Haunted by My Ex, Engaged to His Twin
Chapter 3: Shaken but Still Standing
Ten minutes later, I finally calm small.
I rest for wall, carry cigarette from my bag.
"Wetin dey happen? Why I dey see you?"
Musa shrink enter one corner, look even more shock than me.
"Me sef wan know."
I try light the cigarette again and again. Rain don soak am, e no gree burn.
He pause, float come my side, try grab am—forget say e no fit touch anything. Hand just pass through the cigarette.
He freeze, then to hide shame, come near come smell me.
"You dey drink? You dey smoke?"
"Ifeoma, when you learn all this one?"
We go same junior and senior secondary school.
You fit say na childhood friends we be.
He senior me with three months, always dey act like say na my elder, dey lecture me up and down.
But I never fear am.
Even now, I still no dey fear.
"E don tay. I don forget."
He open eye. "You fit forget that kind thing?"
"Abeg, if I forget, I forget. No be big deal."
Yes o.
No be big deal.
I throw the cigarette, waka pass am, remove my wet jacket, fling am for ground.
He float follow me, dey my back like say na bodyguard.
"You no dey fear as you see me? You no wan ask..."
His voice just cut.
Because he see as I remove jacket, begin unbutton my dress.
Button reach chest, he don disappear pass wall.
Small time, I hear shout from study room.
"Ah ah! Your fiancé cheat, you wan use me do rebound like pervert?"
"Abeg, Ifeoma, I be ghost, no use me test run your wahala!"
"I don die already, I no fit help you for that side."
I just shake head, this Musa wahala too much. Ghost still dey jealous, abi na play e dey play? Na only Musa go fit carry ghost matter like comedy. The memory of all our old quarrels just dey rush back, mix with the cold air and rain.
