THE NIGHT IT HAPPENED

                                          PART X (10)

Jaja came back alone the next morning, looking wretched and tired. I couldn’t imagine what the situation was. He looked like a shadow of the fearless Jaja I know. He couldn’t say anything as he was just panting; it appeared he needed some minutes to get back to himself.

He looked like he had just escaped from the den of dangerous armed robbers. Or it is possible that the police have been after him since last night after killing Fabian, the thought of Fabian being dead brightened me up but then, I needed to hear the story just the way it happened.

I went out to check through the streets to see if there was anyone else coming, either the police or one of his gangs but no one, in fact, the street was surprisingly empty as if everyone had been warned off the street. I came back to meet Jaja asleep, I wondered for seconds what really could have happened. My only guess was the police, I became worried. If the police get involved in this, then I am done for. I went to Jaja and tapped him, he jumped up fearfully.

“Jaja, welcome oh. Thank God you came back alive, but where are the other members of your gang? You came back looking weary and fearful, hope it’s not the police that have been chasing you? How did it go, did you succeed”?

Jaja heaved a sigh of relief and looked at me for some seconds, he turned his face away and I could see sadness and fear in his eyes. “Jaja tell me what happened please” I pleaded. He looked at me again and finally replied “all my life, I have never gone for an operation as dreadful as this.”

I almost made out to laugh but then I was taken aback, “dreadful?” I thought. Jaja continued “I know you don’t understand, I will tell you how it went. That man, is it Fabian you call him? You said he is a renowned Christian and he was your keyboardist. Hummm, I bet you, you don’t know that man. He probably showed you that kind, gentle personality because he wanted you. That man is evil.”

I was confused. Could it be that they had gone to attack someone else? The Fabian I know cannot fit into that description. “Jaja, I’m sorry to ask, are you sure you went to the right house? To the right address? You met the right person? Because these things you’re saying, Fabian being an evil man, I don’t understand.”

“We got to Fabian’s house at 8pm in the night, we checked around the neighborhood to make sure we do our map well. We entered a bar nearby to take some drinks just to while away time and be sure people have gone to sleep. We were at that bar for 2 hours. Exactly 10pm, we knocked at his gate and the gate-man opened up the gate, we killed him.”  He turned to pidgin to express how serious it was; “Funmi, as we dey turn eh, we see this Fabian on red wrapper, with e red cap for head. We no fit run, we no fit move, we just dey where we dey like say dem gum our legs for ground. Na so he blow white substance con meet us, all of us fall for ground, we dey see but we nor fit talk. He killed my other guys, I watch am dey slaughter their throats like say na goats dem be, con  pour their blood for inside container wey dey e hand. Na God just save me, God just say my time never reach, chaiiiii.”

All the while he was narrating this story, I was watching in bewilderment, confusion and disbelief. Jaja continued, “U know why I just be dey look u just now, he be send me message con give u. He tell me say when I reach your house, na blue trouser and blue shirt with white slippers you go wear,  and na true. He say he nor be person wey u suppose joke with, say as e be now, make u ready for war. He said he’s coming after you. I only regained myself this morning and according to him, the only reason I am alive is because he needed me to get this message across to you, the next time he will be seeing me, he would take my life.”  

Jaja left for his house. I realized my problems were far from solved, in fact, they were now double. Who could ever believe that Fabian was this evil, a monster I fell for; I just couldn’t envisage how terrible this is going to turn out. What is really happening? No herbal doctor has been able to flush out this cursed child from my belly and now, Fabian seems untouchable; still a surprise to me because no one would believe Fabian is this evil. “This is a spiritual war, not something I could handle alone. I think it’s time to bring mama into this matter.” Only my mother can fight this, but before she does, I know I should be ready to go back to the worship of the goddess.

I know you’ll be wondering what relationship existed between Jaja and I, hummm, Jaja was my first love, the man the goddess chose for me but I left him when I became a Christian to marry Festus and now, here I am, with Jaja. Could it be my fate, my destiny or just the devil’s manipulations since I have fallen deeply into his grips? “Grace is lost” I thought.

Sometimes when I hear people play my songs in the community, I cry, they do not know that the Grace who sang those songs has become this wretched and lost! Can I ever be saved? My mind was made up. I will go to my mother, reconcile with her and with the goddess because Fabian wouldn’t go free, he must pay for all he has put me through. He must pay!

Dear readers, at this stage, there is no GOING BACK! Salvation is far from me but before I face my doom, I must make Fabian pay! Do you have something to say? 

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