...
“Haaaa! Are you kidding me?”
Deji screamed at her sobbing
friend.
“Dear friend that’s my story..”
Lara wiped a tear
“oh Lara you are too soft…she’s
been in this house for weeks
now, and you can’t throw her
out?” Deji squealed.
“I think she has come to stay…”
Lara began to say.
“Come to stay for where? Lara
don’t just provoke me o! I
wonder why I wasn’t in town all
this while…” Deji bit her finger.
Just then Sophia walked lazily
into the sitting room, she
catwalked towards the fridge.
“Errm…Lara?” Sophia called out
sipping from a bottle of yoghurt.
“Ma?” Lara said rising to her feet,
to the suprise of Deji.
“Isn’t it high time you prepare
lunch? I’m starving.” Sophia
added authoratively.
“Okay ma, Let me…” Lara began
to say.
“Shut up!” Deji cut her short.
“Who is your ‘ma’ ? This ingrate?
This monster with a face of a
donkey?” Deji chided her.
“Who are you referring to?”
Sophia dropped her bottle.
“You!” Deji replied rising up.
” you are the donkey! Oshi!
Witch! I wonder what’s wrong
with this Igbo woman! Husband
snatcher!” Deji added with her
hands akimbo.
“Deji please don’t!” Lara tried to
stop her.
“Leave me jor! Abi she jazz you
ni? Imagine this vegetable eating
Igbo claiming oyinbo! Olori buru
ku!” Deji’s body shook as she
spoke.
“You don’t dare insult me!”
Sophia glared at her.
“Insult ke! I’ll beat you ni!
Rubbish!” Deji pushed Sophia
roughly.
Wham! Sophia slapped Deji.
“Deji…” Lara was alarmed.
“Haaaa! Yeeee! You slapped me?
You dey form Igbo geh abi? I go
show you say I no be yoruba geh
for nothing!” Deji screamed
before grabbing sophia from her
feet.
They engaged in a scuffle, Deji
sitting atop Sophia feeding her
with punches and slaps.
“Deji please…” Lara was very
frightened.
“Deji to ri Olohun, please stop!”
she finally pulled Deji off Sophia.
“Allow me jor! Lemme show this
Donkey!” Deji charged at Sopia
again.
“No No No! Deji don’t!” Lara
pushed her friend into a sofa,
giving Sophia the opportunity to
run into the guest room.
“You have to go now!” Lara led
the fuming Deji towards the exit.
“Are driving me away?”
“No…I don’t want Tony to meet
you here…please, I can handle
it..” Lara pushed her forward.
“Ehen the Tony sef! Let him come
na, lemme teach him his own
lesson!” Deji ranted.
“Noooo, just go please! For my
sake!” Lara pleaded with her.
“Okay! If anything should
happen, call me! You hear?” Deji
ordered.
“Yes, bye!” Lara rushed to her
room.
She sat down at her bed’s edge.
She knew she was in hot soup.
Tony won’t spare her.
...
Lara supported her aching head
with her hands, she was far far
away in the land of thought’s
and imaginations.
“Lara!”
Yikes! Tony is back! When did he
come back, she must have
thinked deep!
“Lara!” Tony called out again.
“Sir?” she walked out of her
room, her legs were weak, her
heart pounding furiously.
“Welcome!” she flexed her knee
“What did you do to her?” Tony
gestured towards Sophia who
was weeping profusely.
Lara’s heart missed uncountable
beats, her eyes widened in terror
“I…I…I….d…did…n ot..did…” she
began to stammer.
A resounding slap landed on her
right cheek, making her mouth
to twist, She saw stars
“You are really proving to be
stubborn! This illiterate girl!”
Tony ranted as he pulled a cable
off the TV set.
Lara backed away on sighting
the wire he was holding.
“Come back here!” Tony ordered
She didn’t obey, instead she
stood by the wall staring him
wide eyed.
“Okay then, let me come to you!”
Tony walked towards her, his
eyes were bloodshot.
Lara shut her eyes tightly, as the
cable landed on her arm. She
didn’t wince or let out a cry, she
just stood there absorbing all the
pains.
She walked quitely into her room
after Tony had let her go.
She poured some cold water on
her head, she thought it was on
fire.
She looked up at her reflection in
the mirror.
Her right eye was swollen and
red, tiny lines of blood streaked
throught the corner of her lips.
She let her tears flow freely, she
wished her mother would be
here to watch what she’s going
through.
....dont't miss Part 6
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