Forty

"He's here!"

Huda hissed at me as two cars pulled into the wide courtyard of the house I've occupied for the past few months. My heart beat erratically as I watched a man step out of the back seat, saluted by a mobile police officer, in a blue brocade textile peculiar to northern men. I watched him sigh and adjust his Hula hat with shaky hands, his hands shook as they bid as he ordered them, to adjust his hat.

I blinked. He's probably on the edge too just like me but I didn't take another step, I stood rooted where I was standing under the eaves of the decorative thatch roof that covered me from the sun.

"You should go to him." I faced Huda with a glare and she made a motion of zipping her lips. I'm very scared, so I'd rather he came here than me going there. I am simply put, being a coward.

Ma and Kaka are over at the family house in Ikoyi, waiting for my father to come over after seeing me, so I shut my eyes and wait. I hear footsteps and then it stops a few meters from me and I qui