19/04/2023
NOT AS IT SEEMS
Black Mamba was my fellow lodge mate at kings and queens hostel in the ever busy student populated Ekosodin area of ogbowo Benin city. It lies immediately after the school fence towards isihor.
No one knows his real name some people call him Don Oskar or black Mamba or any of the above names. People say he's a deadly cultist cos of his rugged looks. He had long dreads, not too tall, built like a warrior with a coarse deep voice that sends fear down the spin whenever he speaks. He hardly ever laugh or talk to anyone. He goes out early and comes in late at night. You can only tell he's back when you hear sound music and smell of w**d all over. Smoking wasn't allowed in the lodge but no one dare ask him why he chose to smoke in the lodge daily.
He's always with rough looking friends who we all come to conclusion are his gang members.
Although everyone sees him as a beast but deep down I felt he was a good person. Cos I remember a few times he has helped me financially. I was the only one who could talk to him or enter his apartment. My fellow lodge mates often said he might do something to me one day. Mamba as he prefers to be called was also a heavy drinker and chronic womanizer. Every night he comes home with a different girl. He was a perfect description of the guy my mom warn me to stay away from when I was preparing to go leave for university.
On the left opposite my own apartment was a guy named Peter. Peter was a very principled guy. He was a book warmer, he's always reading and when he's not they he's studying the Bible. He was a very devout christian, tall, handsome and soft spoken. He was the complete opposite of Mamba.
Next to my apartment was a girl named Juliet. She was a good and homely girl, well trained and disciplined. She was a no nonsense girl. Boys were scared of talking to her because she doesn't take nonsense from any boy. She was a complete church girl who has her prized commodity intact. (Her virginity)
Juliet and Peter attended same fellowship and were close as brother and sister in Christ.
It all started when mamba took interest in Juliet. He had asked her out severally but she politely refused his advances everytime. Mamba believes he will always get any girl he wants so he kept mounting pressure on Juliet. She was a very hard nut because normally Mamba is not the kind of guy you joke with. U either oblige out of pressure or out of fear, but she wasn't scared, not that she wasn't scared of him but the thought of loosing her virginity to a supposed cultist was unbearable knowing fully well he will discard her like trash after having his way.
I'll deal with you, Mamba burst out fuming hot one day after Juliet rejected him again and there was an altercation. U will know why they call me black Mamba he said while lighting his w**d and went out. Two days he didn't return he later return on the third day with two rough looking guys whom dey smoked all night together.
A week later something terrible happened, there had been power failure in the area so apartment became terribly hot. People had to open their room doors to allow fresh air in. There was no need to fear cos the lodge had a high fence and was always on lock. Juliet had opened her door to allow fresh air in her room. She slept off without locking the door in her underwear tho.
Not long had she slept that she felt a shadow in her room. Slowly a hand touched her and began to pull down her panties. She swung into full awareness but it was late. Her sleepy little frame couldn't stop the man standing in front of her. She tried to scream but a knife was place on her throat. While covering her mouth. She felt the cold stainless steel and knew there was no need to shout or struggle.the unknown guy masked in the dark separate her legs with the agility of a cheetah, pull down his shorts. She wanted to scream but the sharp steel on her throat prevented her. She shut her eyes and stiffen her body waiting for the pe*******on that she dreaded most.
Boom it came and she tried to force a shout but her mouth was covered by his palms.
It took just few strokes from the beast with oversized manhood before she passed out.
She woke up the next day in a hospital bed with Peter sitting close to her. She tried to stand up but peter prevented her and ask her to relax. What happened to me why am I here she asked in the breathe. I heard a scream in your room so I came to check, when I got there I saw you were bleeding and had passed out. I guess you were r***d and the person had ran away before I got there. I had to bring you to the hospital with the help of other lodge mates that night. She gently look through the bed cover and when she noticed blood stains from her Virgina she burst out sobbing.
All her years of abstinence, all her dignity, her pride, her priced virtue was gone. She had kept herself for 23 years and had always dreamt of the perfect wedding night when she will surrender all to her husband.
A police complaint was filled and Mamba was nab by the police as a prime suspect.
On that night Mamba was at home but nobody saw him when it was morning. News had it that he ran away after ra**ng Juliet that night. He was brutally manhandled by the police to make him confess to his crimes which was very obvious. Mamba kept denying it, stating he wasn't at home when the incident happened.
The gates has lock and there is a high fence so how did intruders come in.
Where were you on that night the police kept asking and his answer was always that he went out.
They didn't even allow him make a call to his parents.
After enough torture it was agreed that the case be charge to court.
The Nigeria judicial system is nothing to write home about so the case lingered for four months.
During this time Juliet found out she was pregnant from that one hurtful s*x. No this was too much, her education will be damned, she has to do something. She confided in her friend who recommended a local doctor who is an expert in abortion. They had gone there without telling anyone. The doctor gave her some drugs to take when she get home. She did take the drugs but she took overdose. After sometime she started bleeding. She tried to stop the bleeding herself but could not. Before it was noticed she had lost blood beyond. Before she was rushed to the university teaching hospital she died on her way. A dream was wasted my the wickedness of a man who couldn't control his manhood.
It was actually the last hearing of Mamba's case in court. The plantif and defendant have all made their submission and the judge had requested for 30 mins recess before final judgement was made.
It was during the recess that a young man ran into the court pleading to confess. He was calmed down till the judge resume and was given an opportunity to speak.
Mamba is innocent my Lord he said panting like someone chased by a ghost. Sir I am guilty, I r***d her he said. He was looking left right center as if he was running away from something. Her ghost is after me. She said I should come and confess before the innocent get punished.
Speak on we don't have time, the judge roar.
I am the leader of a notorious gang on campus here. I saw Juliet and liked her but I was told she always turned down men. I didn't want to get to her through the bad boy way so I decided to start her church and pretend to be a born again Christian. I moved into her lodge when someone parked out and we became christian friends. When Mamba asked her out and she refused and there was an altercation between them I decided to capitalize on the feud to accomplish my aim. That night I saw Mamba left after receiving a stressed phone call. So I used the opportunity to r**e Juliet and when she fainted I rushed her to the hospital to cover my track and throw the door wide open to Mamba. I was happy the situation was going as planned until Juliet discovered she was pregnant. She tried to abort and died in the process. Since then her ghost has been hunting me. I have tried spiritual houses to stop her but couldn't. She threatened to kill me if I don't confess that's why I came here to confess today.
There was absolute silence in the court room. Even the judge didn't believe what he just heard.
And then Mamba lifted up his eyes behold there stood Peter the righteous lodge mate whom everyone believed was a saint and couldn't hurt anybody.
©Don Oskar
