A LETTER TO YOU: Chapter 1 – 10
A LETTER TO YOU
CHAPTER SIX
Author: Okegbemi Ebenezer
As I laid on the bed, I tried to move away from the bed but I was glued it was as if a force was pinning me down on the bed.
Different thoughts crossed my mind. I thought about not making it out of the place alive as the snake was moving towards me on the bed. It crawled to the bed and positioned itself on my body. I could feel some sensation going on in my body. The weight of the snake was much. After sometime, it crawl back into the bathroom and the man appeared from the there smiling at me.
By then I had started to move my body a bit. He came to me and smiled again.
“I hope you enjoyed the process” He asked me. I could not talk as I was just shaking my head. I was afraid. I didn’t understand the transaction that has happened between the two of us, I just wanted to be free. He sat besides me and hand me a cash of about $1000 which was a huge money to me.
“I am giving you this money for you to make what you have seen today a secret as failure to keep to it means death. No one on earth must hear of this or else the penalty befalls you.” He said to me with his bulging eye pushing out.
“I will nottt, I …emm…” I stammer as I replied him.
“It is up to you and I hope you will come visiting anytime I need you” He said to as he helped me stand up as I dressed up.
I wasn’t myself after the encounter as I got back to school. Lara and the other girls came telling me how they were treated with care by the other men they went with. It was like they were lucky while I met a dangerous being which I dare not tell anyone among my friends.
“So, Alisa, how was your outing, I can see the Fat bundle in your bag, I know you will be treated well by the man” Helen said to me smiling and eyeing at the same time.
I looked at them with a faint smile as I thought over my encounter with the man, I swallowed my saliva hard and squeezed my face I the image of the snake emerges again. It was as if I was dreaming but it was the reality.
“Nothing much, just the normal stuff and he paid me well” I said as I showed them the money which I got from the man which surprised them a lot.
“Wow, $1,000 dollars, this is much, you are a lucky babe, in just a first outing, you got this money, I wish to have this kind of luck” Lara said to me.
I looked at her and smiled a bit because she does not know what I had encountered in the course of staying with the man.
“So girls, since we have made this kind of money, I believe it is time we put more effort so as to become more financial sufficient and not depends on our parents anymore for money and who cares about us, they are not even bother whether we are faring better in school or not” Lara concluded with a pat on my back.
I took a deep sigh as I opened my mouth to say something. They were shocked with the way I sighed and were forced to ask what the problem was.
“Girl, I hope all is well because looking at your reactions since we started talking you have been giving a shallow reply” Helen asked me.
“I don’t think I can continue in this business anymore, it does not suit my destiny” I said to them
“What do you by that” Helen asked me with her mouth widely opened.
“I think I have made enough and I need a rest from these” I replied.
“You must be joking, we must go for more until we no longer have money issue and be able to purchase whatever we need, there are latest designs I need to get and rock on campus” Helen added with Lara nodding her head.
I tried to convince them that day but they were not ready to listen to me. After much frustrations and persuasion from them I told them to think about it and they were happy.
“Yes, you better do” Stella who had been keeping mute all these while voiced out.
That night I sat on my bed after I went through my notes as I was having a test the following day. I could not sleep, I was hearing the hissing of the snake in my ear, it was as if I was seeing it again in my room and coming to lie on my chest. I jumped up as I was afraid to stay in the room. Hmm, see where lack of guidance and peer pressure has gotten me to.
“You are mine as from today” A voice said aloud to my ears. I could hear it well.
“Who are you” I queried as I held my two ears with my hand.
“I am the old man, that resides inside of you” the voice began said in a more louder tone
“Old what, I know you not” I screamed. It was as if there was another creature inside of me.
“You will know me soon but I am the ageless spirit that had been deposited in you” The voice said again and this time, my heart beat was racing heavily and the rate at which was sounding, someone afar would hear it.
I loosen my hair as I was roughening it, I was trying to get the voice to stop talking to me but it was persistent as it come out again in the most louder way.
“Why do you choose to be inside of me” I asked the voice as if I was talking to someone.
“I need you for an assignment” It answered.
“What”!!! I shouted.
My loud scream attracted Lara and some of the students living close to my room. They banged on my door and when they noticed that I was not responding and still screaming, they forced the door opened. By then I had collapsed on the floor, everywhere in my room was scattered as the spirit had took control of me.
‘I just left her room with two of my friends, what could have happened to her” Lara asked no one in particular. Some of the guys helped me to rise up. By the time I looked up my eyes were red like that of fire. They were afraid as they moved to the back.
After sometime I calmed down and they went back to their various room. Lara wanted to stay with me but I rejected the offer.
“Thanks, I should be able to take care of myself” I replied her.
“But you are not looking like someone who is okay” She said to me.
“Just go, I will take care of myself”
That night I had a dream where I saw myself in a gathering of elders with the snake symbol on their head.
“Welcome, into our midst” The leader who happens to be a beautiful young lady said to me.
To be continued…….
A LETTER TO YOU: Chapter 1 – 10
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