Dilemma episode 3

Dilemma
Episode 3
I cracked my head searching for a good river but couldn’t remember any. In desperation i thought of other alternatives. “A good bush will do” i concluded as i remembered a very large bush, four hostels behind mine. The bush really was at the end of the street. A yet to be developed plot.
 
But i was very unsure of the best time to head to the place. I knew there wasn’t a way i could go there without being seen by many students and my movement might draw suspicion due to the sack bag in my possession and if eventually Nneka’s body is found, tongues may talk and i could be caught. I reasoned.
“The only solution was to head out of the school environs with my load perhaps towards the small mechanic village which was fifty naira bus drop away from my lodge, find a good refuse dump site and dispose everything”.
 
Luckily her body wasn’t discovered that morning and so by 7:45am, i smashed her phone slim and memory card wrapped the debris in a small nylon before flinging it with the phone back into the sack bag. Soon after i left the lodge with my load and headed towards mechanic village, nervous, shaken but determined.
 
It was very easy to find a burning refuse dump site when i got there. I quickly disposed everything and headed back to my lodge a bit relieved.
All that was left was to sit and wait for the poor girl to be discovered.
 
I kept to myself, acting cool and trying hærd not to behave in a way that could draw suspicion. It wasn’t easy, i couldn’t eat, sleep nor do anything. I was conscious of everything, plus i began seeing things. Strange weird things.
Perhaps it was my imagination, perhaps it was guilt and fear but i truly wasn’t myself anymore. I didn’t kill the girl but i wronged her spirit. I felt she was everywhere i went, staring at me with her dark eyes.
 
Then she was discovered…………………… An early Monday cry from one of the cleaners ripped the wh0le lodge apart.
 
The sharp cry shook the entire lodge, frightening me tremendously. My heart furiously pounded. The day of reckoning finally has arrived.
I waited for few minutes in my room as i tried so hærd to compose myself. Just like other students, i had to check out the cause of the cry and noise coming from downstairs. I wished i had travelled, but truly it was very bright of me to stay put in the lodge instead of travelling, because i had to be around in order to follow events and plan ahead. Moreover the hostel was a large one but it never stopped students who lived in it from knowing each other’s habit and as i hærdly travelled. Who knows i could be suspected.
 
Yes i was so scared that i felt every step i took could lead anyone to suspect me even though i was far from being one of the neither hostel terrors nor cultists who could easily be suspected as the hand behind such a deadly act.
 
I drank a glass of water before heading out of my room. I slowly headed downstairs, towards where i dumped Nneka’s body days ago. You can’t imagine how nervous and scared i was as i slowly made my way to that place.
 
Hundreds of students were already at the staircase when i got there. Students from the neighboring hostels alike. I greeted some of my neighbors who told me of the terrific discovery. I pretended to be shocked and forced my way to the front of the crowd.
After a little struggle, i succeeded in getting close to Nneka’s body which was already pulled out from the staircase. The poor girl was now lying just some steps away from where she was originally dumped, looking pale as ever. I drew a bit close as if i was very concerned.
 
“Do you know her?” a girl quickly asked me. I turned to see almost everyone staring curiously at me. I swallowed hærd with tension. My guilty conscience shook me like an earthquake.
 
“What?” i stammered.
 
“Do you know her?” the hostel president asked, before the girl could repeat her question.
 
“Hell no. That’s exactly what i came to check” i managed to reply, dashing all their hopes.
 
“Nobody knows her. She has no ID or anything” the girl who asked the first question explained, while i shrugged, saying nothing.
The relief i felt as i heard the girl’s explanation was quite enormous. I really had feared the question was asked with suspicion.
 
However i still feared the worst was yet to come. I knew there must surely be a scapegoat. A sacrificial lamb who will be blamed for such a horrible crime.
 
Who will it be?
 
To be continued.