I Didn't kill My Husband

Death, the last gift of Nature

Victoria

"Ah! No not now. Not on frigging Halloween night. Urrgghhh," Kemi had blown her tops after just hunging up a phone call.

Queen and I watched her, wondering what could have made her display her ongoing exasperation. She walked forwards and backwards then later sat on the arm of the settee.

This performance made Queen so lose her focus that she gave the whole bowl of candy to one kid.

She hadn't noticed what she did until another kid came asking for his bowl too. "Your bowl of candy, Darling?" Queen was confused, looking with her eyebrows drawn together at the short child standing in the doorway.

"Yeah, I saw you give that girl a whole bowl," the boy said, pointing towards his left at the direction of the girl who won our candy lottery. Kemi looked back at the dining table, to discover the once half-filled bowl was now empty. She took the bowl and ran out, brushing by the boy and after the girl, screaming, "Sweetie, hey! Sweetie, come back."

"This Halloween is just the worst," Kemi fell backwards flat on the settee."Kay, what happened?" I shortened her name.

"My boss just called, apparently he's looking for a document and he wants me to come help him." She frowned. I hoped my smile would cheer her up a bit. "and how long would the document search last?" I asked. She answered, "I don't know, but I hope that I'm back home before Micheals comes here."

I got confused on what she said. "Micheals is coming?" I asked. She nodded in response. "Like to this house?" I became suprised. She turned to me and answered, "I swore that I'd explain to you after our date," She added.

"You're going on date with him?" My face contorted in thick disbelief until she grew an awkward smile. "I've been calling his phone but he has a problem with missing calls. So, please can you tell him to wait, when he gets here?" She asked. I turned my face away from her then nodded. "Thank you, Tori," she left.

The door opened and a fatigued Queen came in. She was panting like a thirsty thanksgiving turkey and was escorted back in by the bowl, still empty, notifying me that Queen couldn't get any sweets back from the girl.

"Where is Kemi going?" She asked. "I just saw her inside her car, waving at me and driving away."

I took a sigh.

The fact that my best friend is dating a person that can prove me guilty and locked up in bars for thirty years or up to a 'lifetime', which is a fancy word for five hundred years, made me feel like maybe the whole universe really hated and was against me.

"She has work to do."

Queen was surprised, "On Halloween night?!" she said, her eyes widened and eyebrows raised. I wasn't really in the mood to talk or explain anything, so I just nodded in reply. "Well that sucks," Queen said.

"So, I couldn't get the candy," Queen pushed her self to sit on an armless dining table chair that was moved out of the dining room to the parlour. She was tired like and old woman that just ran a marathon race. "The kid ran faster and faster the more I called and chased after her," She complained.

"Little thief...Now we have no more candy!" She was frustrated. "I will not and I repeat it, I won't go through the stress of removing any toilet paper trick you see outside tomorrow," She said, with a tone like as if she wasn't the one who absent-mindedly gave out all the candy.