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Episode 5

“what do you think?” Frank suddenly asked me. I breathed deeply and shrugged.

“i think we should head back to Owerri. You can’t just walk in there to create a scene. You can return tomorrow or next to talk with your girl’s family” i answered.

“but you just heard that some guys are in there for my girl who i have already done the necessary wine carrying rites for. Her family isn’t supposed to welcome any other suitor in that house” he barked furiously.

“well with the little i know about tradition, i do know that since you are yet to complete all the necessary marriage rites, her family is still entitled to receive suitors who come for your girl, but i think custom equally demands them to tell the new suitor the real situation of things and i believe no good family will accept any gift from a new suitor after having collected something from another suitor” i answered.

“i guess you are right, but you already know Joy’s family is far from decent. I bet they can accept gifts from ten suitors. I ought to go in there” he proclaimed, taking a step forward but i quickly held him.

“let’s go bro. It’s meaningless heading into a fight you will surely lose. We can come back tomorrow” i begged. He bit his lips, pulled out his phone from his trouser pocket and dialled a number.

“i’m calling Joy” he said with a broken tone. I looked at him curiously and shrugged. Of course i really didn’t know the true situation of things between my friend and his girl. I couldn’t even recollect the last thing he told me concerning Joy’s whereabout. Whether she was in Portharcourt, Owerri or in the village. I just didn’t know.

“oh Frank” i breathed with resignation.
“Her phone number isn’t connecting. I guess we have to go” Frank finally said with a sad expression. I smiled and headed back to my car while he slowly followed
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I refrained myself from asking him questions concerning Joy’s whereabout as we headed back to Owerri and he equally never said anything on the topic. All he did was to keep trying the girl’s phone number until it connected. They ended up fighting over the phone, Frank with his usual bad temper rained abuses on her while i was left wonder what could have happened supposing she was within his reach that very moment



On getting to Owerri, i spent the rest of the evening with my computer, doing the normal blogging stuff that was slowing becoming part of my routine while Frank locked up himself with his own thoughts
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Early the next day, he begged and got me going back to Joy’s village with him. Of course i really wasn’t comfortable with it but had no choice than to play out the role of a good friend
.

But Unfortunately, on getting to the girl’s house, we saw the whole family gathered outside with some relatives whispering together. Joy’s mother was carrying the last child of the family who looked half dead in her hands
.

“i don’t know what’s wrong with this boy, from the day i gave birth to him he has given me nothing but trouble. From one sickness to another. Chai God what did i do” she cried, while two women consoled her.
“you have to take him to the General hospital. Thank God you inlaw is already here to help” one of the women said on sighting frank who i knew felt like disappearing right away.

He had not more than one thousand Naira $6 with him that morning and gave me five hundred Naira $3 for fuel before we embarked on the journey, which left him with only five hundred Naira that very moment

“Thank God you are here” his mother inlaw, breathed with a sigh of relief



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