It have been seven months since I saw this huge wall, with hunger giving me strokes of cane, thirst driving me mad, I walked slowly to the wall which was BRIGHT ORANGE, I walked round the gigantic border till I reached the entrance, the gate, I took a deep breath and knocked the gate with my whole strength before My passing out, I opened my eyes and met myself in a car that was dead silent and I dozed back into my sleep, I woke up later but this time I was laying on an extremely soft and cozy bed in a room that looked like it was well arranged for an adventurous teenage, with creative drawing of the solar system on the walls, with comic heroes and action figures arranged on the floor arranged and ready to play with in a corner in the room, and an air conditioner nicely placed on the wall, bringing cool air into the room which made it hard to stay awake, the room had two wide windows which were covered with both zinc and cotton, I then noticed a table that was standing close to the bed with a cup of cold water so I haste to gulp it all in a jiffy and slept off.
After resting in a bed that was as soft as a cloud, I could barely stand up, the only thing that seemed to be inconvenient is the bad dream I keep having about my bad experience outside the orphanage, I looked up above the bed to the small bulb whose face was being hidden by a glass that covers it all round, with fancy curves on it, and that gave me a deep flashback of how I got the dark red scars on my neck.
I, Godwin, James and Moses were held hostage by cold blooded hunters with huge and rough looking muscles, they would always go on long trips for some reason and live us the hostage in their hut which was at the middle of nowhere , despite we were just hostages they would leave us food, not enough to defeat our hunger but enough to stay alive, we would not make any attempt to relocate or run away from the hut, once Godwin climbed a very tall tree that was located behind the hunters hut, he climbed to the very top but saw nothing but trees, trees and more trees, Godwin stating his experience denied us of hope.
In the room with my face facing the roof I grew hungry, so I struggled up to my feet and out of the room. In the My passage my face was blooming because of the fine designs on the wall of the house, I admired it while I tried to make my way to the kitchen, I reached the kitchen and saw a bunch of bananas just sitting on the table, it made my mouth watery, so I helped myself with one, as I made my way back to the room I was left in an orange fruit juice drew my attention, I figured it was in no use so I walked towards it, it was in the living room which was huge, as I placed my hand on the jar handle I preserved an odor I found very familiar, soon smoke filled the air then I saw a woman sitting on a dark green sofa opposite a gigantic flat screen TV, the woman; held a small object that looked like a straw in-between her second and third finger, then I noticed the smoke that filled the room was coming from the tiny straw that the woman was holding, the straw looked like something I have seen before. It was a Cigarette.
Months ago, I was living in a hut with Godwin crew, the men that kidnapped us had gone to hunt, they had been gone for two weeks. As me, Godwin, James and Moses where sited on some rocks outside the huts, Moses head shoo; and his body was sort of vibrating, guessed he was still in shock about the whole situation, I couldn't believe Moses was the only one trembling in fear, I expected James to be the weakling, because he was the most skinny amongst four of us.
"I can't continue like this" Godwin whispered with his head facing the group, and we all turned to Godwin trying to get what he was saying, I didn't bother saying anything because they weren't really my friends.
"We are men, we can't keep on hiding like we are ladies" Godwin added, but this time his statement moved me.
"Are you saying we should fight those men, the will crush our skull just by placing our head between their muscles" I yelled to Godwin, but Godwin surprisingly wasn't annoyed by my anger, but he instead found a greater reason to continue with his protest, Moses whose head was faced to the ground all this while decided raise his own conclusions and directed his attention to me, and his thoughts all turned into a stare "FIRE, FIRE", he shouted, I knew what he was saying didn't concern me when I turned and saw smoke coming out of the forest. My mouth was wild open as I stared at the smoke floating into the air, Godwin ran towards the backyard, I didn't quite know what he went to the do, but what I knew at that moment, we were in big trouble, "What are we going to do? If a tree is on fire, then the fire will jump from that tree to another, and soon the whole forest will be on fire and we will all burn with it", James said holding his head, I thought of a way to stop the fire from harming us, but all the method I could think of involved recourses we didn't have, Moses stood up and finally said a word.
"Water", I and James were now My paying attention to Moses "we could use water to stop the fire", Moses said again "Yes", I and James shouted "But are we going to reach the top of the trees to pour the water" Moses questioned, an Idea I thought would save us popped out of nowhere and I said.
"We could dig a hole, a circle around the hut and fill them with water", it was rather they thought the idea was worth trying, or they were hiding their excitement, we all followed my plan and hoped for survival, we also filled all the buckets we could find in the huts with water just in case, because we thought all the water in the huts would be needed. I remember the look on the hunters face, as punishment for exhausting all the water they had, they made us fetch water from a lake very far from the huts location, till all the buckets and even their well were lively again, in the end we found out the thing causing the smoke was a long horn used as a Cigarette by "UGA" as the rest of the hunters called him.
As I came out of my flashback, I ran away from the woman with the Cigarette, by the noise and fancy arrangements I was convinced that we were far away from the Dump land we were in before, my whole memory briefly flashed before my eye and I discover the woman was ….. My Sister.