My father disgusts me. He disgusts me so much I don’t think I will ever marry, just in case the man I marry is cut from the same cloth as my father, like my mom says all men are.

Today was his wedding day, his 5th wedding; his second wedding in two years. The thing that disgusts me the most is that he is 55 years old. Now tell me what is a 55-year-old man doing with a 20-year-old girl for a wife? The worst thing is, I used to be friends with her. I guess bringing my friends home will be next in line of all things I will not do, marriage being the first.

My name is Rirhandzu Chauke by the way.

My father is the worst kind of man because even though this is his 5th marriage, he has never divorced, which means he has five wives. Yes you heard right my dad is not a monogamous man. He is also HIV positive and refuses to tell his new wife. Yes, I told her right after I found out she was sleeping with him but she didn’t believe me. My dad threatened to cut me off if I tried to convince her otherwise.

I still need him to finish paying for my studies, so I have decided to let it be for a few years until I finish school.

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Three years later…

“How are you brother of mine?” I said as I entered the room of my first born brother, we’re of the same mother and same father.

What I saw inside had me frozen at the door. My brother froze as well, but Tsakani didn’t seem to have a problem with her movements, because she went on to put her clothes on as calmly as the well water.

“What…what is going on, brother?” I couldn’t believe what I was seeing in front of me.

Because I was almost sure my brother was having sex with Tsakani, as in my ex-best friend Tsakani, and as in my father’s fifth wife. Yes, that Tsakani. But I was probably asleep and this was just a nightmare and I would wake up to find that I was not in my brother’s room, and I didn’t see my stepmother sleeping with him.

“This is not what it looks like…” my brothers voice proved that I was in fact very much awake and this was happening.

“Thank God for that, because I thought you were sleeping with our father’s wife. So what happened? Did she get wet or something and needed to use your room to change?”

Even as I said this, I could hardly believe it but I was desperate, I would believe anything except what I thought I walked in on. I could smell the sex in the room but I refused to believe my father’s favourite son could do such a thing – to eat where he was forbidden.

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