#RUNS_GIRL…18+
Episode 19
I got home around 3pm in the afternoon.
My dad was lying on the couch when I entered. My mum sat beside him discussing in low tone.
“Daddy goodafternoon, mummy goodafternoon,” I greeted on entering.
“Good afternoon dear,” my dad replied.
“Linda is this you?” My mum asked standing from her seat and looking me all over.
It had been long I last went home so I wasn’t surprised of my mum’s observations. I added weight and looked fairer in complexion. A friend of mine had recommended one cream and my fair skin had become the end result. My hair-do looked expensive and my mum took note of it.
“You look different,” my mum observed. “Hope you haven’t started following men around?”
“Ah mummy No…,” I replied. “My roommate’s parents are rich so she’s taking good care of me.”
“Ok o,” my mum chorused. “Thank God you came early, your dad and I will be leaving for the hospital soon and you have to go with us.”
“Ok ma,” I replied.
“Please come closer,” my dad motioned to me when my mum had gone to prepare. “Have you had any encounter with any spiritualist or herbalist?”
The question struck me like thunder.
“Encounter with spiritualist?” I echoed under my breath.
“Yes, have you had any encounter with any spiritualist or herbalist?” My dad repeated.
“No sir, not at all.”
“Please tell me the truth,” my dad pressed on. “I had one terrible dream last night where I was being pursued by one spiritualist who asked me to tell my daughter to come and settle him. So tell me the truth, have you had anything to do with any spiritualist or herbalist?”
“I’ve never had anything to do with any spiritualist or herbalist,” I replied feeling uncomfortable.
My mum soon joined us in the sitting room and we left for the hospital.
My younger siblings remained at home.
We got to the hospital and my dad was first put under I.V infusion for about one hour before he was wheeled into the theatre.
“They said his prostate had gone bad,” my mum revealed as we sat outside the theatre waiting for the surgery to commence. “We were in the hospital two weeks ago; that was when the doctor booked him for the operation.”
“He will pull through,” I said sounding optimistic.
I felt scared inside but masked my feelings superbly.
I didn’t know whether the babalawo’s threat had anything to do with my dad’s ailment.
“Hope everything is fine?” My mum asked when she noticed the drop in my countenance.
“Yes, everything is fine,” I replied nodding my head.
The operation lasted for more than 5hours at which point my mum was already fidgeting on her seat.
“This operation has lasted long,” my mum said looking apprehensive. “I’m no longer comfortable.”
“Mummy don’t worry, daddy will pull through,” I replied to calm her down.
The operation ended 3hours later and the doctor came out with a long face. My dad didn’t make it…
#RUNS_GIRL…18+
Episode 20
My dad’s death threw my family into a new era of hardship which my mum couldn’t cope with.
My dad’s relations hovered in like hungry vultures and took away the few assets my dad left behind.
They claimed my male siblings were too young to take care of my dad’s properties so they came to help.
Things became very difficult for my mum to the extent that paying my school fees became a huge burden for her.
All these increased my desperation and determination to make it via my Runz girl business.
The first thing I did when I got back to my hostel after my dad’s funeral rites was to visit the babalawo.
“Your stubbornness killed your dad,” the babalawo said as soon as he saw me. “If you don’t appease the spirits within the next four market days, you’ll see what will happen to you.”
“So it was you who killed my father?” I asked the babalawo feeling very angry and terrified at the same time.
“Your mother will soon join him,” the babalawo retorted unmoved by my outburst. “You must do all those things I asked you to do within the next four market days and appease the spirits whose shrine you desecrated. Then you decide whether or not you wish to repeat the ritual for the ‘Do As I Say Power’ you initially requested for.”
I stood up and left the babalawo’s shrine immediately.
I rallied around for money and was able to gather a hundred and fifty thousand with which I cleared the babalawo’s demands. Then I went back to my hostel to decide whether or not to go ahead with the DO AS I SAY POWER. That aspect of drinking the sp€rms of three different men mixed together in one small bowl was the most difficult aspect of the ritual which I wasn’t sure I could go through with. And then vomiting again for the second time in the shrine meant going through that desecration process again which I wasn’t ready for. After going through all these in my mind, I decided to let the “DO AS I SAY POWER” be for the time being till I was ready to cope with the requirements of the ritual…
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