twelve
Road to her house no change na just the road itself change honestly
speaking the road need deliverance not just deliverance but total
deliverance.
As i come out from my school street and cross the hospital road cloud
start to they change, e be like say rain wan fall oh that means i nor
go tey for her house at all i will just give her the note and the
report book and maybe i will collect it in school tomorrow or better
self she snap everything instead of writting them.
I enter her compound and everywhere they quiet e be like say people
never come back na we science student they always first resume, reach
her door and knock.
“who is that”?
Me: mumu na me open door.
Ble: i nor blame you (she open the door) how far oz, “she said and
open the door for to come inside.
Me: you don fine oh na wetin them they feed you for your IT?
Ble: come inside joor and shut up.
I enter inside and guys am telling you the room don change well well
everywhere don upgrade as if na family wan they stay here, not only
her room she too don fine put she don resemble queen, i look around
the room as if i be stranger.
Ble: you don become stranger here abi?
Me: na who come butter your bread like this na?
Ble: na God.
Me: shatup you don catch one mugu abi?
Ble: hahahaha you never still change abi?
Me: change to what you nor like me like this?
Ble: na you sabi abeg give me wetin una learn.
Me: chai see as you don even fine put self (i sit down for her reading
chair while she relax on her macho bed).
Ble: i nor fine before?
Me: of course you fine but now you fine pass mammi water.
Ble: shot up no just talk nonsense here at all because i don repent
and i nor get time for those nonsense talk again.
Me: hahahahahahahaha
Ble: wetin do you?
Me: you repent?
Ble: yes na.
Me: if you repent that means fowl don get teeth be that na.
Ble: na you sabi wetin una learn abeg?
Me: wetin i go lem first?
Ble: wetin you mean?
Me: i they h na.
Ble: ok no worry rice they fire e go soon done.
Me: okay i dey here they wait.
Ble: so make i see the note.
Me: nothing much just things in the laboratory and their uses.
Ble: but we don do that one before na for ND.
Me: yes na so e go they easy to report (i brought out the note from my
bag and gave it to her with her report book).
Ble: waoh you buy report book for me?
Me: yes you no go fit report without report book na so i just say make
i use am welcome you.
Ble: hmmmm thanks dear i appreciate.
Me: no worry you know say you be my fine lady na, so everything
suppose to be free for you.
Ble: you nor they ever change abi?
Me: lol abeg na when the food go done abeg.
Ble: e go soon done no worry meanwhile use that grape wey they there
they pass your time make i copy this note sharp sharp.
Me: okay thanks love.
She stood up and took note from her shelf she wore bumshot with single
wey no get hand, her bum don big put also with her boobs i wonder
wetin make her property come heavy like this oh like person wey don
throway one (we call them after one).
I was really starring at her ass cause i think i need them now since
Mercy they go at least she can satisfy me throughout our stay here.
Ble: no even think about am at all.
Me: wetin be that?
Ble: wetin you they think for mind.
Me: i nor think anything oh.
Ble: better just concentrate on that grape wey you they lick.
.
As a respectful boy i face the table on the wall and concentrate on
the grape am licking, she gather her writting materials on the ground
and went out to check the food she put on fire (their kitchen they
back though she still they cook with gas cooker for inside sometimes
but this time she they cook for outside).
As she went out i took her laptop ontop bed and switch it on, after
booting i saw enter password i type her name e no work i type her
surname e no work too then i try both but e no still work, i pause for
a minute and think for something as if i can remember i try different
code e no word then i saw a hit below the box, the password hit is
three word A.G.O, that AGO is my full name though i know the code is
not my name but i just say make i try am, i type it on the box and
surprisely the laptop open i was like waooh, why is she using my name
as her password i was confuse because i dont understand, as i hear her
voice from outside as she they greet her neighbour i quickly shutdown
the system and drop it on the bed, i nor fear say i carry the laptop
but i they fear say she use my full name as the password,if she see
say i don open am she go they somehow and i dont want that she open
the door and came in.
Ble: hello dear how you doing.
Me: waiting for my food.
Ble: keep on waiting oh because e be like say na here you go sleep today.
Me: how?
Ble: come see as up dark as if nit don reach.
I waka go door and look outside, oh men up don really dark oh i check
time again four thiry.
Me: this one na heavy rain oh.
Ble: e be like say u go start to dey go now oh.
Me: for wetin i go sleep here.
Ble: u nor well.
thirteen
I sit down for inside house i don finish one plate of rice na the
second one i they now, heavy rain they fall for outside and the time
say six thiry in the evening, Blessing stay ground they watch movie
since nothing to do na so fan they blow and light they shine for up,
sometimes i nor they understand Nepa oh when rain they fall no be e
them suppose take light? But na now light they scatter for ground well
na them sabi sha na them know how them they run their thing.
Me: Ble how far.
Ble: i they oh you don finish am?
Me: yes oh abeg you fit bring come again.
Ble: Jesus Christ na tank they your belle?
Me: no be my fault na the food sweet na.
Ble: me i never chop oh food don finish for pot.
Me: abeg na you go cook another one na.
Ble: just carry the pot for there and pack stew put.
Me: thanks love.
I go where she put the pot and took it i annex stew put and went back
to my sit and sat down consuming the food like say no tomorrow, i dont
really know whats wrong with me anytime i see food wey sweet i nor
they think of tomorrow i just want finish that food that day.
I finish everything on the pot you wont blame me now would you? after
all i never eat afternoon food so na afternoon own and evening own i
eat so, na only night food remain (i believe 80 percent of nigeria
student eat night food).
After consuming everything i kept the pot for her, i look outside and
see say the rain don they stop small small i went inside and sat down
again looking at her big ass like that of Mercy Johnson, her own nor
too big like Mercy Johnson own sha Mercy Johnson own na Elephantiasis.
I join her on the floor and we watch movie together, shes watching one
old America film titled Tarzan, wey Jane go they call Tarzan e go be
like say she they call cowbell (na her tongue sha).
We watch movie till 7, 8, 9 before rain gree stop i wanted to sleep
but i know Blessing wont agree so the best thing na to enter this
kpotokpoto road they go house, she escort me reach her street road
before she turn back, everywhere don dark as if na twelve midnight we
they though light they shine for everywhere but i still they fear as i
come out for Blessing street i meet two road, the one on my left lead
to my school and kpotokpoto go they road well well, the one on my
right lead to main road thats MCC road, so i decided to follow that
road because light they road and the road them tile the road also, na
there Adanna first for meet me when i they go come Blessing house now
i they commot for Blessing house and i hope and pray no more Adanna,
any Adanna in my life i rebuke in Jesus name Amen. (did i hear you say
Amen)
I was walking silently to the main road i cant walk fast because i
will fall i use my infinix phone as torch i walk for two minutes
before i reach MCC road, as i reach there i turn left they go the
junction na before the junction you go meet my house because the road
they tiled i begin waka fast though kpotokpoto still they enter my leg
and rain still they shower small small, na to reach house and enter
bathroom sharp sharp.
I was walking fast till i get to burkingham college everywhere they
quiet and no sound anywhere apart from that of owl and the raindrop,
as i was going to my house at my front i saw people coming towards me,
though them they far i never near them at all them be like five to six
guys like that them hold something for hand, i nor know wetin e be i
wasnt afraid because na guys like me, though that boldness disappear
when i saw that the thing they hold on their hand is gun, when i see
it i first pause then i jejely they waka go back small small, them
they waka fast come meet me omo i gat to run oh e be like say na me
them come for, i ran inside between two building and i hear them say
“stop there” thank God say i know this area well well, i enter one
corner for there and burst out for one big compound wey i fit follow
go umuojima road i begin they go Omuojima road where that big erosion
they, i think say i sabi road i nor know say i be ju as i they comeout
from the third building i saw another guy with heavy gun standing on
my front backing me, i quickly turn back but as i don pass the third
building they go back i they hear the footstep of the guys wey they
follow me they come, omo i dont know what to do oh, i they between one
big building and one small one like student building though before
them fit see me them need to search five houses wey they that area
and e no they possible, so i decided to hide in the back of the second
house, as i they waka they go somebody for the first house open door.
“come inside” I was shock like hell because i dont know the person.
Unknown: if you want to live come inside now.
I dont really think i have a choice oh i have to take the risk so i
follow the unknown to the room, i enter the room and the room they
very nice, she on her rechargeable light and yes i remember her face
the new girl. (Beginning Of Story)
fourteen
Me: Adaeze? (i was shocked like hell standing like a ghost).
Ada: oh you are welcome by the way please have a sit (she said and sat
down in her bed she wore complete jeans trouser and handless shirt i
wonder where shes coming from)
I wasnt afraid because shes a girl and my fellow mate in school what
baffle me is that how did she know that am outside, i gently sat down
at the available sit beside the window.
Me: how did you know i was outside?
Ada: i saw you from my window.
Me: really, (i look the window and see say na those see me i nor see you glass)
Ada: yes and there is light everywhere.
Me: waoh, you just save my life i really owe you.
Ada: oh you will pay in full. (i dont really know what she met by that).
Me: thanks alot, but how come you recognize me you saw me only once in school).
Ada: twice, i saw you in the class and also in Mr Wale office.
Me: oh yes but am still sceptical how you manage to remember me.
Ada: like seriously i dont forget people like that and by the way
where are you coming from by this time of the night.
Me: i went to see my course mate.
Ada: oh really and you didnt look the sky abi? (she has a tender or
rather slender voice i bet she cant even shout me from afar).
Me: i did but i expect it to stop before nine.
Ada: ooh, pls next time dont stay long outside because we need you.
Me: you need me for what i dont understand.
Ada: sorry i meant i need you because you gonna teach me everything
about reporting.
Me: oh but you suppose know that in ND na.
Ada: i didnt really concentrate in ND (like seriously When e be say
throughout ND na reporting things how she manage pass?)
Me: (i dont want to hurt her feelings) okay thats no problemo i will
teach you but did you cook anything?.
Ada: oh sorry i dont cook.
Me: shit am really hungry (i look around and i saw apple ontop frigde
waoh she get fridge small student fridge with nice laptop and home
theatre, na red rug they her room with lots of expensive things, hmmm
me and she no be mate oh na those type they date rich man pikin i
wonder how old she be.
Ada: you can take the apple if you want. (i think she saw me swallowing spit)
Me: thanks.
I stood up and collect the apple from ontop the fridge i was tempted
to open the fridge but i kick against it i nor wan fuckup, the girl is
beautiful no doubt but i dont understand why am not interested or
rather attrated to her, shes a beautiful girl and am always attrated
to beautiful ladies but her case na different one, she get everything
wey i they like for girl body but i still dont feel attrated to her.
Ada: seems like you have not eaten since morning.
Me: why do you say so?
Ada: the way you are consuming that apple i pray you dont eat your hand.
Me: kikikikikikikikikikiki
Ada: what type of chinese laugh is that?.
Me: Lol i learnt it from one of my whatsapp group fan.
Ada: whatsapp group what do you do there?
Me: i update stories.
Ada: really why not just open a website
Me: of course I have.
Ada: whats that name?
Me: ozilatales dot com
Ada: Okay so what is lol.
Me: nah is just a short form of laugh out loud something like that,
you dont chat?
Ada: i do chat but in my place thats not the meaning.
Me: whats the meaning?
Ada: well you will know soon enough.
Me: hmmm you talk like someone i use to know.
Ada: who?
Me: you will know soon enough.
Ada: hahaha, you are kind of funny.
Me: i think i should be going those thug might have gone.
Ada: i think so too let me escort you.
Me: dont worry is midnight and my house is not too far from here so
dont disturb yourself.
Ada: oh come on i insist (she don already standup so i cant say no again).
Me: okay.
I stoodup also and walk to the door, she took her phone and collect
something from her fridge, she put it inside black nylon and hand it
over to me.
Ada: manage it.
Me: whats inside (i check it and saw that its bread) waoh thanks alot
Adaeze. (wetin i suppose reject i nor ma do anything for her)
Ada: you welcome.
She lock her and escort to MCC main road then she return back after
exchanging number of course her number look kind of strange, it start
with 090666 and end with 999 well strange number for a strange girl, i
dont even know where she come from but i believe say na rich family
she for come but why she come this our small school for here, big girl
like her suppose they madonna university, babcok university or rather
bells university.
I walk home safely without no trouble nor catacata i open my door and
enter inside and immediately i took water outside to go and baf though
fear they my mind but i nor get choice is rather i baf or i sleep for
bed with dirty body, i took the bucket to backyard and shower myself
for ten seconds and run inside house you go blame me? No you should
not because if you don see wetin i don see you nor go even come out
from your house for the rest of your life.
fifteen
I enter inside house and clean my body thank God say light they oh
because this night go sweet well well or so i thought, i bring out the
bread from the nylon omo na those type of bread wey they get butter
inside oh and very big also this one go reach me for three days oh but
you know me na, na one day i go chop am, i quickly open the bread and
as i wan cut small put for mouth make i taste my mumu infinix phone
distract me, i look the caller na Mercy.
Me: hello babee.
Mercy: you never sleep?
Me: i just they watch film.
Mercy: okay make sure say you pray before you sleep oh i feel somehow
is like something bad is about to happen.
Me: to who?
Mercy: someone i love.
Me: dont worry nothing will happen dear (but seriously why this girl
they always see bad thing about me? ).
Mercy: i pray so dear, what did you eat this evening?
Me: just rice oh.
Mercy: who cook it?
Me: me of course who else do you think?
Me: i find it funny you cooking rice when you have afang soup. (holy
shit i never warm that soup and the soup they quick spoil if you nor
warm am).
Me: please give me some minutes i will call you back.
Mercy: okay lovie am waiting.
I cut the call sharperly and tie the bread back, i took the stove
outside and on it i quickly brought out the soup and put it on fire, i
sit for my doormouth and they watch am, e be like say my neighbour
never sleep because i they hear drama for there and also slippers full
him outside, that means him get visitors i took the phone and dial
Mercy’s number but they say the phone is switch off i wonder how
person wey call me just now go come switch off her phone, as i wan
drop the phone another call they enter i look at the screen and saw
Adanna i was shock and quickly drop the phone on the ground the phone
they ring i they look am for ground then i summon courage and as i wan
pick am i see am for the screen say na Adaeze, oboy na which kind yawa
be this?
Me: hello Adaeze.
Ada: hi are you at home now?
Me: yes thanks alot.
Ada: you welcome, please dont forget to come along tomorrow with your reporting.
Me: i wont forget i promise.
Ada: alright wanna crash now take care.
Me: alright ma sleep well and dream of me (that thing just mistake
enter my mouth and i regret am).
Ada: dream of you, Now why will i dream of you?
Me: slip of tongue i meant dream of God.
Ada: which god?
Me: the one you serve.
Ada: i serve no god.
Me: really? Then get ready i will take you to my church on sunday.
Ada: what is church?
Me: like seriously?
Ada: what is church?
Me: where you from come?
Ada: from Aba.
Me: you sure because you they talk like someone they born yersterday.
Ada: thats rude.
Me: am sorry slip of tongue if i may ask how old are you?
Ada: twelve month.
Me: hahahahahahaha you are really funny you wey don reach to be my mama self.
Ada: okay sleep tight goodnight.
Me: okay bye.
She cut the call but i must say shes kinda strange, seems like shes
one of the lost girls.
I remove my pot from fire and enter house and lock my door i enter bed
and pray for God guidiance.
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i wokeup in a big forest tied with rope with a big tree everywhere is
bright with nobody around all i hear is the sound of bird i look my
right and saw a running water, i look my left i saw desert i dont know
where ali am but i know say na bad place, the kind rope wey them take
tie me be like sacrificial rope with red colours, i was rub with white
chalk all over my body and cowries on my head, now this is really
strange i dont know what to do so i started shouting for help, i shout
and shout and shout and shout but nobody answer, after like two hours
of waiting the running water started boiling like kettle wey them put
for fire the river they rise then suddenly somebody started rising from the water, the came out of the
river a small baby like six years she has hairs all over her body
like me and she have a golden hair just like the golden chain Adanna
gave me she wear cowries all over her body, i was scared like hell
because i never see this kind thing before she walk to me and say.
Girl: hello daddy.
I was surprise why is she calling me daddy? I look her face well and i
must confess there is resemblance.
Girl: dont be afraid am your daughter and am here to deliver you to mummy.
Me: whiiiiiiich mumumumy (i stammmere).
Girl: Adanna my mother.
When she mention that name my heart skip to my mouth.
Me: who are you.
Girl: am your daughter and you are going to help me bring my mother
back thats why we need you (now I have heard that we need you before somewhere)
Then i started crying i mean heavy cry suddenly she blow breeze from
her mouth and the rope on my body cut at once she hold me by my right
hand and take me inside the river ( i was following her and i dont
know why)
sixteen
I nor know wetin they push me oh i just they follow the little baby
like say na charm she take they draw me or maybe its charm who know
because i cant stay and be following somebody i dont know, we enter
inside the river and the river begin swallow us small small, the way i
they follow her be like say she wan go baptize me or maybe yes she wan
baptise me true true, as the river don they swallow us reach our neck
i was really afraid but i cant talk, stop, nor go back, the water don
swallow the little girl wey she say she be my daughter and i nor even
know her name oh, as we they go and the water wan swallow me then i
draw the curtain.
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i woke up and saw that all my body is wet like hell, whether na the
water wey i enter come make my body wet like this or na sweat wey i
they sweat i nor know oh, i wake up and sit down for bed and i start
to they think about the dream the little girl say she be my daughter
but how come? Adanna never told me that shes pregnant and i never see
any sign say she get belle na which kind yawa be this one now eh,
hmmm na God go save me oh i took my phone and call Mercy, her number
is still switch off, i throw the phone away angrily and relax on the
bed looking at the ceiling, then i see see something they move for my
ceiling i quickly run go on light and behold a mighty bat inside my
room oboy na which kind wahala be this na? i carry my long broom
begin use they hit the bat the bat they fly around the room while me
they struggling to kill am, me and the bat they dance alingo for inside the
room before e enter one small hole for my wall wey them pass put
electric wire for my room, the bat enter there and disappear i search
and search and search i nor see the bat, i even open door go outside
go find am but i nor still see am i wonder how giant bat go take
pass through that small hole wey they there.
since i nor see am i
close my door and enter inside house, i keep my broom and lie for bed
i nor wan off light again oh Mercy tell me say she get feeling say
bad thing wan happen, then this bad dream and this mysterious bat,
hmmm something is about to hapen and i cant figure it out, i just hope
and pray i will still be alive when e start because at this rate i
dont think they will even attack me before i die.
The little child said that she want me to help her bring back her
mother thats something i can never do, i will rather die than bring
back Adanna, i rebuke and ban her in the name of Jesus, i wont do it
not now not ever unless she wan come use my dead body bring her back,
bringing Adanna back wont only mean the end of me but also the end of
everybody i love and am not ready to lose any of my friends nor
family, she better remain where she is because the person that defeat
her is still hale and healthy, she defeat her before and she can still
defeat her now i was really trouble now and i need to sleep oh, i
took my phone and look at the time the time say one o clock in the
midnight.
the next day everything happen smoothly Mr Wale change the submission date to Monday so all of us they happy at least no reporting this week or so I thought, I met Adaeze in school and teach her how to report I even give her assignment self make she summit on Monday, weekend reach me and my neighbour took car to Mercy’s house and pack her things, she left to Benin that day and I must say I cry that day she leave.