"That is not," I muttered to myself. "No mum! No!" I yelled out, slipped down the flower vase on the centre table, then it got clattered. I scratched my hair as I tugged them in my fingers.
"Oh my God! Brayd!"
I smirked, "they must be joking. That is Ai mum. She can't, she can't just die right?" I grasped my trembled hand in hers.
"Brayd!"
"It is not possible mum. No, it is not. It is not." I thought all over, and came to a conclusion to phone the detective.
My hands trembled as the detective said to me, "I am on my way to their home now." He hung up.
I picked the car key, then mum stopped me. "Where are you off to?"
I sniffed in, dropped my hand on the waist and turned yo her. "I am – I will be back mum."
"Tell me where. I need to know son. The atmosphere out there is not good for you." Mum sympathised.
"The atmosphere is not good for Ai and her parents' also," single tear dropped down my cheek. "I will be right back
We watched through the glass outside the ward. Setting my eyes on Ai again meant a whole lot to me. She laid down on the long bed spread with powder blue linen. She was clad in a wear like pajamas, looked beautiful just like a months ago.I recollected the day we traveled to Ibadan city. I wished I could tell her how much the dress suit her. How much she made me craved for my hand on her skin. How much she made my eyes looked naughty by staring at her for so long through the journey. I couldn't take my eyes of her. Her fragrance, her beauty, her mode of dressing mesmerized me.Not even about her exposed fresh tummy. Did I told you the dress only covered up her boobs? I guess no. You can now imagine the situation she got me into. My prick was aware of her presence when she sat next to me in the bus. I an not a bad boy, I hated that reaction myself."Doctor! She is just sleeping in here." Her dad cut me off my trance.
The same reaction. We remain silent for a while as I squinted my eyes on her. She pushed me off suddenly, then stood up from the chair."You are insane Brad! You have become insane these past few days Ai got missing. You have been blinded by your love for her which needs to be monitored. How on earth would you think I planned her abduction? Are you crazy?" Lina got everyone's attention as she said in anger."Hey! What's wrong?" Akila came over with others. I placed my hand on my head and looked away."Imagine this, this brat sitting right here," she wagged her hands at me like I am a shit or something? "Asking me if I knew something about Ai, Ai kidnapping scheme?""What! Come on Brad, if you wanna suspect someone, then it shouldn't be Lina. You know how much they are both close. It can't be." Akila said sweetly as she had her hand on Lina's shoulder."I am sure I am not speaking in
The bruises on her face just became visible as I came closer to her on the bed. The red marks on her brown skin colour and stripped of plaster glued on her cheek.Its being 30 minutes with the classmates in Ai's ward and she didn't blinked an eye open. Her lips parted, wagged her head to the right, left. Then I knew the same reaction wanted to occur."Ai! Ai!" I quickly patted her awake, then her eyes widened up. She looked down to the same direction she could have imagined there was someone. She looked back at me, then to everyone in the room."Ai!" They all exclaimed.She made an eye contact to them once again, down to her plastered hand administered with fluid. Her eyes crawled around the room. She must have detected just the empty ward with boxes of trolleys placed on each other beside her bed. The ceiling fan rolled in motion. She raised the hand once more and dropped it back weakly on the bed
I couldn't let go of the memory of Ai's reaction at the hospital. The hallucinations, the anger that boiled in her. What would be her judgement towards the kidnapper?My mind couldn't stop to picture the smile on Lina's face earlier. I placed my elbow on the wooden table in front of me and palmed my cuffed hand on my face.I was abandoned in a dark room after our arrival to the police station. Different thoughts on my mind since I arrived here. How will I proof myself to them? How will I revealed the real culprit without an evidence? What kind of help can I offer to Ai in this stage of her life? Will she ever be happy again? Will she ever forgive guys for one guy mistake?The door creaked open, brought me back to life. A figure walked down to me then the light switched on suddenly. It was a curved sexy officer in a trouser and a chiffon carton colour shirt. She plopped down on the sit before me and we both maintained an ey
A I' s POV."Why is no one telling me who Kelvin partner is?" I rested my head on the head rest. Mum sat down beside me at the back sit as we both headed down from my annoying neurologist.It was just yesterday dad appointed him – my neurologist to me. There are more truths to unveil by the way."I don't think you need to put your mind towards that. It is all left with the officers now."I have been asking who that was for the past five days the last incident at the hospital occurred. Was there something else behind this?"Mum, this is my case. I don't think I will need that. I wanna see the person myself to lay down my judgement over. I am not fucking waiting for any judge here mum." I scowled at her.Yeah! For the very first time in my life."But you need that Ai. I know for t
A I' s P O V."Hi dad! You are back." I walked straight to dad as he made his way to the dining table."Yes my love," we embraced each other. "How are you doing?""I am good." I dropped myself on the sit before mum, then I noticed her eyes was on me."Hi love!" Dad crushed his lips on hers, then sat close to her."How are you doing Ai?" She asked.I cleared my throat and exposed the meal in front of me, ignored her."What is going on here?"Dad must have noticed the distance between I and mum. Especially how this changed mum's mood."Nothing dad. The food looks delicious, we should eat." I gave a fake smile then plucked a spoon of rice into my mouth."Baby, are you sure everything is fine?" He turned to mum. She smiled along side the
The driver parked the car inline with few different cars at the court park. I stretched my neck out to the glass as if I won't be coming down from the car.The lawyers already in their uniform with black files in their hand chat with each other. I could only saw their moving lips and the small of their teeth.Few people made their way to the court room. A black van came to existence at the moment. Two police officers jumped down from the back of the van with their long guns. An officer dragged down an head down guy in handcuffs. He raised his head up, it was Kelvin. He had so much bruises and marks on his face. He must have received much beatings from the cops.They caught the lawyers attentions as they both passed beside them. The lawyers shook each other hands and moved inside. Another was dragged down from the same van. My heart skipped at the sight of Brad. My eyes suddenly painted with pains and sorrows.
It was early in the morning after my usual nightmare. The nightmare never let me be even during the whole days I spent in that unknown place. I jogged down our estate with my earphones plugged in my ear listening to music. I guessed it was high time I let this out. It could be connected to mum's past one way or the other.A woman jogged down to me as I panted, halted to change the music that suddenly got boring. Brad's mum!"Can I get your attention for a moment?" She gasped out heavily as the sweat on her forehead slipped down her cheek."If it is all about your son, then I am sorry." I took a step to continue my exercise when she said;"My son did everything in his power to get you out of there and all you did is to find him guilty of the crime he knows nothing about?"I stood there for some seconds before I turned to her."What do you want me to do? To set him free?"