Indeed , no stone shall be left unturned. A little birdie somewhere, saw everything and knew everything. She was however afraid to speak because those who speak often get silenced, forever! Lola Romans started having chills and nightmares in broad daylight. Her thoughts broke out a tumult of shouting and screaming. It was as if her mind was a shelter overpopulated and everyone had their own opinion and to top it all, they were simultaneously expressing themselves. Poor Lola, she was neither the perpetrator nor the victim but she was drowning even worse than either of them.
No matter what she chooses to do, she still is going to suffer it's consequences, or is there a way in which she could not? "Maybe there is" her face exhilarated "I should go look for Natally. Then bring her home safe. That way no one would get into trouble" she mumbled confidently. "Oh no, no!" A voice in the shelter of her thoughts exclaimed. "Do you really think people will think you 'just' went to look for her?" Lola got rather confused and started listening to her thoughts attentively "Look at it this way, Natally is missing and everyone knows. Then the mighty Lola"... "Can we just go eat?" A thought more concerned about the growling sound Lola's stomach is consistently making, destructed the great speech. "SHUT UP!" Lola fumed at the stupidity and nerve of such a useless thought to interrupt such an important meeting.
A mass of guffawing walked in. "We just knew it. Isn't there a way 'Lola the bad luck' couldn't speak to herself" adduced Patralekha. "No" sang her along with her betas concurrently. Lola flicked and spotted 'The darlings' (that was Pakhi's crew's name). Patralekha Jones and her betas, Thando Radebe and Beauty Baloyi. She felt the quake of her ribs and the grasp of her toes to the floor in frost. His eyes agape and heartbeat went straight on a marathon. She couldn't help but think The darlings must've heard everything she said, forgetting that it all betided in the privacy her thoughts.
"What are you? A voyeur?" She mocked or so she thought. They chuckled. "Oh man I'm kidding, how could you be when you don't even have eyes? I mean you need technology to see after all. Huh? Four eyes" she drew Lola's spectacles and steamed them with her breath and they watched Lola frowned and constantly rubbing her eyes in attempt to catch a proper sight but all she could see was blur. They cachinnated in exhilaration and rejoiced in her misery before Pakhi could throw her spectacles to her and they bloomed out.
Lola caught her spectacles and wiped their glasses with her t-shirt thoroughly before she could put them on. She had almost wet her pants in fear in the presence of The darlings. She started thinking of the worst that could happen to her if The darlings know she's indeed a voyeur. That too, one that knows every details of what transpired on the night of Natally's disappearance. She will be buried alive for sure if this secret comes out lead ahead by her name. No one will be able to save her from The darlings' wrath. But what about Natally? would she be able to live with herself if anything happened to her? I don't think so, and neither does she.
All worlds clashed even harder for Lola Romans when she grabbed her phone and appeared was Natally's younger step brother Benny, screaming for help through a post alerting the world to help them find his sister. Every second passes with the rattle of Lola's heart until she started feeling as if she's strangled with a wire full of thorns and ventilation was almost impossible. If Natally was in her shoes, she would've helped her for sure. And if she too, was in Natally's shoes, she would've hoped someone somewhere knowing something could tell. But in this case, she's someone somewhere knowing something and she either tells and save Natally's life but lose her own or she stays silent and save her own life while Natally loses hers. It's a me-or-her situation and either way, there's one to win & one to lose. What would you do?
