Love with bitter tear - Season 1 - Episode 21

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Love with bitter tear - Season 1 - Episode 21

As soon as they branched to
Ijemo street in Abeokuta, they
saw a huge crowd gathered
and
people shouting on top of their
voices.

Annie: “1st daddy
please park your car I want to
see what is
happening there” she said
pleadingly.

Ralph: “No! it is
very dangerous, I
cannot allow you to go there. I
think it is jungle justice o. kai”
he
said when he viewed what was
happening from a better angle.

Paul: “And on a little boy for
that
matter. Jesus Christ!”

Annie: “Daddy park the
carrrrrrrr…” she screamed
angrily
stomping her feet on the floor
of
the car. The car went to a
screeching halt at the corner of
the road and Annie leapt out of
the car before anyone could
say
anything to her (she was by
the
window side). She ran towards
the scene of the mob action
without looking back. They all
exchanged bewildered looks
and ran after her.

d!ckson: “Annie waiiiit!” he
shouted after her as she kept
running as fast as her little leg
could carry her. Sammy was
already very weak
from the beating he had
already been given while they kept
shouting incentives at him. He
heard someone call him a
terrorist terrorizing the neighbourhood.

He heard another calling him a
killer, killing innocent people
before snatching their
belongings. “But I did not do
all this. God where are you?” he
looked up to the sky but all he
saw was blood, blood that had
dripped from cuts on his head
and eyebrow. His lips had a
deep cut too. He heard someone say
“set him ablaze to serve as a
deterrent to other thieves like
him” and many of them agreed
with him.

Someone brought a
tire and threw it over his head, he
was too weak to even remove
the tire, he just la!d there giving up
hope of survival. Just as he was
closing his already half closed
eyes to prepare himself for the
pain that was to come, he felt
someone lift the tire from his
head with difficulty and lifted his
head up rocking it on her laps. He
was surprised because the
person seemed really small. He opened
his eyes and with his bad eyes
saw a little girl looking down
at him with tears all over her
beautiful face, she reminded
him of his mother. She smiled
at him when she realised he was
looking at her.

Annie: “It is
okay! No one will
touch you now, my daddies are
here, and they will not allow
anyone to touch you. The
people
around were surprised and
kept
taking pictures of the scene.

The three men who were
doing the
beatings were angrier than
ever.

1st man: “whose child is
this? Come and carry her
before we set
her ablaze with this thief” he
ranted.

Annie: “You will not
dare it. Who
are you to beat an innocent
boy like this? There are big thieves
out there who has stolen your
future,
why didn’t you go catch them
and set them ablaze? How can
you still want to set him ablaze
with all the blood on his body?
Let me tell you the truth, if you
can open your eyes and do this
to
a young boy and even getting
ready to set a living human
ablaze then you are a
murderer. It’s you
who needs to be set ablaze. It’s
you who needs to be taken off
the surface of the earth” she
said
daring anyone to come even
closer. The people around
shook their heads in
agreement to what
she said and marvelled at her
boldness.

2nd Man: “See, this
small girl must be his
accomplice, let’s set them
ablaze together” immediately
the
words left his mouth, someone
from the crowd stepped
forward
and gave him a stinking slap.
Let
me see you try that. By this
time, her daddies were already
standing behind her waiting
for
anyone who would make the
move to touch her and the
little
bleeding boy.

2nd Man: “How
dare you hit me like that you
scoundrel?”

The Man: “It’s you
who is a
scoundrel and for your
information, I am a police
officer
and my team will be here soon,
guess who will be arrested?
You
and not this little boy. Like the
girl said, you are dangerous to
the
society and I will make sure
the
three of you are charged for
attempted murder. I saw the
person who stole the phone
and
it wasn’t this boy, it was
someone else…” he was still
talking when a
police van came to a screeching
halt right where the whole
thing
was happening and sent some
of
the crowd skittering from the
road. The three men tried to
run away but people held on
to them
tightly while the police men
disembarked from their
vehicle,
and bundled them into their
waiting carriage. Sammy was
rushed to a nearby
hospital where he was taken to
the emergency room due to
the
multiple injuries he had
sustained.
Annie had wept all the way to
the
hospital, her hand and body
were covered in blood. “Don’t
worry
friend! You will not die, I will
pray
for you very hard. I will ask my
2nd daddy to take me to
church so I can pray for you
there too”
she said amidst tears as her
entourage watched in awe.

Paul: “Come now let’s go
home, I
guess there’s no more Olumo
rock for today”

Annie: “Please
can I and aunty
Ewa stay with him here?
Please?

Give her transport fare, we will
come back on our own
tomorrow” she said pleadingly.

Ralph: “No way! His parents
will
come for him, we are all going
home together now. I have
settled his bills for now. So
baby, I
am afraid we cannot grant you
this wish” he said looking hurt
when he saw the
disappointment
registering on her face.

Paul: “Let’s go now” he said and
tried drawing her along but
she refused.

Annie: “No! I will not
leave him, I
will never leave him” she said
weeping in a way that tore
their
hearts apart. d!ckson scooped
her into his arms forcefully as
she
struggled and kept struggling,
screaming on top of her voice…
== Richard became frustrated
in his
search for his son. People
contacted him to tell him his
whereabouts but each time he
reached there, it would be as if
he
had disappeared into thin air
like he didn’t want to be found.

He
noticed that ever since
Sammy’s
disappearance, his wife had
gone
back to her normal moody self.
She blamed him for Sammy’s
disappearance and refused to
allow him touch her or even
talk
to him. He stopped going
home
regularly, he lodged in hotels
sometimes or go home with
one
of his bachelor friends. He kept
late nights most times and got
back home drunk. That night,
he got back home and
found that Ophelia had been
waiting for him unlike the
other
nights when she wouldn’t even
act like she cared. She sprang
up
to her feet as soon as she got a
whiff of his presence.

Ophelia: “Where are you coming
from by this time?”

Richard: “None of your business”
he replied and walked tipsily
towards the kitchen.

Ophelia: “How can it be none of
my business when I am your
wife?”

Richard: “Ahahahah…
wife? I didn’t know I had a wife in this
life and for your info, my wife
is dead and I don’t know who
you are” he said with sarcasm
apparent in his voice. The
alcohol flowing into his veins
had made
him unusually bold towards
her.

Ophelia: “What do you
mean by
that Richie?”

Richard: “I said
my wife is dead
and I don’t know who you are
or
why you call yourself my wife”
he
reiterated his earlier statement
and she burst out into tears.

Ophelia: “Then what am I
doing
here?” she asked with her left
hand on her chest.

Richard: “Even I do not know the
answer to that question. What
exactly are you doing here? It’s
not like you warm my bed at
nights, you even stopped
cooking for me so tell me what
on earth are you here for? I
punished my own son severely
just to save your dignity and
now he has gone missing. Instead of
you to lend me your moral
support, you are giving me
attitude, for what? Did you
marry
me for me or cos of my son?”
As
soon as he said this, what
Sammy
told him came rushing back at
him. “Wait! Was Sammy
probably
right? What he said about you,
were those right? You know I
never really asked you these”
he
said with his gaze boring into
her.

Ophelia: “How can you ask
me
that? Don’t you ever ask me
that
kind of question again. I
actually
waited for you to make some
restitution but I never
imagined
you’d turn out to be a jerk” she
said and walked out on him.
Everything came rushing back
at
him, the way she was when
they
were dating. How tight she
was
when they first made love
even
though she was not a virgin.

How
happy she became during the
time Sammy alleged was the
time
she started molesting him and
how fast she went back to
being
moody when he disappeared.
“Oh Sammy! Were you saying
the
truth? I hope not, I am just
over reacting. I guess I should
stop
drinking alcohol, it is mushing
up
my brain. There is no way she
would be a l£sb!an or a
paedophile. Yeah no way! I
know
her very much, Sammy just
wanted to get her out of the
way”
he said…
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