My boyfriend and I got married against the wishes of my parents. I begged them to hear the truth before they passed judgment on my boyfriend, but they were still bent on believing what they had heard.

Right now, the situation between my parents and me is good again, and that is because we are expecting our first child. I like how things are slowly going back to how they were supposed to be.

The problem is that my elder brother, whom I asked to move back to our parents’ house because he refused to work, and my elder sister have not spoken to me in the past three years. My second sister has been battling fibroids, which keep getting worse, and I wonder if it is because of what I did to her.

Why did I curse my sister? I will tell you.

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My husband and I had to fight my best friend before we got married. My best friend, Agyei, caused great turbulence in my family.

My sisters called me one evening, questioning me about my husband, then my boyfriend. “How does he treat you? Are you happy?” They had never done anything like that before, so it came as a surprise.

“I am okay. Why are you asking me these questions?”

They looked at each other and deflected.

It was later that I found out Agyei had gone to them with allegations that I was being abused in my relationship. He wanted to get me out of it, so he needed their help.

Six months before this, I was already on my way to cutting him out of my life. I even told my sister this. She laughed and asked what was happening between us because we were like peas in a pod. Nothing could separate us.

That was true, but people were coming to me complaining about him. They talked about his fraudulent lifestyle. His former girlfriends who knew me kept calling, asking me to convince him to take them back. Even friends he had betrayed came to me. I would not be shocked if they included my name in the curses they threw at him.

I had reached my limit, so I was making efforts to distance myself from him. He was getting married, and I was not there because I had travelled. That was my first step.

When I went to see my sisters, my brother was there too. He picked up my phone under the pretense of searching for something on Google, but instead he went through my messages with my boyfriend and exported the chats to my sister’s email.

I was scrolling through my email one day when I saw the forwarded messages. For whatever reason, I didn’t question them.

Then, one day Agyei reached out to me with some disturbing information. “Your second elder sister is trying to snatch your boyfriend away from you. She even said she was going to report you to your parents so your relationship would come to an end.”

I asked him, “How did you find out all these things?”

He had hacked my phone and my sisters’. He was also a hacker, in case I forgot to mention that.

He promised it would be the last time he hacked our phones. He said that after our mission, he would stop completely. Our mission, according to him, was to track my sister’s moves and stop her before things went any further.

My second elder sister and I have always had that rivalry between us since childhood, and he knew this because he had witnessed some of those moments himself. So I knew it was not beyond her to do something like that.

What I didn’t know was that he was also sending her screenshots of his chats with me as proof that he and I were still very close. That was how he explained why he knew all the information he was feeding her.

Try as much as I could, my sister still went ahead and reported me to my parents with the lies Agyei had been feeding her, and they believed every word.

As a security measure, they made my younger brother move in with me to keep my boyfriend away. My parents wouldn’t listen to anything I had to say.

After that, I came to understand that Agyei was the one engineering everything behind my back. He was the one encouraging my sister to report me to my parents so my boyfriend and I would never get married. There was even evidence to back it up.

In the three years since all the chaos he caused, he has tried to come back into my life, but that is completely out of the question now.

Everything that happened left me frustrated and bitter.

I bought eggs, put water in a cup, and called on the rivers and the spirits, far and near, within my reach to deal with my sister if she snatched this food out of my mouth. I cursed her.

Today, I fear it is working.

I know she wants to get married, have children, and build a family of her own. Instead, she has been moving from one doctor to another, undergoing surgeries for fibroids that keep coming back.

I was a very bitter person when those words came out of my mouth.

She heard that I am pregnant and said she was going to call me when she received the news, but it has been two months now and she hasn’t.

Do I cancel the curse, or is her situation not because of my curse, but simply nature doing what it has to?

—Patience

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