THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY
Written by: Chidinma Ihemenandu
PROLOGUE
Mr and mrs Ojukwu has been married close to sixteen years now and no sign of a child, they have gone to series of taste in different hospitals but all medical reports has proved that they are both healthy and in due time she will conceive.
looking at how things are, they felt that there is no longer time and people has began to raise an eyebrow, tongues has began to wag and the challenges of childlessness has began to worry them more than before especially the woman. ..going to churches is been the last thing they want to think about because they said they have worshipped God enough and he failed them, then they decided to try other spiritual means which is native doctor.
The native doctor sure provided what they needed but of course you all know that ……Onyi nye ekwensu wu we-ta isi bia were isi. meaning(devil doesn’t give a gift freely without requesting something else in return). The native doctor ogidigbam by name told them to go and in 9months time she will give birth to a baby girl bu….t once the girl sees her First period, they should bring it to him for some procedures, cleansing and joining but when the couple tried to ask what he meant by cleansing and joining they only received an alarming shout from ogidigbam the dibia, they both froozed murmured sorry to him.. he told them that they should make sure they bring the child first menses and if they failed to do so, they will both have themselves to blame.. he shouted at them to leave his presence they thanked him and fearfully left wishing they had not come atall cux of the condition he gave but the deed has been done already .
At exactly 9months later Mrs ojukwu gave birth to a very beautiful girl but one thing still remained a mystery… instead of the baby to cry mwaamwaamwaa as a new born baby she didn’t ,all she could do was to Smile despite every thing done by the doctors to make her cry,, she only kept smiling.
she was named Agustina Ndidiamaka Ojukwu.
Finally the couple has gotten what they wanted but what will happen to the child and the family if they failed to do what the dibia told them to do? Relax and read this intriguing story to find out…..
THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY
Written by: Chidinma Ihemenandu
EPISODE ONE
My name is Tina Ndidiamaka Ojukwu, I grew up to find out that i am the only child of my parents. I have really longed to have siblings some one to play and talk with, someone to bully and fight then after we still settle and laugh over our our fights, some one to share my pains and happiness with, someone to quench my longings and state of loneliness but as much as I want it I can’t get anyone.
No siblings not even one, most a times I wondered why it just have to be me alone the maid ,my mum and dad that is living in this large building that can contain more than thirty people. I am been treated like a gold, a real princess, like am too delicate and can break at any point in time if not handle very carefully… I am been treated like am the only thing that my parents has ever wished for in their entire life..
At my tender age, I appreciate that very much but not to be compared with when I have at least a brother or sister I would have been more happier.
I am six years of age at that time, very beautiful, intelligent, smart,cheerful.. In fact I am more fairy than the prettiest mermaid in the sea, this is the comment I always get from my parents and and friends in the school. I attended the best school in the city of Lagos, while in my cla-ss, I am the best student and this attracted my teachers to love me, it also made many people in my school attracted to me both in my clas-sand outside my clas-seven those higher than me in clas-sand those that I am higher than.
I am very good in almost everything both in sports,dancing and academic.. At my age I represented my school in many competitions both in and outside the school this also lead to my already popular parents more popular in the town. Most a times I am been addressed by *Baby Perfect* by my peers..
This is a little introduction about myself, I guess many of my peers wishes to be like me but if only they knows the mysteries that surrounds my existence in life…. Trust me they will all gladly accept and appreciate been themselves.
I am Beautiful yet Ugly????
THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY
Written by: Chidinma Ihemenandu
EPISODE TWO
Outside my house, I am very very happy like a bird that cannot be restricted, people always Marvels at my joviality and cheerfulness at that age and they normally speaks good about me because of how respectful I am despite my beauty and fame and inspite of all the praises ,good wishes and complements I received from people it doesn’t make my head swell… Even people wishes to be like me while some parents wished they have a daughter or children like me but I don’t really know why..
Inside of me I am not happy, I am not satisfied, there is an emptiness within me that I wished to fill, there is something lacking in my life, I always feel that there is something that I needed to have that I can’t , every time I think about it, it breaks me down completely and makes me withdraw to my self like a snail that has been touched and it withdraws into its shell… This normally happens whenever the school bell rings for closing hours, I see my friends waving goodbye to me and moving down to their various cars with their siblings, fighting on who will sit in the front sit and who will sit at the back, sometimes I watched the older ones carrying the bag and launch boxes of the younger ones while they moved to meet their mum, dad or driver who came to pick them up to go home. I always watch them with admiration, wishing that I have a sibling or siblings too, I will at that time starts imagining and visualising how their homes will be, I know that their houses will be filled with happiness, laughter,playful, noisy and lively, I visualise them playing and throwing pillors at each other, stealing each others stuff,bathing together, dressing in the same manner and sleeping on the same bed in the same room each having their own doll and toys to play with. This imagination always makes tears roll down my cheeks when I remembered that I have nothing of such, I am only going home to be alone in that big and scary house all alone with no one to talk to or play with… I will always cry at the knowledge of been home alone and always wipe my tears with the back of my hands whenever I hear my mums voice.
mum: oh! there you are my cherry, come on .. mums here let’s go home my princess…..
Reluctantly I will get up from where I always sit to wait for my mum to come pick me up, because she normally comes five or seven minute’s late after school dismissal. Once at home, I goes straight up to my room, remove my school uniform, showers and comes downstairs to eat my launch, after which I do my a-ssignments and revised my books, then I go and watch my favorite cartoons on t.v. these has been my life at home, nothing more nothing less, sometimes I feel that my life is glued with those routines.
Home indeed for me is very boring and the loneliest place that ever exist in this entire world. I lived a solitary and depressed life at home, am not even allowed to bring friends or go out to my friends at there houses.. this is why I always wished that school should not close for the day cus I don’t want to go home and be alone, but that’s one wish that has refused to get accomplished in my life because school will always close each day and I will have no other choice but to go home and continues with my loneliness.
Tbc