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EPISODE 11


It was now a little above two weeks since my fathers transition. 'Transition to glory' is the term the media and the church used to refer to my fathers death but I prefer calling it 'the journey of no return'. No matter what anyone called it, it all meant one thing, my father was dead and he'll never come back. They say there is a particular time in every mans life where he has to realize he has become a full grown man and take responsibilities for his family and be independent, although men of 28 years haven't. Reached that stage yet or at least they hoped not to. But my case was different it came to me at the age 15. I was now the 'MAN' of the house.

It was a very sunny thursday morning and I decided to resume school once again, to pick up from where I stopped before the greatest tragedy of my life took place. Every morning after my dad died had been difficult, as soon as I open my eyes I wished that it was all a dream, I wished I could just wake up to the real reality where my dad is not 6 feet with mother earth. Day by day it got harder learning to live without my dad is one condition I never imagined. Its funny how the things we hold closest to our hearts can be taken from us in a second. Well they say to every disappointment there is a blessing, to every misfortune there is fortune, to every evil there is a good side. I just haven't been able to find the bright side to my fathers death. But I was sure I learnt a lesson from this death that something else would have had a tough time teaching me, that life isn't always what you'd think it'll be, turn your head for one second and the table turns. Now I've realized everyone is just a breath away from where he'll spend eternity its just a matter of time. So that day I made a decision. A decision to make every one in my life count and to make good use of every second I have with the people I care about. Its just a lesson I had to learn the hard way and I realized everyone at some point in their life would learn this exact lesson.


I forced myself to conceive that death is from above and that was the opportune time for my dad to leave this sinful world. So there you have it- 'the bright side to the story' it was or so I made myself believe, just to move on. Speaking about moving on. It wasn't an option for me, its something I had to do if not for myself for my mom and my younger siblings. "Loosing a family member is a lot tougher than it seems afterwards and most people don't know this" I said to my self my ever surfing mind blew in the direction of my friends and school. I didn't know how to face the world now. I was confused on how to answer those curious faces, so many rumors would be on the lips of people who knew nothing, what really is the way forward for me now. So many thoughts flew across my mind.


I reached for my mobile phone that I usually kept under my pillow every night, it served as my alarm clock at night but this morning I woke up before the alarm could go off. 'Six missed calls' it read, "ah....ah who is this person that called me six times in the night" I murmured. I checked the call log and found out it was folake, I made a very loud sigh of disgust and flung the phone in anger "I wonder what she wants again" I thought to myself. Even though I and folake weren't experiencing the best time in our friendship in fact I don't think we have ever had such a difficult time as this since the onset of our relationship, part of me still knew that she was a good person on the inside but I was too angry to realize this at this point in time. The grief of my fathers death still dominated parts of my thinking faculty, I was like clark kent affected by the red meteorite, I wasn't just thinking right

Episode 11 continues

EPISODE 10 CONTINUATION


"Oh yes you guys are very happy. That must be why her face was full of smiles when I passed her at the gate" folake said and turned away from me "what?.....smiles?" I recalled that jane left me with over flowing eyes "folake you are a bloody liar" I said with an increasing tone as folake disappeared from my range of vision. I was very angry and furious, I held my head very tight to prevent it from exploding. I sprang up and wrestled with every inanimate object I could reach, tears overflowed incessantly louder than a five year old beaten to death by his grandmother. I destroyed everything breakable, some men rushed into my room to tame me, one particular mr simon a childhood friend of my father was among the men who rushed into the room. He was as big and built as a night club bouncer at the door. He held me very tightly from behind till my legs were off the ground. I struggled with all my available strength to no avail like an unfortunate mouse in the mouth of a rattle snake "calm down...... Calm down boy. Its okay" mr simon whispered in my ears very softly. My restlessness went down a little bit but tears still trickled down. "He was my father" I said with tears obviously interrupting my voice "did he have to die?.... Did he really have to die and leave me alone in this cruel world. He should come and take me along oohh! Papa come and take me with you ooh!!" I cried out as the gravity of tears increased without control.

Mr simon set me loose from his grip and I fell to the ground, I shook furiously like catfish brought out of water, crying and drooling catarrh all over my body. After a while I stood up and forcefully seized weeping for a while i, I drew closer to mr simon and stared him right in his face. I still sniffed in dogged catarrh at intervals but that didn't get in my way. I held his shirt very tightly and stared him in his eyes looking very serious "where do you expect me to go from here...eh? What do you expect me to do with me life now. He bread winner of my family is gone forever. How are we supposed to eat, what about our education who is going to take care of all that? My mom? Of course not. She can't do all those things, its not just possible. And you stand here telling me to calm down" I yelled in a rather disrespectful tone and the tears threatened to begin season 2. He held my face in his hands forcing me to look. At his face. "Hey look at me. Look at me very carefully .I have always been here, me and your father go way back, I was there when your father got married to your mother, I was even there at the hospital the night you were born and am still here now. I will try my possible best to support this family till the day I die financially, emotionally or psychologically in any way I can. I promise you David, you can always lean on me, trust me" he laid my head on his shoulders as I flooded his shirt with tears....

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emarkson:
welcome back bro

Thanks bro, I must say it feels good to be back too

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
Jeez!!! Bro, I have to bow here. You've a way of making readers feel sorry for your characters and minutes later, feel very mad and irritated at them.

Is Duoz David?

Lol its all show. yh david is my name but don't mind me o d story is pure fiction

EPISODE 10


I slowly released her from my grip and we stared into each others eyes our faces were not more than two inches away and the temptation to kiss her grew stronger by the second we leaned towards each other and gave in to the temptation. She was obviously more experienced than I was as she was so confident in what she did, I forcefully withdrew and sighed scornfully "we shouldn't be doing this my father just died and the next thing I do is flirt with you? No it doesn't just seem right" I said and avoided looking her in the face. "David, I love you" jane whispered in her really sweet voice. "WHAT?" I yelled. I pushed her away and sprang to my feet "you can't be serious" I took a moment to calm down and continued "No jane you can't be serious, all this is just a fallacy, my life is a fairy tale" I said in an unusual tone.


"What do you mean I can't be serious, do you think am lying to you?" Jane said still lying on the bed. "Yes I think you're lying to me and not only me you're also lying to yourself. The thing is girls like you don't happen to guys like me, have you ever heard of too good to be true? Well this is what it is, that is what you are, you are too good to be true jane" I said while visibly tensed. I paced the room for about ten times and finally sat on the edge of the bed beside jane. I wrapped my head in my hands and shut my eyes really tight. Jane sat there quiet doing absolutely nothing " well david I don't know what else to say to you" jane said softly. I maintained my position and didn't utter a word, after a while she rose to her feet and slowly walked out of the room. She got to the door step and looked back. "Would I see you in school tomorrow" jane asked. I nodded my headed negatively and she disappeared from my range of vision.

Tears slowly trickled down my face and I was unable to hold it back, some drops slided off path and dripped into my mouth it tasted very salty and irritating and I spat it out immediately, loads of catarrh drooled down my nostrils uncontrollably and I used my hands to wipe them off but they seemed rather adamant. I ran to the bathroom and washed my face clean and forcefully stopped crying. As I dashed out of the bathroom I bumped into folake who also had her eyes flooded with tears "oh my dear david I came as soon as I heard" folake said "folake please go home" I forcefully said trying to ignore her "besides we aren't friends right? You are mad at me" I added "no david please don't talk like that, we are friends and will always be, please accept my sympathy" she placed her soft hands on my face and wiped off the tears that were resuming duty with her thumb. I closed my eyes for a minute and took in a deep breath. I opened my eyes and shrugged her off. I arrogantly walked to my room and shut the door behind me attempting to lock it, but before I could quickly turn the keys she forcefully pushed the door and I withdrew. "David what wrong with you?" Folake asked with a deadly frown. "Please I have enough fish to fry and I don't think I have time for one of your friendship talks again, so please just leave and let me be, as you can see I have a father to mourn" I said with an unstable voice. "Fine... Fine I'll let you be but just remember I have always been there for you and I will always be, you are my best friend and I care about you so much" folake lamented and it was obvious in her voice that a serious weeping was imminent. I was getting irritated at her pep talk and sighed scornfully. She turned back and headed for the door, when she got to the door step I called out to her "hey folake" she turned back and tried to avoid staring into my eyes, but I could spot that her eyes were brink red. "Jane is ten times better than you will ever be, I like her very much and we are happy being around each other" I lamented without remorse.

Episode 10 continues

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
You are doing a very good job, man. The death is quite a tragedy; I wish David was is having a dream.
Come continue.

Thank u so much man.

EPISODE NINE CONTINUATION

My husband was visibly in shock and couldn't utter a word. The robber snatched the phone and stared at the screen for a while he scoffed softly and put two bullets through his chest. He killed my husband oohhh!!!".

My mom burst into another round of tears and the little seat couldn't curtail her anymore. she fell to the floor and rolled from side to side not minding if she wore her expensive buba and wrapper. Adaobi and gozie tried to calm her down but their effort was to no avail, soon enough I joined them and got her back on her feet. I tapped her by the shoulder and repeatedly said "mama its okay" until her heart rate was back to normal.

We now sat calmly waiting for the D.P.O to round off "I'm very very sorry for your loss, please accept my condolences I know what its like to loose the head of the family" the D.P.O said. "But before I let you guys go. I want you to list all the missing items stolen from your house" the D.P.O added. "Sir nothing was stolen" adaobi said "what? Nothing?" The D.P.O yelled with a surprised look "yes sir nothing" she confirmed. "Okay thank you for your time. If we get any lead on them we will notify you" D.P.O dismissed us. We all stood up and helped my mother to her feet as we headed back home. Adaobi was right, nothing was stolen from us but what they took was worse than anything they could ever steal from us 'my father'. He was my mentor,my hope,my joy,my role model, he was the only one I looked up to, the only one I wanted to be like when I grow up and all of a sudden a stranger comes into my home and takes him from me. I knew in my heart I was going to avenge his death, I didn't know how or when but I knew one day the time would come.


We got home and I headed straight for my room the first thing my eyes met was my phone lying on the floor suddenly my eyes began to water as memories of my dad found its way back to my head, I couldn't fight the hurt that I had to give in to the pain. With so much fierce I picked up the phone and slammed it on the wall, almost immediately someone knocked my door "who is that?" I yelled. Adaobi could feel the wrath in my voice "brother D its richard your friend, he's here to see you" she said in a shaky voice. Should I let him in?" "No please eat him" I replied sarcastically. Adaobi knew what I meant and seconds later richard came into the room and sat beside me "bro I really don't know what to say but am really sorry for your loss" I didn't even look at richard I just maintained my tear filled eyes on the floor "he was my dad, now he's no more." I said as I stood up to have a clearer view on richard "what did we do to deserve this what did he do to deserve this. He didn't deserve to die" at that point the anger in me couldn't be contained anymore I felt like exploding "relax bro its ok. Only God can give and take and now he has taken we just have to trust in him ok?" Richards words of comfort didn't do much comforting but it was better than nothing "thank you my friend" I said in a rather timid pitch. He gave me a comforting tap on the shoulder "its well my friend" he said as he dashed out of the room.

Soon after richard left I felt someone grab me tightly and hugged me. I was surprised it felt feminine, couldn't remember informing any female about the recent development. She released me and I realized it was jane "oh david dear am so sorry, I came as soon as I heard" jane said with a sad face. "Jane how did you know, I don't remember telling you". I asked. "It was richard that told me. Oh my God am so sorry" she said and hugged me again. It surprised me how people are quick to react to tragedy, I held her to my self and wished she would never go........

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"thanks for the ride" "you are highly welcome, my dear" tina replied. Tina turned to face irele and they immediately hugged each other thight like they havnt seen in ages. They later sat irele down and uncle james began with the interrogation with a very calm tone "now irele i want you to calm down and tell me everything you saw" uncle james began. Irele narrated each and every thing not leaving out anything at all.
Uncle james opened the suitcase and collected all the red papers in it and headed for his laptop. He studied all the names and signatures on the original red paper "these are prominent men" he said softly "but i dont get it" he added. He made for the wallet and searched it carefully but all he saw were some naira notes, credit cards, ATM cards and complementary cards. It still didnt make any sense "wait a minute" he said with a bright face. He noticed the names on the real red paper were different from the ones on the fake one. He searched the web and found out they were all popular politicians and they all dissappeared within the same period, no one ever knew the circumstances behind thier dissappearance "this must be it" uncle james kept muttering to himself. Suddenly ransome's phone buzzed out and the screen came to life highlighting "BOSS incoming call" uncle james picked the call without uttering a word but the other person at the end of the line had a message to deliver "ransome my boy" the anonymous being began. "you can run but you cant hide, you have what belongs to me and you know i dont like being bullied, so i tell you what, returm the red paper to me safe and sound in the next 72hrs or else.............
Ransome you know me more than anyone else, you know what am capable of. I daniel akintola never fails. I never fail dear. NEVEEEERRRR!!!! HAHAHA!!!".......... The line went dead.
Uncle james turned to face irele ond more time "irele dear. What did you say was the name ransome mentioned again?" He inquired "it was daniel sir. Do you know him?" irele asked. Uncle james quickly searched through the complementary cards one more time and found it. The card read DANIEL OLAMIDE AKINTOLA, it contained so many numbers and he turned to the back of the card 'BOSS' was boldly written with black ink behind the card which was obviously ransomes writting. He turned back to irele "no i dont know him" he lied. Uncle james quickly searched the internet with the keywords 'DANIEL OLAMIDE AKINTOLA' all the details about daniel fell out like a flood passing through a tiny pipe. "not if i get you first Daniel!!!! NOT........ IF........... I........... GET............YOU.......... FIRST!!!" uncle james spoke with a big evil grin which dominated the edges of his mouth as he stared at daniels picture which was displayed on the screen of his laptop.
END OF CHAPTER TEN
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Irele slowly opened her eyes and saw helpless ransome bleeding to death in a pool of his own blood. She slowly looked up and saw uncle james still pointing a gun at dead ransome. Uncle james had come just in time and shot ransome from behind. The scene was just like in the movies "i take you for a dead man" uncle james replied the question of dead ransome "uncle james" irele exclaimed with deep relief in her voice. "you killed him" irele said as she ran to the dead body and held him tight. Ransome might have wanted to kill her, she might have hated him but for thd fact that he made her feel like a real woman the previous night hurt her so much to watch him die. "irele i saved your life" uncle james muttered with authority. "now pick up that suitcase and lets get the hell out of here" he added. Irele quickly picked up the suitcase and walked up to uncle james. "how did you get here? How did you find me?. Uncke james i told you i was fine" irele bombarded him with questions not giving Him the opportunity to answer one before striking the next "irele you didnt look so fine to me just a moment ago, for Gods sake irele you would have been dead by now. When you told me you were fine i knew everything wasnt okay. How could you comfront an armed man without any backup plan. It seems you really want to be dead" uncle james said as he hid his gun back in his gun case that was usually attached to a customized belt. Series of gunshots filled the air again that sounded like a battle field. "those are the allies of ransome. Uncle james lets get out of here quickly" irele said being obviously tensed. "alright lets move, tina's car is around the corner" "tina's car" irele asked with a perplexed look. Uncle james stopped and turned back to the corpse. He searched the pockets and collected ransome's wallet and cell phone and then faced irele with a smile "shhh. I'll explain later" they ran as fast as thier legs could carry them, irele paused as soon as they got to the door of Tina's car "hey uncle james" irele called "thank you for saving my life" uncle james nodded slightly with a weak smile, they entered the car and zoomed off.
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daniel and his men stormed out of ransomes house and headed for thier toyota suv mini bus parked by the road side "boss, whats the way forward?" scorpion asked. "dont worry my boy. I know ransome like i know the back of my palm, he isnt as smart as you think, he doesnt know the full potential of THE RED PAPER, thats why am giving you a new mission. The biggest mission of your carrier yet" daniel placed his hand on scorpions shoulder and cleared his throat then continued. "i want you to find ransome and kill him" daniel gave the deadliest grin scorpion had ever seen.
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uncle james drove furiously fast overtaking any circumventing encumberance that posed a negative catalyst. "how did you find me?" irele resumed her interrogation "immediately i called you and you told me i shouldnt bother coming i packed my bags instantly" uncle james replied. Irele chuckled and uncle james continued "so on getting to lagos i figured if i called you, you wouldnt reveal your real location so i decided to go to your friend tina. Fortunately for me, no sorry i meant fortunately for you, she had just given you directions to ransomes house. So i forced her to vomit the address so i went in pursuit of you and thank jehovah i wasnt a minute late" uncle james parked the car by the road side and faced irele with a more serious look who sat on the passenger's seat "but irele what if, just what if i was a minute late? What would have become of you?" uncle james asked without expecting an answer. Irele burst into tears and couldnt utter a word. "its okay dear, its all over now" uncle james pathed her on the back as he resumed his journey
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samson opened his eyes slowly and saw tess with her face full of tears. He sprang up from the bed and yelled "where am i?" "samsom please calm down, you are in the hospital you passed out" tess said in an usual loud tone "where is irele?" samson asked "she left, samson that girl doesnt love you please forget her" "no tess i remember, i remember his face, i know him" samson said being visibly tensed up "what the hell are you talking about. You know who?" tess inquired "i know the person that shot me. Its DANIEL" samsom said with a calm tone. Tess stared at samson for a few seconds without moving a muscle and fell to the ground with a loud thud. SHE FAINTED......
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TWENTY MINUTES LATER;

Uncle james and irele arrived tina's house " why are we here?" irele questioned "this is the only safe place for now and besides i had to borrow her ride" uncle james replied. They bounced into the house like they owned the place. Uncle james threw the car keys to tina which she caught instantly with a reflex

Baba u dey talk like say dis tin na abcd i dont use a qwerty keypad nd my keypad is bad ontop. If u think am taking time chek d time that d writer of chapter 9 ended. D bottom line is that i will finish b4 d end of 2day so abeg no dey complain

Irele was breathing heavily and it was obvious she had been pursueing him for a while......"how did you find me?" ransome asked with a puzzled look "oh let me guess, it was your nosy friend tina that gave you directions uh?" he added "hand it over" irele commanded. Ransome chuckled "you must be very stupid to think i would just easily hand you the red paper" "ransome we had a deal and you broke it, you stole the red paper, its not yours give it back" irele yelled with a little more confidence. "we had no deal irele" ransome cuts in "i only took advantage of your achilles heel, your stupidity, your frailty. Oh my dear irele when will you ever learn to trust no one. Infact i think i should end your miserable life right now, the pain, the agony, the deceit, the deaths of your beloved here and there all it takes is one bullet irele, just one it would be a pleasure to end you right now" ransome's face was full of evil as he cocked his pistol and pointed it straight to irele's heart
While irele was still held at gun point daniek and his men broke into ransomes house "search everywhere dont leave any stone unturned" daniel yelled "oh ransome my guy am sorry it had to be like this" scorpion muttered. Daniel and his men ransacked the whole house but ransome and the red paper was no where to be found. "boss there is nothing here" one of the armed men broke the news to daniel. Daniel was so furious and rage took over him, he pointed his gun towards the ill-fated gang member and fired a bullet that split his head apart. "i want this place torn apart, ransome shouldnt have a home to return to. Use your f**king guns to tear this place apart" daniel said in an unusual calm tone. Without wasting further time the gang opened fire and ripped his house apart with raining bullets.
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"you hear those gunshots? They were meant for me, even if i was to hand you this suitcase right now you wouldnt last two days on the surface of this earth before daniel And his blood thirsty beasts take your life" ransome said still pointing his gun at irele. "why dont you let me bother about that. Please i beg you dont kill me" irele said visibly shaking with a very tiny voice. "its too late my dear" ransome placed his hand on the trigger firmly. "you said you loved me. People dont kill who they love" irele tried to mess with ransomes head "shut up you fool. You really think i love you uh?? What do you take me for eh....... Goodbye irele" GBOOW!!!!...... the bullet was launched and its victim helplessly fell to the ground..........
CHAPTER TEN CONTINUES