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Episode 7

During my dog hunting, i excitedly forgot everything apart from showing my non-fear of dogs to my babe, when i heard a cruel sound behind me.

I turned in time to see my so call babe fleeing like an antelope. My new babes were four huge female police dogs.

‘chai i don die today’, but as a real Akwa Ibom man i decided to test my Usain Bolt speed.
‘I don die o, help me o’ I screamed, running like a mad man. Before i spelt google i was on the ground dragged by the mean looking dogs. I started praying my last prayer.
‘Jack, Lion, Prince, Baggie, ‘ stop that nonsense.

‘So heaven get names sef abi God dey call His bodyguards’ i thought.

‘Hope you were not bitten?’ a humanly voice interupted my heavenly journey.

That was when i felt a sharp pain on my bottom. I started crying like a new born baby. According to stories i heard from grown ups, if one was bitten by a mad dog that person must become mad, so when i saw they were police dogs, i felt that i was going to be a policeman that moment.
“Sorry o” the woman chipped in, she then called her daughter to take me to a hospital nearby where i was giving some antibiotics(an injection given to someone to prevent infection) and then i was taken to the woman’s house where I was given a big plate of rice, plantain and two big pieces of chicken meat.
“Mehn if na so i go dey enjoy God make dog dey bite me everyday” I foolishly prayed.
Maybe its because my people are dog eaters that’s why the dog wanted to eat me first, even though I had never eaten dog meat before.
“Why you leave me run,TTina?” I quarreled my run away wife.

“You no see as the dogs big?” She replied.
I went home sulking.

‘Oya sleep o today na night vigil’ my sister informed us. What i love most about the vigils was that we always made alot of noise, play and tell stories and we also get to dance alot during praises time and then find place to sleep immediately the pastor starts with his boring messages.

So that day we all ran to sleep as if that would prevent us from sleeping that night. We all woke up and went to church, we met our friends and started our children gossip.

“Who don watch cinderella?” Paul, Tina’s elder brother asked us. ‘Abeg tell us na; we begged.

One thing with Paul was that anything he said he always added the word ‘bah’, as such ;
“there was one girl name cinderella, if you see that girl bah, she fine well well, but she na orphan, she get two ugly sisters, so una
don dey sleep bah”

‘No we still dey hear you” We would encouraged him.

After the long story filled with ‘bahs’ ended, we went out to play and then i saw what made my love abi infactuation for Tina almost vaporized.


“Oya make una dey come inside, church wan start” an usher called us, we all went in, during the praise section I went outside to ease myself, when i turned, i almost died with shock. She was standing behind me waiting.

“Wetin you want?”i asked her.

“I just came to ask you to be my friend”
“Is that all?” i foolishly asked with my mind beating excitedly like kukere drum beat.

“Yes” she smiled, “but i want you to seal our friendship with a kiss” she added.

Mehn i have die, i said in my mind. She brought her lips close and what i saw next was like a heavenly background with Angel Micheal playing a tambourine for us.

“You all might be wondering who ‘she’ is, well that wasn’t Tina but a damsel more lovelier than her”. Lets wait and see





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