VALENTINE'S EVE

Ruth's P.O.V

On Valentine's eve, Teju, Rita’s fiancé asked me out to be his fiancée . He complained of Rita's incessant nagging and how she keeps malice and threatens to kill him at any slightest provocation. I refused to accept his proposal but he never gave me breathing space instead he kept on pestering me to accept his proposal.

I had to avoid bumping into him in school and in my neighborhood.
Teju sexually harassed me in my house and till date, I don’t know how he got my home address. But, I decided to record the conversations Teju had with me via calls, Whatsapp audios, and screenshots and chats and sent it to Rita but Rita did not reply.

Later on, I got to know that Rita sent Tomiwa to sympathize with me but Tomiwa did the opposite by poisoning my mind against Rita, but thank God that Rita reached out to me before bedtime and narrated her ordeals to me. I felt pity for her and encouraged her to...