I moved my feet grudgingly as I continued the five kilometers journey back home, the sun was blaring so hard that I couldn’t see. School had been terrible, then to add it all up, Emeka the school bully started his case with me immediately the school bell rang, signalling the end of school. My head still hurt from the knocks I received.

Then, all of a Sudden, I don’t feel the sun hot beams any more. I looked up and I saw a huge cloud covering the sun, I smiled grateful to God for this wonderful gift. Beside it was another cloud and this time it had a shape, the shape of a zebra? Wow! Then an antelope, then a hyena!

I kept on moving forward following the shapes of animals formed by the clouds without even looking at where I was heading. I finally stopped but still looking up at the sky when I saw another cloud shaped in the form of a hand waving or was it telling me to stop? I couldn’t really tell.

“Tochi?”

I finally looked away from the sky and turned towards the direction from where I heard my name, It was my elder sister that called me, a puzzled look on her face.

Then I saw that I was in front of my father’s compound! When did I get here? and so fast!

Oh my! It must have been the clouds, they guided me home and kept me entertained all through the long journey, that I didn’t even know when I arrived home.

“What’s wrong with you? Why were you staring at the sky like that and smiling?” My sister asks, bringing me out of my thoughts.

I chuckled. “Its nothing.” I told her, “its nothing.”

© Erinma

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