I knew I had entered one chance. I felt insulted by that. I mean, how on earth did I look attractive to a guy? He even called me baby….which means, I will have to play the role of a girl. Jeeezzz!
All through the night, I couldn’t sleep, I was rolling on my bed from one end to the other. I felt like calling him back to warn him not to ever call my line again but I thought it could be a bad idea.
And I knew, if I should tell Regina and Segun about it, they will laugh me to scorn. So I kept it to myself.
The next day, I stood in front of the mirror, looking at myself to see if I have a lady’s shape. I just didn’t understand what made him think I may be interested. I walked towards the mirror to check my walking style, to see if I do shake my tiny waist while walking.
“This is stupid” I said, to my image.
I was just a slim, little light skin guy with a flat bums. I mean, if you’ve seen a flat tray before, my bums are flatter than a flat tray.
There was nothing on and in me that looks like I’m a girl. So I concluded, he’s either mad or he’s having a mental problem.
Because of that, I had to make research about gays. They believe they were born that way, they believed God made them like that. But, it’s so clear God wouldn’t create such abominations. Some persons were dragged into it, just like he was about to drag me into it.
Even though some country had legalized gay marriage and couple. It is still wrong. Gay is actually a mental illness but people refused to accept that.
That morning, I was even tempted to watch some gay sex videos to see what abomination they do. Eewww! I almost throw up on my laptop when watching it.
“Gosh, aaahhhh, penis in my anus” I exclaimed, in disgust.
“These people are really sick in the brain”
“He’s even mourning”
“That’s mad”
“Taaaaahhhh tufiakwa”
That video made me imagine Chuks as something worse than shit.
He called my line again that morning but I didn’t answer the call….
Regina: won’t you pick the call?
Me: nah…. Don’t worry about it.
Regina: who is calling you?
Me: trust me, it’s nobody.
Regina: are you hiding something from me?
Me: hide? No o.
Regina: so who is that?
Me: I told you it’s nobody.
Regina: uhhmm.
After 5 minutes, he called again…
Regina: what are you hiding?
Me: nothing.
Regina: then answer the call.
Segun came out from the room to meet us in the sitting room…
“Derra, is it your phone that is disturbing my sleep?”
Me: sorry about that.
Segun: who is calling you sef?
Regina: ask him o.
Me: (sighed) there is this guy that approached me yesterday at the supermarket.
My phone rang again…
Regina: answer the call first.
I answered the call and put it on speaker…
Chuks: baby why are you not answering my calls?
Me: Alaye, I don’t know the demon working inside you but if you don’t want to die before your time, stop calling this line.
Chuks: oowww…. Why are you talking like this? You know I love you.
I hung the call.
Regina: I don’t understand.
Segun: (laugh out loud) hahahahahah my belle o
Me: stop laughing.
Segun: sorry bro…..hahahahhahahah
Regina: (smiling) Segun stop laughing jare.
Me: Regina, if you want to laugh, go ahead.
Regina: (laugh out even louder)
Me: yeah, that’s right. Mock me.
Regina: sorry-sorry. Did a guy just called you baby?
Segun: (still laughing) he said, he loves him.
They both continued to laugh….
I left them and went to my room to stay.
I became so angry at Chuks. My plan was to meet him in person and disfigure his face. I blocked his calls from coming in, so he couldn’t contact me again.
Later that day, I was on my way to Emilia’s place when he bumped into me again…
Chuks: hey
Me: (frown)
Chuks: hey….please Stop.
Me: (snubbed)
Chuks: just hear me out.
Me: what?
Chuks: are you angry with me?
Me: are you mad? Is something wrong with you? Do I look like a girl to you?
Chuks: take it easy baby.
Me: (pointing at his face) if you call me baby again, I swear, I’ll break your nose.
Chuks: why are you acting tough to get? That’s how you people will be behaving until you see money.
Me: huh? Do I look like I need your money?
Chuks: maybe not. What if I told you, I can give you 100 thousand naira just for 10 minutes?
Me: 10 minutes for what?
Chuks: for us to have fun, you know, on bed. Just us.
Me: doing what?
Chuks: (making sex gesture with his hands)
Me: now I know you are mad.
Chuks: if you will be my Juliet, I’ll be your Romeo. And I will give you anything you want; money, cars, houses.
My irritations for him increased and I could feel my anger boiling within my belly. The moment he touched my shoulder, I punched him so hard on his nose. He fell on the ground, holding his bleeding nose in pain.
Me: look at me very well…. I hate nonsense.
Chuks: you broke my nose.
Me: did I? Ohhh, I should have aimed for your balls.
Chuks: (groaning) Ahhhh my nose.
Me: (mean voice) you are a big disgrace to the brotherhood. Don’t ever bump into me again, I swear I will end your useless life. And if I see you anywhere around any boy, you will wished you never met me.
I walked out on him. He was still on the ground, cleaning his nose with his towel.
I guess, they don’t give up so easily. He stopped stalking me but he started looking for another person.
I asked some people about it; what they know about gays.
Some call them fags…they believed, most of them are into a secret cult. The more they sleep with guys, the more money they make. Some persons I asked shared some very disturbing experiences they’ve either witnessed, seen or heard.
Then I remember, such happened in my neighborhood when I was about 12. But our parents kept the truth from us….they made us think, the innocent boy had injury in his anus. They didn’t want us to be scared of be raped even as boys. I still remember his name, Innocent. He was just 13 then.
I heard the story from a market woman who was telling a bus driver…. According to the story….
Innocent was asked to go buy groundnut and it happened that, the guys selling the groundnuts were gay. Innocent had always go there anytime he wants to buy groundnuts, so they made him their friends.
One evening, he went to buy as usual, they made him follow them to their store where they pack their groundnut….
Guy1: boy can you help us hold the light…
Innocent: my mum is waiting for me….just give me the groundnut.
Guy2: don’t worry, we will give you enough groundnut….just come inside and help us hold the light.
Immediately, he entered, one of them shut the door….
Guy2: (brought out money) do you want this?
Innocent: wow…money? Yes, I want.
Guy1: how much do you want?
Innocent: maybe one thousand naira.
Guy2: what will you do with it?
Innocent: there is this sandals I want to buy.
Guy2: we want to give you 5,000
Innocent: me? Are you serious?
Guy1: let’s make it 10,000
Innocent: Jesus!
Guy2: you will allow us to have sex with you and you will promise not to tell anybody. Agree?
A boy that doesn’t know what they meant by having sex with him, agreed. So they removed his pant….he was only concerned about the money and what he could do with 10,000.
Even though he felt the pain so badly, he endured it for the money. After they had him the way they wanted, they gave him double of the groundnut he wanted without collecting money.
They probably thought all was well. By the boy couldn’t squirt anymore. His mum noticed his trousers were always wet and he had changed more than 4 trousers that morning.
His anus had become wider and was dripping water.
The story was really disturbing to me when I heard it but I thought it was all rumors. Well, the two guys were arrested.


When I got to Emilia’s place, one of her neighbor told me she was not at home. I was so happy….cos I needed to make sure, Chuks doesn’t get someone to fall victim of his devilish act.
Just as I was getting to the main road, he was already with another boy. He’s plan was to get someone younger, someone who cannot resist him…. I waited some distance away from them, just observing what was going on.
He took the boy to buy him snacks and drink, after buying, they both sat on a seat outside the restaurant, talking and smiling.
From the look of things, he was really winning the innocent boy who should be 15 or 16 years old. I thought of what to do; should I interrupt or just mind my business?
He was even bursting pimples on the boy’s face. For some seconds, I felt, if I didn’t stop him, I’ll blamed for whatever happens to that boy. So I waited until they finished taking their snacks and they both stood up to leave.
He must have convinced the boy to follow him to his house, which I think, the boy agreed to. He held the boy’s hand as they walked towards a cab. Before I could get there, they were already gone.
Chuks did not only crossed his path, he broke the “international bro’s code”….. And he needs to be taught a lesson. He didn’t just break our I.B code, he broke 4 codes.
Code No.1 no bro should be seen bursting pimples on another bro’s face.
Code No.2 no bro should be seen holding hand with another bro.
Code No.3 no bro should prefer having sex with another bro. that’s a taboo
Code No.4 no bro should behave like a woman.
He made the boy broke code 4, and he must be punished for it.
I stopped a bike man and asked him to follow the cab…..
He took to the boy to a hotel, so he could have sex with him.
“How am I supposed to enter now?” I asked myself.
I stood outside for some minutes before going inside the hotel….they had already gotten a room.
*At the Reception*
Me: Good evening ma
Receptionist: good evening, how may I help you?
Me: uhhmm…. My two brothers walked in now….please what’s their room number?
Receptionist: are you with them?
Me: of course…. I went to get something….so I asked them to go ahead.
Receptionist: okay. What are their names?
Me: seriously? I’m sure, they used Chuks.
Receptionist: yeah. Sorry about that…. I just needed to be sure.
Me: no problem.
Receptionist: it’s room 306. 7th floor, left wing.
Me: thank you.
I was so ready to beat madness out of someone that evening.