ABANDONED

"Sophia!! Sophia!!!, Stop that." My mother called as I tore my younger sister's skin open and drank her blood.

My other sisters stood afar off watching me as I sucked my immediate younger sister's blood.

My name is Sophia Adams. I am twelve years old. I am the third born of my mother, Mrs. Mary Adams, who is an online marketer.

My mom does her work at home so she can monitor us when we come back from school. My Dad, Mr. Paul Adams is a businessman who travels all over the world. I only see my dad three days in a month. He is a busy man.

I have an elder brother who is the firstborn of my parent. His name is John. He is followed by my elder sister Deborah.

As I said, I am the third born, followed by my immediate younger sister Diana, then Rose.

I started being thirsty for blood when I was Ten years old when I licked my elder sister Deborah's blood when she got injured, but the craving for blood became more.

This is not my first time drinking blood, but I always avoided drinking human blood, so I usually bought animal blood to drink, but today is different.

I don't like being involved in a fight with my sisters or brother.

Anyway, my brother is not living with us. He has his business, and he is about to marry. He has a one-room apartment to himself.

My parents were formally Christians before they had me.

According to what I heard, They stopped their fellowship with God when their leader started giving them different stupid words from God.

Today my sister, Diana, got on my nerves.

She met us at home to watch our favorite T. V program, but when my sisters Deborah and Rose left the sitting room, she changed the channel in my presence.

She has always been doing this whenever I am the only one with her, but today I decided it was going to be her last.

I looked at my mom, who ran to her daughter's body, which I left on the floor, knowing what I had done to my sister. I turned to walk into my room.

"Stop there, Sophia, Stop there," Mom said, weeping as she carried her daughter's lifeless body up and placed it on her lap.

"Get me a rope, Deborah," Mom said amidst tears looking at my elder sister while holding my dead sister's body on her lap.

I know what my mom wanted to do with the rope. Anytime any of us messed up, she would take us to the bathroom, lock the door, and then beat us. She will warn us not to tell anyone.

Deborah brought the rope to Mum and I trembled.

"Mom!" Rose called out crying.

Rose walked out from where she was standing and let out a cry looking at Diana's lifeless body as Mom stood up to her feet, dropping the body on the floor. I bent on my knees as Mom approached me.

"Mom it was a mistake," I said.

Mom looked at the side of my mouth which was stained with blood. She dragged me to the bathroom and went out closing the door on me.

I could hear her say, "Let's go." to my sisters.

Were they leaving me in this house, locked in the bathroom? I had no way of escaping.

The windows of the bathroom were too high so my hands couldn't reach them. I sat on the bathroom floor crying for minutes until I heard the handle of the door be turned. I ran to the end of the bathroom crying because I knew it was Mom coming in to beat me.

I could see Mom come into the bathroom with a rope and a cane as she locked the bathroom door. She walked up to me.

"I know you are fearless among your sisters, but why did you have to kill your sister and suck her blood?" She asked as she wiped me with the cane.

I screamed in pain.

"Shut up. Use your finger to hold your lip." Mom said.

I used two of my fingers to hold my lip as Mom tied me, so I wouldn't be able to move. She wiped me mercilessly, not even considering that I was her child.

I groaned in pain as I couldn't scream out.

"Are you a vampire?" Mom asked crying. She began crying while beating me.

"I never gave birth to a Vampire." She said flogging me.

I felt thirsty and looked at my mother. I saw a beautiful round meat which had blood in it and I opened my mouth wide and groaned. I didn't feel the pain of the cane again as I saw the meat amidst my tears.

I groaned again, startling the meat as I opened my mouth. The meat ran away, closing the door behind it, and before I could go out to follow the meat, I heard the door being locked. I returned to where I was sitting and looked up, thinking of my life.

"I am thirsty," I told myself.

I looked at the bathtub and saw the handle of the tap stained with the little blood I poured on it while looking for a way of escape. I bent down and licked the little blood but I still felt thirsty.

I looked everywhere but saw no blood. I opened the tap and drank some water. I still felt thirsty. I looked around and then saw my mom.

"You broke the rope?" She asked and I looked at her in tears.

Mom stood in a far distance with a long cane and wiped me.

"How dare you kill your sister?" She asked.

I remembered how I killed my sister and cried as Mom flogged me.

"Put off your clothes," She said and I put off my clothes.

"Turn your back," She said, and I turned my back.

She continued flogging me.

When she finally stopped flogging me, She warned me not to tell anyone, and I nodded my head.

She turned, pointing to the door as I picked up my clothes and ran to my room.

I sat on the floor in my room thinking of what happened during the day.

"I killed my sister, I killed Diana," I said, crying as I remembered how I killed my sister.

I lay on my bed and closed my eyes, wishing that I could sleep.

Minutes later I slept, moving to the dreamland.

''Hi, Mama.'' I greeted a woman who was soaked in blood in my dream.

''Sophia, come closer.'' The woman said, and I walked closer to her.

I had tears on my face as I moved closer to the woman and saw her face change to a beautiful face. She was so beautiful, and I became amazed at how her beauty shined.

I faced down not knowing how to face the woman, then I heard Diana scream just as she screamed when I tore her skin open.'

I woke up, immediately shaking, and used my eyes to scan my room in search of Diana's spirit. I was so afraid.

It was still afternoon, so I stood up from my bed to go outside, but I was so scared to go out because of what I just did to my sister, Diana.

Why was she so rude? If she wasn't rude, she wouldn't be dead by now. How I killed her was what I didn't understand. I am a girl who doesn't fear. I can't kill even an animal, but now I have killed a human.

Tears started dripping down my face as I remembered this.

Slowly, I opened my room door and silently went out. I am thirsty for water.

I silently run to the kitchen and look around to see if anyone is coming. I felt satisfied that no one was near as I rushed to the tap and turned it on, I drank some water from it using a small cup.

Satisfied with the water I drank, I slowly turned back to walk out of the kitchen and saw my elder sister, Deborah, standing at the door side with her hands folded. I closed my eyes as she walked to me.

"Mom wants to see you." She said to me.

I closed my eyes again and she held me.

"Make it quick." She said and left the kitchen.

I opened my eyes slightly and adjusted my posture. I walked to the sitting room where I could see Mom and Rose. Rose moved backward immediately when she saw me.

"Mum, you called for me," I said boldly.

"Yes, I did." Mom said.

"Have your seat." She pointed to a sofa opposite her.

She held Rose close to her. I had sat on the sofa and Rose looked into my eyes before running into her room.

Mom adjusted her sitting position and looked at me.

"Mom, I am sorry," I said to my Mom with boldness.

"Sophia!" Mom called.

"Yes Mom," I said.

"You have never done this before." Mom said, pointing to me, and I could see tears welling up her face.

"I don't want this to happen again." She said sniffing.

"Yes, Mom," I said to her, then stood up.

Mom looked at me and pointed to the sofa I just stood up from.

"I am not done talking to you, Sophia, so do have your seat." She said to me, raising her voice, and I sat down back.

"Deborah." She called my sister, who was sitting at the dinner table.

"Yes, Mom." My sister said, getting up from the chair she was sitting on.

"Go to Rose's room, she needs either of our comforts." She said to Deborah and Deborah left Rose's room.

She turned to me to talk and then turned to Deborah.

"That will be your room from now on." She said and Deborah nodded her head.

We girls stayed two in a room. Deborah and I shared a room while Diana and Rose shared a room, but now that I have killed Diana, Deborah will have to move to Rose's room while I will be alone. Tears flowed down my eyes as none of my sisters would want to associate with me.

Mom faced me and I used my hand to clean the tears that were flowing down my eyes.

"Sophia!!!." My mom called, shouting my name, and then I noticed that I was bringing out mucus from my nose.

"Excuse me," I said to her and went to the toilet entrance to take some wipes to wipe my mucus.

I returned to where I was sitting after wiping the mucus from my nose and disposing of the wipes into the waste bin beside the toilet. Mom looked at me before speaking.

"Your father and your brother will be coming here tomorrow to discuss this issue, and we want you to be here when we are discussing it." She said.

"Okay," I said feeling weird.

"Hope you will be here by the time we will be discussing?" She asked and I looked at her.

"What time?" I asked.

"Six p.m.," She said.

"I will be here," I said, nodding my head.

"Okay, you can take your leave." She said and I rose and ran to my room.

I locked the door since Deborah wasn't sleeping in my room.

"How will I cope?" I asked myself, crying.

I took up Diana's picture from my cupboard and looked at it.

Suddenly, I threw her picture on the ground when I looked at it and held my ear and covered it tight as I remembered the dream I dreamt, and I could hear her voice screaming louder than the one I heard in the dream.

I released my ear after some minutes when her scream died down and looked at her picture again. I ran to my bed, sat down, picked a book, and started reading I felt so sad.

Suddenly, my stomach started making a sound which meant that I was hungry. I went to the kitchen and filled my plate with some rice, which I topped with soup, and I set out to the dining table. I went back to the kitchen to get some water.

I ate the rice and drank the water and was filled after I finished eating, so I went to the kitchen, washed the plate, rinsed the cup then went to my room after placing the plate and cup in their appropriate place.

I woke up the next day with a slight headache and looked at the clock, it was Six a.m.

"It's still quite early," I said to myself as I opened my cupboard taking out a pain reliever.

I drank a little portion of the pain reliever. Something fell on the floor, and my eyes immediately went in the direction of the sound, I looked at it and saw that it was my sister Diana's picture frame that had fallen.

I looked at the picture in the frame and remembered when we used to play with each other.

I sat on the floor sobbing as I remembered her.

"Oh!, Today, my dad and brother will be home to discuss my issue," I said to myself thoughtfully as I continued sobbing.

I looked at the time again, it was half past six. I stood up and opened the door of my room.

I slowly stepped into the kitchen as my stomach kept making noise, which meant that I was hungry.

I opened the pot, but it was empty, so I rinsed the pot.

After rinsing the pot, I walked up to the packet of noodles and took a noodle, then went back to the pot and cooked the noodles, then ate.

I returned to my room, took my bath, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair, applied some jelly on my skin, then went to my bed after putting on my underwear and closed my eyes trying to get some sleep, which I couldn't. I looked at the clock again and sat up. I remembered Diana's favorite song which I sang, and I didn't know when tears started dropping down my eyes as I remembered how Diana usually sang the song.

After some minutes of singing and wiping my tears, I looked at the wall clock then stood up, walked over to the wardrobe I shared with Deborah, and looked into the wardrobe, but found the space meant for Deborah empty.

"She has packed out of this room," I said to myself feeling thrilled and quite sad as I picked my school wear and put it on.

I sat on my bed, taking out my shoe, which had been polished, and put it on.

"Sophia, are you ready?" I could hear Deborah call me and my heart was full of joy hearing my sister call me.

I quickly wore my shoes and got up to leave the room carrying my school bag.

"You are not looking bad." I could hear Rose's little voice directed at me as I closed my door.

I faced her. 'So she is no more afraid of me.' I thought to myself walking to them.

My mom came out of her room.

"Mother!" Rose said giggling as she hugged Mom.

"Good morning, mom." I greeted and she looked at me.

"Don't forget our meeting at Six p.m." She said and I nodded my head.

Rose looked at me and then walked up to Deborah.

We left the house for school.

Arriving at school, I walked up to my class and had my sit on my usual chair. The class started with English. Two hours later, we had our leisure time. We all went out to play.

I stood behind a tree looking at all my mates who were playing.

"Sophia, come over." My best friend, Cindy, said walking to my side and pulling my hand.

"I don't want to play, Cindy," I said to Cindy who pulled me to the playground.

"Why don't you want to play?" She asked me and I shook my head.

Some minutes later, I started playing with her.

"Ah!" I could hear someone shout, and we all stopped playing and turned to see who it was.

I could see blood dropping from the person's hand and my eyes widened at the sight of blood. I could see Cindy wave at me, but I didn't care and rushed to the boy who shouted and started licking his blood.

They all stared at me.

"Stop that, Sophia." I heard Rose say, as she walked up to me.

I immediately remembered how I killed Diana and looked away from the boy's hand. I still felt like drinking blood, but remembering what I did to Diana made me look away from the blood.

I walked to Rose and stretched my hands out to her, but she moved back. I looked up and saw Deborah standing beside Rose. Deborah was in her final class in the school.

Four hours later, we were done for the day in school, so we all left to our various houses, and I walked home with my sisters.

"Please, do not tell Mom about what I did during our leisure time," I said to my sisters pleadingly.

"Sophia you know I won't, but you have to stop this habit before you become a nuisance to the community," Deborah said to me.

"Have you forgiven me for killing our sister?" I asked them.

"I can never forgive you," Rose answered me.

I looked at Deborah who didn't utter a word.

"Deborah!" I called out her name.

"I can't say anything yet because it is still fresh as it happened yesterday." She said, answering me.

I looked down and sobbed.

We got home minutes later, and I went into my room and sat on my bed. I heard a knock on my door.

"Who's there?" I asked, but no one answered, so I sat still on the bed.

I heard the knock again loudly.

"I am coming!" I said, thinking it was Rose.

I walked up to the door and opened it and saw my brother standing in front of my door.

"Good afternoon," I said and opened the door wide.

"Do not forget that we have a meeting in the next three hours." My brother said to me not smiling, which made me sad because my brother always smiled and joked with us whenever he came visiting.

I nodded my head to him and he left my room.

I quickly locked my room door and sat on the bed thinking of what would happen during the meeting.