This tale is non-fiction yet a deja vu
There's just a table with a bottle of full yet opened whiskey. Everyone is sitted except Presido who's still talking, "Young man" he stressed drunkenly. "Tell me you didn't know this lady is living with a man" pointing at Felix, his eyes glares accusations yet he's only trying to play fair when he first addressed everyone saying, "Blame no one because there's suffering and lesson in the epiphanies of life".
No one is talking because everyone is talking including Felix who tries to defend himself. " I know am wrong but.." he wanted to say "but she lured me to herself" when Presido cuts in, "There's no but after salvation" he pauses for a second to drag some joints before concluding, "Admit you're wrong and move on" Felix had found his seat and was even wondering why he wanted to blame Joy about luring him when she had only been wearing lingeries to fetch water in his compound.
Doctor was now raged and ranting. He had threatened Felix earlier to attack him with street boys because he knows a neighbour who he thinks belongs to a confraternity. "You think you're ruged" Doctor wails fingering his smartphone, "I will treat your fuckup" Felix counters. Doctor fakes Felix with a punch he wasn't going to hit when Felix attacks with a slap which hard cacophony stunned everyone. Doctor now didn't get a chance to hit back as the crowd of about twenty five young men had gathered to separate them.
Felix's slap was painful and it actually did hurt Doctors left eye. Everyone noticed his eye had immediately swollen and it felt shameful and annoying that he hadn't taken the first punch when he had the chance. " that's just a touch" Felix brags feeling like a winner, "I'll blind the remaining one" he mocks feeling himself. " Remember you took the first blow" Doctor warns, "You took the bait" he chuckles. " I don't like the way you're handling things" the older man next to Doctor nags at Presido "We were brought here to teach this boy a lesson yet you allowed him blind someone's eyes" his second adds.
Presido finds his feet again, this time his countenance spells violence and for real someone has gotten a charge. It's Felix, he knocked his knuckles on the table and over here in the south, that's an abomination when elders are sitted. " You knocked our table and disrespected the drink on the table too" Presido wails, already three men brought a rope with sticks approaching Felix including those men that sat behind Doctor. "Today's your lucky day" sobs one of them in sarcasm, " I just hope you'll be as strong as your anger" the other cuts in.
Felix was thrashed for chasing another man's wife. more weeps for knocking the table in the presence of Presido and his gathering. He didn't just learn how to respect another man's wife but also learnt how to respect the gathering of men that matters. Never knock the table of elders, one warned after drilling him.
How life goes. Imagine the epiphanies of life where Felix brought a case to the community with liquor to be the angel only to get nailed for his attitude and motives. You don't file a case when you're guilty not even when you're innocent because a case is never a case until it's filed.
Life is suffering and learning and it's obvious Felix has learnt that. It's waking every day to face our shits and insecurities because no matter what happens, we only learn from our actions not mistakes.
Life is a gift, a present that makes the present important only if we listen to the little graces and live like we make it happen, I mean our moments.
