Midnight Saga

Episode 44

While we were heading over there, my solemn
prayer was to meet him in his apartment.

We traced the apartment, It was a smelly
environment, the door was open, the three of
Dan’s friends went around, Ibro waited outside
while Dan and I went in.

We met the champ seating on the bed. With a
babe by his side.

He stood up, immediately he saw us.
“Na him be this?” Dan asked.
“I nodded in Affirmation”
Dan landed a thunderous slap on his face, I
must confess, I’ve never witnessed that type of
slap, that type of slap can smoothen a
pimpled face.
The funny thing was the slap, threw the dude
back to the bed.

The other guys, came in, the babe he was with
was terrified.

“Get outta here!” I yelled at her.
She packed her stuff and fled.
We needed more space, so we dragged him
out to open space.
“So you think you can just attack anyone,
huh?”
Dan divulged another slap on the dude’s face.
He winked at his friends, to give the guy a
beating, I raised my palm, in a gesture to stop
them.

Only cowards would want to have and unfair
battle.

I got Five thousand from my wallet, I gave it
to Ibro
“If you can beat me, the money is yours, and if
I beat you, these guys would give you a
beating. Its up to you”
He was trying to hide a smile, if I was him, I
wouldn’t be smiling.

The five guys, stood aside and watched.
I gave him a gesture to ‘bring it on’
He paroled a little from left to right, then
clinched his fist and tried to punch me on the
face.

I dodged by moving to the side, held his arm
and used my right knee to hit him on the
belly.

He kept attacking me and I kept dodging.

At a point I decided to give him a piece of the
action.

I aimed for his jaw, while he was preparing to
bring on a blow and expecting me to try to
dodge as i had been doing before.

Instead, I caught him off guard, with a punch
to his lower Jaw.

“Yea! that’s what am talking about” Dan and
everyone else cheered.

He held unto his jaw, with his hand, blood
dripping from his mouth, I reached forward,
held his head in position and headbutted him.

He screamed out in pain.

He was bleeding all over, I placed my right
hand between his legs, raised him up, and
showed it to God, as a living sacrifice, then
dropped him on the ground.

He place his hand to the side of his waist and
was shedding tears.

“You just lost buddy! And men do not cry,
especially in a fight”

Ibro who had, been very belligerent all along,
pounced on the dude, punching him in the
face and anywhere “punchable”
The truth is, I never really needed Ibro, Dan or
the other guys, to handle this tyrant.

They were for show off, I only wanted to show
the dude, he wasn’t the only one with friends.

After I boned Gladys, she began expecting a
lot from me, like asking me to take her out on
dates, call her frequently, and do a lot or
romantic things.

Personally, I can do a lot of things, but
pretending to love a lady wasn’t my thing.
What Gladys was asking for, was evidence of
my love for her, I cared about her, but it
wasn’t love.

You just know love, when you feel it.

I could take her out on dates, call her
frequently, amplify her hopes to a great extent,
but in the end it’ll be Futile.

Weeks went by, I was at alert, in case
Amarachi’s ex boyfriend, decided to try
something funny, but nothing happened.

Drake had been discharged from the hospital,
he and I became really close buddies.

I got a call on a certain day, it was a feminine
voice
“Who am I speaking with please?”
“So you mean you can’t tell, from voice” she
said
“Not really, your voice sounds familiar but I
can’t attach a name to it.” I said
“Hmm, you continue to disappoint me,Jeff, first
it was my birthday, now you can’t even
recognise my voice” she said
“Oh! The birthday girl, you never really told me
your name”
“Because you never asked” she said out loud.

“Am really sorry, what’s your name?”
“Evelyn!” she replied
“There’s a party this evening, it’s your big
chance to redeem yourself.”

“Party?”I asked, parties weren’t really my
thing.

She texted the address to me.

I called Drake and informed him about the
party, he was very interested.
So he and i left.
I met the gate open, Evelyn was just another
girl from an affluent family.
I met folks of different calibres, some were
standing, holding uno their glass of wine, and
some were seating. while a slow music was
playing in background, I don’t know about
Drake, but I felt odd.
None of the folks in the party were our age
mates, they were high class people.
Our salvation came when I spotted Evelyn.
She ran and hugged me, immediately she saw
me.

“Evelyn this is Drake, my friend. Drake this is
Evelyn…..” I didn’t really know where to place
Evelyn.
So I introduced her by her name.
“So what’s the party about?” I asked.
“My Uncle’s engagement” she replied.
we found a table, and sat, all three of us and
kept discussing and drinking wine.

Just from the little moment I spent with
Evelyn, she was a really nice person, very
brilliant and loves argument. A few times, she
would clinch her fist and bounce it on the
table, while arguing.
The party was great, very relaxing, a couple of
singers went up to the stage to sing, some
where s£nsat!onal and others weren’t anything
to write home about.

The following day, in the evening, I was
working on an assignment in my room.
“Someone knocked on my door, I dropped my
Biro on the table to go open the door.”
It was Rita, she had this very not-too-good-
look on her face.
One of her hand was on her waist.

“Who do you even think you are?” she asked,
almost screaming out.

“Jennifer peeped from Ibro’s room.”

“I said who do you even think you are?”
answer me!

I was confused and staring in disbelief.

“I threw myself at you,” she said, and made a
gesture, by moving her hand to point to
herself from head to toe.

“I foolishly threw myself at you, and what did
you do? You tossed me, and trampled on my
feelings like it was nothing.”