Leave my husband!
As an undergraduate with
different types of friends, Susan was faced with pressure from friends to toe
their line in order to be able to meet up with the ‘happening babes’ on campus
but she had so many things to consider in making up her mind.
She is from a strict Christian
home with low income and to make matters worse (according to her), she is the
first of five children which means she must make ends meet at all cost to be
able to fend for her younger ones in life.
The benefits outweigh the risk,
so she joined Rita and Funmi to have fun. Susan started living a double life
with different wardrobes for campus and home. At home, she is the obedient and
bible-clutching daughter of a clergy man but becomes a disgrace on campus.
Susan did not stop at dating
three young men at the same time, she also had affair with married men to the
chagrin of the friends who introduced her to this wayward life style. Her study
started suffering; a first class student gradually dropped to third class.
In her second year, Susan
informed her parents she was going to Kaduna State for a compulsory field work
where as she wanted to accompany Bode (one of her boyfriends) on a business
trip to Dubai.
She returned with goodies to the
envy of her friends but it was short-lived. Bode’s wife came calling at the
campus with two hefty looking men who beat the daylight out of her with a
warning to stay away from Bode.
The embarrassment was so much
that her friends started avoiding her. To make matters worse, she took ill,
went home and returned weeks later looking pale and emaciated. The rumour
started going round that she must had contracted a sexually transmitted
disease.
It became difficult for her to
concentrate in class even as her ‘benefactors’ abandoned her. To be able to
really rest, Susan made up her mind to spend some weekends at home but, on one
of such, her mother invited her to a church programme in a nearby town.
During the programme, she ran
into Tope (another boyfriend of hers) and tried to avoid him but he came after
her beside her mother. “You this shameless girl, so you are still running after
other people’s husband? The beating that Bode’s wife gave you will be nothing
compared with what I will do to you if you don’t stay away from Tope,” a woman
came to shout on her to everyone’s hearing.
Her mother left awkwardly and could not tell
her husband at home. Susan went back to campus, locked herself up and cried
herself to sleep. Susan had brought shame to her family, she lost respect on
campus and her grades had deteriorated to the level that she is staring at an
extra year.
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