The New Apartment Episode Seven
The time was 9pm. Jane was in the kitchen cooking dinner and her boss was in the living room watching the evening news. Jane was making noodles. Her boss had complained of hunger because he did not have the time to eat before coming over to Jane’s house after work. Jane had gone to the kitchen to quickly fix something for him to eat. She too was hungry, but she was craving boiled yam and palm oil. It took only a few minutes before she was done with cooking.
Jane served the food to her boss as if he was her husband. As she was serving the food, it kind of gave her a feeling of joy to serve a man food. She started dreaming of when she would have her own husband and then have the opportunity to serve him food with love. Anyway, her mind strayed back to the problem at hand. She started wondering why the little girl has not spoken since they returned.
“May be it is afraid of you or the problem has stopped. I don’t know which one has happened. But I’m glad you are going to spend the night here. You will hear the noise I told you about. When you hear it, you will know that I’m not telling lies. I cannot lie with something as serious as this. I was scammed N600,000 because of this problem, though I have collected my money back from the pastor. He wanted to mess around with me, but I have shown him hot pepper.” Jane said. They were in the dining area, eating and discussing the issue.
“I feel like you people give pastors the powers they don’t have. The miracles they can do are often overhyped. I mean, how can a pastor charge you money to pray for you? That means he is hawking prayers. So prayers have become a marketable commodity? Left for me alone, all these fake prophets and pastors will all die of hunger because I would never patronize them. It is because people like you patronize them that’s why they have customers.” Jane’s boss said with a sarcastic laugh. He was scooping noodles and chewing aggressively as if he hadn’t eaten for a whole week.
“You don’t understand what I’m going through in this house. I mean, I was ready to pay anyone who could help me dismiss the demon that has possessed the apartment. I have not been able to sleep for days and this is giving me headaches. It has not only affected my job, it has also affected my health. So, you can understand when I had to pay him to see if his prayers would work.” Jane said.
“Well, the prayers ended up not working because he told you lies. He is a liar looking for a way to make cheap money from a frustrated lady like you. The pastor just took advantage of your problems. However, I’m happy you later got the money back.” Her boss said.
“When I realized I had been scammed, I had to scam the pastor back. I proved to him that he does not have the monopoly for scamming. The money is currently cooling off in my bank account.” Jane said. Soon, they finished eating and went to bed.
As usual, the little girl’s voice did not come until much later in the night. Jane and her boss had a few hours of sleep. They slept and did not turn until about 2:45am in the morning. That was when the little girl’s voice woke them up.
“There will be no peace for you. I will not let you rest until I have taken your life. Everyone that has ever stepped food in this apartment will die by my hand. I have told you that I did not die a natural death. I was killed and used for rituals by someone in this house I’m back for revenge. I can see you right now and no one can help you when I come after you. Don’t think that you can survive this battle because you can’t. I will eliminate you and you will join me in the spirit world.” The voice said. After the voice started speaking, the electricity in the apartment went off. As usual, Jane started running helter skelter. However, her boss is a very courageous man. He was calm as if he was not afraid of the little girl. He held Jane by her hand and made her to stand up. He had come to Jane’s house with a rechargeable lamp. He put it on when the NEPA light went off.
“Jane, look at me. Look at my face.” Jane’s boss said as he held her up.
“I’m so scared boss.” Jane said.
“Don’t be scared. That voice is nothing. Just stay calm. Calm your nerves down and listen. You will hear that the voice is rubbish. It is not capable of harming you. Don’t let fear paralyze you. The only thing you have allowed into your heart is fear. Just eliminate fear and you will be fine.” Jane’s boss said with a fame and calming voice. Jane was able to gain strength from her boss.
“Alright boss!” Jane said calmly. She was no longer as fearful as she used to be because there was a man telling her everything would be okay.
“I have listened to that voice very well, and I have realized it is not coming from any spirit. Someone who is dead cannot talk. Even the Bible that you people read says so. That voice is being played from a speaker kept in the ceiling. You know I’m a qualified sound engineer and my ears have captured the source of the sound. There is no demon in this house and I’m going to prove it to you.” Her boss said.
The man pulled his clothes and left only a short nicker on his waist. He looked for the ceiling hole where he could follow and climb into the ceiling. Soon, he found it, but the thing was too high. Jane went into the living room and brought two high stools. They joined the stools together and her boss used it to climb into the ceiling. He had the rechargeable lamp with him.
Once he got into the ceiling, the man pointed the lamp at the direction where the voice was coming from. It was not long before he located what was making the noise.
“I have seen it.” Jane’s boss said.
“Please, don’t touch it. It might be dangerous.” Jane said.
“I have already detached it. I’m bringing it down so that you will see what has been making you to die in fear. When you see it, you will laugh at yourself. I told you there is no demon in your house.” Jane’s boss said as he started climbing down with what he found.
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