Goddess Of Loneliness

Chapter nine

I turned around quickly and there she was, with legs rather than the fish tail she was supposed to have. She was a true beauty to behold. I was stunned just looking at her

"Don't tell me you came to see Shakira", she asked smiling. I wasn't sure if Shakira would be ok with me telling her sister about the meeting we had planned in my dream the previous night so I was already prepared not to answer the question

"Shakira ain't allowed to step out today. She's not coming out today", she added

"What's wrong? Is she ok. She's the person that asked me to come, she told me she'd be here to see me today.", I spilled out everything without even thinking. She laughed out so loud I was scared people might hear her, it was dark and everywhere was quiet, then I remembered that there was no house 400meters close to the stream.

"So you've also started seeing her in your dreams", it sounded more like a sentence than a question so I looked away from her face. She chuckled again as she sat on a rock and invited me to sit with her

"You're the Goddess Of Truth right", I asked timidly. She nodded slowly without looking at me

"Shakira must have told u that. She's getting comfortable with you to disclose that information to you. Is there anything you wanna know?", She turned her eyes to look at me then turned it away almost immediately

"I have a lot of questions I don't even know where to start from", I was confused

"Start from the one that bothers you the most"

"My family, my dad died as a result of food poisoning, they said it was my mom that did it. I've grown with a disturbed mind. You do know the truth about it. Did my mom kill my dad?", I asked weakly

"Do you have anything that belonged to your dad? Even if it's a picture of him?", She inquired. I brought out my phone and checked through it for my dad's picture. I provided the one he stood with my mom. She got the phone from me as stared at the picture on the screen for a while

"Mr Frank, a rich car dealer who died on the 18th of August due to food poisoning together with his wife Mrs Lizzy, a mentally unstable woman currently as a psychiatric hospital in Lagos", she paused for a while and sighed heavily

"What's wrong?", I asked suspiciously

"Your mom didn't kill her husband", she paused again shaking her head as she turned to stare at me

"I knew it, my uncles killed my father just to rob us of everything", I was now trying to control my emotions

"Neither did your uncles kill your dad. They didn't even have a hand in it", she clarified. I was now even more confused as I stopped crying

"Who then did it", I asked angrily

"Your sister Abigail did it", your mom lost her sanity when she discovered what your sister had done. That's one reason why your elder sister rarely comes around. Everyone's scared of her", she heaved out a sigh. I was shocked.

"You're lying, it's not possible. Abigail would never hurt my dad", by now the tears were flowing freely

"I'm the Goddess Of Truth, I can joke buh I can't lie",

"But why, why would she do something like that. Why would she destroy our family", I wasn't trying to hold back the tears again. I felt betrayed, I felt like I was losing everything over again. The sudden splashing of water annouced the arrival of Safira and Shakira. The appeared first with tails which slowly transformed into legs buh the thoughts which was freely flying through my head didn't even make me notice it.

"What's wrong with him", Safira asked when they were close enough to observe my mood

"The truth", Almira answered immediately

"Almira what truth, what did you tell him", Safira knew Almira had a reputation of doing things without thinking so she felt whatever she'd told was something she shouldn't have

"The human wanted to know who killed his father, turns out they are all suffering from that person's anger issues and insensitivity.", She defended herself

"Nathan, are you okay", Shakira slowly held my hands. It felt so soft and fragile.

"I have to go", I slowly got and and started moving away. I heard then calling out from behind me buh my mind was already everywhere buh that place. I wanted to confront Abigail, I wanted to hear from her what happened, maybe I could understand, maybe she had a good reason for doing whatever she did buh hell no, was there even a good reason for killing our father? I walked into the lonely night again without thinking of anything,

I got home after the long walk from the stream and got inside. I locked myself inside and started crying. I cried till I slept

"I'm so sorry about everything", that was Shakira's voice, she sat on the rock while I sat in front of her just by the edge of the water

"My family was destroyed by that particular action. All my life I grew up blaming mom and my uncles", I sobbed

"I've lost someone dear to me too. His name was Mark", she stopped perhaps waiting for me to say something buh I didn't. I didn't have anything to say

"Would you like to know why I'm always very scared of being around any other human after Mark", she asked in a sad tone. I nodded slowly forgetting it was dark and she might not see that

"Okay then, lemme tell you about Mark, she started

To be continued