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Read book 1 here- https://www.nairaland.com/3307549/me-book-1-romance-novellete
Read book 2 here- https://www.nairaland.com/3322331/me-book-2-romance-novelette
Chapter 1
Enya’s Only Time was playing at a low volume as she entered the house. A little girl in a pink gown looking like a Disney princess ran down the stairs and headed towards the back of the house. Judith walked quickly towards the direction the girl had disappeared to. She was met with a kitchen, and a door moving back and forth like someone had just slammed it. They were about half a dozen aluminous pots with sweet smelling aromas coming out of them on the kitchen cabinet. Judith was tempted to check what was underneath the shiny covers, but more than that, she was interested in knowing where the little girl had run off to. She gently opened the net-door and her eyes searched the faces of the people in the garden. They were all dressed in black and they stared at her as she stepped out of the house. She looked at herself and noticed she also had a black dress on. She fiddled with the elastic band on the mid-section of her gown as she moved towards where everyone was clustered. The shoes she had on were ruby red and they sparkled as she looked down at them.
The little girl ran pass her again, this time, chased by a boy about her age, and Judith almost tripped as she tried to get out of their way. She regained balance and kept walking. Her focus was on the wooden elevation that people were lingering around.
She was directly in front of the thing now, and she noticed it was actually a coffin. She looked down at the open casket, and saw Tony lying inside, dressed in a black tuxedo, with his hands by his side. A tear trickled down her cheek, and she ran her hands through the length of the coffin as she leaned on it. She turned around for a split second and saw someone in the crowd that made her heart skip a beat. She looked back again, and he was no longer there. Her eyes searched all around the garden, but he was nowhere in sight. Then she looked down at Tony again, and just as she was about to walk away from the coffin and greet people properly, his eyes popped open. She stepped back in shock, tripped, and fell.
She kept falling when she had expected to hit the ground. She felt like Alice, in Wonderland, falling down the rabbit hole. She got comfortable with the fall after a while, and was looking at the patterns on the walls around her. Just then, she suddenly hit the ground, and woke up in cold sweats on her room bed.
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Sweat trickled down her face in the dark room. She reached for her phone from under the pillow to check the time. It was 4:30 am. The last thing she remembered was watching an episode of Keeping up With the Kardasians rerun on E Chanel around 8 pm. She moaned as she rubbed the back of her neck and got off the bed. She wobbled here and there and fell back on the bed. She had stepped on a mug and had lost balance. She lay in bed for a few more seconds, thinking of how her leg would have been a bloody red right now if she had had her cocktail in a glass cup instead of the mug she used. She sighed before rolling over to the other side and lazily walking out of the room. She switched on the camera lights of her phone and headed down the stairs. She had taken alcohol to make her sleep because Tony was going to be discharged from the hospital today, and she had been too nervous to sleep. Instead of helping her have a good night sleep, the liquor made her have nightmares. Now she was sure she wouldn’t get any sleep again till 6 am when she planned to leave the house.
Naturally, she would have called her cook, Bassey to help turn on the Generator set, but he had just gotten a new wife, and she had heard them in action a few times in the last couple of days, and didn’t want to disturb their honeymoon. His former wife had left for one of the land sellers in the area. It still shocked Judith that a woman who went to labor twice would run off with another man, leaving her kids with her husband, just because of the promise of a better life.
She turned the key and the generator shook vigorously for a few seconds, and then balanced out, vibrating at an almost unnoticeable frequency. A barking dog could be heard from the distance. “Ziggy.” Judith said out loud as she shook her head and headed back into the house.