The Hot Runs Girl

Episode 42

I went back to my room the next morning to discovered to my surprise that all the blood and cream with its container had disappeared.

The girl in whose room I slept had accompanied me and found it difficult to believe that any of the things I narrated to her the night before happened.

I stood at the door peering fearfully into the room.

“What exactly did you say happened last night?” The girl asked staring at me.

“My cream turned into blood and I heard a woman’s voice laughing at me,” I replied.

“My dear you must have been hallucinating,” she said surveying the room further.

I stood at the door still very afraid to enter.

I had forgotten to return baba’s soap in the hidden corner of my wardrobe and it lay at the foot of my bed where I dropped it while escaping to my neighbour’s room.

“What is this?” The girl asked bringing up the bundles of palm leaves with something wrapped inside.

“What is what?” I asked with mouth agape.

I didn’t know where to begin my explanation.

Baba had strictly warned me against another eye seeing the soap and the consequences that were bound to follow if they did.

I stood still staring at the girl and the palm leaves.

“What is this thing?” The girl asked again staring at me suspiciously.

“My dear I don’t know o,” I replied.

“Smells like soap,” she commented.

“Really?” I asked pretending like I didn’t know. “Please drop it in that waste-bin over there.”

The girl did as I directed and dropped it into the waste-bin.

With anxiety all over my body, I tiptoed to my wardrobe and wore my blue gown and blue underwear.

I was in double soup and didn’t know what to do so I had to see baba right away.

I hadn’t brushed my teeth nor washed my face but it didn’t matter to me as much as seeing baba.

I hurriedly took my car keys and walked out of the room.

“I will be right back,” I announced to the girl and locked my door firmly.

“Where to?” The girl asked looking at me suspiciously.

“Don’t worry, I will gist you when I come back,” I replied and left.

The baba laughed at me for complete one hour after I had narrated what brought me to his shrine.

“Baba please what’s so funny?” I had asked getting irritated. Instead of a reply, the baba had continued to laugh.

“The soap was never meant to be used after sleeping with a fellow woman,” he explained tightening his face. “Nature from origin had never supported man to man or woman to woman s€x and that soap is not an exception.”

I fidgeted uneasily on the seat as baba unrolled his explanations.

“That is offence number one. Offence number two,” the baba continued. “Is that I warned you against any other eye seeing that soap and you failed and your neighbour saw it and not only seeing it but smelt it too.”

“Baba sorry o,” I apologised. “it was because of that blood issue and the woman’s voice I heard,” I explained.

“You don’t have any excuse,” the baba continued.

“But you never told me that the soap wasn’t to be used after sleeping with a woman,” I pointed out.

“Did you tell me you were going to sleep with a woman?” the baba asked raising his brow. “Thought your ashawo bizness was with men alone which it ought to be. The spirits of my ancestors never supported man to man or woman to woman fork.”

I shook with fear as the baba made those pronouncements.

“So what am I to do now?” I asked bursting into tears.

“Nothing, absolutely nothing,” the baba replied shaking his head. “You have to bear your lot.”

That I didn’t collapse that moment must have been a miracle. I was sweating profusely and didn’t know what to do.

“Go,” the baba commanded. “Go before the gods get angry. You don’t deserve to stand in this shrine one more second.”

With trembling legs I ran out of the baba’s shrine and into my jeep.

I sat in my jeep for hours thinking of what to do with no idea forthcoming.

At long last I picked courage and drove back to my lodge. I couldn’t remain in my jeep crying forever.

If eventually I had come to the end of the road then crying wasn’t going to change anything.

I made up my mind and went back to my lodge to await whatever was going to come my way…