EPISODE 12
Mum called me that night, i did not pick. I heard it ring but refused to pick. I don’t want someone spoiling my mood with scary sermon. Hmmm, mum sent me a DM. It read….
“Cornell, dear son, i write with tears. Satan is after you. The forces of darkness your father fought and conquered have decided to take their revenge on you.
Darling, i have been praying. It will be deadly. You are surrounded with demons who parade as angel of light.
Son, i am begging you to come back, not to my home but to Jesus. It will still be useless if you come home and you’re still far from Jesus. i am not asking you to make up with me or your dad, i am asking you to make up with Jesus.
Behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation. When you hear his voice harden not your heart. Son please, prevent this great danger and calamity that awaits you. Come back to your source, your root, come back to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. Who, for the joy set before him, despised the shame, endured the cross and is now sitted at the right hand of God.
My dear son, I’m in tears. I weep for your soul. I don’t want you to perish. Don’t give place to the devil”…..
I angrily deleted the message. I didn’t even finish it. What an epistle!!!! It was beginning to make me so uncomfortable. I got angry. Wetin sef!!! I reacted.
All these guys wey do pass me, how far? Shey dem die? Why is mine different??? Abegi, this is the wrongest time for this please. Not tonight. Lydia and me did the unthinkable just to have a gooood time. Lydia’s idea though, not mine.
We drugged mama and papa’s food. We really needed time to make out. We needed the space. We needed the fun. I needed to hear her scream. I needed to eat this fresh food. I’m tired of that OLDIE.
That night, i made my room romantic. She walked into my room. She wore this see through dress. My heart skipped. Enough saliva filled my mouth. I could feel my self melt.
I grabbed her. We had it all through the night. I noticed she wasn’t even a vrgin. After the last round, as she stepped out of the bed heading to the bathroom, in between her waist dimple, i saw a tattoo. A DRAGON with an arrow.
WHAT???? I shouted silently. I know that sign. Impossible!!!! How come???? Only a dragonite can wear that tattoo. A pastor’s daughter, a cultist? But she schools in Ghana.
Arrrrrghhhh, i shouted. I’m finished. I started shivering. All the sweet fun became bitter pills. I hated my manhood. I wished i never died for her. All i wanted to do was hit and run. I’m done for.
She stepped out and caught me shivering. She said…….
-baby, you’re ok? Should i put off the A.C?
-Yes Yes yes please i replied
In my mind…..
-shut up you she devil. I wish i could put you off.
She started touching me again…..
-baby, i called, by now the drugs are expired. You should leave now please.
-oh, yeah, that’s true. Can we do this tomorrow ?
What ??? I said in my mind
Do what tomorrow ? You and who?
-Cornell she called, you are lost, what are you thinking about?
I smiled stupidly
-you’re beautiful. I’m lost in the sweetness of your beauty i lied.
-then we are doing this tomorrow again. I’m drugging them higher than today. It will be T.D.B she winked.
I shined my teeth.
-oooh baby, that’s what i want too but i have a programme to attend. An all night. For three days. Program.
-ooooooh God. Can’t you cancel it?
What a devil!!! I said in my mind. Cancel what? There’s no programme anywhere sef. How do i escape this?
-cornell, I’m asking you. Can’t you?
I stood up and went to where she was standing. I managed to hold her.
-baby, you know i love you right? I must also do God’s work. It’s just three nights. It’s not forever. Ok?. Look at me,
I kssed her.
-ok. I will wait she replied. She hugged me so tight and kissed me goodbye.
She left, i started crying. I fell to the ground. How did i do this to myself? A dragonite ? They kill their boyfriends who tries to dump them. They sleep with as many men to increase their powers.
I got to know all these through dennis my course mate and very good friend. He told me before he died, DO NOT DATE A DRAGONITE. Dennis coughed out blood and died.
He dated Ashley, a dragonite. She dealt with him and finally killed him. I refused dating on campus because of this. What i was running away from walked right into my palms and i grabbed it smiling.
How i get out of this?
Mum’s message came to mind. I had already deleted it. I could remember word to word what mum wrote, the few i read. I was crying. I wanted to make the U-TURN, i remembered all i will drop and how i will become so ordinary.
I WITHDREW AGAIN
The next morning, MAMA came to my room.
-cornell, so you think you can blackmail me and get away with it?
-I’m not blackmailing you. I feel it’s high time this thing stops. I have no future with you. This is so crazy. Aren’t you ashamed ?
-i love you cornell she replied. My husband is just too weak. He is not strong. He doesn’t make me feel like a woman. He’s too old. Baby please i need you.
-just the way you needed Gresham my friend. How you dumped Gresham. You won’t do that to me.
MAMA GOT ANGRY
-So you chose my daughter over me? How can you rock mother and child? I thought you were responsible. I never knew your quietness is like that of a viper. You don’t know whom you’re messing with. I can assure you cornell, your evidence won’t kill a fly. I am giving you tonight to make up your mind. Else…………..
MAMA DEEPED HER LEFT INTO HER PYJAMAS POCKET AND BROUGHT OUT A LIVE OWL.
I SCREAMED.
-You ain’t seen nothing yet. I call Jesus, i am not like Jesus. I show no mercy. I will crush you to pieces. you can not run away from me. So don’t even think of it.
SHE LEFT THE ROOM
Argggghhhh!!! God!!! What is really happening ? What just happened ? I’m i imagining things? Was that not an owl? She calls Jesus but she is not like Jesus.
I was crying. One end is the Dragonite, the other end is mama and her mysterious owl. I quickly dressed and went to school.
Amist all i saw, i didn’t have the urge to leave that house. I still find myself going back there. I went into my room. I sat and thought of were to go that night. Lydia must not come close to me tonight.
It was getting dark. I dressed and left my room. I went downstairs. I went to EDET. I told Edet i will pass the night in his apartment.
-argh!! Why? He asked
-I’m lonely in that room. Nobody to gist with
-ehyaaaa, he pitted. No wahala. Ah no get A.C o he laughed.
-no problem i replied.
Edet and i kept gisting and gisting. I begged earlier not to tell anyone i was in his apartment. He agreed.
That night, we heard a knock on Edet’s door. Edet took his knife.
-who be that ?
-it’s me Edet. Lydia, open up.
What??? I died. What is she doing here? Who told that witch i was here?
Edet opened.
-Edet, lydia called. Do you like what you see!?
What is she showing him i thought?
-arrrgggghhh, madam nooooo, abeg PAPA go kill me.
-how? Will you tell him? I won’t tell him.
-arrrrghhh, he fidgeted.
– can i come in?
There was quietness. The next thing i was hearing was Edet moaning like a mad cow.
What? I was shivering. I couldn’t record it. It didn’t even come to mind. Everywhere went quiet. The next i heard was…..
-lord dragon, Accept my sacrifice.
I heard the door jam.
I came out. What i saw? I almost fainted. Edet was jerking, vomiting blood. Right before me, EDET DIED.
I started crying. How do i escape this? How do i get out of here? What have i gotten myself into.
INDEED, THE DEVIL CAME TO STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY.
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