Devil Incarnate!
By
Shaibu Majeed Idowu
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Episode One
Our family wasn't such a big family, it only consisted of my late grandfather who was married to three beautiful women ( if beautiful women includes those in bubas way too big for their sizes though) each having at least three children, the first wife did not produce a child as fast as I suppose my grandfather would have wanted, guess that was why he opted for the second one. But I understood that the second one gave birth soon after she was married, and not to just a child but to two and then three and then four. What led him to proceed in marrying the third wife? only God knows! But as fate will have it, it was this same third wife that gave birth to the stern man who later became my father.
Growing up, I used to see all these women as same as my mother majorly because we call all of them 'Maami'. Even the bigger sons who had married still refer to them as that.
My father was a civil servant who worked in the local council before he realised that money from the council alone cannot sustain his family and in extension, his relations. He later burged into large scale farming through my mum whose family had a very vast land mass. With this little near literate family background, my father sees no harm and difficulty in sending I including my remaining four siblings to school. I was the third of my mum. Sister Mercy was my immediate elder sister and my closest pal as we seem to be of the same height and do things mostly together, my other two younger ones are still in primary schools.
In as much as we tried to live as one big and happy family, my father didn't like the idea of living in such a 'family house', so later we moved into a a near completion apartment which he had been building for about two years ago, but to the average; This apartment was moderate.
At age 17, I finished my secondary schools and just at the same time, Tobi, the daughter of one of my stepmother finished secondary school also, so it was our dream to get admitted into the same university. Meanwhile, my close sister, sister mercy finished a year ahead of us, but she decided to learn hair dressing before she entered school, fortunately, the three of us get admitted into the same school the same year. That was like a ceremony in our house the day we received our admission letter to study in a federal polytechnic, my father was so happy because he never thought it could happen so easily.
Our transition into higher institutions opened us to a newer world of fun, of discipline, of hard work, of intense intimacy as I now choose to call my sister, 'Mercy mi', it is a new beginning of what many would called maturity and real life, it was a time for new happenings for all of us and of course, to me personally, of....woes!
First year in school, Tobi and sister Mercy lived in the same apartment, but me being a male and of such demanding to be specially treated, rented a room of my own, Tobi and I were in the same department, Computer Engineering. While sister mercy was in Business Admin.
My first Examination in school was the most anticipated of all, I prepared very hard alongside Tobi, we read and studied questions together and would normally give ourselves assignments to do at home. The examination came, we did it with all our zeal and effort, we went back home for the holidays and then something big happened!
One very sunny day, while my dad was at a meeting with some of his friends, sister mercy, my mum and I were at home,soon my mum informed us that she would be going to the market to get some things, few minutes after she left, a young man came looking looking sister Mercy.
I was the first to see him, immediately I set my eyes on him, I caught glimpse of an event that had happened back then when I travelled to Porthacourt for one of our holidays during secondary school days. It happened that I had gone to the shop to buy something with my friend for his birthdays, at that same shop, some robbers came, injured the cashier and carted away a whole lot of their money. But as they were about leaving, one of them took off his face mask and headed straight for the manager, told him that he sure would be coming back and that he should forget about reporting to the police, as they were too strong to be countered by the police. I managed to look at his face from where I was lying shivering on the floor,; the picture of that same man who opened his mask set into my inner eyes as soon as I see him but I this man will never know anything about me. I too acted as if nothing happened, he simply stretched his hand towards me for a handshake, I took it and welcome him. He eventually asked for sister Mercy and jokingly as 'man thing' said I might already know his mission to which I coughed grudgingly, and said of course yes.
I'll get her for you!
I went directly inside and thought of what would possibly be the next best thing to do in the shortest of Times, before sister Mercy sees him, before mother comes from market and before Dad comes from his meeting. I though, I've got to prevent my sister from falling in love with this man. It'll be the greatest mistake I'd be making if I allowed and even called her to meet him myself. Luckily for me, sister Mercy was taken her bath; hmm I hope she s not bathing as part of her preparation to meet this man? What, she was expecting him? No no no, cos if that is the case, she's not going to see him today, I promise!
I went outside to meet the man, but he seems to be making a call, I tiptoed to get an idea of what the discussion was and I heard something like..." I'm out of the circle now, let them continue with the plan, I will be at the warehouse tomorrow, we're hitting it big this time" this confirmed my thoughts and cleared any more doubt on me. I allowed him end his call before I burged out in order to avoid any suspicion then I went straight to him and informed him that it seems sister Mercy had went to the sallon for her hair because she said she'll be expecting someone today. I suggest you call her number to know which sallon she had gone to and probably meet him there.
I smiled and said, "E be lyk sey my sister is in love o!"
He smiled as well and said " Ok thank you bro, I'll be on my way then and I'll call to know where she is. Anyway, in case I'm not able to reach her, just me inform her that Micheal came for her"
"All right bro, I'll do that"
He went! I sighed heavily and prayed to God to forgive me. Anyway its not as if I've not been lying before without praying for forgiveness but we all seem to pray for forgiveness when we think we had said important lies. Other trivia lies aren't so bad or serious after all. I thought. But this very particular one is a must.
Few minutes later sister Mercy came out with with just a towel wrapped on her, she asked if someone had asked of her and I quickly said no, and...are you expecting anyone? She replied yes aburo.
She later got to know that Micheal actually came for her and I was the one that stopped Micheal from seeing her. That day sister Mercy got really mad at me. She cried and cried all day and all night long. I wondered what could have been so special in her not meeting Micheal that day. Haha, shey na love? Ahh... I just let everything passed over because to me it's just one of these normal things nah. I just couldn't tell sister mercy what made me stop that man from seeing her.
Few weeks later, school resumed and we were back in school, mummy had packed our bags with every food item we could possible need. Things went on well for the first three weeks then towards the fourth week, the result for our last exams were out, Tobi got the news first, so she called my phone to inform me. I later joined her and we both went to check our results. Well, Tobi had an A and me? I had a B, specifically 68B. We were happy anyway, to get B in school those days no be moi moi. Sister Mercy didn't call us, I guessed she wasn't aware that the results were out, so we went to her department and helped her checked. We were shocked to see the results, 14F! What!!! What could have happened? Sister mercy used to be more serious than I was and in fact, more brilliant than I was, how could she have failed? We called her phone and she didn't pick the call. I immediately went in search of her friend, sister Wunmi. It was from Wunmi that I later got to know that Sister mercy actually missed the exams. She was not in school the day the exam was written. But where did she went to?" I asked.
Well, she said then that her mummy was very sick and that she needed to go and take care of her.
Tobi looked at me at hearing that,i was surprised also, mum was never sick recently, and besides sister Mercy didn't go home.
"Okay, thanks sister Wunmi" I said and left.
Tobi couldn't wait any longer, she asked me. But Bro Shegun, where do you think sister Mercy went to that would have been more important to her than her education? Where?
I too wonder o, but Promise me one thing, no one else must know about this, especially back at home, because they'll feel so bad at her.
Trust me na, mouth sealed!
That's my girl. We both laugh it off.
Few weeks later at the cyber cafe, iit happened that I was trying to search for some materials on net, I've tried hard but I couldn't just get anything useful, you know those times when you search all through Google and all you see are just useless notes that do not even give a clue to what you're searching for. "And I have to submit this thing tomorrow o" I didn't knew when I said that. The guy next to me just looked at me and laughed. By now, I was very depressed, I felt like just crying. Just then a young lady tapped me on the shoulder, I looked back immediately and was greeted by that beautiful and lavish smile. "Oh, sorry, if you don't mind, I guess you're trying to get some stuff for that programing paradigm shey?
Exactly, and God knows whether nobody had done something like that before, I can't just find anything useful. Though I didn't know this lady, but that was not a concern, if at all she could help, that'll be all I needed from her.
Continues in episode two
Majeedist Insight Scripts
07036672068
By
Shaibu Majeed Idowu
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Episode One
Our family wasn't such a big family, it only consisted of my late grandfather who was married to three beautiful women ( if beautiful women includes those in bubas way too big for their sizes though) each having at least three children, the first wife did not produce a child as fast as I suppose my grandfather would have wanted, guess that was why he opted for the second one. But I understood that the second one gave birth soon after she was married, and not to just a child but to two and then three and then four. What led him to proceed in marrying the third wife? only God knows! But as fate will have it, it was this same third wife that gave birth to the stern man who later became my father.
Growing up, I used to see all these women as same as my mother majorly because we call all of them 'Maami'. Even the bigger sons who had married still refer to them as that.
My father was a civil servant who worked in the local council before he realised that money from the council alone cannot sustain his family and in extension, his relations. He later burged into large scale farming through my mum whose family had a very vast land mass. With this little near literate family background, my father sees no harm and difficulty in sending I including my remaining four siblings to school. I was the third of my mum. Sister Mercy was my immediate elder sister and my closest pal as we seem to be of the same height and do things mostly together, my other two younger ones are still in primary schools.
In as much as we tried to live as one big and happy family, my father didn't like the idea of living in such a 'family house', so later we moved into a a near completion apartment which he had been building for about two years ago, but to the average; This apartment was moderate.
At age 17, I finished my secondary schools and just at the same time, Tobi, the daughter of one of my stepmother finished secondary school also, so it was our dream to get admitted into the same university. Meanwhile, my close sister, sister mercy finished a year ahead of us, but she decided to learn hair dressing before she entered school, fortunately, the three of us get admitted into the same school the same year. That was like a ceremony in our house the day we received our admission letter to study in a federal polytechnic, my father was so happy because he never thought it could happen so easily.
Our transition into higher institutions opened us to a newer world of fun, of discipline, of hard work, of intense intimacy as I now choose to call my sister, 'Mercy mi', it is a new beginning of what many would called maturity and real life, it was a time for new happenings for all of us and of course, to me personally, of....woes!
First year in school, Tobi and sister Mercy lived in the same apartment, but me being a male and of such demanding to be specially treated, rented a room of my own, Tobi and I were in the same department, Computer Engineering. While sister mercy was in Business Admin.
My first Examination in school was the most anticipated of all, I prepared very hard alongside Tobi, we read and studied questions together and would normally give ourselves assignments to do at home. The examination came, we did it with all our zeal and effort, we went back home for the holidays and then something big happened!
One very sunny day, while my dad was at a meeting with some of his friends, sister mercy, my mum and I were at home,soon my mum informed us that she would be going to the market to get some things, few minutes after she left, a young man came looking looking sister Mercy.
I was the first to see him, immediately I set my eyes on him, I caught glimpse of an event that had happened back then when I travelled to Porthacourt for one of our holidays during secondary school days. It happened that I had gone to the shop to buy something with my friend for his birthdays, at that same shop, some robbers came, injured the cashier and carted away a whole lot of their money. But as they were about leaving, one of them took off his face mask and headed straight for the manager, told him that he sure would be coming back and that he should forget about reporting to the police, as they were too strong to be countered by the police. I managed to look at his face from where I was lying shivering on the floor,; the picture of that same man who opened his mask set into my inner eyes as soon as I see him but I this man will never know anything about me. I too acted as if nothing happened, he simply stretched his hand towards me for a handshake, I took it and welcome him. He eventually asked for sister Mercy and jokingly as 'man thing' said I might already know his mission to which I coughed grudgingly, and said of course yes.
I'll get her for you!
I went directly inside and thought of what would possibly be the next best thing to do in the shortest of Times, before sister Mercy sees him, before mother comes from market and before Dad comes from his meeting. I though, I've got to prevent my sister from falling in love with this man. It'll be the greatest mistake I'd be making if I allowed and even called her to meet him myself. Luckily for me, sister Mercy was taken her bath; hmm I hope she s not bathing as part of her preparation to meet this man? What, she was expecting him? No no no, cos if that is the case, she's not going to see him today, I promise!
I went outside to meet the man, but he seems to be making a call, I tiptoed to get an idea of what the discussion was and I heard something like..." I'm out of the circle now, let them continue with the plan, I will be at the warehouse tomorrow, we're hitting it big this time" this confirmed my thoughts and cleared any more doubt on me. I allowed him end his call before I burged out in order to avoid any suspicion then I went straight to him and informed him that it seems sister Mercy had went to the sallon for her hair because she said she'll be expecting someone today. I suggest you call her number to know which sallon she had gone to and probably meet him there.
I smiled and said, "E be lyk sey my sister is in love o!"
He smiled as well and said " Ok thank you bro, I'll be on my way then and I'll call to know where she is. Anyway, in case I'm not able to reach her, just me inform her that Micheal came for her"
"All right bro, I'll do that"
He went! I sighed heavily and prayed to God to forgive me. Anyway its not as if I've not been lying before without praying for forgiveness but we all seem to pray for forgiveness when we think we had said important lies. Other trivia lies aren't so bad or serious after all. I thought. But this very particular one is a must.
Few minutes later sister Mercy came out with with just a towel wrapped on her, she asked if someone had asked of her and I quickly said no, and...are you expecting anyone? She replied yes aburo.
She later got to know that Micheal actually came for her and I was the one that stopped Micheal from seeing her. That day sister Mercy got really mad at me. She cried and cried all day and all night long. I wondered what could have been so special in her not meeting Micheal that day. Haha, shey na love? Ahh... I just let everything passed over because to me it's just one of these normal things nah. I just couldn't tell sister mercy what made me stop that man from seeing her.
Few weeks later, school resumed and we were back in school, mummy had packed our bags with every food item we could possible need. Things went on well for the first three weeks then towards the fourth week, the result for our last exams were out, Tobi got the news first, so she called my phone to inform me. I later joined her and we both went to check our results. Well, Tobi had an A and me? I had a B, specifically 68B. We were happy anyway, to get B in school those days no be moi moi. Sister Mercy didn't call us, I guessed she wasn't aware that the results were out, so we went to her department and helped her checked. We were shocked to see the results, 14F! What!!! What could have happened? Sister mercy used to be more serious than I was and in fact, more brilliant than I was, how could she have failed? We called her phone and she didn't pick the call. I immediately went in search of her friend, sister Wunmi. It was from Wunmi that I later got to know that Sister mercy actually missed the exams. She was not in school the day the exam was written. But where did she went to?" I asked.
Well, she said then that her mummy was very sick and that she needed to go and take care of her.
Tobi looked at me at hearing that,i was surprised also, mum was never sick recently, and besides sister Mercy didn't go home.
"Okay, thanks sister Wunmi" I said and left.
Tobi couldn't wait any longer, she asked me. But Bro Shegun, where do you think sister Mercy went to that would have been more important to her than her education? Where?
I too wonder o, but Promise me one thing, no one else must know about this, especially back at home, because they'll feel so bad at her.
Trust me na, mouth sealed!
That's my girl. We both laugh it off.
Few weeks later at the cyber cafe, iit happened that I was trying to search for some materials on net, I've tried hard but I couldn't just get anything useful, you know those times when you search all through Google and all you see are just useless notes that do not even give a clue to what you're searching for. "And I have to submit this thing tomorrow o" I didn't knew when I said that. The guy next to me just looked at me and laughed. By now, I was very depressed, I felt like just crying. Just then a young lady tapped me on the shoulder, I looked back immediately and was greeted by that beautiful and lavish smile. "Oh, sorry, if you don't mind, I guess you're trying to get some stuff for that programing paradigm shey?
Exactly, and God knows whether nobody had done something like that before, I can't just find anything useful. Though I didn't know this lady, but that was not a concern, if at all she could help, that'll be all I needed from her.
Continues in episode two
Majeedist Insight Scripts
07036672068