"Haaaa! Are you kidding me?" Deji
screamed at her sobbing friend.
"Dear friend that's my story.." Lara
wiped a tear "oh Lara you are too
soft...she's been
in this house for weeks now, and
you can't throw her out?" Deji
squealed.
"I think she has come to stay..." Lara
began to say.
"Come to stay for where? Lara don't
just provoke me o! I wonder why I
wasn't in town all this while..." Deji
bit her finger.
Just then Sophia walked lazily into
the sitting room, she catwalked
towards the fridge.
"Errm...Lara?" Sophia called out
sipping from a bottle of yoghurt.
"Ma?" Lara said rising to her feet, to
the suprise of Deji. "Isn't it high time
you prepare lunch?
I'm starving." Sophia added
authoratively.
"Okay ma, Let me..." Lara began to
say. "Shut up!" Deji cut her short.
"Who is your 'ma' ? This ingrate? This
monster with a face of a donkey?"
Deji chided her.
"Who are you referring to?" Sophia
dropped her bottle. "You!" Deji
replied rising up. " you are the
donkey! Oshi! Witch! I
wonder what's wrong with this Igbo
woman! Husband snatcher!" Deji
added with her hands akimbo.
"Deji please don't!" Lara tried to stop
her.
"Leave me jor! Abi she jazz you ni?
Imagine this vegetable eating Igbo
claiming oyinbo! Olori buru ku!"
Deji's body shook as she spoke.
"You don't dare insult me!" Sophia
glared at her. "Insult ke! I'll beat you
ni! Rubbish!"
Deji pushed Sophia roughly. Wham!
Sophia slapped Deji. "Deji..." Lara
was alarmed. "Haaaa! Yeeee! You
slapped me? You
dey form Igbo geh abi? I go show
you say I no be yoruba geh for
nothing!" Deji screamed before
grabbing sophia from her feet.
They engaged in a scuffle, Deji sitting
atop Sophia feeding her with
punches and slaps. "Deji please..."
Lara was very
frightened.
"Deji to ri Olohun, please stop!" she
finally pulled Deji off Sophia. "Allow
me jor! Lemme show this
Donkey!" Deji charged at Sopia
again.
"No No No! Deji don't!" Lara pushed
her friend into a sofa, giving Sophia
the opportunity to run into the guest
room.
"You have to go now!" Lara led the
fuming Deji towards the exit. "Are
driving me away?" "No...I don't want
Tony to meet you
here...please, I can handle it.." Lara
pushed her forward.
"Ehen the Tony sef! Let him come na,
lemme teach him his own lesson!"
Deji ranted. "Noooo, just go please!
For my
sake!" Lara pleaded with her. "Okay!
If anything should happen,
call me! You hear?" Deji ordered.
"Yes, bye!" Lara rushed to her room.
She sat down at her bed's edge. She
knew she was in hot soup. Tony
won't spare her.
::::::*****:::::
Lara supported her aching head with
her hands, she was far far away in
the land of thought's and
imaginations.
"Lara!" Yikes! Tony is back! When did
he
come back, she must have thinked
deep! "Lara!" Tony called out again.
"Sir?" she walked out of her room,
her legs were weak, her heart
pounding furiously. "Welcome!" she
flexed her knee "What did you do to
her?" Tony
gestured towards Sophia who was
weeping profusely.
Lara's heart missed uncountable
beats, her eyes widened in terror
"I...I...I....d...did...not..did..." she
began to stammer. A resounding slap
landed on her
right cheek, making her mouth to
twist, She saw stars "You are really
proving to be
stubborn! This illiterate girl!" Tony
ranted as he pulled a cable off the TV
set.
Lara backed away on sighting the
wire he was holding. "Come back
here!" Tony ordered She didn't obey,
instead she stood
by the wall staring him wide eyed.
"Okay then, let me come to you!"
Tony walked towards her, his eyes
were bloodshot. Lara shut her eyes
tightly, as the
cable landed on her arm. She didn't
wince or let out a cry, she just stood
there absorbing all the pains. She
walked quitely into her room
after Tony had let her go.
She poured some cold water on her
head, she thought it was on fire. She
looked up at her reflection in the
mirror. Her right eye was swollen
and red,
tiny lines of blood streaked throught
the corner of her lips. She let her
tears flow freely, she
wished her mother would be here to
watch what she's going through..
To b continued