So when I was 3years old my mother had a fight with Mama Nkechi
I was playing with my sand outside the house when my mother returned angrily from the market and dropped the items she had bought from the market. She then told my dad how mama Nkechi mocked her and how she was going to deal with her.
I stood up and went inside to see what was happening.
My mother was asking my dad to come with her so they can fight the battle together, but my dad insisted that the matter is a woman's matter and since her husband is not involved in the fight, she should handle it woman to woman.
This was how my mother grabbed my hands and landed me on her back. She carried wrapper and tied me on her back.
Fear gripped me.
I could not talk. I kept looking at my father who watched in shock.
"So where are you taking my son to?"
"If you are not coming with me, Chidera will follow me and fight the battle."
"Don't injure my son o."
Tears started coming out of my eyes.
I started talking in Baby's language.
"Mummy I don't want battle."
My mother wasn't listening. She kept walking fast.
"We would fight the battle with my son. You want to show me you have a baby who is 1year old. My baby is 2year old. We would see.
We arrived at Mama Nkechi's shop and my mother went straight to her and slapped her with iron fist.
Mama Nkechi who was backing her baby behind stood up and dropped her child in her shop. My mother also dropped me on the floor and the both women started fighting.
The fight was going well and my mother was winning the battle until Mama Nkechi lost balance and fell on me. Her armpit which was smelling crayfish covered my nose and I started shouting.
On seeing this, my mother Ran to her daughter Nkechi and used her armpit to clean Nkechi's face.
"Fight me and leave my child alone. If you touch my son, I will touch your daughter. Shey you want to tell me you have pikin."
Mama Nkechi did not like this. So she ran to me and poured me saliva.
My mother did not waste time.
She accumulated her own saliva and wired it on Nkechi's face.
That was when Mama Nkechi removed her trouser and started approaching me with her naked buttocks.
On seeing this, knowing that my mother will retaliate, Nkechi shouted "Jesus Christ" and ran into the shop to hide under the bench.
I don't know where energy came from. I stood up for the first time and started running home to meet my father.
My mother kept shouting.
"Chidera come here. Does she want to clean her nyansh on your face? Don't be afraid. Be a man. Come here let me see what she will do to you. If she do it to you, I will catch her pikin and do it to her pikin."
I was crying for my life and running with all my energy.
Battle I did not plan for.
COPIED
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