Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 6

4 years ago

Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 6

Don’t mind me jumping the gun like that. I was just a little bit carried away.

Let’s go back to me on my way back to the office after receiving my father in-law’s call.
Finally, I got to the office looking scared, suspicious and curious, all at the same time.

Not knowing where to go to nor what to expect, I started questioning the look on everyone’s face at the office trying to find a clue from their facial expressions and body languages suggesting that they know something about anything that happened last weekend or whatever scheme I’m about to fall into. I read meanings into every greetings, smiles or frowns; I couldn’t get anything from them, everything seemed normal. I figured it’s either these people are good actors or they just didn’t know anything.

Eventually I summoned up the courage to go straight to my father in-law’s office first before proceeding to anywhere else. I was expecting him to act as if nothing happened, same way he sounded on the phone, avoiding the topic and just ditching out instructions to me about work with a not-so-smiling face.

I knocked on his door and he invited me in. The moment he saw me, his face lit up! You will think NEPA took light on his face and I just brought it back ‘hey my son! Ben o Ben…..’ by now he was already up and approaching me with his arms wide open. I was surprised. ‘See drama King’ I thought to myself. He gave me a warm embrace! Can u imagine that? A warm embrace!! He said ‘ look ehn, no matter what happens to you in life always look at the positives to it, sometimes things happen for a reason’. I’m like this is what I should be telling this man (that is if I have the courage). I know I’m innocent but the advice he is giving me is what I should be giving him not the other way round.

He wasn’t done. He gestured me to sit down by the long couch in his office and he sat beside me, placing his right hand on my left shoulder, while gesticulating with his other hand, he said ‘look, good and bad things happen in life every day. Sometimes, good things happen for bad people and bad things happen to good people. But always believe in your God. Let him be your strong pillar of hope and soon you will see that everything He does is for your good’. All the while he was speaking, I was just nodding, my upper lip was going up and down as if I was trying to mutter something out in a very low tone but I was really not saying anything meaningful. I was looking subdued with my hands placed in between my laps

At this point I was 200℅ sure this man knows something I don’t. I was sure he knows I didn’t do it too. The look on his face seems like one of mischief, but he was calm and confident. The tone of his voice sounds genuine, yet I was feeling blank. He mentioned things happening to me, which means the status quo still remains as it was but he is now more than happy to see me which completely wasn’t the case the last time we saw.

It was like he was reading my mind. He said ‘Ben are you confused or lost? Which one?’ I said ‘both sir’ and he replied by saying ‘aah don’t worry about a thing, not a thing! Be of good cheers and go about your daily routine the way things were’. Then he dropped a bombshell ‘What I can’t promise you though is if things will ever be exactly the same again for you or any of us, but my son……’ He nodded at me reassuringly ‘everything will be fine’…………

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