Story: Campus Life. Girls. Ghetto. Garri. Glory - Season 1 - Episode 25

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Story: Campus Life. Girls. Ghetto. Garri. Glory - Season 1 - Episode 25

‘Ah! Landlady? Old soldier wife? Emma!’ I screamed before covering my mouth with my two hands.
The landlady was shaken with fear, she didn’t expect me to be at home at that time of the night.
‘Emma, I think you been talk say this your shegeyaro roommate done travel?’ The landlady asked.
Emma stammered, ‘Me sef no know wetin him dey do here o, Him been tell me say he dey travel’.
‘Ah! Emma! Which time I tell you say I dey travel?’ I asked furiously.
‘Shutup there Mr.Man, if you love your life this night better dey go back to where you dey come from o’ Emma fired back.
‘Ah, Emma, for my room wey I dey pay house rent with my own money again?’ I questioned, while he just started at me with a plain face.
The landlady just kept mute while I and Emma questioned each other. A brief introduction to my landlady. She is the meanest person on planet earth, feared by all, and when I mean all, I also include old soldier too.
She’s got too sons who were shorter than ‘Aki N Pawpaw’ themselves, they had huge body build up which made them look like macho-commandos. Landlady never failed to use them as instruments of attack whenever she had any problem with any tenant. She was feared by all, and I feared for my self that night.
‘Scorpion! Stinky!’ Landlady called out.
‘Ma-le!!’ Two deep bass voice answered from two rooms away.
Before I could say Jack Robertson, the two short devils waltzed into my room. The landlady spoke to them in their dialect and what happened next was something I would never forget.
Scorpion,the first boy, sorry man, swept me off my feet like a broom while stinky the second whisked me up and placed me on his shoulders, placing me in a lockdown that I couldn’t even move a part of my body.
I was carried outside on the shoulder of stinky and dropped like a bag of sand on the hard stoned floor in the middle of the compound.
‘Scorpion, Stinky’ I cried out, ‘Abeg no do me this thing, we fit sort this thing out, na me o, your main man’ I added with a tearful cheek trying to take a glance at their face but that was when the first punch landed on my face.
‘Kpowai’
My face changed direction. I knew they always visited the gym for buildup exercises but did they also build up their hands. That punch weighed over a 100kg.
I was still holding my face in pain when the second punch came in.
‘Val! Val!’ Wake up jare, we don late for lectures’ Emma tapped me on my face waking me up from my dream.
I sat upright spontaneously on the bed trying hard to comprehend what just happened. So I was dreaming all this while? Thank God the event with the landlady and her cruel sons was just a dream but what about the beautiful lady who helped me to the hospital, was that a dream too?
‘That better not be a dream o’ I cried within.

To Be Continued…