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2020-07-22 08:38:2607:56 pm, September 6,
Kogi State.
The first most interesting thing since she'd arrived at the damn village happened to her today. She had been feeling bored, Taiwo had gone to visit a friend and it was too late for Lastborn to still be at their place and she'd slyly avoided the village children, not interested in talking to anyone. She'd been taking bored pictures with her digital camera but even with the camera's flash and her battery-powered torch , the pictures still came out dark. There had been power outage since afternoon and Taiwo was not around to turn on the generator, much to her grandmother's disgruntlement. Also, there was nothing breathtaking worthy of being photographed, especially in this gloomy darkness.
So there she was, seated on a bench on the porch, armed against mosquitoes in a long sleeved T-shirt, long denim trousers, socks, and, of course, mosqu
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'Why did you arrive so late? Where's your car? Did you know I was here before? What of Aunt Ekwy? And your children?' she bombarded him with questions.Uncle Felix took his time munching on a maize and swallowing. Then he said, 'I arrived late because I left Lagos a little late, my car is at home, I was bringing it but then Lagos traffic saw to it that I didn't, so I returned it back home and made for the park and the bus I was in broke down on the way here, which contributed to my leaving Lagos late. Yes I knew you were here, my brother informed me last week Sunday when they arrived at Japan. My wife and children are fine and they send their regards.'Eniiyi smiled, not sure what else to say. 'Are you sure you don't want to take me back with you, Uncle? I'll be good, I promise. Mommy said your house is full but you can always find space to accommodate me, right? And about food, I don't eat much.'Femi laughed at the gir
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09:12 pm, September 7Tokyo, Japan.Eartha stabbed at the dish with the fork again, absently.Her husband glanced up at her from his own meal. He'd noticed something had been bothering her since they arrived from work an hour ago but he hadn't asked, hoping she'd tell him at her own time, but he was beginning to get worried. She wasn't forthcoming with anything, so it was left up to him to ask her.'Heart.' He dropped his fork and placed his hand over her outstretched one on the table. 'Is everything okay? Is something bothering you?'Eartha looked up at him, pursing her lips. Took you long enough to realize, she said silently.'Do I look like I'm okay?' she asked, instead.Mide paused for a second, he hadn't been expecting that kind of answer. Was she in a dour mood today? He tried to r
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01:32 pm, September 7Kogi State, Nigeria.Eniiyi's shoulders slumped in dejection as she looked away from the computer screen she'd been staring at for fifty seconds. It wasn't as if they didn't deserve her anger towards them, she just couldn't help wishing it hadn't ended like that. She'd have loved to hear reassuring words from them after she was done venting. She sighed. Now she'd never get to see them again till October. What with Uncle Felix leaving in two days. Ths made her miss her poor tablet more.'It's alright, don't cry now.' Her uncle pat her back.She turned to glare fiercely at him. 'What makes you think I'd cry?' She stood up, slightly cheesed up.'I'm going out.''Suit yourself, niece.' Uncle Felix was blasé about it but he looked amused.The sun had managed to get hott
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Which was why, two days later, escorting her uncle to the park, she still had the woman on her mind. Despite herself, she'd felt the urge to go back to that place and help the woman, but she hadn't had the chance to leave the house since that day.She'd just have to forget she ever saw anything.'Eniiyi, are you okay? You're unusually quiet.' Lastborn observed.She looked at him. 'I'm okay.''Are you sure, maybe you should go back home?' Uncle Felix looked worried.'Uncle Felix, I'm okay.' She frowned up at him.Uncle Felix chuckled. 'Oh, I see. You're going to miss me.'Eniiyi looked blasé. 'It's not too late to take me along.' She'd spent all morning begging him to take her with him but he'd refused.Then she'd gotten mad at him and avoided speaking to him. The only reason she was escorting him now was becaus
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03:20 pm, September 10Kogi State, Nigeria.It was the naming ceremony of the Mádégún twins. They'd just been named Oluwatade, Hairum and Oluwajoba, Haysam each as they were Muslims. It was a joyful ceremony as everybody wanted to bless the twins with gifts. Even non-indigenous guests from the cities had come to grace the occasion, mostly the new parents' family and friends. Gifts of different shapes and colour just kept piling up under the gift canopy to the delight of the glowing parents.The village women now busied themselves circulating food around the numerous tents in front of the house. There were varieties of local dishes; Mọ́ín-mọ́ín, ẹ̀kọ, àmàlà, jollof and fried rice, iyán, ẹ̀fọ́, and many more to feast the eyes and mouth on.Eniiyi was feeling extraordinarily happy today. Everythi
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A day after . . .02:16 pm, September 11Kogi State.Eniiyi limped down the porch steps down the street towards the neighbour's house, headphones turned up to a high volume just to block out her surroundings. She was angry, frustrated and sore from yesterday.Grandma had come home later in the day, dragged her out of her hiding place by her ears with a long, slender, flexible cane in her hand meaning to flog the life out of her, but she'd been saved by the person she had least expected to: Taiwo. Why, she'd tried her very best to be extremely rude to him, but he'd obviously not taken her behavior to heart. He'd spent about twenty minutes giving Gma reasons she shouldn't punish the nine year old. Which was all good for the girl. She'd been planning to pull fainting act anyway but had doubted it'd work on her grandmother.It ha
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05:00 am, September 14Kogi State, Nigeria.It was a very earlySaturday morning when the unfortunate incident happened. It was in the wee hours of the morning when the sky was inky blue and the orangish-pink tip of the sun could barely be seen struggling to peek out from behind the mountains.The village was empty at this time of the day save for the watchguards retiring from their overnight posts and one or two religious fanatics jingling bells loudly and forecasting doom.It was at this exact time that the beginning of what would spell herdoom arrived with it's family of trouble.Soon, as was tradition, pageboys were sent around to circulate the sepulchral news.Taiwo had just risen and was sweeping the house when a loud series of knocks came on the front door.He hissed and dropped the broom wondering who the dumb as a post idiot could be, that couldn't respect people's privacy. Wha
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Eniiyi gulped nervous energy and futilely tried to disappear into the folds of her grandmother's wrapper. What had she done wrong? And why was it so serious as request the attendance of every pair of eyes in the village?'Grandma,' she whispered, keeping her gaze focused on the space between the ground and where the assembly was, 'I swear, I didn't do anything. Believe me.'There was a slight break in her grandmother's movement, other than that she made no indication of having heard the young girl.The escort stopped in front of the platform where the high chairs were and prostrated flat on the floor in greeting to the group of six elders decorating the furniture. A dark-faced man sat separately from them farther to the side and he so very much looked like it was all he could do from stomping down and beheading the girl.'Here they are, Baale, elders; the possessed child and her grandmother.'Eniiyi almost spit out blood at that statement. What on
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Other Books by the Author . . . 1. Baby's Daddy — Pregnancy-Romance/Mystery 2. The Third Side of the Coin — Horror/Suspense 3. Her Dilemma — Pregnancy-Romance/Billionaire 4. The Rancher's Heart — Romance/Single-Father 5. A Week of Batching — Mystery/Suspense . 6. Chronicles of an Amnesiac — SciFi/Mystery/Short Story 7. On Air — Billionaire/Pregnancy-Romance/Mystery Coming Soon . . . 1. The Arranged! Series — Romance/Arranged Marriage 2. Double Me — Horror 3. Public-City — Humour 4. The Halloween Files Series — Horror — I'd really, really, really appreciate if you guys could check out my other books. It'd mean a whole lot to me. I promise that y'all won't be disappointed 👉🏽👈🏽 Pretty please 🥺 The first seven are available on the site and the remaining are WIPs And when you do check them out, please comment what you think in the chapters and leave a review of what you think. Thanks in advance ❤❤❤
Alacrimia Also by the Author . . .
Other Books by the Author . . . 1. Baby's Daddy — Pregnancy-Romance/Mystery 2. The Third Side of the Coin — Horror/Suspense 3. Her Dilemma — Pregnancy-Romance/Billionaire 4. The Rancher's Heart — Romance/Single-Father 5. A Week of Batching — Mystery/Suspense . 6. Chronicles of an Amnesiac — SciFi/Mystery/Short Story 7. On Air — Billionaire/Pregnancy-Romance/Mystery Coming Soon . . . 1. The Arranged! Series — Romance/Arranged Marriage 2. Double Me — Horror 3. Public-City — Humour 4. The Halloween Files Series — Horror — I'd really, really, really appreciate if you guys could check out my other books. It'd mean a whole lot to me. I promise that y'all won't be disappointed 👉🏽👈🏽 Pretty please 🥺 The first seven are available on the site and the remaining are WIPs And when you do check them out, please comment what you think in the chapters and leave a review of what you think. Thanks in advance ❤❤❤
Alacrimia Author's Note
PLEASE READ 🙃 ♟️ *clears her throat and smiles* Mmkay . . I'm sorry if this is too long, but it's necessary. This is my only author's note in this book . . . you've got to give me credit for refraining from writing one since all this months na 😐 🍒 Hola! I see you made it to the end of this book 😊 Aww, thanks soo much for reading 💓 I'm really happy to finish this book sef, when I started on the twelfth of November last year, I had no idea it was going to take meone seven five days to finish writing the book (minus the hiatus, that i
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'Mide,' she said in reply, resisting the urge to break down and run into his arms, crying her apologies.She cleared her throat and made a serious face. 'What do you want here?'Mide smiled sadly and held her gaze again. 'Can I come in first?''Yes, Daddy!' Eniiyi picked up the bouquet and then took her father's hand and dragged him over the threshold.Eartha almost panicked. Why had Adekunbi done that? Now she'd have to fight the strong will to walk into his arms!She blinked again and firmed her lips. 'Mide, I told you -'Before she could finish speaking Mide deftly covered the space in between them.She sucked in a breath and tried to step back but then he touched her arm and she froze to the spot.'What do you want?' she croaked out. It took her all not to fall into his arms now. She could feel the heat radiating
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Eartha and Eniiyi were still seated on the couch, long after the movie had ended. Eniiyi didn't think this was because the movie was that interesting. Her mommy had gone into one of her trances again. The girl was still trying to get used to it already since all these days.So, she waited patiently, still snuggled into her and watched the credits roll in on the TV screen.But as she stared on silently she couldn't help wondering all over when all this would stop. When she'd let them go back to Daddy, instead of sitting here all day and feeling sad.It was rather unnecessary, if somebody asked the girl.Thankfully, her mommy came out of her reverie quicker today. She sighed and pat Eniiyi's head.'Interesting movie, huh?' She stood up from beside her daughter and stretched.Even though she was smiling, Eniiyi could still see the slight worry lines that were be
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05:37pm, October15,Ikeja, Lagos State.Slowly, she stretched her hand and picked up the white stick on the wash basin. Then slouched back on the toilet seat lid and turned the stick to face her. Swallowing saliva, she continued to stare at the two bold lines stained on it.She later broke her stare and clutched the stick to her chest with both hands. By then worry had settled on her face.She stared into the unseen distance and poked the inner of her cheeks with her tongue.Well, am I not damned.She stared at it again and lowered her head. There was no denying it, pregnancy tests were true ninety-nine percent of the time.Well, I'm damned, she said to herself again.She couldn't even start to think of telling him about it. The idea just couldn't be stomached. It would open a new can of worms she'd rather keep closed.
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It was almost seven O'clock when the gates buzzed open and Olumide pulled the silver-grey Pengine Ionia into their driveway.He immediately realized that the porch lights weren't on yet, same as any other outdoor light and he thought it was strange, since he could clearly see that the inside was lit.Why hadn't nobody turned the lights on? God, it was getting dark here.He suddenly became aware that someone was banging on the glass. It was Eniiyi, she must have been the one that buzzed him in. She was shouting something at him but he couldn't hear a thing, the car was still soundproof.He rolled down the glass so he could hear what she was saying.'. . . Why?' was all he caught.'What's wrong, Pumpkin Pie?'The girl pouted when she realized when she realized he hadn't heard anything she had said.'Daddy,' she whined i
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To his astonishment, Baba only patted his head and slapped him lightly on the cheek.He gave a squeak of surprise. What was happening here? Had Baba hit his head? Had he taken the wrong kind of liquor today?'Thanks once again for understanding,' Mide said, still all smiles. He had watched the whole episode and had seen the shock on the little boy's face.He chuckled to himself. Nothing a little money and story couldn't do. He had just had to talk with the right amount of morose and regret in his voice to convince the man that his son had been childish to run away was truly sorry and eager to come back home to him. And of course, a little token of money for all his worries over the disappeared boy. Fourty thousand naira did the job just fine.He remembered Eartha punching him in the arm last night after he ended the call, for being a smooth operator.'No problem o. In fact, I sho
