After It Happened novel Chapter 27

28th March, 2018

Danielle,

I got to leave school before lunchbreak! That's great news right? At least I finally get enough sleep if only I can block out Grammy's and Aunty Amara's shouts of "Fire! Fire! Die by Fire!". It's really hard to ignore their loud prayers especially when the words 'Olanna' and 'evil spirit' continuously leave their lips.

Do you really think I am possessed by a spirit? Today's events got me thinking. There is really no reasonable explanation for my episode today I can think of apart from possession. That is what everyone is thinking judging the whispers and looks my classmates and teachers were giving me as I picked up my school bag. I can't really blame them though. This is Nigeria after all. Anything that seems physically unexplainable has to do with the spiritual.

I remember a story Aunty Amara always tells anyone who cares to listen. I must have heard that story a thousand times. Have I told you before that Aunty Amara is a single mom? Well that should be obvious since she doesn't live with her husband. She divorced her husband when Dubem was still a baby. Noone will tell me the details; I'm not sure Dubem even knows everything.