I got back to my home in akure in the evening and I was so tired and weak. The news of my accident had reached my neighbours and I guessed it was the handiwork of segun. I was greeted on after the other by everyone in my neighbourhood. “E kpele ooo, erora oooo, sorry oooo, oluwaseun ooo pe emi yin wa laye oooooo…..” Was coming from left to right as I dropped from the bike that stopped infront of my house and walking inside the house .
I begged one of my neighbours to borrow me her phone and I used it to call segun to inform him that I’m around. He told me he would be in my house right away.
I opened the door of my room. I dropped my cross-bag on the bed and my credentials file on the wardrobe where I used to placed it. I was so hungry and I called on one of my neighbour’s daughter and I gave her 300naira to buy food for me from “mama biliki” who owns a local canteen beside my house. she returned with a plate of rice, 2 meets and 50naira change. I gave her the change to keep it and she went away. I was eating my food when I heard a knock on my door.
ME: who is that?
VOIcE FROM OUTSIDE: its segun.
ME: ok ***i stood up to open the door from behind and we both hugged each other and returned inside the room***
SEGE: padi mi. Thank God for your life ooo. Na so we for dey do candle night for you here in akure ooooo.
ME: you no well. But I thank God sha. Are you the one that informed my neighbours about my accident?
SEGE: yeah. The day you called me, I met mama iyabo on my way to my house and I informed her when she asked about you.
ME: I thought as much. But that mama iyabo no dey try oooo
SEGE: how?
ME: she too dey talk and do gbeborun. You can’t believe almost everyone on this street had already heard about the accident.
SEGE: eeyah, and na only her I tell ooo. I for no tell her anything sef, but she asked about you that you have been absent at home since thursday. That was when I told her that you had a minor accident in abuja.
ME: its alright sha. Na her own wahala be dat.
SEGE: wey your phone?, wetin do am?
ME: it was smashed by the car that hit me.
SEGE: eeeyah. May thunder fire that guy wey call you for fake job. Wetin be him name sef?
ME: tosin
SEGE: but why would someone be telling that kind of lies ehn?
ME: I tire oooo.
SEGE: even if you must work for GNLD, sebi dem plenty for this akure, why he no tell you to join them here instead of deceiving you to come over to niger state?. That place far oooo.
Me: na so I see am too my brother. Na desperation to earn 120k per month cause am.
SEGE: what about the guy you said he stays in abuja that you told me about?
ME: his family doesn’t live there anymore and no one knew his new address. Sebi that was what I was thinking about that made me lost concentration before I got hit by a car.
SEGE: eeyah. Pele, who now took you to hospital?.
ME: the doctor said it was a passer’s by
SEgE: really?
ME: yeah, he even paid the bills.
SEGE: hope you have called the person to appreciate him sha.
ME: he didn’t drop his number nor his address.
SEGE: may God reward him and bless him abundantly wherever he may be .
ME: amen and you too, thanks for been there for me.
SeGE: haba, no mention jaree, what are we friends for?. Hope you were treated well at the hospital sha?
ME: yeah. That reminds me. Guess what?
SEGE: what?
ME: I met bimpe at the hospital
SEGE: bim!!! What!!!, you mean the same bimpe?
ME: yeah. Same adebimpe in portharcout.
SEGE: how come?, was she there for an abortion?
ME: ***laughs out loud***. You no well ooo segun. Se na only abortion you fit reason?
SEGE: before nko?, no be runs girl she be?. Abeg knack me the gist jaree.
ME: well actually according to the doctor. I was unconscious as a result of the accident and couldn’t wake up until the second day.
SEGE: ***sits down properly*** ehn ehn?
ME: when I woke up. Bimpe was the first person I set my eyes on. She was wearing a white nurse outfit, just like the dream I told you about.
SEGE: are you sure you aren’t dreaming at that time too?.
ME: at first I thought it was a dream. But later, I found out that it was a reality. The colour of the room, the bed, everything just looked like the dream. The only difference was that, my legs and hands were not tied and bimpe wasn’t holding a gun.
SEGE: this is serious!!!
ME: according to the doctor, she was the one who stood by me from the moment I was rushed in and all through the night.
SEGE: but wait ooo, sebi you said she was a uniport student that year na,. How come she now works as a nurse?. I don’t get it.
ME: me too, I was confused. But she later told me that she was actually in a school of nurse when we met. She just decided to lie due to inferiority complex.
SEGE: o ga oooo, then how did she got to abuja. Abi na aristo she do reach there?
ME: segun!!!, you just hate this girl sha. Haba!!!!
SEGE: answer my question abeg. Bimpe’s maga.
ME: anyways, she said someone linked her with the hospital owner from PH.
SEGE: so how did she get home from akure the other day?. Abi she offered free punny to the driver and conductor?.
ME: no ooo, she said she sold her phone at the park.
SEGE: eyah. Make she pele oooo. Hope she no inject you sha?
ME: **smiled**, actually she did. Twice
SEGE: **screamed*** haaaaaaaaaa!!!!!. Onihaxy!!, you don die.
ME: she said she can’t kill me. That if she wanted to do so, it would have happened when I was unconscious
SEGE: are you sure?
ME: yes. She was even the one who provided all the food I ate all through.
SEGE: you mean she took you to her house to feed you?.
ME: no, it was in the hospital. She never allowed me to know her house.
SEGE: why?
ME: she said she was living couple’s life with her new boyfriend. So she doesn’t want any trouble.
SEGE: SMH for her. Na Bleep go kill that girl. So na abuja dick she dey Bleep now?.
ME: **smiled** we actually had sex sha
SEGE: haaaa onihaxy!!, tell me its a lie. You wey get accident?
ME: I’m serious. It happened on saturday/ sunday night.
SEGE: ***oremi wa gbayi** that one sef dey. Na where you come see condom?
ME: *** I wanted to say the truth but I lied** she brought it herself.
SEGE: hmmm, she self don miss your stick be that. I no blame her sha. She Bleep you on hospital bed with your condition?.
ME: yes
SEGE: sebi I tell you say that girl na runz girl and ashawo. She fit Bleep ontop a moving okada. And now wey she don turn to nurse. Na all the male patients she for don Bleep finish. And even the doctors sef.
ME: hmmmm. Segun!!!, you and this your bad mouth on bimpe.
SEGE: I no lie now. Thank God say you use condom, I for congratulate you on hiv/aids acquisition.
ME: aids kee??** my heart began to beat fast***
SEGE: yes na. I’m very sure say that girl na carrier.
ME: hmmmmmmm
SEGE: do you have her number, so that I can call her to thank her.
ME: she didn’t give me her number.
SEGE: why na?
ME: I don’t know the reason why oo.
SEGE: then I’m suspecting she has a hidden mission and agenda.
ME: yeah that reminds me. She issued a threat.
SEGE: that what?
ME: that she only forgives, but never forgot. She said I would pay in a hard way. But not today.
SEGE: hmmmmm, I dey suspect that babe sha. But no worry, na mouth she get. She no fit do anything. Since she no inject you with poison, nothing fit happen to you.
Segun and I had gist until he left for his house.
Two months went by, I had retrieved my line, I resumed my delivery job in akure and I haven’t gotten any single call from adebimpe. At a time, I couldn’t hold it any longer , I had to inform segun to ask if he saved the doctor’s number I used in calling him when I was hospitalised. I was glad he did.
I dialled the doctor’s number.
ME: hello doctor.
DOC: hi, who am I speaking with please?
ME: onihaxy
DOC: from where?
ME: I was the one who was admitted at your hospital in abuja 2 months ago when I was hit by a car and a passer by brought me to your clinic.
DOC: well, we used to have many similar patient, can’t really remember, and how may I help you by the way?.
ME: I was the guy who used your phone to call a friend to send money to me. And your nurse helped me to withdraw it.
DOC: ooook, now I remember. The guy whose phone was also smashed right?
ME: yes sir
DOC: How are you?
ME: I’m fine sir. I just want to thank you for the other day. I should have called you all this while, but its not long that I retrieved my line.
DOC: its ok. Hope you are good?
ME: I’m fine sir. How about this nurse that was so nice to me, remind me of her name sir.
DOC: you mean nurse bimpe?.
ME: yes.
DOC: well, she had resigned two weeks after you were discharged. I guess she got another offer in another hospital outside abuja.
ME: ****shocked!!!!, resign ?**** ok sir, do you have her contacts sir, I would like to greet her personally.
DOC: well, her number which I used to have had been unreachable for close to 3 weeks now. I guess she had changed her line.
ME: ok sir, thanks. ****hanged up****. I sat down at my office and worried. What could be going on?.
“Bimpe resigned?”
“Her number isn’t reachable?”
“And she hasn’t called me?”
“Or is she a ghost?” “Or na akudaya she be?”
***Chaiii, onihaxy!!!, you don enter am ooooo.
Na ghost I Bleep oooooo, I don die******* I became uncomfortable and restless.
I was so scared and worried about adebimpe’s silence and sudden disappearance. I couldn’t hold it anymore and I have no choice than to open up to the only best friend I have on the following weekend when we met at his house.
ME: sege, fear dey catch me oooo
SEGE: wetin happen?
ME: na bimpe matter
SEGE: you and this bimpe!!, haba onihaxy??, abi na blood covenant dey between the two of you?,
ME: you won’t understand jaree.
SEGE: all the time “you won’t understand”. Then when exactly will I understand?
ME: *** serious look*** ok, this is why I’m worried
SEGE: **re-adjusted sitting position**. Ok I’m listening.
ME: at first, she had disappeared for like over 2 years, now we met at the hospital and she acted so nice to me.
SEGE: so?
ME: but she refused to give me her number, she refused to call me, she didn’t let me know her house address, and now I was told that she had resigned from the hospital 2 weeks after I left abuja.
SEGE: how did you know she resigned.
ME: I asked the doctor when I called him.
SEGE: so you still dey ask of bimpe from the doctor?. You no well ooo.
ME: you won’t understand sha.
SEGE: so why are you really worried?
ME: bimpe might be a ghost or “akudaya”. Who knows, maybe she was dead before.
SEGE: chaiiii, onihaxy, you too funny sha.
ME: and you know we had sex.
SEGE: and so?, sebi you used condom? see, as long as sperm no enter her punny, nothing go happen. If anything wan happen spiritually, na through sperm e dey take happen.
ME: ***deep breath***, segun, let me be sincere, I didn’t use condom.
SEGE: haaaaa!!!!!!!, onihaxy!!!!!, you sha wan kill yourself ontop 5minutes enjoyment?.
ME: segun, I’m scared.
SEGE: sebi clinic dey down the street?
ME: yes,
SEGE: oya stand up, we dey go do test.
Segun cajoled me and forced me to follow him to the clinic.
I was so scared because it was my first time of doing HIV test.
We got to the hospital and we were directed to the right center within the clinic. I paid 1,000 at the reception, I met a lot of people there, pretty looking ladies in various complexions. some were doing meeting, some were queueing for drug, some were been counselled. I got scared the more and my heart almost burst out of my chest as I began to imagine what would happen when these same girls get out of the clinic to have raw sex with guys.
The doctor who wanted to attend to me counselled me first about hiv. She told me that it is not the end of the world incase I come out positive, she continued the sweet talk but my mind wasn’t in all her talks. She proceeded in taking my blood samples after I filled a form. I was with her in the room and segun was sitting at the reception. After obtaining the samples, she told me to return in the evening of the second day. We left the hospital with my heart so burdened.
On the evening of the second day. I stopped at segun’s house and we went together to the hospital for the result.
Segun waited for me again at the reception while I went to meet the doctor myself. I told her my name and she began to search through the envelope and after a moment of searching.
She brought out the envelope but refused to give it to me, instead, she started counselling me again. And this time, my heart was beating faster as the sermon was more lengthy than that of the previous day
****Chaiiiiii***** see wahala ooooo, HIV itself isn’t the killer, but the fear of having it***.
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