A loud splash startled me from my sleep. I had gone to bed drunk and exhausted after hanging out with my friends, and a series of masturbation to several porn movies I had just collected. My flatmate had left the gate open which made it easy for me to get in without disturbing him or his girlfriend. The stench of fried egg and plantain still filled the air as I walked in through the sitting room, past the kitchen and headed for my room. I could hear their moaning from his room as I stood in the dark and listened with excitement.

After turning on my phone and trying to figure where the loud sound had come from, I heard the screeching sound from the main gate as though someone had just gone through it. I slowly stood to my feet and came out of my room. I waited for another sound that suggested someone coming into the house but there was none, so I peeked at the brown door of my flatmate’s room and it was padlocked. I was glad at the thought of having the whole house to myself. I quickly went back to my room and began to imagine how to best make the most of my time with myself. I still had some porn videos I was yet to see, so I thought I’d have my bath right after. I cleaned up and rearranged my room as quickly as I could. Then I headed to my bathroom and picked up the empty blue and black plastic buckets. Through the kitchen’s exit door I headed towards the backend of the compound and dropped the buckets at the edge of the square shaped well, leveled with the ground. There were banana trees on the opposite side of the well, with a few loud buzzing from flies, and lizards running around. The well was covered with a brown metal and it had a smaller circular hinged door which I grabbed open. As I bent down to grab the rope connected to the fetcher, my eyes glanced into the well as my heart skipped at the sight of her lifeless body floating in the water.