When The Tide Of The Heart Changes

Episode 19

TIME FOR RECKONING

“Onyi baby…whats up na” Sharon shrieked as she entered Onyinye’s room, her smallish body endorsed in an over exaggerated waist line giving her a weird look.
Onyinye who was on her bed obviously oblivious of all that happens around her, with her head on a pillow and eyes gazing aimlessly at nothing.

Onyi babe na…wetin deh do you?” Sharon asked again this time pushing her slightly on the shoulder jolting her out of her out of the world thought.

“Oh Shanty… you are here whats up” she intoned rubbing her eyes with the back of her palm as she took her unfixed gaze to The weird smallish figure that stood as sharon.

“I deh jaree… wetin deh do you gurl? why are you now a shadow of yourself, you did not even see me enter” shanty asked, her dim black eyes popping a bit.

“Shanty na that b—–d ooo John, Do you know this guy beat me up?” she intoned more of a question than a statement.

“What?” Sharon shouted seemingly jumping with her over proportioned a-s jumping along giving echoing vibrating response.

“Hiaaan no be small thing ooo that b—–d dumped me for one cheap w—e he picked from God knows where” Onyinye barked standing up on her feet this time.

“I promised him that i will deal with him and i will, that stupid he-goat will not live to celebrate him dumping me like a cheap rag… he messed with the wrong b—h” She blurted out staring directly at Sharon who nodded in response.

Both were high ranking members of a female secret confraternity back in their university days.

“Shanty abeg help me talk to spider… tell him to waste that b—–d” She added with visible nerves appearing at the side of her face.

3 days after the news was broken.

Onyinye was in the office when her phone vibrated signaling a call.

“Hello spider wetin deh” She muttered in whispers placing her head underneath her desk to mask the sound of her voice from escaping.

“Onyi scatter… sweet babe, we don waste that mugu” Spider announce with a chuckle.

“Ewooo… ehee thank you. i go see you later” She blurted as the line went dead.
An odd melancholy feeling overtook her, salty tears ran down her face.. “Scatter forget joor that he-goat deserved what he got” she cursed under her breathe.

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Onyinye was drawn back to her conscious self from the deep flash back she was having.

Her environment registered into her;
the four windowless wall stared deeply at her, looking dirty and unpainted with drawings of weird figures obviously drawn with a charcoal, strange stains that she make out to be faeces dried and crispy decorated the wall.

She was drawn back to reality; SHE WAS IN PRISON.

After Johnny move down to east, the police followed up on the case on the insistence of doctor frank who convince his friend the commissioner.

On the course of the investigation spider and 3 of his gang mates were busted. spider was shot and killed on the process of trying to escape while the other three were whisked off to be question and that was were onyinye came in.

On the heavy afternoon of a sunny Wednesday, police barged into the office complex of McLewis and took onyinye away, the boys had mentioned her name.

They were all charged with attempted murder and sentenced to 10years imprisonment with hard labour.

Tears rolled freely from her eyes which were already swollen from the numerous hours and nights of crying.

“God please forgive me… i know i have been foolish and stupid please i beg you forgive me and grant me mercy” she cried tasting her salty tears as they rolled from the run way on her cheek to the corner of her mouth.

“I was even foolish enough to mock him as he packed out of the city even after attempting to kill him” she went on with her lament.. ”oh i really need to apologize to him i hope he can forgive me, i hope God can forgive me”.

Surely this was the TIME FOR RECKONING.