ALPHA SNIPY– A VALIANT MAFIA LORD

“I’m tired ma’am” I cried for the tenth time after I fanned the Queen for like an hour or more but yet no reply. It took me a lot to express myself due to how intimidating she is. And the worst part was that she didn’t even do like she was hearing what I was saying. She just kept nodding her head while puffing smokes all over me. I know I had no watch on me but from the snores of one of my beaters, I knew I had gone more than two hours fanning her.

I had thought she would be asleep by now but instead, all she did was keep taking out another cigarette each time the one she was smoking finished. Cough became my only companion.

“Please my hand, head, and everywhere hurts, please” I whispered, and just like the other times she didn’t say a word and I continued fanning her while battling with mosquitoes.

I swear the mosquitoes were so big like rats. My whole body already got swelled up and was dripping out liquids. It was hurting so badly as if I was on fire. I quickly took a glance at my body and scrunched my nose in disgust.

Even a madwoman in the streets of a state in Nigeria looked better than me in both appearance and dressing.

I was still lost in thoughts when I landed on the floor with a loud thud. “Why did you stop fanning her bitch!” The same lady that has been tackling me screamed and I realized she had given me a sidekick.

“Linda, thought I warned you not to touch the kid,” their Queen said and I felt a kinda sensation in my heart for the first time since I entered the jail and smiled up in between tears and pain.

“But Queen…” She paused and exhaled. “She stopped fanning you and got lost in whatever she was thinking.”

“Stand up kid and continue what you were doing before I change am for you!” The Queen mumbled in mixed language of pure English and pidgin English( Pidgin English is a language spoken in a part of Nigeria). “See, I no like lazy girls, I no nice oo so don’t think me nice,” she added in a more cold voice and I felt like the ground should open up and swallow me because of how weak I was.

“But I’m tired ma’am and I need rest, all my body hurts and I need to clean myself off” I whimpered.

“Get out, you disgust me!” She wailed and I strolled close to the lady that fought for me earlier but immediately after I sat down, two scary-looking policemen entered.

“Killer come here!” They barked and I didn’t know when I entered into the arms of the lady I sat with burying myself into her. At that moment I just felt as if her body could open so I enter into it. I’m just so tired of it all.

“Please you all should leave her alone and stop suffering the poor girl, she doesn’t deserve all this” the lady I sat with fired back at the policemen while ruffling my hair.

“Shut up thief!” the two scary policemen barked at her and dragged me out of her arms.

“Please leave me alone, leave me” tears upon tears racked my throat but one knacked my back with the baton in his hand. “If you don’t shut up right now killer it will be your head next” he threatened glaring at me.

I couldn’t cry much anymore, my throat was sore, and my eyes even got tired of giving out tears because they felt so heavy and kept hurting. They were already so swollen.

The policemen dragged me into a dark room and pushed me roughly making me land on an iron chair.

“We will be gentle if you tell us the truth about why you killed your mum and also poisoned your brother” they whispered lowly and at that point, I thought they cared about me.

“I didn’t do it. Please believe…,” I was still talking when a sudden electrical current sizzled through me and I started vibrating and fainted at that instant.

I got woken up by a bucket of smelling water which was poured all over me and my body started itching badly. I glanced up to see the muscled scary policemen staring at me with a scowl on their faces.

“Tell us the truth now kid. Why did you kill your mum?!” Both of them growled.

‘Please I’ve not hurt a fly in my life, I’m just seventeen, how then will I kill my mu…,” a bang on my both cheeks withheld the remaining words and it felt like I wasn’t in the world anymore.

For several hours they kept talking and laughing but I couldn’t hear a thing. I kept rubbing and hitting my ears to see if sound will return to them but I couldn’t even hear my hits.

“My ears” I sobbed. Is this what being deaf is like? Everything felt empty, void, and meaningless. It was mere like a sweet-bittered life. No, no. I can’t be deaf. I can’t be deaf!

I watched them talking but couldn’t hear a thing and next they pressed the electric button once more and waves upon waves of current went through me and from my ears, mouth, and nose blood started oozing out so speedily.

“I just want to die” I whimpered and lost consciousness.

***

“Brother where are you going?” I asked my naked brother who was walking down a lonely lane with tears in his eyes. “Please don’t leave me, you’re my only hope.”

He looked at me and a tear dropped from his eye. “I wish it was in my power sis, I wouldn’t have walked through this part. The owner of my life calls for it and I have no say in his decision.”

“No brother, you can’t leave me” I cried rushing toward him but he held his hand mid-air and halted my action. “You can’t get close to me sis, we are of different worlds now. Please stay far away. It’s not yet your time now, you have to fight and conquer.”

Tears kept falling from my eyes like water. My only hope wants to leave. “No, I don’t wanna live anymore, take me with you please if you’re really leaving me in this wicked world alone.”

“I can’t take you with me, sis. It’s not yet your time.”

“Then stay with me, please. You don’t have to leave. You are my only hope of getting vengeance. Please.”

He looked at me, turned his back on me, and faded away.

“No no brother, please come back, please” I cried but a pool of water landed on me and I shivered waking up to see myself still sitting on the chair but this time I could hear.

I trembled remembering the dream I had and a shiver ran through my spine down to my bone marrow. ‘My brother can’t be dead’ I sobbed. ‘No, he can’t leave me.’

“Someone is here to see you” one of the policemen muttered jotting me out of my thoughts.

He dragged me up the chair but I lost balance immediately I stood up landing back on the chair. Even my leg couldn’t carry me anymore and it left me wondering how I’m still breathing without food or water since I came here.

I tried one more time and managed to stand. He hissed at me and walked ahead while I followed hoping it was my dad who came to take me out.

I got to the counter and met my worst nightmare sitting comfortably on the chair behind with a smile on her face. I glared at her and tightened my fist feeling like rushing her but on second thoughts decided not to and without even getting close I turned to go back but her words stopped me in my tracks. “Your father has been looking for the police station you are in to get you out cause he couldn’t bear having you locked up but unfortunately he can’t remember and it leaves me wondering if you will ever come out of here.”

“What do you mean?” I whispered lowly and strolled to her sitting down on the wooden chair kept for me.

She scoffed and let out an evil smile. “All I’m trying to say is that this police station is not known by your father. After all, I deleted the number he called cause I was the one who inputted the number, and if you must know you are in a community station so far away from your father’s reach and you know the worst part? None of his friends and associates knows that this station exists. As for your brother thank you for making work easier for me.”

“Why are you doing all this?” I sobbed. “I never wronged you. Then why torture me?”