EPISODE 14
He started removing his trousers
but Kunle who was not ready to
give up quickly grabbed him and
a fight ensued between them.
They rolled on the floor with each
of them trying to get a better angle in order to deal the best
blow. Kunle, remembering the
knife in his pocket drew it out
and stabbed him in the stomach.
He fell back clutching his stomach
with a look of pain and surprise on his face. He fell his back as
blood gushed out from the cut.
Kunle watched as he squirmed
and squirmed then went still with
eyes still wide open. He went
closer to him, bent down and tapped him but he did not
respond, he put his ears closer to
his mouth and realised he wasn’t
breathing anymore, he fell back
and started shivering. Kunle: “Oh God! I just killed him, I
just killed my friend” he muttered
under his breath. Just then Annie
started wailing due to the effect of
the sun directly shining unto her
face. She was so loud that Kunle thought of taking to his heels and
leaving her there but changed his
mind. “I must finish what I
started. It is a must that I finish it”
he said looking around frantically
just to be sure no one was within earshot or watching him. He went
closer to her, removed her
pampers which was already filled
with faeces and threw it away, he
removed her top and used it to
clean her up then proceeded to unzipping his fly. Dickson and his two friends were
on the Lagos-Ibadan express
when he got pressed and had to
ease himself. Paul stopped the car
and turned the ignition off while
Dickson climbed down and started walking to the bush. Paul: “Where are you going to
you this guy? Why must you enter
the bush when you can even do it
right from inside the car?” he
asked impatiently. Dickson: “It’s none of your
business man. Just leave me
alone. You can leave without me if
you want to” he said still walking. Paul: “Ralph have can you see
how the jerk is trying to waste
our time when we are supposed
to be at the wedding already?” he
turned to their other friend who
was the only quiet one among them. Ralph: “Leave him now. I am sure
it wouldn’t take him more than
five minutes. Just chill guy!” he
said playfully and just then
Dickson came running back,
panting breathlessly. Dickson: “Guys! Guys!! Come
down now and follow me” he
said and turned back. The two
looked at each other confusedly
and open their doors at the same
time and ran after him. They paused when they got to where
he was, hiding behind a large
tree. Ralph: “What was that commotion
about?” Dickson: “Shhhhh!” he shushed
him and pointed to where Bayo
and Kunle were, fighting
vigorously. Ralph looked down,
saw the baby on the floor and
made to run into the opening where they were at but his two
friends held him down. Paul: “Don’t do anything stupid,
let’s watch and see what is going
to happen” he said in a hushed
tone just then, they saw the flash
of a blade and in the twinkle of an
eye, the other guy was down, bleeding profusely. Ralph: “Shit! We have to save that
baby fast” he said but the other
two still hushed him down. Paul: “I need to know what he is
trying to do with that baby. We
will pounce on him when he
makes his move and anyone with
a phone please?” Dickson brought out his phone
from his hip pocket and started
taking snapshots of all of the
guy’s moves. They got confused
when he removed her pampers
and used her cloth to wipe off the mess on her, they thought he was
probably helping her until he
started unzipping his trousers. Ralph: “Damnit!” he said in
between clenched teeth and
sprinted to where Kunle was
while the other two followed
suite. He jumped on him and
pinned him down while Paul kicked the knife out of his reach. Kunle: “Oh God! You people are
making a terrible mistake, leave
me alone now…I will kill you all”
he issued pointless threats. Dickson: “You son of a bitch! You
were trying to rape this innocent
baby? For what?” he said as he
scooped Annie up, removed his
danshiki and used it to wrap the
baby warmly as she stopped crying and smiled at him. “Oh my!
Can you imagine how beautiful
she is?” he said smiling back at
her like a teenager. They bundled Kunle up and
turned back to Ibadan, since
Ibadan was closer than both
Ogun state and Lagos from where
they were. They took him straight
to the police station and filed a report. Kunle was detained while
they were asked to take care of
the baby till her parents come to
claim her since no one had filed a
missing child report just yet. The
police did not want extra burden in their hands. === Just as they were about driving
out of the gate, they spotted
Sammy walking with such a
drooling shoulder that was
almost touching the ground.
Richard was so relieved that without turning off the ignition,
he opened the door and ran to
his son who got startled out of his
wits when he was scooped up all
of a sudden. He struggled to go
down until he saw that it was his dad. Sammy: “Daddy! Daddy!!” he
could not get the words out of his
mouth. Ophelia: “Richie…lets go inside,
people are staring at us” she said
placing her hand gently on his
shoulder. Richard: “Yeah yeah we should.
Please can you help me bring the
car in please?” Ophelia: “Yeah sure” When they got inside, Richard
noticed for the first time that his
son reeked of sweat and tears.
his eyes was bloodshot and yeah
he was alone. Richard: “Where is Annie?” he
asked gently holding him at arm’s
length. Sammie: “Daddy it was my fault. I
am not a good brother. Mum will
never forgive me” the tears
flowed freely from his face, his
dad was confused and scared. Richard: “Sammie what happened
to your sister?” Sammie: “Last night, when we
were waiting for you to come
back home, Annie started crying
because she was hungry and my
hand could not reach the shelf. I
decided to go and wait for you outside the gate but as soon as
we stepped out, some men on
okada came and snatched Annie
from my hand and ran away.
Daddy I don’t know what to do, I
prayed to God to bring her back to me but He didn’t since she
hasn’t being returned yet. I have
walked around searching for the
men, asking people but no one
know them. Daddy please get my
sister back for me” he disengaged from his dad and
knelt down as tears and sweat
mingled together on his face. It was like a terrible lightening
had struck Richard, he sat
unmoving staring into thin air.
Ophelia noticed this and walked
up to them slowly. She place her
hand on his shoulder again… Ophelia: “Richie are you okay?”
she asked with a quivering voice. Richard: “My daughter is gone
and you are asking if I am okay?
Tell me how I can be okay, how?
This is my fault, I should have
been home but I got whisked off
to jail disgracefully leaving my children unprotected. Tell me
what kind of father I am?” he
stood up and started pacing
around. Ophelia: “Let’s get to the police
station, this requires urgency. We
must act fast” she said urging him
to follow her. Richard: “I swear I am never
going to forgive the man who got
me arrested. I wish I even got to
see him or got to know his name.
But I will find him, I swear on my
dead wife that I will find him” he gritted his teeth. Ophelia: “Then you don’t even
know the reason you got
arrested?” Richard: “I don’t! Can you
imagine that? He instructed them
not to tell me” Ophelia: “Oh Thank God!” she
heaved a sigh of relief. “Okay let’s
go dear” Sammy: “I am going with you
dad. I must be among those to
search for her, I promise to do my
best” Richard: “It is too risky so just
stay here okay?” Ophelia: “You want to leave him
all alone again? Let him come with
us at least we will be able to keep
an eye on him. I am just afraid to
even leave him alone” she said
wryly. === Ralph and his friends were at a
loss as to what to do with Annie.
The three of them lived together
in a three bedroom flat at Oluyole
Estate in Ibadan. They met at an
MTN internship program in Abuja when they were first seeking for
job, they were all picked and
assigned to the same branch in
Ibadan. They got the apartment
together, took a room each and
used the living room together. They did everything together and
nowhere will one of them be
found that the other two would
not be found there also. Paul: “What do we do with this
baby whose name we don’t even
know? I am really not good with
babies and that’s why I asked my
last girlfriend to have an abortion
when she told me she was pregnant” Dickson: “Let’s take her back to
the police station and tell them we
cannot keep her” Paul: “You want to go through
police wahala bah?” Dickson: “Okay should we take
her to the orphanage? I really
don’t have money to waste on
another person’s baby. I already
have enough responsibility as it
is” Ralph: “Let’s keep her. Let’s help
this helpless baby at least it’s just
for the main time, her parents will
soon come for her. Please guys?
Just look at how innocent and
beautiful she looks. She reminds me of my little sister whom we
lost to small pox back then” he
said pleadingly
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