The Runs Girl

Episode 13

“Your roommate is jealous of you,” the spiritualist revealed as soon as I entered the temple. “And not only that, she also wants you dead.”
“Why? How?” I asked looking terrified.
The man took his bell and rang it intermittently as he spun round and round.
His overflowing white robe spun along with him as his dreadlocks spluttered about.
“She doesn’t want you to outshine her,” the spiritualist replied after his spinning had come to an end. “She knows you’re more beautiful so she had to charm you.”
“You mean my roommate charmed me?”
“Yes she did.”
“How?”
“She put the charm into your bathing water without your knowledge.” He explained.
I nearly urinated in my pants as the spiritualist divulged these piece of information.
“Please what do I do now?” I asked wiping my brow.
“The only way you can neutralise this charm is to bring the egg of a virgin tortoise.”
“But I don’t know where to get such from,” I pointed out immediately.
“I can get it for you but it would cost you a hundred and fifty thousand naira,” the spiritualist said. “You know the egg of a virgin tortoise is very rare. I will have to travel as far as Benin republic to get it.”
“Ok let me rush and get the money for you as fast as possible,” I said rising from my seat.
The major thing that mattered to me at that point in time was to get the charm neutralised and not even the amount of money involved.
Because if business flowed smoothly, I would recover every single amount I spent in no distant time.
I quickly rushed to the bank and withdrew the money and brought it to the spiritualist who told me that I should go and continue my business that my problem has finally been solved.
I thanked him immensely and left feeling greatly relieved.
“My roommate wanted me dead and I didn’t know,” I thought to myself as I journeyed back to our hostel. “The battle line had been drawn. Let’s now watch and see who would outdo the other in the game…”