I HAVE DRUNK STRANGE WATERS - EPISODE 49

 EPISODE 49

I put the phone away and raised my head to see what was happening ahead, and that was when I heard the sound of a gunshot and a scream.

"Nooooooo!" A sound of agony was torn from my lips before I could stop myself.

I heard another gunshot and then another, when the third gunshot sounded I staggered out of the car like a drunken man.

I turned my back and waved the dirty white handkerchief in my hand.

"Oga Alooo! Oga Alooo! Oga Alooooooooo!" I shouted three times and I waited for the gunshot that will end my life.

"Who be that crazy man wey dey shout Oga Alo?" One of the men shouted and cocked his gun.

"Nah our bush meat," another man said and walked towards me. 

"Drop that hanky and lie facedown on the floor" another man barked at me. I did as I was told without any argument.

"When you dey chop wetin you no suppose taste you no know abi? Oya make you say your last prayer" another of the men shouted in a thick voice.

Fear gripped my heart and my body shook with fear. I thought about all that happened in the past four months and it felt like a dream. "God, if you spare my life I'll..."

I heard the gunshot but it felt as if my spirit got disassociated from my body, I heard a loud sound coming out of my behind and the terrible stench confirmed that I have defecated on my body. Surprisingly I felt nothing when the bullet pierced through my body, I remained on the floor and kept listening to my erratic heartbeat.

"Oya make we go" A man shouted and spoke in a local language I could not understand. I was surprised I could still hear them after dying.

I heard the sound of footsteps moving away and then there was silence. I remained where I was, I was surprised I was still aware of what was happening. I remained where I was until several minutes later when I heard a loud wail.

"Help! Help us o! Help! Na armed robbers attacked us o!"

I was surprised I could still hear sounds from my surroundings but I didn't make any move to stand up. I heard the sound of footsteps coming closer and I knew it must be some of the women.

"Femi! Femi! Femi!" A woman shouted.

"Didn't you see when one of the men shoot at him? O ti ku! He's dead!"

"Haaaaa! Ikunle Abiyamo o!" The second woman shouted.

"Wait o! What is that terrible smell I'm perceiving?" The first woman Said and moved closer to touch my body.

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!! Femi ti yagbe. He has defecated, Iku gbona leleyi o!" The woman screamed.

"Mother and child! On the same day, this is a terrible thing!"

Immediately I heard mother and child I jumped up from where I was lying down.

"Mama! what happened to Maami!!!" I screamed in agony.

I saw the way the two women stared at me in shock and moved back. I touched my body all over to know the particular spot where I was shot and discovered that I felt no pain anywhere. I was fine except for the terrible stench of feces coming from my body.

"You said you saw when the men shot him" one of the women turned to her friend.

"I saw it with my two eyes," she said in a shaky voice.

"Maybe he has ayeta" the woman whispered.

I was surprised I was still alive, I knew they were wrong on two accounts; The man must have shot into the air instead of shooting at me. If he had shot me there was no way I could live, it was close range. I also knew their notion of me having ayeta was wrong too, I have never done anything diabolic in my life before.

"What happened to my mother?" I said hurriedly.

"I don't know, she's not standing up," the second woman said.

I staggered to where Mama was, my body felt stiff and everything seems unreal. The fact that I was still alive was a miracle. 

When I got to where Mama was she was lying facedown and motionless, I turned her face up and noticed her body was wet. My brain refused to process what was staring me in the face, her body was cold as Ice.

"Maami!!!" I screamed, loud enough to wake the dead.

Some of the women scampered to where I was when she heard me screaming.

 

"Femi, you have to act like a man," one of the women said.

I examined her body with a shaky finger and discovered that the men shot her straight in the heart, they knew she couldn't survive it, they didn't want her to live.

"Let's take her to the hospital, e bami gbe Maami," I said to the woman standing by my right.

"Femi, what is this that you are doing? You have to behave like a man. If you are acting this way what do you want the rest of us to do? It is your mother that brought us here and 2 other women died too" 

I looked around and saw two other women lying in the pool of their blood.

I was overcome by a kind of rage I couldn't explain.

 "Kike you should have killed me, you should have made sure I was dead. If you don't join my mother in heaven today call me a bastard" I shouted beating my chest in agony

To be continued...

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