MIDNIGHT MADNESS 4.
<<<Chapter Four.>>>
"Mama why I'm I tied?" An hoarse voice asked.
Mama was stunned, she looked up to see who said that and behold it was her son.
"Did you just call me mama?" She asked to be sure.
He was confused "yes or ain't you my mother?" He asked.
He was sweating profusely and was having a serious headache, he couldn't remember anything but he kept on wondering how he ended up tied to a pole.
"Dami?" Mama said more like asked.
"Yes, mama" Dami answered.
"Are you okay? Can you recognise me? Are you normal now?-" he cut her off.
"Mama, please one question at a time, first I'm having a severe headache, secondly of course I can recognise you and thirdly- why the third question? I've I not always being normal?"
Mama eyes widened as she studied him closely, it has been four hours since he was tied to the pole and mama couldn't sleep, she'd been sitting outside watching him until he fell asleep and woke up like the normal person that he was, this was pretty shocking to mama.
"Is anything the matter?" He asked. She shook her head in negative as she tried to piece up everything, her normal son became suddenly mad and after four hours he became suddenly normal again. She was perplexed by the whole scenario plus she was a bit scared to go close to him but she gathered courage and untied him.
He breathed once he was free "what happened?" He inquired.
"Nothing my son, let's go inside" she told him and he doubtfully followed her inside the house.
"Why was I tied?" He asked again once they were inside their living room.
Mama took her seat whilst shaking her head in disbelief as tears streamed down from her eyes. So her son was truly normal again?
"Mama" he knelt down in front of her and shook her shoulders lightly, worry written all over his face. "Please talk to me, your silence is killing me with worry, I need to know what happened to me that I slept on my bed but woke up tied to a pole outside the house"
"Dami, I don't understand what happened to you, I was sleeping when I heard you screaming-" she was cut off.
"I screamed?" He asked, winkling his brow followed by mama nodding her head in response and sniffling her tears.
She narrated everything to him and his eyes widened in shock.
"Its strange..i can't remember anything you just said" he tried to think.
"You can't?" Mama asked
"Yes".
Really strange - mama thought.
"The only thing I can remember is when you called me and asked me to fetch water for Aunty Ennio which I did and later came home to sleep" he said. "I can't believe I was mad for about Four hours..it feels like a dream"
"Its okay my son, even I feel like its all a dream but don't think about it anymore" she told him.
"What do I tell people? By now every house in this village must've heard about what happened and people will start saying bad things about me" he complained as he sat on the floor. Mama placed her hand on his shoulder sympathetically.
"I know, but if you listen to the negative things people say about you it will only drag you downwards which I mean you wouldn't move forward" she said and quickly added "you have to be strong and don't let what others think or say about you, stop you from moving forward, you are my son and i trust you, i know that you didn't do anything to deserve whatever happened tonight. So if they want to talk let them talk, its their mouth not yours" mama advised. She sure has a way to lighten Dami's mood, he hugged her tightly.
"I'm proud of you mama..thank you for trusting me" she gave him a little pat on his back as she smiled and said;
"I'm proud of you too son".
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True to what they'd been expecting, Dami went in search of work the next day only to see people on the road looking at him like he was still mad or people standing in small groups gossiping, he doesn't have to be told of what they were talking about, he just shook his head and kept walking.
Some people were scared of him to the extent that no one was willing to give him a job to do, this was devastating for him and all he could do was pity himself.
When he became tired of searching, he decided to check if Mr. Peter had any work for him to do.
"Oh Dami my boy!!" Mr peter hailed, smiling broadly but it didn't reach his eyes.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Carpenter" Dami greeted.
"Thank you, so how are you?" Asked peter.
Dami gave him a tired smile, at least someone cares. "I'm fine I guess and you?"
"I'm good" Mr peter replied. "What brings you here? I did not send for you"
Dami sighed "I came here in case you have any job I can do since everyone suddenly doesn't have work for me" he explained sadly.
"But why?" Asked Mr. Peter but when Dami didn't answer he continued "is it because of what happened to you last night?".
Peter gave him a duh look like wasn't it obvious?
"Oh, its a pity" he shrugged but continued talking like he could not close his mouth, Dami stared at his mouth wishing he could just shove a piece of paper into Mr. Peters mouth to shut him up.
"Do you know that 'the good boy that is loved by everyone became mad due to smoking and taking hard drugs' is now the new talk of the village?"
Now that pissed Dami off so he decided to say something before Mr. Peter goes on and on like he wasn't the one he was actually talking about.
"I'm not here to listen to stories about my life" Dami plainly told him.
"Sorry, i was just-"
"Keep it to yourself" Dami was sounding rude for the first time and this shocked Mr. Peter, he spun round and made to walk away but Mr. Peter stopped him feeling guilty.
"I'm sincerely sorry, don't be offended..Come and construct a stool for me."
"Now you are talking" Dami murmured.
••••
Meanwhile mama was in the market buying foodstuffs when she heard some customers discussing and decided to eavesdrop because she knew they were surely talking about her son.
"Have you heard?" One of the market woman told another.
"Of course, I mean who hasn't?" Asked the second woman not even pretending not to have heard.
'People...' - mama thought.
"Mama albert" the first woman said referring to the second woman. "Why won't you know? Every story you know, look at your mouth gossip monger" she said playfully.
Mama albert chuckled lightly "and what about you? Ain't you my accomplice?" She asked and they both laughed.
"But don't blame me oh by the way people have been talking about it". Mama albert said with all seriousness now.
"Its true" the first woman, whose name mama hasn't known yet said whilst nodding her head like the way lizard would do or it was just the way mama saw things. "They said the boy became normal after four hours, can you imagine?" She added, slapping her hands together as if to say 'wonders shall never end'
"Yes oh, I'm suspecting he's been taking cocaine secretly" mama Albert said.
"How did you know?" Asked the first woman.
"I heard people talking about it, they even said he used to follow his cousin to the club and smoke there secretly" mama albert said.
Mama lips curved downwards as she heard that, she couldn't believe that people could actually say horrible things about her son, it really irked her as she listened.
"But Dami is a good boy I can't believe he smokes" a third party who has been quiet since they started the discussion added.
"He will hide and smoke but will behave like a good boy in the open" mama albert said it like she was so sure.
"Why do you say so? Have you caught him before?" Asked the third party.
Mama albert shrugged "no. But if he doesn't smoke then what must've caused his sudden madness?" She asked, no one amongst them had an answer to that.
"My son doesn't smoke" mama did not know when she said that but one thing was certain.
She had had enough of all the gossip in just one day.
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