The Broken Virtue

There was a young lady called Alice, once upon a time.

She gained admission to one of the best higher institutions in the country.

 

She came from a rich background.

 

Alice was doing well during the first and second years of her staying in the University. She never lacked anything.

 

She was not the type of girls that would impose herself as a liability on a man. That's because her parents were supporting her every moment.

 

Things turned around to the other way after 2 years of her staying on campus.

 

She got a call on a fateful day, the caller told her about the unfortunate incident that took the lives of her parents on the same day.

 

Her parents were attacked by armed robbers on the highway and they were both shot deád.

 

It was an evolution of emotional trauma for Alice as she began to loose focus.

 

Soon, it was discovered that her parents were running their companies with bank loan which was long overdue, her parents didn't pay the loan before they passed away. For that reason, 90 percent of the properties which the parents left behind were impounded by the financial institution.

 

The remaining ten percent was unfairly taken over by the extended family members.

 

Alice lost hope.

 

To pay her school fees became a problem. In fact, feeding twice a day became hard. Maintaining the accommodation in school turned weird.

 

No one came to rescue her.

 

No one ever cared about her well being.

 

She was facing the tears alone while there was no one to share the feelings with.

 

Okay.

 

Let's cut the story short.

 

Finally, Alice decided to move out of the house where she was staying in school, and she moved in with a friend, Chioma.

 

Chioma agreed to take her in, till the time that there would be a breakthrough.

 

As tough as it was, Alice could not afford a toothbrush, Chioma was responsible for keeping the apartment running smoothly.

 

Life was getting much unbearable for Alice, she got to the point of being subjected to pressure.

 

Her friend would always go out in the morning and come back home late at night. Not for academic purpose but for some missions that were unknown to Alice. Anytime she comes back, she always come back with a lot of cash.

 

Alice could no longer take the suspicious movement and she decided to confront her friend.

 

That night, Alice stayed up late at night, waiting for Chioma to arrive. Well, when she finally did, Alice flared up with anger and tongue lashed her friend for coming late.

 

“A good child does not come home late like you are doing. Look at the time. What if something bad happen to you?” Alice confronted Chioma.

 

The approach didn't meet Chioma in the right frame of mind, so she fired back.

 

“You don't mean it! You are correcting your helper! This is how I bring money to keep this apartment running.” Chioma replied angrily.

 

“I mean only prost!tutes behave like this. Coming late at night is not right.”

 

“I'm a prost!tute! That's what I do to earn money. Listen, starting from now, you should start using what you have to get what you want,” Chioma expressed herself angrily.

 

Chioma finally revealed her source of income to Alice.

 

“You can't be relaxing while I work with my body to feed you. You need to start working as soon as possible,” she charged Alice.

 

At this point, Alice was probably caught unaware, she didn't expect that her logical correction would impose a hard situation on her.

 

Alice did all she could to avoid trading her body. She needed money to start business but there was no help from anywhere.

 

Finally, she made up her mind. She submitted to the pressure when she could no longer keep her virtue. She planned to try it just once.

 

She said she would venture into prost!tu-tion and it would be just once. The money that would be raised from a night would be used to start a small business hoping she would be able to stop the hook-up job.

 

Easier said than to be executed.

 

Alice had the first night with her client. They did it raw as the client requested. After the night, she was given thirty thousand naira.

 

Alice's plan to start a small business was jeopardized after the night. She was not comfortable with the raw intìmácy. The first-time feeling was weird, so she had to go to the clinic to take care of herself. Sure, that costed her the price from her first earning.

 

Before she realized, the money remained fifteen thousand naira. She would have to get her daily needs as well.

 

She exhausted the money on needs and treatment. She broke her promise to never return to the dirty job.

 

“maybe I should go another round and never go again,” she renewed her promise.

 

She went back to the dirty job, did some more rounds and she gathered more cash.

 

Unfortunately, turning back became harder for Alice thereafter. She became the cake that every man wanted to taste.

 

She manipulated some ways to acquire her friend's clients for herself.

 

Chioma got upset, and she decided to set Alice up by sending a man living with H-i-v to have inter-c-o-user with her.

 

The secret was leaked, Alice found out that her friend was responsible for her contractions. She retaliated by sending assa-ssins to k!ll Chioma.

 

The tragedy didn't end there. Alice extended the bitter retaliation to the extended family members that failed her, she ruined the lineage.

 

She also vowed to spread the disease to every man who comes to her. Alice is still out there, preying.

 

©️Olawale Ogidan. 

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