💉 SHAMED💊
(I am too Fat😥)
Episode 3
After my dad travelled back, my life of torment and seconds of tears started again. My stepmom accused me of telling my dad that she doesn’t feed me well
When I tried to defend myself, a harsh slap like whirlwind landed on my cheek followed by a painful hit of the turning garri stick on my head.
I stood frozen, holding my head and cheek as tears stream my my cheek. What’s my crime? I question myself over and over without no one to answer me.
Sometimes I blame my mum for bringing me into this world and decided to dié untimely so that I will suffer all alone in this wickêd world
Your father said you looked drain and lanky, don’t worry yourself because I’m going to help you get so fat and bubbling beyond his or anyone’s recognition.
She said this grinning from ear to ear before suddenly bursting into a wickêd laughter which her two children joined in
Since that day after her outburst, my appetite for food suddenly became something else
I eat anything I see even what I normally don’t use to eat, I crave for food and water like crãzy, I mean every passing minutes of the day. I will eat and eat and still will not get satisfied
At school I became a laughing stock because I can beg for Africa, I literally begs everyone and anybody putting something in his or her mouth no matter whom the person is, be it a teacher or student
“Ogechi the beggar” became my new name, I was so ashamed of myself that I dreaded going to school or going out atall. In as much as I tries to hold my throat from begging, that’s when it even pushes me more to start begging
I became a bully and a nuisance
I believe that I have begged every single person in that school to give me what they are eating no matter how small it is.
People practically hides from me when ever they are eating and sometimes you will hear something like, ” Ogechi is coming, hide your food or hide your snacks” The next thing that follows afterwards is erupting laughter from everyone.
I used to be ashamed initially but since it seems to me that this is becoming who I am, I stopped been ashamed. As long as I got something to put in my mouth when I’m craving food, people’s insults and abuses is nothing to me anymore
Ants, rats, and other reptiles that eats crumps must be really angry with me honestly, because I deprives them of food. Yes, I picks things from the ground and eat, no matter how dirty that stuff is.
I vividly remembered been so hungry that I went to the school canteen dustbin and started eating leftovers ravishly like someone who has been starved for decades
So many students and even teachers gathered around me and was having a good laugh, some where even taking pictures and making videos but I was never bothered. The most important thing to me was that, I am satisfying my stomach.
I remembered a newly employed young teacher who came out from the crowd and stopped everyone from laughing and making mockeries of me. She asked them if I am a new student in the school and they all chorused no!
She asked them if this is how I have always been and yet again they all chorused no!
She was so angry and bittered at all of them especially the teachers, she asked them if they think what I’m doing is ordinary or with clear eyes. She told them is only a mad person that will want to eat from the dustbin
She urged and begged them to delete the videos and pictures because something is definitely not right with me.
She became my friend and was very attached to me after knowing that I was living with my stepmom.
She followed me home to make some inquiries from my stepmom about my eating condition, my stepmom mum embarrassed and insulted the living daylight out of her. One week later, she was sacked from the school
Before she left the school, she told me that she knew that her sack came as a result of confronting my stepmom, she said that my stepmom is involved but I should not worry, that she will surely comeback for me.
It’s been six years and I haven’t set my eyes on teacher Ogechi again. Yes we bear the same name
My Dad was initially happy of how chubby I was becoming during the early stage of my obesity level, he even went ahead and showered my stepmom with lots of praises and also got her a gift
I had to write my senior Waec when I was in SS1 because I was continually becoming a threat to the life of other children in the school.
Due to my huge appetite, I often uses force or violence to snatch their foods and snacks away from them. The complaints are becoming too constant and the proprietor already sent my dad a letter of my expell via his email.
Luckily enough, it was almost time for senior Waec, my dad pleaded with the school authorities to allow me sit and write Waec and as God may have it, they allowed me to sit for the Waec.
I came out excellently with flying colors and straight As and Bs.
I was 14 years old then but looked like a 30years old lady. I stopped schooling and even stepping out of the house is a taboo
Aunty Fatty, why are you crying?
TBC
