THREE
Uzoma’s eyes darted circular the compound. In a affair of seconds together with she had seen what she sought— igbeguru! The cutting destination of a palm frond amongst its long together with dangerously curved spines.
She flew towards it at once.
Seeing her choice it up, Sammy screamed together with took off.
Glimpsing the situation, Amaka swung round, threw the gate dorsum opened upward together with disappeared through, Sammy next arrange the same instant.
She mightiness non await thence young, but Uzoma ran similar a dog. H5N1 mad dog.
In a few seconds she was already catching upward amongst the girls.
‘What did yous produce to her?!’ Amaka asked Sammy, nether a breathless voice.
‘I don’t know o!’ Sammy zoomed yesteryear her.
Onyemaechi’s unopen friend, Enenie-Nwangene, was on his agency to the solid to come across his friend.
Seeing the running girls, he halted. ‘Hey, what is pur—’
Amaka together with Sammy had sped yesteryear him earlier he could consummate this statement.
Enenie-Nwangene solely directly stared at them.
Turning, his eyes bumped into Uzoma together with her long weapon.
But it was besides belatedly to dodge her together with earlier anything else, the thin-bodied quondam human being works life himself tumbling on the cassava bush that bordered the path.
Uzoma did non fifty-fifty bother to plough together with depository fiscal establishment jibe the human being she’d knocked off the road; she ran upward still, the large frond held upward inwards the air.
Enenie-Nwangene spat out sand together with leaves that had gotten into his mouth. His oral cavity remained opened upward for long, eyes broad together with straight. Finally he shook his caput together with murmured: ‘Eventually this woman’s madness has come upward rife.’ He stared emptily ahead for some fourth dimension more, together with thence shook his caput in ane trial to a greater extent than earlier struggling to rise.
Uzoma had gotten really unopen to the wider hamlet path, the ane that ran through the pith of the village, all the agency upward to the tarred major route ahead earlier she finally grew tired together with stopped.
She glared, cursed together with and thence turned back.
Finally, Amaka together with Sammy stopped too.
Amaka clutched her knees, breast heaving.
Sammy looked circular for a identify to sit.
She finally saw a tree stump at the border of the route together with started towards it.
But earlier she could larn to it, she lost command of herself together with slumped to the ground.
Amaka’s broad eyes flew to her.
***
‘You are novel to this village?’ Ejike asked Rita.
Finally, she raised her human face upward together with looked at him. She stared at him. ‘You said?’
‘I asked if yous are novel to this village.’
Rita nodded. ‘Yes.’
‘So your daughter, what exactly happened?’
‘I can’t explain. She’s been really angry amongst me lately but I never idea it’d come upward to this.’
‘Come to what?’
‘I never idea she’d e'er intend virtually this.’
‘Think virtually what?’
‘Running away.’
‘You intend she ran away?’
‘Yes.’
‘What if she—’
Rita’s eyes ran to Ejike, cutting him off. ‘What?’
Wanting non to stress the lady whatever further, Ejike completed: ‘Don’t worry she’ll live back.’
‘I am thinking of going to the police pull to brand a report.’
‘How quondam is she?’
’19, presently to live 20.’
‘She is an adult already. You don’t demand to live thence concerned.’
‘But she—’
‘I said don’t worry. She likely is inwards ane of her friend’s house.’
‘The solely friend she has stays inwards the same edifice every bit us.’
‘She is xx years old, produce yous really intend yous know all her friends?’
Rita stared at Ejike.
‘She’ll return, I assure you. Give her a duet of hours together with she would conduct hold come upward dorsum to her senses.’
‘Are yous sure?’
‘Yes.’
‘How tin yous be?’
‘Because I was in ane trial similar your daughter.’
‘What?’
‘Don’t worry, fine Miss, she’ll live back.’
Rita forgot her eyes on him again. He reminded her of somebody she in ane trial knew. The feeling was strong, but she couldn’t quite just identify it.
She stood together with dusted her wrapper. ‘I’ll live going habitation now, give thank yous you thence much for—’
Ejike stood too. ‘I volition walk yous home.’
Rita’s eyes were on him again. He didn’t say ‘Let me walk yous home’ or, to a greater extent than suppliantly, ‘Can I walk yous home?’— thence that Rita would say something similar ‘Oh no, don’t bother yourself’—he said ‘I volition walk yous home’, leaving no room for her denying or accepting.
‘Okay,’ Rita finally said to him.
And the 2 started away.
***
***
‘Let’s become to the hospital,’ Amaka said again.
‘I said I’m fine!’ Sammy said. She turned to the immature man child standing amongst them. ‘Pour to a greater extent than of that H2O on me please.’
The man child obeyed, Sammy rubbing her human face upward over every bit the mutual frigidity H2O flowed on her.
‘This is surprising to me,’ Amaka said.
‘Me too,’ Sammy said. ‘I simply felt all of a abrupt woozy.’
‘Hmm.’
‘I nonetheless keep nosotros become to the hospital. St. Mary is simply downwards the road, nosotros could purpose a bike. And they conduct hold really proficient doctors there.’
‘I am fine.’ Sammy stood, confine to her feet actually—as if to reassure Amaka that she really was fine.
‘I volition live going now,’ the man child amongst them said.
Amaka turned to the boy. ‘Ndubuisi, nosotros conduct hold finished your water.’
‘Don’t worry. The tap is nonetheless running together with people are few; I volition become together with fetch some other one.’
‘Thank you. Greet your sis for me, inu.’
‘Okay, Aunty.’
As they walked home, Sammy told Amaka she’s been urinating ofttimes for some menses of fourth dimension also, together with has been feeling a form of hurting inwards her lower abdomen.
Amaka halted, suddenly. She felt Sammy’s face, pressed each of her eyes downwards amongst a finger. ‘You await fatter. When lastly did yous come across your period?’
Sammy looked amused. ‘You intend I’m pregnant?’
‘Answer my question.’
‘I am non pregnant. If I am, I would live the outset to know.’
‘How volition yous know?’
‘Don’t worry, simply know that I am non pregnant.’
***
Still, when they got to the solid together with Uzoma saw them together with picked the frond again, Amaka shouted at her: ‘Ogini? What is it? Why are yous chasing a important adult woman roughly similar that?’
Uzoma stopped together with stared at them.
Sammy walked to the H2O container, took some H2O inwards a bowl together with poured on her legs together with the residual on her face.
Then she entered the house.
‘Ishi gini?’ Uzoma said to Amaka. ‘What did yous simply say?’
‘She is pregnant, how tin yous non know?’
Uzoma stared at her. But instead her human face upward cracked inwards amusement. ‘This ane pregnant?’ she said. ‘At her age? Nne, ede esiri no oku a na epu ome, gbo? Have yous e'er seen a cooked cocoyam sprouting leaves? Leave that matter! That miss within is my mate inwards age, that is if she is non fifty-fifty older than me.’
Amaka scowled at the quondam woman.
Inside the room, Sammy took off all her clothes. She came to stand upward earlier the cracked mirror on the wall, watching her naked belly. It really has gotten bigger, somehow.
She couldn’t hold off for Ejike to come upward home, thence that she’d vociferation at him. If non slap him.
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Uzoma’s eyes darted circular the compound. In a affair of seconds together with she had seen what she sought— igbeguru! The cutting destination of a palm frond amongst its long together with dangerously curved spines.
She flew towards it at once.
Seeing her choice it up, Sammy screamed together with took off.
Glimpsing the situation, Amaka swung round, threw the gate dorsum opened upward together with disappeared through, Sammy next arrange the same instant.
She mightiness non await thence young, but Uzoma ran similar a dog. H5N1 mad dog.
In a few seconds she was already catching upward amongst the girls.
‘What did yous produce to her?!’ Amaka asked Sammy, nether a breathless voice.
‘I don’t know o!’ Sammy zoomed yesteryear her.
Onyemaechi’s unopen friend, Enenie-Nwangene, was on his agency to the solid to come across his friend.
Seeing the running girls, he halted. ‘Hey, what is pur—’
Amaka together with Sammy had sped yesteryear him earlier he could consummate this statement.
Enenie-Nwangene solely directly stared at them.
Turning, his eyes bumped into Uzoma together with her long weapon.
But it was besides belatedly to dodge her together with earlier anything else, the thin-bodied quondam human being works life himself tumbling on the cassava bush that bordered the path.
Uzoma did non fifty-fifty bother to plough together with depository fiscal establishment jibe the human being she’d knocked off the road; she ran upward still, the large frond held upward inwards the air.
Enenie-Nwangene spat out sand together with leaves that had gotten into his mouth. His oral cavity remained opened upward for long, eyes broad together with straight. Finally he shook his caput together with murmured: ‘Eventually this woman’s madness has come upward rife.’ He stared emptily ahead for some fourth dimension more, together with thence shook his caput in ane trial to a greater extent than earlier struggling to rise.
Uzoma had gotten really unopen to the wider hamlet path, the ane that ran through the pith of the village, all the agency upward to the tarred major route ahead earlier she finally grew tired together with stopped.
She glared, cursed together with and thence turned back.
Finally, Amaka together with Sammy stopped too.
Amaka clutched her knees, breast heaving.
Sammy looked circular for a identify to sit.
She finally saw a tree stump at the border of the route together with started towards it.
But earlier she could larn to it, she lost command of herself together with slumped to the ground.
Amaka’s broad eyes flew to her.
***
‘You are novel to this village?’ Ejike asked Rita.
Finally, she raised her human face upward together with looked at him. She stared at him. ‘You said?’
‘I asked if yous are novel to this village.’
Rita nodded. ‘Yes.’
‘So your daughter, what exactly happened?’
‘I can’t explain. She’s been really angry amongst me lately but I never idea it’d come upward to this.’
‘Come to what?’
‘I never idea she’d e'er intend virtually this.’
‘Think virtually what?’
‘Running away.’
‘You intend she ran away?’
‘Yes.’
‘What if she—’
Rita’s eyes ran to Ejike, cutting him off. ‘What?’
Wanting non to stress the lady whatever further, Ejike completed: ‘Don’t worry she’ll live back.’
‘I am thinking of going to the police pull to brand a report.’
‘How quondam is she?’
’19, presently to live 20.’
‘She is an adult already. You don’t demand to live thence concerned.’
‘But she—’
‘I said don’t worry. She likely is inwards ane of her friend’s house.’
‘The solely friend she has stays inwards the same edifice every bit us.’
‘She is xx years old, produce yous really intend yous know all her friends?’
Rita stared at Ejike.
‘She’ll return, I assure you. Give her a duet of hours together with she would conduct hold come upward dorsum to her senses.’
‘Are yous sure?’
‘Yes.’
‘How tin yous be?’
‘Because I was in ane trial similar your daughter.’
‘What?’
‘Don’t worry, fine Miss, she’ll live back.’
Rita forgot her eyes on him again. He reminded her of somebody she in ane trial knew. The feeling was strong, but she couldn’t quite just identify it.
She stood together with dusted her wrapper. ‘I’ll live going habitation now, give thank yous you thence much for—’
Ejike stood too. ‘I volition walk yous home.’
Rita’s eyes were on him again. He didn’t say ‘Let me walk yous home’ or, to a greater extent than suppliantly, ‘Can I walk yous home?’— thence that Rita would say something similar ‘Oh no, don’t bother yourself’—he said ‘I volition walk yous home’, leaving no room for her denying or accepting.
‘Okay,’ Rita finally said to him.
And the 2 started away.
***
***
‘Let’s become to the hospital,’ Amaka said again.
‘I said I’m fine!’ Sammy said. She turned to the immature man child standing amongst them. ‘Pour to a greater extent than of that H2O on me please.’
The man child obeyed, Sammy rubbing her human face upward over every bit the mutual frigidity H2O flowed on her.
‘This is surprising to me,’ Amaka said.
‘Me too,’ Sammy said. ‘I simply felt all of a abrupt woozy.’
‘Hmm.’
‘I nonetheless keep nosotros become to the hospital. St. Mary is simply downwards the road, nosotros could purpose a bike. And they conduct hold really proficient doctors there.’
‘I am fine.’ Sammy stood, confine to her feet actually—as if to reassure Amaka that she really was fine.
‘I volition live going now,’ the man child amongst them said.
Amaka turned to the boy. ‘Ndubuisi, nosotros conduct hold finished your water.’
‘Don’t worry. The tap is nonetheless running together with people are few; I volition become together with fetch some other one.’
‘Thank you. Greet your sis for me, inu.’
‘Okay, Aunty.’
As they walked home, Sammy told Amaka she’s been urinating ofttimes for some menses of fourth dimension also, together with has been feeling a form of hurting inwards her lower abdomen.
Amaka halted, suddenly. She felt Sammy’s face, pressed each of her eyes downwards amongst a finger. ‘You await fatter. When lastly did yous come across your period?’
Sammy looked amused. ‘You intend I’m pregnant?’
‘Answer my question.’
‘I am non pregnant. If I am, I would live the outset to know.’
‘How volition yous know?’
‘Don’t worry, simply know that I am non pregnant.’
***
Still, when they got to the solid together with Uzoma saw them together with picked the frond again, Amaka shouted at her: ‘Ogini? What is it? Why are yous chasing a important adult woman roughly similar that?’
Uzoma stopped together with stared at them.
Sammy walked to the H2O container, took some H2O inwards a bowl together with poured on her legs together with the residual on her face.
Then she entered the house.
‘Ishi gini?’ Uzoma said to Amaka. ‘What did yous simply say?’
‘She is pregnant, how tin yous non know?’
Uzoma stared at her. But instead her human face upward cracked inwards amusement. ‘This ane pregnant?’ she said. ‘At her age? Nne, ede esiri no oku a na epu ome, gbo? Have yous e'er seen a cooked cocoyam sprouting leaves? Leave that matter! That miss within is my mate inwards age, that is if she is non fifty-fifty older than me.’
Amaka scowled at the quondam woman.
Inside the room, Sammy took off all her clothes. She came to stand upward earlier the cracked mirror on the wall, watching her naked belly. It really has gotten bigger, somehow.
She couldn’t hold off for Ejike to come upward home, thence that she’d vociferation at him. If non slap him.
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