Our Bittersweet Moments

"You slut!" John yelled out at his daughter, Annalise. She just stood before her father and feared for her life, she knew that she had broken the rule of the community and her father's.

"You have sinned and only death awaits you!" John continued shouting and landed a hot slap on Annalise's cheek making her fall on the ground hard.

"Dad, please!" Annalise begged her father to stop but the more she spoke the more he let out his anger on her and did not care about the baby she was carrying.

Annalise went to varsity to study agricultural science but she fell in love with the cold-hearted Wayne Harrison who was the most intelligent boy at varsity.

The moment she decided to have fun with Wayne and dive into the unknown was when her world and dreams started colliding. Annalise discovered that she was two months pregnant, she tried reaching out to Wayne but he was nowhere to be found.

Annalise was expelled from varsity and went back home to her father who also detested her the moment he realized she was pregnant. To him, Annalise brought shame and disgrace to his household, neighborhood, and society.

If any girl broke their bride's pride before marriage they were said to be a prostitute and the punishment they got was to be executed, live in a brothel, or get married to a widowed man.

"Dad, please... Think about my baby... Don't let the community kill me," Annalise begged her father but he held her tightly in his hands landing a hot slap on her face again.

"I raised you alone and this is what I get in return," he said pointing at her big belly. Fear filled her body up making her tremble uncontrollably and she lost consciousness and fell hard to the ground.

Two hours later she woke up surrounded by society and she was at the center of them. They all looked at her disdainfully, she felt her head dizzy and she knew that this was the end. The community wouldn't let a used girl stay in their neighborhood.

"Let her be killed! She is a prostitute! She's a disgrace to our neighborhood!" they said in unison. "Let her be killed! She is a prostitute! She's a disgrace to our neighborhood!"

She scanned the room and saw ropes attached to a post and that was where the lawbreakers were strangled by the ropes to death. Never in her life did it ever cross her mind that the end of her days would be like this.

Two guards grabbed and walked toward the ropes and dropped her there. She looked at her tummy and sobbed heavily still begging for mercy but everyone in there was merciless and they only longed to see her die miserably even her father felt the same way.

The guards tied the rope around her neck and she felt suffocated. "Sorry angel for not being a good mother to you," she said silently feeling her baby. And she looked once more at the hating society and she waited for death to take her in.

They heard the cracks of tear gas and they bend all bend down coughing. Three men entered the house covering their faces with tear masks and the other one ran to the girl and covered her with the musk while cutting the rope around her neck.

"Everybody down," two men warned pointing guns at the society

They rushed out to the black car they drove and laughed while the people came out throwing stones at them.

"That was quick," the one driving said and they made high five with the one who sat near him. They looked back at the man who saved the girl and asked, "Is she fine, Zayne?

"Yeah, she just lost consciousness but she will be fine," Zayne said assuring his friends.

"So where to now?" Jack asked driving with his eyes fixed on the road.

"Are we going to your father's house or what?" Lincoln tapped Jack on the shoulder and Jack whispered, "I'm just asking."

"I have no choice but to go home, " Zayne said slightly annoyed by the word home.

Hours later, Zayne got out of the room where Annalise was and closed the door behind him finding Jack and Lincoln waiting for him. They hugged him and went out.

Zayne walked around the house and something flashed I'm his mind. He was only seven years old when he went to show his mother a drawing of their family. He knocked at the door but there was no response so he just went inside.

Zayne froze for minutes letting everything in his hands fall on the ground and stared at the lifeless body of his mother on the floor. Blood filled her wrists and he went close to wake her up but she was silent and stiff.

Zayne ran downstairs and called out his father's name but he did not respond. He went into the kitchen to call Mary their maid but he found them making up with his father.

"D... Da... Dad, " he said shivering with fear and Victor dressed up quickly.

"What do you want? Go and play with your brother outside! " Victor yelled at Zayne.

"Mom... Is lying on the ground... She is not responding,"

"Don't think about that, " Zayne said and shook his head trying to keep all of this out of his mind. He went into the kitchen and the only picture that was displayed in his mind was of Mary and his father.

He took out a bottle of wine and drank it without even pouring it into the glass. He went into the sitting room and let the wine drown his sorrows.

He went upstairs and he was slightly drunk. Annalise managed to get down from the bed and moans escaped from her lips. Her neck was painful and it was almost hard for her to move it properly but she still managed to jump off and gave Wayne a warm hug.

"I knew you would come back for me, for our baby and our future," she said happily and she broke the hug walking backward.

They both maintained eye contact for a few seconds.

"You're not him," she said with a shivering voice. "You're not Wayne."