Title: THE FORTUNATE DAUGHTER
Last Episode 6
We arrived at our destination a few hours later and I boarded a bike to the house. The bike man dropped me in front of our compound and I could see my mother sitting down with a tray on her lap, immediately I screamed “Mama” with all the joy in my heart because I had missed her so much, she turned to see me standing with the bike man waiting to get my change and she ran towards me with open hands, we hugged and was very happy to be in each other’s arms again.
She took my bag and held my hand while we walked into the house amidst smiles and laughter.
I sat down immediately after we entered the parlor and she brought water for me to drink. After I had drank the water, she sat down opposite me and asked how I had been fairing and also about my studies. After telling her I’d been managing well she then asked why I had come home when it wasn’t yet time for the holidays, I became nervous and didn’t know how to tell her everything, it became a bit difficult for me to open up to her cause I know it will break her heart.
“Ene talk to me,” my mother said with worry already written on her face. I stuttered a bit and finally opened up to her.
At first, she was shocked and broken that my uncles could go that far to hurt us and even plan to eliminate her. She sighed and told me how she had been seeing my late father in her dreams telling her to be strong and that everything would be fine soon.
Later that evening, I asked her how we were going to get the old woman’s urine, and she told me that while I was sleeping, she already asked our neighbor whose aged mother stayed with her and told her everything, and she agreed to give us her mother’s urine whenever we are ready. I was grateful and felt relieved.
Very early the next day, we heard a knock on our door, my mother peeped through the window and saw our neighbor carrying a small covered plastic bowl, immediately she knew it was the urine, and then asked me to open the door which I did. I greeted her the moment she came in and appreciated her for her support and concern toward us, she smiled and told me that there’s a lot to be thankful for that is yet to come.
I went into the restroom to pee in a container and brought it back to the parlor, I poured both the old woman’s urine and my urine together into a bigger bowl so they could mix properly and then we set out to the tree where my father had told me about.
When we got there, I felt something strange, something I had never felt before, and I became a bit scared, but with my mother and our neighbor there, I was able to pick courage.
It was a big tree and was also wide enough to shelter five people under its shade.
Then I began spraying the urine around the tree with my bare hand.
After I had gone around the first, second, and third time I felt something pulling my leg, I shook it off and continued. In the fifth round, it was as if a force was dragging my hand to stop me from spraying the urine but I held firm and continued till I finished the seventh round. Then I stood before the tree and hit it three times, and immediately a big clay pot of charm tied with a red cloth came out from under the tree, we screamed in fear and ran away from the tree a little.
We started hearing noises from afar coming in our direction, our neighbor went to see what was happening and came back running and calling my mother and me to come and see what she saw. Before we could move we saw my father’s brothers being dragged into our compound by some youths and a few elderly people with injuries and blood stains on their clothes, we were confused and asked what the problem was and why they brought them here. They were asked to speak and that was how they confessed all their crimes, how they buried a charm in our compound, and how they killed my father so that they would collect the money from the land he sold to the foreign company because they signed as the witnesses.
My mother screamed and wanted to pounce on them but was held back. I walked up to them and asked them if they were the ones who paid my friend to set me up in school and they said yes, “Aaaaaaahhhhh” Everyone screamed with hands on their heads while some were clapping their hand and shaking their heads.
I told the people about the charm and pointed it to them and immediately after my uncles saw the charm they started behaving abnormally like lunatics, they were let loose and left our compound running mad.
Everyone present sympathized with us and left gradually. It was just my mother, me, and our neighbor who was left in the compound, and just as we were about to enter the house after burning the charm two cars drove into our compound, the occupants came out, asking for my mother saying she needs to sign a document before payment can be done. They said they heard of my father’s death and had come for the next of kin to sign the documents before payment could be made.
I took the documents from them and went through them quickly and was stunned at the huge amount we would be getting.
They left after my mother signed the document. A few days later we were paid and life became better for us.
I went back to school as a changed and better person.
As for my uncles, a vehicle ran over one of them, and he died instantly while the other one was still roaming around mad.
THE END….
Written by @Francisc Ejura Isaac
Envy is a bad disease