THE ICE QUEEN OF QUEENS PART II (updated)

Unveiling The Thorn In Her 

By Abraham Favour Olohigbe

 

 

     The voice that gives her nightmares and Goosebumps brought her back to earth. She could feel her heart beating fast, one would know that she was anxious and scared. Tíke wanted to take to her heels, but like every other time, her legs wouldn’t move. She began to try to regulate her breathing so as to look comported and brave. “ Oh, I thought you had given up on your obsession, Manuel, or do you still make other girls miserable?” Tíke replied to him. He looked at her and smiled wickedly “Just one guy and you’ve grown wings, beware or you’ll be sorry.” As he said this, his friend, Patrick was moving towards him. “ Emma, how far na, I don tell you to talk say make we no near your cousin again if not yawa go gas” Patrick whispered to Emmanuel and they began walking off.

    Well, you could say Patrick had changed a bit but birds of a feather flock together, he had done the same thing to girls in her secondary school where the children in her extended family had met him. Tike knew she had to go see her cousin, Mide in the Post Graduate Hall to explain everything to her. She didn’t even walk down to her hostel she headed down to the PG Hall instantly, thankfully Mide was around and she let her in. Tíke burst into tears as she walked into her room “ Eeeeee!!!!!!! Hope he hasn’t started again, Tike?” she exclaimed. Well, for a long while Manuel had not come close to her but now that he has, he has brought every memory back in vibrant colours. Tike went on to explain to Mide, who had advised her times without number to try out another school but she couldn’t because her parents wouldn’t agree. “ Avoid him at all costs then, since no other way works”.

     Two months after the ordeal she had with Manuel, Loius asked her to be his girlfriend to which she finally agreed and the relationship was the talk of the campus. Most people came up with different stories of how they ended up together both funny and useless ones that make one more angry than laughing. It was well for so long, they all finished their final year and were serving when the timeless bomb was triggered. A night before their graduation, the most unimaginable thing happened.

It was a bright Saturday morning, but it wasn’t the usual one. The whole campus was gloomy just because of a particular news that had spread. Three people had gone missing, they disappeared like smoke into thin air. The only reason that made people know it was a suicide note left on Tíke's reading table in her room. It included all she had been through and why she was taking her own life.

   It is said that she had left the hostel at the wee hours of the morning and her roommate had said she was so lively, that she didn’t even perceive the smell of the impending doom.

  Well, do you wonder why I know her story so much? I  am not her but I met her on the very morning that Louis, Manuel, and Tíke went missing. I saw her that morning as a broken, beaten, and bartered and I walked up to her and asked if she was fine to which her replies were tears. After a while, she poured out her heart and told me everything, but I guess it was too late at the time she talked. She had asked her loved ones for it but they deprived her of that. She tricked me also with that beautiful smile of hers and said “Thank you, beautiful stranger. We might meet again”.

  Everybody on campus had no idea what ensued after our little combo, every effort to find them was futile. No one knows if they all died or they all lived, or if one of them is still alive. However, life continues and as the humans that we are, we put what happened behind us. What we’ve learnt the most is to abandon an issue that yields no result and forget about curbing the reoccurrences of bad experiences.

     The End