Chapter Seven
THE EARLY TEENSLek was proud to be joining the sorority of womanhood, and also proud, although rather guiltily, of being the first among her friends to have got there. As she grew older and increased her mass, she became stronger too, and the work became easier. The only thing she didn’t like was that her skin was a darker brown than that of her friends because they spend more time indoors, while at school, than she did. Every month she treated herself to a bottle of the only cosmetic she had ever used: skin whitener.
However, it was an expensive one, which included moisturiser, so the pharmacist had told her, to counteract the harmful UVB rays of the sun. She thought it was extremely extravagant of her, and when she put a dab on in the privacy of the bathroom morning and n
