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 she 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 war 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. Infact, 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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