Today we begin a new segment on Absolute Hearts called Teenage Express, this segment will cut across gists and
captivating stories about young minds of the 21st
century, interactions between teenagers both in school and in the outside
world. Stay glued to Absolute Hearts, as we will be dishing you stories on social
virtues and vices among-st the teenagers of today. Read below to story of Fatima:
A girl born of a Muslim
background all her life; she was taught the Islamic values and lessons all
through her life in secondary school, she has always maintained her religious
beliefs and she was firm on it.
Everything
was smooth sailing as she never mocks or ridicule any person who isn't a
believer like she is as many Muslims do.
Fatima,
who was sometimes called 'Tima' by her friends, was a complete Muslim
introvert, gentle, reserved and easy going person who loves her privacy, she’s never disturbed
by her parents because they have upmost trust in her as they believe their girl
can never be wayward.
She
upheld their beliefs and she was straight with herself and her parents.
Tima’s
parents missed a crucial point in her life, which is her teenage.
She
was a girl of 16 years and with her
religious beliefs, she was never allowed to make decisions on her own.
Tima
graduated secondary school with good grades and got into the prestigious
University of Lagos (UNILAG); her university of first choice and she was happy.
With
the believe that they’ve directed her in a religious way that she can never
deviate, her parents never bothered to talk
to her on social vices in university, what they were after was for her to
finish so they could arrange a marriage for her.
Fatimah
got into university a fresher. Always with her veil, a bit naive, but she was
fast in getting how the system works and she adapted quickly.
She
was assigned a room and her roommates were much older in age and level.
Fatima,
through the semesters, still held on and was
not ready to shift away or deviate but she’s an introvert and she never
discusses her issues with anyone not even her parents, her roommates; the 'big
girls' on campus.
Being
the 'big girls', her roomies love to club, they smoke, drink exotic alcoholic
drinks et al, they wear provocative dresses and she doesn’t see anything bad in
what they are doing.
But
Tima just couldn’t do it as she sees it as against her beliefs.
She
later gave in by fantasizes herself in their position and she feels it’s cool.
She started feeling some type of ways to her religious beliefs.
Her
roomies behavior has started to rub off on her and even though she’s always
quiet when they are around, she listens to their discussions about parties,
sex, guys and drugs as a teenager with a bit sense of decency she doesn’t see
all as thrilling, but she finds sex exciting as the girls have repeatedly
shared their experiences on sex and as a young girl, she feels it is necessary
for her to have such experience has she has begun to have fantasies about
different sex positions.
The
highly pious Muslim Tima, started to slip away from her religious teachings and keeps picturing so many
things in her head.
During
the end of semester, she goes home and still continue to give her parents what
they want to see; a façade, because she’s starting to feel like her religion is
just a way her parents is using to curb her need for pleasure and with it, she
could not fully enjoy what is out there in the world, but right in front of her
parents they see her as the perfect child and they don’t even know what is
going on in her or the changes or challenges she’s facing in
school because she is not the type that talks. She manages to go through
the whole break at home with the act.
In
her penultimate level, after much battle going on in
her mind as to whether she should disregard her religion and get lost in the
world or she should hold on to what her religion has prescribed, she finally
makes a decision which on her own end, she feels it’s the best
and wouldn’t be much of disregard as just trying and satisfying her curiosity
would not cause any harm and even if it did, it would be something that can be
controlled.
Finally, she decides to enjoy
herself for the first time, she started indulging her roommates in some of
their discussions particularly 'sex'.
At
first, they just thought she was trying to socialize, but to their surprise,
she told them she
would start to party with them.
They
accepted because she seems like a nice girl and they did not even bother giving
her any orientation as regards sex as they had thought she wanted to just
party.
Tima's
friends got to the party and it was a normal atmosphere. She had already done
some sort of research and with her roomies discussions, she had ideas on how to
behave in gatherings like that. The first hour passed then
the party had start to become a rough ride; everyone was dancing and with her
beautiful face and body, she was a quick catch for guys. Her roomies, who have
now turned party friends, were busy dancing and boozing while she was searching
for the right guy to make her fantasies real.
Suddenly,
she saw a handsome dude at the corner of the club eyeing her, she noticed this
quickly and smiled.
This
gave the guy the confidence to walk up to her. Feeling cool with himself, Gafar
said hi while the sexy
Tima
responded with a big smile then, he offered her a drink which she also obliged,
he sat with her, started talking which lasted for a couple of minutes, then he
whispered into her ear, " Let's excuse ourselves from the noisy
environment and have a serious conversation because I want to know more of
you." She hurriedly held his hands like a bride walking down the aisle
with her beau.
On
her part, she wanted sex while Gafar was interested in knowing her
better. While outside the premises, they sat inside his car
talking. Then, she noticed the he wasn’t making any advances towards her, she
started to seduce him; giving him some styles she had learnt from her roomies.
When he saw this, he didn’t object but
rather pulled her closer, had sex with her in the
car without condom, he wasn’t able to penetrate because she’s a virgin but he
eventually had sex with her, she was stained but she cleaned up and he dropped
her off at her hostel.
Tima
found her first time painful but thrilling. Gafar had requested for her contact
while on his way to drop her off, but she refused to give him.
Her
friends got back and they were mad at her for leaving without saying anything,
they forgave her as she lied she was tired.
After
her first experience, she finds the feeling interesting. Although, she felt her
vagina had been bruised.
Some
days later, she went to the doctor to complain and she was prescribed some
drugs, coming out of the doctor’s office, she saw Gafar, but she wasn’t too
free to talk to him. He was not even bothered about her as he proceeded
with his business at the hospital. While leaving the hospital she overheard the
nurses saying, “ That fine boy just spoil hinsef go get stupid disease and he
come get money sef.”
She
paused for a second, looked around if anyone except Gafar had passed, but found
out that no one had passed except him. She however convinced herself
that it might be someone else, then she left the hospital.
After
some weeks of thinking things through, she decided to take a
test before she could further explore her sexual fantasies. She went to the
hospital and did a couple of tests, but to her
greatest dismay, when the result came out, she was HIV positive.
After
receiving the result, she was placed on counseling and treatment. The scenario looked like a
movie as she felt like the ground should swallow her alive.
Tima left the hospital
ashamed of what had happened and she couldn’t even explain or mention a name
that made her feel more useless. She didn’t tell her roomies, she packed her
bags and travelled home so ashamed of any reasonable explanation.
On
getting home, she met no one, she decided to drink a cup full of Hypo and
disinfectant. But she had dropped a note for her parents explaining her ordeal
and her regrets as well.
Tell us what you learnt from the story and also keep glued to Absolute Hearts next week for another episode.
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