365 days of redemption

Day 6

"What just happened?" Detective Arrogant asks immediately I enter the car.

He smile happily and say, "You are stupid, very much so, but you got us what we wanted." I do not need to be told that I'm a game, and to both parties: the Sting party and the police,

"If it makes you feel better, I wasn't playing either." I got all of their finger prints, at least the material that contained their finger prints." He say.

I give him the 'are we now supposed to eat it?" look.

"Oh... I forgot I'm talking to an idiot; it will trace all the crimes that have the fingerprints matched with them, you know, forensics. And we will begin to actually be onto something."

Okay!

"But, did you hear what he said? He said he would send someone to pick me up tomorrow."

"So... what is now the problem?" He asks.

I wonder how stupid he is, and he calls me stupid.

"See, be fast. I need to get back to my wife tonight if I don't want to get murdered."

Wife? He is married. I just keep getting shocks today.

"Aunty! Answer!"

"They will do a background check on me... And where are we?" Obviously, I know where we are; I just don't know what we are doing there. How did I not notice it while he was driving?

"Well, I know you are not as smart as you claim, and that is the same story people you've conned over the years had to listen to. That "She is my best friend and she died' sob story You sound like a broken record."

"Will you go straight to your point?" All those fronts he puts on were just a farce-too much talkativeness.

"Well, I asked someone to tweak this and that in your background info to match all those "Bobos" you use to give someone to eat while you con them. Worked out fine, and your address is this place, so here we are."

(Lies)

My jaw has to be scooped back from the floor with my hand. "You are smart, small." I say this to him after I have recovered.

"So, I can con him?" I ask hopefully.

"You know you don't want to; you will die trying."

"Who even wants blood money?"

"Werey! It's now water money you have been stealing. Don't go mess up there tomorrow!"
(Crazy)

"Shey, you did not trust this actress; I will show them that acting po bi ogogo."

(I can act as much as a Nollywood actor, Ogogo.)

Detective Arrogant drops me at a little walking distance from my house gate, and at eleven p.m., some women, especially Iya Adisa, who sells biscuits, sweets, and all of those sorts, and Iya Rihannat (she is so proud of that name), who sells groundnuts and kuli kuli alata in my area, are yet to sleep.

But who buys their goods late at night? No one! There is just this special type of satellite or monitoring spirit in the area. They always have hot gossips. And they witnessed my arrest.

"Aunty Kelly, shey wan ti wa fi yin sile ni." Iya Adisa asks I give her a stink eye.

(Are you now being released?)

"Don't answer them; after they have gone and looked for problems for themselves, they will now be doing anything." Iya Rihannat says

It's only a shock to them that they are not able to get a word from me; it will only worsen the type of gossip they put out, but do I care? No!

A sense of tranquility descends on me as I step into my flat; it smells like the air hasn't had a passage for days, and it's true. I made my way straight to my room.

I lay in bed thinking about my life. Tomorrow is another day.

And then it clicks, "Detective Arrogant's real name is Michael, and he is called Mickey! No wonder he prefers officers who are arrogant.

This one, that name, he will never leave it down, and the only remedy-or not-is to meet his wife.

I'm evil.

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