It was one rainy friday evening years ago when it all happened. There was this maragoli girl barely 18 years old, msupa kama kitu ingine. Unajua maisha ya ghetto kwa zile ploti zikona single rooms mob za mabati zimeshikana, hapo ndio life ilikuwa imenifikisha.
So that day najoke na hako kadem kanipatie vitu niswage and she tells me “cum visit me in our house, mum is not around till sunday”. So I tell her naenda kejani and will be back shortly. Ilibidi niende kejani kwanza ni brush meno tena na kufreshen kiasi just to make an impression.
Mimi huyo nimefika kejani a few mabatis away, shower haraka upesi not minding hio maji baridi. Nikagonga kwa mboy wangu anisaidie na spray, nikajipulizia. Nikadunga poa then nikavaa gumboots, being that bado matope ilikuwa mob after mvua kunyesha overnight.
Within 30 mins nikagonga kwa mlango yakina huyo manzi, orbit menthol kiasi mdomo inukie poa. Akanikaribisha poa chai na ndunya tayari kwa meza. Mvua nayo ikaanza kunyesha. Spidi spidi nkamaliza kunywa hio chai na ndazi nilikula nusu, kumchekesha kidogo hivi nikamwambia straight to the face nimekutamani siku mob sana leo lazima nikuto***. Akanipiga smile nikajua hapo nimeua kenge.
Mdarano kidogo tu, waah! Dem akawaka moto mwili yote. Sikutaka kujua nikavua shati na kudrop trao pia yeye akaangusha skirt na blouse. Nikamseti kwa floor sahizo ni simiti but that dint bother us, manzi kumbe ana game noma sana mpaka nikakuwa confused. Sazile tu njoti inakam dem sahio ako juu ya nduru nikasikia hodi kwa mlango nika freeze. Kuuliza dem nani huyo anagonga before ajibu nikasikia ameitwa jina. Waah! All she said to me was that, madhe amerudi.
Sijawai teseka roho hivyo. Keja ni single room, mlango na dirisha zote ziko side ya mbele na huko ndo madhake alikuwa amesimama akinyeshewa akingoja afunguliwe mlango. I dint have time to dress, so nikachukua trao na top na gumboot nikabeba kwa mkono while trying to think very fast how to escape juu huyo madha naye alikuwa terror sio siri.
Sema divine intervention kuhappen. Dem akaingizia baridi akaamua kufungua mlango sahizo tu nayo stima ikapotea. Yeye kufungua mlango madha akaingia akasimama kwa entrance akingoja dem awashe koroboi, all this time nimesimama nyuma ya mlango ndethe kabisa na nguo zangu kwa mkono, too scared to put them on. Dem kuwasha koroboi nikajiambia hapa sishikwi ng’o, madha kupiga steps mbili ndani before noticing kuna son-in-law waiganjo kwa keja, nikaangusha hio koroboi ikazima.
I managed to squeeze kwa hako kaspace kadogo between her na mlango. Yeye kugeuka kucheki nini hio imetoka, aliona tu kitu kama mundu mulosi akipotelea gizani na mahaga ndethe kama nimebeba gumboots zangu na nguo which turned out to be my trao na blouse ya ule dem. Ngotha na shati yangu niliacha huko.
I ran into the rain and out of the plot and stayed away for a whole week. I later learnt dem alipewa vita haijuani but luckily she never mentioned my name when asked who the night runner was. Somehow the mother figured it out courtesy of a nosy male neighbour lakini mimi ni nani, I DENIED and DENIED. Sweetness of life though shot haikuanguka.