***After Bimpe’s text message*******
I cried till midnight, the whole world appeared
to be crumbling before me. I suddenly lost
appetite for everything and the thoughts of
suicide began to fill my heart.
My memory flashed back to the stress, hustle
and struggles I went through for five years at
the university before obtaining the certificate, I
began to remember all the stress I went
through during NYSC, I also remembered how I
squeezed out time out of no time to attend
java and oracle classes, I remembered the
stress of writing the professional exams before
finally getting the results.
“Chai!!!!, Adebimpe wicked gan ni oooo”
After a while, my mind stopped flashing back
to the past and it began to think about the
future. I started consoling myself with the
thoughts that “after all, I can easily re-apply
for another certificates”, but how will that be
possible before thursday evening that I would
have to travel to Ado?.
***weeping and biting my finger****
“Chaii, Adebimpe is just wicked”
“Did I really deserved this extreme
punishment?”
” What do I do before thursday?”
“Should I call my uncle to tell him that I don’t
have my results with me?”
“How will I even say it sef?”
“How do I even reach bimpe and beg her, who
knows, maybe should would forgive me”
“Who knows maybe she had set my
certificates on fire?”
“Will I just loose this chance of getting a
better job again?”
“Will my uncle ever be willing to assist me
anymore?”
“I just wished I checked my credentials
properly before leaving the hospital”.
Infact, I regretted once again for travelling to
niger state for the GNLD interview.
I continued murmuring and crying all through
the night with nobody to talk to, At a point in
time, I thought of calling segun but I couldn’t.
I was seriously angry and mad at him. He was
the one who pushed me and led to bimpe’s
“hard-way” treatment in the first place. Bimpe
shouldn’t have gone to this extreme if he
hadn’t chased her out when she was here with
me in Akure.
Another thought started overlapping my mind.
I began to see the whole things as the
handiwork of my step-mother.
“That woman must be a witch”
“She had never wanted my progress since child
hood”
Why must my certificate be stolen at this time
that I needed it for a big job?”
Moments after, another thought came into my
mind that it must be the handiwork of the
people from my village.
“I could remember how my dad used to tell me
that the village people can bring people down
in the spirit realm”
Different thoughts began to overlap my brain
as I continued attaching the situation to every
possible circumstances. I looked at the wall
clock and the time is 3:48am and yet I
couldn’t sleep.
“Chaiii, I swear to God, I will personally kill
Adebimpe any time I set my eyes on her
again”
I began to nurse evil thoughts on how to harm
adebimpe. I wish I knew her contacts and
address, I wouldn’t mind paying hired killers
to kill her.
inshort, I must take my own revenge also in a
hard way,
“This is definitely the Beginning of the end
between me and bimpe”
Its 6am on wednesday morning, I was feeling
so weak, sad, heart broken and depressed. My
eyes were all swollen and my joints were so
weak, I knew it that if I go to work that day, I
would be so sad and it would be so obvious
on my face, but I couldn’t excuse myself from
work because I didn’t inform my boss the
previous day, I thought of travelling to Abuja
that Wednesday morning maybe I could get to
see bimpe, who knows, she might be in abuja
and pretending to be in lagos. But I had a
second thought,
“What if I couldn’t find her in Abuja?”
“Do I even know where to locate her?”
“What if she had destroyed the certificates?”
“What would be my gain if I couldn’t return
with the certificates?”
At that moment, I just wished I have a black
magic to command the credentials to
disappear from wherever it is and re-appear in
my room. I began to think of locating a
powerful herbalist who could help me to
summon and command the credentials. My
mind and head were just fill with different
thoughts as they are coming and overlapping.
I needed someone to talk to and segun
couldn’t be the person due to the fact that I
was still so angry with him. In fact, I don’t feel
like seeing him again. If he hadn’t pushed me
to treat bimpe badly earlier, who knows, she
wouldn’t have gone to the extreme on me.
I went to the bathroom to have my shower
and I dressed up. I couldn’t eat anything as a
result of my lost of appetite for any food. I just
managed to cheer up and proceeded to work.
I got to work and I was so moody. I refused to
talk and associate with anyone as sadness
was all written on my face. Segun was calling
me but I refused to pick up, after several
missed calls from segun, I decided to switch
off my phone and force myself to concentrate
on my job.
I closed from work in the evening and went
home straight. On getting home, I saw segun
seated on the bench infront my compound. As
I approached him, I was so annoyed and
furious within me, I just felt like hitting a
plank on his head. I walked pass him and he
greeted me but I ignored. I entered into my
room and he followed me inside.
SEGE: bro, wetin happen?, you just dey ignore
my calls since yesterday, I was feeling
uncomfortable and I decided to visit, you still
ignored me. Why?
ME: ***raised eye brow*** why won’t I ignore
you segun?. WHY?
SEGE: what have I done wrong onihaxy?
ME: so you don’t know what you did wrong
abi?
SEGE: **pats me on my shoulder** we are no
more friends but brothers, if there is anything
wrong, why not just tell me?.
ME: Are you not the cause of all the atrocities
I’m facing from Adebimpe?
SEGE: my brother, how?
ME: you dey ask me how?. If you hadn’t
pushed me to hurt this girl in the first place,
this wouldn’t have happened.
SeGE: I’m so sorry about that onihaxy, if you
say I was wrong, then I admit it, though I
never knew I was wrong by teaching her a
lesson.
ME: which lesson?.
SEGE: she is a prostitute and a scammer
onihaxy!!, don’t you get it?. She used your
money to travel down here to visit another
guy.
ME: and I’m here paying for the consequences
sebi?.
SeGE: I’m so sorry about that, let’s put that
aside and let’s focus on how to solve the
problem at hand. Tomorrow is thursday that
you are supposed to travel for your new job,
how do we go about it?, that is why I’m here.
ME: Mr segun, there is no solution as I
couldn’t retrieve my credentials, so I can’t
travel anymore.
SEGE: haaa!!, so what do we do next now?
ME: ***frowned*** nothing, you can go now.
SEGE: are you chasing me out of your house
onihaxy?.
ME: segun. I am not only chasing you, this
Friendship is over!!!, let me just face my
destiny alone abeg,
SEGE: ***moves closer to pat me on my
shoulder***
ME: ***removes his hand***
SEGE: onihaxy!!!
ME: **yelled*** ehn ehn!!!!, what happen!!!!!?
SEGE: we have been friends now, its close to 8
years
ME: and what does that teaches us?
SEGE: it teaches us that we have gone too far
to split up.
ME: thats none of my business
SEGE: ok, even if we must break up, we must
first find a solution to the present problem
first.
ME: **screamed** ogbeni, sebi you heard me,
there is no solution!!!, you can go.
SEGE: onihaxy, calm down, I will never leave
you like this and I will never leave this place
until this thing is resolved. If you like, go and
call police for me or get me arrested, I won’t
leave here.
ME: ***ignored him***
SEGE: that reminds me, I think I have found an
alternative solution
ME: ***began to smile gradually***
SEGE: that’s my nigga. You are always
handsome in that smile.
ME: sege talk to me jaree, what is the
alternative?.
SEGE: before I shipped in the alternative, why
not try bimpe’s number again whether it will
go through
ME: it doesn’t go through since 1960
SEGE: werey!!!, just try am first jaree.
ME: ok ***stretched my hands to my bag and
brings out my phone and switched it on***
SEGE: oloshi!!!, so you switched off your phone
before?, no wonder the thing no dey reachable
since afternoon wey I don dey call.
ME: ***switched on my phone and saw an
envelope sign followed by a message tone*** e
be like say I get message
SEGE: ***hissed, na those silly MTN people,
dem no dey let person rest, na so so silly
messages dem dey send. Abeg try her number
jaree.
ME: ** opened the inbox and noticed a
familiar number*** sege, no be MTN oooo, na
from a familiar number.
SEGE: ok, maybe na one of your concubine
ME** I read the first line which says “its me
bimpe”**** sege!
SEGE: ehn!!!
ME: na from bimpe oo
SEGE: really?, wetin she talk?
Segun came closer and we sat together to
read the message which says
“Onihaxy, its me adebimpe, if you still need
your credentials, deposit a sum of 200,000
naira to the account name and number below,
as soon as I confirm your deposit, I will give
you a call and send the credentials to you via
a public transport, if you try anything funny,
you will be the one to suffer the consequences,
bye and take care”.
ME: what!!!!!!!!
SEGE: 200,000 what!!!!, where do we get such
amount between now and tomorrow?
ME: what do we do now?
SEGE: I’m clueless onihaxy.
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