Spoilt to Death

Kish was a petite, shapely, beautiful girl. She was five feet and three inches tall, with a light complexion and short Afro hair. She was also soft-spoken, polite, cheerful and very persuasive; never loud, rude or aggressive.

She was the first born of Manoah and Joan. After her, her parents had three more girls and four boys. Her father and mother doted on her and gave her all that she wanted. She went to school like any other child her age was expected to, until she finished high school.

Kish’s parents showered her with love and over-indulged her desires. Regarding food, in particular, she ate what she wanted, and that meant what was tasty to her. So, she only ate fries or chips, sausages and soda.

Otherwise, she ate nothing else, no matter how good the food was that her mother had prepared. Therefore, she never had breakfast because tea and bread were not to her liking. She preferred waiting to eat her favourites for brunch or lunch, as well as dinner. Nevertheless, she remained trim and elegant in build, with a twenty-inch waistline.

She also enjoyed the good life her parents had afforded her and became attached to it, albeit without a corresponding desire to work hard for it. Consequently, she never got a job. Moreover, she became a single parent to two children after high school, and a heavy social drinker.

She disappeared for weeks sometimes from her parents’ house where she and her children lived, and often reappeared with goodies for her children that had been obtained mysteriously. This went on for years and eventually, most of the time, she was unsteady in her walk, slurred her speech and clung to people she knew when they met, asking them for alcohol, coffee or her favourite foods.

Kish then met an old wealthy man from overseas, who took her and her children abroad for some time, before they came back to live with her parents. Throughout, her drinking problem continued, with the support of her wealthy beau. Her beauty and shapely figure remained unaltered, like they almost were during her pregnancies, when she barely seemed pregnant even at full term. She, however, lost weight later and never recovered from her alcohol addiction, dying when her children were teenagers in high school.

Her beau had taken over financial responsibility for her children quite some time before she died, and continued after. He then helped them get careers in the art world after they finished high school.

Over-indulgence and a lack of responsibility paved the way to an early death for Kish, making life with her unpleasant for her parents and children.