Chapter 3: A walk into the past

BRIANNA

Ethan and Brenda have already left to their new home and I've been left here all alone, thinking about my life. It has been a mess all through since my college days but I always find it hard to admit that I'm at fault here.

I grew up in a well to do family consisting of my father, mother, Brenda and I. Brenda and I are twins but she came out first then I followed after a duration of five minutes.

My parents were never blessed with any other child and that didn't seem to bother them since they had the two of us. To them, we were their world, their life and their everything. They loved and adored us to the core and they ensured we never lacked anything all our life. We were lucky, weren't we?

Mr and Mrs Martins were the best example of loving parents. Our needs came first and providing for us wasn't hard at all since they had established their own company and they were doing well in life.

My behaviour changed way back in junior school due to excess spoiling and letting go of my old habits proved to be hard as I grew up. So as to ensure I change, they started limiting my access to various needs, sometimes denying me some very important stuff in life but what did I do?

Instead of smelling the coffee and changing, I went ahead and befriended boys from wealthy families who would give me whatever my parents denied me in exchange for sexual favours. My sister also bore the wrath of my ill behaviour and we ended up being denied some needs together.

However, Brenda took it positively and worked hard in school instead of hanging around with bad children. Her grades improved each passing day and she couldn't stop encouraging me to take our parents punishment lightly and concentrate on my studies but her pleas and advices fell on deaf ears! I never changed!

After high school, Brenda passed well with good grades and she gained admission in a good college but my poor grades wouldn't allow me to be admitted in any college, were it not for my caring parents. They ensured I got admitted at the same college as Brenda due to their influence and that case was settled....Brenda and I were officially in college.

Once in college, I refused to be going back home after classes since the college wasn't far from my parents' house. Brenda didn't find any reason to secure a hostel and she decided she wasn't going to support me on that. Amid my family's protests, I secured a room in the hostels and I paid my first month's rent with my allowances. I didn't want to be home anymore!

My family had to get used to the fact that I had rebelled against them and there's no way they would convince me to abandon my hostel room and move back home. At first, college life proved to be hard and boring though I had decided to pursue the easiest course of all while Brenda on the other hand was pursuing Business management. Her passion for business was and still is out of this world and she swore to become a successful business lady in future, something she definitely is right now!

As time went by, I started making friends in college who hated books just as I did and within no time, we started partying and skipping classes. Brenda wouldn't know about that since we had taken different courses and we always met in the school cafeteria and I'd always lie to her that I was catching up with my studies. As loving as she was, she never suspected anything.

My parents kept on pleading with me to go back home but their pleas fell on deaf ears. I had already started enjoying life and there's no way they'd convince me otherwise. I only showed up randomly at home or in their office whenever I ran out of money and when they seemed reluctant to give it to me, I'd threaten to quit college, something they never wanted me to do.

My first year was smooth and easy since I had manoeuvred ways of passing my exams. I had befriended almost all my lecturers who would alter my grades after some favours. Some wanted my body in exchange of their grades while others needed money, something I never lacked since I had already started seeing older men who'd sponsor me and all my needs. My parents' came as a bonus and I rarely asked them for any. They would become worried and even send Brenda with a some amount for my upkeep, which I accepted whole heartedly. I never turned anything down!

Before the end of the first year, I had secured three abortions until I learned about family planning from my doctor boyfriend. He's the same guy who performed those procedures and since he didn't want me to lose my womb, he introduced me to a long term family planning method which I welcomed without hesitation.

My bad habits continued even in my second year. Brenda had already learnt about my skipping of classes and all my other wayward behaviour since she'd most of my buddies would mistaken her for me.

She always warned me about my habits but I could hear none of it. She never relented until one day when a lecture accosted her while on her way to the parking lot and accused her of not paying his last semester's dues after altering my grades. Brenda did her best to convince him that we were twins and that she was taking a different course from mine. Convinced, the lecturer left her with a stern warning, to pass a message to me, else that college wouldn't contain both of us.

After warning me severally without heeding, she resulted to reporting me to our parents who in return called me home to question me. I denied every charge, making Brenda to look like the bad one.

Time went by and I gathered more bad habits. Apart from drinking, I started smoking and also partaking drugs, something that made me to stop concentrating in school at all, finally dropping out. I stopped attending classes and also stopped visiting my lecturers for favours. I was already done with the slavery of studies and I had already made up my mind to indulge fully in drugs and alcohol.

One of the old men I used to date secured a one bedroom apartment for me outside college and there I started living with him as my boyfriend. Though he'd only visit me during the day, at night he was busy with his family and I was okay with the arrangement. Well, this is because I'd be already at my door closing it and heading to the club immediately he left my house. I wasn't his wife to stay at home at night while he was busy cuddling his wife! Never!

Out there, I'd continue with my whoring adventures and in return, I'd get paid handsomely. That way, I was able to buy my drinks and drugs.

My parents came to learn about my disappearance from school later and when they confronted me, I bluntly told them that school wasn't my cup of coffee. They had to give up after urging me to go back home so as to get a solution but I would hear none of that. I was so much deep in my shit that no one would have convinced me to come out!

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Life went on as usual, with Brenda studying hard and when she finally graduated with a bachelor's degree in business management, everybody was happy for her though I never attended her graduation ceremony.

On the other hand, my life was already a mess and I had already involved myself with drug trafficking cartels where I'd sometimes be sent to deliver drugs to their clients. My charm and seduction methods always made me to get away from the police traps.

This continued for a long time until one day my charming smile and beauty failed me. I couldn't convince or seduce a determined cop with my beauty and I ended up in the police custody with a bag of cocaine! I was in for it! I was I hot soup!

The drug cartels had warned me never to involve them in my troubles whenever arrested unless I wanted them to kill me therefore when the cops interrogated me, I remained mum. I wasn't going to risk my life at all.

I therefore requested one friendly cop to call my parents to bail me out and he was kind enough to inform them of my situation.

When they got the news about my arrest, they panicked and without informing Brenda who had also joined their company so as to learn about business, they took mum's car and drove off towards the police station. They couldn't believe that I was in police custody for drug trafficking!

I don't know what happened as they drove to the station but what I heard was that my father was so distracted as he drove such that he didn't see an oncoming trailer. They had a head on collision with the trailer jamming over their car, writing it off completely and killing my parents on the spot!