Love with bitter tears batch 5

Love with Bitter tears

EPISODE 12
Prof. Harry: “This girl has finally
succeeded in ruining our family
name. How on earth did she think
to do something like this?” he
barked. “Woman get up right
away and get me my phone. You and your daughter will have to
pay for this in a very bitter way” Obiageli: “Please forgive her, she
was only being childish. You
know she has never being in love
before and we never really told
her we had agreed to her
marrying the widower. Please ehn?” Prof. Harry: “How on earth could
she go on her knees and propose
to a man to the public’s scrutiny?
How could she do something so
cheap despite how beautiful and
intelligent she is? To make the matters worse, the man didn’t
seem to have agreed right away.
Oh my God!” he slumped down
on the longest settee and clasped
his head in his hands. Obiageli: “Please take it easy my
dear. If only we know where she
must have gone to…” Prof. Harry: “Where else if not the
man whose name I don’t even
know’s place? And I promise you,
I will deal with the two of them. I
swear I will make him suffer for
making my daughter into this shameless adult she just became
ever since he showed up in her
life. My own daughter begging a
man to marry her? What a
pathetic and miserable girl” he
stood and started pacing around furiously. A thought occurred to
him and he smiled mischievously.
“Where is the phone I asked you
to bring for me? There is nothing
you know how to do right in
your life, how could you have been able to bring her up
properly?” he berated his wife
who stood immediately to do as
she was bid. As soon as the
phone was handed to him, he
called the police station. “Someone is holding my
daughter against her will at his
house, please can you help us
look into him? He works at Accent
Nigeria but I doubt he stays along
that side, he must stay somewhere around mainland.
Yes! I will get back to you when I
have confirmed his name and
address. Thank you very much”
he said and hung up the phone. Obiageli: “Who did you call?” Prof. Harry: “Isn’t that obvious
enough? Police, I called the
police” he replied impatiently. Obiageli: “But it has not gotten up
to that. Why lie against an
innocent man when is your
daughter causing all the trouble?” Prof. Harry: “I can do whatsoever
I want. He is tampering with my
daughter’s honour, why will I let
him go scot-free? Please don’t
even bother saying anything any
further. You hærdly make any sense” Obiageli: “Hmmmmmm!” She
sighed sadly and kept mum even
though she had a thousand
things to say back to him. === Ophelia: “Well, there is nothing
you can do about it little boy. Just
concentrate on being a good step
son to me so I can be nice to you.
As you know, I am very good at
using the cane” Sammy: “I will tell my dad if you
touch me or Annie. You cannot be
our mum no matter what” he said
and ran out angrily. Ophelia: “Spoilt little brat! I will
deal…” she was interrupted by
the ringing of her phone. She
reached out and picked it. She
was surprised to know that it was
one of Richærd’s colleagues known as Kenny who was on call
with her.” What can I do for you
Kenny? Hope there is no problem
at all?” Kenny: “There is a problem. A
very big problem at that. It’s
Richærd” she said breathlessly
into the receiver. Ophelia: “Tell me what happened
already” she yelled. Kenny: “He just got arrested by
some police men” Ophelia: “Arrested? Why? What
did he do?” Kenny: “I don’t know really. They
did not tell us” Ophelia: “Okay which police
station?” Kenny: “Lekki Phase1 police
station” she said and hung up the
phone. She picked Rebecca’s car key
from where it was kept in her
drawer and hastily drove out of
the compound. The traffic she met
on the road was killing that it
took her an hour to reach Lekki from Mainland. On getting to the
police station, she met her
parents at the front desk
apparently waiting for her. She
ignored them and went straight
to the front desk officer who was lustfully staring at her. Ophelia: “Officer please I came to
see the man who was brought in
some time ago” Officer: “What’s his name?” he
asked smiling sheepishly. Ophelia: “His name is Richærd
Rotimi” Prof. Harry who had been sitting
waiting to see if she will
acknowledge him lost his
patience at last. Prof. Harry: “Ophelia follow me
now! We are going home” he
barked. “I told you officer, he was
holding my daughter under
duress. Please help me deal with
him very well, not even his parents should know his
whereabouts” he said and drew
his daughter forcefully out of the
station. === Ophelia: “Dad did you order
Richærd’s arrest?” she said as
soon as they stepped in,side the
house but he ignored her. ”Dad…
I asked if that was your doing?”
she asked again jumping in front of him. Prof. Harry: “You cheap thing!”
she fumed, raised his hand and
landed a very dirty slap to her
cheek. “You even have the guts
to ask me questions uhn? After
disgracing yourself with that filthy thing in prison?” Ophelia: “What disgrace?” she
asked holding her cheek as she
fought to make her blurred sight
clearer. She was oblivious of the
fact that her parents had seen the
video of her proposition to Richærd. Prof. Harry: “How could you
propose to a man? How crazy
were you? And then had the guts
to run away from home?” Ophelia: “I did what I did because
I cared about him, a feeling which
is alien to you and that is why you
will never understand. If given
the chance, I will go on my knees
over and over again for him in the presence of the wh0le world
because I care more about what I
want than the opinion of the
world. You are and your
reputation can go to blazes for all
I care” Prof. Harry: “Obiageli… get your
daughter out of my sight before I
do something we will all regret
later. That boy is going to rot in
prison, yes he will and I will see to
that” he said and walked furiously out on them. Obiageli: “Go and beg him now. If
you know you really care about
that boy like you claim, go and
beg him now” Ophelia: “I will not! I will never
beg the son of a b—h over
anything again, I will do
everything my own way from
now on” Prof. Harry: What did you just call
me? Obiageli: Papa Ophelia, take am
easy biko, You know your
daughter is not in her right
senses now. “But Ophelia, how
about the boy? Do you want him
to die in prison?” Ophelia: “I will bail him out. I will
go back to the police station
now” she said fidgeting with the
car keys that were still in her
hand. “But the car is in the police
station, s–t! Oh Richie!” she said and began to cry. “He might lose
his job cos of this, what do I do
mum?” Obiageli: “Go and beg your dad,
besides you have been
grounded. You cannot step out of
this house till further notice” Ophelia: “What? Who does such a
thing to his grownup daughter? I
will be 29 years in few months’
time remember? Mum I am really
not liking this. I need to do
something fast, his children are all alone in the house with no one to
take care of them, if not to the
police station, please allow me to
go back to the house. Please
mum” she pleaded tearfully. Obiageli: “Go and tell your dad
that. I have nothing else to say to
you. I really don’t” she said and
left her in the sitting room. She paced restlessly around,
thinking of what her next step
should be. He thought of Richærd
in prison and Sammy who would
be waiting for him all night long.
She started to cry. Ophelia seems having good feelings for the kids. === Sammy kept checking time over
and over again. It was past nine
and his dad was not back yet.
Annie kept crying and crying
while he kept trying to stop her to
no avail. The baby was hungry and he did not know how to mix
her food, Ngozi was the one
doing it before but she was no
longer there. He sang Rihanna’s
‘Work’ to her but she wailed even
louder and he too started to cry. Sammy: “Dad where are you
now? Why on earth do you have
to stay so late? Mum…” the words
choked in his throat as he said
mum. Annie reduced her crying a
little on seeing that he was crying too. “Baby… you are hungry
right? What should I do? My hand
cannot even reach where they
kept your food, even I am
hungry” he said in between tears.
He checked the time again and realised it was past 10 and
decided to walk outside a bit to
wait for their dad. As soon as he stepped out of the
gate, he saw an okada man with
a passenger approaching them
slowly, he thought for a while
that it was his dad at the
passenger seat until they went closer, snatched Annie from him
and zoomed off. He stood
dumfounded for a minute and
started running after them when
realization of what happened had
dawned on him.
.
.
.
Sounds like from Frying
Pan to Frying FIRE? What
happened to Little Annie? What
should Ophelia do?
 
EPISODE 13
He ran for some time and when
he realized he had gone too far
from home, he turned back with
his hands on his head, wailing
loudly. Sammy: “Oh God please save my
sister, bring my sister back please.
God almighty please help me. Do
something please” he fell on his
knees as soon as he got back into
the house. “God you were there when I promised my mum that I’d
take care of Annie please don’t
make me fail my mum. I also
know you took my mum away
but seeing Annie makes me
happy and makes me feel she will grow up to become like my
mummy someday. Please don’t
take her away from me too.
Wherever those men are taking
her to, please keep her safe.
Please sir” he prayed and prayed with tears streaming down his
face, he remained on his knees
with hands clasped together until
he fell flat wearily and slept off on
the floor. === He walked around aimlessly in
the cell not knowing what to do,
how fate turned around to haunt
him all of a sudden was more
than he could take in. He thought
of his wife who died so suddenly and now he has landed himself in
jail for no apparent reason. Earlier
that day, he thought he had
heard Ophelia’s voice briefly but
then it was like she had vanished
with the next wind that blew. He did hear the policemen talk about
The Professor but he never got to
hear his name fully. He asked
them what his offense was but
they told him they were under
orders not to tell him. He knew his human right was being violated
but who would be there to listen
to him? He was on his own. He thought about his children, he
prayed in his heart that Ophelia
would be there with them. As he
kept pacing around the cell, one
of the inmates who was popularly
called Ogbeni in the cell which contained six inmates including
Richærd jerked up angrily, unable
to hold the disturbance any
longer. Ogbeni: “Na wetin dey do this
man sef? You dey craze? Why you
no go gree make person sleep
wella?” he said with a deep voice. Richærd: “I am sorry please, you
go back to sleep!’’ Ogbeni: “Who you dey speak
English for? See me see wahala o.
boys wake up, this dude dey
speak English” he said as the rest
of the inmates started waking up
one after the other. Boys! Wetin una wan make I do to this mumu
ajebutter guy?” he said looking
around like one in a trance. “Make we roast am” they all
chorused. Richærd: “Please guys, lets handle
this wi…”before he could say
anything further, a blow flew into
his jaws and sent him writhing on
the floor. Ogbeni: “Abeg boys help me
roast this guy sharp sharp” he
ordered and they descended on
him, beating, punching, biting
and tearing at his flesh. His pleas
got to the officers and two of them went to put everything in
check. 1st Officer: “Hey wetin una dey do? una wan kill am?” he said as the 2nd Officer used his gun to hit on the iron gate in order to
restore order. Ogbeni: “Officer we na gentle
boys o, make una go back” Then
the officers turned and left. After that, Richærd became extra
careful in the cell before he got
himself really roasted. === She wept all through the night,
she was the cause of Richærd’s
predicament yet she was unable
to do anything about it or even
be there for his children. “Will he
ever forgive me? Oh God! I know I have never prayed before but
do not let anything happen to his
children at home, do not let him
lose his job cause of this. I will be
truly damned” she prayed in her
heart. As soon as it was daybreak,
before her parents opened the
door to the room, she went and
sat down in front of their door to
make it seem she had been there
all night. Her dad was always the first to get out of the room, he
always reads in his study in the
mornings. He was surprised
when he opened the door and
saw her sitting there with her
back leaning on the door. Prof. Harry: “What are you doing
here madam?” he asked appalled
at her guts. Ophelia: “Daddy” she said as
innocently and weakly as she
could. Prof. Harry: “Did you stay here all
through the night?” Ophelia: “That is not the issue
here daddy. I know I have been
rude to you lately, I am here to
apologize” Prof. Harry: “Follow me and stop
sitting there like a homeless girl”
he said and started walking away
while she rose up and followed
him. He sat on his favourite s₱0t
right in front of the 16”Flat Screen Television. “So I am listening” Ophelia: “Everything was my fault
dad, that man is innocent. I lied to
him that night that you sent me
out of the house” she looked
down unable to meet his
mystified gaze. Pro. Harry: “You did what?” Ophelia: “I wanted to prove to
you that I could as well live my life
the way I dimmed fit. Dad please,
his last child is just three months
while the first is almost seven
years old and they are all alone at home. Please sir, set him free” she
started to weep profusely. Prof. Harry: “What on earth do I
do to this child? Well I can see you
deeply care about this man. Only
God knows what you saw in him.
I will set him free today so stop
crying okay? Just that I will have to stop you from seeing him, you
cannot be with a widower who is
even a Yoruba man. Not while I
am still alive” Ophelia: “Daddy, do you want to
see me dead? By now I am sure
you know I am crazy. I do crazy
things and committing suicide is
something trivial for me. You
want to be childless for the rest of your life? I know it’s you who
can’t have children anymore not
mum. So if you want me dead
then you will keep insisting the
way you are doing now. Thank
you very much daddy, I know you will let me have my way,
thanks on behalf of Richærd too”
she went closer, hugged him and
placed a light k-ss on his cheek. He was dumbfounded, one thing
he was sure of was that she could
carry out her threat and imagine
what the headline would be? ‘The
daughter of a professor in a well
know university committed suicide last night’ and then the
details of the incidence will be
exaggerated. He quivered at the
thought of losing his only child
too and then he resolved to just
swallow his pride and watch her do her thing. === On getting to the police station,
she was told that Richærd had
already been released and that he
had gone home. She knew that
was her dad’s doing, probably
trying to make up for his misdeeds. She got into the car
which she had left there the other
day and zoomed off towards
Mainland. Thankfully there wasn’t
much traffic jam. When she drove into the
compound, she met Richærd with
his hands on his head pacing
around restlessly. The bruises on
his face was something to write
home about but what worried her the most was the look on his
face. She parked the car and got
out hastily. Ophelia: “Baby! I am so sorry for
what happened…” she
apologized as she walked up to
him. Richærd: “This is not the time for
apologies…I know you did try
getting me out yesterday but
what I don’t know is whether
you left my children in this house
all alone last night because right now, they are nowhere to be
found. Where are they?” he asked
hopefully hoping she’d tell him. Ophelia: “Oh my God! I don’t
know where they, I was unable
to come back here last night
because my dad grounded me, I
was unable to leave the house” Richærd: “Now I am doomed. Oh
Sammy. Where do I search? Who
do I meet?” Ophelia: “Let’s calm down first
and think about our next step.
Have you called some of his
school friends? Those he visits at
home?” Richærd: “None of them have seen
them. I have to get to the police
station to file a missing person
report” he said and dashed
in,side. Ophelia: “Will the police really be
able to help in this situation? All
they’d do is ask you to write a
report then after that you’d be on
your own. Let’s go to Radio and
Television stations. Paste their pictures around town and see
how that would help?” She said.
Following him slowly as tears
cascaded down her beautiful
face. Richærd: “We can do all those, as
long as my children will be
found” he replied desperately. Ophelia: “All these is my fault,
what do I do in this messy
situation now?” she thought
sadly. === The two men walked way into the
bush with the baby in the tallest
one known as Bayo’s hands.
They made sure they were not
sighted or followed by anyone. Bayo: “I think this place is okay
right? Let’s do it here” he said
stopping. Kunle: “Wait! We need another
one because if you go first then
she will no longer be a V-rgin” Bayo: “Yes but someone still has
to go first, Baba said before 9a.m
and it’s already 8:30. Let me do
this one first then tomorrow we
will get yours” he said placing the
sleeping Annie on the floor. Kunle: “No let me go first, we will
get yours tomorrow. Do you
think I am a fool? Do you know
how long it took us to get this
one? We roamed the streets for
three days and you want me to just relent when I was the one
who sighted her first? No way!”
he said, pushed Bayo to one side
and…
.
.
OMG! What are those
two hoodlums up to? Where is
Sammy.
 
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. d-ckson 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
d-ckson 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 in,side the car?” he
asked impatiently. d-ckson:
“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
d-ckson came running back,
p-nting breathlessly. d-ckson:
“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?” d-ckson: “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:
“S–t! 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?” d-ckson
brought out his phone
from his h¡p 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.
d-ckson: “You son of a b—h!
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 s₱0tted
Sammy walking with such a
drooling shoulder that was
almost touching the ground.
Richærd 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 in,side,
people are staring at us” she
said
placing her hand gently on his
shoulder. Richærd: “Yeah yeah
we should.
Please can you help me bring
the
car in please?” Ophelia: “Yeah
sure” When they got in,side,
Richærd
noticed for the first time that
his
son reeked of sweat and tears.
his eyes was bloodshot and
yeah
he was alone. Richærd: “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.
Richærd: “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 Richærd, 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. Richærd: “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. Richærd: “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?” Richærd: “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” Richærd: “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 internsh¡p 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” d-ckson: “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?” d-ckson:
“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