MY ROOMMATE AND THE MAN FROM A GRÀVEYARD
Episode 2
Seven minutes passed, yet, Victoria remained squatting and urinating. I became scared. What’s going on? Why is she not coming out? Did her legs glue on the ground? Had something happen to her?
“Victoriiiiiiiiiia!” I shouted her name. I could see her; everyone could see her, from her shoulder, up to her head. Yet she remained squatting and urinating or probably frozen to death; I don’t know.
“Victoriiiiiiiiiia! Victoriiiiiiiiiia” I shouted her name again. Everyone was waiting for her to come back to the car. She turned her head towards me.
“Yes? I’m coming” She answered coldly. I was relieved that, at least she was alive.
“Everyone is waiting for you! Hurry up so we will start going!” I told her.
“You guys should hold on, I will be with you soon, please”
After some minutes more, she stood up; she was done urinating or doing whatever that kept her there. As she stood up, she turned towards us and refused to come out of the gràveyard. She just remain standing like an idol and waiting for God knows what.
Every students attention focused on her. We started thinking that something has gone wrong with her; maybe she has been possessed by a demon or she has gone mad.
“Victoria! what’s going on?” James shouted. He looked at his closest friends; Michael and Henry with a demeanor that says: it’s like something has gone wrong with Victoria!
Oh! Before I forget. James is Victoria’s boyfriend and he had been inside the car that carried them, watching soccer and discussing with Michael and Henry without knowing what was going on, until someone alerted him that something could be wrong with his girlfriend. That was why he got out of the car, together with Michael and Henry, to come see what was going on with Victoria.
Meanwhile, James is one of the most handsome and hottest guy in my department, apart from my boyfriend who is the most handsome and hottest. You may be wondering who my boyfriend is. Well, Michael is my boyfriend and he is James best friend, together with Henry. Yeah! I know what you are thinking right now. You are very correct with your thinking.
James, Michael and Henry are the three most handsome and hottest guys in my department but Michael is more handsome than them. Maybe because he is my boyfriend and he has the perfect stature and the features I wanted in a man. He’s tall; he has muscles, six-packs and fresh skin. His small pink lips was always tempting to kîss. He’s the son of a rich man; he has his own car. He also lives in RICH BABE lodge; he spends money on me without second thoughts and every girl on campus crush on him, but he chose me.
James and Henry are also rich men sons. They have their own cars and have their own apartment in RICH BABE lodge too.
“Victoria! are you okay?” Michael, my boyfriend shouted.
Victoria didn’t say a word.
“Victoria! you are scaring us?” Henry said. Victoria still didn’t say a word.
“Why not go and check on her” some students said.
“We’ve got to go see what have happened to her” some guys said
Some of our coursemates started to call out on her.
“Victoriiiiiiiiiia!”
“Victoria!”
Everyone called. I also called her but Victoria didn’t respond and didn’t come out, even though we were all seeing her and she was also seeing us. She was just standing like an idol.
James, Michael, Henry and some male students decided to go check what was wrong with her and probably drag her out. I followed them behind. As they started walking towards the graveyard, Victoria quickly ran out as though something was after her life. James, Michael, Henry and two male students stopped. They didn’t run. Some students ran away while some stayed. I also stopped; I didn’t run even though I got scared and had wanted to run but because Michael didn’t run, I hid behind him and held his arm tightly.
Victoria ran to where we had stopped and stood.
“Taaaarrraaaann! I got you guys!” She said and started laughing. “Look at how worried and scared y’all looked” She continued laughing. She was kidding. She had been kidding us from the very beginning.
“Ah Victoria why do you want to kill us before we die?” Henry said.
“You always think everything is play?” One of the male students that wanted to go drag her out said.
“Can’t someone joke with you guys again?” Victoria said. “I was only pulling your legs”
“That joke was too expensive, please!” I shouted at her, stepping forward. I stood beside Michael now and was no longer holding his arms.
“We thought something did happen to you for real. You know you were not supposed to urinate on a gràveyard” I added.
“Spare me that please! Who made the rules that no one should urinate on a gràveyard?” She questioned me.
“Now that I urinated there, did something happen to me?”
“Something could have happen to you, Victoria” Michael said. “It’s not good to urinate on a gràveyard”
“But nothing happened! So y’all should relax”
“But you made us worry about you, babe” James pulled her to himself and hugged her. “Don’t give me this kind heart attack next time” He told her and kissed her on the forehead.
“I’m sorry babe” Victoria told him.
Slowly, James released her and walked her to our car. He watched her enter the car and waited till she was seated before he started going back to their car.
Michael hugged me too because I was scared.
“My love, Calm down, okay?” He told me calmly, caressing me. Our fellow students were all watching us but we didn’t care. They already knew; that’s how we always do: Michael and me; James and Victoria; Henry and Lizzy, we always play lovey-dovey wherever we want to; Whenever we want to and however we want to. Our relationships was known to almost everybody including some of our lecturers and nobody interferes.
Michael gently released me and then went back to their car. All the students were already in their respective cars, waiting for us; the “lovey-dovey couples” as the always call us, to enter the car. He walked me to our car, helped me to climb the high door, when I made my way to my seat, he started going back to their car.
“I hate the fact that you don’t think about the consequences of your actions before you exhibit them” I muttered to Victoria immediately I sat down on my space, close to her.
Victoria smiled derisively at me. “I didn’t know you can fear like this!” She said. She thought it will make me laugh or say something to her but it wasn’t funny to me and I didn’t say a word to her. I frowned my face to express how angry I was. Victoria really scared me to my bones. I remained calm, acting like Victoria was a total stranger to me. Initially we were discussing about the traditional marriage we had attended and how Cultures and traditions differed but I refused to continue talking about it when Victoria brought it up again and it made her realize that I was really màd at her.
“Ah! Kamsi, you are still angry with me? But I already said I was only joking nah. Okay, I’m sorry” Victoria said, looking at me and laughing.
“It’s not funny. Nothing is funny here” I told her boldly.
“I know. But nothing happened to me, right? So don’t worry”
“You had better worry, because something will definitely happen to you” One of the girls sitting beside us said. Her name is Ada. And from what I knew about her, she hails from Mbaise; from the community which has the gràveyard where Victoria had just urinated. “What did you just say, Ada?” I asked and turned towards her, stretching my face. Although Ada was sitting on the same seat with us but you would you see her after you must’ve seen Ruth then Victoria and then me.
“I said that, Victoria should better start worrying about what she has done because something will definitely happen to her” Ada responded loudly and confidently, that everyone heard her. “It may not be now…” She directed her face towards Victoria “…you may be thinking you’re free now but I know something will happen to you. You cannot urinate on a graveyard in Mbaise land and go free”
My mind flew.
“Did you say something will happen to her? Something like what please?” I asked.
“But how can she intentionally urinate on a graveyard and expect nothing to happen to her” A girl said. She was sitting in the front seat.
“I am from Mbaise and from what I know, this particular community we are now have a lot of powerful traditionalists and they are among the most dangerous traditionalist when compared to other communities.”
“please you guys should spare me that crab. It’s just a mare gràveyard. Nothing will happen to me” Victoria said confidently.
“Okay, let’s wait and see if something will not happen to you” Ada said and everyone became quiet.
To be continued
