Story: The Burial - Season 1 - Episode 15

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Story: The Burial - Season 1 - Episode 15

On the other hand, Mrs. Rosaline who stays in Ajah never knew what her brother had encountered.

She woke up very early that day, she had what she wanted to do at her office so she started rushing just to make sure, she does everything she had in mind and get back home as quick as she could cause, it was a saturday and she always likes to spend most of it with her husband and children.

She went to the bathroom to have her bathe after which she brushed her teeth, dressed up, wear her make-up and was ready to leave when her husband called her when she wanted to step into the car. He asked why was she in a hurry that she couldn’t even eat her breakfast?.

“I need to get to the office now. I have a very important task I must carry out and I want to make it very early so I finish and get back to spend the rest of the day with you and the children.”

“Oh, I see!!!. Well, we will be prepared.”

“Prepared for what?.”

“Have you forgotten so soon?.”

“What now?.”

“Our plans to take the children to visit their cousins, then we all set-out to the park, to have some good time together.”

“Oh! Oh! Oh!. How soon have I forgotten!. Well then, I should get going. I will try to return before 12pm.”

“Okay darling!. We’ll expect you.”

“Won’t you give me a kiss before I leave?.”

“That would delay you dear, you know I don’t kiss without exploring your body.”

“Lol!!,…I know but just a peck would do.”

“Muah!. Naughty you.”

“Thanks dear. I will be back soon, bye!!.”

I know many of you would wonder the happiness in their family. Truly, she got married to a nice and caring husband.

They are both lucky to have each other because they were both childhood friends that stuck together to be boyfriend and girlfriend, and it led to the altar just because they were able to overcome all obstacle that came their way, most importantly putting God first in all they did.

They gave birth to 3 beautiful children, two(2) boys and a girl. The boys came sequentially while the girl is the last born. The boys are 15 and 14 of age while the girl is 9 years of age.

The woman set-out to her office, on getting there, she was told her mother had come to visit by her secretary.

Was the secretary mocking her or what??.

Well, I know I never told them at the office my mother is dead so I am not surprised she doesn’t know my mother is late. She thought to herself.

She was still puzzled by what her secretary had told her when she got into her office and her phone rang. It was an unknown number on the line, she picked and the voice she heard was no joke. It was her mother’s.

“Hello, who is on the line.”

The next thing she heard was just something she never knew her dead mother might have known or heard if truly she was dead.

It just can’t be, I was there when she died and we took her to the morgue along with my siblings, so who might be the person that spoke like her mother.

She was still pondering how her dead mum got to know she had fought with her sister, both of them disgracing each other in their mother’s compound when her mother started eulogising her on the phone. She didn’t know when she dropped the phone and ran out of the office.

The secretary was so startled. What might have made my boss run out of office this way?. Why was she even surprised her mum came to visit?. Doesn’t her mother has the right to visit her daughter wherever and Whenever she wanted?. These were the questions flowing through the mind of the secretary as she took some step outside her desk to view where her boss had run to. She found her in her car taking something that looks like a letter out of an envelop.

“Dear Rosaline,

I, Your mother had always wanted my chidren to be one. I had always wept and prayed to God, he makes you people one. why are you people now trying to make my pain even worst when I should be rejoicing in glory that I had lived a glorious life?. What happiness have you people found in all the preparation you’ve made without settling the differences between you children of same blood?. I am not going to leave you people until you make me rest peacefully in the b0s0m of the lord.

Your loving mother,
Kiara .A. Adelakun.”

Tears were rolling down her cheek as she read the letter, with fear engulfed in her hearts.

She knows her mother is dead but who might have written this letter with her mother’s handwriting?. She quickly cleaned her face and went back into the office to inquire some things from her Secretary.

The Secretary who was still standing, staring at her boss with all she did in the car, swiftly raced back to her desk and comport herself when her boss walked in and threw the question at her.

“When did my mother come?.”

“It was around 8:30am ma.”

“8:30am?.”

“Yes ma!.”

“But that was about the time I got to the office?.”

“Yes, I think. Because it wasn’t up to 5minutes she left that you came in.”

“Then how did I miss her?.”

The secretary was still looking at her boss that what might be wrong and how does she expect her to know how she missed her mother, when her boss said “something must be wrong somewhere.” And she left the office.

She came back again, this time, to ask a question that her secretary thought it seems her boss might be running out of hand(going mental).

“How did this envelop get inside my car?.”

Her secretary was so amazed her boss asked that foolish question. She grimaced and answered

“How do I know that?. When I don’t have the key to your car and you were the person who drove it in this morning with your key inside your purse.”

If it were another day, she would have scolded her secretary for replying in that manner, would have issued her a query but this day was different in its mystery.

She left her office thinking,well , I was the one who drove the car and the key was with me as she rightly said but how did that letter get into my car?.

I never noticed it when I was coming from home.

No,it wasn’t there. if it were,I would have noticed.

She had many thought that day as she drove home. it didn’t even occur to her she had not done anything she planned doing at her office that day.

She didn’t even call home to inform her husband they will have to cancel the visit to their relatives or the park. She just drove home with different thoughts ringing round her mind.

She got home that day and received the shock of her life. Mama had visited when her husband who was abroad when she died, had left the house.

Mama had only met their children at home!.

Where were the gate-keeper, gardener, cook and her husband when she visited?. Only time would tell.