T-Boy, couldn't meet the 24 hours deadline but he succeeded meeting the 48 hours deadline, in anger he stormed the daily needs store and went straight to the woman he had collected the money from who was still checking another revenue.
"oh T-Boy, please! Na loan be this abeg, no carry, no collect me this one abeg, I never pay interest finish abeg, I wan pay my daughter school fees and my son dey sick abeg, na wetin my husband get we just use pay rent yesterday, abeg, I take God beg you, I be pregnant woman, I just dey struggle small small, abeg, T-Boy" the woman knelt down holding his feets with the money on the table she was using.
The whole shop layout users had rushed out on hearing his arrival at the woman's shop, she couldn't rush as they because of her body condition and all she could do was to plead for mercy but from the wrong Throne.
"abeg, my child in my womb will be happy if you don't do this to me, God will not let you die young, your children will never be stranded, T-Boy abeg" the woman had to lay down anyhow she could because at this point, it's a nightmare in reality.
"Madam, stand up, stand up and sit down first, no cry, there is no need to cry, just sit" T-Boy said as he dropped 110 thousand naira notes on the table where the other money was, and the woman kept fixing her eyes on him without knowing and not on the table, he tried to hide his tears of losses through the sunshade he wore and believed that one day he will recover.
T-Boy turned around, left the shop and as he stepped out, no one heard the woman's voice or saw her following him as victims normally do, no one saw any of his men, and he had no provision filled bag dangling, they were surprised, but thought maybe she's been killed, he stopped a taxi, paid upfront and headed home.
Then, came a voice of joy from the woman's shop, maybe his boys are there, but out came the woman with happiness hidden in the smile on her face.
"T-Boy, as you spare my life, heaven will keep you alive, your wife will not die in labour, you shall not weep, you shall not lack, as you have returned the only capital I had, may heaven provide you with capital, with business opportunities, may hea.....ven....." she didn't finish the prayers under the sun when her fellow shop owners took her inside due to her pregnancy but all in all she was happy, at peace, surprised but still joyous as the baby in her womb would be.
T-Boy arrived home, shut the door and wondered what to do, he can't be running at loss after loss, sitting there on the floor of his apartment in his father's house, he just decided to light up the stick to calm his thoughts down and organize his mind to think, he wiped away his tears and his eyes were filled with smokes to see clearly the group photo again, he then took a whiskey with a tumbler while staring at the photo.
"who be this guy? Na pastor? True true? Enter for night, wipe my guys? How na? Which kind demon dey reason him movements? Who goes this Paddy? I no even dey fit move leg again, I no rob this guy before na, wetin dey sup? Who dey sponsor him moves? Jesus Christ? Taahh!!! Jesus for where!? Omo, omo, omo, make I just die, I no fit, I no fit, dem fit come soon light me, daahhh!!!!, Maleh where you dey? You still dey heaven, I dey come o, I fit dey come o, hmmm" T-Boy lamented.
He started drinking and smoking more, staring at his late mother's photo and his gang members' photo, he began to sing a tribute song.
"it's been a long day
without you my friends
I'll tell you all about it
when I see you again
we've come a long way
from where we began
I'll tell you all about it
when I see you again
when I see you again"
He tried to drink and smoke to death with this song continually on his lips but spiritual utterances held him and death couldn't take him.
To Be Continued.....