Chronicles Of A Runs Girl - S01 E16

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Chronicles Of A Runs Girl - S01 E16

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I could see my phone battery in a tiny pool of Maltina but I kept pretending to look for it.

“Madam, are you a guest here?”

I wished the ground would open up and swallow me – I’ve heard people say it, but I’d never felt it, not till then.

“Madam, please come with me.”

I didn’t look up but I was sure more faces were now watching us.

Darling encouraged the security man: “Na wah for this Lagos o! She just came and grabbed my sister’s drink like this! Maybe she’s mad or something. Maybe she has smoked something. You better take her away from here before her madness starts to demonstrate.”

The security man didn’t need any urging, he was already getting impatient. He found my battery for me and helped me up – roughly.

“It’s ok,” I said, finally standing up, “I’m not a prostitute.”

“Anybody ask you?” Darling said.

The younger sister, who had been silent all along, suddenly lit up with recognition. She excitedly beat Emeka’s hand as she pointed at me.

“Brother Emeka, don’t you recognise her? She’s the girl that ran at your bachelor’s eve!” she said.

‘The girl that ran’ – that’s what people are calling me now. If I wanted the ground to open and swallow me before, now I just wanted to swallow myself and be done with it.

Recognition registered on Emeka’s face.

“Yeah! You’re right, it’s her! Lady, who are you?”

But Darling had already being given more ammunition:

“Wonders shall never end! So this is the girl you people said ran away like a mad person? Chineke, God! You this girl, they send you to us? Who are you? Why are you following us?”

Emeka spoke over his darling.

“Why did you run?” he asked. But Darling was not done:

“She’s a prostitute! You too, you heard her. Ashawo! Why are you following us? Why are you following my man? They send you too spoil my wedding? You have failed! Ashawo!”

To think I had pooed all over the floor because I thought I would be saving her from a wicked man.

I ignored her and turned to Emeka instead.

“I did not run,” I said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I saw her put something in your drink when you weren’t watching,” I pointed at Darling, “that’s why I smashed the bottle on the ground.”

As I walked away I heard one of the waiters whispering to me, “God bless you, sister.”

I left in a hurry, to buy Jonny’s Shawarma and to wait for him to come and rescue me again. I decided right there and then that I was done with running – whatever that meant.