My name is Melanie Nkosi, I don’t know what I should say about myself. I can only tell you about what people thought I was. Many of them thought I was a psychopath and others said I was a girl who felt no pain. They said all this because of my behaviour. I always liked to be a loner because I was really never sympathetic, this is one of the reasons why I had no friends. People always disliked me, not only outsiders, even my own family never liked my attitude. They never went out with me, they would always say that I would ruin their prestige.

I had a very bad personality. I would wear different clothes at the very same time. I would wear two t-shirts, two jerseys, two trousers and two socks. Even though it was hot, I would wear more than this in winter and I wore these different clothes even though I was going to school; the teachers were even tired of shouting at me.

So one day I was home alone; it seemed like my family took a vacation, without me.

I never watched TV and I also didn’t have a cellphone. I always read books when I was bored and people thought that this was one of the reasons I was a psychopath.

I was busy reading and suddenly my drunk uncle came. He said really weird things, like I was the most beautiful and sexy human being. He then tried to rape me.

The funny thing is that he tried to take off my clothes, but he got tired while he was trying to take off all the heavy clothes I was wearing; I was amazed. When the rest of my family members came, I told them everything.
After that day, I started watching TV and tried to dress normally. I started making friends and I stopped reading all the time. Everyone who called me psychopath were amazed to see how much I changed, but I told them to call me psychopath since I was used to it.

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