"Goddamn it! He's a coward! A beast! A... A... This is exasperating. I can't believe that monster did this to you and you didn't tell me?!" You could say Paschal was raged but that was an understatement.
He flounced the parlour.
Joey had concluded her story and watched as he boiled up.
"Paschal,it's okay, don't be mad" she was calm.
"Don't-- Don't be mad?! Are you listening to yourself?!" He thundered at Joey.
Seeing the expression on her face,he found out he needed to be by her side to console her and calmed down, sitting back on the sofa.
"His plan worked. I forgot all about the rape and everything. I became an imbecile Paschal. The doctor worsened it by saying I was possessed,thanks to dad" she sat calm.
"So how come you remember?"
She taught for a minute. "The doctor did a perfect work on me and so far,I remembered myself,my name,my family, siblings, parents. But,I knew that a whole part of me was missing. Well,I went home after I was discharged and two days later,I woke up hearing a weird noise and went to the direction of the noise and unfortunately for me..." she sobbed "I saw my dad, fucking my mum. And the whole picture came into my head. A picture of a man doing the same to me. I was afraid" "I decided to walk away on hearing my mum telling my dad that she hadn't forgiving my dad of what he did to me. I then remembered everything..." "everything..."
"...and Wilson, our maid servant, also sent me a letter inside the parish were I taught my parents abandoned me and when I read the letter,I remembered everything from the beginning and..." She remembered how she felt at the restroom that day. "...and the pains came flooding in again like it just happened" she stopped.
Looking at her life years back,she wasn't sure she was going to ever share her past with anybody. But, sharing it now with Paschal,she felt calm.
It was then she found out she was feeling alright after telling someone and not the other way around.
"How do you feel?" Paschal had to ask.
"I'm fine"she replied.
"You said that motherfucker, your father, took some machinery from his friend? You said that's what he told you?" Paschal inquired. "Yeah" she replied. "That means, it's been in his mind to do this to you even before you knew he raped you" Paschal placed thoughts in. Joey was shocked saying; "yes. Because when I found out he raped me,he just took me directly to that dark room",her eyes widened "meaning he had provided that place before and was planning to torture me!" Tears flowed from her eyes easily. She didn't think about it this way before.
"It's okay Joey,uhm Rachel I believe your story. Is it okay if I call you Rachel? Fred Rachel?"
"Thanks for believing my story,I've never taught anyone would believe me and yes you can call me Rachel" she tried smiling beneath the tears. "Even Fred Paschal Rachel will do"they laughed this time.
"Rachel...?" Paschal wasn't sure how to begin. He watched her as she cleaned her tears.
"Yes.."she said.
"Rachel... Please will you marry me?"