Another day of already answered prompts telling me to go into my partially written saved posts…!
For those who don’t believe here’s the proof that I can provide you…!
If you stay with me, you will be safe…!
These are the exact words that left his mouth when I told him that I didn’t want to go with him…!
Set aback I was, before I could say anything as his words once again filled the room…!
“There are many who are ill mannered who will tease you, belittle you, call you names, maybe touch you inappropriately and what will you do then…?
Who will you call out to…?
Who will you look back to for help…?
Will you cry out for help…?”
Don’t you think it will be a terrifying experience…?
And you won’t be able to move or even make a cry of help when something bad happens…!
You don’t even call it out when you’re surrounded by people you call your own, because you think they’d think of you in the wrong way…!
And you think you can go alone safely there without me…?
His words cut deep,
But they were true, I should have left early and made all of the necessary arrangements before I planned to travel there, even if it were to travel all alone…!
I know this seems weird, A lot of dependence on a person, But what if I told you it was the absolute truth for me…?
Last week another girl just like me was picked up by goons as she was going back home from school and she was assaulted and later left on the side of the road(literally to die);
Until a passer-by recognized her and shouted to attract more people;
The already distressed parents ran as they weren’t able to lodge a FIR,
Denied were their basic rights just because the presiding officer assumed that she must have ran away from home due to some tension or stress from her parents…!
They also brought them shame by telling them to their face and all those around them that,
She must have ran away from them with her boyfriend and they must have planned to marry each other…!
As soon as they reached along with other police officers after an already pre decided sum was received by them in a form of bribe and they were looking to pay a part of it to the family to settle the matter;
They said girl was still alive and confessed the name of the people that were in that car because they belonged to the same town;
And they loaded her up in their police van instead of an ambulance and drove off towards the hospital…!
The parents of the girl stood there and after a while they shook themselves to consciousness and found what had happened…!
They paddled their way to the hospital but their daughter was declared brought dead;
The parents also died as soon as they heard the news…!
As the hospital staff decided to change her to remove all of the blood soaked clothes,
They began the investigation and found conclusive evidence that it was infact a sexual assault and this would;
Should be a criminal activity;
But those so called enforcers of justice came empty handed when she was laden into the police jeep and gave up on the drive towards the hospital,
Or,
She was deliberately killed on the way to not get a witness testimony…!
The words still ringing in my mind,
If you stay with me, you will be safe..!
Would I ever be safe, until this mentality stays that I need someone to feel safe
And when I am alone I will—
I should feel unsafe…
Only when there’s someone around me I’ll feel safe…!
Isn’t this mentality broken enough to push women back into the place they worked so hard to crawl out of…!
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
Waakiye 
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