I was 18 when my cousin and his wife moved in to live with my family. They’d married against their parents wishes and requested us to house them till they found jobs. They stayed with us for a few months and showed no signs of patching up with their family or moving out. Our house was crowded already–6 people were living in a two-bedroom space.
But they’d always plead to stay for a ‘few more days.’
There was only my laptop at home that everyone used–I lent it to my cousin and his wife to apply for jobs. That’s what I thought they were using it for, but I was wrong.
One evening, my cousin handed some photos to my parents. Mom was shell-shocked and furiously asked me, ‘Who are these boys? Is this what you’re doing instead of going to school?’ There were pictures of me in compromising positions with men I’d never met.
At that moment, I realized that the pictures on my laptop were morphed by my cousin and his wife. The pictures looked so real that I was stunned too. I cried and said, ‘That’s not me!’
My cousin and his wife pretended to have deep concern for my parents and said, ‘She’s ruined the family name!
