Dilemma episode 2

Dilemma
 
Episode 2
I quickly pulled off her night wear and dressed her up with the clothes she wore from her place. A black jean trousers and a pink top. It truly was the most difficult and irritating task I have ever done in my entire life, pulling off clothes from a dead person. The worst aspect of it was that it was trousers, putting that trousers on her was like an uphill task but i had to do it.
 
I turned her facing down and facing up at intervals to make sure the trouser entered perfectly. Putting on her b-ra and pink polo wasn’t that difficult. “What next?” I asked myself as I looked out of my room window. The hostel (lodge) gate was still locked. There wasn’t any way I could carry her out of the lodge without waking the gateman or seen by early morning weed smokers (annoying students who were fond of smoking hemp in front of some hostels). Moreover the hostel lights were equally on and glaring.
 
I rubbed my face in desperation. I was living at the top-most floor and so had little or nothing to hope on. It was a do or die affair. I left my room and took a quiet tour round the lodge. Fortunately no one was outside, which really was a very big relief. I went round the lodge searching for a quiet hidden place I could dump her body. Of course I wasn’t thinking of dumping her outside the lodge because there wasn’t a way I could do it without being seen.
 
I couldn’t ask the gateman to open the gate without arousing suspicion nor scale the fence with such a heavy load. I had to look for a s₱0t within the lodge to dump the body.
Finally an idea quickly struck me. There was a staircase at the extreme end of wing “C” which was hærdly used because the three stairs at the front and middle back of the big hostel was the most preferred by everyone.
The staircase was exactly the kind of place I was badly searching for.
There wasn’t any bulb underneath it like the other staircases _ (the bulbs were probably stolen) and so had poor visibility even in the afternoon.
 
My only fear was that the cleaners who swept the lodge every morning might discover her on time. Perhaps before I could be able to dispose her handbag and other belongings which I intend disposing at a place very far from the lodge later in the morning. Seriously i never imagined my heart could be as dark as it was that fateful morning, but it got me to realize that the heart of man is very dangerous especially when faced with an unimaginable circ-mstance. I quickly inspected the staircase, rushed to my room and carried the poor girl’s body. Discreetly i headed back to the staircase, my heart almost at breaking point….
 
I quietly carried her to the staircase, my heart beating wildly as I carried the heavy load. I needed a wh0le lot of luck to avoid detection. Only a single mistake could destroy everything I had planned. Luckily I got to my destination without being seen. I calmly dumped and pushed her well, underneath the staircase (of the first
floor).
 
“If things go as planned perhaps, it will take a day or two before she’s discovered” I reasoned before another idea came into my head. I rushed up to my room, grabbed a bucket of water, came down and poured it all over her. I wasn’t a biologist but i felt it could destroy any evidence like my prints which were on her body. Yea it might sound silly but i felt a bit relieved after doing it even though the water quickly spilled out towards the exit door but it wasn’t enough to draw attention.
 
I grabbed the empty bucket and returned to my room. I knew nobody would investigate spilled water in a lodge filled with students. Unless of course the cleaners. As I got to my room, I quickly cleaned up everywhere, packing up all of Nneka’s things in a big black sack bag including her phone which was the first in the list, but before doing it I first, logged into her 2go account (luckily, the application opened without asking for a password) and deleted everything about me, including my phone numbers and text messages we shared. I knew the police had the means to get me if they were serious but I did everything just as a precaution. I equally washed the bathroom, and changed my bed sheet, made sure everything was in order before sitting down to rest.
 
I was so terrified and nervous. I needed all the good luck in the world. I was scared of being caught. My future just stood before me, glaring at my face. I knew i did the worst atrocity by trying to hide the poor girl, but I had no choice than to do it. I wasn’t ready to be hanged for something I had no hand in. Nervously I waited for the hostel gate to be opened, the success of my plans depended on it.
 
I had to dispose Nneka’s things in a place very far away. Precisely in a river…
 
TBC