Chapter 08

I cried as I prayed and soon slept off dreaming of what I wished could happen for real as I saw my dad coming back to me just for him to turn into water.

I jumped up from the bed scared just for me to discover that it was already late morning and a smile appeared over my lips.

I walked to the exact wall clock and I opened the little clock door as I rubbed my finger over counting one to twelve and then tracing my fingers over the long hand and short hand time indicators and I knew what the time was.

All this would have been easier if I had asked my iPhone the time.

So it is thirty minutes past six.

I rushed out from my room speedily just to come to a halt at the stairs.

I didn't want to wake my mum up from the bed nor was I ready to tumble over the stairs.

I took a slow step to get the first staircase just for me to match something slippery.

My heart pounded hard instantly as my whole body ascended from the stairs with my brain already telling me how bad I would fall.

I finally landed in something extremely soft and cool and I wondered what it was.

"Mum?" I said confused.

"Who is this?" I asked what felt like a bag of water.

"I'm water" I hear someone say but with bubble sounds with water drippings.

It came over my hands and I felt what feels like water but it left my hands as my mum called my name coming from the dinning towards where I was at the main door. 

"Happy birthday love! My beautiful daughter has turned eighteen already!" My mum says as she walks towards me and hugs me.

"Mum... Who is the other person called water?" I asked her as I began to follow her into the kitchen.

"Where are you dreaming? It's six in the morning and there's no one here with us" she says as she gives me a glass of water on my right hand and a pill to take before I have my breakfast.

"Mum! You are keeping to your promise right?" I asked her and she kept silent for a while.

"Mum... Please don't try to think about this at all because you have already promised yesterday" I said to her waiting for her reply.

"Oliver, take your drugs so you could finish off with your breakfast already, I am not backing out of my promise because its a culture" she says weirdly sounding unlike her to me.

I took my medicine and my mum showed me where to sit and I finally sat down waiting for her to show me where my plate was and give me my spoon to eat but something felt off with my body as all this was happening.

I could feel the elements of the house and could hear even the littlest of sounds from the ceiling and it felt like I was beginning to turn upside down.

My hits herself on something as she yelled out "ewoh!" Which means a surprised reaction or ouch when Igbo; a Nigerian language is translated to English.

"Mum I don't feel alright, are you okay?" I asked her as I felt like my plated hair was all in the air with my heart beating fast.

It felt like my head was getting some kind of energy and It felt like I was now falling towards my right hand side.

I felt the Gravity and my mum screamed in pain and I began to fear what was happening to her with tears already coming out of my eyes as I began to feel like I had turned crazy.

The sound of the house water tabs rushing was heard by me and it felt like they started destroying.

"Mummy! What is happening" I scream in fear as water crept its way over my legs and started raising me up like I was floating in the air... But yet still in water.

"Mummy it's happening again right? They have come to take you away from me too!" I said to my mum who screams "Oh god of the oceans have mercy and mark your daughter in peace" she said and it seemed like everything stopped.

But then it continued with full force and I could not scream again as it now felt like I was in water.

I struggled to breath.

"Mummy please forgive me if I have been a pain and disgrace to you... I am sorry, please forgive me and spare my life" I said as my life began to wear away in my struggles.

"Oliver, calm down... Breath in and breathe out alright, you can do it oliver" she says to me and I can hear her but I could not.

I was not naturally a fish and she said I should breathe in water?

This woman isn't serious.

The room turns back and I land back on the same chair which I sat on.

My mum hit hardly over what I guessed was the floor and the water choking me immediately left me and the one from my foot or leg region disappeared.

Somehow i felt strong but sad at the experience.

My mum hugs me immediately.

"Oliver! Are you okay?" She says crying really hard as she kept me in her arms.

A knock came over the door and she left me walking to the door slowly.

She opened the door and I heard James' voice, and excitement rushed through my body.

"Come in David" she says as she welcomes him in and he asks her if she is okay.

"Oh I am fine, but there's something important you have to help me out with" she says to him.

"Sure! Anything" he replies to her.

"Good! Let's take her to the ocean beach right now, or the next time it comes would be the destruction of Lagos' ' speedily she explains making me wonder what she meant.

"What is It?" David asked.

"The ocean is calling on her," She says.