THE X-FAMILY : EPISODE 1 – 20
Episode 11
By Faith Lucky
They walked out of the hallway quarters to the garage where some of the boys and girls were already waiting beside the bus.
Octavia walked timidly behind her sister, wishing there was a way she could perhaps, get lost into her.
“You kept us waiting,,Mica. If it were someone else, we’d have left already”, one of the boys growled.
“Yeah, I know. I’m sorry”, she replied grumpily and got into the bus with her sister.
Master Khalid has already left with his close guards.
“Hello, blue eyes” one of the ladies smirked from behind.
“Wow! Your sister’s looking awesome, Mica. She looks like she’s going for a ball”,a boy said and the others chuckled.
Octavia just bent her head and didn’t say a word as the bus began moving. They were all strangers to her and she couldn’t find herself communicating with them.
“Hey; care for some?” A boy on her left asked, proffering a cigarette stick to her.
She simply shook her head and after glancing at him and took her eyes back to the floor.
“So, your honeypot’s gonna get screwed today, huh?” A lady from the back asked, and the others sniggered.
“Shut up, Taylor. Cut her some slacks”, Mica snapped in and the laughter died down.
“Hey; you don’t just shut me up, Mica. Do you understand?” She rasped.
“How about we prove that when we get off the bus?” Mica turned to her and asked and her face fumed.
“Hey; hey; that’s enough, girls. This is no time for fight. Okay? Everyone, relax”, the driver said and Leo tuned properly on her seat, backing the lady.
Silence followed and Octavia was thankful for it. She really needed the silence. Besides, it hurt her a lot to see her sister going into a fight because of her.
The driver connected the speaker and a hip hop song started playing immediately.
Few of the people in the bus cheered towards it, while others just nodded in agreement.
Octavia was in the bus with them, but her mind was completely absent. All she could think about was the ordeal awaiting her.
She was going to get used in a very short time – used for the first time, by a stranger.
Well,,she had no choice. It was the only option she had.
She only returned to reality when she felt the bus movement. She looked and guessed they’d arrived since there was a tall, sparkling building in front of them, oozing with life.
The door of the bus was opened and everyone started alighting from it.
“Come on” Mica tapped her hand and she followed her out of the bus.
Wow! Octavia’s eyes glittered at the sight in front of her. It was….beyond beauty.
The building was tall and looked just like a sky scrapper. It had twinkling lights round it, producing a crazy design and beauty.
Rock songs were playing from it, indicating a party was indeed, going on. The surroundings were so neat, cars littered everywhere, men in suits and halfly dressed ladies moving about.
“Remember all I told you, Octavia. Do not forget”, Mica reminded her as she started walking towards the building.
Of course, Octavia followed, her head bowed as usual
As they walked into the overwhelming place, everywhere and everything kept screaming wealthy. Like…crazy wealth.
Everything was so classic and almost made of gold – the scrupltures, tables, paintings….almost everything
There were so many people in the big hall – uncountable. And Octavia felt so glad she was with her sister because she couldn’t imagine walking in alone.
Few of the people she came across, turned to look at her and she heard some of them mutter “what a beauty”.
Her heart gave a leap but she didn’t lift her head to have a look at any of them – any at all.
They walked deeper into the crowd, few of the people they’d come with, still around them.
Mica stopped walking and Octavia did same. She lifted her eyes for the first time to have a look around and the first sight she caught was the stage.
There were $trlppers there, displaying with men spraying hard currencies around them. The floors of the stage was filled with loads of cash.
She watched as the strlppers displayed happily, feeling no shame at all to have their bodies exposed to do many people. If not for the fact she was so determined to stay, she’d have called the X-family, a family of abominations.
She moved her eyes from the stage, slowly and slowly, looking around, and finally, they rested on someone – someone who’s been staring at her.
Her heart gave a mighty leap as she stared at the Master – Master Khalid.
He was sitting in a dark corner, his cold eyes on Octavia and his expression unreadable.
Octavia couldn’t tell what was wrong with her as she stared at him. She felt fear and….
She couldn’t explain it.
She didn’t notice his girlfriend – Becca – beside him, not until she’d moved her hands upto Khalid’s chest.
She rubbed his chest and rested her head on his shoulders and the whole time, she had no idea Octavia was there, exchanging glances with her Master.
“Come on; let’s go over here” Mica tapped her and started walking away, and she took her eyes away from Khalid’s and followed.
Probably, no one noticed – just both of them. But she’d seen so much darkness in his eyes – so much darkness.
She followed Mica to wherever it was she was taking her and they ended up in front of an empty table.
Not empty – it had just one smoking girl on it.
There were bottles of wine on the table and Mica decanted some of it into a glass. She gulped it down and poured in more.
‘Here – you should have some”. She stretched it out to Octavia who timidly refused.
“Take it, Octavia. You need to start getting used to this”, she urged and Octavia reluctantly collected it.
She took a sip from it and made a crumpled look as a result of how sore it tasted in her mouth. She wasn’t used to alcohol.
Two ladies walked upto them immediately.
“Hey, Mica”, one of them beamed.
Her appearance marveled Octavia as she was putting on a mini skirt and crop top. Over half of her body was exposed.
“Hey”, Mica smiled and exchanged a knuckle with them.
“I didn’t think you’ll be coming to the party. What’s up?” The other said
‘Yeah, im cool. And you?”
“I’m awesome…”
They began talking about things that were of no relevance to Octavia and she detached her mind from them, staring around.
“She’s your sister?” One of them asked and Octavia looked at them.
“Yeah”. Mica replied
“Wow! The resemblance says it all’.
“Hi, blue eyes”. They waved at her. And Octavia lowered her eyes and replied;
“Hi”
“What? She’s shy?” One of the girls laughed.
“She’s not. She hates talking to strangers’ Mica replied in a hard voice, but Octavia still didn’t say a word.
The girls continued talking and after a while, the music went off.
All eyes darted to the stage as they wondered what was going on, but their wonders seized when they found a boy – a member of the X-family on stage.
“P.m, fam”, he began.
“And on behalf of the masters, I say a very big welcome”.
The strlppers were already leaving the stage and everyone listened attentively.
Octavia’s heart skipped when she heard the boy say “its time for the bid. All the ladies up for tonight should climb up the stage”.
Her jaws dropped as she felt a sudden heat on her forehead. Mica was staring intently at her, but she tried not to look.
Mumblings resumed in the hall as different ladies started walking towards the stage. So, she wasn’t going to be the only one?
Mica spoke to Octavia through her silence, urging her to go as well. And Octavia gulped nervously and started towards the stage.
“Wow! What a beauty”, she heard side talks and her heart skipped even more.
“I’m definitely going to get her’.
She joined the rest of the girls on the stage and clamped her palms together in nervousness. It took her a lot to be able to control her shaky legs.
Her eyes were bowed the whole time, but when she lifted them to have a quick look, they ran into the Master – Master Khalid.
THE X-FAMILY : EPISODE 1 – 20
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