C6 Chapter6

Was he a psychopath?

I started to say my "last prayer" asking God for forgiveness for all the evil I have done and I was already getting ready to go to heaven of course; I don't belong in hell.

He then braked the car, opened the back door and asked me to get in quickly. I did so quickly, and there was no time to question it.

Did I know how to lock a car? No, it was my first time in a car. On the spur of the moment I thought it must be like closing a door or a window. I just put my hand on some kind of handle and pulled with all my might.

My breathing was labored.

He waited until I calmed down and asked me

- but what are you doing at this hour on a street like this

- I was visiting my sister and then I didn't see the time pass

- and you couldn't borrow a motorcycle or I don't know call your parents to pick you up?

What am I going to say to him. I'm not going to flaunt my personal life like that. Where should I take money or a phone. Besides, my parents trust him enough to know about this incident, so it won't be good for me.

I preferred to change the subject quickly.

- Where are you taking me now that I don't notice this place?

-...

-he doesn't answer. Are you trying to drive me crazy or something? Don't tell me I left three crazy people to meet a kipnapper. My tears started to flow. Please get me out of here," I sobbed. I'm tired, I want to go home.

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On the other side there were the parents of wonder were cooking. Mr. Ekanga Robert. And mother Suzanne also called Mrs. Ekanga. Mr. Ekanga was such a nice man that he helped his wife to do the housework like cooking, washing dishes, fetching water, splitting wood, etc... He was not a complicated man to live with.

In African countries, married men hardly enter the kitchen and do not really help their wives in the various tasks of the household. So what this Mr. did was to be congratulated.

While mother Suzanne crushed the condiments with a stone, her husband turned on the fire so that the food would cook quickly.

- aïe aïe min cœur" exclaimed Suzanne, "I feel something. I have the impression that our daughter is in danger Robert

He got up quickly and asked his wife to sit down. He went to get some water for his wife to drink.

- Holds. Drink this, it will calm you down. He said, leaving her shoulder. You worry for nothing our daughter is brave it is only 8 pm she will return soon.

- Okay, if you say so. She began to intercede for her daughters and her son so that nothing happens to them while crushing to the stone as she did it before her illness

*Smith Ekanga*

- Calm down! Please calm down. I don't want to make you cry. I just wanted to get you as far away from this place as possible. Now I don't even know where we are

- I wipe away my tears and slowly pull myself together. Please don't tell me that we are lost

- thanks to my GPS, no. You live where exactly so I can drop you off at home.

- Denver facing the blue floor. Shit I answered without even thinking now he's going to see where I live and can go around telling people that I'm actually poor and hello harassment. This is my last year and I really don't want any problems.

There is a silence on the way and I am really grateful for it. It's not really the time to chat, I just want to go home to sleep and eat if there are any.

As soon as we get within a few meters of my house I beg him to leave me there so I can go home. And you know what? He refuses

- Are you kidding me? After what just happened to you, you want me to leave you alone in this dark place?

- Yes please I don't want the parents to scold me or anything like that

- Don't worry. Nothing's going to happen as long as you're with me

Shit, what he doesn't understand. Well I guess I don't have a choice I'll show him a house that isn't mine and when his back is turned I can go back home.

Shit, that's not going to work, knowing him, he's going to want me to go inside the house before he leaves me.

I have two options: either I show him my real house or I ring the bell at another house pretending it's mine and the guard comes to open the door so he has to leave. And when he turns his back I'll run to my house so that the guard doesn't actually come and find me there or I'll pretend I'm looking for someone in the house, it's my neighborhood after all.

If you were in the position what option would you choose?