Voodoo

...Ayoola N'zanzi

**Nzanzi & I running into each other while waiting on a taxi**

N'zanzi & I shared each other's company several times more and each time was more enthralling than
before, she was more intriguing than I could've ever imagined. Her family was native to Nigeria, and Bo-lo was of that side of the family that immigrated only recently - the first generation.

N'zanzi herself only started living in this country several years ago and first loved with her sister in Portland, after which she moved Barrett town to live with her mother about a week ago. Olubunmi N'zanzi Titilayo was about 27 years old, never married, single, no kids, and had every intention of - one day herself - having a family like her sister now does. Her sister recently got pregnant for her new fiance, N'zanzi had to give them space to start their new family.

N'zanzi wasn't thrilled about her rocky inauguration to the country, something positive happening in her life now would've really given her a breather. There had been enough stigma around her family... more spiritual affinities, but to the pressure from her family to "find a man" - start a family.

"It was hard enough leaving Iwo and all my friends behind" N'zanzi lamented.

**Sympathetically staring at her**

"Iwo" I prodded.

**N'zanzi sighs deeply**

"Iwo was... A rock in a hard place" she further relented.

"You mean 'between a rock and a hard place'" I suggested.

"No, he was a rock in a very hard place... always uncomfortable but won't move when he must. But a rock doesn't need anything more than time if that rock believes it cannot be moved...". N'zanzi continued.

"..." My mind slowly examined the profundity of her remark.

"His time probably came and went the day I left him..." N'zanzi continued.

**Stares lovingly at the side of her face**

"...holding him back..."N'zanzi continued.

**Stares lovingly at the side of her face**

"...fight..." N'zanzi continued..

**My senses numb to everything but the way the light catches her plump and shimmering sweet lips**

"...you know what I mean?" N'zanzi continued.

**Her worried expression snapping me back to my sense**

"Bwoy... - heavily exhales - ...that rough" I surrendered to her.

N'zanzi would continue her tale of Iwo, some guy who's somewhere somehow worse off now that N'zanzi is in front of me. A hard place I won't ever allow myself to visit.

**Quickly trying to change to a more fun topic**

"So yuh no ready fi mi tye you yet?" I announced under soft baritones, gazing firmly at her round face blushing and blossoming a smile.

"Boy, you bawlin' for me to uhh, uhhh...nyam yuh dung! Eh?" She cheekily tossed back at me, trying to adopt to the local references. She stood confidently, staring up at me in wait for my usual clever comeback.

"Yuh know what mama said to me... her spirit 'tek' you! Can't you believe that!" N'zanzi excitedly professed.

"So long as she tek me with you, me good" I replied.

**Watching the taxis passing by with not enough space for the both of us, together**

"Sunday dinner! as you call it?!" She exclaimed with a jolt of some eureka.

"Feed me then man, if you think you can manage. Mama thinks that you can." She continued, nodding her head to the sense she saw in her proposal.

The excitement in my bones could hardly sustain itself; she was making all the right moves and making all the right steps, I knew it would only be a matter of formalities before it also made the same sense to her. These mundane formalities were no more than necessary steps, before I would finally come to feel the tenderness of her skin on my lips.

"Yes man! Sunday me fatten you up" I confidently announced to her amusement.

**Waving at each other**

The bus she had been waiting on just arrived and I was headed in the other direction. I was all smiles and I knew she was too.Though it would appear we "ran into each other" randomly here and there, my mind was reeling to be in her presences, to have my lungs submerged in
her unique charm and seduction. I had to make sure that we actually 'ran' into each other.

**Vehicles slowly drifting off and away**