A New Creation episode 14
A New Creation
Chapter 14A
The bullet was released and it pierced into Host’s forehead, in the middle, the same place where the bullet had entered into Adesuwa’s brain. Host was gone. Forever.
Slimmy and Gentle scre-med on top of their voices as they saw their Lordman, their brother, their friend close his eyes in death. Slimmy charged forward but was held back by Gentle’s strong grip, Screw pointed his gun towards the two of them, hands on the trigger, ready to shoot.
“Drop your gun Screw” Said Terror “I take the shots here and I say we leave them alive.
Screw raised his eyebrows as he heard what Terror said.
“But this is part of the deal Terror” Screw argued still pointing his gun towards Slimmy and Gentle.
“And I said it’s no longer part of the deal, the two of them lives” Terror barked as he raised his gun towards Screw while Screw had his own gun pointed at Slimmy.
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Coded and Oj had been running around the bush for a while now since they didn’t know the particular place where the confrontation is happening, after some minutes they heard a gunshot and some people scre-ming, they traced where the noise was coming from and they saw all of Terror’s men fully armed, Host lying down on the floor obviously dead, Slimmy and Gentle squatting while Screw had a gun pointed at them. Everything seemed to be going as planned for them so their fears reduced, Coded suggested that they go and join Screw but Oj advised against it. They stayed put until Terror pointed his gun towards Screw, Coded tried convincing Oj that something was going wrong but Oj still pleaded with him that they should stay hidden Until Coded couldn’t take it anymore as he saw that things were really getting hot between Screw and Terror, he charged towards where they were while Oj stayed back.
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“You are an Effing traitor Terror” Screw barked “Whether you like it or not, I am taking down these guys” Screw was about pulling the trigger at Slimmy but Terror was faster, with two shots on his heart region, Screw went down. On seeing that Terror was about to pull the trigger on Screw, Coded started shooting at Terror but Terror had already shot Screw before he was hit by bullets from Coded’s gun. Terror’s squad rained bullets on Coded as soon as they saw him.
Within a blink of an eye Screw was down, Terror was down and Coded was down also, all dead. Oj wanted to attack Screw and Coded’s killer but decided against it knowing that he had no chance to take them out all at once. Slimmy and Gentle stayed dumbfounded at all that happened within an hour, the guys that came with Terror were about picking his body when sirens started blowing.
“Police” they scre-med and all ran away, Slimmy and Gentle also ran away with Host body, they ran to their car and drove away. Oj also wanted to run away with Screw’s body but there was no way he’d be able to carry his body alone so he ran away leaving Screw and Coded’s body behind.
_________*** Weeks Later ****________
One after another, students and lecturers started resuming. Gradually people started attending classes though with the fear of ‘anything can happen at any anytime’. Rumours Of Host and Screw’s death had circulated but it was only an unconfirmed news which many didn’t believe because they knew if the news was true then Arch angels and White tigers will still be killing each other.
______ Few weeks back _______
Members of the Arch angels and White tigers could be seen together at the S.U.G hall, most of them were standing opposite each other while Slimmy and Gentle sat across to Oj and Small. No weapon was in sight as they have both agreed to come in without weapons.
“You wanted to see us” Slimmy broke the silence as he kept on looking at the PSP game he was playing.
“Yeah, I called for this round table meeting in order to propose something ” Oj replied with a fierce look and a commanding tone.
“We are listening” Slimmy Still playing his game.
“Let’s call off the war” Said Oj. Slimmy dropped the game as soon as he heard what Oj said and he now stared at him blankly as Oj explained further.
“Don’t take it that we are scared of you and your boys, if we go on with this I am sure we stand a chance of conquering you at the end” Oj said and Gentle stood up immediately to charge towards him but Slimmy held him back and signalled for Gentle to calm down.
“Go on” Slimmy said.
“As I was saying, what started the war was simply because of our past leaders, they had personal scores to settle between themselves and now they are both dead. What then is the need for us to keep killing ourselves even after the people that started this war are in the world beyond”
Kong raised his voice from behind to object what Oj said.
“Far from it, the war has just started, we are going to avenge Host’s death” he said.
“Kong” Slimmy called out and gave him a stern look. “Please go on” Slimmy said to Oj.
“All I am saying is that we sign a peace treaty, each fraternity should maintain it’s space” Oj replied and kept quiet, everyone went silent as soon as Oj was done talking.
“Give me a minute with my guys” Slimmy announced as he Marched outside with the rest of the arch angels. “Gentle what do you feel about that guy’s proposal”
“Errrmmm for me, I think it’s a good idea because we ca…..” Gentle was about to explain further but Kong interrupted him “Which kain talk be that na, how this one take be good idea na”.
“How dare you interrupt me Kong ” Gentle snapped and moved closer to Kong
“Why I no go interrupt you with the kain talk wey you dey talk” Kong replied as he also moved closer to Gentle.
“Guys” Slimmy shouted “It’s okay”.
The two of them walked back to where they were standing but still had each other’s gaze fixed on each other.
“This is what we will do, if you are against signing a peace treaty with the Tigers then raise your hand” Slimmy announced and Kong alongside some of the members raised their hands.
“If you are in support, raise your hand” Slimmy said again and this time majority of the members including Gentle raised their hands. “I guess we all know what the verdict is now” Slimmy led them back in,side.
“We have reached a decision, we concur with the treaty” Slimmy said to Oj and Small who were now on their feet also.
“Alright then” Oj replied.
“But” Gentle spoke out “If any of your members should take on one of ours, you their leader will be held responsible”
“Same goes for you guys” Small replied and they shook hands with each other.
Chapter 14B
“Are you in the house?” Hadijat said into her phone. Her car right in front of the Arch Angels mansion. Now that rest had return to the school and everyone was back, Hadijat, Rofiat and Halimat had also returned to their house but the Arch Angels mansion was no longer a place out of bounds for Hadijat and Halimat, like it was for other students, they could now visit the place without being stopped by anyone.
“Yes,” Gentle replied from the other end of the line.
“Okay, I’m outside now. Please come and meet me.” Hadijat said.
“Why don’t you come in,side?” Gentle asked. “You know you’re very free here.”
“Yes, I know.” Hadijat said in a stressed tone. “But I don’t want to spend too much time.”
“Okay, give me a minute.”
“Okay,” Hadijat cut the call. Gentle had been disturbing her with calls and texts since he first week after the war, always asking her to come spend time with him in the Arch Angels mansion but she always had an excuse to give. One of the best excuses that always worked was that lecturers were speeding up lectures as so much time had been wasted already, so all students had to sit up if they want to follow the pace.
She wondered why it wasn’t Slimmy disturbing her so much, she would have gladly missed classes for him. But that was the irony of life, Slimmy sometimes seem not to notice her no matter what she did to draw his attention. He wouldn’t even reply her messages immediately on WhatsApp and sometimes when she sent him pictures of herself, he would only make boring comments no matter how sed-ctive the pose was. At a time she had even tried to get his attention by making a collage of his photos with hers but he didn’t even notice the display picture until after three days when she brought his attention to it and his response was still not encouraging. All he said replied was ,”nice 8)” .
Her thoughts drifted off as she saw Gentle walk out of the gate. He turned to her direction and began to proceed towards the car. Hadijat put on her sunshades and stepped out of the car to wait for him.
“Hadijat,” he called softly as he stood in front of her.
“Good afternoon,” Hadijat greeted, adjusting her shades.
“Good afternoon, why didn’t you come in?” Gentle queried.
“I told you I didn’t want to stay long,” Hadijat reiterated.
“Why is it that you’re always busy when I ask you out and always rushing to somewhere when we meet?” Gentle frowned his face as he questioned.
“It’s not like that,” Hadijat sighed, “you should understand that now that we just resumed , we have a lot of work to do. The lecturers are running things so fast because the school calendar has been disrupted twice this semester alone…”
“Come on, stop that.” Gentle interrupted her with a wave of his hand, he was tired of listening to the same excuse over and over again. “Aren’t we all in the same school, we are all facing the same challenge.”
“Yes, I know but you are a guy and you know how to work out yourself but as a lady, if I don’t want to sleep with a lecturer, I must pass his exams.” Hadijat said.
“Shi*t!” Gentle cursed loudly. “Which damn lecturer would demand that you sleep with him?” Gentle barked. “Or has anyone asked you already.”
“No,” Hadijat lied, knowing that if she had affirmed it , something bad was definitely going to happen to the lecturer.
“Are you sure?” Gentle asked. “Tell me now so I can put the motherf***er where he belongs,” Gentle slammed in anger.
“Gentle, there’s none.” Hadijat said sternly.
“Then why do we have a problem?”
“I still have to study to avoid such a case. You know I told you that I had some problems last year, I don’t want it to repeat itself.” Hadijat voiced, this time in a pleading tone.
“Why don’t you just tell me what problem it is? Then your don’t have to work your brains off to solve them. I can get them sorted out with a tap of my fingers.” Gentle pleaded back.
Hadijat was tired of going in circles, this particular matter of him offering to help have been death with several times, both online and physically but she had always insisted on sorting out her problems the natural way, Gentle would not just stop proffering his own way of dealing with it.
She let out a deep breath as her phone rang, she really needed something to take her away from Gentle. She turned into the car and took the phone. She heaved a huge sigh of relief, it was her class governor calling. She displayed the caller’s ID to Gentle. “Please, excuse me.” She said before answering the call.
“Hello, Class Rep.” She said into the phone and paused to listen. “Okay…now? I’ll come right away.” She ended the call and lowered her phone. Gentle was already staring into her face.
“You have to go again?” Gentle asked, with a contorted look on his face.
“I’m sorry, Yes.” She replied.
“Just go,” he said angrily and turned to walk away.
“I’m sorry Gentle, I’ll make it up to you soon.” Hadijat proposed, a promise she was never planning to keep. But Gentle was not listening, he opened the gate and entered into the compound, making a loud bang as it closed.
Hadijat stared at the phone one more time before entering into the car. She had to call the class Governor back later, he sure would be wondering what warranted the kind of responses she had given to him. He only called to inform her of the cancellation of the social week and she had replied like he was calling her to come and meet him.
She reversed the car into the road properly and turned to the right direction and then zoomed off. Just few metres away, she recognized another car coming through the opposite Lane. Her heart throbbed as she recognized the person behind the wheels, Slimmy. He was making a call with his left hand while his right hand was on the steering.
“Slimmy!” She shouted as their car came closer.
“Hey!” He called back and waved at her as they both drove off.
The smile he gave her was enough to make her day, she forgot at once her bad time with Gentle. She only wished that Slimmy would reply her attention the same way she gave him.
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Slimmy cut the call and focused on the wheels, he was famished and tired. He couldn’t wait to get home and have a good meal and a cold bath.
He smiled as he thought of Hadijat who he just waved her. She had been really making advances towards him, the only reason he had not conceded was because he thought his twin brother was interested in her. At the same time, he wondered why Gentle had never confirmed or spoke of his interest to him. Maybe he was just the one assuming things, Gentle never hid his intentions from him.
Using her for his s€× pleasure wouldn’t be a bad idea at all, he thought. Maybe banging out her brains would her a lesson not to ever mess with a bad boy like him again. He smiled to himself.
…to be continued