Inherited.

There was a clear difference between Penda and I,One that anyone could easily tell but yet it was obscure.Mother loved us with all her heart and yearned to see us end up better than she did,Ofcourse being a single mother in an African society tends to be pretty depressing.One reason is that no one cares to know the circumstances that led you to that.Rather than bore our minds with people’s judgement,Penda and I lived life to the fullest,It was quite beautiful to imagine the biology surrounding our birth,I mean one egg[ovary] mysteriously dividing into two seperate ovaries,Ha!..that’s the mystery behind twins!..Two bodies with one soul.Well there were some differences,while I was the introvert,Penda was the extrovert,just like Mother.She loved to make friends,laugh and talk with almost anyone and she encouraged me to do so,but i wasn’t up for it.We had just turned seventeen and mother had begun her sermons on how to be a dignified lady more reason,so we could avoid making the same mistake she did.Mother was so outgoing with everyone in her time,she had a truck full of boyfriends...metaphorically speaking.She got pregnant and all her boyfriends denied responsibility of the pregnancy,being an orphan she had no one to turn to..She could have aborted us but she didnt,never got to find out why though..Now all these years had passed and she by all means wanted none of that for any of her daughters.Penda and Pearl..beautiful names she gave us!.We just had to make her proud,but it didn’t really come through.It was a time of Things falling apart..Penda got pregnant just as it had been with Mother,all her boyfriends denied responsibility and guess who Mother had to blame for it all?...Me!.There were sessions of arguments between mother and I and the whole time Penda would sit quietly....watching and sometimes crying.I mean,Mother had to see it....Any trait or character depicted by Penda was all gotten from her,She simply inherited it.I tried to look at it more as a gift,Penda was totally blameless as to why she should be gifted in such way,but it had happened,the most feared had happened!.‘You should have taken care of her’ was mothers favorite phrase to me throughout that period and every night before retiring to bed Penda apologized to me.It wasn’t my fault,I tried to make Mother see that but it got all the worse.Weeks later I found Penda hanging from he ceiling fan in our room...Dead!.Still Mother blamed me,She couldnt see how much damage she had done to Penda’s mind that she thought of suicide and actually did commit it.It didnt matter anymore,Penda was dead.So that night mother returned from the mall and retired to bed early after having a warm shower,I killed her!....It ended all form of inheritance i would further get from her.I’m at home right now,the cops are gonna be here soon,I’ll plead guilty and ask for a lifetime penalty or better still death by hanging...lest i live with my inheritance,Mothers gift to my us..Penda for love and Pearl for great worth....THE END.