Dora And The Water god!
Episode 15
… Stunned, I opened my mouth to say something but I giggled instead. Everything seemed like a dream, so unbelievable.
“Like I said the other time, your daughter” She said smiling.
“I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Who really are you?”
“In a few months time” She repeated, and then disappeared.
As soon as she disappeared, I took a few steps backwards and I started to stare at the fire, at the same time contemplating whether to place a pot on it or not.
I tiptoed to the back of the house, and I peeped, looking around to be sure that nobody was there.
I tiptoed back and I sat on the veranda, still wondering what was really happening.
After a few minutes, I got up, picked one of the pots and placed it on the fire. I made my food right there without anyone noticing.
After I was done, I went into my room and after eating, I slept off right there on the spot and later woke up in the early hours of the next day to this very loud bangs on the entrance door.
“Who is that?” My stepmother probed but the person did not respond.
My stepmother screamed my name from her room, asking me to go find out who it was.
I was still feeling very dizzy but I had to manage to the front door to find out who it actually was but as soon as I opened the door, a middle aged woman grabbed my blouse and dragged me out of the living room with it.
“Leave me alone! Leave me alone!!” I screamed struggling to remove her grip from my blouse but I couldn’t.
“If I slap you, you will vanish into thin air” She threatened.
“Madam leave me alone now, who are you?” I asked at the top of my voice and then, my stepmother and her daughter dashed out.
“Aah, Mama Dale, what’s going on and what are you doing here this early?” My stepmother asked looking so surprised.
“I am here cos of this daughter of yours that returned from the land of the de@d” She woman said still gripping my blouse.
“God forbid, she’s not my daughter please, this is my daughter beside me”
“That’s not why I’m here. You sold me a necklace and then sent this same girl here to come collect it back somehow?”
Hearing that, my stepmother’s jaw dropped in awe. I heard it when my stepmother called her “Mama Dale”, it was when she mentioned the necklace that I knew the mother of whom she really was.
“I don’t understand, please make me understand ” Said my stepmother.
“Why don’t you ask this pr0stitute you call a daughter or a maid? I don’t care whatever she is to you. Dale took the necklace from my box and after t0rturing him when I couldn’t find it, he confessed to me that he gave it to her”
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“It’s a lie!” My stepmother exclaimed with mouth agape, and then looked at me.
“Is that true? Now where’s the necklace?” She asked.
“But the necklace is mine, it was never yours” I yelled.
“If you don’t provide that necklace this minute, I will hit you hard where it will hurt you so b@d. You know me” My stepmother thre@tened.
“I’m not giving it back” I yelled again.
“I give you just 2 minutes to provide that necklace or I will burn down this house, I mean it! I don’t want a refund, all I want is the necklace “
“Dont be offended please” My stepmother pleaded.
“Dora, did you hear what she just said? “Give her the necklace now” Said my step sister.
“I did, but I’m never giving it back no matter what you do to me”
“So, you’re not just p0ssessed but also a th!ef?” Asked my step sister.
“Don’t you dare call me that you ill mannered f00l!” I lashed.
And all of a sudden, my stepmother and sister whispered to each other and both dashed into the house and then returned with my bucket of clothes.
They turned it upside down emptying my bucket of clothes on the ground, and there the necklace I had kept in the bucket the previous night was. My step sister took it grinning, and then handed it to my stepmother.
“Give me that, it is not yours” I yelled and almost ran to them but the woman dragged me back, still gripping my blouse.
“Mama Dale, please don’t be offended, here it is” My stepmother said, walking towards us and was about handing it to the woman when something mysterious happened.
The necklace turned into a rope right before our very eyes.
My stepmother flung it aside and they all screamed in chorus. The woman released my blouse and sprinted out of the house, screaming at the top of her voice as she ran like one who saw a ghost.
I quickly picked it up and as soon as I did, it turned back into the necklace.
I ran as fast as my legs could carry, headed straight to the river. On reaching there, I saw Neon standing in the river…