PART 1
“ISHMAEL & ISAAC”
Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
It all started that period; there was a strong war between the Muslims and
the Christians.
Peter Andrews was a University lecturer, while Amid Roqeeb was a
postgraduate student in the same university.
Peter Andrews was a devout Christian, African American and a good
mathematician. He was very intelligent. He was happily married to
Roseline, a Briton. She was a nurse and needed to be at work at odd hours.
Peter and Roseline had a two-year-old son named Isaac. He was their
happiness. He was their gift from Jehovah after the loss of their first son
Abraham.
Life couldn‘t be more perfect than what they had at that moment and they
could attribute this, to their devotion to the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. That was why they named their first son Abraham. They had prayed
to God to give them 3 sons who they intended to name Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. They had been so happy, Jehovah had been kind to them giving
them Abraham five years earlier but three years later he had been
unfortunately taken from them...
How?
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3 YEARS EARLIER
Abraham had fallen ill. He had this unrelenting cough. As a nurse, Roseline
had bought some over-the-counter drugs for him. Instead of the cough releasing its grip on Abraham, the cough was getting worse. Peter couldn‘t
bear the pain of Abraham coughing so he took it upon himself to take him
to the hospital while Roseline went to work. She was working in a different
hospital. On getting the Hospital, Peter was told to go bring the over-the -
counter drugs they had been using for Abraham for his cough.
Peter was at home picking up the drugs when he heard a loud blast that
shook the earth...
―What is happening?‖ Peter spoke silently but didn‘t pay much attention as
he packed the drugs into a ziplock bag...
He began to hear the loud siren of the Firefighters...
―A house must have caught fire‖ Peter said but a phone call from Roseline
told him otherwise...
―Peter... Are you okay?‖ Roseline screamed
―Yes, I am fine....‖
―Thank you Jesus! That means you must have left the hospital before the
blast! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus! Ok, Love you dear!‖ Roseline
hung up before Peter could recover from the shock he was going into...
―The blast? Hospital?‖ The ziplock bag fell from his hand as he ran into his
car.
A terrorist group had planted a bomb in the hospital and Abraham died in
the blast.

To be continued.