The Red Bottom Heels: Koi Koi - by Emmanuel Daniji

Before the ghost, there was a woman. Before the heels echoed at 2:17am, they echoed at 10:05am — Literature Period. TwoCents International College. Air-conditioned classrooms.Interactive smart boards.Students who carried iPhones more expensive than their teachers’ salaries. And at the front of SS2 Gold stood Esther Lawrence. Red bottoms.Tailored skirt.Voice steady enough to cut glass. She did not shout. That was the unsettling part. She corrected you quietly.Publicly.Precisely. And in a school where reputation was currency, public correction felt like execution. ---<h3>The First Fracture</h3> It was a Monday. Essay presentations. Topic: Power and Corruption in Modern Society. Dolapo Oludairo stood confidently. Board member’s daughter.Fluent.Untouchable. She read beautifully. Too beautifully. Esther Lawrence listened.Did not blink.Did not interrupt. When Dolapo finished, expecting applause, Esther walked slowly toward her desk. Heels striking tile. Koi. A small sound.But it lingered. She placed a printed sheet on Dolapo’s table. Highlighted paragraphs. Word for word from an online journal. Plagiarism. The class went silent. Dolapo’s smile faltered. And that was the first humiliation. Across the room, Toluwalase Soyinka lowered her gaze. She knew Dolapo would not take that lightly. At the back, Abiodun Ogunseye clenched his jaw. No one embarrassed his girlfriend. No one. ---<h3>The Warning Signs</h3> Over the next weeks, things shifted. Dolapo began whispering during prep.Gathering sympathy. “She hates me.”“She targets me.”“She’s obsessed.” Girls in the dormitory listened. Delight Anumba believed her instantly. Felicitas Atauyo wasn’t sure. Ivy-Gabrielle Ezemichael stayed neutral — but she watched. Even Nimmatula Abdulsalami admitted privately that Madam was “too intense.” In the boys’ class, whispers spread. Kelvin Michael defended the teacher once — quietly — but no one listened. Because narratives move faster than truth. ---<h3>The Classroom Incident</h3> It happened during after-school hour. Only four students remained. Dolapo.Toluwalase.Nimmatula.Ivy-Gabrielle. And Esther Lawrence. The topic had shifted from literature to discipline. Phones were confiscated. Dolapo refused. There was a brief struggle. Not violent. But physical enough to be misinterpreted. A wrist held too firmly.A voice raised slightly. And in that moment Dolapo saw opportunity. Her phone camera was already recording. Not the beginning. Just the part where Esther’s grip looked aggressive. The perfect angle. The perfect lie. ---<h3>The Petition</h3> By Thursday, screenshots circulated. Edited.Cropped.Reframed. Parents were called. By Friday afternoon, Tobi Igbinedion had summoned Esther Lawrence. Present:Deborah Melissa David.Dolapo’s mother on speaker.An “external consultant” — Dr. Mo Ameer. The accusation was carefully worded: “Inappropriate conduct.”“Emotional intimidation.”“Physical aggression.” Esther did not cry. She did not beg. She simply asked one question: “Did you review the full recording?” No one answered. Because there was no full recording. Only the edited one. Optics demanded sacrifice. And so she was sacrificed. ---<h3>The Day She Left</h3> Students watched from balconies. Dolapo stood in front. Satisfied. Esther Lawrence carried one box. As she walked past the corridor, her heels echoed again. Koi. Slower this time. She stopped. Looked up. Directly at Dolapo. Not angry. Just wounded. “You have no idea what you’ve started.” It wasn’t a threat. It was prophecy. ---<h3>The Night Before the Accident</h3> Here is the part no one talks about. Security logs show something strange. After Esther left campus that evening, someone accessed the admin building. Keycard swipe registered under a student ID. Deleted later. But not before Samuel Ibok saw it. He mentioned it once. It was ignored. Because scandals are bad for admissions. And powerful parents do not like questions. Three weeks later— Third Mainland Bridge. Brake failure. Instant death. Case closed. Except… What if someone tampered with more than evidence? What if humiliation was not enough? What if someone needed silence? And what if the wrong person died? --- Now the real question becomes: Did Madam Koi Koi come back for revenge? Or did someone create a ghost to hide a crime? Because in Episode I… She killed. But in Episode II… We begin to see that maybe she was killed first. And in the next episode We uncover the accident night. The missing footage. The student who was never questioned. And the secret relationship nobody knew about. The sound didn’t start in the dormitory. It started in that classroom. Koi.

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