Fauziat-A true story (Part three)

Then I gave him my answer, I said "yes" but I was determined not to be his wife for just the session.

We were now in a relationship and I didn't want to know how he was going to get rid of Tolu or how he got rid of her if he had done it already, I just knew that I had passed the first stage. I picked up my phone and called my friends. I told them about the development. "You?" Deborah asked. You that behaves as if you would die a virgin; you that has never gotten a boyfriend; I would never snatch another woman's man. Fauziat you are heartless." I allowed her talk then I told her I just called to inform her and then hung up.

When I called Tobi the response was different. "Fauziat, I am proud of you. You love it and you went for it. I want to be like you." Her response took away the guilt I had started to feel after I spoke with Deborah.

Khalid and I decided to resume school two days before the resumption date. When I got to aunty Evelyn's place, they were surprised that I came earlier than the day I told them I would come. I dropped my bag and told them I was coming that I needed to do some things outside the house. "This one that you came earlier than your resumption date and you are already in a hurry to go outside hope all is well," my aunty asked. "You don't usually resume until a week after school resumes. What has changed?" she added. Pastor didn't allow me speak when he cut in "Fauziat, I am beginning to suspect you o, all these young boys in this area don't have anything to offer you. They will just use you and dump you," he said.

I told them there is a new development in school and I wanted to check the internet for some information and left the house. We agreed to meet at the bus stop before my house by 3.00 pm and it was 3 minutes to the time. I hurried up and arrived there at about 2 minutes past 3. 00 pm. I saw him from a distance and stopped for a while to admire him before walking to meet him.

When I got close to him, I felt an odd feeling. I couldn't describe it. I was now in a relationship. I had a boyfriend, I giggled and said hello. He looked at me with his usual smile and said hi. We held hands which I was not used to doing because I had a principle not to shake men and it had caused a lot of problems for me in the past. 

We spoke for a long time walking up and down different streets.  He showed me places I had not been to. When we got tired, we stopped at a cafeteria where we talked until it was 5.00 in the evening. I got up and said I had to leave. He insisted I stayed a bit but I told him no and explained that I had to be home. I told him I was having problems at home but promised to tell him when we meet the following day. We agreed again to meet and go to school by 12.00pm the next day.

Surprisingly, when I got home nobody said anything. I greeted them, went in took a shower, ate and went to bed.

In the morning I got ready for school and told pastor I wouldn't be able to pick his daughter from crèche because I was going to school to do some things. As soon as I said it, his mood changed and he shook his head.

He said: "Fauziat, this thing that I have been begging you since that you refused to give to me you are now taking to all those small boys in your school. If you come to this house pregnant I will kill you. I will make sure your life is ruined."

I just stood there, allowed him to finish talking and as I turned my back to leave, he held my hand and made me face him. He started to apologise. He said: "I am sorry Fauziat. I didn't mean to say all those things but you have changed. You cannot deceive me, I am older than you. I look at you these days and I see a happy girl who has fallen in love. Why can't you love me too."

I was irritated, I just wanted to leave, I didn't say a word but watched him make a fool of himself then I left the house to meet Khalid. I got to our meeting place late and explained that I was delayed. When we got to school, I told him everything that has been happening to me from the day my aunty married until that morning without missing a detail. Khalid was infuriated, he wanted me to report pastor to everybody but I refused. He even began to suspect that I had slept with pastor and didn't want pastor to implicate me but I explained that my sister's marriage was at risk.

As we were discussing we saw some of our school administrative staff pasting some notices on the wall of our department. We stood up to see what it was and to my surprise it was a notice to students of the department not to resume in the school because our department had been moved to a rural area because of space and comfort.

I was ecstatic, I was over the moon; I was delighted. I couldn't wait to go home and begin to pack but I also didn't have a place to stay.  So I picked my phone to call home.  At the end of the day my brother said his wife's sister stays in the small town where the school was located, just opposite the school. He called her and arrangement was made for me to go and live with her.

We left school after I had called all my friends and Khalid had also called his friends to decide on what to do. When I got home I broke the news to my aunty and pastor, she didn't seem too worried as she asked if I have a place to stay there and I told her I had.

Pastor on the other hand looked really angry. I looked at him and saw rage in his eyes but it didn't move me. I then went into my room and started to pack a few things I would need for two weeks. I had planned to stay for two weeks to get things ready before coming to pack the rest of my  things.

I heard pastor and aunty Evelyn talking later and I was hearing my name. When I finished packing, I came out to assist her in the kitchen but saw both of them heading towards my room. I knew something was up. Pastor had gone to convince his wife not to let me go.

They entered my room and saw that I was already packed. "Faiziat, are you sure you cannot be going to school from here again?" she asked. I said no, that school was too distant, and I would miss classes, that I needed a place close to school. She tried over and over again to make me change my mind but I refused, telling her it was the best for me.

Pastor wasn't happy, it was on his face but I didn't care.  Afterall I am not related to him and I didn't come to live with him but my sister and she had agreed that I go. 

I left for school the next morning with Khalid. I arrived at my sister in-law's place while Khalid left with his friends to pay for an hostel that someone had helped negotiate the previous day.

My sister in-law is beautiful. Light in complexion; she had everything any man would want in a woman. She was a good cook, very neat, very jovial but I soon found out she was a call girl.

It didn't bother me because it wasn't my business. I just needed a place to lay my head. She was so nice to me. She treated me like a sister and didn't allow me spend on food as she prepared the food we ate in the house from her purse.

Suddenly things started to change. It was as if she was welcoming me all the time she was good. I had stayed with her for two months already. She started to bring in her male friends to the house and would say I should excuse her.

Whenever they come at night and wanted to pass the night at her place, she would say I should look for a place to stay for the night. The first time it happened, she begged her neighbour (a young bachelor) to allow me sleep in his room.

The place was a face me –I face you apartment. It had five rooms on each sides of the block. We stayed in the first room while he was in the next to us. Well, I spent the night in his room and didn't sleep at all.

Everything was going on well in school. I was seeing Khalid everyday and Tolu had met me in his room once when she came to beg him to take her back. She saw me and walked away with tears in her eyes. She even began to ignore me. She soon told everybody in school that I was dating Khalid and that it wouldn't last because it was just for a session. I didn't care because I had my plans.

Khalid was living with his friends in a room too, but far from my sister in-law's place and I went to his place only when I had to because they were six in the room. Our love grew and I loved him the more as the days passed by because he was a gentle man. He never made a move to kiss me, or come too close for comfort and I was okay with it. I didn't tell him that I was a virgin also.

On the other hand, I was not having it smoothly at home. My sister in-law had started bringing men every night, and I had to spend each night in her neighbour's place. I wasn't sleeping well at night and I resolved to sleeping in class whenever we were free.

One night after she had told her neighbour I would sleep in his place and she went inside with her guest, he told me he wanted to work on his lap-top and asked if I had a yahoomail address, I said no and he decided we open one for me. I thought I needed it and stayed up with him to open the adress. After opening it, he began to look at me so much that I became uncomfortable. He then moved to where I laid down preparing to sleep and laid down with me. 

He started to say things that I didn't want to hear but I refused him telling him that I had a boyfriend. "Why are you not in his place right now. Why didn't he get a place for you to stay. Do you know how much another person would have paid me to allow them sleep in my place almost every night?"

Then he decided he would rape me "I will rape you here and your sister will not do anything to me." I begged him and told him that I was a virgin and he should not hurt me. He calmed down and said: "You are a virgin and you are living with that prostitute, na wa o. I thought that place would even be like express if I go in. Okay, I am sorry, I will teach you." I told him I wasn't ready to learn but he insisted. He said he would finger me and I won't lose my virginity. He said I would suck his manhood and I won't get pregnant. 

I said he shouldn't worry that we would do all those things but not that night that I was really tired and sleepy so he allowed me to sleep on the condition that he held me until morning. I allowed him and as soon as he slept off pushed him away and slept too.

In the morning, I told my sister in-law what happened, she went to him angry and gave him the length of her tongue. She came to me and said she was sorry that it won't happen again. I told her I wasn't going to sleep in his room anymore then left for school.

At school, I told Khalid everything and he was shocked. "You mean you kept this away from me?" He told me how sorry he was that he didn't have enough to get me a place and demanded that I take him to the neighbour but I declined and told him to forget it that I wasn't going to sleep in his room again.

It was our last semester in the third level and she had not brought a man into the house since I told her what her neighbour did. She made sure they paid for a hotel whenever they needed to. 

I didn't know she was not happy with it. After our exams, we had a break to resume for our final class. I went home to spend time with family. My family had had a reunion with another family that we lost contact with so I spent most of my holidays in my new family's place getting to know them better and catching up on old times.

The children were older than me with many years.  They were in the same age group with my eldest brother and their mum had discussed with my parents that I married one of her children since her husband was late and they wouldn't want us to lose contact again. 

I was frequenting their house because of the family not because of their son that they wanted me to marry. His name is Abdullateef and he was a very troublesome child who was giving his family problems at that time.

He had another brother, Mukhtar. Mukhtar was more handsome and I would have preferred him because he was gentle and wealthy but I had Khalid and he was okay for me.

Mukhtar and Abdullateef lived together but we met almost every Sunday at their mum's because they always had a family meeting there and I had become a family member and also attended the meeting. I loved attending because Mukhtar would give me a lot of money and I didn't like missing it.

They invited me many times to their place but I preferred to meet them at their mum's place. They were not staying close to my school but I could get to their place in one hour if I wanted to go visit them. 

I resumed in school and to my surprise, I met my sister in-law's absence. It wasn't her absence that surprised me but that she gave my luggage to another neighbour to keep for me with a message that she wouldn't be coming back to the house and I  should look for another place to stay. 

On inquiry I found out she had gotten into trouble with one of her suger daddies and ran away and that he had boys everywhere waiting to bungle her to him whenever they see her. She said they should tell me not to mention to anyone that we were related if I wanted to live.

I carried my bags and called my friends who told me to come to their place. I began to live with them. At school things were going on smoothly with me and Khalid. We were preparing for our departmental party that would hold in an hotel at night and awards would be given to students who were best in many categories.

I was still living with my friends at that time until  our second semester when one of them began to have nightmares and after consulting, her mum told her that one of her room mates was the cause and the only solution was for her to leave the house.

Obviously it was me that would leave because I was the guest in the room. I called Mukhtar and he told me to take a taxi to his place. I took a taxi and when I got to his place he paid and said I would be going to school from there. "My office is not too far from your school so I would be taking you to school and whenever I am done and you are ready, I would take you back from school." He said. I didn't have a choice but to agree.

Watch out for the final part of Fauziat next week