I was so scared and worried about adebimpe’s
silence and
sudden disappearance. I couldn’t hold it
anymore and I have no
choice than to open up to the only best friend I
have on the following weekend when we met at his house.
ME: sege, fear dey catch me oooo
SEGE: wetin happen?
ME: na bimpe matter
SEGE: you and this bimpe!!, haba onihaxy??, abi
na blood covenant dey between the two of you?,
ME: you won’t understand jaree.
SEGE: all the time “you won’t understand”.
Then when exactly
will I understand?
ME: *** serious look*** ok, this is why I’m worried
SEGE: **re-adjusted sitting position**. Ok I’m
listening.
ME: at first, she had disappeared for like over
2 years, now we
met at the hospital and she acted so nice to me.
SEGE: so?
ME: but she refused to give me her number, she
refused to call
me, she didn’t let me know her house address,
and now I was told that she had resigned from the hospital 2
weeks after I left
abuja.
SEGE: how did you know she resigned.
ME: I asked the doctor when I called him.
SEGE: so you still dey ask of bimpe from the doctor?. You no well
ooo.
ME: you won’t understand sha.
SEGE: so why are you really worried?
ME: bimpe might be a ghost or “akudaya”.
Who knows, maybe she was dead before.
SEGE: chaiiii, onihaxy, you too funny sha.
ME: and you know we had s3x.
SEGE: and so?, sebi you used condom?, see, as
long as sperm no
enter her punny, nothing go happen. If anything wan happen
spiritually, na through sperm e dey take
happen.
ME: ***deep breath***, segun, let me be sincere,
I didn’t use
condom.
SEGE: haaaaa!!!!!!!, onihaxy!!!!!, you sha wan kill
yourself ontop
5minutes enjoyment?.
ME: segun, I’m scared.
SEGE: sebi clinic dey down the street?
ME: yes,
SEGE: oya stand up, we dey go do test.
Segun cajoled me and forced me to follow him
to the clinic.
I was
so scared because it was my first time of
doing HIV test.
We got to the hospital and we were directed to the right center
within the clinic. I paid 1,000 at the reception, I
met a lot of
people there, pretty looking ladies in various
complexions. some
were doing meeting, some were queueing for drug, some were
been counselled. I got scared the more and my
heart almost
burst out of my chest as I began to imagine
what would happen
when these same girls get out of the clinic to have raw s3x with
guys.
The doctor who wanted to attend to me
counselled me first about
hiv. She told me that it is not the end of the
world incase I come out positive, she continued the sweet talk but
my mind wasn’t in
all her talks. She proceeded in taking my blood
samples after I
filled a form. I was with her in the room and
segun was sitting at the reception. After obtaining the samples,
she told me to return
in the evening of the second day. We left the
hospital with my
heart so burdened.** Chai!!, HIV itself isn’t the
killer, but the fear of having it***.
On the evening of the second day. I stopped at
segun’s house
and we went together to the hospital for the
result. Segun waited
for me again at the reception while I went to meet the doctor
myself. I told her my name and she began to
search through the
envelope and after a moment of searching.
She brought out the
envelope but refused to give it to me, instead, she started
counselling me again. And this time, my heart
was beating faster
as the sermon was more lengthy than that of
the previous day
Season 2 Episode 29 coming.