From Enemies to Couple.

Episode 6

Inside another hut opposite the hut of the fisherman who accepted Prince Sando of Gaa into his kingdom, Prince Sando was seated on his bamboo bed and thinking about the entry of Lalah and the rest of the patrol team. He was waiting to hear the outcome of the visitation of the fisherman who had recovered and Lalah and the rest of the patrol team to the palace of the chief of Okwu land. They had gone there because it was said that the chief had the final say as to whether Lalah and his men would be allowed to become permanent residents in the land of Okwu. While Prince Sando sat there he wondered why the wife of the fisherman despite the fact that he had told her severally that he was never ever going to have anything to do with her the woman had bluntantly refused to let him be and find other means of satisfying her s****l urges. At that point he looked up and saw the wife of the fisherman entering the hut and he immediately stood up in order to step out of the hut but the woman blocked his path with her body and said, "Where do you think you are going to young man, you came here to excite me with your beauty and leave me without attending to the sweet thing between my legs? I can not let you go and you must have s*x with me. If you do not want me to hate you and to make your life down here miserable then you must strip me right here and mount me"

The prince had not understood anything she said but he was aware she was demanding for him to r****h her which prince Sando was not ready to do and he was not ready to betray the trust the fisherman had in him and brought him to his house by sleeping with his wife. He then slowly held the woman's shoulders, the woman who thought she had finally got him cheap and then shoved her aside and left the room. The woman stood there and then decided that if she could not have him no other woman or lady in the land of Okwu would have him.

Returning from the stream was Mazuri, daughter of the fisherman as she flung her fishing net at a branch and went and sat on her father's major seat where she sighed heavily. Her friend then walked up to her and standing before her she asked, "Have you not been observing lately that foreign men are entering our land. Are you not bothered about these things? If you are not bothered I am and I can't wait to have the all leave this land and leave us in peace. Let it not be like it was during the time of our forefathers when they had to invite the londumites to our land and the londumites even though they were not from this land tried to take it from us. We have to learn from the mistakes of our forefathers and not let it repeat itself again" the friend then sat beside Mazuri and when she had seated beside her she could tell that she paid no attention to all that she had said to her and she wondered where her mind was and what she was thinking about. As she waited for a reply but got none she tapped her friend and her friend looked at her and then looked away without a word.

" What is bothering you my lovely dear friend, you can always share your burden with me and will always be sure to get the best advise from me. I have been your friend right from he time we were just kids. You can confide In me with any problems whatsoever and I you will be sure to get a good response from me" said the friend whose name was Jesi. She was a very beautiful girl, more beautiful than Mazuri but she was not as well figured as Mazuri and Mazuri was more outspoken and well built. When Mazuri had heard all that she said she said after clearing her throat, "You see Jesi I am not trying to ignore you but I am trying to understand how I feel which I have failed to understand. I mean why must I feel this way" she complained.

"You have no told me what you are meaning by that. You should be out with it and tell me exactly what the problem is" said Jesi.

"Jesi, I have not been myself ever since the young man arrived our land and particularly in my father's hut. It seems my sense of reasoning left me and my knowledge and interest in and for other things went cold. How can I be alive and not feel life" she spoke.

"If I'm being understanding enough you are meaning to say that you are having feelings or should I put it this way; you are developing feelings for the man that has come to our land? The same man some men came looking for recently and in the cause nearly killed your father? I really want to be clarified" said Jesi as she was appearing to be loosing her cool with Mazuri. Mazuri knew that she was not going to support her or try to understand how she feels and that was why she had wanted to keep it all to herself and not spill it out. Now Jesi was getting more interested in all of it and she was bent on having Mazuri explain to her in details what she meant by what she had just said to her. Mazuri looked at her anxious face and simply said, "forget it my good friend and leave me alone" but Jesi was not prepared to leave her alone and she was not going to leave her alone until she explained to her what she meant by what she had just told her.

"Good, if you are not going to leave me alone then hear it; I love that man, it might sound insane but I do love that man" immediately she said this Jesi covered her mouth with her hand but Mazuri removed her hand at once as spat on the ground.

"You covered my mouth with your stinking hand. where have you been?" asked Mazuri.

"I have been attending to my father's pigs" she said.

"You did not wash your hand and you came to..." Mazuri stood up and chased Jesi away. Jesi laughed and ran away then turned to say, "I will get back when I'm done friend" she laughed at her friend Mazuri as she went to continue to attend to her father's pigs. Mazuri returned to her seat and while she retook her seat she thought about Jesi and how she always got so interested in the things that had to do with her. She was a very caring friend who would do anything to see that she was fine. She remembered back then when the both of them were still too young . They had grown up together and learnt most things together. This knowledge they gathered together having always been together helped each of them to understand the other very well. Most times it was Jesi advising Mazuri because it was always Mazuri who was getting into problem. Once there was something that Jesi said to Mazuri. She had told her that it was only great people who have problems. In her words she had said to Mazuri, "I'm glad when you have trials. You have so much experience from your failings and I have not had half of your experience my very good friend. Your experience as a lady and mine too differ I respect you for that. Do not always think that because life frowns at you life hates you. Life does not hate those it reveals so much to and life can not reveal so much to those it has not touched with experience. You have received life's lessons many times through the experience life has brought you and I envy you my good friend. I do not say to myself, "My friend is always in trouble and I am not which means I am favoured. No, what I rather say is that my friend has been found worthy by the gods that they decided to be correcting her always with a whip of correction. My good friend let the gods continue to lead you"

Mazuir had always known that there was nothing special about her and if there was anything special she herself had not been able to detect it. She believed in Jesi and her ability to see what others can not see and see had always told her times without number of how great she was going to be. Mazuri had always wanted to prove her friend right but each time she found herself failing and each time she failed her friend told her it was a lesson and that she was being tested in fire like gold. She had believed in the little she believed in herself because of Jesi and the way she had always talked to her. She sat back and the face of the young man that had entered their land, the same man that she had just discussed with Jesi about came to her memory and she hissed. Must he always come to her memory every now and then? At a point she hissed, stood up and went into her mother's hut. When she got in there she met her seated and in thoughts. She went and dropped the stick she had taken to the stream and then went and sat beside her mother.

"Mother are you okay?" she asked and the mother looked at her and said, "I am fine my daughter. How was the stream today?"

"If was fine but I could not catch a fish mother. Why have you not gone to the market?" she asked and the mother searched for an immediate excuse and immediately found, "I am waiting for your father who had taken those men that had come to look for the strange man that your father brought in to the chief of our land to be able to know if they will be allowed to stay in our land or not. I am worried that he has not returned all these while"