I KILLED MY FATHER Episode 7 – The Mystery Man
I was in bed around three A.M , the drugs the doctor had prescribed for my sleeplessness,didn’t do much good , I would take them , and remain in bed awake till four A.M , if I dared slept before four , I would find myself in another world with monsters .
This day I was wide awake , staring at my roof , when suddenly a dark shadowy figure the exact size and height of my father walked through the wall I to my room , I was paralyzed,I tried to get up from the bed but my body wouldn’t respond , I tried to call for my mother no word came out of my word , the figure floated from when it was in a mini second and climbed on my chest .
It began to press me down , I wriggled and struggled to get it off me , but it wouldn’t, the bed began to sank under the weight of the beast on my body , I looked into its red eyes I saw hell fire , I screamed my lungs to reasons point but no word came out .
I heard the door open , mum came in she was holding me and calling my name , but I couldn’t answer , I was struggling with the beast of untop of me . It laughed with crooked rotten teeth . “You cannot fight us, we already have your head, your blood shall wash out altar .” The beast said , it chuckled before floating into the wall, my eyes almost popped out of my head .
“What’s wrong Solomon?” Mum asked scared to the bones , I was still trying to catch my breath , I couldn’t say a word , she stayed with me till the next morning , I had lost half my weight , I barely sleep in the a week ,the dreams and physical attacks were much , the psychologist and psychiatrist I was taken to concluded that I had schizophrenic.
I’ve been seeing the ghost of a school boy , he always insults me whenever I stepped into the kitchen , he said I was enjoying the money from his blood , there’s another woman and her baby they would always sit outside my door , they cried till the morning , how was I going to sleep .
“Solomon have you been taking your medications?” Mum asked me , the question infuriated me, she didn’t believe me when I said my dad was an occultic man , but she believed the doctor when he said I was mad . “Mum I didn’t take the drugs ! I flushed it down the toilet! I am not mad leave me alone !” I barked at her angrily .
“Jesus Christ this boy you want to kill me ?” Mum said crying , I ignored her tears , as I knotted my tie ,and wore my shoe , I stepped out of the house angrily , dad wouldn’t let me go to aunt Mirabel’s place, I spent some weekends there I had my peace the ghost let me to sleep .
I flung the pedestrian gate , I rattled like a crashing plane on impact with a rock , I was angry at everyone , I was angry at the demons that attacked me almost every day , I was at the ghost , how could they not know who killed them ? I hated my father already and they put his sins on me .
“Good morning Solomon ?” Nkoyo said , I ignored her and walked to my desk . “Solomon why are you ignoring me ? did I offend you ?” She asked I ignored her as of she was an invisible apparition.
The Mathematics teacher came to the class , she saw I wasn’t participating in her class , she called my attention . “Solomon why are you not paying any attention?” She asked I snubbed her , and focused my eyes on the vast oblivion in front of me .
“Solomon get up and solve the problem on the board!” She barked , I stared at her as though she was an ant . “Solomon take this marker go to the board and solve the equation!” She said her voice a little bit higher than normal , Mrs Aneke was the best teacher in senior secondary two , but I was burning in my soul she should have let me be , I collected the marker and flung it out of the window . My classmates sighed , Mrs Aneke held her mouth shock all over her face .
“Solomon get your things and leave my class this instant!” She barked I got up and flung my desk to the ground , I jumped on it so many times until it was crumbled and flattened , I opened my back pack and flung my books all over the place .
“Leave the fock alone! everyone leave me alone!” I yelled before running out of the class , I went to the gate , and began to fight the security guard to let me out , I removed my grey suit and threw it away , when the fight got too intensed the head teacher called my mum , before she would come to pick me I’d jumped over the barb wire fence and began to wander around the street , my mum parked behind me and began to chase me about , I was still wearing my white shirt and red and black tie , I had grown so tall , almost same height with my dad .
Mum had it hard to get me into the car . “Mum they want me mad , daddy killed them! They don’t let me rest they’re inside my head calling for revenge !” I screamed not minding the people watching us . “Mummy daddy wants to kill me! He wants to kill Cassidy, daddy wants to kill Nkoyo, mummy I’ll die!” I screamed, mum started crying .
“Solomon you told me you’d take your drugs , why did you stop taking it ?” Mum said with teary eyes.”Mum the drugs are making me mad! the demons are in my head , the woman with a baby she said I won’t have peace ! She said she will kill me and all of us .”Mum embraced me ,and whispered into my ears .
“Son it’s all in your head , if you don’t allow it to talk to you, it cannot talk to you .” She said I nodded . “Calm down Solomon , you’ll not die , Cassidy will not die , Nkoyo will not die!” mum said I nodded a million times . “Mummy take me home I don’t want to go to school take me home ?” I said mummy held my hands and led me to her car , she opened the door for me and I stepped in .
“There said they’ll kill me , the demon said I am the sacrifice,daddy has used me , he has killed me I’ll die .” I kept mumbling mum was wiping the tears falling from her eyes , she had brought my prescription, she drove to Skylarks pharmacy and got my prescription drugs , when she gave me the drugs , I fell asleep I didn’t know how I got into my room .
For two weeks I didn’t go to school , the ghost and demons let me sleep , but Cassidy fell sick . Dad had taken them to a hangout , she said daddy wiped her face with a handkerchief, that had a cowries inside it , that since then she had been feeling cold .
“Go and tell mum, she thinks am crazy she won’t believe me if I told her .” I told Cassidy she shook her head , she was scared of offending our mum . Mum took her to our family hospital,the doctors checked her and couldn’t find anything wrong with her .
Nkoyo refused to talk to me for another two weeks , my pride couldn’t let me beg her , I tried my best to get close to her and my friends they all cut me off except my best friend Elvis he tried to tell them I was going through a lot ,but they found it hard to believe.
I was in class trying to read my book during long break , when I began to hear the noise of students screaming in the school courtyard, the pandemonium became so loud that voices began to get nearer and nearer to my class , Nkoyo ran into my class . “Solomon it’s your sister Cassidy! Please come with me!” She said leading me out of the class like a mother would her little son during riot , we shoved our way towards the school clinic .
“Students go back to your classes! Cassidy is fine , just go back to your classes !” The English teacher said , they allowed I and Nkoyo enter the clinic , my sister was lying on a bed, her eyes were rolled out , no black iris on her eyes , it was just white , they had removed her necktie and her shoe , her hands lay limply by her side .
“We have to take him to the general hospital.” One of the teachers said , the ambulance was brought to the front of the clinic , they brought Cassidy out in a stretcher , she was looking pale , my legs were weak , I was fainting .
I jumped into the van , and put her head on my lap , Nkoyo was not allowed to go with me , the siren began to blare as ee Drove to the Maitama hospital, I was just praying ro God that I didn’t know .
“God please don’t let her die , God please I beg you don’t let her die .” I kept crying . “Solomon be strong Cassidy will not die .” The teacher in the front sit said , I didn’t reply him , I kept rocking my sister in my lap , she told me she was scared , I should have done something, my tears soaked my white shirt, the salty tears dripped into my mouth .
