allow Sharon nor any of his sisters to visit his home.

Sharon has told her that her eldest brother said that he wouldn't be able to monitor her movement around or look after her whenever he wasn't at home. And so Sharon went living with Patrick instead, since Patrick was more entertaining, and with his male friends visiting them, Patrick didn't really complain much about Sharon's behavior, even though Patrick knew that Sharon was dating and sleeping with some of his friends behind his back and different guys too, but he never yelled at Sharon nor reprimanded her for once, as he allowed it to slide because he didn't like to hit a woman.

Even after Patrick had returned home one day to his house and he caught Sharon pant-down with his friend, banging and moaning in his parlor, Patrick rather took Sharon back to their parent's house in their village, but Sharon stubbornly refused and still found her way back to his house, giving him silly excuses as to how she appeared in his house.

Sharon had stolen a secret key from Patrick's set of keys as a spare key into his apartment. So that whenever she liked it, she would return to his home in the city and be with him.

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Mama-Prisca I just stared at Prisca for a while, and she said, "Fine, go back inside first, and change your clothes to freshen up. You just arrived now, and you cannot rush out again. Go inside first!."

"Okay mom..." Prisca agreed, and she went back inside the house, but when she noticed that her mother had left the house, she immediately sneaked out of the house and locked the house door properly as she headed straight to Tina's house, wanting to find out the truth by herself.