Regret.

Enyeko walked out of the lecture hall with Jones and almost bumped into Lois who seemed to be waiting for her. "Oh", finally she said then looked at Jones then Enyeko expectantly but Enyeko just overlooked the expectancy and asked, "What are you doing here?" "Well," Lois responded. "I was waiting for you to get out of class so we could go out. Who's this by the way?" she gestured to Jones. "Mind introducing us?", Jones asked. Enyeko looked back at him like she forgot he was there then said "Oh, right" in her usual bored tone "Jones, meet Lois. Lois, Jones." Then she went back to Lois like it never happened "So you were saying something?" lois grabbed "Yes, come." 

She grabbed Enyeko's arm and tried pulling her as she said "Nice to meet you Jones, see you soon". Enyeko blinked twice and pulled her arm free then said "Hold on a minute. I have to go to the library to study". Lois looked at her sternly and said "So that's why you come back late although you are a loner. But come on just go out with me this once". Enyeko looked back and saw Jones watching. *What will he think if I say no? That I'm a shut in weirdo? Or that I don't take my lessons seriously? But he seems like the easy going type so the best option is to accept. Knowing Lois, she's probably invited other people. I will hate this, but I've been dodging talking to Jones and I'm not ready to talk to him properly yet so." Okay fine, I will go". She sighed.

At a bar...

Enyeko looked around, then back to the faces of the five strangers. She couldn't stand the disco lights and the insanely loud music that forced everyone to shout in order to be heard. "I hate it." Even more annoying were the three guys who couldn't seem to care about personal space. "I want to go home." Lois who was supposed to be her shield was already drunk and was off somewhere dancing, "I want to go home," She struggled to remember the names of these people. She knew one of the guys was Lois' boyfriend and another was Lois' best friend's boyfriend and Lois's best friend was the one with the blond hair and the remaining were extras who were invited because they looked sad and alone just like her."They are also probably roommates and sharks", she thought to herself.

She checked the time. 12:56. "Huh, I've never been out at this time. I want to sleep so bad", she looked left and saw one couple getting too intimate next to her then she looked right and saw Lois' boyfriend looking for Lois. "I'm going home." She got up and tried to maneuver around him, but the seat was made for absolute privacy. "Annoying." She sat down and thought about it. "This might work", then began to go under the table, but stopped abruptly when she felt a hand on her back. She came back up and saw Lois' boyfriend grinning at her. "Where are ya going?" he asked while leaning and almost falling in her face, "Huh?" She said, letting him realise she didn't hear him right. So he leaned in and said it again in her ear (the conversation continued like this). She ignored his alcohol breath and replied "I'm going home". 

"Come on", he responded. "I've been watching you. All you did was sit here watching everyone else. You didn't even touch your drink." She eyed him in a bored fashion and said "Well...", he interrupted before she could continue, "Okay listen", he took a bottle of brandy as he spoke, "If you drink three glasses of this", he said as he poured it into her half full glass till it was full to the brim and pouring on the table, "I will let you pass and save you from crawling under the table." "Why should I do that when I could just crawl under the table?" she said, utterly bored ."That would be no fun" he responded. She sighed and shrugged then took the glass and emptied it in 10 seconds. It tasted bad, but felt good. Her head spun a little as he clapped and cheered then filled the glass again.

"For someone who claims not to drink, you drink like a pro", he said then put the bottle down. She picked up the glass and said "I try not to think about it." The glass got empty faster than the first. And now she felt lighter. Her shoulders had slumped and her face looked relaxed as she emptied the final glass. "What now? What was I going to do after drinking?" She looked around trying to remember. "Right!" She got up and took a step then stumbled on Lois' boyfriend. She slowly lifted herself as she heard him laughing. "You really can't take alcohol" he said, "But now there's no way you can go home alone." He held her chin and tilted her face toward him, then said, "Now it's time to have fun".

Author's Notes: 'Shark' is a term used in Ghana for Nerds or consistent learners

She woke up startled. She was on her bed. "What happened?" Lois was asleep next to her and they both were clothed. She sighed a sigh of relief then picked up her phone and turned it on. Then she panicked and jumped out of bed saying, "Shit shit shit shit shit shit"

She began to slow down when she checked the time and saw she had ten more minutes to spare and she could see the hall very close by. She turned with a sudden jolt when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She breathed a sigh of relief the third time that morning. "I am never drinking again", she mumbled. "Good morning", Jones said in his normal cheerful voice. Enyeko breathed out and said with all the boredom in the world, "What is good about it? Don't do that again, I hate surprises".

"What?" Jones said with a lost expression. "Don't startle me", she replied. "How was your Sunday?", he asked. She thought back to the day before, and the events of the night. For some reason, she couldn't remember anything from after the third drink. She looked at him and said, "It was normal." They kept walking as they were getting closer to their lecture hall and he was continuously raising his eyebrows and looking at her weirdly, so she stopped and said, "What?!" like it took all the energy in her body to do.

"Well..." he said, "You didn't ask me how my day went yesterday." She looked at him with exasperation, then blinked twice and said "How was your day?" He smiled broadly and said "I've got a migraine and my brain will raise, fall, up, down and sideways. Thank God it's Monday cause soon it will be Friday. Mondays will always be better than Sundays since Sundays are sacred days. I don't know why they always seem so dismal." Enyeko raised her eyebrows and turned her head sideways then said, "All you asked me to say was 'how was your day?' and I didn't even get any of that".

He smiled and said, "Thank you for asking" As they were about to enter the hall, she stopped abruptly as she noticed a familiar face walking towards them. "What's wrong?" Jones asked but she ignored the question as she was concentrated in making out the person and then she yelled "Lois' boyfriend!!" at the person's direction. The person hesitated upon hearing the statement and then hurried toward them.

"Hey KO", he said when he got there. "Huh?" she replied. Then he said, "Last night you said if you had friends, they'd probably call you KO" Her eyes widened as she said "Yes, about last night, what happened?" He was about to speak but got stopped as his gaze met Jones'. Then he paused and said, "I don't remember." "Strange, but he just said... " "So where to?" he said, interrupting her thought. "Class, of course" she said. then asked "What?", when she saw his expression change to dread. "You are in the suicide class?!" He said, almost like he couldn't believe it.

"What is that?" she asked a little disturbed, he almost laughed as he said, "Are you telling me you don't know Professor Declan's class is called the suicide class?". "No, I don't know" she said. "Why is it called that?". Lois' boyfriend looked left then right like he was doing something illegal then leaned in to speak but before he could say anything Jones cut him by saying "We are three minutes away from being late" and pushed her into the class.

After they took their seats, she looked at him suspiciously and asked him, "Why did you do that?" "Because we were going to be late, but we made it", he said with a smile. "Strange", she said, then turned to look ahead as professor Declan walked in.

An hour into the lecture and her head begun to bop. This continued for five minutes then she finally gave in to sleep. The moment her eyes closed she awoke, like the sleep had just vanished. She could tell what was happening because she couldn't move and all she could think was "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no". She was stuck and she begun to curse herself for thinking it was over. She looked left and right but there was no cat. Everything was going on in the class like her presence wasn't registered.

Then Jones' head turned mechanically toward her with a disturbing smile and he said, "Missed me? Did you have fun with the two-day vacation I allowed you to have? You better have enjoyed it, because..." His voice then changed "Because I'm angry and I will make sure you think twice before you ever let a mere human touch my property". "What is he talking about?" "Of course you don't know what I'm talking about, I made you forget, so I can still have it, if I didn't follow you he would have done worse". He smiled and his index finger transformed into a dagger. He raised her arm and put in on the table then said, "This is the hand you used to drink right?"

He positioned the dagger-like finger between her fingers then pressed on the flesh slowly, blood begun to ooze as he pressed harder, cutting into flesh and dividing veins. Then, he begun to slowly drag the dagger through the flesh up her arm. All she could do was watch as her arm was being opened before her and endure the pain as she couldn't scream. He stopped when he reached her elbow, then he looked at her in the eyes and said, "You should not remember, ever. I won't accept it!", he said as his nails enlarged and he pulled her eyes out with it.

She let out a scream. "I can speak". "It's about to get worse". She could feel hands roughly grab at her hair and her face was slammed into the table, then turned sideways. "These ears" he said as he licked it. "You used these ears of yours to listen to that man's request!" All she felt was sharp pain as she screamed and the feeling that her ear was gone. He turned her head the other way and the same sensation was felt there too.

She felt long talons grab her leg. Then, she was pulled upside down like a weightless feather. She hung like that, bleeding from her arm. She could feel the blood from her ear and eyes snaking down her face through her hair and the blood in her ears gave her this awful drowning sensation. She couldn't breathe right and she couldn't hear. She felt cold and all she did was say "Somebody", continuously. Then, she heard him saying in her mind as she felt a slimy tongue lick her thigh.

"I will cleanse you of the filth he left." Canines the length of tea spoons dug into her thigh and she screamed her lungs out, waking up in the process. She looked around. Everything was still normal; her arm was back to normal, she could see and hear and she saw Jones' hand on her shoulder as he said in a concerned voice, "Sorry I woke you, but it looked like you were having a nightmare."

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