“Onyi baby…whats up na” Sharon shrieked as
she entered Onyinye’s room, her smallish body
endorsed in an over exaggerated waist line
giving her a weird look.
Onyinye who was on her bed obviously
oblivious of all that happens around her, with
her head on a pillow and eyes gazing
aimlessly at nothing.
Onyi babe na…wetin deh do you?” Sharon
asked again this time pushing her slightly on
the shoulder jolting her out of her out of the
world thought.
“Oh Shanty… you are here whats up” she
intoned rubbing her eyes with the back of her
palm as she took her unfixed gaze to The
weird smallish figure that stood as sharon.
“I deh jaree… wetin deh do you gurl? why are
you now a shadow of yourself, you did not
even see me enter” shanty asked, her dim
black eyes popping a bit.
“Shanty na that b#####d ooo John, Do you
know this guy beat me up?” she intoned more
of a question than a statement.
“What?” Sharon shouted seemingly jumping
with her over proportioned a#s jumping along
giving echoing vibrating response.
“Hiaaan no be small thing ooo that b#####d
dumped me for one cheap w###e he picked
from God knows where” Onyinye barked
standing up on her feet this time.
“I promised him that i will deal with him and i
will, that stupid he-goat will not live to
celebrate him dumping me like a cheap rag…
he messed with the wrong b###h” She blurted
out staring directly at Sharon who nodded in
response.
Both were high ranking members of a female
secret confraternity back in their university
days.
“Shanty abeg help me talk to spider… tell him
to waste that b#####d” She added with
visible nerves appearing at the side of her
face.
3 days after the news was broken.
Onyinye was in the office when her phone
vibrated signaling a call.
“Hello spider wetin deh” She muttered in
whispers placing her head underneath her
desk to mask the sound of her voice from
escaping.
“Onyi scatter… sweet babe, we don waste that
mugu” Spider announce with a chuckle.
“Ewooo… ehee thank you. i go see you later”
She blurted as the line went dead.
An odd melancholy feeling overtook her, salty
tears ran down her face.. “Scatter forget joor
that he-goat deserved what he got” she cursed
under her breathe.
** ** **
Onyinye was drawn back to her conscious self
from the deep flash back she was having.
Her environment registered into her;
the four windowless wall stared deeply at her,
looking dirty and unpainted with drawings of
weird figures obviously drawn with a charcoal,
strange stains that she make out to be faeces
dried and crispy decorated the wall.
She was drawn back to reality; SHE WAS IN
PRISON.
After Johnny move down to east, the police
followed up on the case on the insistence of
doctor frank who convince his friend the
commissioner.
On the course of the investigation spider and
3 of his gang mates were busted. spider was
shot and killed on the process of trying to
escape while the other three were whisked off
to be question and that was were onyinye
came in.
On the heavy afternoon of a sunny
Wednesday, police barged into the office
complex of McLewis and took onyinye away,
the boys had mentioned her name.
They were all charged with attempted murder
and sentenced to 10years imprisonment with
hard labour.
Tears rolled freely from her eyes which were
already swollen from the numerous hours and
nights of crying.
“God please forgive me… i know i have been
foolish and stupid please i beg you forgive me
and grant me mercy” she cried tasting her
salty tears as they rolled from the run way on
her cheek to the corner of her mouth.
“I was even foolish enough to mock him as he
packed out of the city even after attempting to
kill him” she went on with her lament..”oh i
really need to apologize to him i hope he can
forgive me, i hope God can forgive me”.
Surely this was the TIME FOR RECKONING.
..To be Continued..
