(Friday the 18th September)
Today was another working day, it was a Today was another working day, it was a Tuesday and if there is anything I love about Tuesdays is the fact that I got me a good job, No not at all but the usual and God I was tired of this movie of mine, every day repeating the same Sean over and over again. It was like I was living in a loop, but the only difference is that the dates change.
I was already out of the house and as usual I already called the Uber, while I was waiting for him something strange happened, that same girl came out of the same house and this time she was looking more devastated and lost than the last time.
"Morning" I greeted
"Hi"
"Morning" I greeted again
"Yeah, morning"
"What a nice day to be alive" I found this awkward as she wanted to have a conversion and I did not.
"Yeah, it really is, and the only thing that could change that is death"
"Yeah I don't think death can"
"Hmm mm" I do not want this to continue
"Have you been dead before" I was shocked as she asked me this question cause the only one I know that died and came back to life is... No one.
"No, have you?" I was just too curious and I had to ask.
"Well yeah, I have been dead once"
"Really" I said in disbelief
"Well so says my death certificate, and my parents they said they berried me with their own hands, so how can I come back alive"
"Sad, how did it happen"
"My mom worked in a company that makes bread, and she gets paid little for that, I had to sell things to feed my self and my family......." She was trying so hard to take back the tears.
She continued "my family and one day as I was selling in my moms shop a man came to me and told me that I was looking good, and that he wanted to offer me a job, I told him to ask my parents, but he told me that I should look at the young girl he took with him around that she was his daughter, and we were both the same age, and he wants to help me, I told him to help his daughter first, but he refused he said it was me he wanted to help first, he continued coming to our shop to buy things and I did sell it to him...." She wiped rears off her eyes.
As she continues " then, and then one day he told me to go and buy him tea from the other part of the city and I asked him to send his daughter, but he said he was going to send her to buy him bread which was a further journey, and he told me that, that he would pay me a large sum of money if I did..." She was wiping her tears with her handkerchief now.
She continued " I did what he asked from me and I did go to buy him tea, and when I came back my mom's shop was burnt to ashes, and, and he did it, he burnt it with a girl inside, it was his daughter in it, he then called me out and took me in he, he told me to run, and I did and then..... And then he gave me the tea to drink he said I was going to be okay if I drank the tea and I did and... Are you listening to me" she asked with a limp in her neck.
"Oh yes I am"
"And then I woke up I was in another time and another place entirely there was nothing for me but this, they took away my memories, but somehow I got them back" she said as she signifies that she was done with her story
"What did your mother sell?" I asked.
"Cloths, men cloths"
"And why do you choose to talk me all this?" I asked in confusion.
"I know you"
"You know me?" I said pointing at my self.
"I know you, from the news station right, the one where they helped people right"
Well our company helps lost people in the past, but I don't think the new boss would like this to happen?, will she?
"Okay, give me your telephone and I will see what I can do to help okay"
"+23491 5331 7113"
"Okay the company will notify you"
"Please do send them okay"
"Yes I will"
Send who, what?
"Peeeeeeee"
*shit* the cab was already waiting for me
"Sorry sir" I said as I entered the cab
"Na girl number you want collect na you con they waist my time, you be big mumu"
It took me time to analyze what he said because I was not good at pidgin my self, I did not know how to speak the language as I did no school in the country, maybe that's why I always act different from the rest people, I was tired of cracking my brain, so I asked.
"Sir, sorry please what did you say in pidgin, I did not understand"
"Oh no wonder you they act like monkey since see your yeye face"
"Sir please translate"
"Okay, what I said first was, what a lovely girl she is, can I have her number please?, and the second was oh no wonder are there Monkeys from where you came from"
He lied to me and I knew it because I my self have been learning this language and I believe what he said reads it's a girls number you want to collect and you are busy wasting my time, you are a big full, and the second reads, oh no wonder you have been acting like an animal ever since you boarded my taxi, look at your ugly face, I believe that's what he said.
I tried not to pay attention to any of what he said as he was just blabbing, and I was a working class man and also a reporter, and one thing about being a reporter is that you don't know who knows you, I can remember watching news once when another channel was showing a reporter of a deffer channel fighting with a businessman for parking space of their van in a hospital, so you see the press can be crazy, so I have to have my cool.
But after listening to the girl's story I felt for the poor thing, she was as innocent as a....., but its still kind of her fault, I mean, but let me leave her she was a child and I shouldn't blame her for her mistakes.
I reached the office and entered the gate, it was different as the place was noisy, very noisy, and I noticed that the gate men were no longer in their post, what happened?
I went in and the office was even louder and staffs were running and panicking and I could not help it but to go to musa's office to talk to him about what was going on.
"Musa, what is happening why is the place noisy?"
"Don't tell me you of all people are just coming"
"Some girl made me late"
"Tell me more"
"Oh that just reminds me please call this number its for the charity stuffs, are you still allowed to run that?"
"Yeah sure I will call it"
"So what happened that the place is noisy?"
"Well your boss fought with the security guard, and he gave her the beaten of her life"
"The four of them"
"No only that Lagos dude"
"Seriously, what did she do to him?"
"Some says she slept with him and did not pay, others said she was trying to sleep with him, and he disagreed, and then she called him into her office to try one more time, and he refused and then she fired him, he threatened to report her, and then she slapped him, as she was about threatening him he got angry and gave her the beating of her life"
"Hmm"
"What is it not funny?, well it's not but I think we should not judge her, and besides it does not matter what she did he will defiantly rote in jail"
"Yeah, she has power and all that"
"Bye I have work to do, I will be in my office if you need me"
"OK, sure"
"Till later"
The day was as usual as my life continued
I went home a little late and after prayer I ate and sleepy, today was yet another mystical day.