WARNING: This piece contains descriptions of sexual abuse.

I still remember back in the days, when we were some group of girls and also new at high school. All our parents were so happy for us to get to this teen stage.It was the most difficult time for them to coach us but they made sure we got all we needed from home.

To us that was not enough because we wanted the happiness of the streets. 😆 We were about nine of girls and I Mandisa Bologu was the last born of them all. I used to follow my older sister 🙃 wherever she goes I’m right by her side.This other time planned to party on our last paper of exams.We were extremely looking forward on it. The joy we had on the paper before the last one, we even begged our parents to give us money so that we could go to school with fresh hair on our last paper.

They did give us all because we only needed thirty rands of hair cuts not knowing that we were about to break the rules of the school premises.We did haircuts knowing very well that it was not allowed to do cuts at our school. We even wore white shirts with ties then tracksuits, by that we only broke the rule of not wearing the upper tracksuit.

We were so young and curious for the world. We came to premises of the school 10 mins later, so then we were placed in the same classroom. We were also harassed for our hair 😆 well we thought we’d be punished and we were so ready for it. When we finished writing we didn’t go to our home, but we went straight to the tavern far from our home.

We were carrying only one bag which we’ve putted our bottle of brandy there. Since we bought two of them we took one and drank it from the street. We didn’t even use a glass our plan was to get wasted. We passed by home to put on comfortable snickers then went down the road to another location from there we bought a 5L of wine and some carry pack of other alcohol.

We were now getting all the fun other gents giving us free alcohol then we’d exchange and give them brandy. It was lights off for Mandisa whom was now not able to walk 💔 my friends would grab me on some, “yintoni na wea darn sewngakwazi uhamba sikude kangaka? Phakama tshin!!”So they decided to pour ice and beer on my hair so that I’d be better, I got worse the only thing in my mind was to sleep.

They ended up telling a gent living close our location to take care of me then left. The gent decided to look for a place where I would comfortable sleep on. There was no luck, so he decided to take me to the graveyards. He then asked for his turn I recoiled then told him, “no I can’t do that, I’m scared! I’m still a virgin.” The guy kept on and on and I was not even able to run, I had no power. All that I needed was to sleep. He did it with thrust, he didn’t care of squeak and the sobbing that I did.

He then said I’ll get used to it, I ended up falling asleep then woken up by the sunrise. I woke up in shock “Who are you? and what are doing here? how did we end up here? where are my friends?”, I asked the guy. I was so frustrated on myself 💔 he accompanied me when I was pushing him, explaining it all and how it happened. I was broken in the inside “this is not how I planned it” those were the words hitting up my head. He even knew where I stayed so this was his plan? I didn’t even know him it was my first time seeing him. He then turn to his own way and left me there going straight to my home.

When I was close by my location I heard some noise and screaming. I then walked towards faster to see it clearly. My eyes were now wide open also my mouth was getting wide open. I couldn’t believe it, I even slap my face which made the blur out of my eyes. One of my friends was being beaten by his boyfriend. The body that is used to cover the boobs was laying on the other side.

Lindiwe was on the other side wearing only a pant.In this room there was also Thato who was also wearing his underwear. Something strange was all my friends were shouting for help because Lindiwe was also in tears. Linda who was Lindiwe’s boyfriend was very frustrated shouting outside “how can you let this guy break your virgin while you said you were not ready to me”, he said.

Linda was taken away so as to not hurt more people. I didn’t notice there was also blood in the room. Thato was asked to go home, we then took Lindiwe to ask what really happened. They were now noticing that Mandisa is also here but they didn’t know how they separated.

Mandisa faked the story and told them she slept where they left her. She didn’t mention the story from the graves. All the girls were now looking forward to the story of Lindiwe who was now sobbing and explaining that she loved Thato but she agreed to date Linda for him to give her money.

The girls in shocked “did you see him when he was fusing?”, they asked. ” No you have to let go one of them you can’t get us in to trouble, next time you’ll be beaten with us around and the guy won’t ask he will also hurt us”, Mandisa said. They all agreed that what Lindiwe did was very wrong but she did not deserve to be beaten. The small group was now even scared to explain it at their homes but the sun was already out they had to do it anyway.

***** To be continued****