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HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS....

last year was great with you...i min it was landmark.
wishin you a year of double perfection-
as-in 14.

one thought for you-
dream, pursue, believe in u and God.
love u all!

happi nw YEAR!!!

Adinije: this is superb bro. I couldn sleep till I finish this masterpiece. well done

Thank u dear-

Rex Jeezy: I remember. Jay started this thread on June 20th of this year. But had to stop in July because the comments weren't coming and he had no fans. . .yet. That was July 14th. If not for the timely comment from Jemecks. . .he would have stopped it and left the silent readers hang on the 'air of suspense' which began to thin then and we would not have read/red this 'thrilling' piece of fabric. . .ermm. . .thread.
Moral Lesson: Make una dey comment abi una nor know say no comment dey kill thread like marriage wey the husband e get low sperm-count.

;-( that moment....reminisciszin'
indeed it was though back then, but thanks to the bail out team(lollz)
its a lesson, ill take that too.

REX baba, thanks a lot.

APPRECIATION.
First of all I am grateful to God for this inspiration...(Baba we will still meet in my chambers for thanksgivin part 2)

In the words of Marcel Proust-
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardners who make our souls blossom"

Its been an epic of rain, sunshine, dew and harmathan. Cuttin' through the thoughest time, through vale and heights.
This story lasted for six months and ten days- a long time indeed.
Yet some faithful and inspiring readers started from the sratch, people like Damex, Scon-p, Jemecks, Enomasly, Gameboy, profjingo, slickest.

Some others came afterward.
Dan, ERF, FR3EDOH,SPENDIDFLOZZY, JITESELL, XTOPHERA, RAFIC HARINHURLA TONYXX SWAG-WIZ TEEBEGS TUNSPEAR MARIEENKAY KAZYOTI SHAYOOR REX JEEZY ABITHEL DAVEREBRANDED DUXEYS KELSMIC OGOANITA FELIXANDRA GEN2JAYNEE UBIQUITOUSADE TOSIN7A PLAINMIRROR BULQLAY P-BENI jOnybOy....

And also to my silent readers, i must confess that you all were the wind that fanned these coals that now burn ablaze.

Thank you for your constructive criticism, for your words of ginger and encouragement, for even creating a light atmosphere by fallin' in love with yourselves, i.e shayoor and Rex (he he he)
For borrowing fones to read the story, for loggin in late and early to find updates, for buyin' credit 'nd Bis... for been patient, for coping with my failed promises (ie last night), for persevering...
you did alot, you are awesome and and amazing...

I also appologize for some short commings and typos as i know that they killed the flowz @ one point or the other.

Special thanks to Damex and Scon P for endorsing the story.

Gen2jaynee, you always made me smile when i see ur name... and you followed lately to the end, thank you (hugs and just one peck)

Scon-p, i cant thank u enough.

Damex... I'm speechless-thank u!

Erf, you were awesome, you inspired me @ many times.

Rex bro..., you too much thanks a plethora.

Shyoor i'm shy to say i love u, maybe i'm just playin wid words. Thank u.

Dan, o, a bowl of thanks wount suffice.

Mariee...kid momma, u coped wid ur tight schedules thanks.

Splendidflozzy... o, there are so many others that vibed the vibes to vibes, please just accept my summarised thanks as an epic of gratitude.

On the last note, may God spare our lives to gather next year for my second story on NAIRALAND.
I'm not sure of the title yet, 'coz there are actually two possibilities.

Also i am thinkin' of changin' the title of this book to VOLTURIS.
Coz i discovered a foreign film with the title WLITD.
I need your suggestions and advice on that.

I hope to publish this book 2014 when im done with editin' but trust, i will tip u when the book is out.
I dont really like Nigerian paperbacks for novels, but i'm still searchin' for a good publisher that can give me a New York feel.

What did you learn from this book, did it change anythin' or teach anythin'?

Thank you handsome' and pweedies, for those that doubt their beauty, thank you ladies and gent, ;-) I love you ALL!

C Oyinloye John Oluwatosin 2013.

RUSHING TO CHURCH.
I AM VERY SORRY FOR YESTERDAY, I HAD SOME NETWORK ISH-
BRB

73 (FINAL EPISODE)

‘Father, why is it that whenever you are caught in a web you take it for others infidelity.
You took us by surprise, how then could we have staged something for you.
The priest told me that I was your child, I could not believe it, not until he gave me the history’

‘Now I catch you by your own words, the priest does not know a thing about the affair I had back then. I never told him, not for once.’
‘Oh now I caught you in your lies!’
‘You think you can fool me-’

‘Oh I wish you could be a little patient and think a little father. But I am glad that I did not inherit that from you’

‘Shut up! Do not call me father. I am not your father’

‘Oh then ask the priest how he knew you had a child. Maybe you have doubted his fidelity so much that he is not ready to tell you a thing’

There was silence.

I watched how the priest and salami’s eyes interlocked.
I could not even believe my magic, maybe it flows in the blood. (Guffaw)

‘If he is your son priest, then who is the father of the girl?’ scorpions friend began.

‘Priest do not be confused by the boy, we have trashed this together. If he says that you are his father and not the priest’s then who is the father of the girl?
This boy is so smart do not let him out smart you. Are they not of the same age bracket, don’t they not pass off as twins?’

Suddenly he faced Sandra-
‘You female demon who is your father, and you male demon do not say a word else I will blow off your skull’ Salami questioned.

‘I won’t say a word but if you kill me know that you kill your son’

‘And what do I care if I kill my son? Idiot!’
‘Are you deaf, I said who is your father!’ he turned back to Sandra

‘The Priest is my father’ she said looking straight into his eyes.

I almost yelled at her. How could she say that the priest is her father? However, by the time I analyzed it I knew that it was a perfect answer.
It is a freelance for the Priest to stage something as-
‘Kill my daughter and I will kill your son’. But he may not care, he could kill everybody, I pray that does not happen.

‘My twin brother is dead, he died long ago, so do not start your fuss of infidelity’ she ended.

‘Priest’s daughter?’ Salami exclaimed

‘You thought I was against you, I was cooking the most pleasant surprise for you. You were so blind you could not see it’ The priest said with a touch of sobriety.

He examined the priest for sometime in disbelieve.
‘Priest tell me this is a joke’

‘Do you believe anybody, you are so full of your self!’

‘I am sorry, but how did you know Ebube? I ran away from her when she said that she had a child I could not bare it’

‘I will tell you where Ebube is, but it will be between you and I’

Salami held his head in shock.
‘I can’t believe this’

There was some silence. I was grinning within.
I caught Salami’s sight he was starring at me with pleasant surprise, his mouth pouting gently into a smile.

‘Salami you know the truth.’ Scorpion’s friend began.
‘We all have sacrificed our children except the priest and you, so why not do this as a consolation to us that our leaders can also sacrifice their children without blinking an eye.
Where do you want us to get new sacrificial lambs for this year?
And why should we sacrifice our children when you have not sacrificed yours. That will be unfair, they must die!’

‘Do not talk like that I have sacrificed two of my children, it is the priest’s daughter who must die!’

‘But we need two people’

‘Then go and bring your daughter!’

‘I have already brought my son before. Why must we go and search elsewhere when we have two sacrificial lambs’ Scorpions friend said.

‘Are you mad?’

‘Are you now careful with your son? Do you think I do not know, yes I did not know before, not until scorpion told me, may his soul rest in perfect peace.
The two children you sacrificed were not your children; they were adopted. You have never sacrificed your child before. The one that you indeed gave birth to is abroad breathing fresh air. You are the false man here, the traitor!’

‘Adopted or not, they were my children!’ he panicked.

‘No they were not; they are as good as the children we pick on the street’

‘Is that how you describe my children?’

‘Oh no they are not yours…’

‘Are you mad?’

‘Salami can you see your shame?’ priest said calmly.

‘Oh this is not just my shame it is our shame’

‘You are mad!’

Suddenly the three men that accompanied Salami pulled out their guns and pointed it at Salami. It was spontaneous.
I almost leapt for joy that the battle was now among them. However, by the time I heard what they were asking for I knew that I was doomed.

‘Shoot your son now, or we shall shoot you. We are brothers and no one is equal. We gave up our children as chickens, and you think you can preserve yours?’

‘You cannot turn against me. No not this time, what is this sudden madness?’

‘One more word and you will be dead!’
I was surprised that it was scorpion’s friend leading the coup.

I thought I was smart, but my smartness had brought me face to face with death.

‘Priest I am doomed!’ I whispered to him.

‘Just wait I am planning something’ he whispered back.

Salami raised his gun slowly…
‘What do I have to loose, I barely know him. I was only thrilled that Ebube had a child for me back then, and you see how smart the boy is I-I-I…’

‘My boy was also smart, but I gave him up for the cult!’ one of them rebuked.

Suddenly-
‘Gboaaaar…r….r…gggh!’ a bullet jumped out of a gun.

I held my head.
Salami and his men were as well surprised.

‘Drop your guns or drop dead!’
A baritone voice yelled from behind them

‘This is the Nigerian army, drop your guns!’ the voice screamed again.

In the twinkle if an eye five soldiers were in the room, waving their AK-47s.
They were armed to their teeth.
Like the fall of Lucifer from heaven to hell, their guns dropped to the floor.
I could read fear and shock written all over Salami’s face.

‘Go on your knees and put your hand on your head.’ the voice commanded.
They obeyed slowly.

‘And you why are you standing like an Iroko tree, I said go down on your knees before I
blow your head to the yonder!’
The commander was addressing the priest who still stood shielding us.

‘I never knew you also meant me, please take it easy’ the priest said, going down on his knees.

‘Take what easy, are you mad?’ the angry soldier blared.

‘No I am not mad’ –priest responded

‘How dare you talk to me that way?’ he screamed in anger.
Before the priest could ask ‘How?’ a dirty slap landed on his left cheeks, as he tried to straighten his face, another slap landed on his face. His face crashed into his palms, as he agonized in excruciating pain.

Two soldiers came around and kicked their guns away from them to one end of the room.
They maintained their positions beside them.
Another soldier stood beside us, while the rest two monitored things from behind.

Suddenly-
A soldier appeared at the door with my mother.
She was smiling as she walked in towards me.
‘Mom?’ I called in confusion. I could not believe my eyes.

But there was no joy seeing her. My heart burnt with anger.
‘Have you been in here all this while, what are you doing here you traitor!’
I yelled at her as she brought a compassionate face towards me.

‘I know that I am a traitor, probably you already know. But that is past’

‘Get away from me! I do not want to hear your stinking words. Soldiers she is also part of them. She is evil; she is part of this cult!’

The commander drew closer to me. He moved my shoulders gently.
‘Listen boy, you need to calm down. She brought us here; you owe her your life’
He said in such peaceful voice that I could not believe he was the one who had just slapped the priest.

‘Dave I am here because of the members of the Gods Children Assembly, our archaic church. Despite the fact that we have left them and despised them, yet they still had us in heart.’

‘After we got home that night, dad went to work for a serious over night meeting…’

‘He is not my dad, he is a monster’ I interjected.

‘Oh you already know, but please listen. I was alone at about 9pm when the pastor of the church came to me. I was reluctant to open but his wife was so persuasive that I opened.
They were warm and after some time they narrated their purpose of coming.

‘The spirit of God ministered to us that your son is going to die’ the pastor had explained
Of course, I knew that you were going to die-
‘Of course everybody is going to die someday’ I had replied

‘No I mean before the day breaks. It is so urgent that we could not sleep we had to come and tell you. Look God knows that you belong to a secret cult and you are giving up your son, but he has come to seek you and save you. Come out from the vulture, God said that is the name of the cult’

‘I know that because we left your church you think we had backslide’ I had tried to argue and prove to them that nothing like that happened or would happen
But the more I argued, the more they told me things about my self. I became scared but I could not confess. They preached to me, the message was so hot but I could not still repent. I could not leave the wealth and fulfillment I got from volturis. I knew that betrayal could only be purged by blood, and I never wanted to die.

When they pestered me further I confessed-
‘I belong to volturis but I am never going to come out. Please mind your business and go and tell your god, which are just people hearsays that I am not interested in his salvation. Now get out of my house!’ I ordered them out immediately.

They stood up and walked towards the door.
‘God is not so interested in saving you, he is interested in your son he would be a great minister for the lord.
For this cause and for your stubbornness you shall be blind and if he dies, you shall be paralyzed for life. So when you paralysis greets you, know that you have murdered your son.
Bye, I only pray that the boy makes heaven’ he said with sudden harshness.

I wanted to laugh, but before the laughter could escape from my mouth, my eyes became blind.
I was afraid and screamed.

‘They opened the door and were about leaving.

In fact, I did not know when I screamed and said
‘Please come back, please I want to give my life to Jesus, right away, right away’
It was not because I was blind; I meant what I said. At that point, I was no longer scared if volturis would kill me or not I just wanted you to live.

‘I gave my life to Christ right there and right then. And then there was this marvelous peace within, it is so beautiful. I felt that peace again, I had lost it’ she said soberly.

‘The church had already contacted the Nigerian army, of course it was not a job for the police. After some moments of prayer we decided to come down here, that is why I am here right now. We traveled all the way from Kaduna. Maybe you do not know where this empire is located. It is located below the ground but above is our campground in Abuja where we do have our revival-combined services. It is clandestine, I mean top secret’

I could not believe the location; my mouth fell ajar with surprise.

There were tears in her eyes, but the tears in mine were more than hers.
I could not believe it. I magneted in her embrace as we both shed tears on each other’s shoulder. All I could say was- ‘Momeee’ as I cried the more.

I pulled out gently from her embrace, tears still in my eyes.
I turned to the priest and Sandra, everybody were watching the drama.
‘Mom this is my sister her name is Sandra and this is my father, the priest’

‘The priest is your father, how!’ she asked petrified.

‘You betrayer, you are worse than Judas!’ Salami whispered in a low angry tone.

‘Will you shut up before I blow your head?’ the commander attacked.

‘I am sorry sir’ He said as he folded his hands and bowed his head.

‘How is he your father?’ she asked, her voice shaking.
But that was the last word she could say…
Suddenly like a magic, unawares, Salami slipped a gun from his pocket and emptied some bullets into her chest.
He was so fast that before the soldiers’ bullet could get to him he had emptied about three bullets into her chest. She collapsed to the ground in a loud wail, Blood streaming from her bosoms.

I turned back suddenly with fear and anger. But I could not stand the sight of Salami, his skull had been shattered by the soldiers bullet.
The men beside him were also covered with his blood.
I had never seen blood spill that way, it was a pool. The men had to give him some distance. Two soldiers left the room for the passage, while the rest three and the commander stayed.

I could not believe that my mother was dead, whether she was indeed my mother, or not it made no difference I had known her for years. More so she was changed and the love that the truth had killed was beginning to spring up. She had come to save me, that is a whole lot. She had come to give me life. Why must she die, what are these soldiers doing.

‘Mommy!’ I ran to her. Her sober face dangled to the left as she tried to cough out her last words.
The commander also ran to her. One soldier ran and carried her out of the scene, as he disappeared another took his place.
‘D-a-v-i-d’ she stammered my name
“Momee’ I responded holding her head in my palms
Before I could finish saying ‘Momme…’
I heard one of Salamis men say
‘’I am not going down alone!’ but before he finished his statement the soldiers emptied some bullets into his skull, as they focused on him, scorpions friend slipped out a gun in a split second, I did not know where he learnt how to shoot.
And the next second it was ‘Gboarrrr…gh!’
He was only able to release one bullet before he was sprayed to death. However, the only bullet he released landed directly into the priest’s heart. I watched with bitterness as blood gushed out of his heart like a vandalized oil pipe. He crashed with his knees to the ground, holding his chest. He managed to lie down in his back, holding his chest.

In anger, the soldiers shot the last volturis without wasting a second.

‘Why didn’t you search them?!’ The commander yelled at his boys with fury.

‘There was no command sir’

‘Are you mad, do I have to command you?’

‘Every thing happened so fast and spontaneous sir’ They replied.
Two soldiers appeared from the door waving their guns.
‘Where is the action!’ one blared

‘Well they killed themselves’ the commander said in frustration rubbing his thick brows.

‘Daddy!’ I wailed as I left her and ran to the priest who was swimming in his own blood
I knelt down beside him.
Sandra who had flinched away from the scene for fear, ran towards us.

I put his head on my laps as I sat beside him. His shirt was already soaked in blood.

His pale eyes managed to focus on us.
‘Da..Da..vid—S…Sandra, this is… the end….’he stammered, but what was caught abruptly by three heavy coughs.

‘Please say something dad’ I wailed, my tears dropping to his face.

‘Dad, please do not go’ Sandra cried the more, her mouth pouted in concern. She rubbed his head and tried to catch his gaze.

But that was all he said to us, the last words were to God.
‘God please forgive me my sins, Jesus come- come- come-’ he stammered as he gave up the ghost.

I was shocked at his sudden confession.
‘O, he had had no peace in his Satanism.’ I shook my head in pity.
I turned to Sandra, tears rolled down her swollen cheek. I could not stop mine either.

‘He is gone to be with the lord. Oh father we never got the chance to know you, oh why did you leave, but I am glad that your death had been avenged’ Sandra wailed aloud, grabbing his shoulders.

I could not say a word. I held his head in-between my two palms as I cried aloud.

‘We are under orders we must leave now!’
The commander ordered.

When they saw that we were not responding they came and bundled us to our feet.
‘Don’t you have emotions?’ I shouted at the soldiers.


END




EPILOGUE

As I we sat together in the armor tank-
‘We made it Sandra’
‘It was like it would never happen’
‘You know I thought we would end up as lovers when we were in, but now you are my sister’
‘And you are my brother’ she said ‘But that will not stop me from saying I love you’
‘I love you too, a lot’
I squeezed her hand, as my lips widened into a smile.
………………….

‘The time is 10 o clock. This is the network news from Nigeria Television Authority…’

‘Sandra hurry, the news has started!’
I billowed to Sandra who was having her bath in the bathroom. It was the army head quarters, they gave us a room to stash for the time been.
In no time, she was out, and together we stared at the screen.

‘The Head lines.
Occultic church burnt down with fire, top ministers die in gun fire…’

Probably it was this news that made me never see my foster father again. Our house had been put on sale by the next morning.

The next morning, there was a knock on our lodge door-
‘Who is there?’

‘It is Linda’

72

‘This was not how I taught I would die. I thought I had settled them, something must have gone wrong’ the priest whispered to us.

‘Ah!’ We exclaimed in unison, our low voices vibrating with fear.

They moved towards us some more and finally stopped about ten feet away.

Chest out, piercing eyes and squared shoulders they formed a horizontal block with Salami at the centre. Their black overalls gave them the semblance of the Mafians and Area Fathers. Their turbans were off, but their muffler still rested on their shoulders, red, a color that told us to beware.

There was a blend of gun at their thigh region; they held it low on their right hand.
At least they were no longer pointing the gun at us. But I knew it was just temporal, there were in to KILL.

Just as I whispered to my self that ‘these men are ready to sting’, I spotted scorpions seatmate back in the room. He stood on Salami’s left; the two other men were on Salami’s right.

I had known right from that room that the lousy man would not keep his mouth shut until he sees us go down. I did not know what scorpion had probably told him, or the reason for his unbending hatred.

Salami took a step out of the bloc. I could read from his blood-shut eyes the fire that was about to emanate from his mouth and afterwards the mouth of the baby gun.

The Priest bowed his head and whispered to us-
‘Stop shivering like chickens, we need to stage something. This is the last fight. Spread out behind me, a step backwards. If it comes to worse, you will run zigzag into the room behind us. Dave that was the place you stayed when you fainted. Be smart, be inventive, be real, but watch me. Let’s begin’

Of course, it was war, and he was our commander. We took orders immediately. Our fears evaporated, but lurked somewhere at the back of our mind.

I stood behind him on his right. Sandra took the left position.
We tightened our faces like two angry goats when we could not even strangle a rat to comatose.

The stage was set, and the war begun!

‘Why did you come with guns to fight a spiritual battle?’ Sandra yelled at them.
It was almost real, but I could still pick the slurs of fear in her tone.

Salami smiled.
‘Or are they spiritual guns that kill the soul?’ she completed after she saw that there was no immediate response.

He took a step to the left, facing her directly.
‘Minutes ago I would have melted at your open threats. Then I was a candy now I am a stone.’
He took a step further.
‘I acknowledge your boldness, but they are mere cobwebs around me; they can tangle me no more. Besides, I do not have time to talk with a vegetable.
May I warn you, the next word that comes out of your mouth would be counted, converted and returned into your skull as bullets’

He pointed his gun at her as he took a step forward-
‘Am I clear?’

I could hear Sandra’s heat pounding.

‘Don’t let me ask you a second time…’
He drew closer.

‘Sandra just say yes, I think he now knows the truth’.

‘No don’t say a word’ the priest whispered.

‘Salami you better be careful; what is the meaning of this riffle exhibition I mean what is this nonsense?!’ the priest challenged.

He smiled.
‘It would have been nonsense if you were not a traitor but since you are, it makes perfect sense. I think this empire would do better without you traitor’ he pushed his head slant-forward in a challenge.

‘I think you are out of your mind. You must be mad!’ the priest exchanged.
I could see his angry face from behind.
Deep down I was saying to my self, ‘so this man is my father, this is my family’

‘I was out of my mind when I found this in that bed room’
He brought out Sandra’s mask from his pocket along side the I-Pad.
‘O, you are surprised?’

My heart shut down for seconds. I thought Sandra had told the priest where she hid the mask. Why didn’t the priest take it; on the other hand how did he find it? Oh this is carelessness.

‘And so if you found that in the room how does it relate to me been a traitor? What’s all this fuss? I swear you are mad. You are out of your brains!’

Salami gave a vain smile and paced a bit. He felt on the top of the world, and it angered me.
‘So you could be this tortuous in betrayal, I trusted you priest. I thought we were childhood friends, brothers. I thought we pursued same goal, but I was wrong.’

‘Salami you are out of your sense, get out of my chambers now!’ he dangled a finger before his face.

‘Of course, I would walk out, but that is after you are dead!’

The priest gave a loud laugh.
‘O, you are a joker, you are a big joker, you want to kill me?’ he coughed in laughter.

‘Are you not aware?’

‘Enough of this madness, I perceive you need some clarification.’

‘I do not need your clarification man; I already know all you did. I had it all figured out.
You used the mask to deceive me and I was so foolish to notice it. You made it seem as if there were two personalities, as if I had eaten the girl and she had reincarnated. How could I even have believed that?’

‘Little wonder the pepper stew had a different taste, I ate your mask all together. It is easily dissolvable and looks so real. I fell for that. Kudos to your deceit, but this is how far it can take you, to your early grave. For nothing purges betrayal better than blood!’

‘You are…’ the priest tried to say. But he put his hands in the air-
‘Wait, I am not done’

‘Grasshopper was your agent, I am glad he is dead now.
You know, I thought this children had powers because I could not understand how the girl reincarnated, but now I understand that she is just a mere mortal’

‘Oh I never met such smart kids before. They set the stage in the room and you backed them up with your psycho kinesis skills. They could do nothing beyond moving objects, which were all your antics. The mind they claimed to read was just common psychology. Probably the man that confessed to her threat was just man, your agent.’

The priest shook his head as he watched Salami.

‘You have succeeded in tearing this empire apart and I will tear you apart. You must pay for the death of scorpion, capon and Solomon for they were all victimized of your manipulations and permissions. You thought I would not figure it out so fast?’

‘Linda had two children, a boy and a girl. In as much as I do not have it in facts, I can deduce by your saccharine niceness and unmerited favor that they are your children. You fool, you think that you can kill everybody’s children and save yours, what makes you superior than others. In this circuit, we are brothers, and everybody is equal!’

‘Now I caught you by surprise, there is nothing to say, just say your last prayers’

Like a snow every secret we thought we held melted before our eyes into liquid and flowed into the devils cup.

Sandra drew closer to me. I grabbed her hands and squeezed it for two seconds afterwards I dropped it.

I could also read the surprise in the priest’s face. How could Salami have figured it out so easily? No, he must be a demon.
I could not help but go back to my shivering mood.

‘Is that how confused you can be, I thought you had brains. So that is all you can come up with?’

‘Oh talking time is over, I am sorry, goodbye priest’
He raised his gun.

‘If he shoots run straight behind me into the room. Its just behind, there is a key at the door, lock it. I will shield you with my body I can take enough bullets’ he spluttered.
However, there was something the priest was not looking at, if we get locked up in there, and he is dead, what is our hope of survival?
That is suicide.

I cleared my throat.
‘Before you kill us like chickens have you considered how stereotyped your thoughts are?’
I took a pause to stabilize my voice and grab some courage.

‘Have you imagined why this man would want to save us if we were not his children?
Have you imagined why there was a mask in our room without it been hidden properly?
If truly we were up to something, we would have hidden the mask; we are smart and you know that.
Did you try to examine what happened in that room without bringing the priest into the large picture, or was it larger than what you could perceive?.
What makes you think that you are Einstein with the perfect hypothesis? Real men do not jump into conclusions without proved variables!’

There were some seconds of silence.
I saw the reaction in the other men faces, they could not stand my guts.

Salami paced a bit.
‘So what are you driving at?’

‘I have driven my point. You should look at things from other perspectives.’

I cleared my throat.
‘What if I say that I am your child that was lost to a woman you lost, would you believe it, or would it be too large for you to understand?’

‘What! Are you out of your sense’ he screamed.
Then seconds after, ‘but, but, what are you talking about?’

‘I can see that you do not even want to trust the priest a bit. The priest can explain the connection.’

‘What connection are you talking of? Get this into your skull you small demon, I have no child!’

‘Now you want to disown my mother because she gave her self to you, it is such a pity.’

‘Priest, what did you tell this thing?’

He did not reply him a word. I am sure he also did not know what I was driving at.

‘He told us about you, your history and your exploits. He told me of my mother, I was just about coming to talk with my father, but it is such a pity’

‘Salami is this true?’ Scorpion’s friend asked.

I heard him whisper back to him.

‘I once heard an affair but, I I, I don’t know, could they be framing me up? I need to be careful he could be true. You know I have had a kind of likeness for him from the moment I set my eyes on him’

‘They deceived us before’

‘But we are not sure by this development. These children can not be this smart’

‘Oh you have no trust in your empire, you trust nobody, not even your priest.
Didn’t Joseph my foster father tell you that I was adopted?’ I interjected

‘Wait; do not try to stage another drama with me’

‘I am not staging a drama, I am staging the truth. One day I may have a cult like you my father but I will never build it on infidelity and fear. I would build it on precious stones of unity and love’

He was broken.
He robbed his sweaty brow with his palms.
The men with him whispered to them selves.

‘The affair I had is not as old as you… wait what are you talking about, how old are you? Are trying you trying to make me emotional, I did not have a serious relationship not until…’

‘Not until you left secondary school, did a laborer job and lived with your two friends Joseph and Kinsley, isn’t it?’

‘What?!’ his mouth fell ajar.
‘Priest is this one of your tricks?’

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71

‘One day I was coming back from work when I met Salami walking down the streets of India… and that was the genesis of this empire’

‘Then Salami had started a church and he came down to India to get some powers to do miracles. You know how Africans love magic; they do not love miracles on the other hand. Miracles are from God and they are real.
I was shocked at the thin line between Christianity and what I practiced.
It was a such a pity that so called Christian leaders seek powers from the dark world, when all the powers the dark world have are from Christians, which demons eventually snatch. Most times by sexual immorality…’

What was he talking about and how does that concern me?
‘Priest, the only thing that beats my curiosity now is why and how my mother left me. Any other thing is irrelevant.
Tell me about my family, about my mother, about me, about everything.’
‘Isn’t it Sandra?’ I turned to her.
She nodded in the affirmative.

He clapped his hands together in sobriety.
‘I was on the way though, but I will skip how the empire started, for your curiosity’s sake.
The summary is that this empire was built under satanic strong holds and blood sacrifices’

‘We know that and it is really pathetic’ Sandra interjected.

‘Yeah’ the priest said as he nodded
‘This church is six years old. I came to Nigeria about five years back when the church was just one year old. Then it was still struggling to have a face and also to have members.’

‘Back then in India, I had a big reunion with Salami and we together helped his preaching ministry to grow like a wild fire in the harmathan.’

‘No one should be deceived. The main aim of this church is to send people to hell! Anybody that thinks that Salami’s church is a church is not just an ignoramus, but also an alien who does not know what earth is all about.’

‘Other pastors come to me for similar cases, desperate animals they are. It seems that pastoral charms are the most lucrative part of my job in this part of the world.’ he shook his head.

‘When I came to Nigeria of course the first thought that crossed my mind was Linda and my children. I had no idea how I could reach them. I did not know why, but I never asked Salami about their where about. Probably if I had done that by now, he would have concluded to my conspiracy. The blood of the traitor can only purge betrayal in a cult as well as this cult. You know what that means, if they ever discover that I am in this they would forget that I am a priest and that is death for me’

‘After about two years I met with Joseph, which is Dave’s foster father. We had a date at Transcorp Hilton, it was more of a reunion of three old brothers, Salami, Joseph and I.
Strangely he was still a committed Christian. I could sense his spiritual energy from contact. He was a true child of God. He went to GOD’S CHILDREN ASSEMBLY; your former church. I tell you in as much as that church is criticized; it is a real and true.’

‘When we met Joseph we wanted him to be part of us again, we wanted him to loose that Christian aspect of himself. It was not as if we really wanted to harm him, we only wanted him on our side as old times- but this time to rule Volturis together.’

‘We talked to him that day. We enticed him with wealth, position, promotion, protection, power and all material things that beat man’s passion.
He was adamant and we really did not like it. We tried all kinds of persuasion but he bluntly refused on the premise of an undoable faith.’

‘Seeing that he would not be bought over by mere persuasion, we took it to the next level. I called India for some powers, and together with one of my schoolmate, we created a demon, which took the form of a female.’

‘We put the love of the woman in his heart; the way we did it was by dreams. We made him see her as a lovely woman. We made him have sex with her in his dreams with the cover of wet dreams. We did so many other things with him in the dream. It was not easy for us but we penetrated at his weakest spiritual moments; for instance a day whereby he forgets to pray in the morning or before going to bed.’

‘After we were sure he was weak, we created a scene where he met with the woman as a human being. We made his car faulty, so he had to go by bus. The woman was blessed with subtle words and beauty. They sat together in the bus while coming back from work.
When he met her he could not lay his hands on where he had seen the woman, he only knew that she was familiar. So he was the one that started the conversation. The woman started by romancing his laps in the bus and that was the killing force. He was so carried away by the woman’s sensuality that they stopped on the way and checked into a hotel to complete their sexual escapade.’

‘Of course he had sex with her about three times before going home that night. The essence of the sex was to plant a deep hunger for cannibalism and worldliness in him. It was bad with him, I mean the hunger and crave. He became a sex peddler, and with time he could not stand his church preaching no more’

‘After that, we left him and the demon went back to the spirit world.
He began to have strange dreams, he saw himself in symmetries, among vultures, owls and so many other strange happenings.’

‘After sometime Salami went back to him to talk him in; then it was so easy. Salami revealed our true self to him. He also told him the biblical ‘truth’ of cannibalism. The hunger was already there, and then in a snap it was bingo! He accepted to join and that was when he left his church. We did not have to work on his wife; by the time he made love to his wife, she had the spirit herself. The spirit resides in the sex organ of any cannibal ’

‘That was how they joined volturis. The spirit of cannibalism is so strong that you can do anything to cannibalize. It is just like a vampire that had just been turned’

‘To cut the long story short, we had a meeting a month back and it was their turn to sacrifice their child and eat him. Usually the person offering a child has 50 percent of the body. You know Salami is a very loquacious man, by the time he broke things down, they were begging to bring the date closer. The process would increase their spiritual energy, and protect them from evil. BUT on the other hand make them twice doomed for hell!
No volturis is scared of hell. We are rest assured that hell would not be so hot for us. We are small demons. But with my recent dreams and afflictions, I do not think so.’

‘In the midst of these happenings, I was still trying to locate my family.
Then at last, I was able to hack into the University hospital’s record to trace your names and the doctor who had carried out the childbirth.’

‘I ran through all the files of the orphanage houses in Lagos to see if I could trace you. Then I found your names in an orphanage home, Oladele Home of Love, Oshodi. Curious I traveled back to Lagos to check who was concerned.’

‘I got to the orphanage home and there I met with the CEO. We had some talk,

‘I am the father of these two children that were here some years ago…’ I began.

He was such a harsh man.
‘So what do you want me to do? This is how careless parents come here every time, thinking they can just barge in and bag out their children after we have labored on them all these years!’

‘But should it not be good news to these children you love and to you if you love them that a prodigal father is come back home for them. Or what kind of illogical man are you?’

‘Do not try to insult me man’

Of course, I was not trying to insult him. He was an elderly man, probably in his early seventies, a man devoted to orphans until his death

‘I am sorry’ I had apologized.
‘Can we start again; I have no intention of taking the children out. I just want to know how they are, apologize to them, and see how I can help them out. Look I am not irresponsible should in case you are seeing me as one.’

‘Some human traffickers shipped us down to Italy many years back, I was young then and that was how I lost the sight of my unborn children. I felt bad because I loved the mother so much. It was so timely, no I mean so untimely. I love them and that is why I have come back for them. I come as a prodigal father’

He shot me a pitiful look.
We had some more talk. After he was okay with my person and reasons, he picked up the names to see their whereabouts.
He came back to me wearing a sorrowful face.

‘I am sorry, their mother kept them here for only nine months afterwards she took them away. I can remember her very well; she was a quiet and beautiful woman. I was angry at the idiot that had impregnated her, but that did not stop her in any way. In fact, she was here about a year back to give some donations to this house, she is such a philanthropist…’

‘That is okay!’ I blared not wanting to feel guilty.
‘Do you have her contacts?’

‘Oh do not remind me of an ugly experience.’ He began shaking his head
‘My house was raided some months back they took away my money, phone, lap top. In fact, they also raped my grand daughter that was staying with me. It was a horrible time in my life… what I am saying is that I lost my phone to the robbery alongside her number’

Hearing that, I knew that there was nothing reasonable that I could get from him any further.
So I stood up,
‘Thank you’ I said as I offered him my hand.


‘I came back to the empire bothered.
Few days to your kidnap, I was talking privately to Joseph. I was surprised at why he decided to sacrifice his first son when he could sacrifice his daughter.
Then he confessed.

‘Oh my son, he is not really my son. I love him though. But you know that Salami said that when you sacrifice someone you love, it gives you more power. Besides I cannot sacrifice Vera my daughter, she is my blood and my wife is a month pregnant already. Look Salami also told me that it was the child of the strange woman that has been hindering my financial boom. Look there is nothing I cannot sacrifice this time…’

He went ahead and gave me a thousand reasons, all from Salami, and of course, the zeal of cannibalism had eaten him deep. Every volturis sacrificed their children at one time, mine was an exception because I was not married’

I asked him where he got the child from…

‘It is my cousin sister’s child.’ He began
‘She got a child early back then. Back then there was this girl I fell in love with a year after you left or she fell in love with me, well I did not know which happened first. I was twenty-four then. She was from a wealthy home and also from the church I went to. Well it was another complicated story; she was older than me with two years.’

‘She loved me deeply. Her parents were at first worried that she was marrying me but when they saw that she was totally into me and I was responsible they had no choice than to allow us marry.. I was lucky to get a job in a textile industry then, and that was what I used to pay her bride price. The wedding was largely sponsored by her parents. After we married she insisted that I go to the university. With her as my biggest sponsor, I took a per time. Within’ the next three and the half years, I was done and I came out with a second class lower.’

‘She was a career woman and was not ready to have a child, in fact, she said she would even love it not to have children, but just adopt.’

‘Then I remembered that my cousin sister Bimbo had a child who was suffering in the orphanage so we decided to take him. . We took the boy when he was two years old, on his birthday.’

‘They were twins. But before then her close friend who had been barren for years decided to take the girl. That woman happens to be Maria, Volturis external member, the one donating her daughter alongside me. Look no one know that they are twins they do not even know themselves. They only go to see their aunt at different times but they do not know that she is their mother. Her husband was aware of the children when they married, but there was no way they could take them back. It was going to affect their psychology badly’

‘Well it may be a bad thing to do to my cousin, but she doest not want the children either. They will only bring us misery. Look priest, the zeal of cannibalism has choked me up. I want to ascend high in spirituality. Now I understand why you went to a satanic school. It is great, very soon I would also love to go there. It is so beautiful’

‘I was shocked at Joseph’s story, not that he wanted to sacrifice his adopted child that he had trained for years, of course I know that that is all spiritual manipulation.
But the amazing thing was how he never knew that I was dating his cousin sister back then.’
‘He used to tell me that he has a cousin sister in University of Lagos, but he never checks on her. The only day I brought Linda to our apartment, he was not at home it was just Salami.
It was a big shock that he never knew afterwards. Maybe there was no scene where salami met with the girl in his presence. Else, it would have been revealed.
Incidentally, two weeks after I left for India they left the apartment, so there was no way she would have even suspected we were ever friends by seeing them in my apartment’

‘I marveled. The world indeed is a small place. I could not believe immediately that they were my children, my blood!
I asked him the child’s name and he said ‘David Joseph’ after his name.’

‘Curious I also met with the other woman; Sandra’s foster mom.
She responded just the way Joseph did. To cut the long story short I extracted your name from her- Sandra Maidawa.’

‘I still did not want to totally believe it so I told them to bring a strand of hair from you both. I framed it that it was to check your spiritual energy and see how you will fight for the empire in the spirit world. They gladly did by using your hair combs, because I asked. Now that was three days back.’

‘I went to the hospital for a DNA. And that was it, that was my final proof, it was a perfect match. With Dave, it was 99 percent. With Sandra it was 96 percent.

‘When I discovered that you both were my children, I was so bothered. I could not watch you die. I felt that Lucifer had taken all my joy and the last thing was what he was about to take. I could not watch you die. You guys were also so smart so intelligent, so branded… I loved you from the very sight of you.’

‘Look I am telling you all this because I know that I will surely die any soon. I perceive it, I am a spiritual man I know when evil is near. I have made confessions against Lucifer’s empire, thereby breaking the code of conduct I have signed with my blood. You may not understand.
Look If I am not killed by angry demons who are angry at what I am doing, some men in green would come and rend me down. The devil does not get satisfied until you loose all that gives you joy. He is a jealous being he wants to be the only thing you think of. That is why witches and wizards barely have a family. I have lived for him all these years, and there is no single peace.’

‘You are the last thing I have, and I must tell you the truth; I am frustrated in this, there is no joy with the devil. Go back to your former church. That is where the truth lies.
But If I am giving a chance to live again then I would serve Jesus. There are some Christians praying for you, I do not know how they gathered, but I see their arrows flying in all through the night’

‘But I think my death is inevitable, and I would not stop it. I can’t’
He drew closer and held our hands.

There were tears in my eyes.
‘Why are you talking like that’ my heart began to pound.

‘Priest, what is happening?’ Sandra called out in a sorrowful tune. Her eyes also clouded with tears.


Suddenly, the door was forced opened, Salami appeared with three other volturis holding guns. They pointed the guns at us and advanced slowly. Spreading as they entered, covering us should in case we might want to escape

‘Now I know that you are a traitor! Betrayal can only be purged by blood, priest this is your end.’ Salami threatened as he advanced with the gunmen.

We jumped to our feet and queued behind the priest.
Fear gripped me until I began to vibrate like a beheaded chicken. I wanted to put on that die-hard look but I could not find it. Even Sandra that was the ‘diva’ held my shirt, her hands vibrating for fear.
These men would spray their bullets on us the next minute.

‘This was not how I taught I would die. I thought I had settled them, something must have gone wrong’ the priest whispered to us.

‘Ah!’ We exclaimed in unison, our low voices vibrating with fear.




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He raised his head after sometime.

‘Your foster parents were faithful enough to alter just the year, but I am glad they did not alter the dates. This may sound so sudden, but I am your father and your mother is Linda. That is what I have been trying to say all this while’

I jumped to my feet as if had suddenly been bitten by a scorpion. Sandra followed the frenzy. The words sparked in my eardrums like fireworks, at the same instance rending my heart into liquid.

It was not a total shock, but while he spoke, I never narrowed it down to my self. I thought it was just Sandra.
‘What is this man talking about?’
I turned facing her.

‘Priest I do not understand, what is the connection?’ Sandra asked in a sober but loud voice. It was easier on her because she had been told recently that her mom was nowhere to be found.

The priest stood up. A pitiful tear wandered the length of his cheeks, sinking farther into the world of his beards.

‘Please have your seat’ he said
‘There is so much I have to explain. I know that it is complex, but please listen’ His voice was pitiful.
He placed his hands on our shoulders and gradually pushed us down as he also went down to his chair.

I could not hold back the shock. It was a total confusion. How could my parents not be my parents?
The thought of how I asked my dad whom I resembled and the TV program of that same day came to my mind again. Does it mean that nature has been speaking to me all this while?

I looked deeply into his face. I could see the tiny lips semblance that I did not see in my father. I could sense his aura of stubbornness and a critical spirit, just like mine. I also could see the long slim ears and streamlined body. How could this be true? But it is too apparent to be false!

I thought of my mom, of her love all these years. Although I stayed in the boarding house all my life in secondary school, I did not really have much time with my mum. Nevertheless, visiting days and holidays were always worth it.

Could this be the confirmation of my thoughts? Am I back to my first thought that my parent can never offer me to cannibals except if they are not my parents?
Already I had disowned them in my heart, but how can I now think of owning a demonic man as my father. A man of blood, a devil’s agent, a murderer, how could I?

I had thought that a miracle would happen which would usher me out of the empire. I had planned of bringing the world upon them. Shall I now with this development destroy the empire along side my father? Even if he is the main evil worker and the back bone of evil.
No, he cannot be my father; he should not!

How did it happen in the first place? How did I get to my foster parents? Why did my mom leave me? If he has been this long in Nigeria, why had he not come for us. Why did he bring us to this empire in the first place? Why did I have to suffer all this if he truly is my father?

The questions were like fusillades in my head.
I starred at him as he rolled his mouth gently in an attempt to bring out those strong emotional words.
Impatient, I blared.
‘Sir, please speak on I am confused. Just talk, anything I don’t understand a thing!’

‘I do not know where to start from, just give me some time’ he muttered

Sandra’s face was already red blushed, her lips pouted. Her chest rose and fell rapidly, her head moved uncontrollably from left to right.
‘You’ve got to be kidding me’ was all I heard her murmur beneath her breadth.

‘Okay listen to me my children’ he began
‘The next question may be who Linda is.
Linda is two people, Uncle Soji’s wife (I was listening to your conversation in your room, I had it covered) and David’s Aunty Bimbo; they are one person. If peradventure, you had gotten to your destination, which was never supposed to happen, then you would have met with the same person. You are twins; you are brother and sister, you are the children my beloved Linda had for me. You are my children. You are my blood, my very flesh. There is no how I can watch you die. You are the last ember that fell from my burnt down love. If my school took away my love why should my job also take away my children?’

I could not believe the sudden connection. He said so many important facts in one sentence and it really got me emotionally confused.

‘We are twins?’ we both said in unison after some seconds.

There was an awkward thought that came to my mind as we said that.
‘So we are never going to make it as lovers, so she is my sister’

I could not contain the shock; it was like a drama, like a movie. I began running temperature. I could not utter a word. I bit my lips a thousand times in confusion. My eyes wide opened in disbelief.

‘You mean that Dave, as in, I mean, you mean that he- he- he is my actual- blood brother?’ Sandra stammered pointing at me.

He nodded gently
‘Yes and I am your father’

Sandra began furiously.
‘Then how did we get here. Are saying this just to confuse us? Do you think you can just say that to win us over? How can you think that you can fall from the sky and claim to be my father, did I tell you I am fatherless? What exactly do you want, because all this happening here, I mean right now, all this is just madness!’
She held her head afterwards

‘Please relax Sandra I will tell you everything you need to know. Linda is your mother and she is your aunt in Lagos. I know you have probably met her, how did she treat you.’

‘If you are you are talking about my aunt I have never met her. I was in Lagos twice and the two times I never met her.’

Suddenly a scene flashed my mind.

It was years back after my junior years; I spent the long vacation in Lagos with my aunt- Aunty Bimbo. I did not make up my mind on time so I left home a bit late. At the long run, I spent only two weeks there. Then it was heaven on earth. My uncle was away, he traveled on an official trip to Maiduguri. So it was just my aunt, her two lovely male twins and me.

One day we were in the porch of her gigantic duplex. Ahead of us was a still swimming pool.
We were just relaxing in the cool of the evening. Her two children, Josh and Drake were asleep at that time. They are wonderful kids. I could not even begin to look at them as my stepbrothers. It would be such a great privilege. They were both ten but smart.

We both mopped at the swimming pool for minutes without saying a word.

‘You are beautiful’ she said breaking the silence.

I was shocked.

‘I did not even know you were looking at me, I would have caught you from the corner of my eyes. But, wait, what do you mean aunty?’ I ended with a sudden realization.

‘You make me think of my daughter’

‘I make you think of your daughter? How do you mean, you do not even have a daughter?’ I turned to her raising my brows.

‘Yes I do not have a daughter, but you look kind of feminine and it makes me imagine what my daughter would look like’

‘Wow, so you mean that I look like a girl?’

‘Yeah you do’

‘Do you still want to give birth to a baby?’

‘No my husband is fine with it’

‘How about you, are you happy?’

‘My husband is my joy, and so long he is happy I am’

‘Wow, marriage is funny’

‘How’

‘I do not know’

‘Well you are to young to perceive marriage, so just face your books’

‘You don’t know me aunty; marriage or girls is not my thing. To me what comes first is pursuing a dream; I can forgo anything to get my dream. After that, in fulfillment, I can now accept to be caged in marriage’ I ended with a smile.

She grinned as well.
‘Yeah that is right, just like your father’

‘My father, you mean my father wanted to become a lawyer?’

‘Yes, oh, no, I mean, but you did not mention it. Did you way you want to become a lawyer?’

‘Did I say it, well I do not know but that is the dream I was talking about.’

‘Oh that is fine. Pursue your dreams; they are good. Just don’t go into anything satanic like, like some people’

‘Satanic, how do you mean?’

‘You know lawyers; they kind of belong to secret cults and....’

‘Oh aunt are you trying to discourage me?’

‘Oh no I am not I love law, why should’nt I when, oh come on.’

‘Your mood just changed minutes back I can perceive it, you are no more warm and lively again. You are dull. Ma what is bothering you, you think I should not become a lawyer?’

‘No I think I need some rest. Sweet heart we will talk later, I have to go’
She drew closer and gave me a peck.

‘There is a way I feel when you peck me aunt’ I said smiling.

‘Do not be naughty’

‘Naughty, how?’

‘Hey I’ve got to go’

……………………

I did not know when my eyes became so clouded with tears. So she is actually my mother and I did not know all these years. My father said that she was his younger sister. Oh no, she was still in love with the priest. How come she did not get close to Sandra. As in, how could she have a daughter and not see her for years?

I had always loved her. She was a successful medical doctor, rich, with a fine caring husband and caring kids. I never fixed my self in her picture.
I shook my head. The sweet names she do call me came rushing into my head-
‘Honey, Dave of valor, my king, my baby, sweet heart, honey pie…’ oh she was so nice, so sweet.

‘No this is impossible!’ Sandra yelled as two strands of tear rolled down her cheeks.

‘I saw her then when I was in her house. She was not around but I saw her picture. I stood before it. There was a strong connection. She looked like me. But when I asked uncle Soji he said it was mere coincidence. I knew it, o I knew it!’
She sobbed.

‘Now that you both believe me…’

‘No do not say we believe you, how did we get here. Why did she abandon us, why?’

‘She abandoned me and it was her fault’

‘No it was your fault!’ Sandra yelled in bitterness.

‘See you are already taking sides with your mother.’

‘Okay it was the fault of the satanic school’

‘It was nobody’s fault, it was only fate’ I interjected.
There was pin drop silence.
‘Dave, you are great’ the priest said, carried away by my analysis.

Sandra looked at me then after sometime she nodded. I could tell what was going on in her hearts. She loved me, but she could now understand that it can never go beyond that, else it would be a taboo, or worse put, incest.

‘Back to my school days…’ The priest continued.
‘The first of the five remaining letters contained the name of our children. .
The second was about how the children were faring
The third was her thought on giving the children up for adoption.
The fourth was how she found her new love.

The last was her break up note. That was the note that got me emotionally down. However, it defined reality for me. How could I even expect her to wait for ten years, without a message from me?
Somehow, I felt that she could have waited if I had replied her letters. She truly loved me, when a woman loves she loves for real- R Kelly’


‘Her letter went thus’

This is the third year that I will be writing to you without getting back a single reply. Even the post office will bear me witness that I have tried, I have loved you to my last sweat. But I cannot live in fantasy forever, I mean no one can.

Guys both tall and short have been coming to me, and I have turned them down. I used to tell them that I have you, but if I say that one more time, it would only be a wish because I had lost you auld lang syne(long time ago)

I have chosen to settle down with this amazing guy, and we would get married in the next two years when I would be done with my service. I have tried for you.
Do not dare reply this letter, because it is too late. I will change my address and disappear. Probably you have a belle there already, go ahead

Thank you for everything.

Never mind, I have found someone like you, I wish you nothing but the best.
Pursue your dreams, and thank you for frustrating my love. May you reap what you sow. Well the best way to heal from a broken heart is to find another heart, and that is what I have just done.
Take care of your self. I swear you shall reap this to the fullest, you could not even write a break up note, so pathetic!
It is so unfortunate...
Bye forever, well maybe you are already dead.

LINDA.



‘As I dropped the letter on my bed I did not know when the tears started flowing down like the rain. I could not hold it. The school had taken my life from me. Nevertheless, I did not blame the school. I could not even blame them if I wanted to.’

‘I still felt something for her, but knew it was just embers, the real thing had died in school. I am not capable of love, at least not at that age.’

‘The next day I went to the symmetry and buried a flower in the ground.
It was a way of burying all her curses and burying the relationship we once had’

‘I graduated that year as a strong versatile spiritualist. I was one of the best student in school.
I was the best student in psycho kinesis and history, in others; I was just as good as the best.’

‘I had my office where I worked as an historian, consultant and magician.
One day I was coming back from work when I met Salami walking down the streets of India… and that was the genesis of this empire’




continues today-
(really wanna finish up before the year raps up)
Thank you all, for following all this while.
kisses and hugs, shakes to the guys.
happi boxin' day!!!