CHAPTER 5

After about an hour of silence I looked down to see that Ken had fallen asleep.

I remembered then how I had slept on the bed but woke up on the rug.

I kept feeling like someone was touching me and it woke me up.

I didn't think much of it when I stood up to go back to bed. But thinking back, what made me worried a little bit was the fact that I was a very light sleeper so I wondered how he got to carry me down from the bed without me knowing, except.... except I was drugged.

When he saw that I stirred he quickly pretended to still be sleeping. Not thinking much of it I left the floor to the bed to stay close to my brothers.

I was almost going back to sleep on the bed when I felt him try to touch me again.

Since I couldn't sleep I started putting the pieces of the puzzle together. It wasn't much of a puzzle.

He wasn't smart enough, they weren't smart enough. He planned this with his sister, I felt it in by bones. He didn't give me anything that I could have eaten only his sister could have drugged me which I suspected that they did, because only a drugged Mira could move from the bed to the floor without waking.

I kept thinking and thinking while trying to keep tabs with him. I couldn't sleep anymore and I didn't try to. I thought about the cereal Anita gave to me before I slept. That must have been where the drug was planted.

After a while, I made sure he had fallen deeply asleep before I flew out of the bed.

I quietly tiptoed to the parlour and noticed that the light in the study was on. Which meant that aunty Lisa was awake just like I hoped and prayed she was.

I walked to the study adjacent to the parlour on light feet.

I sat down on the rug and looked up at her like a child that came to talk to her mother. I trusted her, hence I didn't for one second negotiate whether she would protect me or not.

"Good morning" I whispered. My voice came out low; I didn't know If it was from fear or because I had just woken up.

"Good morning dear why are you up so early?" Aunt Lisa asked. Her eyes were fixed on her system and I was thankful for it.

I didn't want those brown eyes searching mine. I felt that if my voice shook then she might not believe me.

"Its Ken." I whispered. I was having conflicting feelings of what I should do that was best. Should I or should I not tell her?

"Yes, what did he do?" She turned to face me now, and that made me even more afraid to speak.

"I slept on the bed but woke up on the rug close to him, he was touching me, and... And... he Even climbed me." I stuttered, nervously biting my lips. Saying it out loud brought a kind of feeling to my chest. A feeling that I didn't like.

"He did what!" She shouted. "Are you sure?" She asked, getting up from her seat. She looked just as shocked as I was when I woke up to see Ken close to me. I trusted her all the more now.

"Yes." I replied. I was frozen to the spot hoping that I did not make a mistake by telling her? but if I didn't Ken might try again and maybe next time he won't stop when I ask him to.

What if he tries it with Bella, she's so little. I was so uncertain. I just didn't want her to doubt me or hate me, my mum was counting on her help. I didn't want to fail my mum.

"OK then leave everything to me." She said, after she had stopped pacing. "I'll take care of it, just go back to bed."

I wanted to say something, anything, but I could only say, "OK" I walked out of the office back to the passage.

Bella's room was opposite Ken's room and I was tempted to go back there but Anita would be there, I didn't want to see her.

I shook my head and went tiptoed back into the room.

When I walked in, I first of all went to make sure Ken was still asleep by waving my hand in front of his face.

When I was sure he was, I climbed the bed and drifted to oblivion