STRANGE NEIGHBOUR
EPISODE EIGHT
I cleared my throat. “Look here everyone, I am thirty years old and I have accepted a lot of rubbish in this house but this is going to end today”. I looked squarely at Michael Cole. “Look here Micheal, get out of my house if you don’t want to see another side of me. We are done”. I faced my family members. “Look here everyone, I am neither getting married to Michael nor alhaji Hakeem”.
Michael fumed. “You are now dating Raymond Smith right???”.
“Who is Raymond Smith???”. My family members chorused.
I shrugged. “Raymond is my friend and he already has a fiancee”.
“Is that the only reason? What if he didn’t have a fiancee? You will go for him right?”.
I was silent.
Christiana smirked. “That wierd guy that rented the next house?”.
“His father is the Chief executive officer of Delight company”. I explained.
They gasped.
Michael Cole grit his teeth. “There is something that you didn’t know about Raymond Smith. He is an adopted child. After his brother died twelve years ago, they fostered him”.
I didn’t believe Micheal.
It must be one of his games again.
“Why don’t you ask him yourself then?”.
“Don’t even dream of getting any bit close to that man. My spirit doesn’t go with him at all”. My father said.
Michael Cole bowed and smiled. “I understand that Laura is very mad at me because of the heart break I have put her through. I am very sorry everyone”. He bowed and left the house.
My mother nudged me. “That is enough with the shakara. Oya follow him and sort out things”.
“I am not going anywhere, mother”. I said firmly and walked into my room.
Tyler walked into my room and stood by the door. “Can I give you a little advise big sis?”.
I shrugged as I made my bed.
“Do you still love Micheal?”.
“I can’t love Micheal anymore. It is over”.
“It is not about what you can’t do, it is about what is in your heart”.
“If I follow only my feelings, I might make mistake in my marriage forever”.
“Hope you don’t have any hope where Raymond Smith is concerned?”.
“Not at all”.
My father was making a phone call in his study room.
I sneaked to the door and placed my ear on it.
I could hear him faintly.
“I heard that nightwalker showed up recently. That guy is still sitting on the fence. Harry, you know I can’t kill. KG is still researching on where he lives. I will give you feedback. Whoa…your son has been released? Alright then, I will come in the morning” he disconnected the line.
My suspicion had been confirmed.
What Raymond Smith had said about my father had truths in it.
I walked to Raymond’s house and knocked on the door.
It was the first time I was visiting him.
But I had to really know everything.
I really had to know everything that my father was up to.
He was shocked to see me immediately he opened the door.
I laughed. “Surprised to see me?”.
I walked into his big house. and he rushed in before me and began to bring down some paintings he had hung on the wall.
I snatched one of the paintings from him.
It was an image of me!!!
Only Nigel had drawn me that exact way.
It was Nigel’s handwriting.
Why were they hung around his walls?
I snatched another portrait from him and he tried to struggle it out of my hand but I dodged and saw it.
It was a painting of the way I had always looked in the morning when I was in the office.
My present office in Delight company.
Nigel had never seen my grown self in Delight office.
It was a recent painting.
It was Nigel’s painting but Nigel was dead.
MMMMM…
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