THE ADVENTURE OF AKOR
Episode 15
By Esther Ochoga
I ran out immediately and started pacing up and down in front of my house… how can this be? What is really happening? This cannot be… I was praying in my mind for God to bring peter back when I saw the lady I had a quarrel with in the morning walking up to, I wanted to run inside but I was too scared to do that…
‘Woman wrapper’, so you have the gut to call me a low budget Cinderella? A common okada man(bike man) like you… for all the insult you gave to me I will deal with you! Better watch your back she said…
After she left I groaned in pain and shouted “only me”? There want to deal with me both spiritually and physically? At this point the pain was in so much and I began to cry…
Guy, why you the cry? I heard someone saying behind me… I turned back and to God be the glory it was peter.
My brother I am in trouble oooo, I saw that ghost life and direct in my room today, peter I am finished.
What do you mean by you saw the ghost life and direct, which ghost? Abi you kill person?
See peter, it’s that same lady I picked that night that vanished from my bike that I saw, my only fear is what she told me today because everything she said corroborate the actual thing that happened that night…
Is there something you are not telling me?
What I didn’t tell you that night I came back was the discussion I had with belial
Discussion on a bike? Well, what was the discussion about?
After picking her, I engaged her by telling her how beautiful she is and also told her I wish I have her kind of woman in my life… she laughed a wicked laugh so I quickly told her I was only kidding but she told me its okay, and that if I welcome her into my house and life she will be glad and I foolishly told her she is always welcomed… peter my brother, ‘I don carry mami water follow body ooo’
So? Peter said
What do you mean by so? I am telling you something as big as this and you are acting as if it’s nothing? Do you know what she told me today? She said her time is almost up and I should come with her, ‘peters na so mami water wan take carry me enter water?’ I said while sobbing…
That is not all peter, that lady we insulted this morning saw me here and told me she will deal with me…
Akor, please point of correction… is not ‘we’ that insulted her but ‘you’. Why are you trying to add my name in your problem na peter said
I was surprised to hear this, so I had to remind him that he called the lady ‘a local champion’
Me? When did I call her a local champion? I was only trying to pacify you by telling you not to act like a local champion… peter said and I was shocked to my bone marrow.
Peter, why are you doing this to me? You are not even saying anything about the ghost and now you are denying what we did together?
Akor, how on earth will you be bothering yourself about something that does not exist? What else do you want me to say? It’s your imagination my dear friend, if it’s so real why is it not coming to meet you physically? And for that other issue please count me out… Akor, but you wicked ooo, why will you call her a low budget Cinderella? That girls know some very bad boys in this town oooo better go and apologise and please don’t even dare call my name! peter said.
Why is life so cruel to me? Why am I having all this bad dream? I believe you peter but why do I keep getting those dreams? I have not finish sorting that issue out and now this lady want to deal with me… at this point I was weeping and in so much pain.
Peter told me to wait for him… he went into his room and came out with a rope, and he said ‘this is the rope you gave me when I was contemplating suicide in case you finish crying and you wish to fvck off the earth then use this and please consider this my little contribution to your painful exit’
I looked at peter and also looked at the big stone close to me and….
THE ADVENTURE OF AKOR
Episode 16
By Esther Ochoga
I immediately grab the stone, peter started running around the compound like a mad man… peter I can’t believe you are this heartless is this how you treat your brother? No be your fault sha, I blame myself for sharing my story with you…
Peter was still running and laughing and he reminded me what I did to him when he told me he wanted to commit suicide… he said its pay back and now we can start all over again…
I was so tired of everything at this point and I went to my room praying to God and hoping Agnes is not serious about what she said.
AGNES POV
I still find it hard to believe that this guy will have the gut to insult me, can you imagine he told me that he doesn’t talk to some of us in this compound because of the way we gossip him…
Are you serious? MyCoolvalstories roommate faith asked
Yes oooo, my blood is boiling right now…
I thought you were crushing on him faith said
What kind of talk is that, I was never crushing on him… do you know the number of girls that he brings home? If he’s not careful he will jam spirit one day… but babe, for the insult he gave me I will make sure I arrange guys to beat him up…
Definitely! Make him pay for all that nasty words! If he talks to all the girls that visit him like that make sure you make him understand you are different..
While she was still talking I already placed Bobby on call and he promised to deal with him… Bobby is one of those jobless area tout who takes pleasure in intimidating people alongside other jobless guys. He told me I will have to buy them a keg of fresh ‘palm wine’ for the job.
I quickly left the house to buy the palm wine…
I went there and met them smoking and drinking as usual, I purposely decided not to buy the palm wine at a point because I know even if I buy the palm wine there will still demand for money… I went closer to Bobby and gave him the money and he looked at me and said, ‘this your money no plenty, so na half job we go do ooo’
He then ask me why I am always broke, he started telling me how I move about with men and still always broke, at this point I was so angry and started regretting why I even came to him in the first place… I swallowed all my anger and was just standing there smiling like a ‘mumu’… when he finished talking, I excused myself and left them. Immediately I got to a safe distance I started insulting Bobby just to get all the anger out
The next day was Sunday, I was in my room when I had someone crying seriously, he was crying and shouting and I decided to peep and guess what? It was Akor… faith hurry come and see. She came to the window and the two of us went outside and started laughing at him… he didn’t even care if we were watching but continue crying sitting on the ground outside while his friend was begging him to go inside… what kind of man cry this way faith asked and I told her I am also surprise. peter succeeded in convincing him and there went inside while me and faith entered our room too
At about 11:30pm I went to bed and soon I was asleep… I saw a lady walk up to me and yelled ‘how dare you touch the choosen one’ before I could say anything she started flogging me, she was beating me and laughing… she told me that I should summon all the people in the compound and openly apologise to the person I hurt and that she give me 3hours to do that or I will suffer and I should tell them Belial ask me to apologise to Akor… I jerked up and saw all the marks all over my body… I started crying but had to quickly check the time and I saw 12:30am… how am I supposed to wake everyone at this time of the night to apologise? Am I dreaming or what, like what just happened?…
TO BE CONTINUED…
