****After Bimpe's text message*******
I cried till midnight, the whole world appeared to be
crumbling before me. I suddenly lost appetite for
everything and the thoughts of suicide began to fill
my heart.
My memory flashed back to the stress, hustle and
struggles I went through for five years at the
university before obtaining the certificate, I began to
remember all the stress I went through during NYSC,
I also remembered how I squeezed out time out of
no time to attend java and oracle classes, I
remembered the stress of writing the professional
exams before finally getting the results.
"Chai!!!!, Adebimpe wicked gan ni oooo"
After a while, my mind stopped flashing back to the
past and it began to think about the future. I started
consoling myself with the thoughts that "after all, I
can easily re-apply for another certificates", but how
will that be possible before thursday evening that I
would have to travel to Ado?.
***weeping and biting my finger****
"Chaii, Adebimpe is just wicked"
"Did I really deserved this extreme punishment?"
" What do I do before thursday?"
"Should I call my uncle to tell him that I don't have
my results with me?"
"How will I even say it sef?"
"How do I even reach bimpe and beg her, who knows,
maybe should would forgive me"
"Who knows maybe she had set my certificates on
fire?"
"Will I just loose this chance of getting a better job
again?"
"Will my uncle ever be willing to assist me anymore?"
"I just wished I checked my credentials properly
before leaving the hospital".
Infact, I regretted once again for travelling to niger
state for the GNLD interview.
I continued murmuring and crying all through the
night with nobody to talk to, At a point in time, I
thought of calling segun but I couldn't. I was
seriously angry and mad at him. He was the one who
pushed me and led to bimpe's "hard-way" treatment
in the first place. Bimpe shouldn't have gone to this
extreme if he hadn't chased her out when she was
here with me in Akure.
Another thought started overlapping my mind. I began
to see the whole things as the handiwork of my step-
mother.
"That woman must be a witch"
"She had never wanted my progress since child hood"
Why must my certificate be stolen at this time that I
needed it for a big job?"
Moments after, another thought came into my mind
that it must be the handiwork of the people from my
village.
"I could remember how my dad used to tell me that
the village people can bring people down in the spirit
realm"
Different thoughts began to overlap my brain as I
continued attaching the situation to every possible
circumstances. I looked at the wall clock and the
time is 3:48am and yet I couldn't sleep.
"Chaiii, I swear to God, I will personally kill Adebimpe
any time I set my eyes on her again"
I began to nurse evil thoughts on how to harm
adebimpe. I wish I knew her contacts and address, I
wouldn't mind paying hired killers to kill her.
inshort, I must take my own revenge also in a hard
way,
"This is definitely the Beginning of the end between
me and bimpe"
Its 6am on wednesday morning, I was feeling so
weak, sad, heart broken and depressed. My eyes
were all swollen and my joints were so weak, I knew
it that if I go to work that day, I would be so sad and
it would be so obvious on my face, but I couldn't
excuse myself from work because I didn't inform my
boss the previous day, I thought of travelling to Abuja
that Wednesday morning maybe I could get to see
bimpe, who knows, she might be in abuja and
pretending to be in lagos. But I had a second thought,
"What if I couldn't find her in Abuja?"
"Do I even know where to locate her?"
"What if she had destroyed the certificates?"
"What would be my gain if I couldn't return with the
certificates?"
At that moment, I just wished I have a black magic to
command the credentials to disappear from wherever
it is and re-appear in my room. I began to think of
locating a powerful herbalist who could help me to
summon and command the credentials. My mind and
head were just fill with different thoughts as they are
coming and overlapping.
I needed someone to talk to and segun couldn't be
the person due to the fact that I was still so angry
with him. In fact, I don't feel like seeing him again. If
he hadn't pushed me to treat bimpe badly earlier,
who knows, she wouldn't have gone to the extreme
on me.
I went to the bathroom to have my shower and I
dressed up. I couldn't eat anything as a result of my
lost of appetite for any food. I just managed to cheer
up and proceeded to work.
I got to work and I was so moody. I refused to talk
and associate with anyone as sadness was all
written on my face. Segun was calling me but I
refused to pick up, after several missed calls from
segun, I decided to switch off my phone and force
myself to concentrate on my job.
I closed from work in the evening and went home
straight. On getting home, I saw segun seated on the
bench infront my compound. As I approached him, I
was so annoyed and furious within me, I just felt like
hitting a plank on his head. I walked pass him and he
greeted me but I ignored. I entered into my room and
he followed me inside.
SEGE: bro, wetin happen?, you just dey ignore my
calls since yesterday, I was feeling uncomfortable
and I decided to visit, you still ignored me. Why?
ME: ***raised eye brow*** why won't I ignore you
segun?. WHY?
SEGE: what have I done wrong onihaxy?
ME: so you don't know what you did wrong abi?
SEGE: **pats me on my shoulder** we are no more
friends but brothers, if there is anything wrong, why
not just tell me?.
ME: Are you not the cause of all the atrocities I'm
facing from Adebimpe?
SEGE: my brother, how?
ME: you dey ask me how?. If you hadn't pushed me
to hurt this girl in the first place, this wouldn't have
happened.
SeGE: I'm so sorry about that onihaxy, if you say I
was wrong, then I admit it, though I never knew I was
wrong by teaching her a lesson.
ME: which lesson?.
SEGE: she is a prostitute and a scammer onihaxy!!,
don't you get it?. She used your money to travel
down here to visit another guy.
ME: and I'm here paying for the consequences sebi?.
SeGE: I'm so sorry about that, let's put that aside
and let's focus on how to solve the problem at hand.
Tomorrow is thursday that you are supposed to travel
for your new job, how do we go about it?, that is why
I'm here.
ME: Mr segun, there is no solution as I couldn't
retrieve my credentials, so I can't travel anymore.
SEGE: haaa!!, so what do we do next now?
ME: ***frowned*** nothing, you can go now.
SEGE: are you chasing me out of your house
onihaxy?.
ME: segun. I am not only chasing you, this Friendship
is over!!!, let me just face my destiny alone abeg,
SEGE: ***moves closer to pat me on my shoulder***
ME: ***removes his hand***
SEGE: onihaxy!!!
ME: **yelled*** ehn ehn!!!!, what happen!!!!!?
SEGE: we have been friends now, its close to 8 years
ME: and what does that teaches us?
SEGE: it teaches us that we have gone too far to
split up.
ME: thats none of my business
SEGE: ok, even if we must break up, we must first
find a solution to the present problem first.
ME: **screamed** ogbeni, sebi you heard me, there
is no solution!!!, you can go.
SEGE: onihaxy, calm down, I will never leave you like
this and I will never leave this place until this thing is
resolved. If you like, go and call police for me or get
me arrested, I won't leave here.
ME: ***ignored him***
SEGE: that reminds me, I think I have found an
alternative solution
ME: ***began to smile gradually***
SEGE: that's my nigga. You are always handsome in
that smile.
ME: sege talk to me jaree, what is the alternative?.
SEGE: before I shipped in the alternative, why not try
bimpe's number again whether it will go through
ME: it doesn't go through since 1960
SEGE: werey!!!, just try am first jaree.
ME: ok ***stretched my hands to my bag and brings
out my phone and switched it on***
SEGE: oloshi!!!, so you switched off your phone
before?, no wonder the thing no dey reachable since
afternoon wey I don dey call.
ME: ***switched on my phone and saw an envelope
sign followed by a message tone*** e be like say I
get message
SEGE: ***hissed, na those silly MTN people, dem no
dey let person rest, na so so silly messages dem dey
send. Abeg try her number jaree.
ME: ** opened the inbox and noticed a familiar
number*** sege, no be MTN oooo, na from a familiar
number.
SEGE: ok, maybe na one of your concubine
ME** I read the first line which says "its me
bimpe"**** sege!
SEGE: ehn!!!
ME: na from bimpe oo
SEGE: really?, wetin she talk?
Segun came closer and we sat together to read the
message which says
"Onihaxy, its me adebimpe, if you still need your
credentials, deposit a sum of 200,000 naira to the
account name and number below, as soon as I
confirm your deposit, I will give you a call and send
the credentials to you via a public transport, if you try
anything funny, you will be the one to suffer the
consequences, bye and take care".
ME: what!!!!!!!!
SEGE: 200,000 what!!!!, where do we get such
amount between now and tomorrow?
ME: what do we do now?
SEGE: I'm clueless onihaxy.
Me: segun, today is wednesday and I have to travel
for this job tomorrow, where will I get 200k now?
SEGE: onihaxy calm down, getting the 200k isn't the
issue.
ME: why is it not an issue?
SEGE: Adebimpe is the major issue
ME: how?
SEGE: can't you see it clearly that this is a blackmail
business?
ME: I still don't understand
SEGE: the way I'm seeing it, Adebimpe will never
send any credentials to you even if you pay a million
naira
ME: why did you say so?
SEGE: someone who is so desperate for a revenge
and even went to the extreme of having your vital
credentials in her custody, why should we trust her
when it comes to money?
ME: hmmmmmmmm. "Ayemi ooooo, Temi bami".
SeGE: onihaxy, come to think of it, someone who
switched off her phone all this while and only send
text once in a while, it is so obvious that she would
switch off again after getting the deposit alert.
ME: it seems you are right. So what do we do now?.
SEGE: let's do it this way. Call her number first and
let's negotiate with her.
ME: ok **dialled her number***
SEGE: is it going through?
ME: ***phone: the number you have dialled is unable
to receive call****
Its saying unable to receive call, what does that
mean?
SEGE: it means she barred all incoming calls. You
see what I was saying?, this girl don upgrade to
"blackmail business"
ME: **wanted to cry** segun please come to my aid,
my world is crumbling, what do I do?.
SEGE: calm down onihaxy, I just thought of
something.
ME: what is that?
SEGE: you remembered that you scanned your
credentials and sent to a particular firm you applied
to in lagos few months ago.
ME: oooh yes I remember!!!, how about it?
SEGE: yes, we will make a coloured printout and
laminate.
ME: will it look like the real one?
SEGE: at least 80% real
ME: so how do we go about it?
SEGE: the time is just 8pm. Let's rush down to the
cafe down the street to make the print outs
ME: Are we still going to find a cafe by this time?
SeGE: hopefully, we should.
ME: but I don't have much on me at the moment
SEGE: don't worry, I still have like 1k on me.
ME: ok, how about the original credentials with
Adebimpe?, am I going to forget it just like that?
SEGE: my guy, when we find a successful alternative,
then we can now talk about how to retrieve the one
your wife is holding.
ME: which wife be that?
SEGE: your lovely Adebimpe **laughed**
ME: you no well, the girl wey be say I go kill any day
I see her
SEGE: the onihaxy that I know will always fall again
and again on Adebimpe's lap anyday anytime.
ME: **laughs**. Seriously sege. You know well
SEGE: na lie?
ME: honestly, e be like say that girl dey use charm on
me sef.
SEGE: no be charm, na her juicy honeypot dey kill
you.
ME: abeg forget bimpe matter jaree. Let's go to the
cafe first.
SEGE: ok
We walked out of the room and I locked my door, we
walked down the street and found out that the cafe
had closed. We trekked to the next cafe and we
found out that it had been closed also.
ME: sege, what do we do now?,
SEGE: maybe till tomorrow be that.
ME: ok,
I saw segun off and I returned back to my house. I
felt relieved and eased. I began to get hungry and
regaining appetite for food. I dropped my phone on
my bed and went to my kitchen to prepare noodles. I
was about to empty the sachet of the noodles into
the pot when my phone was ringing. I rushed to see
who is calling and it was my uncle. I picked up the
call
ME: hello sir
UNCLE: aburo, how are you?
ME: I'm fine sir
UNCLE: ehn ehn. My chairman said he is travelling by
10am tomorrow morning,
ME: haaa,
UNCLE: you know what that means?
ME: no sir
UNCLE: you have to follow early morning bus. You
must be here latest 8am in the morning so that he
can attend to you before travelling.
ME: ok sir. Thank you very much sir.
UNCLE: ***hanged up*****
I suddenly lost appetite again and I began to
soliloquies, "this must be the handiwork of the people
from my village".
After few minutes of soliloquies, I looked up to the
wall and the time was few minutes to 10pm. What
will I do now?, I have nobody else to talk to apart
from segun. I picked my phone to chat with him.
ME: sege, how you dey?
SEGE: I dey fine ooo. Hope you don dey prepare for
your interview?.
ME: prepare kee?, wahala don dey ooo
SEGE: wetin happen?
ME: my uncle just called me now.
SEGE: na wetin him talk?. He say the job no sure
again?
ME: he talk say the chairman dey travel tomorrow
morning by 10am. So I must reach b4 8am.
SEGE: haa!!, how you go do your credentials stuffs
now?
ME: I no know ooo.
SEGE: ok, there is an alternative.
ME: what is it?
SEGE: use your phone to access your mail and
download them from your email and save it on your
memory card.
ME: how will I print it then?
SEGE: I will come to your place very early tomorrow
morning around 5:30 to give you a card reader. You
will insert your memory card inside it and print the
stuffs at any computer centre when you get to Ado.
ME: ok jaree. That's ma boy
SEGE: that's my guy too. Bimpe's surest husband
ME: I no like am ooo.
SEGE: no worry, na me go best you on your wedding
day. Lol
ME: you no well.
I logged into my mail and found my Bsc and NYsc
certificates only from my sent box. I downloaded
both of them. I then realised that it was only the
frontpage of my Bsc result I scanned. I didn't
scanned the backpage and the bagepage has my
school logo and text imprint on it just like that of the
front page. I logged in back to my whatsapp to
update segun.
ME: sege
SEGE: how far guy?. You don download am.
ME: yeah, but there is a problem
SEGE: what is it?
ME: my oracle certificate wasn't scanned along
during that period.
SEGE: what about the B.sc and NYSC?
ME: I was able to retrieve those ones.
SEGE: that is cool. You can generate an excuse for
the missing oracle certificate when you get there
ME: ok, but the Bsc result I downloaded doesn't have
a backpage.
SEGE: backpage as how?
ME: on our certificate. The logo of our school and
some text imprints are on the back page with two
colours.
SEGE: is the backpage the same for every
graduates?
ME: yes, just the logo and the school name written
imprinted on it.
SEGE: don't worry. I have a guy who schooled and
graduated from your school 2 years ago and serving
presently. I will get intouch with him and scan the
backpage of his document and send to your
whatsapp before you reach Ado.
ME: **took a deep breath***, thanks jaree my guy.
You are too much
SEGE: what are we friends for
ME: my mind just settle small
SEGE: start rehearsing a genuine excuse you will
provide for the missing oracle certificate
ME: ok jare padi mi.
SEGUN: abeg, I wan post something on my blog, we
go chat later.
ME: ok, goodnite.
I slept off few minutes later until I heard a knock and
a harsh voice on my door around 2am to open up or I
loose my life. I thought I was dreaming, it was when