With The Devil

Episode 6

Cont’d:
As is customary for after-long-swims in pools,streams,rivers,etc,my eyes were pure red as we left that place.

If I should go back like that to our place,some people might mistake it that I may have taken something…Something like weed!
I decided to follow Ebenezer to his place so as to come back with the cloak of nightfall and pretend that I did actually go for evening mass as mum wanted. Everything fitted in…
Around 7:05pm on the same Sunday just as I was on my way back to our house,I got a call.
As is usual of me whenever a line not on my contact calls,I waited for the caller to speak first.

“Odii!” The voice gently called out.
“Yea!” I replied in my usual manner, knowing that the caller knows me well as to call me in my native name.
“Can we see?” The voice asked.
” You called me with no intro of yourself, and u r still demanding to see me?”
I replied.

“You already know me!” The voice replied and the line went dead immediately!
I was like “you are not serious,when u get serious,call again!”..

………….

THREE DAYS LATER
“hello” the same voice bellowed again.
“Yea!” I replied.
“You know who’s calling?”
The voice asked.

“You called,and still asking me?” I replied.
“You are rude!” The voice replied.
I ended the call immediately, and she called back and I picked it.

“You know,I just remembered your voice now? U called me on Sunday evening right?” I asked as soon as I picked the call.
“Yes”..the voice replied.

“So?” I asked.
” I want to see you!”…the voice demanded.
“Seriously, I don’t know what part of this earth u r from,but where am from,you don’t just go out to see people on demand!” I retorted.

The caller changed her intonation.
“Okay,its me!” The voice said very sweetly.
I was amazed.I was lost for words. I kept my mouth open not knowing what to utter again.
“So,u r now dumb Odii? U won’t speak again abi? I thought you would have changed a bit!” The voice spoke out,sneering and deriding as well as making a caricature and catching fun at my expense.
“I can’t believe this.I just can’t believe this.I thought u have…..” I didn’t finish before she cut me short.

“Forget it.Promise me you will come and see me?” The voice inquired.
“Why not.I think am gonna invent my highest lie ever to come and see you.” I jokingly said.
“I will be waiting!” She replied.
Immediately the line went dead,I was full of smiles.

“This one u r smiling like this,she don call you?” Blessing joked.
“Guess who just called me?” I asked her.
“How will I know!” She nonchalantly replied.

“Jane!” I said.
” Jane just called me”….
And all this while,my mind was going places,thinking weird things,I almost thought that it was Pretty still trying to terrify me even though I just relegated everything about her to mere over-thinking.
But was it? Was it all real?

Am why has Jane chosen this moment to reappear in my life again?
I had many thoughts that weighed heavily on my mind and went to sleep with it….. And I regret ever doing so !