Lagos Witch

The Witch Has A Spirit Husband

~Chapter Two~

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I walk down the road, wondering where my feet were taking me. How did I even get here?

"Sharon." I hear someone call out to me. Looking far across the street, I see a boy waving and smiling so brightly at me. Happy and excited for reasons unknown to me, I smile back, waving with equal enthusiasm. He heads then towards me. The skies suddenly turn grey and then dark. Immensely dark that I barely make out the figure of my new friend who was still walking towards me.

Honk!!

I turn as I hear the sound of a truck.

It was moving fast and it was getting too close to my friend.

"Leave the way." My voice that I had imagined would come out in a yell comes out as a whisper.

"Leave the way." I try yelling again but still, I whisper. My friend doesn't seem to notice the truck or my warning attempts as he walks ever gracefully towards me, with the permanent smile on his face.

"Leave." I try again, this time using hand gestures but instead the painful whisper is heard by me alone and my hand gestures are ignored.

"Lea-" The loud sound of the truck crashing into my friend interrupts me.

"No!!" I scream out then in pain, as my voice finally works. I try running to him but my body seems to forget how to do so. "No!!" I scream out again tasting the salty tears that had already made it's way all over my face.

"No. I told you to leave the way." I scream out in frustration.

"Sharon."

"I told him to leave the way." I cry out.

"Sharon. Wake up." I hear my mum's voice say as I wake up with a jolt. I feel my face wet and feel stupid immediately. Drying my tears, I look up at my mum, dad and brother standing and staring at me worriedly.

"Is it-"

"Yes, it's the same nightmare." I interrupt my dad, knowing what he wanted to ask. "It's the same stupid nightmare I've been having for two weeks straight now."

I turn to my lamp stand and reach for my phone. Checking the time, it was still some time past five.

"You're not going to school today."

This woman should not even start.

I pretend like I don't hear anything as I head out of my room to the bathroom.

Mum told me on Saturday that she'd let me go to school today. Today was Monday. I had spent the entire Sunday preparing myself for today and I had been so happy and excited. No one is taking that from me. Besides, dad already informed the school of my arrival and they already got my books and uniforms ready for me. There's no way Mum can suddenly change her mind because of a stupid nightmare.

I take out the toothpaste from the cup on the sink and squeeze out some on my toothbrush.

"Cough, cough." I hear Tobe say from the bathroom's enterance. "Who says 'cough, cough'?" I think to myself laughing.

"Shift." he says, pushing me with his waist as he takes out his toothbrush, snatching the toothpaste from my grip.

We brush then in silence, each one with our thoughts. Tobe and I shared a bathroom so this is like a morning routine.

"So." He says right after dropping his brush. "You still don't recognize your spirit husband?" He asks, making me laugh.

"You're not okay. It's you that'll have spirit husband, sorry, wife." This one likes to play with everything. I don't have spirit husband in Jesus' name.

"But seriously, you still don't recognize him?" He asks again.

"No, I've never seen him before. If I've seen him I'll know. I can count how many people I've seen in my whole life. He's not one of them." I tell him seriously.

"Okay o. Sha get out. I want to have my bath."

"You're so rude." I hiss, leaving the bathroom.

"You're so rude." He mimicks in an overly girly voice. I don't sound like that.

On getting to my room, I meet my mum and dad still seated on my bed, right where I left them. Ugh, what now?

"What're you wearing to school today?" Mum asks. Ah thank God o, ope o.

"I'm wearing my jeans skirt and a white top." I say pointing at where I hung them after ironing them... thoroughly might I add.

"Can't you wait till tomorrow? By then the school would have given your brother your school uniforms and your exercise books."

My dad put his hand on her shoulders as if trying to quiet her.

"Look, it's fine. Let her just go today. It would be odd if she resumed on a Tuesday." My dad says intervening. Oh thank you so much. I love you Daddy.

"Do you have a school bag? What of your shoes, are they clean?" She asks. She's just looking for a reason for me to stay back.

"Yes, Tobe gave me a school bag yesterday and my Vans sneakers still look new." I had worn them just once since my dad bought them.

"Okay, what of-"

"Mummy, everything is in place. There's nothing again. Time is going." I say as politely as possible.

Dad saves me again by pulling mum up and leading her out of my room. Hmmph.

I change into my towel and go out to the bathroom. The bathroom was just by my room; in between my room and Tobe's room so no, I didn't parade the house in a towel.

After knocking to make sure Tobe was done in there, I open the door and get in to do my business.

Fifteen minutes and a few legworks in excitement later, I was set for school. School. School!! I was actually going out. To school!! Hell yeah!!

"Have you eaten?" I hear Tobe ask me. He was stuffing his face with cereal.

"Nope. I'm not hungry. Let's go."

"Chill, it's just six forty-two." He says, reading the time out from his phone.

"And so? We're supposed to be early." I tell him, carrying his bag and going out to our dad's car.

I hear him groan as he follows behind me.

"Musa, open the gate." Dad says from the driver's seat, where he had been waiting, to the gate man.

We got into the car and dad drove out immediately.

Oh yessssss.