THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 38…..SEMIFINAL
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Tom and Cathy boarded on a
bus,heading to Tom’s house. She was very nervous and
she wondered
why.
“Was your aunty wearing a friendly
face when she asked for me to visit?”
Asked Cathy for the fourth time,and
Tom told her not to worry at all, for the fourth time.
“You will love her, she is a wonderful
woman” Tom assured her.
Minutes later they were standing at
the door of the house.Tom gently
pushed open the door and asked Cathy to follow him.
She did a quick scan of the house
,photo frames on the wall ,it was
good and clean. She sat on a sofa
queitly and Tom disappeared to
obviously one of the rooms. After sometime a light and
short fat
lady entered the living room.
“Katarina” she said with a smile, “the
most talked about newly found sister
of Tom”
Cathy looked at her and smiled. “You are welcome” she
said shaking
her hand.
“How is school?”
They talked about a few things and
later asked her to join in the kitchen.
“Do you know how to bake a cake?” She asked.
“Yes I do” answered Cathy.
“Alright then you will bake while I
prepare dinner, I want to surprise
Tom’s uncle today with a cake”
She went on talking about how her husband spent little
time home due
to the nature of his Job,she talked
about how Tom’s father who
happened to be her brother was
wasting his life away on beer even
after being to rehab several times. “Tell me how did you
meet Tom?”
She asked her, she narrated how she
had met him accidentally and how
she had called him buddy and how
everyone at school called him monk.
They laughed. “Tom had always wanted to be a
priest ,to take a vow of celibacy from
childhood, thats what his father had
taught him,that women are beasts,
simply because his wife left him, I
dont blame her at all. So even when I got Tom and begun
living with him
here,he hated me so much, but after
sometime, he realised that am
harmless and has taken me as his
mother ever since.”
Cathy watched the woman talk on and on, she was a real
time
entertainer.
“Dont be surprised about how much I
talk, am surrounded by men around
here, my two kids are both male, so I
dont get to have an opportunity to find a listening ear and
a gossip
mate.”
She then asked her about her
parents .
She told her their names in full and
what they did for a living. ” wait a minute!” She exclaimed.
“Your mother was Elizabeth who got
married to Patrick?” She asked in
shock.
“Oh Lord we live in a small world,
your father was a hottie at college and we all crushed on
him,the day he
proposed to your mother, there was
weeping among the ladies. Those
two lovebirds loved each other so
much, everyone on campus loved
them. They just could not live without each other. Lydia
will be so
happy to see you” she said.
It was the first time Cathy got to hear
a few things about her parents’
relationship, it comforted her that
they loved each other so much, she understood why her
mother became
depressed and angry with Melody for
accusing her of being responsible for
her husband’s death. Its a pity they
both ended that way.
They had dinner and despite her effort to let the two
spend a night,
Tom insisted that they leave.
“Thanx for coming sweety, you
should be coming every weekend and
you should consider spending a
holiday here, I will invite Lydia over, she will be so happy
to see you”
Cathy wondered who Lydia was but
did not ask , she guessed that it
should have been one of her
mother’s college friend, probably
bestfriend. “Wow I feel like I have just
discovered a family, I love that
woman” said Cathy in the bus.
“We are your new family Cathy, she
loves you as much, she told me that
she can’t believe that she finally has a daughter.”
Cathy looked through the window,
trees racing behind her, it was a cool
evening, life was really a struggle,
and the battle is not always to the
strong. The two sat silently until they got off
the bus. Cathy burst into laughter,
” what now?” Said Tom.
“Aunty told me about how you
wanted to be a priest from childhood,
what happened?” Tom looked away and laughed, Cathy
had taught him the ability to love and
showed him the other side of women,
he had thought that the only good
woman in the world was his aunt.
The following day,there was a knock which woke Jane up,
she went to the
door hoping it was Stanely, only to
find Alfred.
“Alfred?”
“Goodmorning Jane” he said.
“How may I help you?” She asked “Its Catherine, is she
dating?” He
asked.
“Is that why you came all the way,
you could have just called you know”
she said laughing at him.
“Its very important to me” he said. “Why do you want to
know, the last
time I checked, you clearly said you
dont want any friendship with her”
she said looking him in the eye.
“It was anger” he said.
“She is not dating, what now?” “Oh thank God” he said
making a
cross sign and looking to the
heavens.
“I can’t let go off your friend, she has
colonised my entire heart, I can’t
pretend” he said. “Isnt it her, who should be hearing
this? Not me” said Jane.
“I need your help”
“Come in”
They enterd the house and plotted on
how best to approach Cathy and with what words?”
Jane called Cathy later in the
afternoon.
“Sweety, am asking for your brothers’
line” said Jane.
“Who?” Asked Cathy “Tom ofourse” said Jane
“What for?” She asked.
“Iwe just send, someone wants to
ask him concerning the course”
She sent her the number and she
forwaded it to Alfred. Jane later called Tom and
introduced
herself. She asked him if he could
help by mentioning Alfred in their
conversations with Cathy and see the
response.
“I dont think I like that Alfred guy” said Tom.
“Your Job as her brother is not only
to choose what’s best for her but
also what makes her happy.” Said
Jane
When Tom met Cathy he said. ” If Alfred popped from
somewhere,what would be your
reaction?”
“I would run away” she told him.
Thats the same answer she gave him
all the time which frustrated Jane so much.
“I dont know if she still likes you or
not, just go over there and tell her
what you feel” said Jane on the
phone.
The following weekend, Alfred went to Lusaka to talk to
Cathy. He called
Tom and they met.
“Will you accompany me? Brother
inlaw?” He said.
They went to Cathy’s room and Tom
remained outside the hostel ,he called Cathy.
“Sis I have a surprise for you”
“What?” She asked.
“Open the door if you are in the
room”
“Am still in bed, ” she said lazily Cathy walked to the door
hoping it
wasnt fools day in November.
She stood on the door way shocked.
Her heart was racing.
“Whaaa,,,what, are you doing here?”
Afred didnt know whether to smile or to look humble.
“Am here to see you Cathy” he said.
“Come in”
Alfred entered, nothing much had
changed, same wall paper, same
carpet,same table, only the beddings were different.
“Where is Kay”
“She went for weekend yesterday,and
how did you meet up with Tom?”
“We are buddies” said Alfred
“Well there is someone who wants to say hi to you” said
Alfred opening his
bag.
“Who?”
“Oh my God Jathy! Ewww I missed
you so much” she shouted grabbing
her from Alfred. “Ohhh” she hugged the teddy bear.
“I missed you so much,how is Jane?
Oh look at you all grown.”
And thats how her mood lightened
up.
‘Jane’s idea was really ideal’ said Alfred to himself.
They talked a little about school,
work, the weather, Alfred didnt take
long before making known what he
had gone for.
“Somehow it looks like you ve gotten over me, which
breaks my heart” said
Alfred.
“I got over you the day you called me
a snake and a witch” said Cathy.
Alfred kep queit, how on earth could
he have called her those names. “Am really sorry, I was
foolish to call
you that, tempers were high and new
things were being said. But am realy
sorry, I just can’t live without you and
my worst nightmare is you being with
another man instead of me.” Cathy kept quiet.
She didn’t feel the same way as he
did but she knew that she çould
easily love him again.
“I could have given you a second
chance but you see am a born again and I dont want to
spend my life with
a man who drinks, what will I teach
my children?”
Now that was very hard for Alfred,
choosing between love and beer, he
loved them both, “But you know am not a heavy
drinker, I just drink on weekends”
“Drinking is drinking” said Cathy.
Alfred had to think quickly before he
could be seen as one who loves beer
more than Cathy or rush into a quick promise.
“You can teach me how to stop, you
can be giving me the Bible verses
concerning beer and you can draw
me closer to God” he said.
“Well” said Cathy giving a sigh. Afred turned to Jathy.
“Jathy please, help me tell aunty how
much I love her.
” I ll think about it, tomorrow maybe”
she said. She needed to enquire from
both Tom and Jane. They talked about other things and
after lunch Alfred left.
“Where are you staying?” Asked
Cathy as she escorted him.
“At a friend’s house” he said.
In the evening, Cathy called Jane and told her what Alfred
had done. Jane
acted surprised and called it
romantic,she told her to go for it if
she still liked him.
The following day ,Alfred went to see
Cathy again and was met with the goodnews,
“Maybe we can give it another try”
she had told him. He hugged her and
thanked her. They went for a movie
in the evening, with Jathy.
Preparations for Jane’s wedding were underway and
Cathy couldnt wait to
close school and participate fully.
They finally closed but her Aunty
insisted that she spend a night home
before leaving,so she went with Tom
and left the following day. Her aunt gave her money for
transport and told
her to keep in touch.
Back home, everyone was in the
wedding frenzy.
Alfred was so happy to see her
Catherine. “We ve come a long way my love” he
said kissing her. She smiled at him
and as usual freezing him.
He cooked for her sometimes and
took her shopping from time to time
and they went for picnics. “How come i didnt see this
romantic
side of you?” She teased him.
“Well I have to be the best man for
you”
Soon it was the day of the wedding.
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THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 37
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Stanely left in the evening, it was like
a dream for both of them. Jane could not believe it, how
could life
suddenly turn out to be such a
sweetheart.
She immediately called Cathy.
“We got back girl” she said excitedly.
“Did you seduce him?” Asked an equally excited Cathy.
“Silly, I did not, he just asked for a
second chance” said Jane.
“Wow, that calls for a big celebration,
let’s drink to it tomorrow” said Cathy.
The entire evening, Jane and Stanely could not stop
texting each other.
The following day Jane went to
Cathy’s house early in the morning.
“Huh great aroma so early in the
morning” said Jane sniffing around
the house. “Hope,you ve washed up” said Cathy
moving from the kitchen to the living
room with a tray covered with a
cloth.
“Whats that?” Asked Jane.
“Have you washed up?” Asked Cathy. Jane went to the
shower and bathed
and got into Cathy’s truck suit.
“Do you have any idea, how difficult
it is to wash that” asked Cathy but
Jane ignored her, proceeding to the
dining table which seemed to be the source of the nice
aroma.
“And now let’s start the celebration”
said Cathy, there was grilled chicken
and a cake and some scones and
biscuits.
“There is non like you” said Jane who was already
salivating.
The girls ate to their satisfaction .
“Am pampered ” said Jane.”so what
are we taking? Do you have any six
pack or even Amarula”
“Hell no, no alcoholic shall see its face into this house ”
answered
Cathy.
“Oh I keep forgetting that you are a
born again” said Jane yawning,
“I think I need to take a nap” she
said and Cathy agreed. They went to the bedroom and
entered into deep sleep. They only
woke up at noon.
A week later Cathy begun preparing
to go back to school,she was done
with attachments and school was opening.
“Stanely wants to take us for ice
cream” said Jane to Cathy who did
not object.
The following day being friday, he
took the ladies out .They wore their best outfits and they
looked
extremely beautiful with expensive
necklaces.
It had been long since Stanely saw
that beauty in Jane, he almost
silently cursed Alfred for having almost erased every jot of
beauty in
her.
He took them to an expensive
restaraunt which suited their looks.
As they were almost done with their
ice cream,Jane felt a metal at the bottom of her icecream
container,she
thought it was a nail, it shocked her
that a metal had found its way in her
icecream,.
As she scooped it out,to her surprise
it was an engagement ring. She was abit confused but as
she
turned to Stanely, he was already on
one knee.
“Will you please make me the
happiest man,marry me ” he said.
Jane got up and jumped in excitement,it had come so
soon,.tears were streaming down her
face.
Cathy was so happy, she could not
stop capturing pictures of the
moment. She agreed and let Stanely slip the
ring on her finger.
He stood up and she hugged him
and kissed him.
She kept looking at the ring, it was
really beautiful and it fitted her perfectly.
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The following week ,Cathy left for
school, leaving Jane very sad.
“Dont worry love, Jathy will be my
representative” She had told her. She
saw her off, she promised to communicate the date for
the
wedding as Cathy was to be the
brides maid.
She reached campus and found that
Kay had not yet reported .The
following day, she went to visit Tom, it had been so long
since she last
talked to him, his line had been
unreachable the whole time they
were apart.
“Cathy ,oh my goodness” he
exclaimed. He gave her a tight hug and asked
her to sit on the bed.
“How are you?” He asked looking at
her as if inspecting every part of her.
“Well the good Lord is keeping me”
she answered . “We thank God” he said.
“And you?” She asked,” your phone
has been off?”
“Well am fine, what happened to my
phone is a long story, as you can
see that am using a different one.” He answered .
” let’s take a.walk” he said and they
stood up and left. They talked about
a lot of things, then Cathy told him
about her mother, about Alfred
impregnanting and getting married to her best friend and
how she switched
the babies.
He sympathised with her over the
loss and the heart break but rebuked
her for swapping the babies of which
she admitted was very wrong. “You know, I still cant
believe I did
that to those poor babies, my skin
still crawls at the thought, I dont
know how I was able to do that”
“Its in the past now, you were able to
get back with your best friend which is so cool, and you
read the Bible
and pray which is so marvelous “.
said Tom and she nodded her head.
He also told her about the girl she
had dated during attachments and
how they broke up. ” wow am glad you broke up” said
Cathy .
“Why asked Tom, ” are you by any
chance crushing on me? Coz am not
ready to enter into a relationship just
yet” he said Jokingly to which Cathy laghed.
“I dont have even a drop of crush on
you buddy,in any case I would like
you and I to be just like brother and
sister, because relationships dont
last but siblings will always be siblings, am not ready to
lose you”
she said.
“Wow, for the first time you have
thought wisely, ” so who will be older
between us?”
“You Ofcousre” said Cathy mockingly. “You think just
because your body is
small then your age will
automatically reduce?”
Tom laughed .
The two begun calling each other bro
and sis. “But how do you call someone whom
you love sis?” His friends had asked
Tom who plainly told them that he
nolonger crushed on Cathy but loved
her like his sister, he wanted to
protect her and be by her side all the time, he wanted her
to be able to rely
and confide in him.
“The love I have for her is like that of
a brother towards his sister, that
same one” he explained to them.
They however admired him for the priviledge of having
such a sister.
A week later, Tom went home and he
told his aunty about Cathy, how she
did not have any relatives and how
he had adopted her as his sister.
His aunty asked him to go with her home the following
weekend.
He told Cathy and even though not
sure at first, she thouht it was a
good thing so they went home
Together.
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THE SMILE OF TERROR
.
Chapter 36
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Mary made herself comfortable in the
chair and turning to Jane she said. “My husband spent
two nights here”
“Yeah, but nothing happened” she
said without an expression on her
face.
“Do you still like him?” Asked Mary
seriously “No I dont, why should I?” Retorted
Jane
“But then why did you call him and
why did yiu make him spend nights
here?” Asked the woman.
“Hey lady look here, the one with the problem here is your
husband, he is
the one you should be talking to”
said Cathy defensively
“I called him because I needed help”
said Jane.
“Okey I just want to make it very clear to you that I love
Stanely very
much” she said haughtily.
“Well then it might intrest you to
know that am not intrested in your
man” answered Jane.
“When I met Stan , he was very devastated, he had lost his
lover
,whom he had so much loved, he was
about to propose to her but she
disappointed him, she got pregnant
for another man and even later got
married to him, can you imagine some women”
“Mary behave yourself ” said Cathy
angrily
“Dont you dare accuse me of things
you know nothing about, dont you
dare think you can judge me” Jabe said furiously ,now
beads of sweat
beginning to drip profusely.
“Hey miss tame your temper” she
said casualy.
” I found Stan when he was at his
lowest, I tried to bring him back to life but it was hard, we
however
became best of friends over time and
he confided in me a lot of things. I
tried to initiate a relationship but he
didn’t seem intrested , I thought it
was the only way to help him recover, but it looks like the
wound was really
deep,I persevered and it looks like he
dated me out of trying to be grateful
for being by his side, during the
friendship phase he had told me
repeatedly how much he loved you, but do you know the
surprising thing
about when I first met him?” Asked
Mary posing and looking at her
audience.
“What?” They both asked at the same
time, they were listening to her attentively.
Mary laughed at them.
“Well he had a wedding ring on his
finger,” she said taking a deep
breath.
“Ahh how?why?” Asked Jane who was as confused as you
are right
now, why would he wear a wedding
ring before marriage.
“He did not want to move on, he did
not want to appear available , he
wanted women to think that he was married, he loved only
you”
Jane did not know whether to be sad
or not, but she maintained the same
face.
“The truth is that I and him are not
married, he has been wearing that ring since you broke
up”
Unbeknowest to her, Jane smiled.
“You are smiling, do you still like
him?” Asked Mary and Jane quickly
switched to a serious face.
“Why are you telling me all this?” Asked Jane.
“Because I have come to hand him
over to you” said Mary
“Well I dont need him” answered
Jane
“If you mess up this time ,I will get him for good” she
warned.
“so why are you giving up on him
since you love him so much” asked
Jane.
“Because I love him very much”
answered Mary. “I always want to see him happy and it
looks like you alone
can make him happy, he lives like a
ghost and if we got married, it would
be a loveless relationship, I want him
to be happy, so just make him happy
for me, if you fail I ll deal with you” Jane and Cathy
looked at each other
in shock.
“Well that should have come from
Stanely and not you, did Stanely
send you to say all these things?”
“No one sent me, Stanely doesnt even know that am here”
she said.
“Am taking my leave,if you fail to
make things work, I will come to grab
him, I ll be watching you” she rose
and walked away.
“What was that” asked Cathy laughing,
“I really dont know” answered Jane.
“I find her funny you know, she is so
funny”
“Do you think its true?” Asked Cathy
“What?” “That Stanely is unmarried” said
Cathy moving to where Jane was
seated
“Well I dont know if its good news or
not” said Jane.
“Call Stanely and ask him if at all its true, but Jane
refused, her ego did
not allow her to do that.
” just get ready, we are going to
Alfred’s house” said Jane.
30 minutes later, they were at
Alfred’s house. “What do you want” he asked them
“We have come to see you” said
Jane.
“What for?”
“We have something to discuss, may
we come in?” They entered the house and Alfred
offered them some Juice.
“Cathy here has something to tell
you” said Jane.
Alfred’s eyes shifted from Jane to
Cathy, she was in a purple flaired dress, she had tied her
hair into a
pony. Her face very clear as always.
“Uhmm,,,” Cathy cleared her throat.
“I have come to ask for your
forgiveness, my anger had gotten the
worst out of me, I didn’t know that you were also just
victims of
Isabelle’s plots, am very sorry for the
harm I caused you, if I could reverse
time, I would do the right thing.”
There was silence in the house.
Alfred looked down then looked up, Cathy was starring at
him.
“Am sorry but I can’t forgive you, I
lost my child because of you”
Jane got up and walked to him.
“What did you just say?” She asked
him. “Who should be more upset between
you and me, you never even really
wanted that child in the first place,
you wanted me to abort her, am the
one who carried her for nine months,
and am the one who delivered, I went through more
suffering than you, so
just behave” she said roughly which
shocked both Alfred and Cathy.
Alfred was speechless, Cathy almost
laughed at Jane’s courage and Alfred
‘s humbleness. “Alright, I forgive you, but we can’t be
friends again. ” said Alfred.
“She didn’t come here to beg for
friendship but forgiveness” said
Jane.
“Thank you for your forgiveness” said Cathy but Alfred
didn’t answer.
“We are going ,thanks for the juice,
only next time dont over dilute it”
said Jane and Cathy laughed, Alfred
caught a glimpse of her smile and
quickly looked away, it was capable of making him refall
for her,he didn’t
want that.
The ladies stood to leave and while
they were halfway across the
room,Jane turned and said to Afred.
“Uhhm dont you think you are forgetting something? ”
“What?” Asked Alfred.
“Apologising to me and Cathy”
“What for?”
“To Cathy for impregnanting her
friend and even marrying her without telling her, and for
not being there for
her when she lost,,,” said Jane “her
mum” she said in sign language so
that Cathy wouldn’t hear.
“And you?” Asked Afred.
“And me for all the mistreatment I received while living
with you”
“Alright” said Alfred.
He started by apologising to Cathy.
“I didn’t know how to tell you without
breaking your heart and losing you”
he ended his apology. Then he apologised to Jane and
ended with
“No woman deserves to be treated
the way I treated you, am very sorry”
The girls smiled and told him that all
was but a past now. They left and went to Jane’s house.
“We have to call Stanely now” said
Cathy but Jane refused.
“If he is serious,he will come” she
had said.
Cathy grabbed Jane’s phone and rushed to the bedroom
and locked
herself inside.
Jane banged on the door
“Cathy if I open this door ,you are
dead,dont do anything stupid.
” Hey a lady called Mary came to my house, any idea who
she is”Cathy
sent the message to Stanely who
called immediately.
Cathy opened the door and gave the
phone to Jane,
“what did you tell him you fool” said Jane grabbing back
the phone.
“That a woman called Mary came”
she whispered.
“Hello” said Jane on the phone.
“Alright” she answered and hang up.
” He is on his way” said Jane excitedly .
“Well I better be going” said Cathy.
“No ,stay” begged Jane.
“You want me to watch your
romancing?” She smiled.
“Go and kiss Jathy a goodbye” suggested Jane.
Cathy went to the bedroom and
picked the teddybear on the bed,
“Stay well Jathy, I love you very
much, dont eavesdrop to what big
people will be talking about here okey?” She said pecking
it.
She went to her house and Jane
escorted her and promised to update
her on everything.
“What do I do now, its quete boring”
said Cathy to herself. She got the Bible and went to her
bedroom.
Stanely arrived at Jane’s house in no
time.
Jane acted very formal, while
celebrating in her heart. “So Mary came here?” Said
Stanely.
“Yes she did” she answered .
“To do what?”
“to tell me how you met and how she
thinks you dont love her and in love
with someone else” said Jane “Oh I see, did she tell you
who that
someone else could be?” Asked
Stanely.
“According to her, its me” she
answered.
“Did you believe her?” He asked “No” she lied.
“Did she tell you about the ring?”
“Yes” answered Jane.
“Well everything she told you is true,
she told me that she came here to
try and make things work for me and you but I thought
she lied. She is a
good woman but my heart does not
belong to her but to you” said
Stanely.
‘OMG! I just wish I could record you
right now’ she thought. She was so happy that keeping
calm
was so hard but she managed to
simply smile.
“Please give me a second chance
and forgive me for not believing you”
begged Stanely. Jane hugged him and they spent the
rest of the afternoon chatting. She
couldnt wait to tell Cathy the good
news.
“Now I can even remove the ring” he
said. .
To Be Continued Tomorrow Morning

THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 35
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“Dear mother,its been long since I
wrote to you. Life has been very hard for me, I dont know
if am paying for
what you did to Melody or what, but
your death opened doors to many
misfortunes. But am happy to tell you
that I have come to the knowledge
that my God is always with me. I wish you had also been
imparted
with this knowledge, you would be
still be alive. Am at peace knowing
that the heavens are in control”
Diana wrote in her mother’s Diary.
She had taken a warm bath ,thank goodness her house
was not very far
from Jane’s ,so not many people had
seen her in those wet clothes.
Alfred was playing some reggae
loudly when he head a loud bang on
the door. He stood to go and open the door,
wondering who that irresponsible
person was, only to find it was Kelvin
and Frank
Whats with the bang?” He asked
angrily “And what’s with the frown?” Asked
Kelvin.
Frank pushed his way through the
door and entered the house while
Alfred was standing in the doorway.
Alfred moved aside to let Frank pass and he followed
them to the living
room.
“You are not seen man, every time
we arrange to meet, you never show
up” said Kelvin
“I know man, things have just been crazy” said Alfred.
“We know and thats why we are here,
and we would like to welcome you
back to bachelorhood” said Frank.
“Yeah, so what are we going to do
With our lives since dating is not our portion ” asked
Alfred to his smiling
friends.
“Well doesn’t it point to one thing?”
said Kelvin
“Which is?” asked Frank
“Priest hood, let’s join the priesthood” said Kelvin.
The other men laughed.
They did not waste time before
starting to water themselves with the
heinken bottles they had brought.
Alfred had missed the company of his friends so much
The following day after cleaning the
house, Cathy went to town then
headed to Jane’s house.
She knocked on the door but there
was no response ,she pushed open the door and found
Jane in the
blankets shivering .
She dropped the things she was
carrying and moved closer to her.
“What’s wrong?” she asked
“Put more blankets on top, they are in the wardrobe” she
was shivering
heavily.
Cathy got the blankets and covered
her.
She ran to their small market where
there were a lot of taxis and boarded on one and took
Jane to the hospital.
Tests were run and she was found
with malaria. She was not admitted,
they just gave her drugs .
Back home Cathy prepared her some
food but she could not eat,knowing how her friend hated
drugs, she
made sure that she took the
medication at the right time.
She spent the night at her place and
the following day Jane was already
recovering . Cathy took a bath from Jane’s house
and wore her clothes.
“They look better on you” said Jane
lazily.
“And why isn’t there any
breakfast,what kind of a woman are you?”said Jane
Cathy turned and hugged her, her
friend was back. The girls stayed
locked in each other’s arms for some
minutes.
” am baking some scones, still in the oven” said Cathy
“Are you the one who came with the
floweres and the Teddy bear?” Asked
Jane
“Yes, I brought them for you,”
Jane picked it and hugged it, “I ‘ll call you Jathy”
“We need to work on you girl” said
Cathy.
“Foolish girl” muttered Jane.
In the afternoon they went to a salon
to change their hairstyel and did a mini shopping.
“So you and Stanely, are you getting
back together?” Said Cathy on their
way back
“No, he is married ”
“Are you serious?” Asked Cathy shocked
“Yes girl”
“Huh he looked so single” .
Jane could not help but laugh
“Its not like I expected him to be still
single” said Jane sadly. “Oh thats bad”
“But he denied being married,can you
imagine, with the ring on his finger ”
said Jane in a much angry tone.
“Maybe he is not” said Cathy.”Maybe
he was but not anymore, like maybe he is a widower or
something”
Jane laughed at her friend, she
always had a way of adding some
humour.
“Who gets widowed in six months
and still wear the ring” They reached home and took a
quick
bath and tried in their new clothings.
“Do you talk with Alfred” asked Jane.
Cathy told her how much she did not
want to see him ever.
“I thought you told me about the preaching that Stanely
gave you on
forgiveness, you need to forgive each
other and move on with your lives,
we are going to his house just now.
You two should talk” said Jane.
“No ways,am not ready,am just happy that we are back to
our normal
selves” said Cathy
“Yeah,boys come and go but sisters
will always be together” said Jane
smilling.”now get ready, we are
paying a visit to Alfred today. Just then there was a faint
knock at
the door.
Jane went to open, standing before
her was a short light lady.
“Hai” said Jane
“Hellow, am Mary” answered the lady.
“Okey,how may I help you” said Jane
trying to recall if she had seen the
woman before.
“Well am Stanely’s wife” she said.
“Okey” she answered “May I come in?”
“No” said Jane bluntly.
“Am aware that my husband spent
nights here at your call, can we talk
from inside?” Said Mary.
“Sure” She led her to the living room, Cathy
greeted her and Jane asked her to
take a seat.
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Chapter 34
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“So,,,you are married” said Jane
disappointedly. “No am not” said Stanely hesitantly
Jane looked at him unbeliavably
‘Zambian men, with a wedding ring
on his finger and still denying being
married’ thought Jane angrily
“Well what it really is is that, ,,,,” said Stanley ,stammering
“No you dont have ro explain
anything , I didn’t expect you to stay
single over these months anyways”
she cut him.
She left the kitchen and went to the living room where she
sat starring at
the television without getting
anything.
Stanely joined her after some
minutes.
“So what next?” He asked But Jane’s eyes were fixed on
the
screen absent mindedly and Stanely
could see it.
“Jane ” he called her much louder
and she turned to look at him.
“Yes” she answered “I just asked you a question” he said
“Really? And what was that
question?”
“Wha next now?” he asked
“Next as in how” she said
“You and Cathy, are you restoring your friendship” he said
‘Are you stupid?’ She said in her
heart, why on earth would she make
friends with Cathy?
“No am not” she said coldly “am
taking this case to court” she added “I thought we talked
about this” said
Stanely
“I dont care what we talked about or
not, all I know is that she will pay
dearly for her actions” she said
calmly “Do you know that she might be
sentenced to life imprisonment ? And
there will be no one to get her out”
said Stanley
Jane looked at him and laughed
“Who cares Stanely, who cares? Let them sentence her to
life
imprisonment ,I dont care” she said
in an I dont care tone.
“Jane you can’t do this, dont repay
wrong with wrong”
“Do you know what Stanely, I think am very grateful for all
you did for
me, thank you for unlocking the
mystery of my life concerning that
little boy even thought it led to the
heartbreaking discovery. But I think
you need to go home tomorrow, your wife must be really
worried.”
The entire evening was so awkward
for the two.
There was less talking and no eating.
The following day Stanely left her
house early in the morning. “Why dont you wait for
breakfast”
asked Jane but Stanely said he had
to go.Jane remained in tears ,she
still loved Stanely so much
Cathy was sweeping the living room
when there was a knock on the door. She wondered who
it was because
she wasnt expecting anyone except
police officers. She expected them to
bang on her door and march in any
time and drag her to the station.
She slowly went to open the door. To her surprise it was
Stanely.
“Stanely” she said
“How are you ” he greeted her , she
responded slowly .
“Dont be so startled, can I come in?”
“Yeah,” she said smilling,”I wasnt expecting you, I was
expecting cops”
she said
“You have a great sense of humour I
must say” and they both laughed .
“So what brings you here?” There
was a sense of easiness in her voice.
“Well to see if I can do something”
He cleared his throat and continued ”
how much do you hate Jane, on a
scale of 10, be honest”
Cathy looked at him startled ,she kept quete for a long
time trying to hear
what her inner voice would say
“I would say 2” she answered
“So that means you hate her 20%
and love her 80%? ” he said and
Cathy nodded her head “Thats a good one, so have you
considered apologising to her ”
“Over my dead body will I do that, I
know she didn’t intentionally sleep
with Alfred but she intentionally got
married to him.” Stanely studied her for a moment.
“She did a wrong thing to marry
Alfred but she is hurting right now,
her child is dead, whom she carried
for nine months ,enduring the
gossiping around town, gave birth in pain but hey, the
woman she trusted
so much swapped her child,she
came back home with another
woman’s child while her own child
was dying in the village ,then she
suffered emotional pain from Alfred who abused her so
much. Please
you have to forgive and start a new
life, dont habour a grudge against
anyone. God forgives us for every
sins that we commit, why should we
harden our hearts when it comes to us forgiving others .
God does no
punish us for every wrong thing we
do, but he waits patiently for us to
realise our wrong doings and ask for
forgiveness and he forgives us.”
Cathy was listening intently, she had not heard from the
word of God for
such a long time and hearing Stanely
say that reminded her of her
childhood sunday school days when
they were taught how to memorise
verses of which she could nolonger remember even one.
“I did a wrong thing, it was terrible”
she said quetly.
“Now all you have to do is ask God
to forgive you and then apologise to
Jane and Alfred” ‘Alfred’ thought Cathy, he was the
last person she wanted to see.
“I ll do just that” she said in a shaky
whisper.
Stanely left and Cathy sat still in the
sofa. She fell down on her knees and
wept. She went to her mother’s
bedroom and loked for the Bible, she
had seen it a few times and she
hoped she would find it.
She found it in one of the drawers,she hurried to her
bedroom
and fell to the ground on her knees.
With the Bible in her hands and tears
down her eyes she looked up.
“Dear Lord ,I ve strayed from the way,
so far away from the road, I turned my back on you at a
time I was
supposed to cling to you, please
Forgive me, please forgive me,
forgive me please”
She fell on her knees crying loudly.
She pictured how Jane’s child must have had died without
the
opportunity to receive the love from
its biological parents, how she had
deceived the other woman into
thinking that she had a daughter .
She opened the Bible randomly and it went to Mark 2:17
” ,,they that are
well dont need a physician but they
that are sick, I came not to call the
righteous but sinners to repentance”
She sat down on the bed, thats the
comfort that she needed, Jesus did not come to call the
righteous to
repent ,he came to call sinners to
repent, people who are not sick dont
need a doctor,its the sick people who
need a doctor.
She got up and took a bath, without second thoughts ,she
started off to
Jane’s house after dressing up.
She reluctantly raised her hand and
knocked on the door. There was no
response, she knocked much harder.
Jane rushed to go and open the door thinking it was
Stanely, but to her
disappointment it was Cathy.
“What are you doing here!?” She
growled
Cathy went on her knees
“Please Jane forgive me” “What?! Are you mad? You really
think am going to forgive you? You
must be very stupid Catherine ”
“Please Jane,am very sorry for what I
caused between you and Alfred and
to the baby” said Cathy still on her knees.
“Dont even talk about my baby, what
do you know about babies, leave my
house right now” she shouted.
“Am not leaving without your
forgiveness ” she protested. “Huh I see, you really won’t
leave
without my forgiveness, am coming
right now,give me a moment” she
said as she rushed inside the house.
She came back with a bucketful of
water and poured it on Cathy. “Ouch ” exclaimed Cathy
looking
amazingly at Jane. She stood up
looking like a soaked chicken.
“Please Jane, I need your forgiveness
” she said looking at her.
“If you knew how much I hate you, you would be on your
way right now
to your house” said Jane fiercely
“I know why you want me to forgive
you” she added “so that I dont take
you to court,I can see through you,
dont think you are clever.” “Please Jane you can take me
me to
court if you want, all I want is to be
forgiven by you” she pleaded.
Jane slammed the door and went
inside, leaving the soaked Cathy
starring at the door. She went back to her house.
Jane locked herself in the bedroom
and wept,she had so much to cry
about, her child, Stanely and Cathy,
she had lost them all. She picked her
photo album, she and and Cathy had been so so happy.
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Chapter 33
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“Madam am Jane we gave birth on
the same day, can’t you remember me? ” she asked
worriedly wondering
how she could have so easily
forgotten her.
“I remember you” she said with a
plain face.
“Well I have brought back your child” said Jane with a
smile.
The woman looked at her confused.
Jane explained everything that had
happened and the woman tearfully
got the child from Jane.
Somehow Jane felt a loss as she had become so attached
to the little boy,
they had gone through a lot of things
together.
“I knew she wasn’t my baby, I and
my husband have a chain of boys
and and it was a miracle to have a girl, we were very
happy, it felt
strange and it has turned out that
our joy was short lived” said the
woman, holding the boy in her arms.
“Well, you just have to cherish the
moments you spent with her, the good thing is that you
have
experienced what its like to have a
daughter. May I see my girl now”
said Jane but the woman looked
down without a word
“Why do you keep silent when I ask to see my daughter,
where is she? ”
But the woman was already flooded
in tears
“It was a shortlived Joy” she said
“I know ma’am but even a boy is as
good as a girl, I know you really wanted a girl but I have
to take her,
am the mother , they have to be
brought up by their parents”
“She is no more” said the husband to
the woman in a horse voice .
“What do you mean by no more” asked Jane
“Our little angel died yesterday” he
said sadly, restraining himself from
crying
“Haaa how ? What happened? ”
“She caught a cold the day before yesterday and at night
she had fever,
we were waiting for the day to break
before taking her to the hospital but
she died in the early hours of the
Morning” he explained
Each word that came from his mouth was a heavy blow on
Jane’s heart
and she wished he didn’t continue
speaking.
“We buried her yesterday” she told
them
Jane mourned for her child in the hut.
“Give me back my child” she shouted
as she attempted to get the boy
back.
“You killed my daughter ” she said.
The woman wouldnt let go of her son and it became a bit
chaotic .
It took a lot of effort by Stanely to
calm Jane down.
Finally she gave up on it and asked
to go and see where the child had
been buried. She comforted herself by hoping that
maybe without a child, Stanely would
get back with her.
She would marry him and have so
many children for him and they would
be happy together. They reached the place where the
baby had been buried, she knelt
down filling her hands with the soil
from the grave.
She was sobbing hysterically.
Everyone stood back watching her painfully.
She muttered some words and got
up.
When it was dusk they started off to
town, the woman and her husband
apologised for the loss. On their way back home, Jane
wanted to go and confront Cathy
about her act but Stanely told her to
leave it for the next morning.
“I’m going to rip Catherine apart, am
going to kill her” she said in gritted teeth, at her house.
“You and her simply need to sit down
and talk” said Stanely in a cool tone.
“Sit and talk?” She repeated his
words “talk about what?”
Stanely could see that Jane was on fire, he had never
seen her that angry
“I could take her to court you know,
that is a crime” she shouted on top
of her voice
“Yes you can but is that what you
want for her, to die in jail? She has no one remember, the
two people
she counted on got married without
her knowledge, have you ever tried to
put yourself in her shoe? The pain
she must have gone through?”
“Are you on her side?” She bursted. He didnt bother
answer her, he
simply stood and went to the kitchen.
He prepared supper and Jane ate
very little
“Am I such a bad cook, that all you
can have are two spoonfuls? ” asked Stanely.
Jane looked at him and smiled. Such
a beautiful soul, she thought as she
forced more food in her mouth.
They slept on the couch, and only
woke up the following day with aching necks.
“Ouch good morning, how come we
slept on the couch? ” asked Jane
stretching her self.
Stanely stretched to face her.
“Goodmorning to you, you are waking up, lets sleep some
more” he
suggested.
“You sleep some more, I ll join you
later” she said.
She wasnt going to throw away the
opportunity to showcase her wife material skills.
She quickly cleaned the house and
washed the few dishes in the sink,
prepared Stanely’s favourite meal,
grilled chicken and served at the
table. She asked him to let her wash his shirt which was
stained with
some dirt.
“How did you prepare that chicken so
quickly? Marriage material huh? ”
Jane smiled, very proud of herself .
She stole glances at Stanely’s arms in the white vest he
was wearing
while she had washed his shirt. They
looked fine
After the breakfast they went to
Cathy’s house
“Bravo, I can see you two are back together, well its a
year of
reconciliation, however you guys
took a while to reconcile” said Cathy
clapping her hands and turning to
Stanely she said
“Uhmm good morning, forgive me for that, thats how we
joke with Jane”
“Goodmorning” he answered with a
wink
“Can we come in? ” asked Jane
“Ofcousre why not? ”
They entered the house and when Alfred who was in the
bedroom
recognised Jane’s voice and a male
voice , he decided to go and see
what was happening.
Cathy was asking if they wanted
anything to drink. She acted as though nothing had
happened in their previous encounter
.
“Jane you have to drop that face, you
look like a wounded buffalo, you are
scaring me” she teased “That is because am a wounded
buffalo, and if there was a way, I
would eat you alive just now” she
said angrily.
Alfred entered and greeted them,
Stanely responded “Cathy how could you, how could
you swap my baby with another one,
did I not apologise to you for
everything? ”
Cathy stood startled.
“What are you talking about? ” she asked, confused.
She knew she was dead meat if
already the truth was out
Jane narrated everything that had
happened and the house was silent
for minutes. Streams of tears pouring down her eyes
uncontrollably .
“She is dead? ” asked Alfred
“Yes she is” answered Jane
He moved slowly to Cathy with a
gaped mouth.
“You are a wicked woman,” Cathy could see the
disappointment in his
eyes and it hurt her.
” you are a snake, there you were
entertaining me in bed , showering
me with fake love meanwhile you had
sold my daughter, Cathy how could you be so heartless,
now our
daughter has died, all because of
you. You are a witch Cathy” he
shouted shaking her violently
“Shut up! Shut up right now! ”
shouted Cathy fircely leaving everyone silent.
Alfred took some steps backwards
“You and Jane did this to yourselves
and you” she said pointing at Alfred
“You are a coward, you are also a
snake, very cunning and doubled tounged. You slept with
my best
friend and impregnated her and you
never told me, do you know what it
felt like to come home and find my
mother dead without warning,? I ran
to you Alfred for love but you were already having an
affair with Jane.
Jane you were the sister I never had,
even when you knew Alfred is all I
had you still took him away. ” said
Cathy indignantly, tears pouring
down in every direction like the victoria falls
“Its Isabelle, she put a drug in our
beer and we ended up sleeping
together” answered Alfred
“And you expect me to believe that
crap? ” said Cathy wiping away the tears which were still
raining down
her face
“Well I can call Lucy” he said
“Thats not necessary ” she said
But Alfred had already dialled her
number and commanded her to come. She feared him
very much and
she promised to be there as soon as
possible.
” So are you happy, to hear that my
daughter is dead? ” Asked Alfred
“Am not but everything I ve done to you two, you deserve
it , you cast me
away at a time I was in need of you,
you dealt treacherously with me” she
answered
Lucy arrived and she was asked to
explain Isabelle’s plot and she did. Cathy sat on the floor
speechless, so
they were also just victims of
Isabelle’s cruelty
“But you never told me this” she said
in a lower tone.
“I thought I did” said Jane “I was very willing to be a step
mother to your child Jane but when I
came back you two were married,
without considering how I would
feel.”
Jane and Stanely left the house and Alfred followed later.
“You should never talk to me again”
he had told Cathy
Cathy was too upset to answer him,
she didn’t need him either, after all
he was short. She would survive by herself, she
wasnt going to leave the world like
her mother did. And she didn’t have
time and energy to start crying for
ungrateful beings in her life.
Both her parents had committed suicide but she wasnt
going to do
that nomatter how tough life would
be.
In the evening Stanely was washing
plates when Jane came to join him.
“If you will be washing plates in marriage, then you will be
such a
wonderful husband” she said
“Oh will I ? ” he said
“Yeah, let me continue washing
them? ” she said but Stanely insisted
he would wash them, and as they played, pulling the plate
which was
in Stanely’s hands , in a flash, Jane
stood petrified
“You ve given up huh” said Stanely.
Jane’s eyes were fixed on Stanely’s
hand “Is that a wedding ring? ” she asked.
Stanely starred at his ring as if he
was seeing it for the first time.
He had forgotten that he had it on.
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Chapter 32
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“Catherine what’s this? ” shouted
Jane. She pulled the bedsheets they had
curled themselves in and exposed
their bodies.
Catherine stood and got her
underwear which was at the edge of
the bed and a bra which was down and wore them.
She raised herself up and moved
closer to Jane
“What’s what? ” she hissed “huh tell
me, whats what? ”
Jane looked at her confused “You and my husband in bed
before
we even….. ”
“You shut up you fool! ” shouted
Cathy and Jane moved backwards as
if Cathy’s words were a heavy wind
pushing her away “He was mine, he was mine before
you betrayed me and took him away
from me. ”
“You have no shame Cathy, you and I
were like sisters”
“Yes, until you destroyed our sistership, I loved you Jane,
like my
blood sister”
” and you” jane said pointing at
Alfred ” you are a big fool”
Jane forgot what she had gone for ,
she picked her little boy and left. She held back her tears
all through
the bus until she reached home.
She cried as much as she could.
After getting rid of all the tears in
her, she decided to call Stanely, she
had not talked to him for a very long time.
“Jane are you crying? Calm down
and tell me what’s happening” said
Stanely on the other side of the line.
In less than an hour he had reached
Jane’s house after she gave him directions.
“Oh my God Jane, what happened to
you? ” he asked hugging her tightily
She looked nothing like the Jane he
had so madly fallen in love with.
This one had become so skinny, and dirty and different,
she was just
another person.
Cathy had put on her clothes
hurriedly and left Alfred’s house with
no word.
Jane narrated her marriage life experience to stanely in a
summary.
“Wait, so you mean, the blood group
test and the DNA test show that
Alfred is not the father? ” asked
Stanely
“Yes” she answered hanging on her head
“But are you sure you weren’t having
any other private affair? ”
Anger was brewing inside Jane but
she was helpless , so she had to
hold it all in. “Stanely, I never cheated on you, I
never understood how I ended up in
bed with Alfred, until Lucy showed up
and told me that Isabelle had us
trapped to have her revenge on
Cathy” explained Jane “What,, who is Lucy, what do you
mean? ” asked Stanely
Jane explained in details how
Isabelle had planned to drug her and
Alfred with a sexual energizer
powder, “Her intention was to get photos of
me and Alfred together and send
them to Cathy, but in the process I
got pregnant”
Stanely couldn’t believe it all, shame
swept over him when he remembered how he had not
believed her story
previously.
“Am very sorry to hear that Jane” he
said putting his hand around her
shoulders.
“But how is it possible that Alfred is not the father when
he is the only
man you slept with at the time? ”
“I dont know Stan, I really dont know.
And Cathy, she has betrayed me”
“Was she there in the labour ward? ”
asked Stanely “Yes she is the one who took me
there? ” she answered
“Who was the midwife on duty”
“Its Cathy who helped me deliver”
“Wasnt there any other midwife or
people in the ward? ” “Am not sure, I was alone in the
ward, but I lost conscious, when I
regained it, there was another woman
who had just given birth” she
answered
“And your babies were with you? ” “No, they were brought
back by a
certan nurse after sometime. They
were taken to the oxygen machine”
“With tags? ”
“No, they didn’t have” she said
“And where was Cathy? ” “I dont know”
“Well I dont know if you see what am
seeing, but Cathy must have been
dating Alfred even before you gave
birth, so she didnt approve your
marriage and coming baby. She could have switched the
babies” he
said calmly.
“What? Wait,,, that makes sense”
She jumped and got her phone from
the table and went through it with
trembling hands “What are you doing? ”
“Am calling Alfred” she answered.
He got up and got the phone from
her
“We dont have the evidence yet, why
are you in such a hurry? ” “I just want him to know that
am
innocent, that I didnt push the
pregnancy on him”
“Why, you want to keep a good
record with him? Do you still love
him after all that he did”? He asked angrily and Jane
detected the anger
” no I dont, I never loved him, we
were just forced to get married” she
said quetly
Alfred followed Cathy to her house to
apologise for what happened earlier with Jane and they
got back to
terms.
He spent the night at her house.
The following day, mid Morning,
Stanely and Jane went to the hospital
where Jane had delivered from. They lied that they
couldn’t
remember the midwife on duty during
Jane’s delivery, Stanely strictly didn’t
want to involve the police.
If the babies had been swapped, they
would conclude that the midwife had made a mistake but
then they would
deal with Cathy independently
A DNA test was carried out on the
mother and baby and it turned out
that it didn’t match
The doctor announced the results to them in the afternon.
“We suspected so doctor, thats why
we came”
They asked for the address of the
woman who had given birth on the
same day with Jane. Searching by the date, they found her
details and
address.
The two are the only ones who gave
birth on that day
Immediately they left for her village,
asking the people around , they finally reached the village.
“This village looks spooky”
whispered Jane
“How? ” asked Stanely
“Everyone seems to be in black, the
place looks smoky, like a horror” she answered lowering
her tone
“Kikiki you are a freak ” he teased
They entered the village and were
greeted by a man who seemed to be
walking aimlessly to and fro
“Good evening? ” he greeted bending his knee a little.
They responded and asked where
they could find the woman, they
mentioned her name.
He looked at them puzzled
“She is my wife, how may I help you? ” he asked.
They asked if they could see the
woman.
He went inside his house with them
and summoned his wife.
Jane noted that she looked different, she wasnt the jovial
woman she had
held a short conversation with at the
hospital.
“How is the child” asked Jane but
the woman looked down.
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Chapter 31
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The baby was admitted and the
whole night it was on a drip for blood.
The parents had very little
conversation.
When the baby fell asleep and as
they were having their bought meal,
Alfred finally broke the silence “Jane instead of getting
embarrassed
and wasting money on DNA, will you
just tell me the truth, am I the
father ? ”
Jane’s eyes became watery, her life
was somehow ruined, thats not how she had imagined her
future, being
stuck with a man whom she had so
desperately fallen in love with but
who did not reciprocate the love.
“Alfred he is your son, he is your
biological son, my only boyfriend was stanely but we never
had sex”
Alfred looked down.
He had doubted the boy since he
developed a recognisable face
“Alright” he said breathing out
heavily. The following day, the boy looked
much better and was put on
medication.
He suck some breast milk and they
were discharged.
Cathy kept calling to hear the progress, Jane had told her
about the
blood test and that Alfred had acted
cool.
In the evening of being discharged,
Cathy asked to see Alfred who went
to meet her in one of the bars. “Am very tired and I was
supposed to
be resting, why do you want to see
me” complained Alfred.
“Hey, dont be so rigid” she said
shyly poking him
‘This wonderful woman knows all the romancing skills, ‘
thought Alfred
smiling.
“I heard from Jane about the blood
tests, how is it possible that you
have a different blood group from
your son? ” “I dont know, the doctor said its
possible but after checking Jane’s it
turned to be a mystery, Jane is very
sure am the father” he explained
“So what are you going to do? ”
“Well, I ll just leave things the way they are, I have become
so attached
to the boy, I can’t manage to lose
him, the doctor suggested a DNA but
I dont think I will consider it”
Cathy looked at him with so much
shock “Are you serious? Are you crazy? ”
“What? ” he asked innocently
“How can you raise a child who you
are not sure is yours, Alfred you have
to carry out the DNA test so that you
can have peace of mind” In reality it had given him so
much
stress, wondering whether or not he
was the father of the child.
The same week he went for DNA test
, he and the child were tested.
It came out that he wasnt the father. Alfred sat down
drowsily, everything
was spinning, everything was
becoming dark, his energy was
quickly leaving his body.
He leant against the wall strongly
and kept telling himself he shouldnt pass out.
He raised himself up after some
minutes and went home.
Jane had gone to Cathy’s house from
the hospital.
She knew she was in deep trouble. She knocked on
Cathy’s door and it
opened slowly.
Cathy had hoped that it was Alfred.
She knew it was the day of the DNA
and that was it, thats what it was all
about. It had happened sooner than she had thought.
She was disappointed to open the
door and find Jane standing with the
child on her back, however it excited
her to see her looking so lost and
devastated Cathy managed to calm Jane who
was crying like a little girl who just
lost her parents.
“You need to be strong for the baby,
now tell me what the problem is”
Jane managed to tell her what had happened.
“But is he really the father? ” asked
Cathy
“Are you doubting me? Cathy you
know I wasnt sleeping with Stanely
and I wasnt seeing any other man. ” she said
disappointedly
“Dont get me wrong, Jane I trust you
I just wanted to be very sure so that
even when I face Alfred and talk to
him, I can confidently tell him to be
sensible. But how the hell did that happen? How could
such a result
come about” asked Cathy rubbing her
chin thoughtfully.
“Thats what am also wondering, I
don’t know what to do”
Theyy spent the night together and Jane went to her
husband ‘s house
the following morning.
Her clothes were well packed in her
suitcases.
“Alfred, what’s this? ”
He looked at her and looked away without a word
“Alfred don’t throw me out, he is your
child, I just don’t understand,,,, ”
“How I became the father, you have
made me a laughing stock Jane, just
go and never show your face to me again. I never loved
you, your plan
has not worked. ” he said fiercely.
Jane got her bags and went to
Cathy’s house.
She had to find a new house for rent .
Cathy was irritated by her frequent visits and putting up
with her until
she found a new house would be
hard
“We were not meant to be together, I
loved him but he didn’t love me” said
Jane “But ,,,,, ” started Cathy but quickly
thought against it.
How did they sleep together if there
was no love or did she seduce him?
Cathy thought to herself.
Jane was less emotional, she seemed to have had
accepted the
situation.
Cathy finally had a chance to be
visiting Alfred anytime leaving Jane
home.
After a week and some days, Jane found a house not far
from Cathy’s
house and she moved there. There
was already furniture inside and
being on maternity leave, she took
more time to clean the house and
look after the baby. The following day she went to
Alfred’s house to get some of the
things that he had not packed in her
bags and only realised it after
unpacking her things.
Cathy and Alfred were having a good time and did not
hear the knock.
Jane opened her purse and got the
spare key and opened the door.
Alfred ‘s phone was off and she knew
that it wouldn’t be considered theft to
enter her husband’s house in his absence.
She pushed open the door and went
to the bedroom where she was
supposed to have forgotten her
stuffs.
She was met with the most unbelieveable shock of her
life. Alfred
and Cathy were in bed naked.
“What! ” she shouted, she put the
baby down and moved closer to the
naked bodies
“Alfred! Cathy! ” she exclaimed The two pulled the
bedsheets to
cover their exposed bodies
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Chapter 30
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Alfred begun spending very little time
at home and his mother inlaw decided to go back home
seeing how
their marriage was crumbling down.
She somehow blamed herself for
forcing them to get married.
Jane ran to Cathy’s house for comfort
everytime she got into a firght with Alfred
“Am very sure , he is cheating” she
had told Cathy amidst sobs.
Cathy squeezed her hand and
assured her that all would be well.
Days gave birth to weeks and then months.
The gap between Alfred and Jane
was becoming big and they had
become total strangers to each other.
Cathy and Alfred had strengthened
their relationship. Jane was just an intruder who had
come in between them and she
wasn’t going to stop their being
together.
However a big problem arose, Jane
‘s little boy started looking unhealthy, this got the
attention of both parents.
The boy was not sucking milk and he
had lost so much weight and begun
to look shrunk
“This is what happens when the
father of a child who is still on breast milk starts sleeping
around. ” Jane
had complained loudly
“Dont you start again, we shall just
take him to the hospital” he had told
her harshly
Jane had become very restless. When they took the boy to
the
hospital, they carried out tests on
him and was found to be anaemic.
“We need to do a blood transfusion”
the doctor had told them and asked
them to go back the following day. Cathy went to visit
them in the
evening to check on the little boy.
Jane started sobbing when she saw
her
“Alfred hates me, he is mistreating
me. I dont know what to do. But I love him” she
whisppered amidst
sobs.
Cathy’s heart missed some beats
when Jane had said that
‘How foolish, do you even know the
meaning of love, the nerve’ she thought.
She let her lean on her shoulder , the
boy was sleeping in the sofa
His eyes had half sunken, the skin
was pale and he looked very small.
Immediately Alfred joined them in the living room.
“Cathy , how are you? ”
“Am fine Thanks. What did they tell
you at the hospital? ” she asked
“He is anaemic” he said giving a sigh
of sadness ” He needs a blood transfusion, we are taking
him back
tomorrow”
“Am sorry to hear that, I know he will
be very fine, ” she said.
Jane was still leaning on her
shoulder, her eyes were bloodshot. She never took her
eyes of the child
the whole night, lest he should leave
her while she is in sleep, unless the
sleep caught her unaware.
“But don’t you think instead of
relying on the blood donated, its better if you yourselves
can donate
the blood? It would be much better
and safer for the child” Cathy had
said
“Yes I will donate my blood” Jane
said enthusiastically That wasn’t what Cathy had hoped
for, the whole point was for Alfred to
find out that the boy wasn’t his, if
only the blood groups with the baby
could be different , then her plan
would be succesfull. However the chances were 50-50
“Well Alfred Jane is weak, you can’t
let her donate the blood, I think you
should do it” suggested Cathy
“Oh yeah, I will” he answered
Cathy went back to her house after giving Jane a hug and
a peck, she
pitied the tiny little thing, which
however was the only thing tying
Alfred and Jane.
Alfred escorted Cathy to the bus
station. He gave her a tight long hug before
releasing her
“You should look after yourself my
love” he said in a whisper
“Ofcousre I will, dont worry much
sweetheart, the boy will be fine” she answered.
He hugged her again and then let go.
Cathy reached home and started
wondering what would happen if it
turned out that the blood group of
both Jane and Alfred was different from the one of the
baby. It would
ruin everything, maybe it was better if
they just got the donated blood from
the blood bank
The following day at the doctor’s
office, Alfred suggested that they use his blood.
They took his blood and that of the
baby and unfortunately he couldn’t be
a donor.
“Sorry to tell you this but you can’t
donate your blood” the doctor told Alfred.
“But why? ”
” because you are of different blood
groups” said the doctor
Alfred looked at the doctor with so
much anger, for the first time he realised how dangerous
the
proffesion of being a doctor was.
“How is that possible” he asked his
eyes turning red
“Calm down sir, its not,,,, ”
“Tell me how possible that can be when he is my
biological son” he
asked angrily.
The fear of him not being the real
father dawned on him and he felt like
death, the embarssment it would
cause him among his family members and friends.
He had become so attached to him,
separating from him would damage
him emotionally.
“Such things happen,he is blood
group A and you are B, so he must have got the type from
his mother”
explained the doctor
Alfred gave a deep and long sigh of
relief.
The doctor saw it and wondered
within himself where the fear in his eyes had originated
from.
“So what do you suggest we do”
asked the doctor. “We use the blood
we have here? ”
“Well let me speak to my wife first”
Alfred went to ask Jane who was sitting outside the
doctor’s office
with the baby in her hands.
Jane suggested that she would
donate blood.
Alfred was against but she was very
determined They both entered the doctor’s office
and instead of telling her to take the
blood to the lab, he decided to do it
to save on time.
After checking the mother’s blood
group, his mouth was left hanging. “And what does that
mean? ” asked
Alfred
It was then that the doctor realised
that he had not attempted to hide the
shock in his mind.
“Well I need to speak to both of you” said the doctor
“Is anything the matter doctor? ”
asked Jane who was filled with so
much anxiety
“Not really, well are you two married?
” “Yes doctor ” answered Jane quickly.
“And are you the biological father? ”
he asked referring to Alfred.
His heart begun racing
“Yes I am” he answered horsely
“Well am afraid none of you can donate the blood. Sir you
are blood
group B and your wife is blood group
O negative, a very rare blood group
while the child is blood group A. You
can carry out a DNA test for
clarification , otherwise those are the results. ”
“Are you implying that am not the
father? ” he asked shakily
“For now I would suggest that you
carry out a DNA, for now the most
important thing is give the baby some blood. ”
Cathy was anxious the whole day,
Jane had promised to call her but
she had not.
She begun pacing up and down the
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Soon Jane came back from the
market where she went shopping with her mother
“How was the day? ” she greeted
Alfred
“Fine” he answered , turning his eyes
to the television
“Anything the matter? ” “No” he replied.
“May I hold the baby” he told her
“Umm he is sleeping” she answered
It wasn’t typical of him to ask to hold
the baby, he loved his son so much
but he never bothered holding him. Jane went to the
bedroom and lay
the boy in his cradle.
She went to the kitchen and busied
herself preparing supper.
Alfred stood from the sofa and went
to the bedroom, he knelt down to take a closer look at the
boy, there
was absolutely no resemblance, how
had Cathy noticed that so quickly.
“Babies dont resemble anyone until
they are about a year old” he told
himself The entire evening he was in a mood,
battling within himself whether to go
for DNA or just leave it, but what if it
turned out that really the baby was
not his? It would do more harm, he
convinced himself. The following day Cathy asked Alfred
to meet her from her house.
Three hours before the expected
time, Cathy begun preparing herself,
she had already swept the house and
arranged the bed and the clothes. She wore a purple
dress, which was
not among her favourites but which
people told her made her look
extremely pretty.
Despite not being short, it was tight,
it shaped her curves and exposed the cleavage. That was
the more
reason she didn’t like it, her
favourites were knee level flaired
dresses.
At 4 pm there was a knock at the
door. She walked slowly to the door, her
heart was beating very fast, she was
going to recover that which she had
lost.
She opened the door and smiled.
Alfred looked at her and smiled back, her face was so
smooth, there was
no need to use foundation or
concealer to hide pimples or dark
spots.
His eyes involuntarily landed on the
cleavage , the nipples were very visible in the dress,
She had deliberately neglected
wearing a bra.
“Come in please” she said and he
followed her like a bull going to the
slaughter house “So how is Jane and the boy” she
asked as she sat down
“Well they are both fine”
“I missed this place so much” he
said looking around
“It must be lonely around here” “Yes it is” she answered
“no one to
talk to, it gets scary sometimes,
nightmares in the night other times”
she said in a lower voice.
“So you wanted to see me” he said
“Yeah” she answered not really knowing what to tell him,
she didnt
want his help in anything, he just
wanted his presence.
“I just wanted your company, I could
have asked Jane but then I know she
is busy, you and Jane are the only friends I have, so to
escape thoughts
of committing suicide, I need to
surround myself with people once in
a while,,, ” she posed to read his
facial expression.
He pitied her. It was good because she needed as
much pity from him as possible, she
would use it to advance.
“I hope I didn’t make you abandon
other important things” she added
“Actually you did” he said stealing glances at her.
She didn’t hide her disappointment
“But you are more important than all
of them, so I abandoned them” he
said with a smile and she smiled
back. She stood and went to the fridge.
Alfred watched her behind move from
side to side, he couldn’t believe she
was not going to be his wife.
She came back with a bottle of wine
and two wine glasses. Her hips that had protruded her
pelvis swaying in a systematic way.
“You take wine? ” he asked in shock
“Ofcousre I do, ”
“Since when? ” he asked teasingly
“Since my mother’s death” she answered and the topic
was closed.
Her mother’s death must have left a
really huge scar .
“They took a few glasses and Cathy
took the bottle back
” I dont want us to get drunk and do something we might
regret later” she
said
“Cathy I love you and you know that,
there is nothing that we can do that I
can regret later, Jane was a mistake,
a trap , you know that” he said. But Cathy seemed not to
be paying
attention.
She decided to sit on a different sofa
when she came back from the fridge.
Alfred scanned her and she looked
like a fruit. He moved to her and put his arm
around her waist.
The passion was ignited and it
seemed they were both aware of
what would happen because they
each had prepared some protection. Cathy had bought
them the previous
night while Alfred had bought them
on his way to her house.
Clothes were flying in the air and
landed on the ground.
After minutes they both picked their clothes and put them
on.
“I have to go back home right now,
am even late” said Alfred looking for
his shirt behind the sofa
“Which home? You can’t do that to
me Alfred, am I just a intimacy gadget, to you, dont you like
spending time with me.
” she asked amidst sobs wrapping
her arms around him.
“Just tell her you won’t make it home
today” she suggested
Alfred texted Jane to tell her that he would be home the
next day.
Jane tried to call him but his phone
was off.
She wondered where he could be, a
strong opinion was nagging in her
heard, that he was with another woman.
Alfred and Cathy went to shower
together and later slept in each
other’s arms.
Very early in the morning, Alfred got
dressed and kissed Cathy lightly on the lips to go.
Cathy who wasnt asleep pulled him
back and drowned her lips into his.
Alfred threw away everything in his
hands and he bent down to hold
Cathy. And Thats how they spent the next
two hours in the blankets together.
“It should have been you, you should
have been my wife” ha had told her
and she giggled.
They went to shower and spent the whole morning and
afternoon in bed,
listening to some slow music which
sent them into deep sleep.
Cathy woke up around 3 pm and
decided not to wake Alfred up.
She went to drink some water and joined him later.
Alfred woke up an hour later and
went home after exchanging kisses
with Cathy.
He turned his phone on and there
were a lot of messages and who called from Jane. He
knew he was in
trouble.
He reached home and Jane was on
boiling point
He went to the bedroom and Jane
followed her. “You were not at work, neither were
you with Frank or Kelvin, I already
talked to them. ” she said sharply
“Is that how you welcome your
husband whom you haven’t seen for
the whole night? ” “Where were you? ” she asked
starring at him
“If I pour hot cooking oil on you then
you will start saying that Zambian
women are violent” she said angrily
“Why can’t you just shut up and let me have my peace” he
said harshly.
“If you think am a fool, then you dont
know me, I will kill you and your
girlfriend if I ever find out thay you
are cheating” she said, now sweating
profusely “Jane stop acting as though our
marriage is anything , your parents
just dumped you on me, ”
And at that, there was an intense
quarrel between the couple.
Cathy on the other hand was smiling to herself, she would
put everything
In order before going back to school.
She had prepared pasta with chicken
and was about to eat when there was
a knock.
Could it be that Alfred had come back ? She removed the
key and
looked through the key hole, it was a
female.
She opened the door and Jane stood
there with her son on her back
” oh dear ” said Cathy giving her friend a hug
“Come in” she told her.
Cathy offered her some pasta but she
refused. She then made a cup of hot
coffee for her.
When her nerves calmed, she narrated to Cathy how
Alfred had
disappered from home and only
appeared the following day, she told
her about their quarrel and how she
thought he was cheating.
Cathy soothed her and comforted her and told her to go
back home and
resolve the problem without
quarrelling.
Jane refused to go back and Cathy
allowed her to spend the night.
“You will be fine” she assured her. Some minutes later,
Cathy’s phone
rang, it was Alfred.
She picked the call but kept saying
hello, pretending not to be hearing
him.
It must be network , he thought. Cathy quickly put the
phone on silent
It rang again, she looked at it and
told Jane she would be back.
She went to her bedroom and
answered the phone and Alfred said
that he was on his way to Cathy’s house to spend the
night.
Cathy wanted to decline but she
thought of the amazing moment they
had shared together. She was
looking forward to another day and it
had come so soon. She told him that he would find her.
She sat down to think of what she
would do.
She joined Jane in the living room
“Girl I think you should just go back
home, running away from your house every time you have
an argument will
lead to more problems.”
“Cathy I can’t” she answered
“Your mum is aware of your fight,
she is as much hurt and she needs
you” Jane looked at her , digesting her
words
“Think of it, you fought because he
slept out, if you sleep out, he might
think you are taking revenge and he
will also do likewise, and the war will Not end. ”
With this Jane was convinced .
She put her son who was sleeping in
the sofa on her back
“Thank you very much love” she said
giving her a peck. She left and went.
Cathy sat back in the sofa relieved,
she couldn’t wait for another night
with Alfred.
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Chapter 28
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Jane was wheeled into the labour
ward, Alfred wanted to follow but he was stopped by the
nurse on duty,
“Cathy attend to her please, its good
you are here in uniform, more
emergencies today”
Well that was her prayer, to be the
one to help Jane deliver. “No problem sister” she
responded
“You will be fine sweetheart” Cathy
told Jane whose groanings were
becoming louder
The martenity ward was almost
empty, Jane was the only one in labour.
Thats not what Cathy had hoped for,
it was obvious that her plan wouldn’t
work, she knew it wouldn’t because it
was left to chance, she had very little
to no chance of it being successful. She put her on the
bed with the help
of a cleaner.
She checked to know how far the
baby was, and it was very near.
She started panicking, her plan
wouldn’t go anywhere if the ward was that empty.
Soon the contractions became very
intense and Cathy kept encouraging
her to push harder.
Jane was doing it with might and she
was slowly beginning to lose strength.
As the baby was almost coming out,
another woman was wheeled in.
Cathy abandoned Jane to take a
glance at the woman and check how
long she was from giving birth. The baby was still far.
She went back to Jane who now had
given the last shot before giving up.
And behold the little baby girl was
delivered.
Cathy quickly removed the gloves she was wearing and
replaced them
with new ones.
She clamped the umbilical cord and
cut it, she wiped the baby with a
towel, removing the mucus from its
mouth and nose. The girl gave a shrill cry and she
quickly gave it to Jane, to bond, but
she had lost conscious.
Thinking quickly Cathy held the baby
to leave the ward with it but the
other woman in labour called out to her.
She also had delivered without any
help or much struggle. And earlier
and faster than Cathy had expected .
“I ll be back just now”, said Cathy
She took Jane’s baby to the oxygen machine in the
incubator to ease the
breathing process as they did with
every newly born.
She rushed back to the labour ward
which was a few metres away.
She did to the other woman’s child as she had with
Jane’s.
She got the baby and behold it was a
boy
” Oh its such a lovely baby girl”
Cathy lied as she placed it on the
mother’s chest. The mother held her child tightly with
tears in her eyes.
Cathy wondered how many children
she already had and why she would
be crying so much, seeing how easy
it was for her to deliver, Cathy concluded that she must
have had a
chain of children.
Cathy got the child from its mother
and took it also to the oxygen
machine.
It was her show. She had lied about the child being a
girl so that her plan could be carried
out.
Finally her plan was back to life.
She put the second child in the
incubator as well and left . She went outside and came
back
after about 20 minutes.
She entered the labour ward and
both Jane and the other woman were
holding their babies.
She smiled, as she walked majestically to where Jane was
, with
Alfred looking admirably at the baby.
“Wow congrats my dear on being a
mother” said Cathy with a smile.
“Its a boy” Jane said excitedly
“Eew Alfred Junior” exclaimed Cathy “Can you imagine I
didn’t know what
sex my baby was, when the nurses
came with the children, that woman
in the corner was able to remember
that her child was a girl, if they were
both of the same sex, we would have exchanged the
babies unknowingly. ”
said Jane
“Oh yeah, I forgot to put the name
tags when taking them to the oxygen
concentrator ” said Cathy, “I took it
for granted that they were of different sexes”
“Oh so really this is my baby? ” said
Jane trying to sound cheerful but her
voice was still weak.
“Yes” said Cathy assuringly.
She went to the other woman’s bed to congratulate her
again.
She looked at her child with so much
love
Cathy felt her heart wallowing in
pain, knowing that the child was not
hers, “She is so cute” she said
If only there was a way of
exchanging babies without involving
other innocent parents.
“We have a chain of boys, me and
my husbands have been wishing for a girl” explained the
woman with a
weary smile.
Maybe it was for the better. Thought
Cathy
Jane was discharged the following
day and her relatives as well as Alfred’s relatives came to
visit.
They were so happy and they brought
different types of gifts.
It annoyed Cathy that people were
happy about the newly born,
especially that he was a boy. After two months, the baby
had
grown into a chubby smiley boy.
Everyone who saw him wanted to
hold him, they had named him Simon,
like Simon Peter.
However the child had no resemblance to Jane or Alfred
but it
didn’t bother a lot of people, even
Jane was not bothered but Alfred
was.
On a tuesday evening when Cathy
passed through Alfred’s house to check on the baby, she
was told that
Jane was not around.
She had gone to buy food for the
baby.
But Alfred was around
It was a great opportunity for Cathy. She was really
enjoying everything
“So are you excited about the little
boy? ” asked Cathy
“Ofcouse you know I am, I love my
boy so much”
“And the mother? ” said Cathy “Cathy this is not about the
mother,
its about Simon. ”
“But it should have been me, I
should have been the mother, you
promised it would be me, ” she burst,
her emotions overidding her control. “Oh my gosh Cathy,
do you still love
me? ”
“How was I going to unlove you, the
heart has failed to accept defeat, I
still love you the way I loved you
when you saved me from that crazy man”
Alfred moved closer and put his arm
around her waist.
“Am sorry baby, I should have been
more aware of how you felt, you
know I love you and I didn’t marry Jane out of love but
out of
responsibility. ”
“Well then, divorce her and then we
keep the child” she suggested
“What? You know I can’t do that, I
can only take custody of the child when he will be seven,
and now I
can’t stay away from him, I want to
be a good father”
“So you won’t be divorcing her? ”
“I will, but not now, the child has to
grow” “He is not even your child” she said
angrily
“What? What did you just say? ”
asked Alfred in a shaky voice
“The child is not yours, are you blind,
can’t you see that he doest even resemble you? ”
He removed his hand from her back.
What she had just said was true,
there was no resemblance
whatsoever.
“You are joking, Simon is my son and nothing will change
it. We all dont
have to resemble our parents for us
to be their children. ”
“You are deceiving yourself and
keeping another man’s son”
“He is my son, you better take your leave, its late”
“Go for a blood test Alfred and you ll
know the truth” she said as she was
standing up.
Everything was happening so
perfectly. She went back home very happy.
She was letting them have a small
bite of the poison they had fed her.
Alfred sat startled in the sofa
wondering whether or not to go for
blood test or DNA test. But why would Jane do such a
thing?
Cathy sat on the bed and gave a sigh
of relief, shared pain is better than
pain bottled up in the heart, for its
like cancer.
She was happy she was sharing her pain with the sources
of pain.
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Chapter 27
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The attachments kept Cathy busy,
she was enjoying the experience. It was awkward at first,
attending to
the women in the maternity ward but
slowly she begun to get used.
She became quet close with one of
the clinical officers Mr Leon at the
hospital. “Am sure everyone tells you how
beautiful you are” he had told her
“Oh yes, I hear that everywhere” she
said
and he laughed at her humor
Cathy was finding more comfort in the company of Jane
and Alfred.
She visited them every weekend and
Jane in turn passed through her
house whenever she could.
Her pregnancy was becoming very
heavy and her entire body structure changed.
Almost every part of her body had
swelled up.
Her nose had become so big
Every time Alfred saw Cathy, who had
become a frequent visitor, he silently cursed the day he
had met Jane at
the bar.
“I dont like your friendship with
Cathy, ” he said in the night
“Why? ” asked Jane
She was very much aware that Alfred did not approve of
their friendship
“She is like a wounded buffalo, you
never know what her next move
would be” he said
“Oh maybe our closeness scares you
because now you can’t sneak out to her, you stand no
chance at all with
her and just for your knowledge, she
is now seeing a clinical officer”
“What?! I mean well thats good for
her” he said
“Oh yes, very good for her, especially that they are about
to get married”
she said
Alfred turned the other side.
He had no intentions of cheating on
Jane but Cathy was his girlfriend,
how could she move on just like that?
For some reason he had hoped that
he would be with Cathy again but
with the coming marriage, he would
stand no chance.
He was stuck with Jane , who had become so big and
looked so old in
her pregnancy attire.
The following day Cathy was coming
out of the martenity ward when she
bumped into the clinical officer.
They had a quick conversation , he just asked to have
dinner with her.
They met in the evening and Cathy
wore her favourite blue long dress
Mr Leon could not help smilling
immediately he saw her enter the
restaraunt. “You look amazing” he complimented
“Thank you” she answered
They ordered for food and held a
conversation
Then he confessed his love for her.
It somehow caught Cathy unaware. She knew that he liked
her but thats
all, she didn’t expect a proposal,
besides she always thought he was
married
“No am not married but I want to
marry, guess I was waiting for you” he had told her
Cathy felt absolutely nothing for him
but she promised to think about it.
However she wanted to be more
careful with the person she was
going to be dating, she didn’t want history to repeat itself
in another
form.
She dug a bit digger and discovered
that Mr Leon was married with a kid.
She quickly accepted his proposal
and he was very happy, however he refused to take her to
his house
when she had insisted on seeing his
house.
He said his father was home and it
would be disrespectful to take her
there. On her own, Cathy found his address
and decided to visit him on a
weekend.
She reached his house and knocked
and the door was opened by a
beautiful young Lady, almost her age. “Hello” she greeted
“Hai” answered Cathy. “I m looking
for Mrs Leon”
“I am Mrs Leon” she answered
She had not expected her to be so
young and beautiful. “Alright, I am Cathy and I would like
to talk to you concerning your
husband” she said. “Is he in? ”
“Yes please come in”
The house was beautifully furnished
inside. She was directed where to sit and
Mrs Leon went to call her husband.
He froze when he saw Cathy
“Miss Catherine, how are you doing?
” he said formally
“Fine sir, I have come to visit you” she said crossing her
legs.
“Well ahh thats great, ahh well, honey
get the visitor something to drink” he
said trying to get rid of her presence
so that he could quickly find out
Cathy’s intentions. “Oh no, am not thirst” said Cathy
quickly knowing his intentions.
Mrs Leon smiled because she didn’t
want to miss a bit of the event.
“Ahh Mr Leon, so you are married? ”
said Cathy “Hmmm yes, I was going to tell you
that” he answered indistinctly.
“Anyways I didn’t come for you, I
have come to your wife to let her
know the kind of cheat she is married
to” And thats how she spilt the beans.
She told her how her husband was
proposing to her and promising her
marriage.
After saying all that she wanted to ,
she said her goodbyes and left. Mrs Leon had not said a
word,
neither did Mr Leon
“Foolish man, you think am a fool to
fall into your filthy hands” she said to
herself as she left the yard
She was happy that she had set Mr Leon’s house on fire,
that was going
to teach him a lesson. Foolish man.
“I will do this to every man who
comes to me. Married or dating”
The following day which was sunday,
Cathy was woken up by a call from Alfred.
“Why are you calling me so early in
the morning? ” she asked sleepily
“Its Jane, I think its time” he said
with so much panick in his voice.
“Alright calm down, I ll be there just now”
Jane had not invited any of her
family member to nurse her and her
pregnancy, Cathy had assured her
that she would take very good care
of her till she gave birth and she had kept her word.
She had been very helpful to them.
Being an upcoming midwife, Cathy
had given Jane all the Dos and
Don’ts of a pregnant woman.
One of them was not to take any traditional roots or
leaves or any
herbs and Thats why she didn’t ask
her mother to stay with her
Jane just looked for a maid to be
doing her chores.
Cathy packed a few things, changed into uniform and
started off.
“Now is the time” she kept telling
herself.
What a coincidence, she had wished
that Jane should deliver on a
weekend when most workers would not be at work.
The time to take the move was finally
at hand.
When the idea first crossed her mind,
she had laughed at herself for having
such an imaginative brain. It had seemed so impossible
and
now it was clear, crystal clear.
She went to Alfred’s house and they
booked a taxi to take them to the
hoosital.
Cathy’s heart started thumping, she was wondering
whether to carry on
with the plan or not
“Foolish Cathy, this is the only
opportunity you have, how can you
forget so fast? ” a voice in her head
rebuked her “It must have been you, its you who
was supposed to be carrying his
pregnancy” she thought as she
wheeled Jane to the maternity ward.
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Chapter 26
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“So which hospital have you chosen”
Kay asked Cathy during lunch “What do you mean” she
asked with
a spoonful of rice
“Silly, swallow first then you speak”
said Kay
“Alright, I have swallowed, now tell
me” she said “Didn’t you receive the letter?”
“Which letter” asked Cathy shocked
“And you think you are still a Student
here? Ahh then you are the only one
who didn’t receive”
She said and stood up to go and brush her teeth
“Sit down here and tell me what
those letters are for” demanded
Cathy as she forced her down on the
bed
“Okey, second and third years go for attachments for six
months and
letters were sent to everyone who
passed the exams . So upon opening,
people were submitting their
hospitals of choice to the registry”
In the afternoon Cathy went to the registry office to find
out why she
had not received the letter.
She found a qeueu of people going
for the same and she felt comforted.
When it was her turn she was just
given a form to fill in where she indicated her hospital of
choice.
“I wonder why we had to waste our
money for transport coming to school
when there isn’t anything serious
happening” complained Cathy
“We came to submit the names of our hospitals of choice,
so it was
necessary” answered Kay.
Three weeks later, Cathy was on her
way home thinking about what she
was going to do to Alfred and Jane.
Thinking of the best way to hurt them as much as they hurt
her.
There were so many options to take,
she could pay some people to rape
Jane, she could organise people to
rob Alfred, she could give Jane
something that could lead to an abortion.
Or she could just get back with Alfred
and be a step mother.
She shifted comfortably at the
thought.
Alfred still loved her, he had told her so and he had made
every effort to
apologise to her but she wasn’t
willing to forgive him.
All these choices seemed quete hard
but achievable.
Tom had advised her to refrain from taking revenge
because revenge
belongs to God alone
She missed Alfred so much.
She reached home and it was exactly
the same way she had left it except
for the pile of dust that had collected on the veranda and
the window sills.
She opened the door and turned on
the lights.
How happy she would be if her
mother just popped up and gave her
a hug and tell her how much she had missed her.
But she was all alone. The house
was dead quete.
She entered her mother’s bedroom
and it was just the way she had left
it, she touched the pale scratch on the wall and the secret
wardrobe
opened, there lay the diary which she
had brought back and the other old
book.
She got the old book and went to her
bedroom. She had no appetite to eat anything,
so she decided to sleep.
On her mind was Alfred, she would
meet him and talk about it, it wasn’t a
big deal, they would let Jane have
the baby and then they can keep it afterwards. She wasn’t
going to be
the first step mother n the world.
What mattered was Alfred’s love.
The following day she tidied up the
house and later in the afternoon went
to Alfred’s house. When Alfred saw her ,he couldn’t
believe it.
She had lost a few Kgs but she
looked even more gorgeous.
However he was grasped by so much
fear, there was terror in his eyes But Cathy could feel that
he was
looking admirably at her, she knew
the battle was over
She had deliberately worn the dress
that Alfred had bought her for her
birthday. The curves were more clearer in that
slim body and Alfred could not help
admiring
“Ahh hi?” He said in a trembling
voice reading each expression on her
face. She smiled and said a hello. He
knew that it was a peaceful visit and
moved towards her
” I wasn’t expecting you , oh Cathy I
can’t believe am seeing you, aren’t
you supposed to be at school?” He said hugging her
tightly.
She had missed that embrace so
much and being in his chest felt so
much at home.
“I came back, we are doing
attachments” she said “Wow I really can’t believe am
seeing
you, we never really talked, you just
disappeared, your phones were off
and your house was always locked.”
He said
“Yes I know and I shouldn’t have done that, it’s just that I
didn’t know
what to do”
Alfred could not believe it
“So you mean we are cool? No
grudges?”
“No grudges” she answered. Alfred hugged her again he
whispered
“I missed you so much, I thought I
would never ever see you, and my life
has been miserable” he said sadly
“Well you don’t have to worry” she told him “everything
can be sorted
out, nomatter how big a problem is”
“Am so happy to hear that” he said
joyfully.
“Aren’t we going inside?” She asked
“Ahh well, why don’t we go somewhere nice and celebrate
our
reunion?”
Cathy agreed and just as they were
about to leave, someone cleared their
throat behind them.
Cathy thought it was Alfred’s mother so she quickly
moved away from
Alfred
“Hey Cathy” it was a voice that she
very well knew ,she turned and
despite recognizing the voice, she
was too shocked to see Jane. “Hey Jane,” she said rage
highly
suppressed almost leaking out
Her belly was so big and she wore a
maternity dress,
“Where are you taking my husband?”
She asked as she smiled slyly Cathy’s heart missed some
beats.
Were they married? Her blood had
become so hot but she had felt that
way several times, it wasn’t new,so
she breathed in heavily and smiled.
” Well he is just escorting me , I came to see you but I
thought you
were sleeping, so I decided to come
and see you some other time” she
lied.
“Oh great, come in then” she invited
her. She turned and walked towards her
and put her ear on her belly
“Little baby can you hear me?”
She stood upright and asked if she
knew the sex of the baby
“No but am hoping its a boy” said Jane
“Oh really? Ahhh how lovely junior
Alfred” she said
“Jane, I missed you so much, you
are the only relative am left with in
this world” she said and she hugged her
“Am sorry for everything Cathy,
please forgive me” said Jane
Alfred was watching from a distance.
He had expected a third world war
but Cathy had acted so mature, he was very impressed
but he feared
that he was going to loose her.
Jane invited her in the house and
served her some snacks.
They chatted and talked about old
times and and their laughter echoed through the walls of
the house.
When it was evening ,Cathy said her
goodbyes and went back home.
“Well I have to go now, if you were
still unmarried ,I would spend the
night with you and talk about everything.” Said Cathy.
Jane gave her a warm hug. Cathy
had missed that hug too
On her way to the bus station Alfred
escorted her
“I admire you girls’ friendship, you had such a great day
“Yes we did, I love Jane like my own
sister, nomatter what she does to me,
I always have to forgive her”
“You are a woman and half Cathy” he
said She could hear the tone of regrecy in
his words.
“Am just surprised that you got
married and I had no idea, ” she said
“Am really sorry but her parents
dumped her at my house and I just want the baby” he said
Soon Cathy was home, she made
herself a cup of hot coffee.
“Our parents arranged our marriage
and we had little say over it” Cathy
recalled what Jane had told her. “Adults ,and you allow
parents to
make decisions for you” she said
throwing a glass cup to the floor
She opened the old book and found
that it was her father’s diary.
He had written about his love for Cathy’s mother, he had
given the
details of how much he loved her.
He had explained about how much
he loved Melody his sister.
Then he explained how much he
loved Cathy. It was as if he had planned how
Cathy’s life should be. He loved her
more than the two most beautiful and
valuable women in his life and he
had pledged to make Cathy’s life as
peaceful as possible. “Such love” said Cathy closing the
book “very pure and true ”
If her dad was still alive, she would
be the princess he had meant for her
to become.
She slept with her father’s diary on her chest.
The following day she went to report
for work.
She was welcomed well.
When she came back home she
called Jane and they had a long conversation which was
filled with
laughter and chuckles.
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“Lucy well, would you like a private
talk?” Asked Alfred sweating “Oh now you want to talk
huh,you
want to talk now” she said furiously
“Who are these people anyways ,this
one I recognise” she said pointing at
Jane “you must be Jane,am Lucy”
“Alfred you must have heard about the death of Isabelle, I
never saw you
at the burial” she said looking at
Jane
“If you had come to help at that
critical hour, she was going to live”
she said furiously “Wait is Isabelle dead?” Asked Cathy
shocked ,”what happened?”
“Well she got pregnant for this man
called Alfred but he forced her to
abort it and she died in the process”
“What?!” exclaimed Cathy. “Baby is that true? You
impregnated her and
you really forced her to abort?”
“Ohh you must be Cathy” said Lucy
“No baby it’s not like that, she
trapped me, she did it to herself,
she,,,,” “But you told me that you only dated
her for a week, did you sleep with
her in that week?”
“What week? They broke up when
you came into the picture but they
continued when you went to school” said Lucy
“I can’t believe this” said Cathy
“Honey is it true? You told me the
night you got drunk that Isabelle had
framed you but that you didn’t sleep
with her” “I didnt sleep with her” he answered
“Then how the hell did she get
pregnant for you?”
“It wasnt my pregnancy” he said
rudely
“Well your so called boyfriend has been extremely
unfaithful to you dear
Cathy, has he told you that he has
impregnated your friend, you seem
blank about a lot of things” said Lucy
haughtily
“What,,,,what,,, what are you saying?” She asked
Her whole body was now on fire,
Lucy handed her a brown envelope.
Inside were photos of Alfred at the
hotel with Jane, drinking beer,
leaving the bar, entering the guest house, standing at the
counter, going
to their room hand in hand,
undressing, naked on the bed and
then the real act.
“Just there there is a disc, of the
whole act” she said Cathy dropped the envelope and sat
down. She was telling herself to calm
down but everything on her was
boiling
“Alfred is this true?”
“No honey, I can explain, I was going to tell you how
everything happened”
“Jane did you do this?”
“Cathy just calm down and we can
give you the details of what
happened.” She said
Cathy got the envelope and rushed home, she needed to
be as alone as
possible.
She locked herself inside the house.
There was only one thought on her
mind ,to commit suicide.
She searched the house for anything that could easily kill
her but there
was nothing.
“Mum please where did you put the
poison?” She searched going through
her drawers.
Finally she found some pills in a paper
“Oh thank God” she said rushing to
the kitchen to get water
“I hope they are enough to kill” she
told herself
She sat in the kitchen crying quietly Alfred looked fiercely
at Lucy and
said “did you see that? Did you have
to give me your package Infront of
her?” He roared.
“You destroyed Isabelle, you ended
her life, she was doing you a favour by aborting that child
but you
couldn’t come to her rescue?” She
answered angrily
“It wasn’t my business, your friend
was a fool and very stupid. However I
was very willing to help her but my battery phone went off
and when I
went to ask for my friend’s phone,her
phone was already off” he said
“Oh so you were willing to help her,
and you expect me to believe that
huh? You are a wicked man” “If you don’t leave my house
right
now, am going to beat you to death”
he growled
Lucy looked at him and he looked
beastly. She decided to leave.
“Wait, tell me the truth about what happened between me
and Jane at
the guest house” he said
“I don’t know anything” she
answered sharply ,walking away
quickly but Alfred ran after her and
pulled her back. “Am not a fool, you have the photos
and videos of what happened, you
must have been there, it was
planned.”
He pulled her inside the house and
Jane entered too. “It’s either you tell me the truth and I
let you go, or I rape you right now
and kill you if I manage” he said and
he seemed to mean it.
He got her phone and threw it to the
floor. The screen broke “Nooo my phone” she cried. She
had
worked so hard to raise money to
buy that phone, she had sacrificed
her lunch and transport allowances
to raise money to buy it.
“I will destroy you the same way I have destroyed your
phone.”he said
“Alright Isabelle planned it all” said
Lucy. She told them everything that
had happened and it made sense.
“That’s why I think and hope that
your friend is rotting in hell. she has caused us so much
pain and trouble”
Alfred let her go.
He left home immediately.
Cathy was in the kitchen filling a cup
with water
Just then there was a knock at the door. She slithered to
the door and
peeped through the key hole and saw
Alfred at the door
“Fool” she cursed under her breath
and went back to her bedroom. With
the cup of water. She sat on the bed and continiued
crying.
“I ve been a fool, a very big fool. And
all this time I had no idea Alfred
would do that to me. Jane has been
like my sister, why would she do that?”
There was a knock on the window to
her bedroom but she kept silent.
“Where could she be then?” He said
moving away from the window
He needed to explain everything that had happened. That
he had
deliberately but stupidly slept with
Isabelle not out of love but to take
revenge and that Isabelle had
deliberately gotten herself pregnant.
And Jane,,,,,, he was very confused. However he had hope
that Cathy
would understand after explaining the
photos, with the newly found
information.
Cathy threw the pills in her mouth
and grabbed the cup of water with a frown on her face.
She raised the cup to her mouth and
spit the pills in the water.
“Very bitter” she mumbled.
“I can’t kill myself. I have to crush
them to pieces before I leave, am not as stupid as they
think. I will show
them”
She got her mother’s diary and read
what she had earlier read.
“I wont take the path you took mum
but I will have to follow some of your steps.”
The following week ,the attempt by
Alfred and Jane to talk or see Cathy
was in vain.
She always shut herself in the house
and her phone was constantly off. She never opened the
door
,everything was in the house and
having no friends at all, she opted to
simply stay indoors until their
university opened.
Time moved slowly but finallyit was opening time
She went to school and reunited with
her friends Tom and Kate, she told
them about Alfred and Jane, they
sympathized with her but she
seemed to have gotten over it. A new life, new start and
new
everything
.
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Chapter 24
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Cathy turned off all the lights in the
house except in the bedroom “Mum was poisoned,how is
it that
she wrote the truth about her death”
she said trembling
The book had quite a few written
pages. She begun to read the truth
about her father’s death which was on the first page.
‘My dear Cathy you must be old
enough to read this. Read everything
to the end.
Your father and I were real love birds.
Your father was the most handsome and romantic and
responsible man I
ever met.
My marriage was filled with so much
happiness and joy.
We had you and we were exceedingly
happy but when you were just five everything took a turn.
I had gone for a workshop and there
was a man who had ignored the fact
that I was married.
He pursued me for sometime and I
pushed him away. But at the workshop, he put some
drugs in my drink at dinner as we
were from the same section.
He then walked me to his hotel room
where he had sex with me, then when
I was almost gaining conscious he took me back to my
room.
I woke up and I felt wrong and
uncomfortable but I couldn’t figure
out what it was.
A week later I found your father
hanging on a rope right in our living room.
There was a brown envelope on the
table containing pictures of me and
the man in bed.
Unfortunately for me, Melody had
gone to visit us and we arrived almost at the same time.
In the letter
he explained that he couldn’t bear
the pain of seeing his wife with
another man.
He blamed himself for my actions
and apologised and told me to tear the photos so that no
one from his
family should see them.
But Melody had seen them first and
that’s how the hatred was brewed up
between us.
It pains me alot that he died without knowing the truth,
that that man had
drugged me and took pictures just to
end my marriage and disappeared,
that’s how wicked he was. I hope he
suffers terribly for that act.’
Cathy closed the book and fell on the bed. She related to
how Alfred had
been set up by Isabelle .
Some people could really be
heartless.
She was suddenly filled with so
much rage,if only she knew him ,she would kill him with
her own bare
hands, she would strangle him.
She read the next which bore the
title, the truth about Melody’s death
‘Sweetheart, Melody had been a pain
in my flesh, she still believed that I was
responsible for my husband’s death.
I explained everything but she put
the blame on me and attempted to
tell you her own version of the story
so that you could turn against me. I loved your father, I
really did.
Melody had started frequenting this
place in attempt to tell you how she
thinks your father died,
but what I have told you just now is
the Truth. I had to stop her from poisoning your
mind, I warned her several times to
stay away from us.
One day while you were gone to
school, she came.
She called you and put on loud speaker, she wanted me
to hear how
you were going to tear me with
words,
she seemed to enjoy it, I told her
that I will tell you the truth about
your father at the right time but she was in such a hurry to
let it all out.
Fortunately your phone was off.
So I got a pan, crawling behind her, I
hit her on the head .
She fell and I hit her even more.
I raised her up and took her to the vehicle.
In the night I drove to the river and
disposed off her body.
She was still breathing at the time
but after drowning her, she finally
died. She deserved it, nothing will separate
you from me.”
Cathy placed the book on her chest.
She couldn’t believe that her own
mother was capable of killing.
She had known her to be very calm with everything under
control. How
had she lost it and ended up
murdering her sister in-law.
Her eyes were becoming waterly but
she held back the tears.
She had mourned her mother so much and she couldn’t
start crying
again.
“The truth about my death, a few
people will expect my death and a
few others will not.
My life has become empty , it has no purpose anymore. I
still miss your
father so much. I regret killing
Melody.
My nights are full of evil dreams and
thoughts and night mares.
Am scared to live. You are the only reason I live but you
have now found your future and I can
safely say goodbye my baby.
Am not selfish, am just tormented
day and night. I cant take it anymore.
Look after yourself and don’t cry too much.
Am very much ready for my death, let
me go and rest. This world is
nolonger my home. I love you very
much my baby”
“She killed herself” exclaimed Cathy “she poisoned
herself”
She wept for hours. She had no
relative or parent or sibling.
She was alone with only Alfred and
Jane by her side.
The following day she went to visit Alfred, she had missed
him so much
and she wanted to share the newly
discovered secrets with him so that
he could comfort her.
“You dont look very fine baby, but
you still look beautiful” he said lifting her
“Put me down ” she gigled “oh my
God Alfred, I will fall”
He took her to the living room and
put her on the sofa
“Can you agree to be a step mother? If my ex came with a
child and said I
was responsible ,will you still be with
me?” He asked laughing
“What kind of question is that, is your
ex pregnant?”
“Nope just asking. Okey my point is, if I had a child
somewhere would you
gladly accept it and continue with
me?” He asked more serious
“No I wouldn’t” she snapped
“Ahh baby why?”
“Because I can’t be a step mother” “Sweety what matters
is our love”
Cathy burst into laughter
“I wish you could hear how yu
sound. Is there something you are
trying to tell me?”
“Ofcoures not” he answered quickly wondering if he had
lost his only
chance to tell her the truth.
Just then there was a knock.
“Ooh an appointment? ” she asked
“Not any that I remember, let me go
and see who it is” he said and stood quickly praying that
Cathy doesn’t
follow him
He opened the door and there stood
Jane
“What are you doing here?” He
hissed “Am here to see you” she answered
plainly
“For what? Cathy is here” he
whispered
” Hey Jane, you are here, hmmm
what a surprise” said Cathy behind Alfred ” what are you
guys talking
about here”
“Ahh well baby,its ah,,,,,Jane here
wants to take you out but am not
gonna let her do that” he said quickly
“Yes Cathy, you ve been spending too much time with
Alfred, what
about me, me and the baby need
you” she said
Cathy walked to where Jane stood
and put her ear against the belly
“Ooh the baby is saying hello to me, I really can’t wait to
be an aunt.”
“Yes i cant wait to be a mum too.
Cathy excuse us a bit,me and Alfred
have something to talk about, we
have to decide who is spending this
night with you” she said. “What? are you guys going to be
fighting for my custody, oh am so
honored but I choose Jane” she said
and everyone grinned.
“On a serious note Cathy, give us
some time” said Jane “Alright go ahead” she said going
back to the living room
“What do you think you are doing,you
are driving me crazy” said Alfred
“I can see you are having a good
time with her, I think it’s time she knew the truth, the
earlier the better,
” she said
“No Jane, I will tell her, just keep out
of this?”
” Really? So how do I stay out of it
when am also involved, do you think am proud to carry a
child whose
father I don’t love? Listen I know you
love her and am okey with it, but you
have to be responsible enough to
look after me and the baby, I stay
alone and it’s dangerous with my condition.”
“What are you trying to say?” He
asked angrily
“That you have to be spending nights
at my house, am pregnant you know”
“You refused to terminate it, it’s not my fault, you wanted
it, I think you ve
been jealous of my relationship.
Listen, am not going to spend any
single night with you. You caused
this on yourself”
She slapped him hard on the face “You are a fool, you
raped me and
now you have the gut to say all that?
I refused to abort not because I love
you but because I care for my health”
she whispered angrily
Cathy rushed to see what was happening.
“What’s happening here?” She asked
but they both looked away
She was sure they were discussing
something much more serious than
arguing over who should host Cathy in the night.
While Jane and Alfred were still
thinking of the excuse to give, a lady
approached the house and found all
the three outside.
“Am Lucy,late Isabelle’s friend and am here for you
Alfred” she
introduced herself to them
” How do you know me?” Asked
Alfred puzzled
.
To Be Continued Tomorrow ....kindly comment guys

THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 23
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Cathy was very excited about going
home. Kate too was happy.
The one year had seemed longer than
it was supposed to be.
The last days had been hectic, their
final exams were harder than the mid
year exams,but that mattered less,everyone was happy
that finally
they could be with their families.
Tom had done his farewells the
previous night but he still went that
morning to see her off.
She board a bus that was leaving at 07 am.
Cathy sat by the window wondering
what her mother had kept for her.
She had told her that there was a
hidden wardrobe in her bedroom
which was in the wall. It had been designed by both her
parents for
keeping secret documents and
writings.
Cathy’s mother told her that she was
old enough to read some of the
secrets of the family. Cathy was nervous as well as
anxious. She felt she knew
everything about the family, were
there some secrets? Or maybe they
were just ordinary books and diaries
and papers. After greeting her mother, she would
go and look at the secret wardrobe in
the house,she had planned
She had called her mother that
morning bt her phone was off. She
had promised to pick her from the station, she couldn’t
wait to see her
daughter as much as Cathy couldn’t
wait to see her .
She thought about Alfred and Jane,
how happy she would be when she
finally meets them, she had called them earlier and they
had not
sounded as happy but she knew how
happy they were inside.
She knew they pretended not to be
overly excited by her coming
meanwhile they were as happy as she was.
After 8 hours of bumps ,the bus
finally reached its destination.
Everyone got off and Cathy moved
her luggage to a shelter where they
sold tickets and begun zooming the crowd to locate her
mother. She
looked from every direction but her
mother was nowhere to be seen.
After sometime, she decided to book
a taxi to take her home,her temper
was rising, why would her mother promise to pick her and
then later
switch off the phone.
Just then ,two police officers in
uniform approached her. She
watched them move towards her
talking to each other. “Are you here to arrest me for
standing here for too long ?” She
asked as they stopped where she
had stood.
“No miss” said one of them with a
grin “We just want you to accompany us
to your house”
“Is anything the matter?”
The two policemen exchanged looks
and shook their heads. The first
thought that crossed her mind was that the police had
discovered the
secret wardrobe and had found the
secrets which made them put her
mother in a cell
“Do you know where mum is” she
asked but they didn’t respond. ‘well whatever,as long as
am getting
a free ride and if mum is fine then we
are cool ‘ she thought to herself but
that didnt drive the fear out of her,
alot of crazy thoughts crossed her
mind. They drove silently to her house.
She couldn’t believe her eyes, the
house was surrounded with a yellow
tape.
“What’s happening here?” She said
opening the door of the car but the doors were locked
“Can you unlock the doors” she
shouted furiously
“Miss there is some information that
we would like you to know and some
that we want to get from you ” answered the police officer
who was
driving.
“What for? What’s this ,what’s
happening? Where is my mother”
“When was the last time you talked
to her?” He asked ignoring her questions
“Just tell me where my mother is ”
she said
“If you don’t want to speak then we
are afraid we can’t tell you the state
in which your mother is” “Is she ill”
But the police officer didn’t answer.
“Alright I spoke to her last
night,since then her phone has been
off” she said
“What were you talking About” he asked
Cathy blinked a million times in a
minute, they had talked in details
about the secret wardrobe and there
is no way she was going to disclose
its existence “Well just what a mother would talk
about with her daughter” she said
“Don’t lie and just say the truth”
“Alright, she was telling me about
how much she loves me”
“Does she always tell you that?” “Yes she does but
yesterday she
emphasized so much on it”
The police officers sighed.
“Well maybe that can explain it, we
couldn’t find any clue”
“What clue?” She asked “why don’t you just say what it is
instead of
keeping me in suspense like this?”
“Well we are sorry to tell you this,but
the case is still under investigation.
Your mother was found dead this
morning, most likely it was death by poison. Its either she
took the poison
or someone else did put in her food”
Cathy’s head was spinning very fast
and she was caught in a whirlwind
and she was swirling so fast,
eventually she couldn’t see anything and everything went
blank. Everything
became dark and she could feel her
heart gradually stop beating.
Alfred was aware of Cathy’s coming
but she had not called him and yet it
was almost getting dark. She had not responded to any of
his calls or
messages and he begun to be filled
with fear, what if she had finally
found out the truth about him and
Jane and had decided to do away
with him without even waiting for his explanation?
He decided to go to her house and
he was told by the police that she
had been admitted in the hospital but
no visitor was allowed to visit her.
Alfred felt a relief but he was annoyed by the fact that
Cathy had
lost her mother but he was not
allowed to go and console her.
Cathy woke up in the middle of the
night, she squinted and she saw a
police woman sitting by her side. She smiled when she
saw her awake.
“Where am I” she asked looking
around the room
“Hospital” she told her
“Doing what” she asked
“Well you were brought here after collapsing”
“I did? Why? And where is my mom?”
Upon saying that,the earlier events
flooded her head and she
remembered what the police officers
had told her “Is it true? Is she really dead? My
mother”
The police woman looked at her
sorrowfully and immediately she was
caught in a whirlwind again and she
collapsed again. She went to call a nurse.
The whole night Alfred could think of
nothing but Cathy. He still loved her
so much and he couldn’t imagine the
betrayal look she would wear when
she would find out about Jane. The following morning he
went to the
hospital and he found Cathy in the
blankets.
“Baby” he said holding her hand
“Honey” she answered lazily tears
coming from the corners of her eyes “Don’t cry,am here
for you” he said
and she smiled.
Later in the evening,she was
discharged and allowed to go home.
There were quite alot of people in
black,most of which she didn’t know, maybe her mother’s
workmates.
A few who knew her greeted her and
the others looked at her
sympathetically giving their
condolences.
“She was almost going crazy” said one woman
“She was drowning in her sorrows
until they consumed her completely”
said another
“She didn’t think about her
daughter,did she” “She is selfish”
All these were said in whispers
,Cathy could pick a few words from
their comments and she felt a sword
cut through her heart. How could
they say such things about her mother
“Take me to your house” she told
Alfred
“I think you should be here, all these
people are here to comfort you” he
said “No they are not,are you taking me or
not? ”
At Alfred’s house,he made a cup of
hot coffee for her and she wept and
cried and he consoled her.
She slept in his arms and he could feel her pain. He
watched her fall
asleep after giving her a goodnight
kiss.
“You are all I have now” she told him
She was so pretty even in sleep. She
had not changed much, the eye brows were curved the
same way,
her cheeks chubby as always and
her hair thick. Her skin very spotless
and he seemed not tired of touching
it.
“My wife to be” he said and she shifted in her sleep. He
kissed her
on the forehead.
She woke up in the middle of the
night wrapped in his arms.
“I missed this so much” she said and
he looked at her with a smile “You are not sleeping?” She
asked
“How could I when I had not finished
watching my girl whom I haven’t
seen in a long time”
They talked about how they missed
each other and how they had patiently waited for each
other.
“Nothing should ever come between
us, please promise me that you will
never leave me nomatter what. Am
nothing without you baby and my life
would be so miserable without you. If anything comes in
between us,lets
stand together and stick to each
other” he said
“You know I love you sweety, and I
can’t allow anything come in-
between us. Even If you say you don’t want me anymore, I
won’t let
go” she answered and Alfred felt very
happy and relieved. He was going to
fight for the love of his life.
The mourning period was over and
Jane had visited Cathy a few times. It was confirmed at
the hospital that
Cathy’s mother had been poisoned.
The police had looked for any
information that could help identify
who had poisoned her but there was
none. The murderer must have had been very smart in
killing her.
Cathy could not think of anyone that
would murder her mother. The pain
became so intense knowing that her
mother’s murder was somewhere
celebrating. Alfred, was her strong arm.
Alfred took her to places just to make
her forget about her late mother, but
memories of her always crept in her
head in the night. Alfred always
accompanied her. They had been given a festive two
week break at
work and he dedicated his time to
being with Cathy.
Jane went to visit her again a week
after the burial. It was then that Cathy
noticed that she was pregnant. “My oh my, what am I
seeing
here,am I becoming an aunt already”
she teased running her hand on
Jane’s belly
“Seems so” said Jane
“Wow so stanely is fertile after all,finally he broke the no
sex policy,
you had to make him break it didn’t
you? And when is the wedding if I
may ask, the child needs to be raised
by both parents”
“Well that’s true but this is not Stanely’s child” she said
“What? Did you guys break up? Don’t
tell me it’s because of the policy”
“Ofcoures not” she said in a more
serious tone. “The father is someone
you know very well. You will know him at the right time
and we are
getting married. Our parents have
already arranged everything” she said
“Eeeeew look at you friend,am so
happy for you” she said hugging her
“you are always followed by good luck, you are already
working and
now you are about to have a child
and then get married. You are lucky
girl” she said to which Jane said
nothing .
When she had left for home, she went to her mother’s
bedroom in
search of the secret wardrobe. She
removed the wall curtains but there
was no single sign of a wardrobe.
She searched through the wall and
there was nothing. She sat on the bed frustrated,the
secret wardrobe could help answer
the many questions that had
developed in her head. She searched
and moved every little thing on the
wall but there was no sign of a wardrobe. She gave up
and decided
that her mother had given her wrong
directions and a wrong room.
She did a quick search of the walls
of the house but there was nothing
Alfred came to visit her in the evening and she told him
about
Jane’s pregnancy and preparations to
get married
“Does she look happy about getting
married?” Asked Alfred
“Yeah I think so but then there was some elements of
superiority and
pride as she told me about it.
Anyways she is pregnant and we
expect mood swings in that state”
she said
“Any idea who is marrying her,? Am dying to know who
the owner of the
pregnancy is” she said
“Well baby,am sure she will tell you
at the right time,just as she told you”
A week later the preparations for
Christmas celebrations begun. Alfred was committed
somewhere so he
failed to spend the night at her
house.
She decided to clean her mother’s
bedroom. She swept the room and
mopped the floor and fixed her clothes neatly. She dusted
the wall
and there was a slight pale patch
near the bed.
She tried to remove it and there it
was, the wall seperated into two and
there was the wardrobe. She quickly opened it ,there
wasnt as many
things as she had hoped. There was
just an old looking book with
supposedly some missing pages in
it. At the bottom of the wardrobe was
a small book. She picked it and went through the pages.
She stood still with he book in her
hands. The title on the first page
read;
” the truth about what happened at
the hotel” the next one read;
“the truth about your father’s death”
the other one read;
“the truth about Melody’s death”
And the other:
“the truth about my death” Cathy held the diary in her
hands
petrified
It was her mother’s ‘s handwriting
Each title bore a date in the right
corner of the page.
Cathy got the book and closed the wardrobe. She touched
the patched
wall and he wardrobe disappeared.
She rushed to her bedroom and
switched off her phone.
She didn’t want any disturbances,
she wanted to find out the truth about everything. Her
questions
could maybe be answered in the
book
.
To Be Continued

Chapter 22
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Catherine knocked on the door but
there was no response. She pushed open the door but it
was locked. She
knocked harder and finally the door
handle was moving up and down.
“You may enter” said a guy with
swollen bloodshot eyes.
She entered and her eyes swept the entire room in a
glance, there was
Tom’s roommate on the bed and two
little boys at the far end with a much
older girl in the middle.
The guy who had opened for Cathy
directed her to sit. “Where are other people?” She asked
sobbing
“They are all at the hospital. They
took the body to the mortuary.”
Catherine burst into tears.
No one consoled her, everyone was weeping and their
eyes were red.
After sometime the guy who had
gone to call Cathy entered.
The room was dead quet.
“The letter” said Cathy
He went to the other side of the room, separated by a
curtain and
came back with a Small brown
envelope with the writing ‘dear
Catherine’.
It was Tom’s hand writing. She
quickly opened it, wiping the corner of her eye with the
sleeve of her
blouse
” I know I shouldn’t have done this
but my life has become worthless.
My life has never been the same
since you ended our friendship. I live like a zombie, I was
fine with you
being with another man but ending
our friendship killed my inner self. I
have lost concentration in class and
if I continued living I would simply
disappoint my family by failing. Yours best Friend Tom.I
never slept
with Leah and I didn’t use her
because all the time I was with her, I
felt something strong for her. NB
don’t show this letter to anyone. Tear
it as soon as possible.” Cathy held the letter motionless.
She
read it again and her vision was
becoming blurred. It was too hard to
believe it, even as she was rushing
to his room, she had hoped that his
friends were tricking her. She wailed even louder not
minding
the people in other rooms
There was another knock on the door
and the guy who had opened for
Cathy walked to the door and opened
it. “Since when did you start locking the
door” complained a voice that Cathy
suspected was for Tom.
“Shhhhh keep quet and go back” said
the guy
“Why? Let me in” he said pushing his way ” oh did you
bring a girl, this
time”
Tom entered the room and was
astonished by the scene, little
children crying, everyone sobbing
with swollen eyes “What’s this, what’s happening here?”
He asked.
Cathy screamed and moved to the
wall as if to escape through it.
“You you you are dead Tom” she
said pointing at him and cautioning him not to come near
Alfred was about to take a nap when
he received a call. It was from Kelvin
asking him to meet them at Safaris.
He reluctantly woke up and put on a
Jean and a short sleeved shirt. “Am not in the mood of
drinking, will
just watch them” he muttered to
himself
In Less than 30 minutes,he was with
the bachelors.
They looked as gloomy as Kelvin had sounded on the
phone.
“What’s the matter yoh” he said
trying to lighten the mood. “Don’t tell
me you were waiting for me to buy
you swallows because I haven’t come
with any cash” “Sit down man, is it that you are
happy about the news or you haven’t
heard about it at all ?” Said Kelvin
“What are you talking about” asked
Alfred.
The two bachelors exchanged looks and Frank whispered
“I told you he hasn’t heard about it”
“Heard about what?” asked Alfred
“”Sit first” said Kelvin. He sat down,
angry that they were taking time to
tell him “You remember yesterday” said Frank
“Yesterday what? Just say it man,
you are making me nervous.”
“Okey your friend is dead” said Kelvin
“Which friend? You are both here and
well” he said “Isabelle” said Frank “It turns out
that the call was genuine. She was
trying to abort and she lost her life in
the process”
Alfred’s face went cold. He couldn’t
feel his face anymore, it was as if it had turned into ice. It
had become
stony and he could feel the wind
blow hard against it , making it even
colder .
He looked at the two men and they
looked sad. He knew they weren’t lying.
“It’s my fault,i should have helped”
he said with great regret
“I don’t think it’s your fault, I doubt if
you were even going to find her
because they had gone to some place away from town”
said Frank
“Tom how are you here, did you plan
all this, to make a fool of me?” Said
Cathy angrily
“What are you talking about, I don’t
know anything about what’s going on here, that’s why I
need an
explanation.” he said.
The two roommates calmed them and
explained to them why they had
decided to do such a thing.
“Tom you are dead” said the first guy “No am not” he
answered
“Yes you are. You are very dead,
actually you ve been dead for
sometime now”
Tom and Cathy couldn’t understand
until he explained about how Tom’s performance was
going down in tests
and assignments just because Cathy
had ended their friendship.
For sometime he was getting very
low grades and on several occasions
his lecturers had called him to ask what was affecting his
studies but he
lied about it and said it was some
family problems.
Cathy was very surprised to know
that the end of their friendship had
affected her friend in that way. So the guys wanted to
know if Cathy
still cared about Tom, hence they put
their plan into action when Tom
decided to go home for a night.
They had hired the street kids to
come to mourn so that it could be very convincing to
Cathy, and forged
Tom’s handwriting to write Cathy a
letter.
Tom felt embarrassed to admit that
his school work was declining but he
didn’t try to deny it. Cathy rose from where she had sat
and hugged Tom.
She apologised for not believing him
and for taking Leah’s word over his.
“How about a movie at 7 pm” she
asked “”It’s great” he answered.
She thanked his roommates for
reviving their friendship and Tom’s
smile said all the words .
The two guys remained laughing at
their skill. They paid the children and let them go.
” It had to take you my death to know
how valuable our friendship is” said
Tom and Cathy gigled.
Throughout the afternoon Alfred was
thinking about Isabelle and how she had died. What a
poor finishing.
He recalled the last time he had seen
her, she looked pale and old. Poor
Isabelle,killed by his pregnancy and
not rescuing her.
“Maybe I could have saved her life if I had listened to
what Lucy was
telling me.”
The night was the worst nightmare,
Isabelle appeared in his dreams,
carrying the baby and covered in
blood. He woke up with heavy drops of
sweat.
He slept again and this time Isabelle
came with a knife to kill him, she cut
his throat and as he shouted, he
woke up in scream. He decided to remain awake till dawn
but he fell asleep again. She
appeared and her body colour was
bloody red and her eyes were
burning with hatred and she was
approaching him, to consume him. When he finally woke
up and it was
dawn, it was a relief. He knew it was
only his fearful mind that was playing
with him since he convicted himself
of the crime of killing her.
He looked at the clock, he had woken a bit late ,he rushed
to brush his
teeth and have a cold shower,
dressed up and stepped out of the
house.
Only to find Jane with her mother
and two uncles. He greeted then and they asked if they
could talk to him.
He invited them in.
“Am sorry but I explained everything
to mum, how it happened. She said
it’s either I was lying or that you
deliberately got me drunk. She called my uncles and
forced me to come .
It’s qeuet embarassing” said Jane
Alfred was beginning to forget about
Jane,his days had been quet
occupied.
Her uncles started talking about how he had to marry her
before she gave
birth,so that people would not mock
the family.
They said if he wanted to avoid going
to jail he should heed their words.
They told him that they wanted to meet his parents and
discuss the
bridal price.
Alfred could not believe it. How was
he going to enjoy marriage with a
woman whom he didn’t love?
He told them that he would pay the damage but not marry
her but they
said he should have thought about
the consequences before engaging in
the act.
He tried to convince them and when
he realised that he was running out of time, he told them
that he would
think about it and call them.
Jane seemed not to be on any side,
she didn’t seem to dispute the idea
of getting married and she didn’t
seem to support it, she was just getting her mother to
stop talking so
much.
It was a day ruined for him.
He had anonymously contributed
some money for Isabelle’s burial but
did not attend it. The friendship of Tom and Cathy
became very strong as if to
compensate for the time they were
not talking to each other.
Alfred had tried to convince Jane to
persuade her family not force them to get married.
She said it would be hard but that
she would try because she was an
adult and so they couldn’t just start
making plans for her
“What happened to you is beyond your doing, if your
parents want you
to marry him, go ahead. Forget about
what Cathy will say or do. That has
been your worry all through. To me it
looks like you like the guy and Cathy
is the only obstacle. Otherwise you wouldn’t be carrying
his child. You
marrying him is the same as you
having a child for him. So you think
Cathy will rejoice when she finds out
that you have a child for her
boyfriend?” Said Jane’s workmate. Two months passed
without a word
from Jane’s relatives and Alfred
hoped that they had come back to
their senses and seen that forcing
people to get married is not the best
solution. However Jane’s pregnancy had become evident
and a few
people were whispering about it,
wondering who the father was,since
she had quete a chain of exes.
Cathy was coming back home and
her mother had waited anxiously for her return. The whole
week she was
emphasising to her on how much
she loved her and how much she
would sacrifice everything for her.
Wait for the next chapter and learn
the horror behind Melody’s death. .
To Be Continued

Cc: Lalasticlala

THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 21
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Isabelle stirred the concoction and
took a sip. Lucy could read how bitter the concoction was
from
Isabelle’s facial expression on the
silhouette formed on the wall against
the candle lite.
Isabelle looked at the jug and took a
long gulp of the mixture. She felt some movements in her
stomach which tightened her entire
intestines into knots.
She sat down and as the pain
increased,she lied down.
“I can’t breathe” she said in a whisper,tossing from side
to side.
Lucy moved closer to her and placed
her head on her lap
“You will be fine” she said stroking
her hair
“No Lucy,am dying, I am going to die” she said gasping
for air
“No you will live” she assured
her.”should I take you outside so
that you get some fresh air?”
But Isabelle couldn’t talk, the pain
had spread all through her body,she could feel her liver
and kidneys melt,
her heart was shrinking. She was
groaning and whimpering in pain
“You will be fine my dear” said Lucy
tears streaming down her face.
The thought of losing her friend was more scary than she
had ever
imagined.
She was the only friend she had.
While she was a nobody at high
school,she had been saved ridicule
from other teens when Isabelle befriended her.
No one ever understood why a
beautiful up-to-date arrogant Isabelle
would make friends with a poor ugly
naive Lucy.Actualy even Lucy herself
never understood and probably even Isabelle never
understood because
that’s the one question she had not
clearly answered everytime Lucy
would ask.
However it had turned out that after
failing at high school, all Isabelle’s friends vanished and
the only one
who still thought she was as worthy
as she had been, was Lucy. She had
managed to convince her that life
was not all about passing high
school exams. Now there she was ,lying almost
lifeless in her arms,away from
everyone.
She put Isabelle’s head on the mat
where she was lying and went to
explain to the old woman that her friend was dying.
“There is nothing i can do, the
concoction doesn’t work well with
everyone” said the old woman
calmly.
“How can you say that? and so casually ,my friend is
dying, you do
something” cried Lucy.
“There is nothing i can do young
lady. If she lied about the real
months of the pregnancy, then it’s
her fault” she said coldly. She could see that the old
woman
was not going to help her. She
rushed back to where her friend was,
she was not moving. She shook her
violently and she begun to groan
again. Lucy fumbled for Isabelle’s phone in her Jean
pockets, she
switched it on and searched Alfred’s
name but it didn’t appear among the
contacts.
“Oh Isabelle how did you save Alfred
please” she said with frustration. He seemed the only one
who could help.
She was becoming very impatient
and ran out of ideas. What do I do
now, she cried.
She quickly went to her inbox and
there was a message from Alfred saved as ‘ Mr dog’. She
almost
laughed but it wasn’t the time. When
Isabelle got better, they would laugh
about it together.
“Oh thank goodness” she gave a sigh
of relief. She dialled the number and it was then that she
realised that
there was no network. The fear for
the old woman had miraculously
escaped her, she didn’t care what
she would say or do, she rushed
outside in search of network. The old woman glared at her
as she
left the hut.
She finally got to call Alfred.
traaaaaaaaa dialing Mr dog’
“I really hope it’s him” she said
under her breath. The phone went unanswered and it
drove Lucy crazy.
“Answer the phone fool” she said
desperately.
She dialed again and he answered.
” Isabelle are you mad,why are you
calling me this time?” He sad angrily “This is not Isabelle,
this is Lucy,
Isabelle is in,,,,,,”
“Do you know what time this is, I told
her never to call me again” he said
fiercely.
“She is dying, I need your help,,,,,” And the phone cut.
“No he didn’t cut the line” she said
bitterly. How cruel. What was she
going to do with Isabelle. She called
him again and the phone was off.
She went back inside not knowing what to do. She found
Isabelle still
lying on the mat.
“Isabelle, Isabelle” she said panting.
“I’m dying” she said slowly.
She breathed in heavily and breathed
out and she was gone. “Isabelle! Isabelle! Isabelle! ” She
wailed. ” No please don’t do this to
me”
Isabelle was covered in blood, she
had had no opportunity to remove the
jeans and wrap herself in a chitenge after drinking the
medicine. Lucy got
her in her arms and forced open her
eyes.
“You can’t die Isabelle, what will I
tell everyone?”
She lay besides the dead body and screamed and wailed
and weeped.
The old woman had not attempted to
enter that room. When Lucy decided
to inform her, she found her still
seated around the fire, very still, and
not dozing. “She has died, Isabelle has died”
said Lucy. The old woman looked at
her without a word.
“aren’t you going to say anything,?”
She screamed. ” You have killed my
friend you wicked woman,why did you volunteer to help
her when you
don’t know anything? Did you
intentionally kill her, why ? Why did
you do that? What do I do now?” She
growled
“Get out of here and carry the body, if it Dawns and it is
still here, you will
follow her and you will both
disappear.” She said fiercely. Her
coolness had vanished and it was
replaced by suppressed anger.
Lucy pulled her friend’s body outside the hut, leaving
heavy trails of blood
behind. She had no choice but to call
Isabelle’s mother. She shakingly
dialed her number.
Alfred on the other hand was in total
agony, from the shaky voice on the phone call, he was
sure that Isabelle
was not trying to play a trick on him.
It could have been a move to try to
see if he cared about her or try to get
him to be with her at such an
awkward hour but there was so much desperation and
fear in the voice of
the caller and he thought it was
genuine. His phone which was
already battery low as power had
gone had automatically switched off
even before he could finish the conversation with Lucy.
What if Isabelle was really in danger?
He got up and went to Frank’s house,
which was a kilometre away. After
knocking for several hours, he finally
opened the door. “Man is everything okey, you scared
me, do you know what time this is”
complained his friend as he opened
the door
“Am in desperate need of your phone
man” answered Alfred “Yeah, please may I make a call?”
His friend invited him in and he made
the call but the number was off. He
called several times but still it was
off. He narrated everything that had
happened to his friend. Alfred knew he didn’t like Isabelle
but that
doesn’t mean he hated her, even
unto the point of death.
However his friend comforted him
and told him not to worry, he
proposed that Isabelle had deliberately conived with her
friend to
see if she still stood a chance to
have him in her life. This erased the
guilt he was beginning to feel. He
went back home.
The following day he called Isabelle but the phone was
still off. He
brushed the events of the previous
night aside and went on with the
daily activities. Everything was
normal and he laughed at himself for
having had panicked so much last night. He knew
Isabelle’s craftiness
so much, she could really be crazy
sometimes.
There was a knock at the door just
after 9 am.
“Your friend is dead,” said a horrified looking young man.
“Who?” asked Cathy
“Tom” said the man. His face was
very familiar and Cathy instantly
remembered that she had seen him
in Tom’s room. Yes ,he was Tom’s room mate
“No that’s not possible,that can’t
happen” she said breathlessly.
She had ignored Tom in all ways
possible and had never cared about
his whereabouts. She didn’t mean for their friendship to
end That way. She
didn’t hate him, she was just upset
with him for using a girl.
Cathy felt a sharp pain cut through
her heart, it ripped part of it, and she
sat down just there in the door way to recover from the
pain.
“How ,how did that Happen,I never
heard of his sickness” she finally
said
“He didn’t fall sick, he never fell sick.
He just committed suicide and left a note for you,you
might want to read
it” he said more cooly now.
Cathy’s heart had started beating
even faster, had she caused the
death of someone, who was so dear
to her at some point. She remembered how happy he had
made her,before she had rejected
him, and also before he started
dating Leah, how much she had
loved him. Everytime they had shared
together was replaying in her head, each and every
moment very clear as
if it was just the previous day.
Without waiting for the bearer of the
bad news, she ran to Tom’s room to
see the note for herself.
. To Be Continued

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THE SMILE OF TERROR
.
Chapter 20
.
Isabelle reached home and found
Lucy waiting for her “Your mum told me that you were
not around so I decided to wait for
you” said Lucy
“Where are you coming from, you
look extremely weak and pale” she
added “Do I look that bad?” asked Isabelle
“Yes you do” answered Lucy.
Isabelle looked at herself and smiled
“Then he must have had ridiculed me
in his heart”
“Who ?” Asked Lucy Isabelle told her about the unfruitful
journey
“I knew he would not accept the
responsibility” said Lucy ” but you
can’t bring up a child by
yourself,what are you going to do? Why don’t you just give
it to Ben”
suggested Lucy
Ben was desperately in love with
Isabelle. He was a middle class
business man with the ability to
Carter for all a woman’s needs. He had not stopped
following
Isabelle despite the insults she
leashed on him.
Isabelle was more into older men,
sugar daddies, for she never liked
commitments. Ben however had showed more
interest than she desired. The only
likeable thing about him was his
money, every other feature on him
was a nuisance to Isabelle.
Out of desperation to avoid him, she had lied to him that
she harboured
multiple STIs but he had genuinely
told her that such could not be a
barrier.
” That sounds like a great idea, he
wouldn’t hesitate to take the responsibility ” said Isabelle
excitedly
” but I don’t think I can do that, I
can’t be stuck with that man for a
lifetime”
“Then what will you do?”
“I will remove the baby?” She answered
“Remove the what?” exclaimed Lucy ”
are you mad, have you thought about
the implications, what if something
goes wrong”
Isabelle starred at her friend for seconds
“It’s not like it’s going to be the first
time”
Isabelle had aborted twice and
without many complications.
The first time was when she was still at high school, very
advanced but
with little knowledge about sex.
Her lover boy had impregnated her
and forced her to abort it. He had
told her that their future was very
bright and that they couldn’t allow a baby to come in
between as they
weren’t ready. Out of love he had
gone ahead and aborted.
It was more painful than she had
expected. Her lover boy however had
gone ahead and left her weeks after that.
She had felt so stupid and she
vowed never to fall in love. She had
succeeded in that until Alfred showed
up.
The second time was when she was was waiting for grade
twelve results
to come out and she fell pregnant for
a married man, it was a pregnancy
that she still failed to explain
because she had used protection.
She had to abort the child as he ordered her to.
“Don’t you think Alfred will come
around once the baby is born ? You
know, men do that alot,he is probably
shocked by that fact, once he thinks
it through, he will come back” said Lucy
Isabelle looked at her friend and
laughed
” You don’t know Alfred, the guy
hates me with dignity,he hates me
with passion, he hates me with every blood in his vain,
nomatter what, he
will never want anything to do with
me,besides there is some good
news” she said lighting up
“Say it” said Lucy impatiently
” I don’t know if it’s true but it can be. Alfred has
impregnated Jane” she
said triumphantly
“You lie” said Lucy ” but how can
that be, have they been dating”
“You are so dumb, “said Isabelle “the
same day they slept together at the guest house, she got
pregnant”
Lucy could not believe it, it was too
interesting but in a moment she felt
bad for them,she imagined herself in
Jane’s shoes, it must have been very
hard, especially that they didn’t know exactly what had
happened to them
“I now understand why you should
have been a journalist, where did you
gather all that information”
Isabelle just looked at her and
laughed. “From the look of things Cathy is not
aware, once I remove this baby,there
won’t be any connection between me
and Alfred, then I can Finnish him off.
” She said in a matter of fact tone
“So you see why this baby is very irrelevant?” She posed ”
but even if
Jane aborts, I still have evidence of
photos and videos of them in the
guest house, which I can either leak
to the media or I show Cathy,so
either way, their relationship is headed to destruction.”
“Not leaking to the media, that’s too
cruel” said Lucy
“Who cares” answered Isabelle
“Who exactly do you hate between
Alfred and Cathy?” Isabelle laughed very much at the
question.
“Is it funny?”
“Yes it is, very” she answered amidst
the laughter. “I never really asked
myself that,and now that you have brought it to my
attention, I think am
stuck. But I think I hate them
equally”
“Cathy never did anything wrong to
you,”
“She stole Alfred from me” Lucy didn’t comment
anymore. She
was tired of correcting her that Alfred
was not stolen by Cathy, he just
chose her over Isabelle because he
loved her more and so Cathy was not
to blame. But Isabelle had argued that Cathy must have
backed off after
knowing that Alfred had a girlfriend.
The following day Jane called Alfred
and told him about the change in
mind.
“Just as you suggested,i ll just keep the baby” she said
Alfred was not expecting that,he had
been relieved from the burden of
being father. He decided to go to her
house.
He told her the benefits of aborting but Jane was not
going to change
her mind. She was fixed to her new
idea. Alfred’s efforts proved useless.
At the end he gave up.
” I love Cathy very much,so dont
think that by doing this,yu can separate us”
Jane could not believe her ears, he
was the one who had come up with
the idea of keeping a child,why would
he change his mind so quickly.
A month passed and Jane was still with the idea of
keeping the baby.
Isabelle on the other hand didn’t
want to be caught in the web of
Alfred’s drama.
She sat on a chair outside the house
reflecting on her life. At high school ,she was among the
popular girls whom other girls
admired. The boys had the eyes on
her and each one of them was
lusting after her, but at the time ,she
had not known that there was such a thing.
Even when she had chosen Mr lover
boy,it had seemed like true love.
When she sat there remembering
how her lover boy used to treat her,
she then realised that she had been such a fool not to
have had seen
through him.
She thought about the guy who had
been so much in love with her but
whom she had humiliated so much in
front of other pupils, telling him that he was of a low class
and not on her
level
‘I was such a fool, by now I would b
married to a handsome doctor. He
genuinely loved me but what had
mattered at the time was dating a fellow popular pupil’
she said to
herself
“Who are you referring to?”
Isabelle looked up and was
interrupted by Lucy
“Ummm nothing, I will be removing the thing in my
stomach, won’t you
be there with me to help ,Incase
something goes bad”
“Isabelle are you still going to do
this, just keep it, don’t rush to make
that decision” “If I wait a month longer,i won’t be
able to remove it, this is the only safe
time” she answered. “I have to let
Alfred know what I am doing”
She got her phone and sent him a
text ‘Alfred, I have decided to remove the
baby, but am not yet done with you’
Alfred received the text and his anger
was more stirred.
‘i have no business with whores who
go around town trapping men,i told you that I have nothing
to do with
you’
“Exactly what I had imagined” she
told Lucy.
Lucy agreed to be near Her at the
hour of abortion. She felt pity for her friend who had
suddenly looked older than her age
and seemed so tired of everything.
She told her aunt that she was
having a nightshift at the other shop
where she had found another job. She met with Isabelle at
the
appointed place. It was very dark and
shadows of the trees moved
majestically as the wind blew hard.
As they moved away from the city
lights,they took a right turn which led to a narrow path at
the far West. It
was very quiet and the only noise
was coming from the grass they were
treading on .
“Isabelle are you sure about this”
whispered Lucy “Ofcourse,lets just keep moving” she
whispered back.
After 30 minutes of walking in the
dark,a wretched hut was finally in
view, Isabelle took the lead and went
inside the hut. The hut looked monsterous from inside.
However it
was much bigger than it looked
outside. There were shackles of fire
in the middle with a woman sitting
beside it. They sat on the mat near
the red coals of fire. The woman made no movements.
After starring
as them for minutes she finally
spoke.
“Enter the room at your far right. Mix
the powder on the shelf with the
water in the jug.” The two ladies looked at her without
a word.
“Go!” She commanded.
They stood and looked at their right.
There was a room,they entered it and
there was a candle burning in the corner. Isabelle got the
powder on a
half fallen shelf and unwrapped it
very carefully then put it in the jug
and swirled it
“Isabelle, are you really going to
drink this?” .
To Be Continued

THE SMILE OF TERROR
.
Chapter 18
.
Jane woke up very early, swept the
house and prepared custard porridge. She had no desire
for any food but
she knew she needed the strength,
so she forced a few teaspoons to her
mouth.
She started off for the hospital, each
step she took made her very nervous.
She arrived quet early and there
wasn’t a queue. She went to the
doctor’s office who gave her a little
plastic container and told plastic container and told her to
collect some samples of her urine and take to the lab.
She did as directed and minutes later
she found herself sitting on the
bench outside the lab waiting for
results. It wasn’t long before she was
called to the table to get her results. Her heart was
thumping and each
step she took was very heavy, she
was silently praying for the resultswas silently praying for
the results to
be negative. She had not ceased
from that prayer since the previous
night. “You may take a seat madam” said a
man in a white labcoat
She sat and tried to act as normal as
possible. He handed her a paper with
some writings.
“It came out positive, congratulations madam” he said
with a smile.
She smiled back, but it was a smile
of pain, pain that she couldn’t
express in words.Pregnant for Alfred,
‘How did it even happen and what
exactly happened that day’ she thought. The doctor could
see that
her smile was on pose.
“Is everything okey? ” asked the
doctor
“Yeah” she answered quickly and got
up. She left the paper just there and
rushed back home. She took a cold
shower to calm her nerves but it only
helped a little. She picked up her
phone and called Alfred
“Hey Jane, its been ages, are you fine? ”
“No am not” she answered ” Do you
think we were drugged? ”
It had never occurred to Alfred that
they could have been drugged. But if
it was so, then it explained it all. “Yes I think that explains
it, the
mystery I’ve failed to decode” he
answered “but who? ”
Jane too could not answer that, it
was a new mystery, Jane could not
think of anyone who could do that to her, she had no
enemies.
Alfred thought of all the possible
people who could have done such an
evil thing.
No one came to his mind, his brain
kept nagging about Isabelle. But he brushed it aside,
Isabelle was crazy
but she wouldn’t go to those lenghts
to take revenge.
Besides she loves him very much
and there is no way she could have
set him to sleep with another woman, it would kill her with
Jealous, and if
she did , she would have gone to
Alfred to brag about it, but Isabelle
had remained mute. He knew she
was impatient and she wouldn’t have
waited over a month before disclosing that she was
responwaited over a month before disclosing that she was
responsible
and spit it all to his face. Alfred
concluded that, they had been
drugged by accident.
However Jane was very convinced
that they were drugged on purpose. “Let’s meet at lunch”
she said
“No, I ‘m busy, let’s do weekend”
said Alfred
“Its emergency, you better show up
at exactly 2 pm at Safaris Lodge” and
she hung up. Alfred had wanted to stay away from her as
much as
possible.
He had to protect his relationship
with Cathy and he wasn’t willing to
take More chances.
Leah had become the quetest in the room, the jokes and
the stories had
vanished.
Her roommates had warned her
against dating Tom who was quete
younger than her but she had told
them that age is just a number and that it didn’t really
matter for men. So
they comforted her while exchanging
looks of what they had anticipated.
Alfred showed up at the expected
time and found Jane waiting for him
under one of the trees by the river “You are so good at
keeping time” he
said hiding the anxiety in him
“Sit here” she said
“You look gloomy, anything the
matter? ”
“Yes, I am pregnant for you Alfred” she said bluntly.
Alfred looked at her horrified, eyes
and mouth wide open. He could not
believe it
“How,, how,, how is that possible,
how did that happen? I mean how did you know”
“I went to the hospital, I missed my
cycle. ” she answered.
His mouth was open but no word
could come out.
“How do you know its me, didn’t you say you have a
boyfriend? ”
“Yes I had, but I never slept with
him”
They sat there staring at each other,
with no words at all
“Cathy” he finally said. “What are we going to do? She
can’t know about
this”
Jane was equally worried about
Cathy, she would be so broken if she
found out.
Isabelle’s health was beginning to deteriorate , she had
become very
choosy with food and she became
very hot tempered.
One afternoon when she fainted and
taken to the hospital, she was found
to be pregnant. Her mother was not very surprised,
she had expected that along time
ago, when her daughter begun
spending less nights at home.
“Who is responsible” asked her
mother “I dont know” she answered quetly
“How can you say that”
“Because I sincerely dont know ” she
answered
She was angry with herself, firstly for
allowing herself get pregnant and secondly for finding out
about it in
such a manner, her mother must
never have known about it.
When Lucy came to check on her,
her mother excused herselfher mother excused herself.
“You look very weak girl” said Lucy and Isabelle smiled
weakl”You look very weak girl” said Lucy and Isabelle
smiled weakly
“How are you? ” she asked
“Lucy, I ‘m pregnant” she whispered
Lucy moved closer to spare her the
energy of shouting
“How do you know that? ” “The doctor, he told me today”
“Oh really wow” she said not too
sure of what to say “and who is
responsible? ”
“Alfred” she answered
“Are you serious? I thought you were using protection”
“Yes he wore the rubber but I tore
the tip of it without his knowledge”
When Alfred had told her that he was
done with Cathy, Isabelle wanted to
bind him to her and she knew the best thing to do was
getting pregnant
for him, that way, he would be forever
bound to her but after knowing that it
was used as punishment she
decided not to have anything with
Alfred anymore, except take her revenge which was mid
way
accomplished.
“Wow, so is it goodnews or bad”
asked Lucy
“Its bad, I wanted to finish him, ” she
said moving her right hand over her belly.
“But dont tell mum that its Alfred”
Jane was loaded with a lot of ideas,
terminating the child seemed a good
choice, that way she would save
herself the embarasment of getting pregnant for her
bestfriend’s man,
also it will help prevent breaking her
friendship with Cathy who had
become like a sister over thr years.
On the other hand, in as much as
she wasn’t a church girl, she had been brought up in a
christian home
and she knew that her conscious
would haunt her for a lifetime if she
aborted.
She had not asked Alfred his opinion,
she was glad that he didn’t deny being responsible.
Chapter 19
.
Alfred was in the living room,thinking
about what to do with Jane’s pregnancy when there was a
knock
on the door.
He had to choose between the baby
and Cathy,he could encourage Jane
to abort so that everything goes back
to normal. He stood and went to open the door and as he
had
guessed it was Jane.
“You may come in” he said opening
the door wider
She entered and he followed her
behind. He tried to read her mind but it was quet hard, she
didn’t look sad
or angry,neither did she look happy.
“What do I offer you?”
“Nothing” she answered ” I have just
come to tell you what I have decided
to do with the pregnancy” Alfred’s heart begun racing with
very
loud beats ,he feared she might hear
it thumping.
He thought they would both have to
decide what to do with the child and
not only one party deciding. “Okey” he said holding his
breath
“Yeah,I am going to terminate it,its
an abomination”
Alfred could not believe it,that was
his exact thought and hearing her
say that almost made him hug her but he had to keep his
cool.
“Oh ,,are you sure? did yu think this
through?” He said concealing his
joy,lest she should change her joy,lest she should change
her mind.
She nodded her heard
‘solved, no baby,Me and Cathy will still be together’ he
thought
“I agree with you,what has happened
to us is an abomination which should
not be disclosed to anyone,let alone
having evidence of a baby. ”
She was about to leave when there was a knock at the
door.
“Expecting someone?” asked Jane
sitting back
“No” he said walking to the door.
He opened the door and he stood
there petrified. It was Isabelle looking very old and
pale
“What are you here for?”
“Let me in,there is something you
should know”
“There is nothing i want to know from you” he said
fiercely but as quet as
he could.
She pushed him aside and found her
way in the doorway. She went
directly to the living room where she
found Jane on the chair. “Woh woh, what’s this am seiing,
I
hope am not disturbing you guys”
she grinned mockingly
“Are you guys doing something crazy
behind Cathy’s back? Oh poor Cathy”
“Just shut up and spit what you are here for and leave,that
is if you don’t
want me to drag you out of my
house” said Alfred. He detested her
so much and her looking so pale
made him hate her even more
“Why would you do that to the mother of your child?”
Alfred and Jane looked at each other
in shock and thought their ears were
betraying them by relaying false
information.
“Sit there and explain why you are here” said Alfred
“I prefer we discuss it in the
bedroom, away from strangers” she
suggested
“Jane is not a stranger ,it’s either
you speak from here or you go back” ” Really?” She
smiled slyly.” You two
seem to have a stronger bond,does
that confirm the rumor around town?”
“What rumor” asked Alfred
indistinctly. If the whole town knew
that he had impregnated Jane, then it would be their
doom.
Isabelle saw the desperation on their
faces and decided not to disclose
their secret, so that they die of
impatience
“So are we talking here or bedroom” she asked
“Tell me the rumor first,before we talk
about anything”
“Alright, that you two were seen
together going to a guest room, but I
dont believe them though, Jane is like a sister to Cathy”
she said
It was a relief that Isabelle
considered such an incident a false
rumor.
That confirmed that Isabelle was not
the one who drugged them. “Alright,t that’s just a fake
rumor from
some lousy people with nothing to
do” said Alfred.
” Now tell me why you are here”
Isabelle never struggled with
words,they could naturally and swiftly flow from her
mouth without any
struggle. She explained how she had
never had had unprotected sex with
any man before and how she tore the
tip of the condom when she slept
with Alfred and disclosed the motive behind.
Jane and Alfred sat there shocked.
She said everything with so much
ease as if she was speaking words of
prosperity.
” You are not just a LovePeddler monger but a dog, you disgust
me Isabelle.
You are a curse in my life. But this
you must know,you cannot trap
me,because you know why, whatever
you decide to do with the dog in your
womb is up to you. I have nothing to do with it or you, you
have slept with
a thousand men and you deliberately
tore the condom, everything is your
fault and don’t involve me in that
stupidity.”roared Alfred
“I haven’t yet told my mother that you are the one
responsible,but when i
do,she will be your guest very soon”
she said
Alfred looked at her unbelievably,she
was very cool and calm while he was
there shaking with rage, he had to switch off most of his
senses just so
he doesn’t beat her.
“Look at Jane” said Alfred” she is
carrying my baby”
Isabelle looked at her and laughed
very loud,it sounded very funny coming from Alfred.
But when she digested the words,
she realised that it could be true,
aware that they had slept together,
her countenance fell
“Is that true?” “Yes” answered Alfred.
He was very desperate to get Isabelle
away from his life
Isabelle burst into laughter and said”
well you will be a father of two,you
are so blessed” She stood to leave then turned back
to Jane
” Does your best friend know that you
have betrayed her?”
She left the house, she promised to
come back with her mother and Alfred warned her against
coming to
his house again.
“You didn’t have to do that you
know” said Jane “telling her am
pregnant”
” I was desperate to keep her away, she thought she had
me trapped with
the baby thing,now she knows she
has some competition.”
“And on second thought” said Alfred
moving closer to Jane ” I think you
should keep the baby, we might not have planned for it
but it’s a gift”
Jane could not believe it, she moved
away from him in disgust
” Did you drug me on purpose so
that you could rape me and let me
have a child for you?” Alfred did not expect such a
response, he tried to calm her but
she was already boiling. she stormed
out of the house and went to her own
house.
“Goodness what am I going to do?” She grieved
Cathy could detect the emotional
distance between her and Alfred, he
still called but not as much and the
conversations had become less
romantic and had become very general and ordinary.
She concluded that it was because
of distance. Only three months
remaining before closing and remaining before closing and
she
would finally be with her Alfred and
Jane and her mother. She had missed them so much.
Her big three persons
Alfred sat down to think about what
he had told Jane
“Total nonsense, how could I ask her
to keep it,that will be the end of me but thank goodness
she won’t heed
to what I said” he said with a sigh
“I’m in a total mess, what have I
done to my life” he said.
Inviting Jane to that drink had been a
big mistake and sleeping with Isabelle was recorded the
worst
mistake of his life, he thought.
Jane threw herself on the bed
starring at the ceiling.
The pregnancy had stressed her so
much,with no one to share her grievances with, she
always confided
in Cathy on such matters but how
could she now, when she was a
victim.
She replayed the events of the day in
her mind. Isabelle had known their secret and she would
mouth it to
every soul in town, so aborting it
would not really be a good solution,
she thought.
“Alfred is right,we should keep the
baby, what if I die while aborting or what if my womb gets
destroyed and
I can’t have a baby again in the
future. There are more dangers in
aborting it than the embarrassment of
the public coming to know what I ve
done, Cathy will understand when we explain to her that
we didn’t do this
willingly” she spoke to herself.
“She will still continue with Alfred”
.
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THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 17
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Cathy made some coffee for Leah
whose dress was almost soaked in whose dress was
almost soaked in tears.
“You need to calm down and tell me
what the matter is” she said offering
her the cup of coffee.
Leah wiped her eyes and nose with
the bottom of her dress, sobbing softly.
When Cathy finally managed to calm
her, she told her what Tom had
done.
In the past Cathy would have put her
arm around Leah’s shoulder, then look away and smile.
But those days were long gone. The
days when she was deeply in love
with Tom, but now she felt sorry for
Leah.
“But how could he be so heartless to tell you that to your
face? ” she said
more to herself than to Leah.
“He said that you are the one he
loves and not me, he used me. He
said that for as long as you are here
I can never be his, and he made me sleep with him,
making me believe
that he loved me. ” she said bursting
into tears again.
“He had sex with you?” exclaimed
Cathy unbelievably “such a pig” she
muttered. She imagined what she could have
done if Alfred had done that to her
the day she slept with him.
She comforted Leah and swore that
she was never going to date him, not
only because she had a boyfriend but aslo because he had
acted very
immature.
She also promised to talk to him and
maybe convince him to get back with
her since she still loved him.
Tom went to his room and wrapped himself in the
blankets, very unusual
for a nerd to sleep without touching a
book.
His friends knew that all was not
well, they had given him a step by
step tutorial on how to break up, but he had forgotten
everything the
moment he had seen Leah, and the
fact that she did not slap or insult
him ate him up.
Too bad for a first relationship to end
that way. The following afternoon Cathy went to
his hostel.
His heart still beat the same way it
did whenever he saw her. He invited
her in but she asked if they could
find a better place to talk from. He told her that he was
alone in the
room and hence very safe to talk
from.
“You look lovely” he complimented,
silently regretting not having had
proposed her at a time she desperately wanted him
” Dont say that Tom, you disgust me”
she said “how could you do that to
Leah? You sleep wirh her then dump
her” she said lowering her tone
which was full of anger “What are you saying,? I never
slept
with Leah” he answered
“Really, okey, did you tell her that
you dont have feelings for her”
“Yes I did”
“Did you tell her that she was like an umbrella in the time
of storm? ”
“Yes but,,, ”
“Did you really fail to answer when
she asked if you really loved her? ”
Tom looked down speechless
“See, all that she said is true, Tom I thought you were an
angel in
disguise, I thouth you simply put on
the human form, how could you do
that to a girl? How could you sleep
with a woman when you know you
don’t love her” “Cathy thats not what happened, I
needed to ler her know,,,
” You were using her for your own
selfish reasons? ” she interrupted.
She walked up to the door to leave
but she came back remembering something
“You are a coward Tom, you are a
coward. Never you dream that I could
ever be yours, am for Alfred, my
boyfriend” she said pointing at him, if
her hands were guns, Tom would have been a dead body
She banged the door behind her, very
furious.
Tom fell back on the bed “you are a
coward Tom? ” he said loudly. “And
she never even botherd to hear my own side of the story,
how was I
supposed to keep dating a woman I
dont love, what I did is courageous,
and she thinks am a coward”
A month had passed and Isabelle
was taking her time before revealing the real shocking
news to Cathy, she
wanted to see her facial expression
when she’d see the photos of her
boyfriend in bed with her best friend.
That facial expression is what had
prevented her from watsaping the photos to Cathy, she
was going to
exercise some patience and wait for
her to come back home
Alfred’s life was beginning to get
back to normal, he had not told his
bachelor friends what had happened to him. It was going
to remain a
mystery because he had failed to
explain to himself how everything had
happened.
Jane’s life however was beginning to
take a new route, a route that was too scary to embark on
and she
seemed not to have control over it.
She was a week past her cycle and
the thought of being pregnant
lingered in her head all the time,
getting pregnant before marriage and to her bestfriend’s
boyfriend was getting pregnant before marriage and to her
bestfriend’s boyfriend was the
worst that could happen to her.
However it was not the first time that
she missed the cycle but this time
she was sure there was something
breathing in her belly, the more she tried to push the
thought away , the
more it stuck to her mind.
She picked the phone and decided to
call Stanely
“Stan I think am pregnant” she said
casually “You can’t baby, we’ve ,,, we’ve never
slept together, thats impossible”
“Come over to the house” said Jane
Stan went to her house very sure that
she was joking
“We were supposed to be getting married soon” he said
after she “We were supposed to be getting married soon”
he said after she told
him what had happened
“My friends were right, you were
getting it somewhere”
“I have never been unfaithful to you”
she yelled But he was too furious to listen to
the tale.
He drove off to his house with too
many thoughts.
Jane sat back and started prayinJane sat back and
started praying
against being pregnant and made promises to God if she
was going to
find that she wasn’t pregnant.
Stanely was the one good man she
had ever dated and she wasnt willing
to lose him over something she knew
nothing about. She decided to visit the hospital the
following day. She wondered if really
Alfred would accept the pregnancy if
it came
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THE SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 16
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Alfred sat in the sofa of his living
room thinking very hard, he was happy that Jane had not
accused
him of raping her in her drunken
state. She saw it herself anyways
how he panicked when they
discovered that they had had sex. He
knew he had drunk but not to the extent of having sex
unconsciously,
with Jane especially. There was this
missing link that the two could not
figure out, Jane remembered having
a drink with Stanely and nothing else
while Alfred remembered going to the guest house with
Cathy, so that
missing link was the great mystery
that they couldn’t unlock.
Was it all a hallucination?
Jane on the other hand was very
frustrated, she had unconsciously slept with her best-
friend’s boyfriend
but she didn’t blame him, she placed
the blame on Stanely whom she was
going to meet but had decided not to
show up and couldn’t even call her to
explain why. If he had showed up she wouldn’t have
ended up in bed
with Alfred
They had agreed not to tell anyone
that they had sex, because it was like
something in a dream, something
unreal and non of them had enjoyed even a small part of
it, so it was as
good as people who had not done it.
Isabelle on the other hand was very
happy and eager to share the good
news with her bestfriend Lucy.
She had promised to come to her house and hear the
goodnews but 15
minutes had passed past the
appointed time, so Isabelle decided
to follow her to her house.
“Hey, you are here” called Lucy upon
seeing her “Yeah,” she answered with a very
wide and bright smile exposing the
ice white teeth. “I couldn’t wait” she
added.
Lucy had just been given clothes by
her aunt to wash and Isabelle understood her delayal.
“So what’s the news? ” asked Lucy,
offering her friend the chair she had
sat on and moving to the rock which
was a few inches away
“Alfred, ” she said excitedly “Ehe, what about Alfred”
“He is dead” she smiled
“Oh no, Thats not possible! ”
exclaimed Lucy , now looking at her
friend angrily” Is that the goodnews
you couldn’t wait to tell me? ” “Yes” answered Isabelle
“but Thats
not the best part, the best part is that
he is not aware that he is dead”
Lucy looked at her friend bewildered,
trying to digest her words but she
couldn’t understand “I have torn his life in shredds but he
has no idea, he will dearly pay for
everything he did to me” she said
firmly
“So you mean he is not physically
dead” said Lucy and Isabelle nodded her head. “What
have you done? ”
“Haha I have made him sleep with
his girlfriend’s best friend” said
Isabelle very happily
“He slept with Jane, they were having
some drinks at Arizona, Roy who has been stalking him
for weeks called
me as soon as they sat together.
They ordered beer and hey am so
happy girl, you know like everything
happened so perfectly” she said
excitedly “What do you mean, continue, what
happened? ” Lucy said impatiently.
“Okey” she said sitting very
comfortably in the chair “of all the
places it had to be Arizona where
Roy’s young brother works as a waiter , so he told him to
put a little
bit of a something in their drinks,,,
you know that stuff I bought from
agogo, which made them dizzy and
slowly increased their sexual
appetite, after a few bottles they had become very
sexually aroused and
their vision became blurred and
forgot everything, the only thing on
their mind was sex”
Lucy’s mouth was hanging open.
She knew that her friend was very crazy but not that
wicked and she
was even boasting. She looked at
her with wide opened eyes.
“Isabelle how could you do that, did
you have to go that far? ”
“What are you saying? ” she asked with a low pitched
tone which was
hiding loads of anger
“You wanted me to forgive him,? he
came after me , begging me to be his
girlfriend, dumped me a week later
without pity, called me again and apologised but wat did
he do, slept
with me and immediately broke up
with me. I will destroy Alfred until he
becomes a nobody”
Lucy could see that her friend was
really determined, she could see that in her eyes was so
much hatred and
seemed to have the ability to kill.
Some months ago Isabelle had asked
her to escort her to Agogo for
something, she gave her the same
powder for sex appetite and told her to use only a small
amount . she
wondered if the man who had put
that stuff in the unlucky friends’ beer
had put the correct amount.
Isabelle had photos of them having a
drink at the bar and of them in bed at the Guest house as
they had not
even locked the door
Tom had rehearsed a speech that
was to be delivered to Leah.
She had become obsessed with him
and he thought if he didn’t break up wirh her she would
soon introduce
him to her entire family.
He had tried ignoring her but she
never complained, she was dedicated
to keeping her relationship. The
previous ones had failed to work because of the mistakes
she made
but she had learnt a great deal of
things from magazines ‘How to keep
a man’ ‘How to make him love you
more’ and other related articlemore’ and other related
articles.
When she went to visit him that evening, his heart begun
to race
rapidly. He realised that proposing is
easier than that breaking up.
‘I didn’t propose her anyways’ he
thought
“Honey, did I tell you that next weekend we are having a
little party
at home, I told them that am going
with you, please dont say no my
love” she said grasping his hand and
putting her head on his shoulder.
‘Now is not the time to tell her,’ he thought
“Yes we will go” he told her. She
kissed him on the cheek and hugged
him
“You are the best” she said. After
minutes she went back to her hostel. In the latest
magazine she had learnt
that spending too much time with
your boyfriend if you are the one who
initiated the meeting was a turn off
for men.
The dilemma continued for him, if he went to the party, it
means he would
be introduced to her family which
would be the worst mistake.
He decided to go to her hostel and
tell her that they needed to break up.
He knocked on the door and Leah opened the door.
She couldn’t believe it, so the
magazine was right, meet him for a
short time and he will follow you to
spend long hours with you.
“Come in please” she said calmly. The magazine said that
don’t show
too much excitement when he does
something very good because its his
duty to do so, celebrate in your heart
but not outward, so that he doesn’t
think he is doing you a favour when its actually his duty.
“Can we talk outside” he said.
Leah’s heart begun thumping very
loudly, she didn’t know if it was
something bad of which she had a
feeling it was. He had sounded a bit serious and that was
very
uncomfortable.
“Alright let’s go” she said quietly,
leading the way.
They decided to sit on a concrete
just outside the hostel “I hope all is well my love” she
said.
“Yeah all is well, only a small
problem, Leah you are a great person
and I want you yo know that I will
always adore you” These words
could have flattered her and leaving her hanging on the
moon but they
made her very sad, anticipating what
would follow
“I’m very sorry that I started
something with you, that bond that
held us together seems to have been cut loose on my
side”
“Just say what you came here to
say” she said harshly
“Alright, am sorry but I would like us
to go seperate ways” he whisppered
“Are you breaking up with me” she asked amidst sobs
He put his hand on her shoulder but
she threw it
“Why, why are you breaking up with
me”
“Uhmm well feelings” he said trying to choose his words
carefully, “they
are gone”
“Then why did you propose to me? ”
‘I never proposed to you’ his mind
screamed but he wasn’t going to say
such a harsh word “Feelings” he said indignantly “they
were there. ”
” Tom did you love me? ”
He opened his mouth but no word
came out, he knew that more
questions would simply hurt her. “Answer me, are you
suddenly dumb?
” she shouted
“Yes,, no ” he said “I mean , yeah , I
thought I loved you, when Cathy told
me that she had a boyfriend I was
very heart broken and you were like an umbrella in the
storm that,,, ”
“So the storm is over and I ve
become useless” she interrupted
“No its not like”
“Shut up” tears were now streaming
down her face uncontrollably “dont try to deny it”
Tom’s friends had told him that if a
woman beats you and insults you
when breaking up with her then she
won’t bear a grudge against you, but
if she just cries then expect more, he now didn’t know
what to expect. He
hopefully waited for a slap but it
never saw his face.
She stood from there and went to
Cathy’s room. Her friends had taught
her that what you can’t get by talking use pity, if pity still
doesn’t work, use
force and she was going to do just
that. She knocked on the door and
Cathy opened it.
“Leah, you are crying ” she said
asking her in. Tom went back to the room with a
heavy heart and confused head.
“This is why I never wanted this
dating stuff, its complicated” he said
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SMILE OF TERROR
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Chapter 15
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Jane pulled a chair next to where
Alfred had sat. “You have to buy me a bottle” she
demanded
“You sit first” he said.
It was around 3 pm.
They had not seen each other for
sometime. The last time they talked was when Alfred had
asked her to
talk to Cathy, when they had the
problem.
However Cathy had ignored her calls
knowing that Alfred might have asked
her to convince her. They started chattering about a lot of
things, updating each other on so
many things.
Jane was very happy to learn that
Alfred and Cathy had gotten back
together. Jane had gone to wait for a friend
who seemed to have a problem with
keeping time or maybe had decided
not to show up, she decided to wait a
bit longer in the company of Alfred.
“They are here, both of them” said a voice in the phone
“at Arizona bar
and Restaurant”
Isabelle kept quete, it was all too
good to be true. She had hoped and
wished for a day like that, she knew
how hard it would be but she was determined to wait for
the
opportunity, she left everything to
chance.
“Do the right thing” she hissed. “You
do the right thing” she repeated on
the phone. “I dont want excuses” The young man cut the
line and
turned to the waiter behind the
counter and whispered something
into his ear.
The waiter went to the table where
Jane and Alfred were and asked if they needed anything
“Two bottles of Castle” said Jane.
“The bill is on you” she said turning
to Alfred.
There were few people in the bar, a
couple in a corner, a small group of teenagers chattering
loudly near the
entrance of the bar.
Alfred assured her that he would pay
the bills and should take as much
beer as she wanted.
The waiter took them their bottles. They ordered more
beer and begun
to get drunk.
“I love you very much baby” said
Alfred looking at Jane closely. She
smiled and put her hand on his
shoulder. “I love you too honey” she said
“Let’s go and get ourselves a room”
he suggested.
He beckoned at the waiter and paid
the bill for the beer.
They left the bar through the back door which served as
the entrance to
the guest house right behind the bar.
They were struggling to walk
normally as it was still daytime and
few people were looking .
“We are not drunk right baby” he asked. She laughed out
very loud.
They went to the reception and were
given a room. They went to the room
and began kissing.
“I can’t wait anymore” he groaned as
he pulled down his trousers. Jane rolled up the dress and
threw herself
on the bed.
Tom was complaining to his friends
about how he had thought he had
lost feelings for Cathy and only for
them to resurface when he found her with a man.
“You are now whinning and sulking,
you sound just like a woman” his
friends teased him
“The guy is good looking and I bet he
is working, and there is no way Cathy will leave him for
me” he said.
Leah had been great, she didn’t seem
to want a big commitment, he had
believed that he loved her very
much.
When Cathy had begun to show some greenlight, he
psychologically pushed
her away by hanging around with
Leah at any given chance.
But seeing Cathy with Alfred made
him realise how much he loved her.
Leah had been an escape route, a shield from the hurt of
finding out
that Cathy had a boyfriend.
‘If only I had made use of that
opportunity’ he thought to himself
‘when she told me of her break up
and when she started showing some intrest in me’ he
blamed himseland when she started showing some intrest
in me’ he blamed himself
Then there was a knock at the door.
The guys went quete, none of them
was expecting a visitor.
Tom opened the door and there stood
Leah “Oh its you” he said disappointedly
“Yes its me”she answered. ” are you
disappointed? were you expecting
someone else? ” she asked coldly
“No,,, I ,, I wasnt just expecting you, I
was almost leaving for the library, but since you are here,
it’s was almost leaving for the library, but since you are
here, it’s good. ”
The guys in the room busied
themselves with studying, flipping the
pages every second but paying
attention to the couple’s
conversation. “I have come to tell you that I have
bought us two tickets for your
favourite movie” she said
‘Without asking whether am intrest’Without asking whether
am intrested
or not’ he thought.
“Well am sorry not today, I have a lot of things to do” he
said
“But I already bought the tickets and
its just an hour”
“An hour is enough to do a lot of
constructive things” he answered.
“But if it was Cathy,,,,,, ” she stopped. “No dont stop, go
on. If it was Cathy
what? ” he asked with a shaky voice
“Nothing, I will go and watch it by
myself” she said as she stood up
“That was very rude and very harsh.
you better run after her” suggested one of the guys.
“She got on my nerve, we can never
hold a conversation without the
mention of Cathy, how does she start
making programmes for me” he said
trying to keep cool. They persuaded him to follow her.
“Poor Tom, stuck with a woman he
doesn’t love” said one of the guys.
“It must be hard ” said the other.
Cathy entered the room singing
loudly, she found Kay preparing food. “You have such a
pathetic voice” she
said and Cathy smiled
“Whats the goodnews? ” asked Kay
“Nothing” she answered ” I’m just
happy that am back with Alfred, I still
laugh when I remember that I literally cried when I learnt
that Tom had a
girlfriend. I love Alfred and its him
alone I love. I think I was blinded by
anger” she narrated
“Well he is quet charming and good
looking, who wouldn’t fall for him” said Kay. “Just make
sure that he
doesn’t cheat on you again. ”
“He didn’t cheat. He was just framed”
she answered
Cathy’s mother had got a leave from
work. She had stopped eating food and lived only on tea.
She carefully
opened the diary and ran her fingers
through the words in it
“My baby, one day you will know the
truth, the whole truth and then you
will know that am a good mother and I was a good wife
to your father” she
mumbled
The death of Melody had left her
devastated. The one woman whom
her husband loved so much before
he met her. Jane woke up and looked around.
She was in an unfamiliar room. She
sat up and tried to remembere how
she had found herself there but could
not remember. She almost died when
she saw that sleeping next to her was Alfred. She shook
him violently
and he woke up.
“What is this, why are you waking me
up” he protested, facing the other
side
“You wake up” she shouted. He slowly opened his eyes
not
recognising where he was
“Where am I” he asked
“I have also failed to figure out” she
told him
“I only remember that I was with Stanely drinking beer
yesterday but I
dont know how I ended up here with
you” said ,Jane
“I think I remember something too”
he said. “I can’t remember everything
but I was with Cathy yesterday this must be a guest
house, I came here
with her”
“Are you mad” exclaimed Jane ” how
can Cathy be here? ”
It was then that he realised that
Cathy was at school and there was no way she could be
there. Then
who is the girl whom he went to the
gust house with . Jane? The thought
made him shiver.
They were covered in bed sheets.
Their clothes were scattered on the floor
“Oh no” criedJane. “Alfred do you
think we,, did we,,,? ” the words could
not come out. They were both naked,
how it had happened, they couldn’t
remember. They were both confused and didn’t know
what to do.
They shamefully picked their clothes
and put them on.
Isabelle sat in the chair laughing
uncontrollably. She always got luck
with everything she did. She couldn’t remember the last
time she was that
happy.
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Chapter 14
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Alfred moved closer to Isabelle
“You are so beautiful” he said and she blushed
“Do you mind if we finish our drinks
from the bedroom? ” he asked
standing up.
She winked and smiled. He led her to
the bedroom. He ran his fingers through her the bedroom.
He ran his fingers through her hair
which had a very pleasant scent. She
tilted her head and kissed him. One
thing led to another.
An hour later, Isabelle came out of
the bed sheets and put on her dress. Everything had gone
according to
what she had imagined. Finally he
was all hers.
She had fought a big battle
“That was great honey” she said
putting her hand around his shoulder, he was seated at
the edge
of the bed, not moving, like a statue.
He threw her hand and turned to her.
“Leave my house right now! ” he
growled. She jumped back with a
frightened smile. She couldn’t understand the change in
mood and
thought he was teasing her.
“I never want to see you again, you
are a LovePeddler. For your information,
Cathy has forgiven me and even if
she had not I would never be with a person like you. You
are a snake! ”
he shouted fiercely.
Isabelle could feel her blood getting
cold. She grew numb and her head
froze. She stared at him to figure out
if he was serious or maybe it was just a sily joke
“Wa,,, wai,, wai,, wait” she stammered
not knowing how to express herself.
“You called me here, had sex with
me and now you are telling me that
am a LovePeddler. You used me, did you just want to use me?
Why can’t it be
me, why can’t it be me that you love.
Why did you do this, why didn’t you
just tell me that you dont want me? ”
she whispered
“Used you, are you sure I used you,with you anyone can
come in
and go as they wish. You can never
seperate me from Cathy, now leave
my house and never come here”
It was around 9 pm and Isabelle
silently picked her bag and left. At Safaris a week later ,
the three
bachelors were having a drink and
catching up.
“Frank did Alfred tell you that he
slept with a girl just to take revenge
on her” asked Kelvin “What! ” exclaimed Frank
“Yes, he slept with Isabelle and
dumped her immediately after sex”
explained Kelvin
“Woh woh Alfred tell me its a joke”
“Well yes, she is stupid and I had to hurt her as much as
she hurt me,
she almost seperated me from Cathy
man. ” the two bachelors laughed at
him
“And you feel no fling for the girl? Is
she really great in,,, ” “I don’t know, maybe she is or not, I
really dont care, am just happy that I
managed to take my revenge” he
answered.
“Hope you used a condom” said
Kelvin “Ofcousre man, am not careless” he
answered
“Just be careful” said Frank “women
are dangerous, she might be
planning something evil for you right
now. ” Soon It was June and it was time for
mid year exams. Cathy became very
busy with school work just like every
other student.
Alfred reduced on calling to give her
time for studies. They finished writing in three weeks and
were
given a one week break, only those
with homes near went home.
It was during that time that Alfred
decided to visit Cathy. He arrived
early in the morning on friday and Cathy went to pick him
from town.
They came to campus together.
They were so happy to be together
again.
“You are still handsome” said Cathy
“You are more beautiful” answered Alfred.
As they entered campus they met
Tom
“Come greet my hubby to be, his
name is Alfred” said Cathy. Tom
hesitantly brought fourth his hand and greeted him.
“Honey this is Tom my friend”
After the brief introductions, Tom left
with a heavy heart.
Cathy had told him some time back
that she had broken up with her boyfriend, was she just
lying or
maybe they had gotten back
together? . He realised how much he
loved Cathy.
He was stuck with Leah because of
somethings but right there he realised that Cathy is the
one he
loved.
He didn’t see himself getting marrieHe didn’t see himself
getting married
to Leah in the future.
In the evening, Kay left school for
weekend. “It was good seeing you Mr Alfred,
hope to see you again. Enjoy your
stay here, I am going home. ”
She called her boyfriend and went to
his house for the weekend.
“I can’t believe that am finally seeing you. I love you so
much” said Alfred.
They had the whole night to
themselves, chatting about everything
and updating each other about alot of
things until they were too tired to
talk. The following day they went to Ibis
garden for their picnic. They
connected with other couples and
had a lot of games. They went back
to campus in the evening.
They spent the following day in the hostel, re-exchanging
promises and
vows. The love had been rekindled
and Cathy wondered why she almost
left him.
He was still the sweet romantic
Alfred whom she had known at the beginning of their
relationship.
“I think I was just infatuated with
Tom” she thought.
The following day monday morning,
he left for town to go back home.
She escorted him and went back after the bus had left.
She met Tom on her way back.
“Where are you coming from, without
books? ” he Asked
“From escorting Alfred” she answered
“Oh I see, so you didn’t break up? ” “We did but I decided
to forgive him”
“And all this time, I thought you liked
me” he said.
“No, you are my friend, thats not
possible” she laughed
‘Friend zoned’ he thought. ‘So I misinterpreted her
actions, she
felt nothing for me. to her am just a
friend.”he muttered to himself’
Isabelle was thinking critically on
how to punish Alfred as much as he
had punished her. Lucy had told her to drop the fight but
she said she
never gave up in war.
“He will one day sit down and
remember that there used to be
Isabelle and at that thought he will
shed tears” she had told herself. Cathy’s mother was
becoming more
and more isolated from people. She
spoke less to friends at work and
only spoke to Cathy on weekends
unless she called.
The death of Melody her sister in law had brought a
drastic changThe death of Melody her sister in law had
brought a drastic change upon
her life.
She remembered how her late
husband had emphasised on his love
for his sister.
“I love her more than I love myself. I love you more, and
she is my number
two woman, our daughter if we will
have one, one day, will replace you
and you will be on second position”
He had told her years ago before
they even got married. And now both her husband and his
sister had died.
The diary had become her best
friend, she scribbled words in it ,
everyday . each day the handwriting
becoming very bad and hard to read.
Two months from Alfred’s visit to Cathy’s University, on
the 8th of
September, Alfred recorded the most
tragic incidence of his life. Not only
him but Jane as well.
It was on a very good sunny Sunday
afternoon. Jane had coincidentally bumped into Alfred
who was having a
drink at Arizona bar and restaraunt.
Jane had gone to meet someone and
decided to pass time chatting to
Alfred as she waited for her friend .
To Be Continued