TORN 11




... Jasper's statement surely waved me left and right but only mentally...but then the force and swiftness of Abuchi's punch on Jasper's face instantly moved me out of my standing position as I luckily escaped being brushed on the nose by his fist!.

" I told you to watch your mouth!! " Abuchi roared as he pounced on Jasper on the floor throwing more punches on his face like a pugilist.

...I was too dazed about Jasper's utterance to even bother about his face-off with Abuchi.. That was a very sensitive topic and the most painful experience of my life.. The part of me I tried so hard to heal from.. The only thing Kachi didn't know about me... Even Maryann knew my Dad was dead but not how it happened. The only person that knew that story so well in that room was Abuchi... And now Jasper?? I questioned myself.
....The least favorite human being I had come across in life.. Knew about the most painful loss of my life ??.. How??.. I kept on questioning myself.. They have to be a connection.. A way he got to know that my father was murdered...and then suddenly as if I didn't interpret Jasper's statement properly earlier before..it hit my brain again..this time more clearer!!
Could jasper have an idea of who killed my father or he was making an assertion to mock me??.. I thought..and then breathed in deeply, in automatic readiness. Whichever one it was...I became determined to find out. I looked up, fully conscious at that point, and found Kachi successfully separating the two men... Abuchi had really dealt Jasper a bad one cause the latter was bleeding all over his nose..and it seemed the upper part of his left eye was swollen.... Abuchi on his part had a very big ruffle on his shirt and bloodstains all over it...with a very tiny cut on his lower lips that was almost not visible asides from the trinket of blood on it.

Kachi went to the bathroom and brought a towel and a half-filled bucket of water and gave it to Jasper to clean up... I stared at all of them one after the other...from jasper to Abuchi and then to Kachi... My eye met with Kachi's as he unbounded Maryann....he had tears in them... I stared at Maryann and she shamefully moved her eyes away..her face made me remember Nedu's body... I stared at it again.. On the floor... Probably cold.. and then my stare went back to Jasper immediately.. This time it was a different stare..it had flames in them!!.. I knew I hated him...and the events of that day had heightened my anger and disgust for him.. I shifted myself and faced him directly at that point..he was still cleaning his bloody face and oblivious i was staring...

My father, who told you he was killed??.... I found myself asking... It was a question..directly at Jasper...but with the way my voice sounded..it seemed i was demanding an answer from someone else ....
...Jasper stared at me very angrily and then shifted his stares towards Abuchi and back to me..and continued his cleaning without much as saying anything...
.. I stood up..turned and looked at Abuchi...and it was certain to me he was the culprit..the guilt was on his face even though he tried so well to clone it with anger.

Do you have something to say to me??... I asked him gently... More like I pleaded, hoping I was wrong and that it was all a misconception.. but deep down I was already set to boiling point...

"Let it go kamsi" Abuchi replied gently.. trying to avoid my eyes.

I trusted you... I made you my confidant..and what do I get in return?? You share the most painful part of my life with a nitwit and he now taunts me with it!!..?? I roared at Abuchi..visibly out of my cool...

I was soaked with tears at this point..but certainly not just because of what Jasper said to me... I have had a very emotionally draining day and that statement from him was almost the breaking point..the point where I thought I couldn't withstand it all anymore..so that was me releasing the whole accumulated emotional stress!

"If you call me one more name again... I swear to God I will blow your fucking brains out.." I heard Jasper threaten me behind..

"Knock it off Jamike!!" Abuchi barked...

..." or what?... " Jasper retorted

"I said knock it off!!" Abuchi roared again making his way towards Jasper for another round!

"Enough!!" Kachi screamed!! ..his voice resonating the whole of the room I feared the wall will crack! .... I turned to stare at him..I hadn't taken much notice of him all this while... He had been cleaning off the bloody bruises on Maryann's wrist... He stood up gently from where Maryann was and turned to face me. His eyes were full of tears... I could also spot the face of Maryann...she looked so frail with some guilt-trip expression on her face... Like someone who had something, she was hiding...

"DE pls... let's go home" Kachi pleaded..visibly tired of the whole drama..
...At that point I couldn't agree more with him..the whole event of the day had been too overwhelming and if there was anything I needed more at that point..it was to go home and rest...but then I surprised myself when I told him...

No.. I am not leaving this place until I get the answers to all my questions..and if anyone leaves...I will get the police involved... I said.
......And a very dense silence followed suit..the sound of my voice and expression was probably so serious everybody knew I was not bluffing... Even Jasper stopped cleaning his face and stared at me.

Let me start with you, Maryann... I continued.. How did your cousin become your boyfriend??...and all this while you failed to tell me... Why?? ... I concluded gently...but even as gentle as my voice was ...it was still thick serious.

Answer me!! ....I shouted this time..startling Maryann who was taking too long to look me in the face..let alone say something.

"Dessy I am sorry..." She began crying... "I didn't mean to lie to you... When Nedu told me he had been assigned a new case on a deadly cultist group in our school.. I didn't think it will get to this..." She stopped to wipe out the mucus dripping out of her nose and then continued.

.."He only told me it involves Kachi after he saw him at the library".... She paused again and looked at the men out of fear..and managed to continue... "He made me promise not to reveal his mission to anyone.. That is why I didn't tell you" she finally rounded up wailing like a bereaved widow..
... I was still in tears at that point but not because of her story..but because I still didn't know how I got myself in all that mess...

So how come you introduced him to me as your cousin and you both are here with his body lifeless on the floor?? I queried her further... obviously unaffected by her tears...

"I am sorry !!" She burst out into more fresh tears....

Your sorry is not what I need right now.. I need answers!!. I barked again..and somehow..everyone in the room seemed to be under an imaginary spell I created..they all kept quiet with their heads bowed as if on a thought..or deep regrets...

"Nedu asked me not to reveal his identity to you... Somehow he had already seen you before he landed the case.. He told me he met you once in a bus on one of his investigations where he disguised as a hawker in the market.. " Maryann came to a pause again..coughing out something that looks a bit dark...I was a bit scared she might be having internal bleeding... But my soft spot was far from reach at that point to care about her health condition..

And?? I pressed her further.. Still looking stoned cold.

"He got your pictures from your Facebook account and forwarded it to me for identification after his superiors told him your department and he discovered it's the same as mine... " She paused again..staring at me and maybe hoping I would say something...but I guessed my expression was all she needed to continue...

...."He was told you are the ally he needs to get strong evidence against Kachi and probably the rest since you are both roommates...and when I told him how close we are..he asked me to maintain the act so as not to give you a clue on his mission" Maryann stopped again to catch her breath.....she seemed to be having issues with breathing..
....I scoffed.. Figuring out she already knew Kachi and I were roommates before the incident at the library..yet she acted surprised.. I wondered if there was any truth to all what she had just told me or it was all an act as well..I sighed heavily..stared deep into her eyes...I couldn't make anything out of it.. Somehow I felt the Maryann I knew earlier and the one in front of me are two different persons.. I caught the scent of Nedu's blood again and it reminded me she hadn't answered my main question..

So how come you and Nedu are here with his body lying lifeless on the floor...?? I asked her again with zero interest..somehow I was feeling all she had said were lies..or maybe it was just me having trust issues with her since our trust bond was already broken ... Whichever one it was ...Maryann was saying something ..so I quickly exited my thoughts to catch up with her....

...."and the number called again after you left with your laptop earlier today... telling him how best to get you talking" .. I caught Maryann saying... and before I could make a mental calculation to ask her what number she was talking about and who owns it...she had already continued..

"I kept asking Nedu if he knew who the informant was..but he said No, but that all the information he had gotten from the anonymous source so far had proven to be legit...and so he decided to flow with the plan initiated by the informant.. " She paused and coughed again..it was visible at that point it was blood she was coughing out ...

... "What was the plan" I questioned like I had become a detective myself....still surprised at how cold-hearted I had become not to care about her state of health ..the whole room was still dead silent ....
..Maryann paused for a while ...staring at every one of us in the room..she looked helpless..her tears were beginning to thin out..all of a sudden..she lifted her face and continued..this time with zero expression

..."He told me the plan was to try every means possible to woo you and then play the ultimate scorecard on you..he told me he was meeting you at a guest house today as advised by the informant to work his wits on you..It was 40minutes after he left for the guest house that Letitia called me and asked me to come to her aid about an emergency..which i"

Who is Letitia?? I cut her off out of curiosity....wondering who she was referring to.... She tried to stall with the answer..but seeing how helpless the situation was... She responded

"The receptionist downstairs..." She said almost in a whisper..evidently very scared.

"You mean your lesbian partner??" Jasper retorted from my back...breaking my silence spell.. Even without seeing his face. I already figured how petty it would look...
.... Jasper was sincerely a distasteful person...but he was surely exposing a lot I knew nothing about... Maryann a lesbian?? I muttered!.... I couldn't have guessed!!

....So?? I pressed further...becoming more interested than before...

"I got here oblivious its the same place Nedu was to meet you... and Letitia said she only pranked me to come over because she needed us to have a quick pleasure as she missed me... She led me to this room under the same pretext and this is where I meet Nedu bounded..with Jasper pointing a gun at me with an order not to move..while Leticia helped him bound me too...." She said.. With her tears fully back like it never left.

.... I turned to look at Jasper.....and I met his mischievous smirk. I knew he probably was the informant..or he paid someone to do the job.. But the ultimate question remained..why?? Was it because he was affected by the case or he was following someone's orders??... How did Abuchi get to know all about this and what was the connection between him and Jasper?? A lot of questions streamed down my mind with zero answers to them... .. I stared at Abuchi.. He had one of his hands rested on his bent head...his eyes shut...regrets written all over his face..Kachi on his part mopped at me... his eyes still very teary, it made me wonder if his eye bags were full of water as his eyes never looked dry since he stepped into the room..something wasn't just adding up to me...was this all to get rid of Nedu or there was something else.. I remembered a part of Maryann's testimony and turned again to face her...

What was the ultimate scorecard??.. I asked.. More puzzled than angry...

".. Erm... He...he..said that that..." Her stutter gave me the validation I needed..there was something else!..

Talk to me, Maryann.. I said...surprisingly gentle...

"He said the informant told him something that will make you break and seek revenge..." She paused again...fidgeting at that point out of fear... I equally feared she might collapse...

Which is?? I asked her again..this time squatting close to her...with my palms on her face in a gentle rub... She stared at me pitifully probably seeking assurance... And I nodded affirmatively at her as if I read her mind.

" He ...he ...he said the informant told him who killed your father..." She said in a very audible whisper...
A response that left me mute for seconds... Seconds that drifted to minutes ... I was still squatting, rummaging my mind how I must have done something wrong to deserve such pain in a day..twice that day the peace I felt about my father's death had been pricked... I knew at that instance I had been broken.. Nothing else was going to stop it... I wasn't going to have it anymore.. I resolved to take the last jab .. Not knowing how better off the information I wanted to seek will leave me... I stared at Maryann again..this time feeling sorry for myself for pressing her to that point... I should have left when kachi begged me to... I wondered what it would do to me if I should press further...and then I asked..

Who? I said gently .... Unsure if it was my curiosity beclouding my pain...or me trying to absolve it all and be free..or I was just seeking to take my pain out on whoever it was....

"I did it" ... I heard the voice.. from the one who had made me pull through it all...the one that made my peace seem permanent


"I did it" ... I heard again from KACHI!!!!






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TORN 10



"He is still breathing"... A faint voice was saying.. Everywhere was still pitch dark and my head felt so cold like I was in the depth of a sea in the middle of the night... The cold was becoming too much I tried to make some fruitless struggle away from whatever was causing it... I also struggled to figure out where I was and how to get out of there... And why it felt so wet and cold... I managed a conscious effort to open my eye..and all I could see in front of me was water.. Oh, God!... Why am I in an ocean?? I cried inwardly...

...." Kamsi can you hear me??"... A voice was saying... I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me....but then I felt a gentle pat on my shoulder... And it started dawning on me it wasn't just a voice I heard.. I could also perceive a familiar scent and feel someone's touch.. I started rummaging up my mind to place if I had truly gone to glory..I made frantic efforts to stir around again and a bright light shoved into my eyes...I turned away from the light slowly, shut my eyes tight, and then released them gently.... Then it all started coming back to me gradually....
.... I picked the scent again and I consciously knew it was my cologne... And then the water in front of me seemed too small for the size of an ocean.. I started looking at the hands and face of the person staring in my face tiredly.. It seemed vague but it was evident... I knew instantly... That was Abuchi...

" ThankGod you are awake Kamsi.. " he said... "try to sit properly" he added..as he made efforts to bring me up into a chair in the room..away from the small pool of water he poured on my head ...

"What happened?? I asked him still not fully conscious of myself..and then I sighted the blood again..and my eyes went wide open! My memory rushing in with adrenaline like it was on a backup restoration! ... I became fully conscious of myself and turned around the room... Jasper was still sitting in his king-like position on a chair looking keenly at his knife with no expression on his face... I moved my gaze towards Nedu's body still on the floor... With his face in the opposite direction.. I couldn't see what it looked like.. Maryann was still bounded but her mouth had been set free... And then, there was Abuchi.. Whom I didn't know when and how he got there...and most importantly..what he was doing there.

Pls, what is going on ??... I asked...Already shedding hot tears.. I was in my head wondering who I must have offended that decided to curse that particular day for me.. How I got to witness so many traumatizing events in just a day was overwhelming and the day wasn't even over yet...And then there was a dead body..!! I took a glance at Nedu's lifeless body again and my mouth gave way... I screamed!!!
... I screamed so hard I thought my lungs would burn.. At first ...nobody moved or said anything or tried to stop me... They all stared at me calmly as if waiting for me to exhaust my strength.. But then the door of the room made a noise and it was evident someone just pushed it open... Jasper and Abuchi brought out their guns swiftly... I was thrown aback!! Twice a day, I had to see a gun... I started gasping for air... Maryann was just quiet.. Staring at the two men as they both took strategic positions. I believe she was praying that help was coming..just like I was...
..but then again..I thought, what if it was the police..how do I explain being amid two gun-wielding individuals...a dead body..and a confiscated lady... Abuchi took his position right in front of me.. As if he was shielding me from any imminent danger...whilst jasper made a move towards the wall close to the short ally and stooped low beside it waiting for action.. All these happened in flits of seconds but ended almost immediately when Kachi and the receptionist girl surfaced.!!

..."What are you doing here ..??" Onyedikachi.. Abuchi asked.. His voice sounded like that of kachi when he would pester me on why I paid a bill in the house without his consent..
..I used to think about where Kachi got all the money he spends from... I concluded before that he probably was an internet fraudster..but coming to learn Abuchi's is his brother, cleared that part..

" I'll go back to being on watch.. " the reception girl was saying as I left my thoughts... "Pls lock the door and reduce the noise.. The central stereo outside almost didn't subdue the scream I heard earlier" She said to no one in particular.. But was staring at Jasper.. Who Noded and followed her behind to lock the door.

.. Abuchi had moved out from my view and I was able to see Kachi's face properly.. He wasn't as surprised seeing Nedu's dead body like I was but he sure wasn't happy to see me there..He stared at me in a way that suggests helplessness.. A part of me felt like he hated my presence in that very room..and believe me. I hated it more.

.."Why bring him here??". Kachi asked Abuchi.. Obviously referring to me cause he tilted his head towards my direction.

"Abuchi didn't bring him here,..I did!" Jasper echoed from the ally as he returned from locking the door.. "You see, I needed your pet toy to see the true colors of his friends..and what they are capable of." He added with a mischievous smile as he sat....much to my bewilderment and more to Kachi's chagrin! ..

"That's enough Jamike!!" Abuchi roared as he faced Jasper with a stern look! ..

"Mi lordy.. no lélé.. let's get rid of this detective and call it a day then," Jasper said.. Pointing at Nedu and at the same time ducking his head downwards a bit as if he was paying homage..

Detective?? I asked with shock..finally breaking my silence...staring at Jasper to Nedu..and then to Maryann.. I was not sure which one confused me the more..the detective title of Nedu or the "Mi lordy" title that jasper referred to Abuchi with.

"Do you have anything to say to him, girl??" Abuchi asked Maryann quite politely..

.. I turned to face Maryann again...she was shivering at that particular moment and somehow trying to avoid my gaze..I looked back to Abuchi while wondering how he got to know Maryann or whatever she needed to say to me.. I caught Kachi's stares as well.. He wasn't looking at Maryann but at me.. He seemed so unusually quiet and his stares at me made me worried.. Not scared.. I felt he probably was in a problem....

..."We are waiting, darling.. Don't make it too long" Abuchi said again so politely you wouldn't believe it was the same person that pulled out a gun minutes ago.

"Ermm..ehh..errm.. Dessy I am sorry.." Maryann said with tears flowing down her cheeks..

"Pls forgive me," she said again as uncontrollable tears gushed down her face.. She was still avoiding my face..

I was thrown into a confusion frenzy at that moment... How Maryann was caught up in all of this and how Nedu was suddenly a detective.. Few hours before he was just Maryann's cousin that I was drolling over and he was flirting with me as well.. A very nasty thought flashed my mind back to the print of his phallus I saw earlier and how I longed for it.. I almost slapped myself at the thought of that..wondering how relevant it was at that point..with his still body in front of me.

" See ..enough of this melodrama.." Jasper cuts in looking irritated.. "This óbóté here" he continued, pointing at Nedu's body with his gun.. "was a detective..working at the state CID and he is that shema's boyfriend" he concluded..referring to Maryann as "shema"...

... I was stunned!! I looked at Maryann wondering why she had to lie to me about Nedu being her cousin..Why she was all flirty with me even in his presence.. Was it because she didn't want me to figure it out?? But why??.. i thought..and then turned to stare at Nedu.. I still remembered how he was about getting me laid even though I initiated it.. I remembered how he always avoided Maryann noticing he was working his sexual wits on me.. Was it because he didn't want her to know about his other side..?? But then the most ultimate issue there was why we were all in a guest house with Nedu's body lying lifeless on the ground..

No!! .. I said to myself... I needed more explanation..I needed them to make it make sense..Nedu's career shouldn't
Just be the reason he was stabbed..they had to be more to it..

.. I picked up my strength.. The hardest I had mustered that very day.. Stood up and went straight to where jasper sat down.. He was staring at me with his mischievous smile still on.. I stopped at his face and looked at him closely.. I didn't know how I had tolerated his excesses all those times. His sarcastic shades at me.. The evil deeds he had done to many people and gotten away with them.. Somehow I started thinking maybe I shouldn't let him get away with this particular one.. But I thought of everyone else in the room... It could affect us all and that demon of a person Jasper knew that..

Why did you kill him?? I asked him gently.. Staring at him with utter disdain.. The whole room was quiet...the Air conditioner was on but at that point, I was sweating.... The scent of my cologne still dominating the room together with the blood smell ... Jasper still stared at me mischievously..smiling in a way that seemed like fulfillment...

Why did you kill him you animal!! ?? I screamed this time!!

"Animal??"... Jasper reiterated.. This time around with a stern face... Looking me over from head to toe... I wondered why I never noticed that sassy part of him...

" oh, dear princess.." He said...referring to me...
..."if I am an animal.. What will you then call the person that killed your FATHER!!??".





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TORN 9



I was already in a tricycle when I realized I didn't even know where I was headed to.. If Maryann had been kidnapped, definitely she won't be at home, so going to her house was of no use..I thought, trying not to gasp out.
Should I go to the police??.. I asked myself.. But they will ask me details of how it all happened and those details I didn't have because I wasn't present during the incident.. The tricycle was already half gone to Maryann's lodge with just me sitting clueless inside, oblivious of the music blasting from the speaker at the back of the seat.. not knowing if I was still alive myself or lost in thought..

"Robo ske ske..robo ske ske..if no be you then tell me who o....." Nedu was calling again.

It then occurred to me that I hadn't even called him back to ask him how it all happened.. Immediately my phone fell off my hand earlier, I made a stagger and almost hit the wall of the pavement in front of our room, but for the timely intervention of Abuchi who rushed and held me firmly from falling...

"Are you okay Kamsi ??" he asked.. "What happened??" He added in his gentle light voice, looking askance..his breath smelling like burnt paper...

I gazed at him confused about how I could still feel a soft spot for him and why his soft palm clasped around my shoulder as support made me remember Just the way he held me the day I told him how my father died.. Abuchi was so sorry for me as I cried my eyes in pain then.. He gave me his chest to cry on that day as he was patting me on the shoulder gently.. He asked me to release all the grief that it will make me lighter..
As I showed him the picture the police took from the scene of the incident. Where the lifeless body of my father laid on the floor with his head blown off beside the commuter bus he boarded that very day...
Abuchi took my phone... Stared at the picture and held me closer to him... He tried to avoid my gaze and I believed it was due to the fact he didn't want me to see he was hurting...

"Who was that on the phone," Abuchi asked me again softly, reviving me back from memory land. Something about his stare didn't seem worried...

I came back to reality... Picked my phone from the ground and rushed past Abuchi at the same time catching the scent of my perfume on him... I guessed it was because he had Kachi's clothes on... They both have the same build just that Kachi is buffer..
I thought about what Kachi was going through in his mind that had kept him transfixed in that state for all this while.. But I made a mental conclusion that telling him about Nedu's call or Marryann's kidnap was not going to help his situation so I continued pacing out to the major road with no destination in mind...
..I almost lost the last buzz on my phone before I swiped the receive icon sideways and in came Nedu's voice..

."Hello DES," he said.. "Where are you??" He asked almost at the same time..

I am in a tricycle going to the lodge... I answered...

." what lodge"??.Nedu asked... This time with a calmer voice... I noticed the tension in his voice was gone.. "If by lodge you mean mary's lodge..then I suggest you turn back" Nedu added..

Why?? I asked Immediately, becoming frightened.

"The people that took mary might still be around.. I just escaped them by the whiskers ..it seems they are looking for anyone connected to her too.. Pls, I need you to come lets deliberate on how to get the police involved.." Nedu explained..the tensed voice gradually returning..

... I started thinking.. Why will Nedu need me to talk to the police ?? .. But on second thought..I figured he might also be scared like me too and he was barely a day in the school and at such knew no one else to assist him.

Where are you?? I asked Nedu..his end was dead silent for minutes I thought he'd hung up.

"ORANGE BASKET INN" ...he said... "I had to take refuge there to figure out what is going on...ThankGod I had my Atm with me... I wouldn't have known where else to go to.." Nedu added...breathing heavily.

I remembered a few hours ago Nedu was inviting me to the said guest house for a different reason...Now I found myself going to see him for another reason... I began wondering why would anyone want to kidnap Maryann...She is quite a controversial person but not one to attract kidnapping..what if Nedu was using those tactics as a coy to get me to see him in the guest house..?? I asked myself..
Well..if it is.. It was working..I thought..as the tricycle, I boarded stopped me in front of the guest house.....

I stepped down to pay the driver ...and discovered I had no money on me... I wondered what I was thinking rushing off like that without even picking my wallet... I asked the driver to wait while I go get his money inside and he began fuming..asking me why I chartered him if I had no money on me, but later resigned to his fate when he figured cursing me out won't solve the issue..so he opted to wait.
..I dialed Nedu's number as I walked into the guest house.. Noticing how revamped the whole place had been..it was where Maryann had her last birthday party.. It surely looked better than it was during mary's birthday bash...

..."I am in room 12," Nedu said immediately he picked my call... Like he already knew I was in the building...he couldn't even wait for me to respond before he hung up.
...Something about it all didn't seem right to me... But at that very moment..all I was after was to settle the tricycle driver and to confirm if Maryann was okay. .or not...

Hi... I said to the receptionist..

"Hello" .. The razz-looking girl on the desk answered me nonchalantly, clapping her bubble gum with reckless abandon while invested in her phone without as much as a gaze towards me..

Erm...pls I am here to see a friend in room 12..
I said, looking at the distasteful spray color on the receptionist's hair and wondering what message the management was trying to pass by keeping such a person on the front desk to receive customers.. I must have gazed at the receptionist for so long I didn't notice she had been pointing her finger towards the direction of the staircase for me...

"Wait.. Did you say room 12 ??" The receptionist asked immediately retrieving her hands from the previous pointing position while staring at me in a way I didn't understand.

Yes.. I replied.

..She gently pointed at the stairways again this time around with much interest .... I gently walked towards the direction she pointed catching the perplexed expression on her face. ..she stared at me like someone she knew from somewhere or something... I wondered if we had met or she was just confused.
.. I climbed the steps catching a very faint scent I felt was familiar... I was trying to place the scent as I located room 12... The guest house looked even better inside.. The owner had outdone himself..I thought..
I took the bend on the end of the alley on the first floor and finally saw the room number.. .. I picked up the scent again and at that point, it became stronger.. I immediately knew it was the scent of my perfume.. It was a signature cologne only I and Maryann wear...well, Kachi now also started wearing mine... Could it be that Maryann wasn't kidnapped after all or Nedu was wearing her portion of the perfume..?? I thought.
Whatever was going on was definitely not sitting well with me... I quickly took a glance at the door and noticed it was already open... Nedu was surely up to something, I felt it .. A part of me told me to turn and head back home..but that stronger part of me urged me to go inside at least to make sure it was all a prank or something by Nedu..and that Maryann was okay. Also, I needed to get some money from Nedu to settle the tricycle driver.
If Nedu should try any sexual advances towards me. He was sure to meet a brick wall cause I wasn't having it that very moment... I resolved in my mind as I pushed the door open and the signature scent engulfed my nose.

The way the guest house was built.. One must walk a few steps on a short alley before you get to see the full view of the room ... The whole room was dead silent as I entered and that made me more apprehensive... I mustered enough courage and closed the door but made sure not to lock it..I walked towards the open bed area only to first catch sight of Mary ann bounded with her mouth taped..close to the bed...she certainly was kidnapped..but what was she doing there..??
.. I made to scream for help at first but was caught short as I saw a pool of blood dripping from the still body of Nedu lying on the floor... With jasper sitting majestically on a chair a few steps away from Nedu's body cleaning a bloody knife with a paper towel... I didn't know which effect was stronger... The scent of the perfume.. Nedu's body in the pool of blood...Jasper and the bloody knife..or Maryann all sweaty and dazed in her captive state.....All I knew was that then..I was called to glory... The lights were only bright on my face but not in my state of mind .. I was in a place I couldn't recognize.. A place pitch dark.. I was clearly transfixed with my eyes wide open... And in between trying to maintain stability and consciousness...my leg gave in..


I slumped in a FAINT!




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OloriSheedah:
Nedu might be the detective, I feel for Desmond, the guy is going through emotional turmoil. Thumbs up writer

I feel for him too ..lets hope the day gets better for him....


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TORN 8




..... Tears and more tears rolled down the cheeks of the two brothers..I wondered why my eyes still felt dry... I felt dizzy for a moment..but I still managed to stir away from Kachi's tender grip.. I wanted to look at his face, to see how he feels killing his father... For a moment I thought if he did the right thing or not...if he should have done something else about his psychopathic father instead of murdering him.
I looked at Abuchi, I figured for sure he has something going on in his sleeves.. He had stopped crying and paced lesser now... He seems like he wants to make up his mind on something.

.. "I learned the school authorities hired a detective who is currently in this school to track your activities.. quite a lot on you is already on paper..They are now working towards real evidence " ...Abuchi said.. Looking sternly at kachi

"..Who is they??" Kachi enquired... " The detective is more than one?? " he asked again looking very tense.

Abuchi scoffed... He definitely has a lot to say..but it seemed he was taking his time..probably because of me or maybe because he didn't want to get kachi all worked up.
I sat still all these while wondering how I got in the midst of all these. How a beautiful Saturday became so exhaustingly eventful..so much that I couldn't place where to start from. I began thinking why kachi wasn't surprised his brother knew me... Does it mean he already knew who I was from the onset??.. Was that why he insisted we stayed together on that very day I came for registration.. My mind drifted a bit

.. I remembered it was in the Admin block.. I was done with registration.. I had even been assigned a hostel.. The whole money my poor single mother gave me had been reduced to just 5000 naira and I was wondering how long that kind of sum will take me... I strolled down the pedestrian path of the senate building heading towards the bus stop...

"Hey, freshman"...?? A voice said behind me..

I turned to see a very clean and attractive guy standing behind me smiling... That was the very first day I met Kachi!!.. He was so soft-spoken and kind.. He tried to help me find my hostel and equally made some frantic efforts to dissuade me from staying there.

" Those hostels are so bad for even rats to live in" ..he told me as we got down the tricycle.

Well, you are definitely right...I said.
Now standing in front of my assigned PROFESSOR DIKEH's hostel in its glory..sorry GORY!!..

Kachi had personally brought me there himself... All the while telling me how a mess the hostels are and why I should look for someone to stay with off-campus...
Looking at my hostel then..I couldn't say he lied.

Even though I want to.. I don't have the money to jointly pay for a house off-campus... I told Kachi

"Don't worry...You can come and stay with me" He said.. grabbing my bags... "Forget about the rent for now.. I will handle it." He added.

Are you also a fresher?? .. I asked...obviously because Kachi is a bit older than I am.. And more mature looking.

"Yea" ... He replied... Looking at me like I should have known.

I followed him home that day and that was how we became roommates..and ever since then.. I have never paid for anything in our apartment.. Both utilities bills or groceries.. Even when I wanted to.. Kachi will frown at me so hard and at some point..keep malice with me throughout the day.
Anytime I paid any bill in his absence.. He immediately gives me back the money.. Even when I never told him I paid for it or requested for the money.. He will somehow find out and will insist I take the money back...and when I refuse.. He keeps malice with me till I bulged.

Kachi had been so good to me all the while but I couldn't bring myself to like him wholeheartedly .. Well maybe not anymore...at least I knew the hate level had drastically reduced at that point... I have finally started to realize all the hate I felt for him was not real... I couldn't place it as love.. But I know I felt peace and safe with him... It's a state I have never been asides with Abuchi.. Ever since Abuchi left for Canada..I have never been that important to someone except kachi.
But what if he was acting up??.. i thought.. Something in me was telling me there was more to him than met the eye..and with the revelation on the ground...and possibly more that I didn't know of..and the fact that he wasn't surprised Abuchi knew me..I began to suspect............'

"Robo ske ske... robo ske ske..if no be you then tell me who ooo " ... My phone began buzzing! ... Bringing me out of my dilemma... It was an unfamiliar number on the dial.

In front of me was Abuchi toweling himself.. He had even gone to shower and I didn't even notice...He stared at me and when our eyes met.. He took his off... I needed no angel to tell me he was hiding something...like he was feeling guilty of something.
Kachi still held me close to him in a sitting position.. but a quick stare at his face showed he was far gone in thoughts.. Even the buzz coming from my phone the second time couldn't bring him out of his thoughts .. I stood up and picked my phone ... Still adorned in kachi's shorts, I threw in my loose T-shirt and went out the corridors to receive the call...

"Hello," the voice on the other end said.. It was a deep tensed voice..it sounded a bit familiar

Hello.. I replied already getting pissed with whoever it was..

"DES.. It's me Nedu...." He said... Sounding more tensed...

I was a bit surprised how he got my number... Maryann never gives my number out to anyone without my consent no matter how important it was... Or did Nedu snooped through her phone to get it?? .. Why was he even calling me anyway..??
It then hit me!!.. The invite to the guest house.. 'Mtcheew'..I hissed in my mind...that was the last thing in my head at that point with the whole tension and mystery going on.

'Listen Ne... ' .... I cut myself short immediately at that point realizing kachi could hear me calling Nedu's name and it won't make the situation any better... I unconsciously turned around and met the dreamy stares of Abuchi on me through the half-opened door.

I immediately felt scared.. The look was bringing back a lot of memories.. The good times we both shared.. How he will come to my desk and stare at me to erection whenever he was having our class. The moments he will take me out on a date and make sure I try out new foods... How he looked scared the very first day I asked him to make love to me.. I just wondered why he had to leave without notice... I felt depressed for weeks after his departure.. More depressed when I got his text that read.. "Kamsi... I am now in Canada..This is not goodbye as I will be back whenever the need arises...take care of yourself and try to move on with your life" ..
I knew Abuchi had plans to travel out.. But to leave without saying Goodbye to me physically was heart-wrenching... and then he resorted to 'serving me breakfast' through a text message..phew! I couldn't have witnessed a darker time!!.

"Are you there DES??" ..Nedu asked after I was taking long to respond..
..can't he just figure out I was not in the mood for anything right now??!! I nearly cursed him out.!!

"DES there has been an incident" Nedu was saying in an unusual tensed voice.. I wondered why he was tensed...

What incident...?? I asked, rather calmly ..my eyes were still on Abuchi who was now smoking .. I never knew he smokes...his eye looked teary..I knew for a fact he had a lot to explain to me.. Somehow I couldn't believe I missed him this much...

I took my eyes off him and started thinking how quiet Kachi had been since the whole time...whatever he was thinking was eating deep into his heart... I started to feel I needed to be there for Kachi.. I couldn't place if it was me having emotional blackmail or I genuinely felt the need to be there for him..with everything that was happening it was hard for me to decide what I actually felt..
That moment for me was scary...I was losing my cool cause my intuition kept telling me something was not right... I had racked my brains trying to figure out what it was..to the point I was momentarily losing my sanity..and just almost at the same time, I lost grip of my phone as Nedu blurted out from his end....


"Mary has been kidnapped!!"



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Bankz007:
Uncle hwf now....
Come and quntinue what you have started... before I use buhari English for u.



Nice piece....
I do hope it gives inside to what queer people really face...

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Meanwhile..its a work in progress... Lets hope it reflects your area of interest.

TORN 7


... It was the 8th day of March.. I thought..Yes,.. I had to be sure I got the accurate date.. But what I couldn't place was why that day chose to be so eventful... I haven't had to deal with so many unexpected occurrences in one day.. Yet, quite unlike me, I did... I had managed every situation I met on that same very day so well... But with Abuchi right in front of me, I literally needed oxygen.

"Who is at the door DE..?? " Kachi asked.. I could hear his footsteps advancing towards me... What would I tell him??.. That Abuchi was at the door..?? Or how I got to know Abuchi.. ??Or how he magically appeared at our doorstep??... How can my day get so complicated..As in even if...


" Buchi!!.. " Kachi exclaimed calmly immediately he came to sight with Abuchi.. He seemed so shocked and uninterested to see him as they both managed a handshake. 
... What I clearly deduced was that they both know each other.. But how??  .. Was what eluded me.

"Eem.. DE.. This is Buchi.. My elder brother.. Buchi. That's Desmond, my roommate. " Kachi said, scoffing a bit after he did the introduction..like it wasn't necessary...and from the look on Abuchi's face, he sure doesn't need it..

How could I have missed it.. The striking resemblance... Abuchi and Kachi have an uncanny resemblance almost in everything except in character..whilst Kachi possesses a very rough personality.. Abuchi Adorns a supposed title of a gentleman, perfectly.

"Onyedikachi, why didn't you pick my calls?? " Abuchi pointed out, sitting down on the only double sitters' sofa in the room.

"Same way you didn't tell me you were back from Canada, let alone visiting. " Kachi retorted,  reverting to his original self,  the shocked part of him that I just saw became invisible, and in, came a frown. 

"... No need to get all worked up onyedikachi.. It's just a harmless question.. Besides, I'm not here to pick a fight with you.. I'd like to think we have grown past that," Abuchi said with a smile..
He was still his usual self.. The only thing that changed about him was his fresher skin.. He was still in good physique... The faded scar at the side of his left eye is still there.. I still remembered the scent of his cologne.. It tried to bring back some memories and I immediately forced them down!... Those memories can only bring back hurts. I wondered how Abuchi managed the pretense.. How he pretended so well like he never knew me like I never existed... Just like the was he left me like a used tampon and traveled to Canada.

"How did you find my lodge,  and what are you doing here?? " Kachi asked,  the tension becoming very daunting I feared they would fight.

.. "Well, I came back from Canada as soon as I heard that... Erm... Cant your roommate excuse us??... I fear this issue is too personal and delicate. " Abuchi said looking oblique.

Kachi turned to stare at me,  his eyeballs mixed with Anger, fear, and tears.. I have never seen him this jittered before,  in as much as I would like to find out what was going on, I needed to give the brothers some space.  So I stood up.. And made for the door.

"Wait.. DE"... Kachi said, stopping me just an inch towards the door.. I turned to stare at him,  and he signaled me to come to sit beside him and just like a robot... I did.

I didn't know how I have had to manage the whole situation since Abuchi's arrival, I haven't spoken or been my normal self.. I just mopped and sat unshakable like a sculpted piece of art.
Kachi grabbed my hands as I sat... His palm shivered a bit...

."DE.. I mean everything I said to you this evening.. " kachi said with his eyes shut in regrets.. "Whatever happens.. Pls remember that.. " he added.

I wondered what truth Kachi was talking about.. And why he looked so emotional with shivers all over him.. I have never caught Kachi in that emotional state till then... He had been the tough guy for all the years I had known him, much to the admiration of many and displeasure of few, me inclusive.

".. And judging by the nature of my findings... it's not safe to divulge any information yet, especially to strangers"

...Abuchi was saying before I got out of my thought.  What is this strange talk all about??,  and hope Abuchi isn't referring to me as a stranger?. I thought... I tried to look at his face, it looks the same, it's the same face that had stared at me in the past with so much passion.. The same face that has kissed me to the point my spines started trembling... The same face that made sure I got out of grief in my worst moments, especially when I grieved about my Dad's shocking death by armed robbers while on transit
.....Abuchi's memories started rushing in my head unrestrained.. How nice he had been.. How we teased a female copper that did everything for his attention back then.. How he enjoyed making her Hot and leave her at the spot... How he enjoyed receiving gifts from her only to give them to me... How I made sure I stopped him from leading her on..How we both visited so many beautiful places...how he made a promise never to leave my side....
.. I was in the streams of nostalgia and then all of a sudden, Abuchi's stares shifted to me... He still had his smiles on,... It looked a bit stale.. But still charming, the dark patched scar on the left side of his eye, twitched in a shrink ... I remember he told me it was an accident... And that the broken windscreen of the vehicle gave him the cut close to his eyeball and he nearly bled to death...


"Kamsiyochukwu..How well do you know me.?? " Abuchi finally spoke to me, like the old times.. He calls me by my native name.. He hated calling me Desmond.. Said something about how the name reminds him of a dead relative.

..I stared sheepishly at Abuchi not knowing what to say or what was going on, his cute face made it impossible to figure out what was on in his mind.. Kachi's palm still held me tight.

"You see, kamsi... " Abuchi began.. Standing up this time to pace around the room.

"... Kachi is all I have got in this world,..We may fight and do all sorts of unpredictable things in life, but nothing equals to the love I have for him." I felt my heart shrink..I couldn't believe I still felt something for Abuchi.. It was even more painful as he had to let me know I was never his number one priority.

"... We grew up in a very different kind of way.." Abuchi stopped, stared at me, probably expecting me to say something, but words failed me... And he continued.

"We both didn't spend much time with our mother.. Of blessed memory" Kachi's head landed on my shoulder at this point as his tears soaked my body..

"She died the cruelest death a person could ask for.. Through Acid bath,.. He killed her and made it seem like it was a fire accident.. And everybody bought it.. Everybody, except me and Kachi..I guess that was our sin" Abuchi said cleaning his lower eyelid... He obviously was crying.

"We both got molested day and night, physically, mentally, and otherwise.. We both went through hell every passing day, from mental abuse..to assaults.. Hot iron blades and horsewhips became our companions if we ever resisted, disobeyed, or made attempt to speak up to anyone.. At a point, it metamorphosed from iron blades to real guns... I narrowly missed death from two gunshots on two different occasions while being tortured.. But not without the flesh wound it left me.
...Kachi and I found succor in many negative vices we could think of, we had no moral consciousness of anything good anymore, we became deadly,.. More like evil.
we smoked, fought, raped, and even killed.. We became just like him... " Abuchi was in a pool of tears at this time..he seemed to be in so much pain at that very moment.. Albeit, I still didn't fully understand what he was driving at or why Kachi wasn't surprised Abuchi knew me.. His situation and that of kachi looked pathetic.

"I figured we will never be free if we don't do something.. " Kachi spoke soberly from my shoulder this time.. I didn't know how his voice made my heart feel..it felt like it was failing or something..

"At that time I had created my second gang of highway robbers... " he continued... "Abuchi was handling the logistics and planning aspects while I handled the part of operations...So, on that faithful day, on a supposed robbery operation, I did what we both very much desired.. I put an end to the existence of a psychopath..,

"I killed our FATHER!!"




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Dear readers.. Due to situations above my control.. I wasnt able to drop an update as usual...

Pls kindly bear with me...

An update will drop by tomorrow morning..God willing...

Thanks for your understanding.

gunpoint:
nawa oh.
Where's is our blood of Jesus gang when you need em?
Orangebasket's guy De's about to be gbola'ficated by his fellow man oh
End of days stuff loading


But i ain't gon log out. Waiting to see if Odumeje gets to him before Kachi's gbola.
I will say a prayer to guarantee a good outcome

"Merciful Father
I have squandered my days with plans of many things.
This was not among them.
But at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well.
For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought;
All we ought to have said, and have not said;
All we ought to have done, and have not done;
I pray thee God for forgiveness.”

In the meantime. . .
I cover myself with the blood of Genevieve Nnaji!

Lols..

Kindly stick around till the end..

And plus.. The world, if its ever going to happen,..will end when its time.... Not because of a lifestlye that has been in existence since the beginning of time...

Meanwhile, we enjoin you in your prayers as we emphasis to God why you care more about Genevieve's blood than his.