There is something I like about Chioma but I will not tell you because if I do, you would want to snatch her away from me. She has open teeth. Yes, but that is not all. One day I was having a problem with some boys at a provision store around the area because of the little money that I was owing the shop owner. So, she showed up and released me from the grips of their hands while claiming that she was my madam at an imaginary supermarket where I worked with her as a sales boy and they allowed me to go since she claimed that my presence was already needed at the premises as at the time of the fracas and that any delay hitherto incurred might lead to some digits reading backwards in my monthly salary which was meager, by the way.
Hearing this, they let me go after that I had promised to come back later and pay. I don’t know why Mama Chinecherem decided to act that way at her shop that day. She was a good woman, accepted but the presence of those three boys made her to be violent with me that day.
When we got to the house, she laughed and called me her sales boy. I wanted to slap her but I remembered that she just saved me. Come to think of it, could I even have been able to slap her considering the fact that two of her brothers are high ranking officers in the Army? Remembering these, I just went down low and started sobbing while on the floor.
That evening, she called me on phone and scolded me while telling me that it was not good to owe people as it brings insults of which I agreed with her but the way she said it made me to wonder if she was shouting on a kid but I still kept my cool. After all, I was the person who brought this trouble upon myself. It was not Chioma’s fault. After everything, I remembered that my mother had always told me not to be a bad guy and owing people was not good. For the very first time in a long while, I felt sober but it did not last for long as my phone binged after that I had dropped it on the drawer near my bed and when I checked, it was a credit alert from Chioma.
Automatically, I knew that it was Chioma because I had been having a family problem that had lasted for two and a half years and I was cut off from the family’s finance. So, I had no hope of receiving something from home. All the Engineers that I worked with were owing me as they claimed that it was a lockdown period with incessant sit-at-home orders which had crippled their cash flow systems and that there was no money for disbursement. So, I practically fed from hand to mouth. Sometimes, I was aided by friends, sometimes by the people that I met in the streets and always, I knew that it had been God. So, the least she could do was call me her sales boy of which I consented to. At least, with this new N150,000.00 in my account, I can fend for myself and pay off my numerous debts and who knows, I might start competing with Obi Cubana on social media but first thing first, I had to thank God.
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