I just finished eating my chips, Nangi’s tomato sauce is so yummy, I love it’s classic tomato flavor, it’s sweet taste hides high levels of sourness. Honestly, I enjoyed my chips. Without her tomato sauce, I wouldn’t have finished it.

Now, I want to clean my oily plastic container at the water tap behind our hostel but as I walk in the corridor I hear footsteps behind me, I look around and it’s only me in this long corridor. I wonder why I’m hallucinating during a sunny afternoon, maybe my stomach is just full.

At the tap, water splashing my container makes noise and I barely hear any voices except blue birds in a mango tree in front of me scream like they’re warning me to watch out.

Once I turned off the tap, and turned around, I saw an ebony girl, short, in a black dress, so stable, I almost jumped with fear, she shocked me, it’s Nangi, what is she doing here?

I don’t know, she doesn’t have any utensils in her hands to clean, nevertheless, maybe she wants a chat with me.

So I hail her, “Hey Nangi, thanks again for the tomato sauce. It’s so tasty.”

She stays mute, her eyes on my belly but they’re not the same; are red and watery. Even so, I quickly remember some classmates said she has an eye problem, so I don’t blame her for that but I don’t know why she is not blinking though.

I keep waiting for her to talk and I start feeling weird with an awkward silence, so I speak again, “I appreciate you, see you later.” I pat her lifeless shoulder and stroll past her.

Suddenly, she responds in a low tone, “See you at night.”

I stop in my tracks, I think she wants to befriend me, so I turn around to confirm. “You want us to chat like friends?”

“No, you owe me blood for my tomato sauce,” she says while facing the tap, her unzipped skeletal back pointing at me. I can see a black lizard-like tail hanging out of her dress but I believe it’s part of her dress, a black lizard costume I think.

“Hahaha,” I giggle. I reckon she is funny, she will be a good friend because I like jokes. “Alright Nangi, we’ll chat later.” I step away from her, into the hostel.