SEVEN
There is cypher Ejike hated to a greater extent than inwards life than waiting.
His ambit of impatience knew no bounds.
He was non the guy to receive got that stupid excuse girls unremarkably give boys nigh sex— that ‘if you lot love me, you lot volition hold back for me’ sort of excuse.
The firstly daughter he’d approached had said that to him as well as the adjacent twenty-four hr menstruum he had oral sexual practice amongst the girl’s best friend. Nkechi was her name, at that fourth dimension a lot to a greater extent than willing as well as adventurous than her friend, Chidiogo.
But every bit he grew older, Ejike is firstly to realize at nowadays that he is no longer every bit impatient every bit he used to be.
His married adult woman had said no to babies for years now, and, yet, he’d non taken whatsoever drastic activity yet.
Had it been a fourth dimension inwards the past, Sammy would receive got larn a senior married adult woman past times now.
Even at nowadays that Ejike had stood at the veranda exterior Rita’s door for nearly 20 minutes, waiting for soul to come upwardly home, it struck him over again merely how much he’d changed over the years.
How much less impatient he’d become.
While a senior inwards secondary school, at that topographic point was a fourth dimension he was thus horny as well as Nkechi was nowhere to live institute thus he approached a junior man child as well as asked him to suck him off.
The adjacent twenty-four hr menstruum the man child came to him again, apparently seeking a repeat of what had happened the previous night. Ejike told him to go away as well as bring together his mates at the schoolhouse chapel—it was fourth dimension for nighttime prayers at that time.
The man child stood there, staring, till Ejike repeated himself inwards sterner vocalisation as well as entered the hostel.
Junior boys at that fourth dimension could produce anything to larn away from the strict scrutiny that went on at the chapel where defaulters’ names [people whose prayer materials are incomplete] were written downwards to live punished the adjacent twenty-four hr menstruum amongst some difficult labour.
Ejike looked circular at nowadays as well as touched the overstep of the raised platform beside him to cheque if it was dusty. It wasn’t thus he sat.
Everything nigh Rita screamed neatness. He wondered how possible it was that the cement flooring of the veranda was thus bang-up it gleamed, every bit if tiled; how many hours as well as how much liberate energy it must receive got taken to convey it to such an enviable condition.
The large H2O container as well as plastic buckets at the extreme terminate of the veranda all gleamed too, every bit if they were washed every day.
Something made the air to fifty-fifty appear scented inwards this place, extremely relaxing.
Turning away, he noticed the tiresome level Sun had somehow magically disappeared, making means for a novel cloudy weather.
He wondered if it was going to rain. He was nonetheless on this idea when he heard the audio of the firstly drib of pelting hitting the zinc roof.
Soon to a greater extent than drops followed, raising dust exterior as well as causing trees as well as shrubs roughly to sway.
He knew it was non going to live a serious rain, that sort of spontaneous dry out flavour rains that e'er stopped every bit rapidly every bit they started.
But, to his amazement, this i persisted.
And before long enough, the soil exterior had larn soaked as well as he could come across some minor pools of chocolate-brown H2O forming hither as well as there.
Some clothe hanging on a draw inwards a higher identify his caput fluttered as well as fell.
He caught them, merely rapidly plenty to relieve a white, light-fabric blouse from the ugly impact of dingy water.
He folded them all as well as pose them inwards a broad bowl beside the bluish H2O drum.
The pelting continued for a piece longer earlier finally dying.
A rumble of thunder was heard inwards the distance as well as before long after a motorbike whizzed into the compound, carrying Rita.
Her light-brown blouse was partially soaked as well as some parts of her skirt too.
Her fairly long natural pilus was damp too, falling downwards her cervix inwards heavy, moistened strands.
Seeing her, Ejike rose.
‘Ejike, you lot here?’ Rita ran into the shelter of the veranda earlier opening her purse as well as extending a N100 banker's complaint to the wheel man.
‘Madam, I don’t receive got alter o,’ the human said. He was completely drenched inwards the pelting as well as fifty-fifty looked to live enjoying the low-cal drizzle nonetheless coming.
‘Don’t worry, you lot tin go,’ Rita said to him.
‘Thank you, Madam!’ the human said amongst a large smile.
Rita’s attending was already on her visitor, else she mightiness receive got smiled dorsum at him. They all liked to send her—the bang-up Aunty who wore well-tailored clothe as well as spoke construct clean English, behaved cypher similar a villager.
‘Oh dear, receive got you lot been waiting for also long?’ Rita asked Ejike.
‘Not that long, merely nigh thirty minutes.’
‘Oh, I’m thus sorry. I don’t unremarkably function this late, but I mightiness live making a trip before long thus I had to live sure as shooting all files as well as folders are fully sorted out.’
‘You are travelling?’
‘Yes.’ Rita pulled off the padlock she unlocked as well as pushed the door open. ‘Come in, dear.’
Ejike entered the room. He kept standing. ‘So where are you lot going?’
Rita flicked a switch on the wall at her left as well as the lights came on. ‘Can’t believe the lights are nonetheless on.’
‘Where are you lot travelling to?’ Ejike asked instead.
‘I volition live taking Fiona dorsum to her father.’
‘Oh.’
‘Yes.’
‘And you?’
Rita turned as well as glanced at him but said nothing.
‘You volition select her abode as well as come upwardly back, is that it?’
‘I don’t know yet.’ Rita dropped her handbag on the other tabular array past times the wall, apparently where they ironed because of the folded towel on it.
She picked the towel at nowadays as well as started wiping her human face upwardly as well as hair.
‘So you lot are leaving?’
Again, Rita paused inwards movement, staring distantly ahead.
Ejike stared at her.
Finally, she did something similar shaking her head. ‘It’s non for me, Ejike, it’s for her.’
‘What thus would you lot receive got wanted for yourself?’
‘I love the peace here, the freedom—’ She gently rubbed her upper arm. ‘—the impact of the rain, its indescribably fresh odor as well as the means people easily smiled too. I’m going to miss all of that.’
‘Then stay.’
Rita’s eyes ran to Ejike.
‘Yes. Stay! She is a grown girl. Take her dorsum as well as thus come upwardly back.’
‘I receive got to brand sure as shooting that she is alright.’
‘She is a grown girl. Or does her begetter consume people?’
‘Samson is never around. Never free, never thinks nigh anything else the means he does his business. I demand to live at that topographic point for her.’
It was his firstly fourth dimension of hearing her genuinely beak nigh her husband; Ejike felt a sort of gratitude. ‘So you lot won’t live coming dorsum then?’
Rita took a deep breath. ‘That’s i of those things nigh having a kid. They receive got to e'er come upwardly first.’
Ejike stepped closer to her; the sweet, fruity odor of whatever fragrance she had used appeared stronger inwards the closeness. ‘I don’t desire you lot to go.’
Rita’s eyes ran to Ejike at once. It must receive got been the abrupt alter inwards his voice, a new, deeper tone.
Before she could procedure whatsoever thought, Ejike held her human face upwardly as well as planted his lips into hers.
A abrupt chill swept over Rita.
She wanted to nation no, she really, genuinely did desire to force away, but Ejike’s handgrip must receive got been also tight.
Or, perhaps, the motivation to reject was non stiff enough.
So she stayed calm as well as allowed him buss her, real gently—never similar she had ever been kissed before! Or, maybe too, at that topographic point was something nigh his lips, something that made them real suitable for kissing.
And merely nigh thus the door of the room outburst open, startling them.
Fiona dropped her lesson bag—flung it away actually—and ran dorsum out.
For many long seconds, Rita felt no life inwards her entire system.
***
The nurse told Sammy the people she’d come upwardly for were no longer there.
‘What produce you lot hateful they are no longer here?’ Sammy straight off asked her.
‘They receive got gone to the Teaching Hospital.’
Sammy did non waste materials a 2nd to a greater extent than on the nurse, or the nonchalant await on her face.
She picked all her bags as well as stormed off at once.
***
At the Teaching Hospital, nigh one-half an hr later, Sammy met Amaka outside, on the floor, human face upwardly stiff, eyes moisture as well as distant, olfactory organ running.
Phillip stood beside her, looking similar a ghost of his quondam self.
Chinelo sat on the bench, thighs shaking, her wrapper undone as well as brushing the ground.
Sammy dropped her handbag of fruits as well as kiddies’ provisions. ‘What is the matter?’
Nobody said a word.
Sammy’s vocalisation rose. ‘Somebody nation something to me, what is the matter?!’
Finally Phillip turned to her. ‘She shouldn’t receive got allowed him consume the mutual frigidity food,’ he said—muttered.
‘I don’t understand,’ Sammy said.
Still, Phillip alone repeated the same thing he’d said, inwards the same low, lifeless tone. ‘She should receive got told him no when he wanted to consume the mutual frigidity food.’
‘Who are you lot talking nigh as well as which mutual frigidity nutrient produce you lot refer to?’
Amaka turned. ‘How did mutual frigidity nutrient rupture his appendix na?’ she sobbed. ‘How? How is that? Somebody should tell me how o, because I don’t empathize anything…’
She blew her olfactory organ into her blouse. ‘Somebody should tell me how…somebody should explicate all of this to me now. How? I don’t understand. What is this?’
Sammy’s extremely confused human face upwardly as well as opened upwardly oral cavity shuttled betwixt hubby as well as wife.
Finally, a nurse approached as well as drew her aside. ‘Do you lot know them?’ the nurse asked Sammy, quietly, to a greater extent than similar a whisper.
‘Yes, yes, delight what just happened?’
‘They brought him also late; at that topographic point is cypher nosotros could do.’
‘I don’t understand.’
‘The man child is dead.’
‘Oh okay, is that all?’ Sammy threw out.
The nurse sent a confused await to her.
‘Please exhibit me to the doctor’s office.’
The nurse looked hesitantly at her earlier she pointed. ‘It’s that way. Second door on your left. It’s quite unlucky that Dr Patrick is non on duty today; alone he would receive got done something. He is thus practiced some people nation he’s been blessed amongst the gift of raising the dead.’
Sammy left the tall as well as sparse nurse who was on the border of turning gossipy.
Inside the doctor’s office, Sammy met a circular human inwards bluish shirt as well as dark trousers. ‘Doctor, is at that topographic point whatsoever possibility that I mightiness live pregnant?’ she asked.
The human stared at Sammy. ‘You receive got reasons to scream upwardly you lot are pregnant?’
‘Just cheque me as well as confirm, please.’
‘Okay, you lot demand to go downwards this hall as well as come inwards the door on your right. Someone at that topographic point volition attend to you.’
The old lady nurse Sammy met alone asked for her urine. Sammy had idea they mightiness demand something to a greater extent than serious, similar blood.
The exam was fast as well as the consequence real disappointing.
‘No, my dear, you lot are non pregnant,’ the large nurse told her.
‘You don’t understand, I demand to live pregnant.’
‘How produce you lot mean?’
‘My friend, my real practiced friend, merely lost a baby; I demand to receive got this babe as well as give it to her. Please.’ The tears were flooding Sammy’s human face upwardly now. She wiped at her eyes. ‘Oh God, that funny as well as innocent-looking boy! Wouldn’t receive got minded a man child similar that every bit mine. I sure as shooting wouldn’t have!’
The old nurse alone managed to milk tremble her head. ‘You mentioned you’ve been urinating to a greater extent than oftentimes lately?’
‘Yes, yes,’ Sammy agreed eagerly. ‘Sometimes to a greater extent than than iv times inwards the night.’
The old lady nurse took a pace closer as well as felt Sammy’s belly.
Sammy allowed her. Anything that could somehow convey the tidings she wanted.
Finally, the nurse lady stopped as well as did something similar shaking her caput again. ‘You demand to come upwardly dorsum tomorrow for a proper scan.’
‘Okay, you lot are non sure as shooting yet, right?’
‘Not nigh the pregnancy—it is negative. But at that topographic point is every possibility you lot mightiness receive got fibroids.’
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There is cypher Ejike hated to a greater extent than inwards life than waiting.
His ambit of impatience knew no bounds.
He was non the guy to receive got that stupid excuse girls unremarkably give boys nigh sex— that ‘if you lot love me, you lot volition hold back for me’ sort of excuse.
The firstly daughter he’d approached had said that to him as well as the adjacent twenty-four hr menstruum he had oral sexual practice amongst the girl’s best friend. Nkechi was her name, at that fourth dimension a lot to a greater extent than willing as well as adventurous than her friend, Chidiogo.
But every bit he grew older, Ejike is firstly to realize at nowadays that he is no longer every bit impatient every bit he used to be.
His married adult woman had said no to babies for years now, and, yet, he’d non taken whatsoever drastic activity yet.
Had it been a fourth dimension inwards the past, Sammy would receive got larn a senior married adult woman past times now.
Even at nowadays that Ejike had stood at the veranda exterior Rita’s door for nearly 20 minutes, waiting for soul to come upwardly home, it struck him over again merely how much he’d changed over the years.
How much less impatient he’d become.
While a senior inwards secondary school, at that topographic point was a fourth dimension he was thus horny as well as Nkechi was nowhere to live institute thus he approached a junior man child as well as asked him to suck him off.
The adjacent twenty-four hr menstruum the man child came to him again, apparently seeking a repeat of what had happened the previous night. Ejike told him to go away as well as bring together his mates at the schoolhouse chapel—it was fourth dimension for nighttime prayers at that time.
The man child stood there, staring, till Ejike repeated himself inwards sterner vocalisation as well as entered the hostel.
Junior boys at that fourth dimension could produce anything to larn away from the strict scrutiny that went on at the chapel where defaulters’ names [people whose prayer materials are incomplete] were written downwards to live punished the adjacent twenty-four hr menstruum amongst some difficult labour.
Ejike looked circular at nowadays as well as touched the overstep of the raised platform beside him to cheque if it was dusty. It wasn’t thus he sat.
Everything nigh Rita screamed neatness. He wondered how possible it was that the cement flooring of the veranda was thus bang-up it gleamed, every bit if tiled; how many hours as well as how much liberate energy it must receive got taken to convey it to such an enviable condition.
The large H2O container as well as plastic buckets at the extreme terminate of the veranda all gleamed too, every bit if they were washed every day.
Something made the air to fifty-fifty appear scented inwards this place, extremely relaxing.
Turning away, he noticed the tiresome level Sun had somehow magically disappeared, making means for a novel cloudy weather.
He wondered if it was going to rain. He was nonetheless on this idea when he heard the audio of the firstly drib of pelting hitting the zinc roof.
Soon to a greater extent than drops followed, raising dust exterior as well as causing trees as well as shrubs roughly to sway.
He knew it was non going to live a serious rain, that sort of spontaneous dry out flavour rains that e'er stopped every bit rapidly every bit they started.
But, to his amazement, this i persisted.
And before long enough, the soil exterior had larn soaked as well as he could come across some minor pools of chocolate-brown H2O forming hither as well as there.
Some clothe hanging on a draw inwards a higher identify his caput fluttered as well as fell.
He caught them, merely rapidly plenty to relieve a white, light-fabric blouse from the ugly impact of dingy water.
He folded them all as well as pose them inwards a broad bowl beside the bluish H2O drum.
The pelting continued for a piece longer earlier finally dying.
A rumble of thunder was heard inwards the distance as well as before long after a motorbike whizzed into the compound, carrying Rita.
Her light-brown blouse was partially soaked as well as some parts of her skirt too.
Her fairly long natural pilus was damp too, falling downwards her cervix inwards heavy, moistened strands.
Seeing her, Ejike rose.
‘Ejike, you lot here?’ Rita ran into the shelter of the veranda earlier opening her purse as well as extending a N100 banker's complaint to the wheel man.
‘Madam, I don’t receive got alter o,’ the human said. He was completely drenched inwards the pelting as well as fifty-fifty looked to live enjoying the low-cal drizzle nonetheless coming.
‘Don’t worry, you lot tin go,’ Rita said to him.
‘Thank you, Madam!’ the human said amongst a large smile.
Rita’s attending was already on her visitor, else she mightiness receive got smiled dorsum at him. They all liked to send her—the bang-up Aunty who wore well-tailored clothe as well as spoke construct clean English, behaved cypher similar a villager.
‘Oh dear, receive got you lot been waiting for also long?’ Rita asked Ejike.
‘Not that long, merely nigh thirty minutes.’
‘Oh, I’m thus sorry. I don’t unremarkably function this late, but I mightiness live making a trip before long thus I had to live sure as shooting all files as well as folders are fully sorted out.’
‘You are travelling?’
‘Yes.’ Rita pulled off the padlock she unlocked as well as pushed the door open. ‘Come in, dear.’
Ejike entered the room. He kept standing. ‘So where are you lot going?’
Rita flicked a switch on the wall at her left as well as the lights came on. ‘Can’t believe the lights are nonetheless on.’
‘Where are you lot travelling to?’ Ejike asked instead.
‘I volition live taking Fiona dorsum to her father.’
‘Oh.’
‘Yes.’
‘And you?’
Rita turned as well as glanced at him but said nothing.
‘You volition select her abode as well as come upwardly back, is that it?’
‘I don’t know yet.’ Rita dropped her handbag on the other tabular array past times the wall, apparently where they ironed because of the folded towel on it.
She picked the towel at nowadays as well as started wiping her human face upwardly as well as hair.
‘So you lot are leaving?’
Again, Rita paused inwards movement, staring distantly ahead.
Ejike stared at her.
Finally, she did something similar shaking her head. ‘It’s non for me, Ejike, it’s for her.’
‘What thus would you lot receive got wanted for yourself?’
‘I love the peace here, the freedom—’ She gently rubbed her upper arm. ‘—the impact of the rain, its indescribably fresh odor as well as the means people easily smiled too. I’m going to miss all of that.’
‘Then stay.’
Rita’s eyes ran to Ejike.
‘Yes. Stay! She is a grown girl. Take her dorsum as well as thus come upwardly back.’
‘I receive got to brand sure as shooting that she is alright.’
‘She is a grown girl. Or does her begetter consume people?’
‘Samson is never around. Never free, never thinks nigh anything else the means he does his business. I demand to live at that topographic point for her.’
It was his firstly fourth dimension of hearing her genuinely beak nigh her husband; Ejike felt a sort of gratitude. ‘So you lot won’t live coming dorsum then?’
Rita took a deep breath. ‘That’s i of those things nigh having a kid. They receive got to e'er come upwardly first.’
Ejike stepped closer to her; the sweet, fruity odor of whatever fragrance she had used appeared stronger inwards the closeness. ‘I don’t desire you lot to go.’
Rita’s eyes ran to Ejike at once. It must receive got been the abrupt alter inwards his voice, a new, deeper tone.
Before she could procedure whatsoever thought, Ejike held her human face upwardly as well as planted his lips into hers.
A abrupt chill swept over Rita.
She wanted to nation no, she really, genuinely did desire to force away, but Ejike’s handgrip must receive got been also tight.
Or, perhaps, the motivation to reject was non stiff enough.
So she stayed calm as well as allowed him buss her, real gently—never similar she had ever been kissed before! Or, maybe too, at that topographic point was something nigh his lips, something that made them real suitable for kissing.
And merely nigh thus the door of the room outburst open, startling them.
Fiona dropped her lesson bag—flung it away actually—and ran dorsum out.
For many long seconds, Rita felt no life inwards her entire system.
***
The nurse told Sammy the people she’d come upwardly for were no longer there.
‘What produce you lot hateful they are no longer here?’ Sammy straight off asked her.
‘They receive got gone to the Teaching Hospital.’
Sammy did non waste materials a 2nd to a greater extent than on the nurse, or the nonchalant await on her face.
She picked all her bags as well as stormed off at once.
***
At the Teaching Hospital, nigh one-half an hr later, Sammy met Amaka outside, on the floor, human face upwardly stiff, eyes moisture as well as distant, olfactory organ running.
Phillip stood beside her, looking similar a ghost of his quondam self.
Chinelo sat on the bench, thighs shaking, her wrapper undone as well as brushing the ground.
Sammy dropped her handbag of fruits as well as kiddies’ provisions. ‘What is the matter?’
Nobody said a word.
Sammy’s vocalisation rose. ‘Somebody nation something to me, what is the matter?!’
Finally Phillip turned to her. ‘She shouldn’t receive got allowed him consume the mutual frigidity food,’ he said—muttered.
‘I don’t understand,’ Sammy said.
Still, Phillip alone repeated the same thing he’d said, inwards the same low, lifeless tone. ‘She should receive got told him no when he wanted to consume the mutual frigidity food.’
‘Who are you lot talking nigh as well as which mutual frigidity nutrient produce you lot refer to?’
Amaka turned. ‘How did mutual frigidity nutrient rupture his appendix na?’ she sobbed. ‘How? How is that? Somebody should tell me how o, because I don’t empathize anything…’
She blew her olfactory organ into her blouse. ‘Somebody should tell me how…somebody should explicate all of this to me now. How? I don’t understand. What is this?’
Sammy’s extremely confused human face upwardly as well as opened upwardly oral cavity shuttled betwixt hubby as well as wife.
Finally, a nurse approached as well as drew her aside. ‘Do you lot know them?’ the nurse asked Sammy, quietly, to a greater extent than similar a whisper.
‘Yes, yes, delight what just happened?’
‘They brought him also late; at that topographic point is cypher nosotros could do.’
‘I don’t understand.’
‘The man child is dead.’
‘Oh okay, is that all?’ Sammy threw out.
The nurse sent a confused await to her.
‘Please exhibit me to the doctor’s office.’
The nurse looked hesitantly at her earlier she pointed. ‘It’s that way. Second door on your left. It’s quite unlucky that Dr Patrick is non on duty today; alone he would receive got done something. He is thus practiced some people nation he’s been blessed amongst the gift of raising the dead.’
Sammy left the tall as well as sparse nurse who was on the border of turning gossipy.
Inside the doctor’s office, Sammy met a circular human inwards bluish shirt as well as dark trousers. ‘Doctor, is at that topographic point whatsoever possibility that I mightiness live pregnant?’ she asked.
The human stared at Sammy. ‘You receive got reasons to scream upwardly you lot are pregnant?’
‘Just cheque me as well as confirm, please.’
‘Okay, you lot demand to go downwards this hall as well as come inwards the door on your right. Someone at that topographic point volition attend to you.’
The old lady nurse Sammy met alone asked for her urine. Sammy had idea they mightiness demand something to a greater extent than serious, similar blood.
The exam was fast as well as the consequence real disappointing.
‘No, my dear, you lot are non pregnant,’ the large nurse told her.
‘You don’t understand, I demand to live pregnant.’
‘How produce you lot mean?’
‘My friend, my real practiced friend, merely lost a baby; I demand to receive got this babe as well as give it to her. Please.’ The tears were flooding Sammy’s human face upwardly now. She wiped at her eyes. ‘Oh God, that funny as well as innocent-looking boy! Wouldn’t receive got minded a man child similar that every bit mine. I sure as shooting wouldn’t have!’
The old nurse alone managed to milk tremble her head. ‘You mentioned you’ve been urinating to a greater extent than oftentimes lately?’
‘Yes, yes,’ Sammy agreed eagerly. ‘Sometimes to a greater extent than than iv times inwards the night.’
The old lady nurse took a pace closer as well as felt Sammy’s belly.
Sammy allowed her. Anything that could somehow convey the tidings she wanted.
Finally, the nurse lady stopped as well as did something similar shaking her caput again. ‘You demand to come upwardly dorsum tomorrow for a proper scan.’
‘Okay, you lot are non sure as shooting yet, right?’
‘Not nigh the pregnancy—it is negative. But at that topographic point is every possibility you lot mightiness receive got fibroids.’
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