EMMZY CHUKS

21/09/2023

A BATH WITH MY REAL DAD

Back then in Odukpani Cross River State, I and my friend lived in a public yard ( face-me-I-face-you ).

The compound had 30 major occupants, excluding family members and well wishers.

Our own one room apartment was just occupied by me and Uchenna. Emediong usually visited but never slept over for once.

Unfortunately, we had only two bathrooms and two toilets in the whole yard.

Because of the fact that most of us in the house were provision sellers, day jobbers and local small business owners; we always queued up every morning to take our bath.

The population was so much that the bathing used to start as early as 3am every morning.

Because of the fact that my business was somewhere around the village, I usually didn't drag space with them; I would go to my provision shop in the morning, attend to the usual early morning traffic of customers before returning back to take my bath, mostly in the afternoon.

There was an Igbo man that lived with his family in that same compound.

He, his wife and four children stayed in two of the 30 rooms in the compound.

He has four girls and one boy; all of which were grown as of then.

Because of the nature of the traffic experienced every morning in the bathroom, he devised a means to enable his wife and his family circumvent the delay associated with the queueing.

Do you know what they did?

The man would always wake up early and queue, when it gets to his turn, he'd call the whole family to get ready.

All the kids would get their own buckets of water and be ready.

Once it gets to his turn, fiam! One of the grown daughter enters with him to the bathroom.

As at the time his first daughter would be getting done and be leaving, another one would enter the same bathroom while the man was still in there.

That'd continue until the whole family finish bathing while the rest of the occupants wait.

At a point, I confronted Adaora the first daughter...the one that had serious crush on me and was so j

21/09/2023

I woke up in the middle of the night, but couldn't find my parents, who had slept beside me the previous night. I looked around but found nothing, instead the room became filled with dark dust /smoke which later covered the ceiling, the door and windows.

Still trying to understand if it was a dream or reality, from nowhere a strange man appeared backing me and facing the window, with his both hands behind his back.

"Who are you and where is my parents?" I asked with a shaky voice.

"It's time for the game to be played!" The mysterious man said with a deep voice like that of a demon.

"What game, what game are you talking about?"

"Two are one, the game of death can't be won by one. They must be two " the man said in riddles and disappeared in to the dark smokes.

Immediately a very deep sleep, even though I was willing to stand up, over powered me and all of sudden fell into a very deep sleep like never before.

While sleeping, I had a weird dream of myself in a dark trance , everywhere was smokey I couldn't see anything only a dime light which still, I couldn't detect where it was shining from.

I became gripped with fear and with tears running down my eyes and I began to scream in agony .

"Mum, dad, (wait for a while) mum, dad." I Kept calling out to them as I walked through the mist of darkness.

After a while, I began to hear a voice from afar, I thought it to be my parents, so I increased my voice "mom, dad" as I began running towards the direction.

Getting closer I discovered the voice wasn't that of my parents but of a teenage girl, who was looking lost. And was also wandering, just like me.

I walked closer to her, atleast to have a conversation but as soon as our eyes met, she fell into the ground and disappeared . Then the mysterious mans voice sounded again, although I couldn't see him.

"I said; Two are one, the game of death can't be won by one. They, must be two " then he led out a thunderous laugh that got me freaked to the point of me urinating

21/09/2023

нer: вaвy ι aм...
нιм: wнaт?
нer: ι'м pregnanт.
нιм: wнo ιѕ тнe ғaтнer?
нer: ιт'ѕ yoυ.
нιм: вυт вв, we нadn'т мade love yeт.
нer: ιт'ѕ тrυe, тнιѕ cнιld ιѕ noт yoυrѕ. вυт ι love yoυ.
нιм: oĸ ι υnderѕтand, тнιѕ ιѕ yoυr eх'ѕ cнιld.
нer: yeѕ.
нιм: ι wιll тaĸe care oғ тнιѕ cнιld aѕ ιғ ιт were мy вlood.
нer: wow тнanĸ yoυ вв, ι love yoυ.

ĸeep readιng, ι ĸnow ιғ ιт waѕ aвoυт god, yoυ were goιng тo ιgnore.

god: тoday ι aм proυd тo ѕee мy cнιldren.
ѕaтan: wнaт cнιldren?
god: тнoѕe wнo read тнιѕ мeѕѕage.
ѕaтan: тнoѕe wнo read are alѕo мy cнιldren.
god: oĸay, leт'ѕ ѕee wнo тнey вelong тo.
ѕaтan: oĸay, very good. yoυ'll ѕee, мy ĸιdѕ wιll ѕcroll wιтнoυт ѕayιng anyтнιng.
god: мy people wιll ѕay "god ιѕ greaт" and тнey wιll ѕнare.

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