WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS : EPISODE 21 – 30
EPISODE 24
Jane turned and put her face in the pillow, her reaction made Jeffery laugh. When he was done; he jumped on the bed this made Jane shriek. He grabbed her waist and tickled her until she laughed so hard; her eyes started to tear up. Jeffery stopped tickling her and they both kept quite staring deep into each others soul.
“I really want to kss you Jane”
“Then kss me Jeffery”
Jeffery claimed her lips with his..
“We have to stop”
Jeffery’s hands froze, he looked up to see she had a staid look on her face indicating her seriousness.
“I’m sorry” she said as she sat up and tried to button up her top, her hands were shaky and it made it impossible for her, Jeffery sat up and helped her with the buttons.
“It’s fine you don’t have to apologize, I understand”
“No you don’t understand, my life is scarred I don’t think I can ever be normal anymore”
Her eyes teared up as she spoke and she began to cry, Jeffery tried holding her but she wouldn’t let him touch her, she kept pushing him away. This didn’t stop him so it became more of a struggle between both of them.
“Jeff leave me alone”
“Baby you know I can’t, not with you calling me Jeff, you know how much I love it when you call me that”
This made Jane smile, finally she allowed Jeffery to hold her. He carried her and cradled her on his laps while he rested his head against the headboard of the bed and robbed her hair gently.
“I’m glad I can make you smile”
“Why are you still sticking around?”
“How do you mean?”
“After everything I told you about my past, why do you still choose me?”
“Well for starters you haven’t told me everything about your past; you still haven’t finished your story and as for me still sticking around; I still choose to stick around because it’s you I want I’m more concerned about the Jane that I have here with me than the Jane of yesterday”
“But our pasts have important roles to play in our future don’t they?”
“Yes you do have a point, but then you have to ask yourself if you are going to allow what happened to you in your past to shape your present and rob off it’s joy? because sweetie the future is now”
“Oh Jeff, it’s not that easy, I really try but it’s not easy”
“Shh…. I’m here for you okay? You are no longer in this alone we are going to get through this together”
She raised her head to look at him
“How can you be so nice?”
Her question made him chuckle, he kept rubbing her hair.
“Because I want to”
They kept quite for a while, the only sound in the room was the humming of the air conditioner. Jeffery really wants to help her overcome the fear of her past, so he decided he was going get her to see a shrink, a trusted one of course but first he needs to hear the rest of her story about her stay at the Okafors.
“Babe?”
“Yes?”
“Are you ready to tell me remaining part of your story about your stay at the Okafors?”
“I guess I am”
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WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS : EPISODE 21 – 30
*TEN YEARS EARLIER….. Continue…..*
When Mrs Okafor pronounced Peace to be dead; they all stood in shock not quite understanding what she meant, the silence in the room was so deafening; none could say a word. Mr Okafor was the first to regain his composure.
“Are you sure of what you just said? Check and confirm again”
“I’m very sure, here is the stethoscope so you can confirm it for yourself”
Mrs Okafor threw the stethoscope at her husband who quickly ducked to avoid it from hitting his face.
“Have you lost your mind? You could have injured me with that”
“Did you just ask if I am out of my mind? Oh yes I am out of my mind; I lost it the moment you started with this your fleshly obsession”
“Calm down, you are shouting and it’s late”
“Now you want me to calm down? When I begged you to stop this your obsession of raping young girls did you listen? Of course you didn’t instead you decided to torture my family members all in the bid to get me to keep quiet”
“Ndidi, I’m warning you for the last time keep quiet”
“Or what? What will you do that you haven’t done already or are you going to kill me like you did to this young girl?”
Jane and Dami stood watching the scene unfold before them, ever since they have been living with the Okafors, never has Mrs Okafor raised her voice at her husband instead she was always agreeing to his every whim and demand without questioning any of them.
“I will attend to this madness of yours later but for now we need to dispose off this body”
It was when he mentioned it, Jane and Dami came back to reality; Peace was dead! And immediately they remembered that; water works were released and they both started wailing uncontrollably. Mrs Okafor stormed out of the room leaving Mr Okafor with the girls and the body.
“Stop it now the both of you, crying will take us no where we need to find away to dispose off this body”
“Dispose off this body you say? It has suddenly turned to a body, this body used to have a name you know? It was this same body you used to satisfy your fleshly desires almost every night and now it’s de..”
Jane wasn’t done speaking when Mr Okafor’s right hand connected with her left cheek, it’s impact was so hard; Jane’s lips bled. She wiped her lips with the back of her hand and when she saw the bIood she started laughing, she laughed so hard Dami had to shake her so she could stop.
“Is that the best you can do? Come on hit me again, give it your best let’s see how hard you can hit, who knows you might actually be able to kill me too, oh I’m sorry you won’t, you know why? It’s because you hit like a woman!”
“Are you actually referring to me?”Mr Okafor asked in disbelief.
They say; ‘when you push one to the extreme the beast in him comes out’. The beast in Jane was out and there was no taming it this time.
She walked up to him and poked his chest with her finger.
“I dare you to hit me Mr Okafor, in-fact I double dare you to hit me”
Mr Okafor stood in shock not understanding where Jane got the courage to speak to him the way she did.
“I will deal with you later be rest assured that I will”
With that said he stormed out of the room leaving Dami and Jane with Peace’s corpse. They both hugged each other as they wept.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS : EPISODE 21 – 30
Few minutes later Mr Okafor came back into the room holding two shovels. He handed one to each girl and asked them to follow him. When they got to the backyard he asked them to start digging a grave.
The girls dug for a few minutes and they were already tired.
“You both had better continue digging else your friend will be buried in a shallow grave where the vultures can access and eat up her body”. The thought of this fueled the girls up and they continued digging, two hours later when Mr Okafor saw they weren’t making much progress; he decided to call his son to join them. By 5 am all three of them including Mr Okafor who later joined them to hasten the process; had dug the grave up to 6ft and Peace was buried in it.
None of them went to the supermarket that day. Mr Okafor went into his room after the burial and he didn’t come out throughout the day, neither did his wife or son.
“Dami are you sure we aren’t the only ones in this house?”
“I don’t think so, they are all in their rooms”
“Do you think Mr Okafor will come to any of our rooms this night?”
“He definitely will, that man is an animal and you are most likely going to be his prey after that heated exchange between you both”
“I really don’t care, what is the worst that could happen?”
“You could end up like peace”
”It’s not like I care much anyway”
”You should, now this is what you are going to do; you need to protect yourself we have to protect ourselves or we would end up just like peace”
“How do I do that?”
“I will show you”
That night before they went to bed, Dami handed Jane a knlfe.
“What is this for?”
“What do you mean what is it for? It’s a knlfe of course”
“Dami I know what it is, I just don’t understand why you are giving me a knife in the middle of the night”
“I want you to keep it handy In-case Mr Okafor comes to you, use it and protect yourself. With what happened earlier; it shows that man doesn’t care about anyone but himself so it’s either we protect ourselves or end up just like Peace”
“But don’t you think finding away to leave this place will be a better option?”
“Yes you are right but first we need to protect ourselves until when we have gotten a game plan on how to leave”
“You have a point”
”Good now go to bed, Mr Okafor will soon come for one of us”
Jane went into her room and placed the knlfe under her pillow. By midnight Mr Okafor walked into her room as usual; ever since he had the door of her room pulled out, he comes in and goes out with ease.
He walked into the room in the company of his son. Jane wasn’t asleep so she sat up the moment she heard their footsteps.
“My smart mouthed Jane, hope your mouth is still as smart as it was earlier in the morning?”
Jane said nothing, instead she had her right hand under the pillow.
“Why suddenly quiet? Or has a cat got your tongue?”
Still no response, she just focused on Mr Okafor as he approached, he was in front while his son walked behind him.
“I like it that you are not resistant tonight I am quite sure you agree with me that your resistance is becoming too strenuous and it’s taking out the whole fun, be quiet and I promise you will enjoy yourself”
As he got to the bed, he brought out two ropes from his pocket, they were the same ropes he used on her the last time he tied her up.
“I’m sure you know what this is about so I suggest you stay calm and be cooperative”
He bent over to tie her legs first and immediately he touched her legs; Jane brought out the knlfe from her under her pillow and $tabbed him on the neck.
He had a shocked look registered on his face which was quickly replaced with that of pain. His son screamed and as he rushed to his father on the bed, Jane quickly pulled out the knlfe from Mr Okafor’s neck and held it at him.
“Don’t even think of coming close or I will do same to you without even thinking twice so stand where you are!”
“What have you done, oh my God” he said, crying.
Jane stood up from the bed still holding the knife at him. ”I am sick and tired of you and your father using me to satisfy your dark desires!”
Mr Okafor laid on the bed struggling for his life, he held his two hands to his neck as he kept struggling to live. Jane couldn’t careless what happened to him, at that moment all she saw was a monster that needed to die.
“Now turn around and move, I know you will be considering trying to grab the knife from my hand, try that and stand a chance to get $tabbed like your father. So I suggest you obey me if you want to live”
Mr Okafor’s son obeyed Jane and walked out of the room with her behind holding the knife at him. As they walked out of the room Jane sighted Dami coming out of her own room and that got Jane distracted. Immediately, Mr Okafor’s son pushed Jane and the knife fell from her hands, she landed on her back and Mr Okafor’s son immediately pounced on her and started pun¢hing her.
She screamed in pains, one blow was followed by the next she struggled and tried to push him off her but he was too strong for her.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS : EPISODE 21 – 30
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