OLUKWU THE NATIVE DOCTOR pt4

OLUKWU sat cross legged  in the centre of the shrine. His eyes were closed as he seemed to be in a deep state of meditation.Perhaps he was communing with the spirits or......

".....cause alllllll of me,....loves alllll of you" came Pamela's voice from outside. She was sweeping the entrance of the shrine as she sang her love song.

"My sunshine" her voice called out. Olukwu's face made a slight frown.

"Have you finished praying to the spirits?"her voice asked.

No answer.Olukwu suddenly seems lost in his meditation again.

"My sunshine!"she calls out again.

Still no answer.



She came into the shrine.She had a broom in her hand and a small wrapper around her waist.

She stopped to stare at the silent Native Doctor, as he sat perfectly still.
"Kai, my handsome lover"she declared lovingly

"My sunshine....chei, how did I get so lucky?....how was I so blind in the past?....let me leave you to meditate" she said as she went back outside and resumed her sweeping.
".....cause alllll of me......"

The Native Doctor sat still....then carefully opened one eye to look around.He clearly was not meditating.

"OLUKWU" came the Voice of the Spirits.

He quickly closed the eye again
.
"OLUKWU!"the Voice said again.

"shhhhhh"Olukwu went,now with both  eyes  now open.

"OLUKWU,...WHY DO YOU PRETEND TO MEDITATE?"the spirits asked.
"Ekwa!Cant you see what I'm Faced with?"Olukwu whispered casting a cautious eye in Pamela's direction.

"This is the only way I can hide from her,....every five-five minutes,she wants to do sharp-sharp...all my waist is paining me...will I die?"Olukwu whispered. His tone was desperate and slightly fearful.

"BUT WAS THAT NOT WHAT YOU WANTED?" the Voice asked.

"....cause alllllll of me..loves...."
The native Doctor quickly assumed his meditative position as Pamela passed by the doorway of the Shrine.

"OLUKWU?" the Voice called.

No answer.

The sound of Pamela's singing and sweeping drifted off.

"I wanted just one night....now every night she wants to rape me....and you don't want to help me,Ekwa!"he whispered.

"SO HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU MATED WITH HER?"the Voice asked.

Olukwu was silent.
His eyes carried an enormous amount of guilt in them.
He looked away like a badly behaved  child caught in a naughty act.

"OLUKWU!!!" the voice commanded.

He reluctantly muttered something under his breath.

"WHAT?"the Voice sounded angry.

"......all together,...maybe Fifteen or Sixteen times" the native doctor finally said in a small voice.

The voice was silent for a time.
Then a roaring laughter ensued.

"....okay,what do I do?....help me....please"Olukwu pleaded

The laughter continued....louder this time.

"Please,....the girl is killing me..!"


MORE LAUGHTER




PAMELA had woken up that morning to clean and arrange the hut.The love of her life shouldn't be in a place as untidy as this.She thought to herself.
As she swept, she considered herself very fortunate to have found true love in this life.What was she thinking being with Emeka sef?Mtcheeew!!!! He wasn't half the man her Olukwu was.She had wasted her time with him.
From the moment Olukwu had touched her that night, she had sensed something happen in her.Something she didn't think was possible.
All of a sudden, he was the most beautiful man she had ever seen.

She had been thinking of all the possible honeymoon destinations they could go to after the wedding.
Marrying a native doctor would be an Honor, she thought to herself.

No matter what her parents would say, she had made up her mind.
Olukwu was going to be her husband and that was the end of the matter.

Anyone who stood in her way, would be shocked what an Ikwerre girl is capable of when she was in love.
She smiled .She couldn't wait to be in his arms again.
He was such a good lover.

"Good morning" She heard a woman's voice say.Pamela looked up and saw a Man and young lady standing close to her.

One had to be very careful,she thought to herself.The young lady was very pretty.The last thing Pamela needed was a boyfriend snatcher.
Her relationship with Olukwu was too precious to risk with a woman as pretty as this.

"Yes??" Pamela replied with some hostility.

The couple exchanged curious looks, then the man said;

"..em please, we are here to meet with Olukwu..the native Doctor"

Pamela was furious.Clearly this lady was here for her man.She wasn't going to stand for it.All these Port Harcourt girls,Pamela thought in disgust.

"You cant have him!!!"she spat.

"No one can...do you hear me??" Pamela yelled at the woman.

"Olukwu is MINE....MINE!!" Pamela advanced towards the woman in a somewhat threatening gesture.
The man quickly pulled the woman behind him protectively as Pamela charged with her broom.

"Ekwa!Pamela, what is this nonsense?" Came Olukwu from the doorway of the hut.

"She has come to take you away from me" Pamela said pointing the broom at the terrified woman.

"Please...no one will take me away from you..biko...don't murder my customers" the native doctor pleaded.

Pamela halted her assault.But she still eyed the young lady threateningly.
The man just seemed confused.

"Please...." Olukwu said after a long silence.
"....come inside"he beckoned at the scared couple.
As they approached the hut,taking care to avoid the angry woman armed with a broom.


Few minutes later, the couple were seated in the hut with Olukwu.
"I am very sorry for the misunderstanding outside" Olukwu said.
"...cause alllll of me.....loves allll of you"She was at it again.

Olukwu eyes the doorway.He seemed  frustrated.It was clear, that her presence was a little bit more than a slight annoyance.

He managed to shrug it aside.

"So... Anita" He said addressing the woman.

"You should....."he began, but his sentence was caught off by...

"....My love" came Pamela from the doorway to the hut.

Olukwu rolled his eyes and said;
"Yes????"

"...just checking up on you" She replied lovingly. Then she left, but not before blowing him a kiss.

For  the longest time, Olukwu just sat there in front of the young couple.He was clearly containing himself.

"Well...like I was saying" he began just as the man and Anita exchanged  curious glances.

"Anita...you will  this and......"

"...cause allllll of me loves alllll..." came Pamela's voice again.
Olukwu raised his voice.

"ANITA!...You will drink this".He sounded angry as he handed her a small bottle .
The singing outside continued.
"UBONG!"
The man was startled by the sudden volume of the Native Doctor's Voice.
"Yes sir,"he replied Olukwu.
You will eat this" he said handing him a red leaf.

Pamela's singing outside was really distracting. Olukwu thought.He knew if he told her to shut up, she would only start crying.And THAT was louder than the singing.

He turned to the couple and said;
Take them before you sex this night, by morning...you will be pregnant"he said finally.

The couple were very happy..
"Thank you...thank you...we have tried everywhere" Anita said with all the gratitude in the world.
Thank you sir" Ubong said.

Olukwu simply nodded.Pondering his predicament with Pamela.
Then they left.


The Native Doctor sat quietly thinking about his situation.He still hadn't recovered from the last session of Pamela's "loving"
His whole body ached and he wished he could avoid it that night.

But it was impossible.He thought.
Pamela just would not take "no" for an answer.

"OLUKWU...YOU HAVE FAILED US AGAIN!!!"the Voice of the Spirits said.
Ekwa!what is it again?"the irritated Olukwu asked.

"THINK!..WHAT DID YOU GIVE TO THE COUPLE THAT LEFT?"

Olukwu had a curious look on his face.

After a long thoughtful silence, he said;

"... I gave them the Red leaf and Milk of fertility...the woman is to eat the leaf, and the man is to....."

Then it dawned on him.His face was suddenly a stark look of terror and panic.
In his distracted state, he had mixed things up.

"EWOOOOOOOOO....Pamela has killed me oooooH" Olukwu exclaimed as he placed his hands on his head.




THAT night, Anita and Ubong took the items as the native doctor had instructed them.They had been without children for years and they were desperate.

They made love that night and slept.

The next morning, Anita woke up to the strange sight of hairs on her chest.What could this mean? She wondered.

Ubong woke up feeling nauseated.His eyes were swollen and his joints felt weak.

They both didn't know what to make of it.

They both rushed to the hospital.
To be fair, Anita was a little worried about Ubong.He had a fever and she was scared he was reacting to something....badly.

After a series of tests, the doctors concluded Anita wasn't pregnant.
She felt terrible
She knew that native doctor was a phony.She thought to herself.
How could she have allowed something like this to happen?If anything bad happened to Ubong........!

The Doctors then ran a series of tests on Ubong,whose condition suddenly seemed worse.

After hours.....and hours of tests, the Doctor called the two of them into the his office.
For a long time, the Slender Doctor simply stared at the two of them in silence.

"I don't know how else to say this," The doctor began.The degree of hesitation in his voice was disturbing.

"....in all my years of practice,I have never seen anything like this..."he said staring at the two of them.

"WHAT?......IS HE DYING?the Panicked Anita said.The suspense was killing her.

"...no...he is just...Pregnant"the doctor said finally.

"He is.......what???" Anita asked.
In that moment, any one of Three adjectives could have described her facial expression;
Startled,Shocked or Flabbergasted.

Even the weakened Ubong sat up in his chair as if he were staring at a ghastly road accident.

"Your husband is pregnant" the slender Doctor said calmly.

Anita fainted.





EMEKA sat on the floor of the cell.

From the moment he had woken up in Pamela's bedroom, his life had taken a very drastic twist.
He still couldn't remember how he had gotten there.
He had called all Of Pamela's numbers over and over again....no luck.

He tried reaching all her friends.
They hadn't seen her.

He called her mother and asked.And that's where things got crazy.

"Where's my daughter...all her numbers are not going where is she?"her mother was clearly panicked.

Eventually, the Police got involved and Emeka was taken into custody.He was now a suspect in her disappearance.Why?
He was the last to have seen her....and he was in her house.And he claimed he didn't know how he'd gotten there.

The Police had tortured and beat him for days now.

He still didn't have an answer.
Had she left him for another man?
Had she found out he was about to propose and gotten scared?
What?
Where was she?
Maybe she wasn't The One.He concluded.




PAMELA lay on the Mat,clearly satisfied from the recent bout of sex they'd just had.
She wondered how many children they were going to have.She wondered when he was going to propose.She was so excited.




OLUKWU stood outside the hut, wincing at the pain in his waist.
At this rate, Pamela was going to kill him.
And he knew it.

"Spirits...." He began
"...please,...help me....is there no other way to break this spell?....I will  do anything,...I will humble myself,....I will not eat your Kola offering again...please!"

Long Silence

Seeing that he wasn't going to get any answer from the Spirits,he shrugged  his shoulders with a heavy sigh.Apparently, he had accepted his faith.

"...then, just leave me alone.....just leave me alone!"Olukwu said finally in a small voice.

"THERE IS A WAY TO BREAK PAMELA'S SPELL" the Voice said.

Olukwu literally  paused in his tracks.His face suddenly brightened up.

"W.....WWhat do you mean?"Olukwu asked hopefully.

"THE OUTCOME OF SUCH A SPELL COULD DANGEROUS...FOR PAMELA" the Voice Said.

"Please tell me, what is the spell"Olukwu said desperately, as he cautiously looked over his shoulder.

"WE MUST WARN YOU AGAIN,....THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE VERY GRAVE"the Voice stressed.

"Ekwa!Yes-yes-yes.....what is the spell?" Olukwu was very eager now.


"ONCE THE SPELL IS BROKEN,PAMELA'S LOVE FOR YOU SHALL DIE.....INSTANTLY..AND WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO EMEKA" the VOICE said coldly.

"Okay..." Olukwu nodded.
"Very good...let's do it before....." but Olukwu is interrupted.

"HOLD ON OLUKWU....." the Voice commanded.
The Native Doctor was fully attentive.

"ALL WILL BE WELL WITH PAMELA, IF EMEKA RETURNS HER LOVE.....BUT IF HE DOES NOT,.....IF HE BREAKS HER HEART,...SHE WILL LOSE HER SANITY...AND HER MIND WILL REMAIN IN DARK WATERS FOREVER!!!!"the Voice said Solemnly.

Olukwu is silent....very silent.
The consequences are grave...very grave.
"But Emeka loves her......doesn't he..?" Olukwu asked.


"EVEN THE SPIRITS DO NOT KNOW THE CONTENT OF A MAN'S HEART......OFTENTIMES  TIMES, THE MAN HIMSELF DOES NOT KNOW!!!"

The Native Doctor sighs heavily.This is a huge burden.
He steals a glance inside the hut.
Pamela is lying on the mat smiling and repeatedly kissing the  back of her  hand.
"He loves me(kiss) ..he loves me not..(kiss)...."

Olukwu watches her with sadness in his eyes.

"THE CHOICE IS YOURS...HER LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS.....SO CHOOSE WISELY"the Voice said Finally.



.....to be continued.


LIFE IS A CHOICE MY FRIEND
SO CHOOSE WISELY
ENOUGH SAID.