Treasure by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Author:Oyinkan Braithwaite [Braithwaite, Oyinkan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542022156
Published: 2020-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

VI

The houses are all different. It looks as if Pious Estate allows its residents to build their houses anyhow. There are gold houses and pink houses. Some are narrow, and others look like three houses combined. Many of them are mid-construction. When he marries Treasure, maybe they will also build a home here. Why not? A massive yellow house, with orange columns and a green roof. He likes how even the trees here look fresh, and he has not seen a single rat. The air tastes different too.

“I never knew a place like this could exist inside of Nigeria,” says Sammy.

“Yes o.”

“How will you know which one is her own?”

“I have seen the house before in pictures. It is blue.”

“This one?” Sammy points to a light-blue house. The house even has gold statues in front. But it is not her house.

“No, like my shirt. This type of blue. And it has big windows.”

Sammy nods and looks around for more blue houses. They pass a woman walking with three dogs. They cross the road to avoid her and her animals. Island people are crazy sha. And they will pay plenty of money for a dog. His cousin used to sell dogs, before one of the dogs bit him. Now he sells chickens. There is less money, but it is safer.

There are many houses to look at, but fate is on his side. The fifth road they enter, he sees her house on the corner.

“That is it!”

Sammy whistles as they approach it. It is finer than it looked in the picture. It has big columns, and there are three cars in the compound. He cannot see the G-Wagon, but the other cars are also big people cars.

“Oya, bring out the gun,” he tells Sammy. Sammy unbuckles the belt of his trousers. “What are you doing?”

“What? I can’t just pull it out! I have to be careful, so I no go shoot myself!” says Sammy as he slowly takes the gun out from its hiding place.

He can barely even carry the gun well. But anyway, there is no security man at the gate, so they walk in. He saw other houses were manned by security men. They were not in uniform like the ones at the estate gate, but every home had a personal guard. Treasure and her family are too trusting. He will have to talk to them.

Sammy runs to one of the cars.

“Mehn, can you see this? This car has a turbocharged engine. Guy, when you start the car, it is like a woman breathing in your ear.”

“What do you know about a woman breathing?”

They laugh. Things are going well. Better than he could have thought. Imagine, no security guard. Imagine!

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