The lost Diary – episode 7
THE LOST DIARY
(HE DECEIVED ME)
WRITTEN BY CHIBUIKE SMART
EPISODE 7
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Chief Dave and Sandra had gone into their lodge, after many attempts to understand, what Musa was driving at.
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He gave Musa some naira notes to go take care of his strained neck.
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When they got in they inquired of what the problem was and after hearing from the two house helps on what happened and that they took the file away from his room. Of course the two house helps never mentioned their adventure of yesterday’s night.
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“Hahaha!!!”
Chief Dave busted into a hilarious laughter, that left Sandra and the workers confused on what was amusing about the fact that a contract worth over 500 million naira disappeared into thin air.
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After laughing to his fill, with strand if tears showing in his eyes as he cleaned it away.
He smiled.
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Thanks to God I took that decision earlier on.”
He said.
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” I had felt something amiss, as my body language changed and I wasn’t a kind of comfortable, and I became restless, my wh0le mind was on that file in my room. So I took it immediately to my bank for safe keeping and I thank God it paid off.”
He said hugging his daughter and patting his two house helps at the back to show them, that three was no cause for alarm.
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Sandra exhaled deeply in relief, as she understood the full implications of having the file disappear into thin air.
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” Then what’s about the file they took?”
She pressed on.
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“Oh that? It’s just a minor doc-mentary on some few things, that isn’t important.
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He said and started laughing again and Sandra couldn’t help but join in the laughing bout this time around.
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” Oh! Dad yesterday’s partying was a blast. Let me go change, I’m feeling hot.”
She said fanning herself with her hands to hit home the point.
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Her father nodded and sat on the single sofa in the room, while she went up to her room.
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Thirty minutes later, she came down looking worried, as she started searching around in the sitting room in search of what her father couldn’t tell.
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Her father sat there observing her and after a while he asked her.
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“Sandra what is it again?”
He asked.
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“Dad, did you see any diary here, with my picture at the forefront of it.”
She asked almost close to tears, as she kept searching for and kept making frustrating and angry sounds.
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“No, I didn’t see anything. And what’s so important about the diary, that is making you behave this way?”
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“Daddy that diary is so important to me that I can’t afford to lose it.”
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She said finally breaking down as she cried scattering her well made hair in the process.
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Her father got pissed off by her over crying attitude, as he assumed it too childish for a lady her age.
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” Goddammit!! Sandra for crying out loud you are twenty two years of age. Why always behaving so immature. Every time if you ain’t crying, then you would be brooding. If you are depressed why don’t you say it out, than transferring aggression at the most little displacement.”
He raged out in annoyance.
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This words from him, increased her crying tempo and she wept bitterly.
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Her father rarely scolds her, but if he does it shows that he was really not happy about that very thing.
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Chief Dave seeing that his words only added salt to the injury. He neared her and encircled his hands around, and placed her tears filled face on his shoulder while she cried out her frustration.
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He car-ssed her back, as he suddenly spoke out.
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“What if this armed robbers took the diary?”
She sniffed and said.
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“That is possible, but the question is of what use is a diary to them compared to all the wh0le assets in this house?”
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She asked rhetorically, as she looked up to stare at her father.
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Stanley, Steve and Frank, drove directly to their boss house and delivered the file to him.
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He smiled as he gave out a deep laugh.
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He sat down in the sofa with his night pajamas and his cowboy hat still on his head and a Cuban stick, which reeked of smoke perched at one corner of his l-ips, as he smoked his life out.
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“Well done boys, you did me proud.”
He said abd they all nodded in satisfaction.
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He brought a champagne and they toasted to the success of their operation, while they drank in ecstasy.
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Their boss known as Jaguar, brought out the file as he began to scrutinize it.
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And suddenly his smiling face creased up in seriousness and then to a deep frown.
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Stanley and Co who were laughing and tossing jokes at each other, suddenly paused to know the problem.
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He banged his hands at the center table, sending all the glasses and bottle flying in the air.
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While his green eyes flashed across the three young men in the sitting room with him.
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“What rubbish did you bring to me in the name of the file that I told you?”
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He asked and they all stood up in confusion.
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Tbc
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