Let It Go - Episode 3

 

HELLO PEOPLE! HOPE YOU'VE ALL BRUSHED YOUR TEETH THIS MORNING (sticks tongue out). IF YOU HAVEN'T, DROP THE PHONE AND DO BEFORE READING O hehehe. THE CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO DR. BUNMI FOR GIVING ME A HEADSTART. ESEUN MA. SO LET'S HEAR WHAT MADDY HAS TO SAY TOO O.

MADDY
  
Aish, what is this? I just got my best friend upset. I don’t think I’ve seen that face she gave me before . But then, what was her business with my affair? She’ll come around and we’ll settle it, she always does whenever we fight. 
  
I checked my watch. It’s been thirty minutes since Nancy left and I’ve been restlessly pacing the room. Such a waste of time, I thought to myself. I went into my room and perfected my make-up. I had prepared for work since yesterday so I just carried my bag, adjusted my skirt, put off all the lights and left for work.

  I was contemplating whether or not to take a bike when a bike man stopped in front of me. 
 
“Where to?” he asked. 
 
“Gretins Hospital” I said. 
 
“Na #100 e be o” the man said 
 
“Haba! #100 for wetin? Na #50 e be. If no be say I don late sef, na trek I go trek am”. 
 
“Oya make am #70, so you go get to work fast” 
 
“Na #50 e be

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. Abeg shift let me commot. You no wan get passenger ni” I don’t even feel like taking bike, just that I want to get to work on time.
 
“Haba! Aunty, u don vex. Oya come take am #50” the bike man finally accepted. 

  I waited expectantly and he stared at me "Aunty, let us go na. Wetin u dey wait for?”
 
“You no get helmet?” I asked
 
“Aah, helmet? I no get o”
 
“Why you no get am? E dey necessary for protection na. Wait sef, you yourself no get, how you get give me make I use?”
 
“Na the economy cause am o. How much I dey earn wey I go use am buy two helmets and helmet sef don become expensive now. I go remove from today’s money pay the bike owner, buy something to eat and to take home for Iya Risi or else she go kill me last last and say…”  
 
“Ohh Lordd, everything is wrong!” I muttered to myself
 
“Wetin dey wrong? Nothing dey wrong o, abeg get on make we dey go. Na God go dey continue to watch us” 
 
“Okay,” I said and mounted the bike and off we went.
  
I should be at the hospital soon and I’ll see Nancy. What am I going to do? Aah, such headache early in the morning. We’ll just avoid each other, I guess. But people will notice and ask us questions. Busybodies are many in this world o.

Read " Once Upon A Lie " by the same author ( Gracious )

. How will I even tell people I’m no longer getting married? I’ve shared invitation cards…
  
The man swerved swiftly and I shouted "Baba, abeg small small na”

 “No vex, na that driver dey craze” the man shouted back
 
“Okay, sha be careful”
  
This time yesterday, I was in the seventh heaven, babbling to Nancy over the phone about my date with Kennie; my soon-to-be husband. I was all over the place the last week, so excited about the wedding. Who knew? Just who knew it would never hold? I feel like waking up from this horrible… 
  
A loud horn broke the train of my thoughts and the bike got hit from the back. Before I could say Jim, I felt myself thrown in the air and in a whiff, my body made contact with the floor. I felt intense pain all over and I tried to open my eyes only to see different faces hovering over me and people talking at the same time. I felt something seeping out of my body and couldn’t even make out most of what the people were saying.
 
“What just happened? Am I dying?” Different thoughts flooded my mind as I tried to move my body a bit but it hurt a lot. I felt hands on my body, probably trying to stop the flow of blood. 

  My vision started blurring and I started batting my lashes so I don’t get unconscious before help comes but gradually, I got drained of all strength and in the end, I gave in to the overwhelming darkness.

WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MADDY BAYII? WHAT WILL NANCY DO WHEN SHE FINDS OUT? THIS IS GBONGAUN O. LEMME HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION AS USUAL. I LOVE YA ALL. SHH, DON'T TELL ANYONE, BUH TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY. SHH, DON'T TELL JOOR hehehe.