Episode 16
******** 18 months later *******
TAP TAP TAP**** I felt someone taping my
shoulder and waking me up from sleep, I
strained my eyelids and gradually opening my
eyeballs, I looked straight into the ceiling and
noticed it was painted white. It looked strange
to me because the ceiling of my room wasn’t
painted. I moved my head to the left and
looked straight to the wall beside me, it was
also painted white, it also looked strange to
me because the wall of my room is painted
blue. This time, I was getting scared and my
heart began to ponder faster. Out of fair, I
turned my head to the other opposite side. I
saw two legs standing by the bed. I went
dumb instantly as I was tracing the legs
upwards with my eyes. On tracing to the
kneels, the person was putting on a white
overall gown. This time, my heart was beating
as fast as possible. On tracing to the hips, I
found out that it was a girl. I traced to the
chest and the two hands were folded on the
chest. I continued lifting my eyes upward until
I reached the face. “What!!!!!, Adebimpe!!!!, is
that you?, what am I doing here?, where am
I?”.
BIMPE: hi onihaxy ***smiled while standing
ME: ** my heart almost burst out of my
chest*****. Adebimpe, where am I?, how did I
get here?, I tried moving my hands but it was
tied to the bed.
BIMPE: smiled, onihaxy!!!, you don’t
need to bother about where you are and how
you got here. What you should bother about is
what I will do to you here.
ME: ****looked around again. The door was
locked, my legs were also tied to the bed’s
edge with a chain and there was no one else
in the room aside bimpe and I******
please dear. I knew I have really wronged you.
Please have mercy on me. Please I beg you in
the name of God.
BIMPE: raised eye brow**** and why should
I have mercy on you.
ME: ****crying**** adebimpe my love, it wasn’t
my fault. segun caused everything that
happened.
BIMPE: ***smiled and the same segun isn’t
here to save you. So how will you now save
yourself?.
ME: ***started crying and begging for
mercy****.
Adebimpe mi, please have mercy on me,
search down into your heart and you will see
that I have always loved you.
BIMPE: hmmmmm, really?, uncle please tell
me another story.
ME: adebimpe, I’m serious. I loved you and I
have always loved you. Ever since you left, I
wasn’t myself anymore. I live every moment of
my life thinking about you dear.
BIMPE: **** dropped her hands from her chest
and moved closer to the bed, she sat down
beside me and kissed me passionately for
about 40 seconds*****
Onihaxy, I also love you and I have never
stopped thinking of you. I knew everything
wasn’t your idea. I knew you never had that
cruel heart to humiliate me. I know you were
pushed to do what you did.
ME: thanks so much my love. Thanks for
understanding me.
BIMPE: its ok, but that won’t stop me from
paying you the revenge coin.
ME: haaaaaa. I’m so sorry adebimpe, please
have mercy on me.
ADEBIMPE: ****smiled*****, don’t worry dear, I
won’t kill you, I will only cripple you, by the
time I break your joints, I will set you free.
ME: adebimpe please!!!!!!!!
ADEBIMPE: *****stood up from the bed,
opened a bag and brought out a gun, pointed
it at my kneels****, onihaxy, I love you.
ME: ***as she was about to pull the
trigger**** ADEBIMPE please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My alarm rang and I woke up sweating
seriously, I looked at my time and it was 5am.
“Yeeeeee!!, so I have been dreaming ?”. I
prayed immediately and switched on my
phone. Behold, I got a message from a
strange number saying “hi onihaxy, long
time”.
Episode 17
I went to the bathroom to clean my face and
then returned to my bed to properly view my
whatsapp offline messages. I got three
messages from my contacts and one from a
number not stored on my phone which says
“hi onihaxy, long time”.
I was so scared to reply the chat due to my
last nightmare. Infact all my mind was on
bimpe as the sender of the message. I tried
checking the display picture but it was an
animated teddy image and this got me scared
the more. I took the courage to reply the
message saying “I’m fine, please who am I
chatting with?”. I waited for several minutes to
see if the person would reply but I got none.
I had my shower, took my breakfast and
prepared for work and yet I didn’t get any
response from the sender. I was so curious
that I took the courage to dial the number, it
was ringing but it wasn’t picked. This got me
scared the more as I began to breath heavily.
I became uncomfortable and began to think of
what next to do. I gathered courage and set
out to work. I keep checking my phone screen
at intervals while inside the cab and yet, I
didn’t get any reply from the sender. I decided
to call segun on getting to work.
ME: hi sege
SEGE: “ore” I’m fine, how you dey?
ME: I’m not fine
SEGE: wetin happen?. Abi another girl don
dupe you?.
ME: I’m not in the mood for that one jaree. I
had a dream
SEGE: about what?
ME: about bimpe *****narrating the whole
nightmare******.
SEGE: ***laughs***** hahahahahahahahaha,
oko bimpe oooo.
ME: is it funny?
SEGE: yes na. Its what you thought about
before going to bed that you dream of. Talk
true. Didn’t you think about her before going
to bed?
ME: not sure
SEGE: “ore” forget, na your thoughts led to the
dream. Nothing go happen.
ME: but it hasn’t finished ooo
SEGE: what happened again?
ME: an unknown number sent me a text on
whatsapp immediately I woke up. I have been
calling the number since and the person
wasn’t picking up.
SEGE: so you dey think say maybe na bimpe
abi?
ME: yes now. I’m so scared.
SEGUN: nothing dey happen. Just calm down,
if the person is serious, he will definitely. Call
back or reply your message.
ME: ok.
I hanged up on segun and continued with my
duties at work. At exactly 11:10am, my phone
rang and I checked the screen. It was the
same number calling me
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ME: placed phone on my hear hi, who is
this?
CALLER: its me tosin
*** Instantly, I remembered and recognised the
caller. Tosin was my friend during nysc days.
We stayed at the same lodge and our ppa was
in the same area. We first met when my PPA
and his PPA acquired accommodation for us
at the same house, our friendship began to
grow as we found ourselves in the same CDS
group.**
ME: tosin my padi, how you dey?, long time.
TOSIN: I dey jawe.
ME: how did you get my new number?
TOSIN: from one of our friends.
ME: ok,
TOSIN: let’s chat on whatsapp.
ME: ok ***hanged up****.
My mind was cooled as the fears from my
nightmare was reduced. I took a deep breath
of comfort and started chatting with tosin.
ME: how far?, where are you now?
TOSIN: I’m in niger state ooo. What about
you?
ME: I am in akure. You must be a big boy now
oooo. How is work?
TOSIN: work is fine bro, what about yours?
ME: I’m managing jawe
TOSIN: managing kee? Is it not a big firm?
ME: big firm kee?, its a small delivery and
courier firm.
TOSIN: what do you do there?
ME: home and office deliveries.
TOSIN: eyah. Hope the pay is ok sha?
ME: not really, just 20k. So what about you?,
where are you working?
TOSIN: hmmmm. I work with an international
firm
ME: big boy.
TOSIN: looool
ME: is it an oil & gas firm?
TOSIN: no, its a branding and consultancy firm
own by a british.
ME: chaiii, I dey envy you ooooo. What do you
there?
TOSIN: business developer
ME: what’s the function of business developer.
TOSIN: I serve as an intermediate between our
firm and our clients like banks, oil companies,
etc.
ME: that cool. You must be earning well
ooooo.
TOSIN: not really, just 120k monthly?
ME: heeeeee, you call 120k just?. Please I
don’t mind if you hook me up and fix me into
such job.
TOSIN: no problem, just send your C.V to my
mail, I will submit it tommorow. As soon as
there is opening Or vacancy in our company, I
will let you know.
ME: thanks pal, I’m grateful.
TOSIN: you are welcome. I have a client to
attend too. Let’s chat later.
ME: ok, bye.
I shouted while sitting on my chair “heeeeee!!!,
so I will soon leave this Akure for a better
job!!”. I couldn’t wait till I close before I
applied “make-up” to my cv and credentials
and sent them to tosin’s mail. I called him to
inform him that I have sent the C.V and he
told me that he had seen it. Suddenly, I
became joyous and happy even without
getting the job.
On getting home, I picked my fone to chat with
my guy segun.
ME: sege, I go soon leave akure for you oooo
SEGE: wetin happen?, you don apply for togo
visa?
ME: you no well, sum1 is trying to fix me to a
120k monthly salary job
SEGE: heeeee, at where?,
ME: niger state
SEGE: when are you applying?
ME: I don apply already. I sent my C.V this
afternoon.
SEGE: and u didn’t send mine abi?, may
bicycle crush you to death!!!
ME: no vex. I go send yours later
SEGE: better.
Episode 19
****** 3 weeks later **********
I was in my office on tuesday afternoon, piling
up the parcel I was about to deliver that day
when I got a customised message on my
phone. ” You have been invited for test and
interview on friday and saturday at DOLPHIN
CONSULTING, at minna, niger state, come
along with your original documents, recent
passports, an attestation letter from your last
place of work and a copy of your C.V.
Interview comes up on saturday for successful
applicants from friday’s test. Call 080***** for
further enquiries”
I was happy and joyous, I began to say it
within myself that “atlast, I’m porting to the
realm of 120k per month.”, I began to
soliloquies on how I would save up to buy a
car, how I would save up to buy a land and
how I would be planning to settle down even
without getting the job yet. While I was
rejoicing within me. My phone rang and it was
tosin.
ME: hi padi mi
TOSIN: hi onihaxy,
ME: how are you?
TOSIN: I’m fine. I just hears that some people
were invited for test and interview, are u
among the people invited?
ME: yes, I just got the message not quite
long, I was about to call you sef.
TOSIN: that’s cool. Just prepare well and read
hard. I will do all it takes to make sure you
get job. Infact, I’m assuring you that you
would be employed.
ME: ok pal, thanks so much. how does the
test questions looked like? And what are the
areas I should practice on?.
TOSIN: we will talk about that later on
whatsapp.
ME: ok.
I couldn’t hide my happiness even without
getting the job yet. I was so happy throughout
that day. Even at work, my colleague observed
it that something is really happening to me.
I didn’t bother to make any background check
on the so called company. All my mind was
just on the 120k salary. I stopped at segun’s
house after the work to break the news of my
interview message to him. He was so happy
about it and he helped me with few interview
tips from his interview experiences.
On Wednesday, I made an enquires on how
much it would cost me to get to niger state
and return to akure. I was told I would need
like 15,000 minus transportation because I
would get to abuja first before getting to niger
state. I checked everything on me and all I
had was 5,000. I went to meet segun for
assistance and he also helped me with 5k
because he was broke at that moment. The
problem now is how to get the remaining 5k.
I called tosin to inform him about my financial
constraint and he told me that he just sent
the last 65k on him to his parents. He told me
to find a means of getting the money to come
down there and he assured me that he would
make sure he helped me in getting the job. I
then remembered I have a friend in abuja
named samson. The first and the last time I
visited abuja was during my 400level at the
university when samson’s sister was getting
married. Samson was my neighbour and also
a friend then so I attended the wedding.
I tried dialling Samson’s number but the
number was not available. I couldn’t reach
samson through phone but I could still
remember the road to his family house in
abuja where we lodged during his sister’s
wedding 4 years ago.
I converse with segun about how my trip will
look like as it is my first time visiting niger
state and also I don’t have sufficient money.
He told me to leave akure on thursday and
board a bus to abuja and then to niger state
from abuja. And after the test, I should return
to abuja and trace my friend I told him about
and get some money from him. And to be on
the safer side, he said he will find a means of
getting money and send to me latest on
saturday incase I couldn’t get any help in
abuja. I shook hands with him and hugged
him. Segun is really a brother from another
mother.
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