/CHAPTER TWENTY/

~Demons are from within
And they feed on your guilt
Till you're dead~
TOLA AISH 🌺

(Warning ❗: this chapter contains a little gory part; so I already gave head's up 💗 also this chapter might be really confusing 😁)

(Song: faded by Alan walker, put it on replay🤗🤗)

(PS; please vote and comment 🥺🥺 and I might not be updating until after Wednesday. Thanks for understanding 🤗🌺🌺)

~CHASE~

“Chase, someone slapped pink.”

“What?” I asked confused.

“Someone slapped Pink!”

She said. I didn't know how to take the matter, all I knew at that moment was someone had slapped my baby sister. I felt somehow on the inside, my body temperature was rising, my head was getting hot, hot, and hot, I felt a familiar anger brewing on my inside, but I knew I couldn't walk in with that magnitude of anger. So I bent down by the pool side and poured water on my head and it worked because I was calm.

I didn't even know when I started walking into the house, all I knew was that I found myself inside the house. The bubbly music had stopped playing, no one was dancing, they were all focused on Nola who was in an heated argument with some other guys, but that wasn't my concern. I just wanted to look for pink, and I saw her.

Pink was actually crying while Jona and some other people tried consoling her.

I walked over to pink as she cried, contemplating on what I should do at that moment, because if I should had channeled all the anger I felt on the person who slapped her, it might had ended in a way that I wouldn't like. Pink noticed me and before I could say,

“pi. . .” nk. . . she engulfed me in a hug still sobbing.

“Who slapped her?” I asked no one in particular.

“That boy,” A girl answered pointing to the guy arguing with Nola. “He slapped Pink just because she said she wasn't dancing with him but don't worry Sha, Nola is going to send him away.”

I smiled and told pink to release me which she did. I went over to the place where the guy was engaged in an heated argument with Nola. I decided to use the opportunity to observe him, he was tall, about my height but his body build was something else, while I was thin, he was the opposite with muscles and biceps popping out in the right places. His whole look was intimidating to mine, but truth was, I never felt intimidated. I looked down to his hand and damnit! they were huge. And I knew no matter how strong someone was, if that hand should touch someone the mark would be present.

“Why did you slap pink?” I asked him, my voice coming out harshly though I tried to tone it down, and he brought his gaze to me, eyeing me. “Why did you slap my sis?” I asked him again, not caring about how high the tone of my voice was.

“Chill chase, I'll handle it,” Nola faced me and said to me, then turned back to the guy, “You should leave now,” The guy didn't reply him as he was just smiling which annoyed me.

“Why did you slap pink?” I asked again.

He looked at me and cackled, “Na your sister be that?” he asked in a condemning tone which I didn't like one bit, still I tried controlling myself not to throw the first punch. That made me to start snapping my fingers together to prevent that. “See I just wanted to dance with her and she was forming big girl, like we don't know girls like them, are they not the ones that sell their bodies for. . .”

I stopped listening. His words were anathema to me.

“See I just wanted to dance with her and she was forming big girl, like we don't know girls like them, are they not the ones that sell their bodies for. . .” his words couldn't stop playing in my head.

He called Pink a prostitute.

Pink. . .a prostitute?

Something snapped in me.

Someone was awake. He was about to take over. . .again. Someone that I hadn't seen for long. Someone that had always been the demon. Someone who was ruthless, was about to resurface.

Femi.

He kept kicking and fighting with me, trying to come out and take control over the body, but I didn't want him to. I snapped really fast while I tried fighting my inner person. My inner demon. My head was swelling, I was loosing myself slowly giving in for Femi to take over but I didn't want that.

Why now? Since three years now, he was finally showing face.

Why now?

Why now?

Why now?

I didn't want him, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.

I stopped snapping.

I did what Femi would had wanted.

I punched him hard in his face.

I could hear gasps and screams from around but I didn't mind. Femi was still fighting to come out while the guy just staggered across the room, then when he finally regained his composure, he looked at me with a smirk on his face, using his hand to clean the blood coming out of his nose. The smirk on his face was really annoying that all I just wanted to do was to wipe it off. I tried moving closer to him but I was held back, I snapped my neck back and saw Jona and Nola holding me Back.

“He isn't worth it,” Jona said but I knew petty speeches like that wouldn't work on me, especially when Femi was fighting to take over the body, so I forced myself out of their hands and shot them a glare, they didn't say anything else to me, rather, they stepped back which gave me the opportunity to hasten towards the guy and hold him by the collar of his jacket, but he didn't struggle or fight back with me instead he was just smirking.

“Aren't you going to hit me?”

He asked raising a eyebrow at me. I didn't release my grip from his collar instead I tightened my grip because I was losing it slowly, Femi was making me lose it slowly. My breathe was coming out harshly and roughly as it took every nerve in my body to restraint myself from hitting him to prevent any further damages. “Don't be a coward, hit me, or is mummy going to beat you?”

I released him.

Time stopped.

Femi stopped fighting. He slept back.

He mentioned our mum. I looked at him again and he still had that smirk on his face as he adjusted his ruffled jacket. I felt frail and enfeebled, the whole room was turning as I remembered my mum, I couldn't move from the spot I was, it felt like I lost hold over my legs, and my head was spinning. Then I saw Nola and jona go over to meet the guy and they escorted him outside with two other men's, but I didn't stop looking at the guy till he was out.

“Don't be a coward, hit me, or is mummy going to beat you?”

Those words couldn't stop playing in my head in as much as I tried to kick it out, he hit a very vital spot in me when he mentioned my mum, he brought back memories I didn't want.

Then there was Femi, after sleeping for three years, he finally showed his presence again.

He was back. And he tried to take over the body. . . again.

But why?

“. . .Chase?” I came back to planet Earth as I heard my name, I looked back and saw Pink scrutinizing gaze, her face was a little bit pale with dried tears also the whole five fingers of the guy was swollen against the side of her beautiful face. “It's okay, I'm okay,” she said with a faint smile on her face as she held me by my hand. “let's go and sit.”

We were both seated when the music which was paused came back to live again, the party was back in full mode, birthday song was sang for the birthday boy, then everyone fell back to the dancing floor including Pink and Feyi, but my night was already ruined all because of Femi and that dude, especially when he mentioned my mum, the topic I'd tried avoiding.

“. . .is mummy going to beat you?”

It brought back unwanted memories, memories that I never wanted to remember, memories that broke me, memories that I wished were never there, he brought them back and my heart started beating rapidly as my guilt resurfaced. The music playing became Faded and I was lost in my own world and guilt. I felt my whole body temperature rise beyond an hundred Celsius. I just wanted to forget about my mother, her, Femi and every other memories that made me feel tenebrific. I needed my guilty pleasure but first I needed to get out of the party.

I got up and started walking through the crowded hormonal teenagers, but my head was still spinning, it was hot also, but I succeeded in passing through the crowded teenagers and finally got outside. I felt the fresh night breeze hitting through me, which made me feel warm and refreshed. I continued walking till I reached the spot where my car was parked and I saw two people arguing by my car, I couldn't make out the faces, but as I got nearer, I could recognize the face. It was Tayo and Wendell.

I kept walking and entered into my car without minding anyone because I just needed my guilty pleasure to help kill the unwanted memories that were gushing into my head.

*. *. *.

It was dark as i drove into the estate and parked right in front of a big black gate. I was sweating profusely although I turned on the AC of the car, I was covered with sweat, so I had to remove my jacket and my top, leaving my upper body naked. The fact that Femi was awake scared me and those words didn't leave me as it kept replaying at intervals,  “. . .is mummy going to beat you?”   I rubbed my hands through my head aggressively, hitting my head on the steering continually, but the memories still weren't leaving me and it was killing, I felt like crying. I took some cash from my wallet and got down from the car moving towards the gate, I rang the doorbell, pacing around as I waited for someone to respond but no one answered, so I rang the bell again and finally someone opened the gate halfway and skull head poked out of it.

“Chase, my man,” Skull greeted me as he opened the gate fully, but I didn't reply because I wasn't in the mood for greetings. I walked into the well lit compound with my hands crossed against my naked torso while I stared at Skull.

Skull wasn't my friend, he was a business man who sold weeds, all sorts of hard drugs and he was also an agent for babes aka prøstïtütés, even though I knew what he did was illegal, I didn't care because he helped in supplying weeds and cigarettes to me.

“Supplies,” I told him and he nodded before entering into the building while I waited for him outside with my thoughts still disoriented but the night breeze did little in cooling me.

Femi's awake!

Femi's awake!!

Femi's awake!!!

Some unfamiliar voices in my head couldn't stop chanting those words. I ran my hands on my hair, feeling scared and exhausted. I was tired. Tired of leaving a life that wasn't entirely mine, tired of leaving a life that I'd sin, tired of everything.

I saw skull rushing back to me with the supplies which he gave to me and I paid him, as I was walking back towards my car I remembered I needed something so I decided to ask him.

“Skull,” I called out to him and he looked at me. “Can I get a blade cutter, a blade or anything sharp?”

He looked at me, probably wondering what I needed it for, but I was in dire need of it and I sure wasn't getting any at home because my dad had advised Nanny Theresa to keep any sharp objects away from me, which she solely complied with, because I wasn't allowed to use or see any sharp objects at home.

Skull laughed,“What do you want to use it for?”

“I just need it,” I told him and he went inside again and came back with a blade cutter, I collected it from him and left.

*. *. *.

I drove into my compound speedily, got down from the car and carried along the weeds, cigarettes and blade cutter wrapped in my cloth; so that Nanny Theresa wouldn't see it. I entered into the living room and was greeted by nanny Theresa presence but I didn't stop walking neither did I greet her and she didn't disturb me also.

I walked into my room and locked the door, it was dark but I didn't turn on the lights. I removed my sneakers, threw the supplies on my bed but took out the blade cutter, I went over to my study desk and took the cigarettes that I left there. Walking into the bathroom i turned on the light and also turned on the faucet, so that water could fill up the bathtub.

I went to the front of my mirror and stared at a human called Femi.

He was grinning widely. He held his five fingers in the mirror, counting down.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

'ι'м вacĸ!!' was boldly written on the mirror. I shook my head because I knew just the way to get rid of him.

Pain and death.

Then at that moment, that guy's words played again in my head.

“. . .is mummy going to beat you?”

I snickered_ mummy can't beat me now because she's . . .dead_ I thought to myself as I looked at Femi who kept staring back at me from the mirror, he looked shattered, scarred, and psychotic. I took the blade cutter and placed it on my wrist, cutting through it. I threw my head back groaning a little because of the sharp stinging pain that accompanied it, but still it was satisfactory. While the human in the mirror frowned as he watched blood spill out from my wrist, it was galvanizing and electrifying at that moment my thoughts were free and empty, I felt highly intoxicated and liberty was at it peak.

Like my own personal haven.

I smiled at Femi whilst he still had a frown on his face. I cut open my second wrist and this time as the pain shot through me i felt a rush of adrenaline rush all over me, every organ and nerve in my body raising at an impulse, causing my heart to beat faster than usual. Femi frown deepened as the blood spilled out of the second wrist also. I laughed at him, still savouring the pleasure the pain brought to me, it was out of this world, way better than sex and cigarettes, I looked at Femi in the mirror and his expression was stoic, he was looking at me, then he Left, leaving me all alone. Then I remembered that I opened the tap down so I went over and closed it, stripped completely naked and took a stick of cigarette, lit it up, kept it in between my mouth and entered into the bathtub which was already filled up with water.

I remained in the tub and allowed my wrist to bleed into the water while i smoked on my weed.

Femi. . . Femi was fire and gas, indeed he was awake after sleeping for three years. I had even forgotten about him, but his presence that evening meant he was coming back, and he was going to take over my body, but I either wasn't going to allow him, instead, I decided to kill the body. 

I sighed and continued smoking, deciding to rid all thoughts about Femi, and at that moment all I felt was peace, relieve, and tranquility was at it Bay, all my bad memories were gone, my wrist bleeding away my soul slowly, drifting me into a endless sleep which I couldn't wait to start. I closed my eyes as I slipped into another world entirely, without any Femi.

Chase world.

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
😭😭😭😭😭😭
Who is Femi?
HINT; what's Chase real name?

My baby chase 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺