Dirty Hustler - Season 1 - Episode 7

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Dirty Hustler - Season 1 - Episode 7

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“Aunty…you dey okay?”
I looked up to see it was my neighbor’s little daughter, Ada. I wiped away my tears immediately.

“Uhm…yes I dey fine, I just dey pray…” I smiled. “How was school?”
“Fine. Mummy say make I go fetch water, I dey come.” She hurried off with her bucket.
I decided to go into my room before my other neighbors would see me. I didn’t want to see Broda yet but it was better than having my neighbors asking questions.

I stood up from the pavement and walked back into the room.

The Ape had left when I entered. Broda was sitting alone on a plastic chair, smoking weed.
“The man talk say he go pay the money first thing tomorrow morning.”
I ignored him and la!d on the mattress. I turned my face to the wall and shut my eyes. I wasn’t in the mood to talk to him.

I heard the sound of his movement as he la!d next to me, he held my waist and pushed his g---n against my butt. I shoved his hand away but he kept it back and held me more firmly this time.

“Oooh! Leave me na!” I tried to get up but he wrestled and pinned me to the bed.
“Leave me alone! I say leave me!” I panted as I struggled to push him away but he pressed me down with his full weight. I gave up.
” Calm down!” He laughed. “I know say you dey vex unto wetin happen, but you gats calm down, just see am like sacrifice you make for me.” He tried to kiss me but I turned my face.
“Which bloody sacrifice? You force me to do am, e no come from my mind, just because of money!” I managed to slip away from under him and I sat up on the bed.
“No worry, I go make am up to you.” He smiled and rubbed my thigh.

I felt like punching his face.
“If he con talk say he wan fork me, you for let am?”

He sat up and frowned. “Which kind dirty question be that?”

I took that as a yes.

“I say, if he talk say he wan fork me, you for let am?!” I raised my voice in anger.

The slap he gave me made me see stars.
“You dey craze? Na me you dey shout for?!” He punched me in my stomach. I groaned and held my stomach. He hit me on my head severally.

“Leave me! Leave me o!!!” I cried.
He stood up from the mattress and bolted the door. “I say na me you dey shout for?” He asked again as he moved to the socket on the wall to pick up the lamp charger, he folded the wire into two and advanced towards me.
“I no shout for you!” I cried as I picked up a pillow to shield myself. “I no shout, I swear…please”

He grabbed the pillow from me and whipped me with the wire. My wrapper got loose and I was stark naked, each stroke landed on my bare skin.

“Yeh!!!! Yeh!!!! Sorry na!!! I no shout! Abeg!” I cried. The sting from the wire was unbearable. He placed his feet on my back so I couldn’t move as he continued lashing my body.

“Abeg, e don’t do no kill am.” A neighbor knocked. It sounded like Mama Ada. “Oga, calm down na…e don do, na woman she be…”

Broda stopped and sat on the chair. I remained sprawled on the bed. I couldn’t move. My whole body felt sore.
“If you open that door, I go kill you.” Broda said to me.

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“Good evening.” I replied.

I felt embarrassed. I had pulled of my sexy outfit that afternoon and had put on an oversized nightwear, I also rubbed lots of white powder on my face and neck so that Mama would believe I was really sick.

“Hope you are feeling better?” He asked still smiling and I replied with a nod.

I wanted to back into my room badly. I wished he hadn’t seen me looking like that.
I can’t remember what our conversation was about but it went really well and we bonded that evening.

Broda and I became really close after that day. I used to sneak into his room and we would gist and laugh. I usually cooked for him and he would give me money and gifts.

Nkiru was against our friendship and she always warned me to be careful of him. I tried to introduce him to Nkiru but she didn’t like him and he never liked her too. I stopped talking to Nkiru about him and we began drifting apart.

“You don become big girl, those useless boys don dey deceive you!” Mama yelled at me one morning I had refused to go to work with her.

I had stopped following Mama to work. Broda always gave me money so I saw no need to degrade myself my washing people’s clothes and working on their farms. Besides, I enjoyed staying at home to spend time with him. A lot of people had commented that I looked more beautiful since I stopped farming in the hot sun.

“Mama, Abeg leave me o! I don tell you say I go dey give you my share of money for rent and Nkiru school fees….Wetin you want again?!” I shouted back at Mama.
I had never yelled at Mama before. She was getting on my nerves.

Mama eyes widened with surprise. “Na me you dey shout for?” She threw her hands on her head. “Na me she dey shout for?” She turned to ask Nkiru who had a confused look on her face.

“You don dey do ashawo work abi?” Mama went on to ask me.

“You dey see me dey comot for night? No be the same room we dey sleep?!” I hissed. “Abeg no dey ask me that kind stupid question!”

Mama moved to hit me but Nkiru held her back immediately.

“Mama e don do, calm down!” Nkiru pleaded. Mama sat down on a chair and shook her head, she looked at me with disdain. “Sister, just follow her go work, you know say the work no easy, just assist her…”
“Assist who? Person wey dey call me ashawo? Make she do the work alone since na she holy pass!” I hissed.

I was about to go out of the room but mama stood up and held me by my shirt.
“This wings wey you think say you don grow, E go fall comot on day. You go crawl come beg me, mark my words.” Mama looked into my eyeballs and hit her chest twice.
A shiver ran down my spine. I ran out of the room and went into Broda’s room.
I knocked on his door and he opened. He hugged me when he saw tears on my face. He pulled me into his room and I narrated everything that had happened. He listened to me talk without saying a word and I felt calm.
“I want to make you my girlfriend.” He said after I was done talking.

Blood rushed to my face. I had been waiting for him to ask but I didn’t expect it at the moment.

“Is this the right time to ask?” I feigned a frown.
“I didn’t ask.”

He kissed me and I lost my virginity a few minutes later.