It was around 8:49am and the day has just looked like one of those other days- I mean starting on such ''cool'' note.
I remember working on an Excel sheet! *How I hate to work on that package*Then they barged in! Almost so rudely and naturally I played calm ,was getting used to that! I just sat on my seat and lifted my eyes and pretended I had their attention.They wanted a particular document I had custody of but I had in my magnanimity and ''pro activity'' ,sent the soft copy to their email but someone wasn't obviously,checking their emails! Well, I suggested to copy it in a USB flash drive so that I go on with my job but alas I got a ruder shock when I heard one of them say to me,''no, give me your laptop''. Yours sincerely replied in shock and disbelief,''excuse me? my lap top?'',I asked and that was confirmed! It was like I was asked to take off my clothes by a gang of (statutory) rapists!I was in a complete state of shock ,believe me! My laptop? My PC? My ''machine'' ,my tool for office and yes, FB work?! What? Was I missing something around here?Was the ''questionnaire'' aware of what he asked? You know ,I guess the thought of being asked surprised me than the barging in of two of 'em at the same time! Then ,I replied,''but I am using it'' I mean ,I am working on it. Luckily,he could see for himself that I had tons of data to enter into the excel sheet! But this ''rapist'' would not bulge!
hen I asked almost helplessly,''how long are you going to have it?'' One hour'',he said. One whole hour of rape! Sorry,I mean of giving my lappy to a ''total stranger'' . Of having my clothes being taken off and having to walk around stark naked like that''uncared for'' mad man who has been walking round town for some days now! Gosh! What did I do to deserve being raped and left to walk around naked! I knew this has had to be a bad day or what was I to say and do to all these?Then they took it. I went to my other husband and told him of the rape case only for him to rape me again! Am I such a play thing? That one said to me ,'' you need wisdom to not annoy me and them ! Pray tell,people, how do you successfully marry two men and be faithful to both? Phew! Even the Holy book says you cant serve God and Mammon. Herculean task? You bet!So, I was raped there and then just when the semen of the former was still stuck somewhere between my thighs! He didn't care if the latter's liquid was been sighted, he just went on. What level of abuse? Meted out to one person in one day? Now in case I thought I was shocked of being raped twice in a row ,I got a ruder shock when I was raped again by the first as he held on to my lappy for not the one hour he said he would but for ...help me do this calculation, 8:49am - 3:49pm! I was being raped for that long?! Believe me, by now,I was bleeding profusely! The woman with the issue of blood in all her 12years of being bent over could not measure up to this one,I tell you. It was like my heart was being ripped!In fact,I think it stopped for those hours! I was in turmoil! I was so sad! For the records, that must have been of the saddest days of my life till date! And when my lappy was returned,it was in a bad condition .It had bread crumbs and oily stuff! Even my lap top wasn't ''spare raped!'' Argggh!
If in all that I said here doesn't shock you or you rather think am too ''serious'' to think depriving me of my lap top for those hours by an entirely different department from mine *at least now that there seems to be a level of organization in what each person does and functions in,then I am sure you need to have your head examined or maybe you have been so raped that your heart is not in the proper place! I mean, I told a friend about it yesterday and he RIGHTLY said he would have asked me if he were my boss to go sit in the reception and wait there till the lap top is returned! Since not having any ''tool' to work with suggest I should be a guest! How on point but believe me ,that truth hurt I mean ,if I could allow myself be raped, sorry I mean, allow myself be harassed into giving my PC- PERSONAL COMPUTER away to be used.These rapists have theirs! all they needed was for them to let me give them MY USB to copy the doc! Gosh! I was foolishly raped! I was!
Now for the 1st time in many months, I cried because the ''man'' in my ''WOman'' was abused ,so naturally I mourned that loss! I was so pained! You cant really blame me though, I combine two powerful personality traits of one that is creative,goal oriented,decisive and tends to deal with bouts of depression etc. U wanna know? Go figure! *wink* So, I guess that made the words my dear friend said ''beat'' me with in such magnitude. I like Iyalla Vanzant,cried with a meaning! I knew I wasn't going to let my self be that raped again! Never ever!
Come to think of it, what was I afraid of ? Losing the ''unholy matrimony''? No! I mean shouldn't my sense of dignity as a woman or even as a man beckon at me to allow myself and others treat me well? Who ever enjoyed being raped? Didn't I think it was far better to lose my job than my joy? Where was my thinking cap that I didn't remember that I owe my self some sense of worth and dignity. Pray tell, what if my Problem Solving coach at DLA gets a hold of this gist? How do I even justify attending that life changing course?The same one I attended out of the desperation of a change in thinking! The one my background, culture, race etc has altered and it was imperative that I ''run'' for help as destiny beckons for sure! Well, to be fair on cute me, I guess the realization that there is a problem with what has happened to me is a pointer to the truth that I passed through the Academy. Someone has said that regret is like a rocking chair ,it gives you what to do but it doesn't take you anywhere. So, in the ''spirit'' of that, I submit to moi: Awemoreborelanlay, you will not be raped again, This matrimony is an unholy one! And divorce is expedient! Enough said.
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