My Madam And I - S02 E25

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My Madam And I - S02 E25

Read Story: SEASON 2 EPISODE 25

Jude opened the door and used the car door as shield as he returned fire, his friend did same, they were both shooting and ducking inside the car. I couldn’t even bring myself to raise up my head, I remained where I was shivering and praying that I don’t get hit any moment.

Jude suddenly moved away from the door, fired twice and ran off. His friend followed.

I turned behind me and saw them shooting at a man, they were the only ones standing. I had to summon courage and stepped down. Jude and his friend were the only ones standing.

As I came closer, Jude aimed at a dying man fired twice. I walked closer and was looking at young and old men lying lifeless, some were mutilated, my guess was the ran them over.

Jude’s friend was now busy picking up guns while Jude moved around looking at the bodies with the gun pointed to them.

I moved to the gate and knocked, no one answered. I knocked severally no answer. I decided to peep through the opening between the gates but couldn’t see much. Jude gently pushed me aside and looked uneasily at the gate, then jumped, held the top, moved his body upwards and was over at the other side..

I turned to Jude’s friend, he already had a handful and was straining to pickup another. Then a loud banging sound echoed across the gate. The sound continued heavily and something fell, then the gate opened and Jude beckoned us in. The place was void of a soul and the electronic pole i knocked down earlier made the place as dark as night.

I led the way to grandma’s house. The door was locked. I knocked calling on my cousins. Then the door slowly opened with a torch light pointed to my face.

” Tony?” I asked.

The torch dropped and I could make out Tony’s frame with a knife in his hand, Henry was behind him peeping, I looked down at Henry’s hand and saw a bottle in his hand too.

” where’s grandma?” I asked walking in.

Tony was looking at Jude and his friend cautiously. ” she’s not back yet”.

I paused half way. ” what? ”

” she said she was going to the market and hasn’t returned”. Tony said, moving away for Jude and his friend who were walking into the house.

” let me have her number ” I said to Tony.

” I’m coming, let me get my phone in my room”. Tony said and ran inside.

Henry followed me silently. I entered the sitting room and found Jude looking around with his phone torch, I wasn’t comfortable with his presence in our house and with his friend carrying all those guns scaring the kids.

” hey!” Jude’s friend called pointing his torch on grandma’s photo.

Jude went to him and I followed wanting to know what he knows about grandma.

” is this not Mike’s mother? ” Jude’s friend asked him.

Jude looked closely and exclaimed. ” that’s her! Wow, so we are in Mike’s house?”.

I was scared. I heard stories of how my dad was into a gang and killed some rival groups. Let it not be that these were some of his rival gang members.

Jude turned to me pointing his torch on my face. ” you mean, that lady is your grandma?”

I didn’t know what to answer. It could be that his father was likely killed by mine and the question was to decide my fate. At that moment, I couldn’t hear anyone’s thought, my heart was pounding repeatedly.

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” Jude! Look! Mike’s picture” Jude’s friend stood at my dad’s family potrait.

Jude went to meet him and they were both murmuring and exclaiming.

Just then, Tony came in and said loudly. ” Uncle Mike, her number”

The two men turned to me. I was confused, I didn’t know what to do as I collected the phone from Tony.

” is your name Mike? ” Jude asked pointing his phones torch in my face.

I slowly nodded hoping that my money will save me coz Jude loves money.

Surprisingly, Jude turned to his friend and they both shouted: ” wow!”

I didn’t know what to respond. Jude came closer to me with tightened face. ” so your dad was Mike?” He asked.

I nodded.

” wow! Your dad was a rugged member of our gang! His heroic deeds are currently in our songs as a way of remembrance!” Jude said excitedly.

I was greatly relieved, at least I was on the right side.

” he killed men feared by many, he was a terror to other gang members”. Jude’s friend added.

” no wonder you ran those guys over. Your dad lives in you! Rugged brother!”. Jude said and hugged me.

The sound of gunshots broke the embrace abruptly. Jude ran to the window and then to me. ” take a gun, I think another group is here. Put out all lights!”.

Jude friend handed me an Ak and then gave one to Tony and Henry.

” what are you doing? They are kids!” I shouted at him.

” old enough to fvck but not to pull a trigger?” Jude asked and ran back to the window.

Henry seem excited about the gift, but Tony was sacred. I had to encourage them so I moved to Tony. ” you will stay behind me. We are safe here okay? ”

” burn down everything standing !” A voice shouted outside.

This increased our panic. I have never used a gun before, so I came closer to Jude’s friend and whispered. ” please, how do I use this thing?”

He took a little time out to put me through and I went to teach my little cousins. The gunshots began followed by an explosive sound that shook the house.

I took out my phone and dialed grandma’s number. Her number was ringing but she wasn’t picking up. A gunshot shattered the window and bored hole on the wall beside me.

” go down ! ” I yelled at the kids.

Another gunshot fired again and hit the family portrait. Jude returned fire and shouted. ” wooo! I hit one”.

Jude’s friend ran and hid himself behind a window, said to Jude. ” lets see who is going to win. I hit one, I will get more scores” he fired and shouted excitedly. ” one one!”

This seemed to infuriate the men as they released more gunfire into our house. I laid on the floor. Then I looked up the stairs and shouted. ” let’s go upstairs! Upstairs!”

Something dropped into the house through the window and fell in front of me. I looked at it, it looked so much like the grenade I see in movies, I quickly picked it up without thinking and shouted: ” grenade!”

Everyone turned to me flabbergastedly. I repeated showing it to Jude and his friend for identification ” grenade! grenade!”

Jude and his friend both turned away from me dreadfully and ran upstairs pulling Tony and Henry with them shouting simultaneously ” throw it away! throw it away”

In the panic, i ran outside, every split second felt like the grenade was going to detonate, like I was holding my death sentence in my hand, but I had to encourage myself to save the house and everyone in it not knowing where I got the courage from.

Outside, four men stood shooting at the window. They turned to me and fired. It felt like I had been hit seeing flashes of gun fired at me,. Immediately, I threw the grenade at them and was about running inside when it exploded in the air with the loudest deafening sound I had ever heard in my life and a hot powerful wind pushed me down. For a brief moment I thought I was dead, I laid on the floor, everywhere was silent with a whistling sound singing in my ears.

I didn’t know for how long I laid until someone came and was pulling me up waking me to full consciousness. I looked around the house that was now covered in smoke; the only light In view was fire burning outside and part of the sitting room with a distant sound of people shouting in slow motion. It felt more like I was dreaming. I felt woozy with a strong headache and couldn’t keep steady

I looked at person helping me upstairs, it was Jude. His friend stood at the staircase with a long gun waiting for us.

When I got upstairs, my ears regained normal sound with slight whistle ringing. Jude laid me on a bed in a room I didn’t know whose. I wipt the bleeding from my nose and turned to Jude’s friend who was now at the window peeping.

” kids, get ready. Get ready to guard the window, I and Stanley will guard the stairs, if we leave it, they will kill us all as soon as they gain access”. Jude said to Tony and Henry.

The boys who were looking at me in fear as though waiting for me to save them the fate handed to them by Jude.

I slowly sat up and said to Jude. ” give me a gun. I’ll watch with the boys”.

Gunshot fired into the room and everyone took over. Jude’s friend returned fire. Jude joined him and they both began shooting.

Then Jude ran to the door and said to my cousins” Boys come and take over!” Then ran out of the room with Stanley.

I stood up with banging headache and moved to the window looking to see anyone. A bright yellow light flickered followed with a loud sound that shattered the window glass. I almost ran away but stopped when I saw the terrified look in Tony’s face with Henry hiding behind him, both of them held the gun as if it was going to fly off their hands once they let go.

I had to be brave, at least for the boys. So I turned to the Window and fired, the gun unbelivably jumped off my hands from the the bullet vibration. I turned to the boys, smiled and shrugged.

Another gunshot almost hit Tony. I saw the bright light past close to his head in a flash. This motivated me to act. I rushed to the boys that were now on the floor, took the gun from Tony and returned to the Window.

A man was aiming to fire. I had gotten experience now and so held the gun properly, shot towards the man and he fell. Two others returned fire shouting and shooting. I had to move away from the Window with my back on the wall. The gunshots scattered things in the room and raised dust from holes it bored on the wall.

When the shooting subsided, I peeped and saw four guys aiming at the window. I made to aim and fire at them but met flickers of lights from their guns that scared me back to my hiding.

The door opened and Stanley came in. “Jude is hurt, I need help”. He said in a hurry and rushed back.

I turned to the boys and said to them. ” stay were you are, I’m coming”.

I ran off to the stairs. When I got there, Jude was on the floor with his back on the wall beside the stairs, his left leg was bleeding above his knee. It was tied with a shirt. Seeing Jude in that situation increased my fear. I knew we may not survive the night but I must protect the kids by all cost.

” Mike! Kill as many as you can! I can’t believe I’m the one in this shootout, in Mike’s house!” Jude said and laughed, then tightened his face in pain and laughed again.” What a way to die! I rather die a hero. What do you think Stan?”

Stanley smiled and peeped. Stanley is Jude’s friend.

I could see shadows of movement around the sitting room from the reflection of the fire burning outside. My heart was beating so hard, I could hardly breathe, but I refused to show it. I would nod to anything Stanley said even though I barely heard a word and kept my eyes in the dark sittingroom.

Suddenly, they fired at us. I took cover breathing heavily with the gun clinched to my chest. Stanley who should be in his late twenties; athletic, tall, dark with a punk hairstyle and little goatie joined to his mustache didn’t make any attempt to retaliate. He was just looking at Jude inhaling and exhaling rapidly, as though trying to summon courage.

The gunfire continued. Stanley waited until they stopped shooting. He looked at me and whispered. ” at the count of three, shoot”.

I nodded, but I wasn’t sure if I was actually ready. So I waited,he signaled his finger and before could show me his third finger somebody shouted downstairs.

” surrender and join us! There’s no escape here! We are going to bring this house to the ground, burn everything here to the ground if you don’t surrender!”

Those words almost forced hot shit out of my ass. I couldn’t hold my gun steady anymore, every part of me was screaming ‘surrender they will spare the kids!’ I was about to tell them what I wanted to do when Stanley fired, he shot severally. The men retaliated in full force Stanley had to take cover. I lost all courage, it was a lost battle to me, gunshots came from almost every direction and it seem to be nudging closer.

Then Tony’s voice alerted me. He screamed so loud amidst of the bullets raining on us. I looked at the direction of the room and ran towards it.

When I entered the room, I saw Henry shooting. I was surprised, the younger was risking his life and the senior laid on his tummy shouting on him to get out of the window. I immediately went to pull him out of the window. When he turned to me he said excitedly.” I killed two. They fell! Two fell”.

I smiled and nodded quickly, then peeped and saw what demoralized me even further; two cars just joined and the men were now many outside of our house. A house before ours was already on fire, I saw a man with a bottle and clothe hanging on the bottles mouth. He lit it and about to throw the bottle into our house, i quickly fired several shots at him and one hit him in the chest. The rest men with him ran away from the bottle that was already on fire, it fell on one of their cars and exploded in flames.

I moved Henry farther away from the window and asked him to sit on the floor beside the door, which I also told Tony too. Then returned to the stairs.