"Hacked" Chapter 1---------- The dream
CHAPTER ONE
The dream
In the middle of an empty road, with birds twinkling, and crows crowing,
and the sound of gong sounding from afar.
I walked through the sideway wondering what has happened to everybody. It felt like I was the only one on earth, and that I crave for companionship.
I kept walking with my face downward. I was frightened to death when I saw that rat ran past me. I stopped with fear to look around. I was taken aback at the sight of what I saw.
Hundreds and thousands of lifeless bodies. I looked at their faces one after the other. They were faces I don't know, nor could recognize. But the last set of people I saw made me scream aloud "mum and dad".
Stephanie standing before the mirror looked back to be sure I was alright. "Babe,whats wrong with you? Is everything OK? You have been sleeping for the past three hours".
I sat up on the bed, still wondering what the dream was all about. But immediately she mentioned the time I have been sleeping, I realised I slept off after battling with a lot of thoughts in my heart.
I sought for my diary to pen down the dream i had. I just knew that there is more to that scene i saw in my dream.
Stephanie interrupted my action with her blabs." There you go again, the diary girl. Only God knows what you put in there. Anyways, I am off for evening classes, see you when I get back". I nodded in response to avoid further discussions with her, and
I walked through the sideway wondering what has happened to everybody. It felt like I was the only one on earth, and that I crave for companionship.
I kept walking with my face downward. I was frightened to death when I saw that rat ran past me. I stopped with fear to look around. I was taken aback at the sight of what I saw.
Hundreds and thousands of lifeless bodies. I looked at their faces one after the other. They were faces I don't know, nor could recognize. But the last set of people I saw made me scream aloud "mum and dad".
Stephanie standing before the mirror looked back to be sure I was alright. "Babe,whats wrong with you? Is everything OK? You have been sleeping for the past three hours".
I sat up on the bed, still wondering what the dream was all about. But immediately she mentioned the time I have been sleeping, I realised I slept off after battling with a lot of thoughts in my heart.
I sought for my diary to pen down the dream i had. I just knew that there is more to that scene i saw in my dream.
Stephanie interrupted my action with her blabs." There you go again, the diary girl. Only God knows what you put in there. Anyways, I am off for evening classes, see you when I get back". I nodded in response to avoid further discussions with her, and
also to concentrate on what I was writing.
I am a girl of few words. I put my thought mostly in black and white. Maybe I was never like this. And that circumstances made me this way, or maybe this was the way I was supposed to be.
Remembering the beautiful ugly beginning, mostly blur the picture of Tomorrow. Sometimes I feel suffocated in the midst of fresh air.
It is eight years already, dad, no my step dad had been imprisoned. My regarding him as Dad, ceased the day mom passed away.
Mom loved my step dad so much. The love grew stronger when he accepted to take both mum and I. As well as play the role of my father. They both did well,they both hid it well for me. I got to know he wasn't my father, right at the sight of blood, in the face of transition.
Mum's father, Alhaji Yussuf Eleran is a polygamist. He is a popular butcher in Badejoko town. He had 8 wives and so many concubines. No one knows the digit to qualify the number of his children because they were so many.
Mum was unfortunately one of his
children. Mum's mother, my grandmother, who is now raising me and my younger ones was the fifth wife,
She left her husband's house when she could no longer withstand the war and battle with the other wives in the Eleran compound.
My mum was the first child she had for Alhaji. She was extremely beautiful. Her dimple and gap tooth which do embolden her face makes her more distinct among Alhaji's children. My mother whose Sunna name is Sameera, was loved greatly by her father, not only for her facial beauty but for her impeccable character and her high level intelligence. She had two brothers who were twin and were always falling sick right from the time of their birth.
The Eleran compound does not escape a day without witnessing a war drama. Mama Saheed the third wife and Mama Ojo the fourth wife were the warlords of the compound. They pick fight in everything, they see fault in everything especially in my mom and my grand mother, they criticize everything they do, as well as the sick twin.
Grandmother left because she thought they were the reason behind the frequent illness of the twin.
I am a girl of few words. I put my thought mostly in black and white. Maybe I was never like this. And that circumstances made me this way, or maybe this was the way I was supposed to be.
Remembering the beautiful ugly beginning, mostly blur the picture of Tomorrow. Sometimes I feel suffocated in the midst of fresh air.
It is eight years already, dad, no my step dad had been imprisoned. My regarding him as Dad, ceased the day mom passed away.
Mom loved my step dad so much. The love grew stronger when he accepted to take both mum and I. As well as play the role of my father. They both did well,they both hid it well for me. I got to know he wasn't my father, right at the sight of blood, in the face of transition.
Mum's father, Alhaji Yussuf Eleran is a polygamist. He is a popular butcher in Badejoko town. He had 8 wives and so many concubines. No one knows the digit to qualify the number of his children because they were so many.
Mum was unfortunately one of his
children. Mum's mother, my grandmother, who is now raising me and my younger ones was the fifth wife,
She left her husband's house when she could no longer withstand the war and battle with the other wives in the Eleran compound.
My mum was the first child she had for Alhaji. She was extremely beautiful. Her dimple and gap tooth which do embolden her face makes her more distinct among Alhaji's children. My mother whose Sunna name is Sameera, was loved greatly by her father, not only for her facial beauty but for her impeccable character and her high level intelligence. She had two brothers who were twin and were always falling sick right from the time of their birth.
The Eleran compound does not escape a day without witnessing a war drama. Mama Saheed the third wife and Mama Ojo the fourth wife were the warlords of the compound. They pick fight in everything, they see fault in everything especially in my mom and my grand mother, they criticize everything they do, as well as the sick twin.
Grandmother left because she thought they were the reason behind the frequent illness of the twin.
Dear readers, I love writing but I am not a professional writer, all kinds of criticisms and corrections are welcomed. Please feel free to comment. The next chapter will be dropped soon. Thank you.
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