Amina is taking her usual way back to her house after spending the day at her aunties and cousin’s house when she feels footsteps walking behind her. Amina looks back and doesn’t find anyone, she continues walking. The footsteps don’t stop, they become louder and closer, amina looks back and finds a big guy behind her looking almost drunk and scary. Amina tries to run away and screams, but he manages to get ahold of her and shut her up. Amina recognizes the guy when she gets a closer look at him, and realizes he is her neighbor. Adel the neighborhood drunk and drug abuser, uses his force to overcome the little girl until she passes out with no energy. Adel rapes Amina and leaves her on the floor. Amina wakes up after a few hours to find her self on the ground with her clothes full of blood petrified, not knowing what happened to her and panicking not knowing what she is going to tell her parents when she gets home. Amina gets home, takes a shower and doesn’t tell anyone about what happened with her. In the shower Amina sits in the bathtub with her legs bent holding them, and recalls the whole night with tears going down her cheeks. Later, she tries her best to sleep but no luck. All she did is think of what happened to her and what she will do about it.
2 months later, Amina decides she cant live with this on her own anymore, so she decides to tell her parents, who then decide to report it. The prosecutor advises Amina to marry. As it is considered a dishonor to the family if a girl loses her virginity before marriage, and marrying her rapist would some how restore her family’s lost honor fearing she wont find a husband later if her rape becomes common knowledge.
After being raped at the age of 15, today at 16 years old, Amina is forced to marry the person she hates the most in life, and she is also supposed to be the typical “good house wife” any husband expects. Despite what Adel did to Amina, he didn’t agree to the marriage at first saying she is...