HOW I BECAME A GOAT Episode 6 – 7 – Chika Christina

HOW I BECAME A GOAT Episode 6 – Chika Christina

The next morning…I saw the woman coming towards me with a knife..to think I actually slept outside, me Tony…

Seeing her approaching me with a knife,I became scared,I thought she wanted to kill me,I refused to follow her.

She dragged me but I refused,she picked up a stick from the ground and hit my back..I cried out loud,I cried…

that woman wanted to kill me for my father.

She dragged me to the other side of the compound where there was a lot of green grass,I was actually hungry and I bounced on them…I ate grass,to think that it was testy and I enjoyed it without minding it was grass.

Even though I still had some human feelings and sight but I was an animal and I behaved like one. I was shading tears as I was eating..

I paused” for a moment

I remembered how my father would beg me to eat at home,after stressing himself to put food on my table I will still reject it and most times I ate the food while cursing and hissing at the food.

My father was a nice cook,I remembered how my mother would prefer his cooking to hers because he made better meals than her.

I miss my father I wept in my heart…how is he taking my sudden disappearance? how is he managing? How about his health? I was asking myself all this questions and I wondered why I’m just realizing the importance of my beloved father. “Truly you won’t know the value of what you have until you lose it”

I prayed that God would forgive me and give me a second chance.

I couldn’t recall how many days that has passed because I am now a goat,I can’t reason well again.

I found out the rope on my neck was gone and there was no one in sight,instead of running away for my dear life,but instead i went to the backyard and saw where they spread back of yam..I ran straight to eat them,I got lost into eating it that I didn’t know when someone came out…what I heard on my back was a lash,with a big stick

I ran with a speed of light,crying and shouting at the same time, ewoo…my father o

“Chaii a whole me Tony,big guy like me? Me that used to reject yam at home got beaten because of back of yam…because of back of Yam they want to kill me for my father” I wept bitterly as I ran to hide in one corner. Abiola this is all your fault,who sent you to my house with a useless solution o…I cried “

At some point the thought of running away had completely left me,I guess the brain of animal has taken over me with full force…I guess I totally forgot I was a human being turned to a goat.

Not until one faithful day,I was taken to the market. The woman that took me home,went to the market with me. As we entered the market,I remembered like a flash that I am a human being and not a goat…but i had no idea of what to do,I was of no use to myself because I couldn’t reason well as a human

But there,it came…my only means of survival,it was staring right In front of me and I can’t miss that opportunity or else I will die as a goat and render my father childless.

How I became a goat (A true life story)

EPISODE 7

I saw a familiar face,..”yes!! that is Mrs Gladys” ..The widow living close to my fathers house,people call her ”Onye Amuma” “A prophetess, because of how she says things that has in one ways or the other came to pass.

Seeing her gave me hope immediately,but what will I do now? A rope on my neck and people pricing me.

Tears dropped from my eyes,chaii..maybe I will die this way?there is nothing left,I’m going to die a goat I cried..I had already lost hope before I noticed that one of the women pricing me was not holding the rope strongly,she was just busy talking price forgetting to hold the rope very well…and right at that moment I ran off from her hand. ..

I ran like it was my last run on earth, I was chased immediately by them but I kept running,luckily they missed me,they were not young people so why would they catch me? Big guy like Tony?me that can run for Africa not to talk of when it is matter of life and death..eh mm, I ran till I got to where that woman was,I went close to her and layed on the ground before her….

She was surprised, she looked me in the eyes and looked away but looked again almost immediately and then shouted the devil is a liar, I didn’t understand what her expression meant but I was not ready to leave her side,I planned to go home with her by force even if she stops me.

After sometime she started leaving the market,I followed her immediately. It was a big market and any small mistake I might miss her,so I followed her closely and quickly.

She turned at some point and saw me but she didn’t chase me instead she increased her steps while doing signs of the cross…she did signs of the cross so many times…

she looked scared and panicked as she was almost running,like maybe she wanted me to stop following her but I didn’t,this was my only hope.

I was so glad she didn’t enter any public transportation,it was a long walk but I didn’t care,I couldn’t have missed the only opportunity I had.

Everything worked together for my good…we got to our street eventually and no doubt I recognized it immediately and right there and then I ran. . .

I headed to my fathers compound,I was running towards my gate then I stopped and looked back only to see Mrs Gladys following me,I didn’t mind so I entered my compound….oh!! home sweet home,tears dropped from my eyes as I stood in front of my father who was asking me who owns me and why did I enter his compound..so you have come to eat the vegetables I planted?, angrily he raised his slippers to stone me,when Mrs Gladys stopped him immediately.

Actually,goats and fowl always enter our compound when the gate is left open to come and eat the crops in my father’s little farm at the backyard,so my father thought I was one of those animals that devours his vegetables.

Mrs Gladys told my father how I followed her home and what she felt when she looked me in the eyes…she told my father that it can’t be ordinary for this goat to walk straight to his compound after following her all the way from the market…

my father told her that goats are stupid and can do foolish things,so it is nothing and why would she insinuate there was something about it? She told him that,he should not chase me away that this goat might be his lost son…

my father started laughing….she told him to do something and find out what this goat represents because she’s sure there must be something about this particular goat and she left my compound while my father continued laughing…

#OpraDre BECAME A GOAT BECAME A GOAT

To be continued

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