Aríké - by Doubra✍🏾

I gave birth to my baby girl on September 16, 2016 , on my birthday. I was 16 and she just came into the world that day. Honestly I hated her. Her eyes especially. They remind me of her father. The 20 year old who got a 15 year old pregnant. The day I held her in my hands, I felt like strangling her, because as innocent as she looks she destroyed my life and every happiness I thought I had. My baby girl Arike. Honestly I didn't want to pamper her All I wished was for me to wake up from this reality I can't get rid of. So yes I was never prepared as a mother. No one told me my baby will cry so much. I cannot get enough I cannot go to work. And her stupid father will not let my body be. Yes, that man did not want to wait for me to heal from the cut. I hate my life so much. Heck my parents abandoned me to a total stranger telling me I was so dumb to have a baby in SS1. After birthing Arike, Her father agreed to take us in if I became a sex worker, Yes four weeks after birth, I began prostitution, For money and freedom. In as much as I hated that little girl, I wanted to give her a life she deserved. Because she didn't deserve to be hated by the only woman she called her own, her mother. Me. I thought of dumping her in an orphanage but I didn't want her to become an orphan in real life because tell me What's life without the hatred I have for that little girl. Chapter 2 So the prostitution began. More money, More customers. In fact I had to always take care of myself,my body,so I would be attractive. I tied my tummy,so it will be flat. My breast was always full and I would keep Arike in the rooms where my sins happened. She was too little to understand and her cry did not make any difference to me. I would only feed her after business. I was doing it for her,so she had to be patient to be fed by me. I hated how demanding that girl was from me. I'm her mother, so she had to wait, yes because everything I do is for her. And her stupid father didn't even care if she was alive or if she drank milk I only did prostitution for 3 years while I was still doing it,I used the money to start my hair dressing salon .The big men I slept with, brought their wives to my salon in disguise. I was still doing it to stock my salon. I stopped prostitution when a incident happened. A big man's wife found out I was sleeping with her husband, Then she called me to her house for home service. When I got to the house,she served me food, after that, I didn't know what happened,I fell asleep. I woke up, found myself tied and immediately I opened my eyes,I saw myself naked. I was 19 years old. This woman poured hot water on my legs, boiling water,I tell you. And she flogged me while I was tied.. I cried as the weeps touched my arms,my breasts,my private part. And she whispered something in my ear. "If not because of that your child,I would have sold your private part to a ritualist so that you will learn to stop taking people's things." Jesus !, I exclaimed in my mind Then she gave me my clothes to wear, gave me food to eat and left me to lie there for the night and woke me up with cold bucket of water. Then,She pursued me out of her house like nothing happened. She was like, "Oya be going, you baby must be waiting for you." Although I could not stand well for some days, my wounds healed That same woman visited my salon when I newly opened and gave me a large sum of money.And she said " Be a good girl, you still have a long way in life,stop prostitution. I agree you didn't have a better beginning, but you can make a life out of what you have now, Take care of Arike." My story didn't end there Let's turn to the next page

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