Circle, Accra – Episode 9

Circle, Accra

Chapter 9

 

It was noon when Femi woke up from sleep, she stayed on the mattress with her eyes fixed to the ceiling and trying to reminisce what had happened at Chief’s place, she remembered the cash in her purse and quickly checked on it, she wasn’t taking any chances now, you don’t know who wants to rob you, even her family witches in Warri can steal the cash in an interested way.

 

Checking on her phone, she didn’t get any call from Tequila, and she became disturbed, she called Tequila’s phone but the number was still not reachable after the third try, she put on her robe and went to check her kiosk space and it was still locked, she went to ask one of Tequila’s friend Blakk, who almost knew every move of Tequila if she’s not at Vienna.

 

Blakk: Omo Naija, you look prettier in your raw face

 

Femi: Look Blakk, abeg not now, you see Tequila anyway, adey search her since last night but she never dey pick up her calls

 

Blakk: Oh never ooo, she didn’t come back from work last night, maybe she went to visit her mother or something

 

Femi: Mother? Tequila has a mother?

 

Blakk: Yeah, her Mother stays in Lapaz, but she wouldn’t tell you, like it’s for her mother’s safety, especially from Shuga or whatever

 

Femi: Oh okay, she never told me about her, but try calling her yourself, she might pick up

 

Blakk: Oh, but yesterday, a gentleman came to look for you ooo

 

Femi: You mean the guys who own the Restaurant back there?

 

Blakk: Yes

 

Femi: I’ll get in touch with him later

 

Blakk: And hey, I like your English, how are you able to switch from Naija pidgin to English without much traces of the Nigerian accent?

 

Femi: Hahaaa, you are funny, I’ve got to go

 

Tequila was raped till she passed out, she was lying naked on the bare floor with bruises all over her body, from where she was, nobody could hear her scream, locked in a dark cold room, sore body and bloodshot eyes, she lay there, waiting for the rounds of bullets to penetrate her near dead body.

 

Bulldog is Shuga’s most trusted bodyguard, she would do everything for her, He has killed many people, gone to jail countless times, pushed drugs for Shuga, but he kept something from the prying eyes of Shuga, his secret affair with Tequila. Killing Tequila as Shuga has instructed him to do was too difficult a task for him to execute, he watched the other guards rape Tequila, he administered to punches just to make sure no one suspects anything, but then he told them to lock her up, he will come clean the mess up when the club is deserted, he wouldn’t carry a dead body out when people are around. When the place was empty, Bulldog emerged from the dark room with the supposed dead body of Tequila wrapped in a bed sheets stained with blood, he threw the body in the booth of the car and sped off to where only heavens knows.

Few minutes after Bulldog had left, Shuga pulled up at the car park, she asked the guards outside

 

“Have you cleaned up the dirt”?

 

Guard 1: Yes Ma’am

 

Shuga: You sure? Where is she?

 

Guard 1: Bulldog cleaned it up, he’s gone to dispose off the dirt

 

Shuga: Alright

 

It was getting to sundown and Tequila was not yet back, Femi had tried her best but to no avail, he went back to Blakk to see if she can at least ask for Tequila’s Mum’s contact, just to be sure, maybe she went home to her mother.

 

”Errrm, Blakk, where did you say Tequila’s Mum stays? Femi asked

 

Blakk: Look, I promised and swore to her never to say anything, like never…

 

Femi: Look, I have not heard from her the whole of today, and it’s strange, her phone is off and I don’t know, what if something happened to her?, you have to help me find her Blakk.

 

Blakk: You know the work she dey do, she be ashawo, maybe she dey some customer body dey enjoy….

 

Femi: Look, Tequila wouldn’t do that, there are somethings I can’t tell you for now ok, just tell me where I can get in touch with her Mum.

 

Blakk: See you ooo, you sabi say know Tequila pass me? Abi you too you be Ashawo, so you for barb the job well, relax okay, she go come home.

 

Femi was now helpless, Blakk was not going to sell out Tequila and share with her where ti find Tequila’s Mum, then she thought again, what if she’s not at her Mum’s place?, or she’s really in bed with a customer as Blakk has told her…Maybe yes he’s right, He knows Tequila better than she does.

 

But why did Blakk refer to her as an “Ashawo”?, for Christ sake she has not laid any man yet, and people in the ghetto have already tagged her an Ashawo?, is it because she’s close to Tequila, or because she visits the club every night?…And was she ready to accept the fact and live with it for the rest of her life, in Ghana.

 

She went back into her room to take a short nap, but it was disturbed by a call from an unknown number, she wondered who it could be, she does not have friends, and only Tequila, Shuga and maybe Chief were those who dah her number, she picked up anyway

 

“Hello beautiful”, came the male voice over the phone

 

Femi: Yes, helooo

 

Voice: Sorry to interrupt, I have been trying to get in touch with you, but sorry I had to get your number through an illegal way

 

Femi: Get in touch with me, sorry, but who am I speaking with, am not really used to people trying to get in touch with me using illegal means, you know it’s illegal

 

Voice: Sorry, I’m the guy who came over to your place yesterday, Blakk might have told you I came over your place

 

Femi: Yeah he did, and you are the guy in charge of the Bar right?

Voice: Yes, call me Nedd

 

Femi: How did you get illegally get my number, and why have you been looking for me?

 

Nedd: I got it from Tequila, and I just want to be a friend, just that

 

Femi: Tequila never told me she had given my

number to you, and I will have to think about it, the friends thingy…

 

Nedd: Ok, why don’t you come over to the Bar, we could grab a couple of drinks. Deal?

 

Femi: Mmmm, call me tomorrow morning to confirm

Nedd: Alright, stay safe

 

Femi fell back into her bed, she sighed and shut her eyes tight

“I can’t find my friend, and someone is trying me to get into my pants? God Ghana!

 

To be continued……..

 

Danny Biitka

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