The midnight wife

📝: THE MIDNIGHT WIFE

I was very excited that i would finally be going to visit my Aunt and her family in Lagos for the first time in my entire life as a being, although we normally talk on phone and often video calls.

Meeting her in person has always been one of my dreams. It's finally coming to be a reality.

The third term came to an end on the 27th of July and we had the whole of August to ourselves which I was going to spend in Lagos, with my Aunt.

I entered the first bus going to Lagos the next day and zoomed off. My parents had given me enough advice that was worth lasting a whole year. For a moment, I thought they had become pastors or probably evangelists because Their kind of advice that evening was a shock to me.

Nevertheless, I had always listened to them, so will I do now. We did a 11 hour journey before arriving in Lagos and as if my Anuty and her family timed my arrival, I met all of them at the park already waiting for me to land. It hadn't been long since they came.

Everything was normal for the rest of July until we clocked August and then my Aunt called me into her room and locked the door.

"Jude, I want to tell you something. Let's tell a secret and it's between us." She told me while adjusting herself on the bed.

"Yes, ma'am. I'm all ears!" I answered her inquisitively.

"You see ehh! As we are entering this new month, things are going to change around here, we are expecting the crying wife." She informed me while she looked as if someone was behind her to strand her to deàth.

"Who is the crying wife again na." I inquired curiously.

My aunt looked so apprehensive and uneasy as she pointed to the room next to mine, there was a wall dividing the rooms from each other. Since it was a three storey building, my room was just next to the supposed crying wife. For that instant I was scared but I later joked about it and after playing around with my cousins I forgot about all she told me and even the warnings which I was intended to heed to.

After midnight prayers, we all retired to bed and that was when fear engulfed me to the point where I couldn't move an inch. I was startled by everything and I left someone's presence in that room where I was.

Her wailing was so loud that I left my eye drums almost breaking at that moment, everyone wasn't hearing because if they were, I'm sure I would have been saved. I was trembling with fear and swimming in the pool of sweat beams my body had formed.

Before I knew it, I saw a shadow forming right before my eyes, a woman dressed in a native yoruba buba and blouse with blood stains all over her body, she had blue colored eyes mixed with a bit of blood. Her long tribal marks looked like the legs of scorpions.

In a beam of light, she appeared and sat on the bed besides me, she tap me gently and calmed me down.

It happened a long time ago, when Dami's parents married her off to Chike by force, she had never for once had a happy day in his house as all the skies around her have turned blue.

But that day something unfortunate happened that led to her death, her husband came back home drunk and at the same time angry and because his wife was still cooking when he returned.

With both frasturston and drunkenness, he vented and poured it all on his wife till the point where she wasn't moving and crying again. He became alarmed and it was then that he realized she had passed out.

He gathered his bags and left quickly telling the neighbors that wife's younger sister was getting married and he needed to be there since his wife had already gone a day before him. All the tenants agreed with his explanation and bid him farewell and sent their regards to his wife.

It was not until after a year and when both the husband and wife weren't showing signs of coming back, that was when the landlord made up his mind to give the room out for rent. The day they broke into the room, it was very hot and it smelled like a refuse bin mixed with the sting of a rotten rat and egg.

The cleaners looked around and found a skeleton of a woman on the sofa which had turned into something very disgusting, alas! That's the body of the man's wife whom he claimed had traveled, so the man killed her and ran away.

The neighbors were summoned and to avoid casualties, they all resorted to dump her bones in the bush. Without any proper sacrifice being made.

Now she has told me what happened, her husband can't go scot-free. She has sent me on a mission to avenge her deàth, Michael must not go scot-free.
She left me after she had explained all that happened, I turned to the man and saw my reflection as I looked reddish in color, my eyes turned black and smoke vaped out of my skin.

I felt like something stronger than me had possessed me suddenly, I was so energized till the point that I saw myself leaving the ground and floating on the air, I wasn't understanding myself any more and the voice I could hear was that of Dami.

"Avenge my death" she said.

I quickly left my house without informing anyone, I boarded a vehicle and headed straight to Dami's parents house to inform them of what happened because they were still in the dark even though some of them had a premonition that something eerie had happened to their daughter.

But Michael kept assuring them that all was alright and when they asked to see their daughter, he told them that she had gone on a business trip to Canada and won't be coming back for a while.

In order not to get connected to them again, he blocked them and changed his number from the one they had, when some of her relatives went to visit them in Lagos, they were told that the husband told them that they were going home for his wife's younger sister's wedding.

And that it had been long since they came back, the compound people also refused to tell them what really happened to their daughter, without getting much information about their daughter and her husband's whereabouts.

It was late in the evening when Jude reached her paternal house and disclosed the news to them and promised to show them where the body was disposed of if only they would show her some things she needed to use against him.

Commotion was set amidst the household as Jude disclosed the news to them, they allowed him inside their late daughter's room and left him to do what he said he wanted to do.

He was through and then waved them goodbye and told them that he was coming back in two days time and immediately, he walked a distance and he vanished into thin air. His appearance and disappearance left their mouths agape.

Micheal was now married with three children and his wife and lived in port harcourt with his family, immediately Jude stepped his legs in the town where there was heavy rain and rumbling sounds of thunder and lightning in the whole of the town.

The next day, Micheal worked up to meet his two three kids laying lifeless in their bedroom and his wife laying in the same position as Dami when he purposely béàt into deàth.

Micheal was disordered that day and left like his world had crumbled without remembering he had crumbled someone else's world. His friends and family tried hard to console him but it wasn't working at all.

That same day in the evening, when his corpse had been buríed and everyone had gone home except for his best friend, John. Who stayed back to be with his friend who was derived.

It was just a minute to 12am and everything became a night that Micheal won't forget in a hurry, as he just finished praying the first thing he received was a blazing slap on his cheek, he hadn't even fully recovered from that one before another one came in on both cheeks. This particular one made him stublem twice before he regained himself.

It was at this point that fear swallowed him, he was trembling like a leaf drenched in dew and rain. He tried screaming but he felt an invisible hand covering his mouth. Before he knew it, he began bléeding from his nose and ears.

After so much torturé and unimaginable things, he was left up by an invisible hand and thrown on the ground, causing him to lose his hands, legs and sense of hearing.

THE END.