World16:
I'm fine� It's just fiction

World16:
I'm dying Yet they say I'm lying I'm crying Yet they say I'm smiling Can't you see I'm in pain? Just because of the chain You say I'm fake Am I to blame? I shouldn't have never trusted you Yet I keep falling for your lies Why haven't I received a helping hand? I'm so deep in pain and I'm sure I can't survive it

frankline461:






Oya, don't fight please. It was a mistake and I also understand your frustration.
Let's move on now. Thanks

annayawchee:
shut the fucck up

enirock:
Good evening. Quoting the entirety give a semblance of an update(albeit false). Please kindly reply next time instead of quoting. Thanks.

annayawchee:
and why the hell did you have to quote everything to Type that?

frankline461:
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Dan grunted as he struggled to keep hold of the multiple bags he was carrying, he reached for his pocket and pulled out his key, he sorted through the bunch of keys to pick out the boot key, but it slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

“A little help here.” He spoke in frustration.

He remained silent waiting for a response but none came, groaning again, he rolled his eyes and walked towards the car.

“Don’t tell me you have that thing plugged into your ears again.” He spoke as he bent to take a look into the opened back seat.

He was surprised to find the seat empty and he looked further through the car but there was no one in it. He frowned and decided that the groceries weren’t the major concern at that moment as he squeezed them into the back sit and stood up, staring at the parking lot and wondering where his son had gone. He could see some people gathering some few metres away, just outside the garage, their gaze all up as they stared at something in the sky with keen interest. He shut the door to his car and picked up the key that had fallen and decided to check if his son was part of the mini crowd. He had not taken up to five steps in their direction when he found him, his ears plugged in as he looked up into the sky; he joined them and walked towards his son, gently pulling the earpiece out of his ears.

“What did we say about disappearing without telling anyone where you were going to?” He asked as calmly as he could, trying to hide the bit of frustration lingering in him.

His son frowned a little in protest to him removing the earpiece without asking first but decided to let it go as he returned his gaze to what he had been staring out. Dan scoffed in frustration, children had not been his strong point and having one of his own was not something he had planned for when he did. Love overcomes all, they had said. He sighed and followed his son’s gaze, trying to figure out what he had been staring out and he saw it.

The dark sky shone brightly as rays pierced through it, he felt uneasy watching it and almost immediately, there was a loud bang in the sky and everyone took cover as they watched with keen interest for the next event. Almost on cue, they saw a plane fly just a few metres over them, crashing into the tall building that stood few miles away. This was the cue they needed to figure out that something unsual was happening as chaos broke and everyone tried to flee the scene to find somewhere safe. Dan wasn’t left out, he quickly grabbed his ten year old son and ran towards his car as another explosion went off. He threw his son into the front sit and slid over the bonnet to the driver’s seat.

“Put your sit belt on.” He ordered, starting the car.

His ten year old son slowly dragged the seat belt and placed it over his body. “What’s happening?” He asked as the seat belt clicked.

“Nothing.” Dan said, driving out of the garage. “We have to find mom, and I want you to put your hands over your face and shut your eyes as you count from hundred backwards, we will be home before you finish.” He said as he drove into the street and zoomed off, trying his best to avoid the people that ran into the streets to get to safety.

*

“We can confirm activity on site.” One of the operators announced to Nikita.

She smiled and turned to Rachel. “It’s time.” She turned to the operator that was controlling the drone. “Let it rain.”

The operator turned to the screen and popped open a key on his controller, he moved the drone forward towards the figures on the screen and hit the key.

“Two minute to impact.” He announced as Nikita, Rachel and the other operatives in the room watched the screen intently.

*

The intensity of whatever was above us increased and I heard an unusual sound, like a chamber opening and closing and suddenly, there were two other sounds approaching us. I was alarmed but didn’t know what it was. Its intensity increased towards our direction, and at that moment realization hit me, it was not a plane or a jet, they do not possess silent engines, only something that wanted to be discreet did and only a drone fitted the category. I immediately turned to the direction the girl in black and the other guardians were, they were having an argument, one that I hadn’t noticed because I did not pay attention to them. As the sound grew nearer, I raced towards them, propelling my wings and taking off the ground to increase my speed.

“Take cover.” I screamed as soon as I was sure that I was at a distance that they could hear me.

*

The girl in black and the other guardians turned to the direction the shout was coming from and all of a sudden, some of the guardians pulled out their swords, while some others pulled out bows. The lady turned to the girl in black.

“A fallen?”

“No.” The girl in black countered. “That’s Zeke, the one I had been telling you about.

“You told us he was special and not that he was a fallen.” She said, also pulling out her sword. She held it with both hands and turned to the direction he was flying from.

“What are you doing?” The girl in black asked, walking slowly towards her.

“What you should have done as soon as you found out what he was.”

“He is not a fallen.” She protested again in frustration. “I know a fallen when I see one.”

The lady turned to the other guardians and nodded her head. “Take her away.”

The girl in black quickly moved away, pulling her sword too, Justin following suit even though the only thing he was holding was his Ipad.

“What are we going to do?” He whispered at her.

“If you are planning to harm him, you have to go through me.” She announced to the guardians.

“Uhmm, I don’t think that is what you are meant to say given my situation. It must be a slip of tongue.” Justin whispered in her direction again.

The lady gave a hysterical laugh, further gripping her sword tightly. “You don‘t know how long I have waited for this day, the day you show your real colours and who you are actually working for. It would be my pleasure tearing you down.” She repositioned her stance. “Make sure you take him down.” She ordered, lunging her weapon towards the girl in black.
*

“Eighty seconds to impact.” The operator announced.

*

I flew towards their direction, repeating myself, but they did not seem concerned with whatever I had to say. Some arrows flew in my direction and I quickly altered my route to avoid being at the receiving end of any as the intensity of the sound became louder, I tilted to the left as more rounds of arrows flew at me, making a three sixty turn before landing and then using my wings to repel any further attack. I lowered the wings when I realized that the arrows had stopped hitting it, my emotions suddenly taking an erratic turn. I took deep breath to calm myself.

The girl in black and one of them seemed to be having a tussle, and it didn’t look like practice as they aimed to arm each other and fought with extreme anger.

“Stop!” I screamed, getting fed up. “We all have to get out of here now.”

The girl in black countered an attack aimed for her lower abdomen, she slid her sword through that of the lady she was tussling with and in a moment of extreme skill and brilliance, kicked the sword away from her hand and sent another kick to her chest, sending her spinning to the ground and rolling over few metres. The ladies that had been wielding the bow suddenly hurried to the lady and tried to help her to her feet, but she grunted at them and motioned them to stay back. I couldn’t believe that this were the guardians that we had waited for to provide reinforcements to defeat Zion, it was as if the whole mission was a pathetic one and with how things looked, we were heading for doom and dragging the whole world by its ears with us.

The lady got to her feet and wiped her face with the back of her hand, she had a little bit of blood on it as she stared at the girl in black in anger.

“I hate to cut into your reunion, but we have to get out of here now.” I announced and she redirected her furious gaze at me. They remained on me for a while before a loud piercing laughter came from her.

“You also listen to the opinion of a fallen?” She questioned no one in particular.

I took a step forward, sighing. Whatever hope I had been breeding of we getting an upper hand when they eventually joined us was smothered to death at that point.

“Believe whatever you want at this point, but we are standing under a ticking bomb and in a matter of seconds, you and all your thoughts would become ashes.”

The girl in black turned to me. “What?”

“I don’t have much time to explain, but our position has been compromised and as we speak a missile is heading towards us now, so we have to get out of here.”

Justin quickly typed into his Ipad and gave a loud scream, startling some of the guardians. “We have only forty five seconds before it hits our position.”

The girl in black turned to look up. “That’s not possible, no one apart from us and the guardians know that we are meeting today, by this time and in this location, we have a traitor in our midst.”

What the girl in black said made sense and all hands pointed at the new arrivals, we didn’t know them enough to know we could trust them, but we didn’t have time to start pointing hands. I turned around to find a spot we could take cover and found a cave some miles away.

“Over there.” I spoke nudging the girl in black and Justin on. Justin was the first to take off, running with all his might towards the cave, but soon, the girl in black overtook him and they raced towards the cave. The guardians still remained caught in between decisions and there was a little murmuring. The lady was also caught in between believing us or remaining with the spaceship, but from the little I had seen on nuclear missiles, the spaceship was not going to hold against it.

“We can settle this later, but safety comes first.” I tried one final time to convince her, even though we were not on the same page, we still needed all the hands we can get.

She stared at me again, before finally nodding her head and the other guardians raced towards the cave. I turned to look up and realized that they were not going to make it before the missile hit the ground and sent waves that would definitely tear them apart and figured I had to do something about it.
*

The girl in black panted as soon as she got to the mouth of the cave and turned to help Justin into the cave, she stared and found the guardians also racing towards the cave and sighed in relief that they had finally came to their senses. She turned to look around, but there was no sight of Zeke, she strained her eyes but still found no sign of him. Her heart began racing again as she made to walk out of the cave. Justin quickly pulled her back.

“What are you doing? We have below fifteen seconds before we are hit.”

“Zeke?” She questioned as some of the guardians raced into the cave and went further into it. The lady she had been tussling with was the last person to enter the cave and she dragged the girl in black by her arm.

“We have to go deeper if we plan on surviving the afterwave.”

“Where is he?” The girl in black questioned.

“He said not to worry about him and get to safety.” She said and tried to drag the girl in black with her but she resisted, panting loudly and she tried to walk out of the cave.

The lady quickly hit her at the back of her head and she became unconscious, she raced her and placed her on her shoulders, carrying her deep into the cave as Justin’s timer counted down.
*

Nikita stared intently at the screen as she watched the heat map disappear into the rocks. He turned to the operator.

“How far does the after wave of the missile go?” She asked.

“Enough to bury them under the rock, I don’t think they can survive this.” The operator responded.

Rachel took a step forward, her gaze still on the screen. “How did they figure out that a missile was heading in their direction?”

“A device connection was detected some seconds ago.” One of the operators responded.

“No.” Rachel nodded her head. “How did they know to turn on the device to check for the missile?” She moved further toward the screen. “There.” She pointed at a heat map that was not bulging from its position on the screen. “What is that?”

“We have incoming.” Another operator announced.

“What is that?” Nikita asked.

The operator zoomed into the image that they got from the camera on the drone. “A rock?”

“Zoom in on that.” Rachel ordered, pointing to something under the boulder of rock that was flying towards the missile.

The operator obeyed and zoomed in, the image became clearer and Rachel smiled when she saw his face.

“Somebody finally heard my prayers.” She smiled wickedly.

YTmami:
Chapter 2
Kemi usually enjoyed the leisure night, but tonight things were different. She reached into her bag for her almost worn-out headset, scrolled through her playlist and settled for Sia.
Her strong, powerful voice just seems to resonate with her mood.
She hummed the tune to herself, nodding her head and ignoring the stares of people as she walked by. She was home within minutes and resorted to having her remaining coke and sausage roll for dinner.
The sausage roll tasted sweeter than usual in her mouth and she silently thanked Sandra for her kindness.
She recollected the events of that evening and how Sandra had tried to get be less laconic with their conversations.
"That bridge can't be crossed in a day, but I'll be more open onwards, meanwhile I have to take my leave now, I still have some chores to do at home" Kemi had told her
"And here I was thinking we were starting to make progress" Sandra shaked her head in disbelief
"I'm sorry, we'll continue this conversation tomorrow" Kemi tried to placate her. She reached for a hug that was rejected.
"Don't patronise me" She mused
Kemi had left shortly after.
She thought of the disappointing look on Sandra's face. She's nice and friendly and seemed genuinely interested in being her friend, but Kemi still had some reservations.
She pondered a little bit more till she drifted asleep.
Waking up in a sour mood was starting to become a daily routine for Kemi.
She always wished she was getting up for work.
"Be more optimistic" her mom had told her on her last visit home "you can move back in with us if you're struggling" Kemi had rebuffed that idea, but her rent was due in a few months and she had no source of income to renew her rent for another year.
She was starting to consider moving back in with her parents,
She had moved to Lagos for better chances of acquiring a job which has proven difficult for her.
She grudgingly got out of bed and decided on a walk outside her compound for a breath of fresh air. She could feel her legs resisting the task, but she wasn't about to succumb to its demand.
She made her way outside and almost tripped on an empty bottle on the floor, she mumbled to herself and kicked the bottle aside.
"Why did you do that?!! are you by any chance myopic?"
Kemi heard someone yell out,she turned towards the voice and it was her neighbour looking furious.
She's referred to as "Oreke" by most people which means "Beautiful and graceful" but her attitude was far from graceful.
"Good morning to you too and that's not only offensive, but also incorrect, I think the word you're looking for hyperopic" Kemi said calmly.
She was in no mood for the early morning exchange of words
"What does that have to do with anything?" Oreke asked
"Are you usually this slow in the morning?" Kemi retorted
Oreke's face went from furious to disgruntled
"Why....! you..." Oreke stammered angrily
Kemi wasn't having none of her antics and she wasted no time walking away from Oreke.
Behind her she could hear her mutter incoherently, words Kemi couldn't decipher.
"What a character" Kemi thought to herself.
The feel of the early morning breeze on her skin was a slight relief for her already sour mood.
She reflected on her early years in the university, she has set so many targets for herself.
Her plan was to graduate, finish her youth service and work in a communications company as a presenter, radio or television, she didn't mind either. Most of her schoolmates were gainfully employed or had one or two things going for them.
She was always asked the resented question by her mates "got a job now?" She got tired of saying no each time and explaining to them how she toils round for job interviews that either end up being a scam or they give her the usual "we'll get back to you" response and they never get back to her.
Kemi would anticipate and refresh her emails tons of times, eager for a positive response that she never gets.
Thinking of it was starting to make her head spin. Those disappointing moments when she eventually stops waiting for that email to come through, bringing herself to come to terms with the fact that what she had anticipated severely wasn't going to be.
Those memories made her gloomy, she decided on a quick shower to soothe her spinning head.
She was going to have to come up with a solution for her plight soon.
She caught a wisp of soap bubbles and blew like a child. She smiled to herself, remembering a few of her childhood memories, those were fun times , growing up with no care in the world, now she was a grumpy adult. She frowned at that realization, it was time for an actual chance in her life.
The water was colder than usual, making her shower quicker.
She ran to her room quickly, eager for warmth.
She picked up her phone and saw she had missed some calls. It was her friend Tolani, from the same collegiate background as her. She had no airtime no call her back, while pondering on what to do next, her phone rang again and she picked it up quickly.
"Hello, runaway friend. You finally picked up, I was starting to worry about you" Tolani said at the other end of the line
"Na you sabi oooh... I dey. It's been a while yeah, haven't seen you in a long while, we should change that. What do you think?" Kemi responded
"Yeah yeah, it's going to happen sooner than you think, where are you at the moment?" Tolani asked
"Home, anything?" Kemi inquired
"I just need you to get dressed and come to the address I'll text to you now. You surely won't regret it" Tolani sounded ecstatic
"What's going on? Full details please" If she was going to spend the little amount she had left on transportation, then it be worthwhile.
"Tolani, I'm waiting" Kemi said when she got no answer
"Sorry,got distracted. Ok I have a job for you, you'll be interviewed, so I need you to come down here as soon as possible" Tolani said
Kemi was thrilled at the prospect of a possible job, but she has gotten her hopes dashed countless times, so this time around she didn't want to jinx it by having too much expectations. She was going to be neutral about the whole thing.
"What are you waiting for? Address please!" Kemi screamed out, she was surprised at her own voice.
"I just sent you a text, check and get back to me and do hurry"
Kemi was already on her way to bathroom when she remembered she already had a shower, punctuality was second nature to her. In a few minutes she was ready to leave.
Shortly after she left home, she realized in her haste she had forgotten to switch off the socket in her room. "The power holding company rarely bring light anyway" she thought to herself, nonetheless what if she had left her iron on, or her electric cooker.
She tried not to focus on those negative thoughts and instead diverted her thoughts to impressing the interviewer and landing herself the job.