HOUSE OF SECRETS PART 1
There is a house on Maryland Street, Cross
River State.
It has a blue roof and its body is painted
milky white.
This house is built on Secrets.
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My father had just died three months earlier,
his body was not yet la!d to rest, this was
because we had no money.
“Poverty is a sin, how can he still roam this
earth when he’d departed long ago”?
Mama cried and wiped her eyes with the
edges of her old wrapper.
” Mama, you need to pull yourself together,
there would be a way out, just believe in
God” I tried to console her. I hated the way
we were, the way we lived, like rats caved in
a hole, we were as poor as that but that
never wavered my dreams, I had made up !y
mind to conquer poverty, and thati could only
achieve through education.
“I doubt if there is a way out of this one
Ajunwa, there is no way, no one is here to
help us, all your uncles have abandoned
their brother’s body to rot, I doubt if there is
a way out of this one” she sobbed louder.
I cried along with her, she was right, there
was no way out. I had finished secondary
school five years back, yet there was no
money for me to further my education. I had
hoped to find myself a job, but it was difficult
finding one talk more of keeping it for a long
while.
“Mama, I will find a way out of this” I
inhaled deeply. I knew my mother would
object to the idea, but that was all I could do
to help her and my five little younger ones.
My best friend, Joy, had spoken to me about
it. Unlike myself, Joy was already in her final
year at the University of Calabar, under the
sponsorship of her wealthy Uncle whom I
was to work for.
“What way ehn? What way Ajunwa? I would
never allow you go into prostitution to save
this family” she sat upright and stared
deeply at me.

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