[Excerpt from Episode 16: He wasn’t just a cheat anymore, he
was now a murderer. He knew it was going to be only a matter of time before the
police would find him even if he ran and he was too weak to run. He couldn’t
face the world, he couldn’t face the condemnation and with that he got out of
the car and headed back towards the house. There was only one thing for him to
do and he was going to do it.] To read episode 16: CLICK HERE
He walked into the room and looked around him;
everything was still the same way it was when he had dashed out in a hurry. His
eyes went to Damilola’s lifeless body lying on the floor and for a second he
cast his eyes down as the tears threatened to spill. He swallowed involuntary
as he moved towards it and turned her over. The body was beginning to grow cold
and he pressed his face into her still heart as he wished he had not come over.
He allowed the tears flow then as he cried into her and wished that she would
stir in his arms and smile at him in that her special way and tell him she had
been teasing him but he knew she was gone.
After he had allowed himself cry, he stood up and
hefted the body onto his shoulder like a labourer would carry a bag of cement
and carried her to his car. He opened the door to the passenger’s seat and
propped her against the chair. The body flopped forward lifelessly and he had
to quickly strap the seat belt to it to keep it in place. He closed her unseeing
eyes to give her the look of one fast asleep before getting into the driver’s
seat and driving out of the compound.
His heart beat heavily and rapidly in his chest as
he drove towards the Third Mainland Bridge and even as he drove, he sneaked
peeks at her as if he expected her to burst into laughter or say something. As he
climbed the bridge from Adekunle bus-stop, he increased the car speed and said
a silent prayer of thanks to the heavens for it being night. The probability of
getting rescued was slim and that was just the way he wanted it. As he sped at
top speed, John Legend’s “All of Me” filled the interior of the car and he
wished he had given his all to just one person. He wouldn’t have been in this
mess then. As he sped towards the water, he closed his eyes and took his hands
of the steering wheel. It happened in a split second; the car hit concrete and
was sent flying into the air as it flipped over. He heard the splintering of
glass and crunching metal and for a split second he opened his eyes and looked
at the other passenger in the car before he heard the thud of the car hitting
the water and then there was darkness.
Anu looked about her with unseeing eyes as she sat
in her best friend’s room trying to clear out the room. It was a month since
the death of Muyiwa and Damilola but Anu was still grieving. She had lost
consciousness when she had first been told the news of the accident and when
she came to again, she had wept inconsolably refusing to touch food or water
and had had to be sedated.
The task of
clearing out Damilola’s apartment had fallen to her and as she sat in the once
happy room, she wallowed in her grief again and wept bitterly. Halima had left the country about two weeks after
and had not even bothered to attend the funerals. Anu wiped her eyes as she
stood up and tried to get herself together but the pain was too raw and she
collapsed back on the bed and screamed like one in agony. Her husband Tunji
rushed into the room and her scooped her into his arms like a baby as he
consoled her
“Hush baby, hush. It’s going to be alright, I told
you already, you don’t have to do this just yet. Damilola won’t want you so
torn apart like this. We all miss her hunnay, we all do.” Anu’s tears became
louder as she sobbed
“I should have done something Tunji, I should have
done something earlier to save her. She was on self destruct and I let her. It’s
all my fault, I can’t believe I watched her die. I want her back Tunji, I want
her back, please just let her come back.”
Tunji’s heart broke to see his wife blame
herself for something that was clearly beyond her helping. He grated his teeth together
in anger at Muyiwa, only if that son of a bitch was not dead already, I would
have strangled the life out of him myself he thought to himself. He carried his
wife out of the room and closed the door behind him and as he turned the key in
the lock, he vowed that was the last time they were ever coming back there.
THE END
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Aww... Very emotional end. Thanks for thexams journey, it was really an exciting one. I enjoyed every single episode. Wished it ended on a happier note though. (not sure how it could have though) thanks still, it was awesome. Anticipating something else soon. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteDamilola deserved her death, just bad she had to ruin other peeople with her
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