After spending 8 years suffering abuse from their stepfathers, Edith and Amy plot to end their suffering. The two girls spend a lot of time trying to come up with plans to end their suffering while their mothers watched everything in silence. In the end, the girl do something that eventually brings peace to their lives. Read the following story to find out what the girls decide to do in order to end their sufferin
Characters:
Edith : Daughter of Gwendolyn
: Best friend of Amy
Amy : Daughter of Deirdre
: Edith’s best friend
Ignite : Gwendolyn’s boyfriend
: Best friend of Illicit
Illicit : Deirdre’s boy friend
: Ignite’s best friend
Gwendolyn : Edith’s mother
: Deirdre’s best friend
: Ignite’s girlfriend
Deirdre : Mother of Amy
: Best friend of Gwendolyn
: Illicit’s girlfriend
Malcolm : Friend of Illicit and Ignite
Mrs Gully : History and Life Orientation teacher.
Fatima’s : Owner of a spaza shop
Prologue
Gwendolyn and her husband got divorced, so she and Edith, her daughter, had no choice but to move to another town. Edith was so distressed and hurt to leave her father, and the most heart-aching thing was that her father didn’t even try to stop them from leaving. He just waved goodbye to them and went inside the house.
Edith was 10 years old when she moved from Sofasonke to Hamanskraal. She hated leaving, but she had no choice but to do so. She met a very well-disposed girl called Amy, whom she shared her very appalling story with. She and Amy shared a lot in common, which included the fact that both their mothers were single mothers who recently met monstrous men and invited them into their homes and their daughters’ lives.
Ignite and Illicit were Gwendolyn and Deirdre’s boyfriends who gang-raped Amy and Edith, and when the girls told their mothers, they didn’t trust what they were saying. That had been happening from the time the girls were as little as 10 years old, and it continued until they reached the ages of 18. The girls fell pregnant at the same time, and they were forced to have abortions from the ages of twelve. Amy discovered that the same man that brutally raped her and Edith for a full 8 years was actually her real dad.
Malcolm, who was killed by Illicit and Ignite, was a generous man who wanted to help Edith and Amy. Amy didn’t know whether to feel sad that she had asphyxiated her real dad, who actually maltreated her, or get angry at her mother for keeping that secret from her.