Episode 38

THE JESUS SLAY QUEENS

Episode 38

The door opened and mummy Abayomi appeared at the entrance staring at me.

"I thought you said you needed more time to pray! What are you doing making phone calls by this time of day?"

I froze and quickly hung up as I felt frightened by the tone of mummy's voice. I have never seen her in that furious before.

"I'm sorry! I got a call from a friend and I picked it then we started talking...."

"So while we were all downstairs fellowshipping with God, you were busy gisting your high school friend abi?"

"No ma! Infact I was preaching to her!" 

"Preaching to who? Who sent you to preach to her? What did God tell you to do when you woke up?"

"Mummy I'm sorry!"

"Ella!" She yelled.

I wondered what she needed Ella for.

"Yes ma!" Ella said immediately she appeared at the door. 

"Get me my cane!" 

I was shocked. Cane? Me? Mummy wants to flog a sixteen year old girl. Haa! Even my Dad doesn't flog me anymore. How would she flog a grown up girl like me?

That was what I was still thinking when her cane landed on my body. I jumped up and ran for my life. She went after me and caught me. I received several lashes on my body. 

I screamed and begged for mercy. But it seemed as if mummy had been keeping me in mind and this was a perfect opportunity to get back at me.

I expected Ella and Susan to come to my rescue,but they were nowhere in sight. I had to endure in tears.

Why would mummy flog me like a kid? I was preaching on the phone and she was flogging me for preaching.

"WHO SENT YOU?" Came the gentle whisper.

"WERE YOU SUPPOSED TO EVEN PICK UP THAT PHONE IN THE FIRST PLACE? WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN THE PHONE CALL CAME?"

I hissed and muttered foul words.

She turned and looked at me.

"Juliet! You are a child that had been handed over to God from the womb. Apart from the fact that you came to fulfill an assignment, you are carrying heavy mantle on your shoulder.

The earlier you arise and join the army the less you will have to deal with in life. You can start playing games with God, or face your destiny and fulfill it," she said and was about leaving when I replied.

"Then take your mantle and get lost!"

She paused and looked at me, shocked.

"Is it by force? I don't want to have anything to do with all these battles that are confronting me. I want peace. I can't fight okay! Take whatever you want from me and leave me alone!"

"Will you keep quiet!" Mummy retorted.

"I'm not! You didn't wait to hear my own side of the story. You just went ahead to flog me because you are mad at my father. You saw flogging me as a way of getting back at him for failing to marry you!"

"Juliet! Keep quiet!" 

"I will not! You can't tell me what to do and not do!" I said on top of my voice.

She turned and walked out of the room.

I hissed and stood up angrily. I wanted to follow her and give her a piece of my mind. But I decided to stop.

I quickly went for the bathroom and took my bath. It was already time to start preparing for school.

I was trapped. I was in the middle of a fight and I didn't know how to fight. I was like a soldier in a battlefield that doesn't know how to shoot a gun. 

I just wanted peace. Is that too much to ask? Let me go home, Dad would not agree. Let me change school, mummy would not agree. Can you see how frustrating my life has become?

Somehow, I am beginning to wish I never attended that program where I fell under the anointing was a as handed over a sword. Somehow, I wish I was just an ordinary girl. Finish school, go to the university, to for NYSC, get a good job and get married. Have kids, live a good life and die. 

What a peaceful life! That's what I want. I don't know which one is all this fighting! Praying, fasting, reading bible. I want a normal life. 

Call me a coward, I agree with you, but that is what I want. Peace! 

Job 14:1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

That was the scripture that popped up in my head. 

"No! I want peace! Why would God allow trouble? Why didn't he remove all the evil people and let the world become a peaceful place to live in, why?"

"IF GOD WANTED TO REMOVE EVIL PEOPLE FROM THIS HOUSE, WHO WILL BE THE FIRST EVIL PERSON WOULD KILL?"

If I were honest, I already knew who the first would be. I will he the first person God will kill. 

I ignored the question and changed into my school uniform. I didn't wait to greet anyone in the house. I just took from the pocket money my Dad left for me to have something to eat during break time and left the house. 

I was still walking on the way, when Fejiro caught up with me.

"Hi!" She greeted cheerfully.

"Hello!" I said under my breath.

"Is something wrong? You seem a little bit angry?"

"I'm fine!" 

"No you're not!"

"Please forget about it!" 

"No I can't! Please tell me!" She said and held my wrist.

"Mummy flogged me this morning! Can you imagine?"

She had a shocked expression on her face, but then composed herself to ask.

"What did you do?"

"I told her I was not going to attend the family devotion because I as praying and she agreed. I was praying when I received a phone call and started preaching to my friend on the phone. 

She came into the room and found me talking with someone on the phone. The next thing I saw was cane all over my body. She didn't even flog me the way normal flogging was supposed to look like. She was just using the cane all over my body.

"But you don't look like someone who was flogged. You seem pretty good to me," she replied.

I gave her a cold stare and she got the message.

"I'm sorry about the flogging," she quickly apologized.

"It's alright! Sometimes I hate my mentor. Honestly! She's just too busy travelling around and ministering to people that she barely has time for me."

"Really?"

"Yes!"

"But does she pray for you?"

"Yes! No! I mean..... You're missing the point."

"Does she teach you the word of God? Does she create time out of her busy schedule to teach you and answer your questions?"

"Yes! Wait! Are you siding her?"

"Juliet something is seriously wrong with you! You need to go back to God and ask him to forgive you for speaking against your mentor. Do you know you could lose your spiritual covering for doing that?"

Immediately I heard spiritual covering. My mind told me I had heard the same thing this morning. Where exactly did I hear something like that?

Oh my God! That was exactly what the queen said. Jesus is Lord!

Haa! I'm finished. I have lost my spiritual covering. I have dishonored my spiritual parent. Spoken evil against her and insulted her boldly. I was supposed to pray this morning. Sleep did not allow me. Even when Mummy gave me extra time to prepare myself for what was coming, the phone call distracted me. 

I was busy winning a soul, when my soul was slipping away. God of mercy! I'm in your hands.

"Juliet! Do you know you were stupid? How could you be on the phone with a friend, when you were supposed to be praying? Common sense should have told you that the call was a distraction to stop you from praying.

But you no dey hear word! Na only wetin dey your head you dey do. Stand up and pray so that you will not fall asleep, you say no. Why won't mummy flog you? 

Infact! You still need more flogging. If I were God, I would have appeared in your room physical to flog you with heavenly koboko. Your stubbornness too much. Maybe na that time you go get sense!" Fejiro said.

I looked at her in anger and sent a slap across her face.

She looked at me with shock written on her face.

"That I'm your friend doesn't mean you can talk to me anyhow! Do you hear me?" I yelled.

"Yes aunty!" She answered sarcastically.

Her eyes were burning with rage and it was obvious we would lose our cool if you continued walking together.

I quickly took to my heels and ran off. 

As I ran, I passed a number of students in their way to school. My tears were still bold on my face, so I couldn't stop to reply those waving and calling my name. 

Soon, I discovered I was being chased by another student. I started running as fast as I could, but the student caught up with me and grabbed my hand. 

"Juliet! Is something wrong?" He asked.

It was Romeo.

As soon as he saw my tears, he became worried.

"Juliet what happened?" He asked.

I tried to break free from his grip, but he held on to my wrist tightly.

"Was it what happened yesterday?" 

I looked the other way.

"I'm sorry about what happened yesterday! I was lying! I'm so sorry I hurt you that bad!" He apologized.

Wait! I don't understand what's happening here! Was he saying that he was lying when he said Angela and her friends were lesbians?

I had been hiding my teary face from him, but the moment he said he was sorry for lying, I looked at him in surprise.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

He looked at me with a sorry face that made me feel as if this guy cared so much about me.

"I mean, I was lying when I said those things about Angela. I was only trying to look good at the expense of spoiling their reputation. Besides, I .... I.... I'm beginning to discover I like you. 

So I was jealous of you new friends. I was happy to be the only one were talking to. I got jealous when I discovered you have found someone more popular than myself.

I'm so sorry!"

I flung my hand out of his grip in anger.

"Are you out of your mind? Are you insane?" I yelled.

"I'm sorry! Please keep your voice down!" He said as we noticed a few students were approaching us. But I wasn't done yet.

"You're starting to like me as what? You want me to be your girlfriend or what? Are you okay? So you went ahead to spoil my friendship with another person in order to get what you wanted? This is unbelievable! I can't believe it!"

He went down on his knees and began to cry. 

I moved back to be sure I wasn't dreaming. Romeo was crying because he wanted me to be his girlfriend? Haa! Broadway academy don don't me something ooo! 

This is a public place! And he wasn't ashamed of crying in public that I accept to be his girlfriend. 

But as I watched him. Something told me this crying was beyond crying. They way he was crying was as if he was mourning someone that had just died. 

I became afraid immediately that thought dropped in my heart.

No! That cannot be possible. 

"Juliet what's going on?" A student asked as he and his colleagues approached.

"I told you! You guys refused to believe. Romeo was going to propose to this babe. I talk am!"

"Juliet! Please! I Like you!" He said in the hearing of everyone.

"Hurray!" The boys shouted.

I was taken aback. He even had the boldness to say it in the presence of his fellow colleagues.

This is humiliating.

"You know what Romeo! I think you need to get your brains fixed. Visit the nearest psychiatric hospital on your way home. God bless you!" I said and walked away.

The boys shouted at my bold insulted and cheered.

The tell the truth I felt like packing out of the seat for him. It's just that I had no other seat to go to. I can't believe that masturbator had finished practicing in his house and now needed to try what porn had been teaching him on a girl, then he had to pick me. 

I mean, he wanted to use me as an experiment. God forbid!

To be continued...

Luke 22:45 He got up from prayer, went back to the disciples and found them asleep, drugged by grief.

Verse 46. He said, "What business do you have sleeping? Get up. Pray so you won't give in to temptation."

That's what happens when we refuse to take our prayer life serious. When temptation comes knocking, we won't even know until we are struck down and defeated.

Me sef I'm confused oooo!

Who is lying and who is telling the truth?

Juliet is in serious trouble ooo! This one that she insulted her mentor.

What do you have to say about Romeo? Is he lying? I'm confused!

Something caught my attention when Juliet said Romeo was crying as if he was mourning a dead person.

I'm confused. Who is lying here?

Watch out for the next episode! You'll be shocked at the secrets yet to be revealed.