Beautifully ugly episode 26
Beautifully Ugly.
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Episode 26
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As We were still in that sad moment my mom suddenly started coughing dryly,
“Mama, what is the problem?.” I asked as she held her chest and continued releasing sequels of effortless coughs.
I hurried to our pot of water and quickly filled the cup that was always kept on the lead for emergency purposes.
“Mama, drink.” I meant to feed her the water as she coughed uncontrollably but she decline and collected the cup from me.
“Hmmm .” She heaved in relief but the tears never stopped flowing down her eyes.
By then, there was no trace of a tear in my eyes, I was more cautious of my mum, my greatest fear was losing her, she was and still is everything to me,
“Mama, don’t worry, everything will be fine.” I consoled as I slowly and gently patted her on the back.
She wiped off strands of tears from her face and asked “Have you eaten anything since you get back?.”
“No, but I’m not hungry. “I replied with a quavering voice.
“You mean you haven’t eaten since morning? “She asked and raised a brow in surprise.
“Mama, as I said, I wasn’t and still not hungry, I lost my appetite. “I explained but she didn’t buy a bit of my explanation.
“prosper! “Her face became moody as she called me,
” Yes, mama. “I answered.
” Why is it so hard for you to get this? You’re the reason for my stay on this planet earth, I can’t with bear a moment without you, I can’t stand the loneliness, I..I…I…” her voice stuttered as tears welled up in her eyes causing a great outpouring.
“My emotion was so high, tears wanted to drop from my eyes but suddenly I heard a voice speak in my head.
“This is not time to express pain with tears, only women do that, men are known to be giant brave and vigilant,
they always prove strong no matter how hard the situation might seem,
age doesn’t matter,
PROSPER, IT’S TIME TO BE A MAN.
At that instinct, I felt strong like never before,
I discovered the manness in me,
“Mama, you don’t have to weep, nothing is going to happen to me, wipe your tears, everything is going to be alright, it’s just for a while, trust me, mama, I must make you proud in this life.
My mum after hearing me stopped abruptly and wiped off her tears,
She smiled widely, but all I could see on her face was a mixture of pain, agony, and hardship.
“You’ve spoken like your father for once. ”
She affirmed and smiled more but stopped suddenly, her face turned pale and moody
Oh death, why are you so inconsiderate, why ??
“I knew she was anticipating another great weeping, so I had to find something to call off the sorrowful moment.
“Mama!” I called soberly.
“There’s a say that the fruit produced by a tree is as same as the tree.
There’s another say that the bowl of water fetched from a river is still just like the river itself.
“Remember he didn’t leave you alone, remember you have his fruit, which means you have him.
Yes a new version of him that is here to replace his personality.
Believe me, Mama, all is going to be well soon…
I noticed the tears that freely gushed down her cheek.
She put me in a tight hug and I could hear her gentle sobs that sent shivers down my spine.
Go and check the bag I brought back from the market, I’ll be outside warming the food. “She Noted and left with a pot that contained the food we made the previous day.
I got up from the mat and went to check the bag as directed by her,
Wow, what kind of humanity is this? “I exclaimed in amazement, her shop was burnt which means she had nothing again but still she bought me something to eat, hmmm, Oh God please, this personality needs to be specially taken care of. “I pointed out to God with my hands in the air.
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The following day was Saturday, I did some house chores which included washing plates and the few clothes we had.
My mum left very early in the morning for church cleaning which usually took place every Saturday.
Even when she was still going to the market, she would first go for the church cleaning before going to the market.
She was a woman so attracted to religious activities. Never for once had, she joked with any God-related stuff. That one of the things that mostly trigger my question and curiosity:
WHY ARE THE CHILDREN OF DARKNESS PROSPERING WHILE THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT ARE SUFFERING?
You would see someone that doesn’t even go to church riding on cool and flashy cars but the ones that call themselves children of God would be finding it so difficult to properly play the role of Breadwinning.
If not that the great one is not to be questioned, I would have thousands of questions to ask.
So I was stuck alone in the house,
Loneliness made me wish johnny my gee was around but my wish was never granted.
My mum also was taking longer to return but I never felt worried, of course, she would have nothing to do in the house, so no need to rush.
I naturally wasn’t used to going out but was forced to hurry out when I started having the same feeling that something was monitoring me, the cold breeze was beginning to awake as usual, and I could see one old calendar that had been there since we packed into the house flipping by itself, I had to dash out of the house immediately and decided to just take a stroll around one residence.
The occurrence had been of great burden to me and my mum never helped matters concerning that particular issue.
whenever I talked to her concerning it, she would say it’s just illusion and imagination, well I wouldn’t blame her cuz it never happened in her presence.
Not ignoring the fact that we lived in an urban state, our particular region was indescribably rural.
So bushy and homes so distanced from each other,
Numerous banditry and kidnapping operations have been recorded which labeled the place insecure and the most dangerous region in the state.
The only recognized and developed road was the one that leads to the bright future academy, (though erosion had completely dealt with our own region).
You would understand the level of rurality in our region with what happened that day the masked man attacked us, someone could have learned of it and called for our rescue but how would that be possible when homes around us were just so far away?
Why did we choose a place like this to live?
Because that was actually the only shelter we could occupy without being asked for rent.
I wanted to visit johnny but remembered that I had to use a commercial bus as their place was quite far from our house and the fact that his father warned me to stop associating with him gave me the coldest feet.
So I just strolled for quite some time and decided to return to the house before my mum get back and discovers I went out.
She warned me on several occasions to stop stepping out whenever she wasn’t around but there was no way I could stand the terror she labeled as hallucination and imagination.
She was caring for my safety out there but totally oblivious to the fact that I preferred going out to face all the horrifying moments in the house.
As I turned back to go, I discovered that everywhere had already been covered by trees, I looked right and left hoping to find a way back but everywhere looked bushy, the only road I saw was forward, no backward, leftward, and even rightward.
Fear gripped my heart and my whole body shivered terribly,
I knew for sure that something was coming behind me but looking back was never an option,
And running away was far from the remedy.
“What do you want??” I screamed trembly and a response came almost before I was done talking.
“YOUUU! The monstrous voice answered and I turned back immediately,
what I saw left me in total perplexity,
The same horrifying figure I saw in the school emergency department that day,
This time, the mouth was dropping dark blood and the face was nothing to write about.
He raised the shiny axe and aimed toward me,
That was when my heartbeat increased to 500 times per second,
I tried running but something ceased my legs and I fell flat to the ground,
“Huhuhu.” He laughed historically and slowly adjusted toward me,
I tried everything to get up but couldn’t.
He was so close to me that the stinky cold blood dripping from his mouth wetted my clothes.
“What do you want from me?” I asked horrifiedly but instead of giving a response to my question,
He raised the shiny axe and forcefully directed it toward me to strike.
To be continued.