Aduke - Season 1 - Episode 57

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Aduke - Season 1 - Episode 57

Immediately that we are a miles away from Rose house, I paused then I looked at Sade in the eyes.

“would you have hit the bottle on her head? ” I threw out.
“of cos na. Me I be Lagos girl, I no send any body ” she replied.

“but that will be cruel ” I let out slowly.
” see this mumu ooo, don’t you know that it’s an away match, I need to prepare myself very well for any kind of action. Thank God she corporate, if not, trust me na ay, I go break the bottle on your own head then use the broken bottle to design her body ” she said and then she bounce away.

I thought for a while, how do I get along with her?

We returned back home to take a nap when I received a call from an unknown number.

Me : hello who am I on to?.

Nkechi : it’s me nkechi

Me : oh… How are you big head

Nkechi : I’m fine and you.

Me : I’m okay.

Nkechi : so you think that you can run away from me.

Me : that’s funny, run away? Do you call returning back home as run away.

Nkechi : whatever. I know you will be wondering how I got your number like that.

Me: I don’t know. You can get it anywhere.

Nkechi : Hmmmm. Anyway I got it from my mom.

Me: I thought as much, she’s the only one that have it. How’s Angelina.

Nkechi : she’s great, she’s having her honey moon.

Me: Wao that’s so lovely.

Nkechi : I miss you Ay.

Me : I miss eating the snake meat with you girls.

Nkechi : Yea, that reminds me, about the snake…i hope you know it’s wrong for you to kill it and also it’s a taboo for you to eat it.

Me :Why are we still alive if it a taboo. We supposed to be dead now or be seeing the ghost of a snake around. Why ain’t we experiencing anything evil.

Nkechi : I don’t know ooo.

Me : let me tell you something you don’t know. I’m a science student so I don’t believe in superstition. I’m a Nigerian so I believe in superstition. The saying that killing and eating some species of snake is a taboo doesn’t really goes well with me. Yes is a taboo but history are made by those who broke the rules. The saying that it a taboo is a planted fear engulfed in everyone of you. That snake i killed wasn’t a taboo, it’s a pet. And I know one when I see it.

Nkechi : and you killed it without any fear. You are brave ooo.

Me : it’s not about being brave. Everything is experience. ..

Nkechi :oh really?

Me : Yea… Except for the big anaconda that I’m yet to see in my life, every snake that came in my way usually don’t survive it. Except for one.

Nkechi :which is?

Me : the two headed snake.

Nkechi : two headed snake? I’ve never heard of that before.

Me : it’s a rare species, I saw it only once, it doesn’t have a tail. It got two heads, insted of having a tail it got another head.

Nkechi : Wao that’s terrible.

Me : it’s terrible cos I was scared. It’s something I’ve never see before.

Nkechi : so the snake got away?

Me: not without a chase.

Nkechi : you mean you still attack the snake?

Me :yes…it was my past that attacked it. Before I was born, my parents abducted a girl. Two years after the abduction, I was born. We were playing together in the compound when a snake entered and bite her. There was no one at home and she died before my parents return back from work. It a childhood memory that will hurt forever as long as there’s still snake in this world. So no one can tell me a snake is a taboo. I don’t buy that shit.

Nkechi : so that’s the reason why you killed our snake.

Me : maybe but not really, I killed your snake because it trespassed. And besides this taboo of a thing makes me laugh.

Nkechi : why did you say so?

Me : there’s a village in Ondo state that they don’t eat okete (rodent )

Nkechi : so what’s with okete?

Me: I followed some of my friends studying wild life in federal university of technology Akure to a field trip to a village in Ondo state. On our arrival we met with the rulers and they gave us some rules to abide, which includes not killing this okete (rodent). We agreed then we went to our camp.

The annoying part was when we saw this okete rodent moving around peacefully like a house fowl. And from where I came from, we don’t see okete at the broad daylight, they will say it a taboo or something. But these okete broke their own rules just because they are free and no one is killing them. They were moving around freely and no one dare touch them due to the fact that they tagged them taboo.

There’s an igbo boy among us, his name is okeke. He got so angry with this rodent that he accidentally trow a stone at one of this rodent which fell dead. We all stop dead on our spot as we look at okeke. We observed him for a while and since nothing bad happened to him. We decided to go for okete hunt.

That day we killed up to 30 rodent, we cooked it, we fry some we even smoke Part of it. After we are done preparing the meat for our taste. The problem of who to eat first later became an issue. We were all scared of eating the meat but after a while we decided to fast and pray from 6 to 6. Then we use the okete meat to break the fast. F--k taboo.

Nkechi : like seriously?

Me : Yea, see if your dad buy another snake. Kill it!

Nkechi : no I’m not you, I can’t kill a snake.

Me : well anyway it your choice.

Nkechi : Ay what can I do to win you.

Me: nothing.

Nkechi : Hmmn please na. I love you for real.

Me: let put love aside for now.

Nkechi : Hmmm can I come visit you?

Me : my exam is close. Maybe some other time.

Nkechi : ouch.

Me : Yea, I got to go. Bye bye.

All the while I was on call, Sade was in the bathroom showering. Just as I ended the call, she came out with towel tied on. I was still planning to excuse her when she suddenly drop her towel down.

“what the f--k? Big head you could have tell me to excuse you before dropping those OMG” I screamed out.
” wetin dey do you? I resemble those girls wey dey trip for you ni. Ogbeni close your eyes I wan change pant ” she said then she bend low to search for something in her bag.
” Lobatan of Mexico, where I find you self ” I muttered as I turn my head away.
“Ehen, make I teach you new thing new self. You know how ladies wear menstrual pad? ” she asked.

” what? ” I spatted .
“turn around, let me teach you. It’s very simple, you will just place the pad on the down part of the pant then you’ll wear it up with the pant. It’s very… ”
“just shut up ” I cut in.
” let go visit one of your girlfriend na” she said after she was done wearing her clothes.
“let go visit Ruth then, it been a while I saw her ” I muttered in response.
” hope she will cook for us sha cos amala dey hungry me…”
“Yea she will, go get your bag and let’s go ” I cut in.

We went to Ruth place and she welcomed us warmly. We stayed at her place till 5 pm in the evening before returning back to my place.