Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 50
I was instantly crippled.
I couldn’t find my legs.
“i say who dey there!!” Haruna shouted again.
“na me oh, na Flow” i replied him.
“Wetin u dey do there?” he asked, “i dey piss”
i lied.
“Why you no piss for toilet?” he was beginning
to
ask too much questions, “piss dey catch me and
i
no wan go house, nahim make me dey piss
here” i
replied.
Just when i tot we were free, that we weren’t
victims but victors of L105 or rather L104, i
heard,
“thief oh!! Thief!!, e don thief my groundnut
finish
oh!!” it was Nkiru shouting.
I was sure it wasn’t Bigie, neither was it Man
that
Nkiru was calling thief because i could see
them
both where they were hiding from where i
stood.
Who then could it be?
Oh my world!! Brainbox.
I came out and saw Haruna giving Brainbox a
hard
chase.
Brainbox ran so fast that his legs weren’t even
touching the ground.
Brainbox ran towards the road unknown to him
that
there was a bike coming to his direction.
“Brainbox!!!!” I shouted, thinking he would
hear my
voice and stopped running. He did stop, but
that
was after he stumbled on something on the
floor,
and fell.
The distance between where he was lying and
where the bike halted wasn’t up to 2metres,
“u
wan die abi? If u die na hell fire straight oh”
the
bike man shouted.
Brainbox wasn’t even moving, or like the Bike
man
said, had he landed in Hell fire already?
Since the Holy Bible says: “it is appointed onto
man, once to die, and after this, the
judgement”.
Why was Brainbox’s judgement so fast? Or was
his
sins so numerous that the Devil just had a
walkover? All these were questions i asked
myself
as i walked towards where his body was lying.
“Haruna, see wetin u cause, my friend no gree
wake again, u don kill am oh” i said, sending
shivers down Haruna’s Spine. “i no kill am oh,
him
thief my wife groundnut nahim make me dey
pursue am” Haruna cried out. “but u see
groundnut
for him hand?” I queried. At that moment,
Haruna
was practically crying revealing his rotten
teeth.
“wetin we go do na to rush am go hospital” i
said.
At that moment, Snoop came to meet the u’gly
scene. “make we rush am go hospital, before
him
go die” Snoop said.
Like the cliche goes: “like minds, reason
alike”. It
was glaring to me that Brainbox was okay. He
was
just faking unconsciousness. because i could
see
him wearing a light smile.
“ehnnn Haruna we wan rush am go hospital
but,
we no get money wey we go take pay doctor
oh” i
said. “like how much una go take pay Doctor?”
Haruna asked panicing. “like 15000naira, but
just
bring 10000naira make we beg the doctor weda
him go collect am” i replied with my “419”
talent.
Snoop wanted to say something, i winked at
him
and he kept mute. “10000naira to much na”
Haruna
cried out. “ok, no worry i go go report u for
police
say u don kill person” I threatened. “no oh, e
never
reach police case na” Haruna replied walking
slowly
to go fetch the money. “do quick oh, u know
say e
remain small wey him go die” i said and Haruna
increased his pace.
“Snoop, go tell Man and Bigie make dem never
come out oh, say after 20minutes, make dem
come
meet us for where dem dey watch ball” I told
Snoop. “where dem dey?” Snoop asked. “dem
dey
dat bush wey dey back of Nkiru shop, dem dey
hide
there” i replied. Though Snoop never
understood
what was going on, he still obeyed me.
After about ten minutes, Haruna came back
with
the 10k and gave it to me. “where the motor
wey u
go take carry am go hospital?” Haruna asked.
“no
worry i go carry am for my shoulder” i replied.
Though Brainbox was a bit heavy, but the tot
of
the 10k Haruna gave me energized me to carry
him
on my shoulder without feeling the pains.
As i walked far from the sight of Haruna, i
heard,
GOAL!!!! “MAN U don score” i tot.
But the most important goal at that moment
was
the goal i scored Haruna the Illiterate.
“how we go take share the 10k?” Brainbox
asked
me after he resurrected from my shoulder.
“how u
want make we share am?” i inquired, “ok,
ehnnn we
go tell them say na 8k Haruna give u, and na 3k
be
my share, 2k be ur share, all of them go share
the
remaining 3k” Brainbox informed. “what of
the 2k
wey go remain, wetin we go do with am?” I
asked
Brainbox.
I tot he would say the 2k was tithe. Tithe that
would end up in his pocket. Or was tithe paid
for
419 money? Brainbox was fund of cheating
when it
comes to sharing money.
He never mentioned that it was for tithe,
rather he
said, “the remaining 2k, i go take 1k, u go
take 1k,
because na we work pass”. “BRAINBOX!!!!” I
hailed,
“u get correct brain”
“the money wey Haruna give me get plenty
change, make i go one corner go count the 2k
comot, stay here, if other guys dey come,
them go
meet u here, u go tell dem say make dem wait i
go
piss” i suggested. “no wahala, enter that bush
for
there” Brainbox said pointing at a bush path.
What he never knew was that i had something
up
my sleeve.
Like they say: “show me your friends, and i will
tell
you who you are”. The Brainy Brainbox was my
friend. Lemme leave you to be the judge of who
i
was. Brainbox had for a while tutored me on
the
act of artifice.
It was about 7:30pm so the bushy place i stood
was a bit dark, and i wasn’t even scared that
an
animal like Snake might eat me up for dinner.
What
i was interested in was cheating.
Big time cheating.
The money Haruna gave me was hanging at the
right hand side of my boxers waist band and the
money Chief gave us was hanging at the left
hand
side of my boxers waist band.
My hands went straight to remove the money
at
the left hand side. I counted it with the help
of my
phone torch light, to my surprise it was 30k.
“una
never know anything sef, i go cheat una
today” i
tot.
I quickly counted 10k out of the 30k, dug a hole
on
the ground, and buried it. I had concluded that
i
would tell my guys that the money Chief gave
us
was 20k.
I quickly kept the 20k back to the left side of
my
boxers waist band, and i removed the money
Haruna gave me.
It took me so long a time to finish counting the
money because it was full of lower currency
denominations. After i finished counting, i
discovered the money wasn’t complete. It
wasn’t
10,000naira but, 9,855naira. “Haruna nawa for
you
oh, see as you pack 5naira and 10naira full dis
money, e no even complete sef” i tot.
I seperated the 2k Brainbox told me to
seperate
and kept it hanging at the centre of my boxers
waist band.
My boxers waist band was beginning to slack
because it held three bunch of money. At the
right
side was 7,855naira, at the left was
20,000naira,
and at the centre touching my d’ick was
2,000naira.
I promised myself that none of these money
would
fall off, a promise i was sure gonna keep.
The same way i promised myself i would return
to
collect the money i planted on the ground, that
is if
the money wouldn’t have germinated, grow
tall, and
produced “fruits” for harvest.
“Flow u never piss finish? come make we dey go
watch match na” i heard Bigie’s voice.
As i walked to go join my guys, i suddenly
noticed i
had automatically changed walking step. I was
walking like a suicide bomber who had a bomb
planted in his waist.
My prayer was that none of the three bomb
should
detonate soon.
To Be Continued…
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