WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20

(My Beginning)

GIFT OKORIE

?PROLOGUE?

‘greeeeeeee….’ My alarm wailed and I jerked up immediately, I couldn’t wait for it to repeat its singing as I pushed the button off. It was 7:00am. I stretched on my bed before finally getting up, I walked lazily to the bathroom.

I brushed and showered like a princess before walking out 20 minutes later. I walked to my wardrobe and slipped on a blue jean bum short, a white crop top coupled with a blue jean open jacket, and a white snicker.

I was ready, but then I remembered, I’m growing up so I need a little makeup, I mean, a 14-year-old girl gotta look good.

I walked to my makeup table, I picked up the pink lipstick, damped it on my lips a little, dropped it, then picked my mascara.

I was applying the mascara when I noticed my mum’s figure in the driveway through the window. She was talking to someone but I couldn’t see the person from where she was standing. So I walked to the window and flipped the curtain open. Then I saw the woman she was talking to, the woman’s appearance shocked me a little, she was on a blue garment that rolled all the way down to her toe and beyond, her hair was complete white dreadlocks, her skin, well I can only see her face which was so smooth and bronze in colour. She crossed her hands on her chest that each hand was lost in her armpit.

I looked closely at her and it dawned on me, that wasn’t a woman, it was an
extremely beautiful man in his early thirties. Wow! Who the he.ll is he, and why does he look like lu¢ifer himself?

I looked at my mum again, she was begging, almost kneeling down begging the extremely handsome man whose face was void of emotion.

My mum talked, shouted and begged although I couldn’t make out her words but I could hear her voice.

Why was she begging him? I wanted to find out, I needed to find out, I was about to step out of the window when I saw the man’s hands drop from his armpits and a weird looking big book came into view in his left hand, he handed the book to my mum who stared at him with pleading expression, but the man stretched the book further to my mum who finally collected it after seeing that it was pointless begging Mr weird.

That does it! I need to find out what’s going on, I need to know who he is.

WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20

I ran down stairs, I ran to the door and made to open it but my mum beat me to it as she stepped into the house inspecting the book with a sad look on her face which was also coated with a little sign of fear, she finally looked up and jerked back.

“oh my… M you scared me” she exclaimed; guess she wasn’t expecting to see me.

“mum who was that, what does he want and what’s with the weird looking book” I asked.

“M, baby calm down, one question at a time”

“fine, who was that dude”

“an old friend” she answered as she walked into the sitting room and I followed.

“he looks so weird, why were you begging him”

“cause I offended him some years ago” she answered and walked to the kitchen, I still followed, she opened the fridge and brought out 3 eggs, she picked a bowl and broke all the eggs into it.

“well, what did you do to him” I asked as I rinsed the frying pan and handed it over to her, she lighted the gas cooker and placed the pan on it.

“it’s a long story baby” she replied.

“can’t you tell me” I asked impatiently, this is getting annoying, a weird guy showed up at my house, gave my mum a weird looking book ignoring her pleas and just walk off like that, speaking of the book..

“what’s with the book he gave you” I asked as she poured the egg into the oil heated pan. Few minutes later she spoke up.

“about the book, baby can you do me a favour” she asked as she dished out the completely fried eggs.

I stared at her suspecting that she doesn’t want to tell me about it and I can’t push further cause it’s a waste of time, that’s my mum, if she doesn’t wanna tell you.. she won’t tell you.

“what is it” I asked as I scooped some egg into my softly baked bread and pushed it into my mouth.

My mum walked to me with the book in her hands, she stretched it towards me and I stared at her with my bread filled mouth.

“keep this book and a box for me” she said with a smile, I looked closely at the book for the first time, it was dark blue in colour, if you didn’t look closely you would think it’s black in colour, with weird but beautiful designs all over it, but what struck me was the dragon shaped rope wrapped around it with its mouth opened very wide on the front page, closing it from an intruder, more like a diary, but the dragon’s mouth has a shape of a diamond, weird! I turned back to my mum.

“I don’t get it, why should I hold it” I asked.

“M, I can’t explain right now”

“you also talked about a box, what box?” I asked as I finished up my bread and egg.

She walked out of the kitchen, heading upstairs probably to her room, few minutes later she came back with a small box that weirdly look exactly like the book, the same size, the same colour, the same design and the same dragon lock.

What the he¢k is all this.

“mum, where did you get these things from” I asked getting frustrated. She sat on the chair opposite me on the breakfast table.

“M, keep this for mummy and until I ask for it and do not open the box, pls” she pleaded, I wanted to protest further but I decided against it, I’ll just accept it and then check what the he¢k was inside it later.

“fine” I collected the box and the book from her and ran to my room, I opened my wardrobe and slipped it in, I closed it back and ran down stairs immediately I heard a honk, that’s the school bus.
“bye mum” I shouted as I ran out the door.

WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 1 – 20

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