Head off

My head became so heavy to the extent that I can feel my neck trying so hard to carry it, my eyes were protruding, trying to foecefully get out of their sockets. My entire body was hot like the furnace , the muscles were uncontrollably stretching and threatening to break . 'what is happening to me?' It's obvious I was no longer in control of myself. I heard my friends calling my name, they poured water on my body but the more they tried the worse the condition. 'Is this the end?' I asked myself . I was shouting at the top of my voice , was I was saying I didn't know but I'm sure it's was nothing sensible. 'Don't let him lock his mouth' I heard kola voice loudly but there was little I can do, obviously everything is happening so and there was nothing I can do. A heavy noise is loudly playing in my head like the sound of a heavy metal dropping continuously on the floor. My friends tried all they could but the four of them became overpowered by me . How come these four people can not grip me and pin me down on a chair to be calmed. Instead, in their quest to do that , the while house as become a mess. 'Let's tie him with rope and take him to the hospital' Mustapha suggested 'we would need more hand to do that' Emmanuel snapped obviously frustrated. We lives in a 5 bedroom bungalow occupied mainly by the students if the High city University. This occurrence happened at the time every students would have left for the school. The whole building was absolutely empty except for my Friends and I who lives together in the same room.

'What are we going to do now' Babajide said with tears in his eyes. 'Let's call his mummy and explained to her' he suggested. 'Call who?' Don't try that now, let's just find a way to calm him down and take him to the Sch. Health Center ,then we would call his Mummy' Kola who seems to be strong among them said. As they were busy trying to find what to do, I felt some calmness in my body, the cool breeze had a wonderful effect on me and immediately everything became normal. Seeing my calmness , my friends heaved a sighof relieve. They thanked God I was eventually stable. They were all exhausted and tired after a long battle with the beast in me. 'Are you sure he's OK" Mustapha asked in with curiosity. 'This calmness is strange " he said "hes OK" Emmanuel replied "That how they always feel when they are coming back to their normal self" he further explained . I was hearing them from a distance Even though we were in the same room. with my eyes still closed I laid on the floor unable to move a muscle and practically unconscious but I can hear my heart beat pounding like a heavy duty generator. Suddenly I opened my eyes and guess what i saw, Titilayo with her dazzling smile, her sparkling white teeth flashes underneath her wonderful pink lips . its obvious Kola, Emmanuel and Mustapha were not seeing her instead they were happy I was calm. Titi was my girl friend, we got admission to the university together to study the same Course . A ghastly motor accident around Ife/Ibadan express way claimed her life a week to the exam during the second semester of our third year . Her death was devastating and a tragic loss to me . Apparently I have not recovered from the shock. "Titilayo what are you doing here?" I assumed I was talking to myself though I couldn't open my mouth. I was happy to see her again at least shes back in a complete human body. " Come with me let me show you something " she said still smiling and immediately she ran out of the room and I followed him too. Mohammed tried to hold me and like a piece of paper I fling him to the wall. "Wow! that was great, where on earth did I get this power " I asked myself as I ran after Titilayo and my friends ran after me " Please help us catch him" my friends shouted as they tried to catch up with me. I was running like a mad lion and its obvious I've totally outran them.

When we got to the bridge that linked the campus to the host community, Titilayo stopped and sat on the railings of the bridge. Underneath the bridge was river Agbongbon , it stretches far north to the neighbouring community who were mainly fishermen. "Titilayo what Are we doing here ?" I asked "I want to show you my house or don't you want to know where I'm living" If there is anything I will like to know at this moment , knowing where Titi is staying would be top priority, so she's been around me all this while and I don't know. "Sure , I will like to know your house" I replied With excitement. "That is where i stay" She pointed to the river" I was shocked " inside the river, how possible?" I was confused . that moment I heard my friends calling me from a far off, they were like 200 meters away from where I was standing with Titilayo , I looked back to see how exhausted they were, drenched with sweat and perspiring heavily. 'Trust me you will love it there " she said and snapped me back to concentrate on her. "Give me you hand" she said with smiles. My heart melt like a wax put on a hot knife, I can not resist this smile, obviously I've made up my mind."close your eyes" she said and in four seconds we jumped into the river together. Everything became blank and that was all I remembered. I woke up on the hospital bed with an escruciating paint on my head, all my body achedand I felt so week and light. The medical gadgets in the room simultaneously, thus worsened the headache as my head kept pounding along. My mum was sitting on the chair beside the bed while Dupe my sister was sobbing silently beside her. "Mummy what happened" I managed to say. She was so happy to see me conscious. The Doctor came in with a staff nurse , they did some check up on me. " You are so lucky " the Doctor said " the substance in your blood stream was so much" " he handed a file to the nurse " Ma'am kindly let's see in my office" he told my mum as she was leaving.

I later found out that I've been in that hospital for over four days unconscious. I was brought in to the Hospital by my friends after I was rescued by the fishermen who were at the river banks when I jumped the other time

Titilayo was just a shear creation of my hallucinations as a result of drug and substance abuse. I would have been six feet under the ground now but I was given a second chance