#RUNS_GIRL…18+
Episode 17
My experience with Ray thought me a very big lesson – money for hand, back for ground – a new era of pay before service.
The experience shattered the reverence I had for the spiritualist and I started feeling he was scam.
My roommate stella could be innocent after all but that wasn’t my major problem.
I needed strong powers to fortify myself against all odds.
I had lost a lot of money and my life wasn’t as safe as I thought. I needed protection against people like Ray and Chief Adeboye.
So I visited one babalawo a friend recommended for me and explained my desire to him.
“The first three men you sleep with after you leave this place, bring their c0nd0ms here with their sp€rms inside,” he instructed looking intently at me.
“Ok baba I heard you,” I replied rising.
Bringing the c0nd0ms with the sp€rms inside wasn’t difficult. All I did was pretend like I was going to flush the c0nd0m down the toilet then hide it in my handbag.
The difficult aspect came when the babalawo poured the sp€rms into one small bowl and instructed me to drink it.
I hesitated for some time staring at the mixture. The mixture was yellowish and milky with an awful smell.
I brought the cup to my face two times but the smell wouldn’t allow me.
“Don’t you need protection and power again?” The babalawo asked staring at me with some air of disappointment.
“Baba I need the power and protection,” I replied still staring at the mixture.
“Then drink nah and stop wasting my time!” He bawled.
“The power I need is the “DO AS I SAY POWER” to make my clients do my wish and bidding without argument,” I explained.
“Drink the mixture first nah,” the baba commanded frowning.
I drank the mixture and nearly vomited.
“Don’t try it!” The baba warned. “If you vomit, then everything will be rendered useless.”
I struggled to restrain myself but the sour taste of the sp€rms kept stimulating the vomiting centre in my brain.
I tried and tried, no way. I sat up, no way. I stood up, no way.
With one long retch, I vomited everything unto the floor to the utmost dismay of the Babalawo…
#RUNS_GIRL…18+
Episode 18
“What do you think you have done?” The babalawo asked visibly annoyed. “I mean what exactly did you just do now?”
“Baba please forgive me,” I begged. “I didn’t know when I did it.”
“You didn’t know when you did what? My dear you’re in big soup.”
“Baba please forgive me,” I begged.
“You just desecrated my temple and rendered my effort useless. The spirits are very angry and you must appease them.”
I squeezed my face as I listened to what the baba was saying.
“First of all, you have to clean up this vomit on my floor, then you have to bring one white fowl, 3eggs and hundred thousand naira.”
“Baba I don’t have such amount,” I protested.
“Then watch and see what will happen.”
I left the babalawo’s shrine totally confused of what to do.
The afternoon sun was shining with great intensity radiating very hot rays on my skin.
I was bereft of ideas.
My money had gone down to the extent that I didn’t have hundred thousand to give the babalawo. And then, the other items he asked me to buy, I didn’t know where and how to buy them.
I stopped one cab driving past me and asked him to drop me at La Teresia lodge for that was the name of our hostel.
“N500,” the cab man told me.
“300,” I haggled pretending like I was searching for another cab.
“Oya enter 400.”
“I no carry 400. Na 300 I carry.”
“Enter,” the cab-man finally agreed.
I entered the cab and drove back to my hostel. Then I paid the man and alighted.
Then I knocked and entered my room.
“Your mum left few minutes ago,” my roommate informed as soon as I entered.
“My mum?”
“Yes.”
“What for?” I asked looking visibly surprised.
“She didn’t tell me. She waited and waited and when you didn’t come back she left. Maybe you should call her and find out.”
I went out to a shop nearby and bought airtime. Then I dialled my mum’s number.
“Your dad is very sick,” my mum informed me as soon as she picked my call. “He will be going for surgery and he requested that you come home incase.”
The news shocked me and I didn’t know what to say.
“I was in your hostel this afternoon but your roommate said you went out,” my mum continued. “Where did you go?”
“I went to make my hair,” I lied.
“Please come home, your dad is waiting,” my mum continued obviously not impressed by my reply.
“Ok ma…” I replied and hung up.
TO BE CONTINUED
TO BE CONTINUED
