Xclusive-Stories

            CHAPTER TWELVE            CODE OF SILENCE I returned to my room after spending half of my day with Kunle. I couldn't say how many days he would spend in the psychiatric home because his recovery was really slow. He seemed to have been too attached to Tracy, his puppy that he couldn't get over her death. What surprised me was the fact that Kunle wasn't mourning for the death of his Mother but for that of Tracy.  Poor woman, she died of Breast Cancer. He met his father for the first time in his life, thanks to his mother's death.  Otunba Dibu Ayinla, one of the top politicians in the country came to meet him and introduced himself as his father after the interment of the dead one Otunba insisted that he accompany him for his trip to Abuja. He said "that was meant to bridge the gap of the long term separation as well as to build Father to Son's relationship". However, he persuaded Kunle lea...

                  CHAPTER ELEVEN                Away from the world The evening of that day, I went to see Kunle in his ward. I couldn't wait to finish my shift. I had Kunle in mind, almost all through. "What could be his story? How come he is back in Nigeria? When did he come back?" I was perturbed by these questions in my mind, as I walked along the corridor leading to his ward.  At about opening the door, my mind .flashed back to the medical history I had read about him. I was hoping to see a trait of that kind in him.  I was however wrong. He looked cool and calm. In fact, he looked just fine with his full black beards covering his oval shaped head's chin. One could hardly say, he is sick if seen outside, without the patient's uniform. I had barely entered the ward, when I heard him call out out my name. "Aliyah". " May I come in?" My brows raised, as I asked while still standing close to ...