Chronicles of Koko 4

“Where’s Hamza”

Hamza used to live two streets away from my house. His best friend, Kola happened to be my flatmate. We lived in a four bedroom flat; three rooms were occupied by ladies and only one with guys. Hamza was always at our house so we were all used to him. I was watching a movie in my room one day when my flat mate, Cynthia came in looking worried. I sat up and waited for her to say something.

“Babe, something is wrong.  Come.”

I got up and followed her. She went to the front of Kola’s room where Koko was. I rolled my eyes.

“Cynthia which kain thing be this na? Why you go carry me commot for my room for this? And by the way, why aren’t you scared of her right now?”

“Just keep quiet and watch.”

Koko was very restless; she would smell around Kola’s door, the run to the balcony. We knocked but the room was empty and locked, no one was in. Koko would run around then come back to the door. She was very distressed. Cynthia and I couldn’t place our fingers on the exact problem. Koko ran to the exit severally before we got the cue to follow her. We ran all the way to Hamza’s house but Hamza was not there either. That was when we started to worry that something had happened and she was trying to send us a message. We both didn’t take our phones so we hurried to our house with Koko running in circles to get our phones. When we got close to the house, Koko started running and barking. We got really scared. By the time Cynthia and I entered the house, koko was seated on Hamza’s lap dangling her tongue contentedly. We explained what happened to Hamza and he told us that he had gone to the barbers’, didn’t want to take her, so he snuck out. When she did not see him, she assumed he would be at Kola’s so she came. When she didn’t meet him there, she had gotten worried. Hamza smiled and pet Koko.

“You are just a big baby. Koko, say thank you to them.”

She leapt off his feet and rubbed herself against our legs, then ran back to him. Cynthia and I simply looked at each other amusedly and went to continue my movie.