Beautifully ugly episode 24 – 25
Beautifully Ugly
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Episode 24
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“It is I.” A voice echoed and that was when I totally relinquished, I felt goose pimples like never before.
“Prosper are you There?” The voice sounded again and this time a bit familiar,
The scenario changed instantaneously,
I slowly walked to the door and opened it, there stood johnny smiling like a Christmas goat as usual.
“How far na.” He stretched his hand for a handshake, which I reciprocated,
“Fine, “I replied coldly.
“Why is your hand so frozen as if you spent the whole day in a mortuary, or probably you’d a nap in a Deep freezer? “He asked and held my palm so tight to prevent me from removing it as I already planned,
There was no way I was going to tell him anything about my daydreams or should I say hallucinations cuz the scene was just totally indescribable and going further to clarify it would rather sillinize my personality,
So I just had to make up suiting words that would take his mind off his gesture,
“Why is your hand so hot like you spent a whole day in hell, please if you’ve gotten a friend over there, just tell me let me know the way forward.” his face changed when I said that, I could see the rage in his eyes and that was even what I wanted, by then, he was the one trying to remove his own palm but I also wasn’t ready to let go by then, I tightened my own grip so he couldn’t easily remove.
“You should examine and checkmate the kind of words to use when making up your jokes. “He warned and tried to forcefully remove his hand but I still held firmly even though my hand was beginning to ache,
“You should also note the words to use when asking questions.” I retaliated,
“What did you see usual in what I asked, tell me what is wrong with what I said.” He demanded firmly,
“What did you also get wrong in what I asked, is it not a similar question that I asked? “I threw back at him and maintained a mean look,
“So you are trying to tell me that you don’t find anything wrong with hell right?” He asked and I could see anger boldly written on his face but I wasn’t ready to give up and reconcile, after all, he was the one that started it.
“You too, you’re trying to say that you didn’t find anything wrong with mortuary right? “I demanded fiercely,
“What is wrong with mortuary?” He asked and I couldn’t help but laugh inwardly,
“You too what is wrong with hell,” I asked smirkingly and
He raised his left hand to slap me but I bent over and he hit it so hard on the wall,
“Arghhh.” He screamed and I couldn’t help but laugh uncontrollably,
“You’ll pay for this.” He threatened and hurried toward me.
“Johnny leave me alone, I want to go and help my mother in the market. “I explained as he chased me round the little house,
“Not when I’m yet to pay you back in your own coin.” He smirked and increased his speed to catch up with me but the possibility of him catching me would only come to pass in a nightmare.
Excluding the fact that Johnny had always been a bad racer, his corpulent body structure worsen everything.
Johnny was a well-fed and chubby guy, Agric was a title that almost covered his real name, the name was given to him by one silly guy, the name James.
It happened that I followed johnny to the field that day after much pressurization.
He was playing role 10 against our opponents and I was playing 9 and James was keeping the goal for our opposing players,
The ball was passed to me and I dribbled the opponents that tried to snatch it from me and gently passed it to johnny for him to score the goal.
The arrangement was so sure for me that even a single point was not removed from the 100% goal assurance I had, but the outcome was nothing favorable to my theme.
As the ball was rolling toward johnny, he raised his leg and aimed to score the goal, I was already fanning myself, smiling inwardly and even anticipating a triumph song to sing hoping that victory would be ours.
But just then I started hearing laughter and exclamation everywhere. I believed that Johnny had finally scored the goal and people were cheering him, only to look up and beheld clouds of dust oozing up the sky, it took me time to learn what was really happening cuz the dust was just much when the dust cleared a bit, I discovered Johnny was on the ground like a fallen elephant, that was even the reason why people were laughing,
“AGRIC,” James screamed laughingly.
The scene was so disappointingly sad and shameful to me and all my co-players.
It was when the match ended that someone explained everything to me, he said that Johnny wanted to kick the ball with great force but missed the target and landed on the ground, the fall was just like that of Goliath when David hit him with the sling.
Yes, Johnny bullied a lot but the only thing that propagated his bullying lifestyle was physical objects, he would have been long forgotten in the land of the living if he wasn’t using objects to fight his victims.
I could still recall the last fight he had in my presence before his father forbade me from coming closer to his son because he believed I was the root of his son’s (Johnny’s) misconduct.
It was a Monday evening, and after I’ve gotten back from the market, my mum sent me to get some stuff in a nearby grocery store.
I bumped into johnny and he insisted on walking me to the store.
As we were going, we came across one dark complexioned guy wooing a girl by the roadside,
Johnny’s bullying nature wouldn’t allow him to mind his business and go his Way, he called their attention.
“Bros with this your long mouth that is like that of a stinky rat and you still finding Love?”I covered his mouth but was already late cuz the wooing guy heard everything already.
” Are you talking to me? “The guy faced us with a questioning look,
“No bros, I was actually talking to this my sister over there, my dear sister, you should be mindful of the partner you choose, don’t go and get a drainer that’d s*ck out your bl*od in name of k*ss*ng. “Johnny gazed at the girl being wooed and smiled mischievously,
” You must be out of your reasoning to speak in a such disdainful manner. “The guy yelled in fury.
” Hehehe, a handsome fool is always better than some ugly monkey_like monsters.” johnny smirked and this made the guy angrier.
I did everything to stop him but he still ended up fighting the Guy.
At the process of the fight, he hit the guy with a piece of wood he collected from a particular corner and he started bleeding on the head.
Johnny’s dad drove past the scene and came down from the car.
After the fight was settled,
Johnny’s dad yelled at me and warned me never to come close to his son again.
With this little description, you’d believe that Johnny was such a chief bullier.
Beautifully Ugly.
Episode 25
Oh nature, I’ve heard that there’s no favoritism in your glossary,
I’ve heard that you serve everyone consistently.
But it’s like you’re concepting changes lately,
It’s like you’ve not only aggregated it to your dictionary but also lithographed it with bold letters.
If you were a being, I would have long ago demanded you come and clarify all these to me, why would you tend to people dissimilarly?
Why would you give Mr. A the pot of soup and tells Mr. B to lick the remains,
Look at how people around me eat and merry but all that you brought and still bring my way is failures, crises, and catastrophes.
Is it a crime to fall into the lineage of late Mr. Maxwell?
Is it a crime to be called among his ancestry?
Oh, death! I need you to answer these questions in the language I would perfectly be cognizant of cuz this is just becoming much for me, this is becoming much for Us,
First, you took away my beloved daddy, then you deprived us of all our rights and stole away my only sister, now this…
“Son!” My mum called as tears welled up in her eyes and surged down like the flowing of a river.
She patted me gently twice on the back and placed her neutral temperate palm on it,
“You don’t have to put it upon yourself, this isn’t the end you know. ”
She tried to console me but I cut her off for the first time in my entire life, not like I was angry at her but at Mr nature and Mr death,
These two personalities just succeeded in ruining everything for me,
“Mum, this looks like the end oo, what is the difference, what is the definition of life for us now, when everything has been burnt to ashes in your shop?
What is the definition of life when your life savings just disappeared mysteriously?
What is the definition of life when the wheelbarrow that I could have at least used to carry loads for people in exchange for victuals also got burnt?
“Mum!, Life is totally, completely, and absolutely meaningless” I screamed and a strand of tear dropped from my left eye.
The feeling was as though what the Christian religion refer to as RAPTURE had taken place in my Life.
They said that RAPTURE is the total vanishing of all the people that does good things on this planet called earth to a place where they’ll be living happily without hustling and struggling.
Looks like all my sources of joy have been completely raptured, the only remaining is a hardship.
Recalling how it all happened makes me even sadder.
Johnny was still chasing me around the house when my mum suddenly appeared, I was very surprised to see her very early and the look on her face alone would give one multiple reasons to believe that all was not well.
But I assume that she wasn’t pleased to see johnny in her house. But my assumption was too far from the reality
“Good evening mama.”
I greeted followed by johnny and her response was. “Tell your friend to excuse us, we have something important to discuss.
Her response gave me more clear hints to believe that she wasn’t happy at all cuz that was just so unlike her.
I gave johnny a “please understand look” he nodded and left immediately.
“Mum, I’m very sorry for allowing him to visit me again, please forgive me,” I pleaded as she gently sat on one edge of the mat and curled her arm. I “I was just…” I tried to continue but she cuts in before I completed my words.
“who’s talking about you and Johnny here? “She said and I could see a sad expression boldly written on her countenance.
“What is the problem, Mama? you know you can trust me with anything. “I continued pressing till she finally heaved out a sigh of worry and told me everything.
A fire void of location kindled in our shop consumed everything, despite the given best by witnesses to put out the fire, it still went ahead to destroy everything including our wheelbarrow which remained only a rotten iron.
“It surprised me a lot, how fire managed to eat up everything in our shop without any verified detection of the cause.
I would have asked her for a proper explanation but she was in so much pain.
“Mum, please don’t buy the pain wholesomely, there’s still hope for better days.” I tried to calm her down but she didn’t even take the word of consolation for anything,
“Breadwinning alone would be very tough not to talk of Fending your educational needs, what……her voice quavered and she fell silent even before completing her words.
I ran under our mat to collect the suitcase and show her that there was still hope,
“Mom, you can still take money here and start up another business,” I suggested consolingly and hoped she would leap in joy and her exclamation would be:
“Oh, I never thought of it from this perspective but to my greatest surprise, her response was open it.
I opened the suitcase and discovered it was just as void as the inside of a guitar, the only thing I found there was a piece of old paper that has written words with blood-like color,
The caption was
“THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING”.
That was when I realized that the back of a bee pot has been turned against us,
I couldn’t evaluate what was going on, how come?
but I’m very sure the money was intact the last time I checked it and I never met our door unlocked after the incident that occurred during the advent of the masked man.
“Mum! What is going on.” I questioned and watched as cold tears gradually gushed down her eyes.
I couldn’t help but wondered what kind of entity we found ourselves in.
Others are upgrading from boy to boss, but mine is from grace to grass, from grass to gutter, who knows if I would eventually fall from gutter to grave?
At that point, no option was just suitable to solve the problem cuz everything just collapsed completely.
Even my dream of being a judge to get my uncle prosecuted could only be queried with sighs cuz the money was nowhere to be found.
These thoughts and that of wondering what could have raided my mum’s lifesaving and left a note made me tremble in fear. Who knows what would be the next agenda?
As We were still in that sad moment my mom suddenly started coughing dryly,
“Mama, what is the problem?.” I asked as she held her chest and continued releasing sequels of effortless coughs.
To be continued.