Beyond my Imagination ~~ Hive Naija Prompts 28

I played with half brothers in the stream.

When I was eight years old, during summer time my half brothers and I agreed that we should go and swim in the stream since the temperature was too high after a long play of running and pursuit and we went.

Getting to the stream we were swimming and later started playing some unwise play in the stream:

swimming and pursuing, sinking deep in the stream and throwing sharp objects on the person in the stream and so on and so forth.

Before we started playing zink deep in the water let another throw a sharp object on you to see if it will penetrate you. We argued on who will get into the water first and will be the one to first throw the sharp object.

“Let me be the first to sink deep while you throw sharp objects at me before you”, said my half brother.

“NO! Let me be the first” , said by me.

So we kept on arguing about it. In a short while he accepted that I should be the first to sink deep, I was glad.

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I went into the stream and not in a very deep place because of my age and height so that I will not drown by the water. Hmmmm, little did I know, I thought that no sharp objects can penetrate inside water to choke someone because of the force of the water without knowing that with force or stronger force it can penetrate even to the last point.

My half brother who was of late teens knew better than me. He threw with a very strong force a sharp bamboo stick, it penetrated right inside, I thanked God it wasn't my eyes that it choked me but my big tomb and touched bone.

I came out with it and was crying when I saw blood flowing out from me while he was laughing at me.

“Look at what you have done to me”, I said.

He said, “were you not the one that said I threw it?”

My cry and complaint was so scandalous to him. Some of my half brothers were struggling on how to remove the broken stick from my body.

While suffering the pain I remembered that I was asked not to follow him to the stream but I rebelled, that makes me perplexed that I will be beaten.

The experience I went through makes me cringe about my low mentality.