MY SILENT TEARS

Broken child

I plugged in my ear piece for the fourth time today,its not like i love listening to music or anything in fact I don't even like listening to music but circumstances has me plugging in my ear plugs to mute out the noise. The noise made by my mother and father yet again today,if they weren't fighting or arguing they were having sex which still made noise. Sometimes I think the only reason they got married is because of their main pleasure,all they do is fight and not care about me and my two brothers when doing it.

Tofunmi (my little brother) was getting used to the sound of dad hitting mum,it always calmed him to sleep because he always went to sleep when they started. I've tried to figure out what it is that made them fight as always and I realised that they weren't a little bit compatible at all.

"The message on your phone was that she was waiting for you at The Place hotel,so why are you denying her now?"my mum screamed at my dad for yet another time.

"Will you shut up. So what if I'm was seeing another woman,is that your business?"he shouted back as they went back and forth as usual.

I remember when it all started,dad came back from work as angry as ever. He walked in and started barking orders at everyone in the house telling us what to do and what not to do,my mum went over to him to try calming him down that's when he hit her for the first time. I was so shocked I screamed and ran over to her,he pushed me away and kept hitting her all over. That day will forever be inscribed in my mind and I was reminded of this every time they fought which was becoming everyday. I always dreaded getting married if this was how women were beaten in marriages, movies have always lied to me,telling me about the happily ever afters that weren't real. Most nights I cried myself to sleep because I knew that I couldn't do anything about the terrible happenings in our house.

Even my older brother caught on to the beating and all and saw it as a normal thing too. I remember the first day I realized that,

It was a Saturday afternoon, Tomiwa had come home from boarding school due to mid-term break.

"Who touched my laptop that I kept on the dining table?"he shouted coming into my room and facing Tofunmi. "If it was you I'm going to beat you up."

"Brother Tomiwa it was me that used your laptop,our teacher asked us to do our mid-term project on a laptop and transfer it to a flash drive," I told him smiling. I thought he'd be proud of me for learning how to use a flash drive,I was so wrong.

"You did what?" He said this giving me a hot slap very close to my left eye. "Why didn't you buy your own laptop if you knew you wanted to do your assignment?"

"But brother Tomiwa you know I don't have money to buy a laptop,I'm still a student," I explained to him.

"Shut up!"

"I'll go and tell daddy for you," I cried getting up from my sitting position.

"And you think they'll care? They beat each other on a daily basis so it's a normal thing for me to beat my little sister for being naughty," he barked back at me and stormed out of the room. Tofunmi rushed over to console me.

After that day I always cried in the night before I could sleep, no one heard me of course. My cries were heard by no one. No one cared.

We were a broken family and we were comfortable with it,every broken detail was normal to us because we had a routine. We didn't know how parental love felt,it was a strange feeling to us. After every day of fighting mum and dad will both go into their bedroom for their normal sex before they fight again, I always dreamt of a happy home...A happy place were every one smiles and laughs and everything is great, a place were a family did everything together,had dinner together, laugh together share stories and laugh about things together. But I was always woken up to the sound of shouting and hitting,it was like a slap on my face every morning.

I missed when I was child when I didn't know how bad a family could get, a broken marriage,a broken home,a broken family and also I, Tamilore Adams, a broken child.

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So this is my first Nigerian story
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