Family On The Run

I was expecting something like that. They always plan something during christmas and how am i to expect that this year will be different? My countryside family home seems to have been for three years now in the habit of dodging spiritual bullets from forces that dig holes and fall inside them. So they had for three christmas now been trying to climb out of it and considered my family the only viable route out of it. 

I was still in the hired bus that brought me and my family from the city back to the village when the driver started the story indirectly. It seems as if a lady carrying a tiny baby and washing clothes in one family, three families away from ours triggered his remark and my interest was piqued. The driver himself is in the race. 

I don't know that particular lady with a baby but she is a carbon copy of her mother who I rate as a family friend and still do. Now, what was dropping from the chartered driver's mouth, I wasn't expecting that. According to him, the youngsters from that family, two of them tampered with someone's ripe palm heads she just cut down from the tree and awaiting extractions, and was caught. They decided to run for it or rather the mother was advised to run for it with her two young boys.

The hired driver  had not even finished narrating his tales and my defensive and analyzation brain went into motion and their verdict was for me to take precautions for there's something fishy going on. It wasn't for the family of two boys the incident they are the actors in happened, but me of course. This is december and this is my village and i am dealing with city cult shifters that believe my brain is for decorations or something and can't analyze things properly.  

The cult group that wants to climb out of the hole they found themselves was showing visible signs of agitation, frustrations for days and was even behaving as if they believe that if they wish it, it will happen by force. Which is a positive sign if you ask me. I was of the opinion that if anyone should be wary of all these, it should be me and me and never them. I was like: "How come the reverse is the case here?" 

Their theories are numerous as their mistakes are. Too many questionable moves from different angles, sign to any sound human that something is wrong in the camp of these people.

Recklessness is their second nature if you ask me. Last two years, it's been their idea to shift back to my village everything that gets into bed with them in the city. If that isn't insight, what is it? Small things speak to anyone that can make out big things from them. My cousin tampered with the Fulani trader's wares and was caught. The same cult group used their well known line once more: "His eyes are behind it. It's for people to say he was not behind the phone theft in the city four years ago" 

Then last year, they focused on gay and were exposing themselves out of frustration and fear. This year, i don't know exactly what they lined up, i thought it was initiation allegations because they forwarded one early thirties-something years family friend's son to us and the same people were initiating the same boy with what didn't even happened live where these their ideas are coming from but appeared in just image there. How come it's happening here?- again i wasn't expecting that but when it happened, i just knew it's improvisation at work. I doubt if this hasty move was in the original plan but once again, it spoke volumes to me. Mighty sign again that these people are under fire somehow and were misbehaving.

Our village houses no one is occupying were so full of dust. So thick that you can even use a pen or stick to write on any surface and they look like molded letters. Months of accumulated dust. I needed a face mask to clean the windows and the chairs which I don't have or too lazy to fish out one from its hiding places somewhere in my box to avoid coughing and sneezing that my system seems to be getting familiar with a lot this year. The weather, the harmattan this year seems to be something else. Dusty, thick, cold and the atmosphere and things brown in color. 

I was battling those dust when that lady with baby that triggers the story from the driver entered carrying her baby i am not sure is up to three months. She was the solo occupant of the family on run. "Good morning" she greeted eyeing me as i was eyeing her too. I thought I knew that family well enough but this is the first time I am seeing that girl. If not for the carbon copy of the mother i saw everywhere on her, i will start doubting. But there is the younger mother before me "Is your mother around?" She asked "no, she went to church. Maybe you check back in thirty minutes time" i said while eyeing her and her family calculus running riot in my mind. I was wondering why they choose that family this time around and nothing but her mother's closeness to us the only reasons and those interested in me narrowing their this years shift back to village to phone theft and their closeness to us. 

The story going on is that no one chased the lady away with her sons but my calculus is saying the opposite and that nursing mother's visit is saying the opposite too. Of course, they might not have met the two boys and told them to tamper with those palm heads, but magic is what is imported into the country alongside other despicable moves that sways those with shallow minds. Not me. I am not sold on coincidence like what I have been witnessing for years now and I am sure that is the core part of their frustration and hatred of me and my stand on this reward's issue. 

The movers here are just going through their first half of the games they are playing while I am some-how in my second. Meaning i am full first-half ahead of them and they are trying to mesmerize me? Nah. They are the ignorant ones not me. 

The lady went away and before she made her second appearance, two young men met my mother on the issue trying to pry her stand on the issue so as to accuse and relay back to whoever sent them. Two friends, two families, two mothers and their kids are thieves. Are you doing your math like me? But as usual, their moves always point out answers instead of absolving them or helping them to climb out of the hole they are in, it pushes them deeper.

Do you still believe those two boys were acting with a clear mind or some forces stronger than them induced their actions? Something for sure is behind it and the source well known to every sound mind with zero interest in this mad reward dash many are into here in the name of investigation. The coincidence, timing is too shiny to be true. 

   Then, one of the yesterday young men i am sure it's some group sending him to go and find out my mother's stand on the issue came again telling her that the same nursing mother he just yesterday wanted to know if my mum will express her support for the family for them to arrive at conclusion appeared again telling her that the girl don't have how to survive this christmas. Another trap laid. If you find something for her in the spirit of christmas, you are supporting them and their acts, if you don't, you are wicked, not a good friend of the family.

Human heart is dirty and getting dirtier each passing day. There is no way I can ever believe what is happening to those kids wasn't engineered by the group on move against me. Coincidence of this nature isn't for me. I think it points my antennas to another direction from the rest, right one for that matter. 

These cult groups are crazy lots that can cut their parents' throats for reward. The problem here is that the police and the cult are one and the same entity. The only coma is that they are not as smart as they believed themselves to be and people are not as empty as they thought them to be. I was expecting this kind of move from them but I wasn't expecting that from the family. 

The time is almost 6:45pm, it's getting dark already in the village here. The sun seems to always retire early in the village. Another woman has entered and her subject of gossip for almost thirty minutes was the same incident.She's sweating to find fault with my mothers utterances and stand. But I think they are fighting a lost battle. This arena isn't theirs and they fucked their chances of rewards up for long and believing by force they can shift their fortunes to my family. I am expecting that frustrated and pitiable move from their camp so I wasn't disturbed much.