THE RAT AND THE BURNT BEANS - PART ONE

It was a busy day for me. I returned from work very late that day tired and very hungry. I thought I was going to meet already prepared sweet, delicious, palatable and hot fried rice and chicken. My mother said we were going to eat it for dinner, so I thought that when I returned I would meet them. I was already unknotting my tie, removing my shoes and losing my belt hurriedly, so I could go for the food I thought would be in the kitchen. Unfortunately, what I met was an uncooked beans and a note on it. “uhm,” I murmured, “ I hope mummy is not expecting me to cook.”
I ignored the beans and the letter, and started an ultimate search for my food-fried rice and chicken. I search every nook and cranny of the cupboard but found nothing; the search was futile. While I was ransacking the kitchen, I saw a giant rat. “How come,” I thought to myself, “this rat   in this house? How did it enter this house?”
I decide to kill the rat. I stepped backward gently to pick a stick or anything within my reach to kill the rat. As I stepped backward, I noticed the rat looking intently at me with its whisker wide spread as if detecting a food to steal. As I drew backward gently, I mistakenly kicked something and I stumbled and fell. I thought the rat would run, but it didn’t. It was as if it was enjoying the ongoing drama. When I looked closely, I observed its whisker dancing. I became furious. “So this rat is laughing at me! I thought provokingly.
I stood up slowly from the floor so that the rat won’t escape. In the process of making move to pick a stick as intended, I stepped on a banana pill and slipped off again. In attempt not to hit my head on the floor, I twisted swiftly to grip something. Unfortunately, it was a bucket of dirty water that my hand held and it gave way and spilled on the floor. My white shirt, black pair of trouser and my whole body was soaked with the pour of that stinking water.
That was the water I used to do my dishes in the morning and forgot to throw away. Our sink was faulty, so there was no way the dirty water could flow out that I decided to put all the dirty water in that bucket. “So my younger ones cannot throw this water away before going to that pako lesson! After they will come around me and ask me for money,” I muttered standing up hurriedly to fetch the mob to mob the floor before the water would flow under the cupboard.
The cloths I wore was my only neat cloths, the rest were dirty. It was the cloth I said I was going to wear to work the day following. Now that it is wet, stained and smelling obnoxiously, I didn’t know what to do. I was in air on what to do
 After mobbing the floor, I decided to give up the search for the food. As I went to pick the letter, I saw the same rat. It was eating the beans comfortably. “yeeh!” I shouted, “You this witch rat again!”
I quickly reached out my hand to pick a stick to hit the rat. As I threw the stick at the rat, it jumped up, dodging the stick as it escaped into a hole. The stick hit the tray in which the beans are in and the beans poured away.
“kai! Na which kind rat be this?” I said frantically.
I bent down and began to pick the beans.
As I was picking the beans the rat brought out its ugly head from the hole. I stood up quickly and gave it a hot chase back into the hole. I took some papers, squeezed it and used it to block the hole.

By Alienyi Jeremiah