2006
  The wind was fierce, as there was tension in the air. "What are we going to do now" I asked my brother for we were lost.,this was our first time in the village and our mom had sent us to visit her aunt in the neighboring village only for us to get there and found out that she is not around.
  "Brother!, please can you help us with 50 naira we want to use it to enter motor" I asked the man by the road side.  "No" he replied bluntly..
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(#I was 6 while my brother was 8yo. You can imagine how little we were.)
  The okada man that brought us already left so we had no other option than to sit  at her doorstep and wait till she returns.  
  As it grew darker we couldn't wait anymore, we decided to take our chances and look for a way to go back home. We followed the route that the okada man took while we were coming ,we came to a sudden stop when we saw a large water on the road side .
"Is this not the road we passed while coming?" I asked my elder bro, for I could have sworn that there was no water on the road when we passed and it has not rained ,  how then did the water get here?.  We had to turn and go to back to my aunt's place. we sa for a long time but there was no sign of her coming and it was getting late.  Then we decided to take another route which we don't know, we just wanted to get moving.
  As we were going ,the road seems not to end until we started to hear the sound of vehicles moving..  "Ahhh!! At last we don comout for main road" I said with relief, though we did not know where else to go from here as the only thing we know was the name of the village. We decided to wait if We can see any vehicle that would lift us to our destination to no avail, then we saw this man standing at the front of his house , after much contemplation we decided to go ask him if he could help us with transport so we can go home.
  "Brother!, please can you help us with 50 naira we want to use it to enter motor" I asked the man by the road side.  "No" he replied bluntly..  The cloud was heavy with tears and thunder was raising it voice at us.seems like everything was working against us.
We took our L in peace and said we should trek it.
by now the time was after 8,you know the typical village after 8 that was looking as if its 11 already. Everyone had gone inside and the cloudy sky wasn't helping issues.
, at that moment we moved then the rained poured with great annoyance and pounced on us as we were running along the road.  It was dark with few motors passing once in a while. there was no house around both left and right were bushes we didn't stop, No! we couldn't stop actually. where do you want to stop? in the middle nowhere .
Remember we were both 6 and 8 respectively.....
After we had run an hour or so, we then saw a building along the Bush, on getting to the house it was completely dark and no voice could be heard from there " maybe it's cause of the rain or they might have slept" we thought as we continued our heavenly race. Till we finally got home to meet our mother drinking hot pepper soup with malt.

Immediately she saw us she screamed out of fear and asked us what happened and we told her how we went. She gave us food  and we took our bath before going to bed.  It was really an adventurous day.
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Days later we discovered that the first building we saw along the Bush was a moutuary and the dead wasn't even aware if anyone passed they are dead and can't hurt a human. #reallifediary