The Dormitory (A Sequel) - Episode 14

"Do I remember you?" She laughed, "I do. I see you sometimes with Shade and your other friend," she said and pointed at Ese.

"Really? You don't remember Tola and Sheila?" Her voice sounded like an echo to Bimpe. Her leg became numb and her mouth couldn't move. Silence seemed like it lasted for about five minutes.

"Tola. Sheila," Bimpe said slowly and simultaneously, "I think I do." Her heart raced in fear.

"Its been ages. You are Bimpe? Oh dear friend, I finally found you hale and hearty," Tola said and stood up from where she was to hug Bimpe. They hugged each other tightly.

"How about Sheila?" Tola uttered immediately and took a seat on the sofa which Bimpe sat on.

"Sheila is fine!" A voice echoed in the room. Only Bimpe and Tola heard the voice. Tola's husband and Ese didn't.

Ese noticed Bimpe and Tola's made some uncanny movements. "I hope all is fine," she muttered.

"I heard a voice. A scary voice. Was that Sheila's spirit?" Tola asked Bimpe and quivered..

"I don't know o," Bimpe cried.

"Did Sheila die? I believed you both lived and I'd find you guys again. Here you are but Sheila, I don't know

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. I saw Sheila's ghost the other day's night in my place," Tola said. Bimpe looked at her with a keen interest while she narrated.

"Hey how are you?" Ese waved towards the window and smiled. Tola's husband eyes caught the little girl that stared through the window. Before Tola and Bimpe could look at the window, she had moved away from the window.

"What's that?" Bimpe asked facing Ese.

"Your little daughter," Ese said and let out a smile. Bimpe figured what she was saying immediately and wanted to act, before Tola's husband screeched, "who is that!" He pointed at the window. They all turned towards the window and saw a woman walking slowly to the other side. They could only see the side of her face. The fan in the sitting room started shaking, and Tola looked up, then saw a hand write, "THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED." She felt the déjà vu and she fainted immediately. Ese and her husband ran to her immediately. The tried reviving her but she wasn't forthcoming. She was still breathing heavily. The both struggled as they carried her outside the house and pushed her inside the car. They both hopped in and drove her to the hospital. Bimpe watched them through the small opening of the gate till they drove far away.

Immediately she made a step and turned, she saw the weird creature at her front again. Finally, she saw her face. She was looking like she was in her early thirties. She didn't freak out unlike before. The ghost was few steps away. Just five to ten steps, it would get hold of her. She gazed while she walked nearer and immediately the ghost wanted to grasp her. A hand in the air, grabbed her and she landed inside her sitting room and the door bolted quickly.

"No! This is my house. Leave my house. I hate you.

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. Leave," the voice echoed in the sitting room from the compound.

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Oyindamola walked by the school garden and saw Sheila sitting on the pavement.

"Hey, Sheila, how are you? I hope you performed well this term."

"I did. Thank you. But I have told you my name is not Sheila."

"But I'm used to that already," Oyindamola shrugged, "Well, I'm sorry, Tope." 

After she had introduced her name as Sheila to Oyindamola, during the class their teacher called Tope Ogunnusi while she took the attendance and she answered.

"Maybe her other name is Tope too," Oyindamola thought to herself. 

"Hey Tope Sheila Ogunnusi. How are you doing?" Oyindamola had greeted her one of the day while they stayed behind in the class during the break with other students after some had gone out.

"Sheila? Where did you get the name from? That's not my name," she had replied. 

"Your name is not Sheila? But you introduced yourself as that the first day our paths crossed," she replied. 

"You must be kidding. Maybe a mistaken identity." Oyindamola walked back to her seat and kept brooding on the weird conversations she just had. It's the same person she said to herself. "But wait, Sheila behaves slow and this girl is full of energy." When Ngozi walked back to the class, she asked Ngozi for the girl's name but she said she doesn't know, "I don't like her. She is too dull for my liking. I have told you that before."

Another classmate overheard them and blurted, "who is dull? That one?" she spoke slightly aloud pointing at Tope, "Abegi, this Tope wey dey behave like person wey dey possessed. Sometimes full of energy another time too dull."  

"Okay, I wont call you Sheila again," Oyindamola said, waved at her and walked away. Some students were entering their parent's car, some were waiting while others weren't going home that day.

"Are you going today?" Oyindamola asked Ngozi immediately she walked into the dormitory.

"No my mum is coming tomorrow," she had replied.