Emily is so annoyed after when she hangs off the call, she stood for a while just recalling what was happened to them in the historical house before. Emily says in serious bitterness while nodding her head anger. " As if these people they forget what was happened to this great family. Why did they even think of renting the historical house to some people that are eeven inside the family. I thought they has already believed that it's only the member he f the Karachi family that's only permitted to live in the historical house. So why did they even change their mind, why did they went and rent the house to external people. Why they even do selfishness at this moment?"
At the end, Emily decide to host go and meet her mother, so that they can be able to fece the problem.
Her phone is by then just ring, Emily went to the dressing mirror and carry the phone, and then pick on the call. It's Blessing that is call, emily received the call happily, and also while smiling. " Longest time my best sister and also a friend."
Blessing take note of her condition, since from the kind of voice that she is talking with. " What is wrong? It's your body up to now, your voice seems like there is something wrong that tis going on."
Emily just sniff and then wipe the little sweat that display on her forehead. She reply back to blessing after when she do a deep breath."when are you coming back Blessing? Hope you are about to finish the final examination?"
Blessing just smile, that is what makes me to contact you right. " I'm already down with exam since the day before yesterday. Since the moment that we are done, my attention is fully with my nation. I don't know why, but l just feel like l wanted to be with my family, mist especially now that l absolutely know that am done with the study."
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Emily is so surprise with the sentence, since the moment that Bleeding left Nigeria and went to London for her study Emily is missing her always. Because since when they are very young, she is her best friend, the kind of friend that up to now she didn't find another person like her again.
Otherwise, Emily didn't want her to come back because of this deserter that is trying to face them. But she can't tell anything that pertain what is going on. Because he doesn't what her to feel scary while coming back. Then at the other hand, Emily encourage her to come back, because although she is not that very sure about what is going is real or not.
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Since the moment that Blessing and charlotte lost their mother, and after when everything is set. Blessing went to London and continue with her studies there. By now, she is done, and she is also interested to come to Nigeria and stay with her family.
They conclude the statement after encouraging Blessing to come back home. Emily is doing all these in other to get a partner that is going to be helping in term of doing anything that can save their family.
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Maria notice his calm movement since the moment that he came back from the company. But she try to allow because he shows her his sign, whick means he doesn't want her to talk to him at all. She is by then become absolutely hummed and quiet, because even if he didn't thought her. She definitely know that there must be a serious problem, or something critically is speeding on.
Since in the early evening he came back home,not like the normal moment that he used to.
After some minutes that he waste while sitting at the front side of the bed, he is just settle down while only forwarding his attention to the thinking that he was. When Maria came inside the bedroom, her movement is immediately took his attention from the thinking that he was previously.
Samuel is by then just gasp and also do a deep breath, he is then start off loading his clothes, and then onload the sleeping dress immediately.
Maria is still just keep her eyes on him, she too she try to offload her dress. At deep night when she has already felt in sleeping, the light just trace in to her eyes, that even make her to quickly open the eyes. She start scratching them slowly, while tracing her loot towards his position. Maria also whine in slow pamper voice while also bending her neck toward one side. " What is going on my love? Why are not sleeping?"
She completed the sentence heil lift her feet majestically toward his point, and immediately place her palm at his shoulder. " My love"
She is by tnen absolutely trace her bubble shiny look to his face. Then she continued, " please inform me what is wrong with you darling?"
Samuel is by then explain clearly to Maria by tracing his look ok her face. " absolutely agree with what you are saying."
Up to then, Maria is not clear with what he is trying to say. She still look at him in an interrogative manner while shaking her head, which is to let him know that she didn't totally get his point.
He says. " He isn't in the prison as the exactly way you already thought me!"
Since from the standing that she was, till the moment that Maria sit on the chair by her side. She whine in confused and interrogative voice. " So you went and confirm that he is not in the prison?"
Samuel nodes his head, together with replying an answer back to her in his fully confidence.
She says while asking him seriously. " Now that did you think we are going to do, in other to save the life of innocent children and we too?"
Samuel just sniff and then keep quiet over some seconds, by then he open his eyes and face her together with saying. " Am even doubt! But if what the imam thought us before, now is going to happen again. It totally seems that we are in critical situation. And since before everything is going to harsh to us, we have to look for a way out, before is even going to be too late to kick off the problem."
Maria says while nodding her head confusingly. " What makes him to try this? How did he even escape from the prison.,"
Samuel reply according the exactly way that he found the story from his right hand friend. " He left the prison because of the important deal that they are going process. And they are going to get big money if they did it."
Maria didn't quite still, she want to be clear for all her confusion. That is how she keep asking him different kinds of questions, and Samuel forward his attention toward her together with explaining everything to her clearly. Samuel explain clearly to her about the cocaine business processing. Maria in weak at this over night, because she is even thinking that the situation is not easy in a such a way that they can handle it on there own.
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The cottons are still on fire, and the fire increasing, that is how by themselves they choose to fall on the sand instead of staying at the hided place, because fire is coming toward their position. One by one, gradually non of them even reach to the door, that is how they were become decayed and dry inside the sand by then itching of the grubs inside the sand. Their story just end from there, they all death and the fire continue existing.
Due to the weather, everywhere is absolutely quiet, the coolness of the weather makes people stay in there houses.
No anyone hear even the sound of the fire, it's one of the neighbors that he trace the lightness of the fire through his window glass when he wake up at the deep night. He become absolutely so scared when he saw the fire, he first even thought the is all over the house. He quickly shout and run from his house together with calling and yelling people's attention toward them.
People hear his voice, they were by then run out from their houses, while some of them are busy trying to reach the workers that are responsible for the fire issue, and some are trying to get inside the house, so that they can do something for them.
It's even by then, mama and her family are even inform about what is happening in there house. Because the house is very big, and alos the ghost makes them to fell in weak sleep. But when people get inside the house, they snap the people's voices which makes them to quickly run from the house so scared must especially the moment that they hear people are mentioning fire.
It's by the help of people they run from the house, they are lucky because they all escape from the house but when they absolutely suffered.
Because of the high tension and the kind of desperation that mama feel in to and also found her into, the temperature of her blood is immediately become absolutely high. She fell ins serious dizziness, but she is locky because Early is by her side, she quickly hold her, and mama fell on her body. Early become so scare, because by now it's only mama that remains for one, just recently she lost her best sister.
Leema and her twins were brought out from the house, because they can't even run, must especially the twins. The must scary and worst character that Leema is doing and her children, is they are not totally speaking, they are not talking to anyone, even if someone talk to them.
Sid is over scared, that is how he keep on counting does that are lost in the family, and with does that are escape. No one knows what was happened with the people that are death.
Five people death because of the fire, that is what people are busy saying. The fire didn't relax on time, due to the how the fire workers are busy trying to make everything clear.
Mama has already carried to hospital, it's Early that accompany her.
Danni is still trying, he is busy going to up and down. By now the ghost is really interesting to see any member frok Karachi family, because they are does that she wanted to fight with.
Some people were by then agther themselves together at one place, they are busy gossiping about what was happened on the historical house five years. While some people still from them, are saying that they are not going to enter inside the house, because up to now they didn't believe that everything is clear.
Not only the people that are gossiping, some little children were by then start pointing the house together with saying. " The ghost house is on fire! The ghost house is on fire!"
Sid and Sadam were by then trace their looks towards one another amazingly. By then, Sadam start recalling how he was humiliating his wife when she was trying to inform them there is something that related to devils in the house. But they was not didn't believe, infact they even challenge her with her problem. He absolutely start regretting, gradually he start counting how things was happening in the house, but they didn't even believed with her at all.
Like that he continue thinking about different kinds of things. At the end, he is just walk toward the Danni's place and quick randomly place his palm on the Danni's neck, together with saying loudly and angrily too. " Why did you went and rent this type of dangerous how for out family? Now look at how things are occuring, people are just dieing. And also look at what the people in this street are saying about the house!"
People around the place were immediately come to their rescue, and immediately separate them. While some of them are trying to cool his mind down, together with encouraging by saying. " Don't believe what is happening is still because of the ghost. Because since five years ago, nothing was happened again, and we didn't see any bad sign in this house again. And also time to time, some people are coming and entered the house. So don't believe with this, because we all didn't have any evidence to believe with by now about what is happening."
Sadam is absolutely get what they are trying to let me understood. He is just nodes his head, but at the other hand, if he trace his eyes toward his children and Leema, then he used to feel absolutely weak.
Danni didn't talk to him at all, all this while. He is just stood and also while looking at him, been the moment that Sadam is dragging him he didn't says anything.
The broker that was rent the house to Danni he is still been informed about what is now occuring in the historical house. He absolutely shocked, since at the every night he quickly inform the Karachi family members about what is happening in the historical house. But the moment that he even came to the house and see how the fire happened, he absolutely snapped the kinds of rumours that the street people are saying about the house. He become scare, because some of the youth in the area are even saying, they broker of the house he suppose to be challenged because of what was happened in the house, and why did they even rent the house to other people.
By now, Sid didn't want any course that can make him to lift even single his leg feet inside inside the house again, because of what he hear.
The ghost says while looking at the people that are talking about what was happened in the historical house before. The ghost is absolutely talking in an anger and frown ugly face. " M going to make all of you kick the bocket!"
Which means she is going to kill then one after the other.
The ghost didn't want anyone to discuss about her secret, about what was happened before. And she has promised herself that if she hear any one speaks about her previous life, that person is just going to be kill.
It's some part of the house the be on fire, and it's just a little according to how the historical house is very big. By now, everything are set, some people are even get inside the house in other to check, there is not any thing that left behind, that can make to anyone to see any sign. Because some people are even trying to get any sign that can see whether is the ghost that kill them or not.
Aisha Aliyu Taku
Novel and Script writer