The Evil Aunt

Character index.

Bike: the first son, tall, handsome, light skin and curly hair, has a moustache and grooms it every single day.

Obi: the second son, taller than his brother, dark skin, curly hair as well and very handsome. Likes to be clean shaven.

Nuli: the wife of the first son, she's tall, dark-skinned, curly hair, an amazing Cook, wife and mother to four children, and is very paranoid of every single thing her evil sister-in-law does,

Gozi: the wife of the second son, she's tall with light skin, don't know anything about her hair texture because she always wears terrible wigs, a secret witch who is jealous of her sister-in-law because she has no children of her own and former psych patient who still on occasions suffers mental relapses, some suspect that it is as a result of her practice of black magic and by some I mean Nuli.

Olu: the first daughter of Bike and Nuli, tallish, light-skinned, curly hair, really pretty and intelligent, nice teeth, is forced to struggle with several health condition put upon her by her wicked aunt.

Luka: the first son of Bike and Nuli, dark, tall, handsome with of course curly hair, was not the brightest as a child but later grew up into an intellectual that could rival Einstein .

Bike junior: the second son of Bike and Nuli, the tallest of all four siblings, light-skinned, curly hair, love's playing basketball and is just naturally lucky. Always has issues with his teeth but no worries, he's evil aunt has nothing to do with this… Or does she ?

Chuka: the last child and son of Bike and Nuli, very tall, dark-skinned, a young individual that is blessed with several talents, handsome, possesses confidence that borders on really annoying arrogance are we can't forget to mention that he has curly hair to.

Mandi and Mimi: Olu's best friends and fun fact. they all share the same middle name which is Bube.

Author's note: The above character index was written to help the readers navigate the main characters of the book and also to enable me, the writer, remember the names of the characters in my own book {wink wink}.

In a compound that comprises of four different bungalows located in the suburbs of Newtown in Ugu, an argument between two female sounding individuals can clearly be heard from all sides of the street .

" Why did you break my chair" yells Nuli,

"I broke that pitiful excuse of a chair because it was on my side of the compound and you should have known better" retorts Gozi with a contemptuous tone.

"That chair was nowhere near your area of the yard and even if it was, would it have been so difficult to just move it to my side.

Gozi starts cackling like a vulture and then gives Nuli a triumphant smirk, as I said before, that was a pitiful excuse of a chair, it was in the process of moving it that the lousy thing broke.

You're a bloody liar, I saw you pick my chair up and smash it on the ground, at this moment if Nuli's skin could flush, she would have been a spectacular and particularly ripe shade of tomato, but at the moment her coffee coloured skin is spotting a suspiciously red tint,

"And who is going to believe you when you spin that far-fetched story"

"You are just bitter because you are childless and your husband plans on taking you away from this country and compound all together"

"Gozi looks like she just got struck by lightning", it will be over my dead body that I will leave this compound for you and your stupid husband. If my own husband wants to leave the country permanently, that is his business and his business alone.

Now it's Nuli's turn to look like the lightning strike has changed its course for her, "You are seriously willing to be physically separated from your husband just because of a house?

What I do in my marriage is none of your goddamn business"

"I guess your plan is to remain childless forever, but let me ask you, if you do not have any children then you die what happens to the house that you are fighting so hard to keep?, Or do you really think that you are going to live forever?",

"You are so proud of your darling children, let's watch and see if they will actually come up to scratch ",

"Are you threatening my children!?"

Gozi let's out the remix of her vulture cackle, when her laughing Jack finally subsides, she throws Nuli another smirk

"Trust me if I was threatening them it will be very very clear and obvious to you",

But in actuality, Gozi might not have been threatening Nuli's children verbally, but she was definitely thinking of ways to make her pay for all her jabs at her childlessness and marriage,

The more she thinks about it, the more she realizes that the best way to break the glass bubble of happiness that surrounds her sister-in-law, is through her beloved kids.

At midnight on one particularly stormy night, a dark figure can be seen dancing around in a clearing located in the forbidden woods of the village,

A person is moving to a beatless beat and it is to be noted that the person in question is stark naked, the dance moves comprises of several jumps, a few spins, one leg up and a particular move that looks suspiciously like twerking.

After a few minutes of the one man {or in this case, one woman} soundless gyration, the figure all of a sudden stands frozen in the middle of the clearing,

Thunder rumbles ,up, down, left, write, adjacent, opposite and all around the forest from all sides you can think of, the scene is illuminated at intervals by lightning flashes.

At exactly 12:15 a.m, the dripping wet figure produces a sack, She opens it, a wickedly sharp kitchen knife, a few charms, a doll and an unconscious chicken… Now, you may be wondering why the chicken is unconscious and the reason for this is, to prevent any unnecessary noise from the animal that may lead to uncomfortable questions the next day or any day for that matter.

The witch quietly picked up the kitchen knife in one hand and the limp chicken in the other hand, she methodically chopped off the head of the poor bird, immediately the blood of the chicken starts gushing out like a bloody geyser, literally, and the witch proceeds to draining the carcass like it's a fine bottle of Hennessy.

I can tell you firsthand that the sight of this is not pretty at all, the witch has blood and feathers draped all over her sagging and wrinkly breasts like an ill-fitting vest and funny enough the rain falling like bed sheets is doing nothing at all to help the situation, at this very moment in the story, it seems like the rain started avoiding the witch altogether once she started drinking the chicken…

Now, you may be wondering yet again, why the witch is drinking chickens and the reason for this is, the which is part of a coven that has a fondness for chicken blood. Truthfully it doesn't give them any power or anything, they are just fond of the taste. Some of you might be wondering if they like the blood of other animals and the answer to that is no, They don't drink Turkey blood, They do not drink the blood of pigeons or any other member of the Aves persuasion, they just like chicken blood and only chicken blood…

Now that's been explained, that's the reason why we are all gathered here in this wet and miserable night.

She drops the bloody knife back on the tree stump and proceeds to picking up the doll, she uses the charms to carry out some kind of preparation for the doll, this whole production includes lots of hand waving, nonsensical muttering and disturbingly enough, more twerking.

After a few more minutes of this elaborate production, she picks back up the bloody kitchen knife and perforates the eyeballs of the doll, this is quickly followed by a resounding clap of thunder and the very familiar evil cackle of the wicked witch.

The next day at the Exclusive secondary school, a 13 year old girl is finding it extremely difficult to see anything written on the chalkboard that is situated right in front of her… "hmm, I think I'm going to need glasses".