Incest

"I am tired of staying with you and papa," I always complained to Mama. I actually felt that I was fed up with them and needed to change environment. As the first daughter, I liked luxury
and wished I was born into a very affluent
family. One of my bad habits was that I never liked working.
"instead of Ada causing high blood pressure for you and your husband, allow her to come live with me," uncle Eby suggested. Uncle Eby was my mother's elder brother.
"I would love to live with Uncle," I quickly accepted.


Not too long that I started living with uncle Eby, it was as if I was given fertilizer. I grew tall overnight and plumping as the day passed by. I began to notice changes in my body. I started regreting my sudden weight. But of course I found happiness and relax mind living with uncle Eby. I then had to live the kind of life I have always dreamt of.

That fateful night uncle Eby bought me a full chicken well garnished with pepper and said, " it's all for you, Ada."
I was elated to have a full chicken all to myself. After eating, "Ada come on, come and lie by my side," he requested. I was twelve, so innocent that I never had a second thought. I jumped in, lying very close to uncle Eby as he gave me a warm cuddle and later he muffled us with blanket.

I woke up in the morning, I felt sore in my mouth and my tongue soured. Feeling pains between my legs, I peeped through my nightie, nothing seemed to have changed. Not until I stood up and yawned wildly, turning to look my backside, "Uncle, Uncle, Uncle blood stain...!" I screamed. Uncle delayed to come, "Uncle, blood soaked my gown! Come and see," I showed him but he never breathed a word to me other than to sigh and left me crying.

"Uncle I want to go home," I said to him three days later. He did not argue with me. I noticed his sudden hatred for me. The worst, he began to ignore my presence, no longer pays attention to my needs and everything about me began to irritate him. If it was before he would pet me to stay because my uncle loves spending quality time with me. But then, it appeared there was something strange about him, his sudden hatred for me which I couldn't tell why.
"Get your luggage ready I will soon join you," he said.

"Ada, this one you and your uncle visit I hope all is well," my father asked. I couldn't talk but my instinct told me that all wasn't well with me though I couldn't figure out what the supposed problem was.

Three weeks later, "hey, Ada why are you vomiting? When did this start?" mother asked suspiciously.
I never knew that she had been observing my every move ever since I returned. And it was obvious that she had be noticing strange signs, my constant spitting, yawning all the time and feeling fatique. She observed that my breast was suddenly increasing and my hip expanding. I couldn't say anything because i didn't understand what she was driving at.

"Ada come close, your eyes," she peeped through my eyes. "Ada you are pregnant. That is it. That is the symptom of pregnancy. Ada, it is written all over you!" she shouted with her hands on her head. "Who is responsible," she later asked.
"Mama, I dont know but I...I...I..." I stammered.
"You what?" speak before I beat the daylight out of you," my mother spoke to me with every anger in her.  The monster in her came out that if care was not taken she could strangle me.
"I think Uncle touched me," I managed to speak.

If my mother heard me she did not show it. She was silent for about five minutes before she held her hands on her chest. "oh Chim ooo! Ada has killed me. Ebere, why did you have to do this to me?" my mother cried her heart out.

The deed has been done! There was no other option than for uncle Eby and I to undergo ritual cleansing, 'igba oriko' for the sacrilegious act. It was a great taboo we had committed against our land. I later found out its consequence.
I put to bed, the boy started growing up not only as an imbecile but a cripple.


Moral lesson:
It is good to be obedient to our parents. Especially girls should be conscious of themselves, don't be loose because we see money or we see free food and gift.

Click on, "Pregnant for my brother"

See also, "a short story collection"