The next day, chisom rushed out from her room into Mimi’s room to check on him and see his how bad his injury was, and how to explain it their parents when they come back home. Upon reaching his room she saw that his room door was open and on a closer look she didn’t see anyone inside and the bloody bandage use to wrap Mimi’s hand was on the bed, she was confused, because if he wasn’t in his room where could he be?, so she went down to look for him. She checked the kitchen, living room, dining room, the backyard, the front veranda, the car pack, laundry room and upstairs but he was nowhere to be found, it was then she started panicking wondering where he could be.
She went back upstairs to messoma’s room, she knocked but nobody answered so she just pushed open his door and saw him and David cuddling on the bed she just shook her head and smiled small under her breath she said ‘this boy no sabi sleep well see as he don crowd David for bed, David sef dey try heat no dey do them’ she walked towards the bed and woke the up ‘guys I can’t find Mimi do you know where he is?’ David was the first to wake up the looked up at chisom and smiled small ‘morning, what did you say I didn’t hear you well’ chisome rolled her eyes ‘I said I can’t find Mimi’ she said her voice rising at the end of the sentence groggily messo looked up from David’s chest where he was still lying down ‘ have you checked his room’ she rolled her eyes again ‘no oh I will be waiting for you, abeg stop hugging and help me look for him, he’s not in the living room or the kitchen nor the guest bedroom, backyard, kitchen, bathroom or out side in the compound I’m worried abeg’ they both looked at each other, got up and started putting on clothes.
She went across their room to baba’s room there she heard him talking to someone so she knocked on his door but silence greeted her back, she knocked again ‘baba are you awake? I thought I heard voices from your room, is Mimi there?’ silence greeted her again ‘baba answer me nah is Mimi with you?’ before she could knocked the third time the door was violently opened from the inside ‘ ah ah what is it in this house can’t someone have one peaceful morning? What is it?’ taken aback by his tone of voice chisom took a step back and looked up at him in shock ‘what is it? Only you come knock for door only you con dey look me wetin happen’ she snapped out of her shock ‘sorry to disturb you oh I was looking for Mimi I haven’t seen him since morning and the bandage I used to warp his hand yesterday was on top of his bed I’m worried’ ‘eh ok have you checked his room?’ she rolled her eyes ‘yes have can you please help me find him?’ ‘ok I’m coming let me wear my shirt’ she left him and went down stairs. Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs she saw messoma and David ‘did you see him?’ she asked them, David looked up from his position in front of the kitchen cabinet and shook his head ‘no it’s like your brother just disappeared into thin air’ she took in a big breath looking around still feeling uneasy about the whole thing ‘let’s just keep on searching maybe he is hiding and he fell asleep where he was’ they looked skeptical about that but they still searched, a few minutes go by and they heard the sound of the a car pulling u to their house and the telltale sound of their car horn chisom ran to the window that over looked their car park and peeped through it only to see her parents car packing and the gate man locking the gate ‘Jesus mummy and daddy has come back, what do we do?’ messoma started pacing ‘how do we explain what happened to Mimi without them killing us, Jesus we are so dead’ he stopped pacing with his hand on hi head just then they heard their parents voice ‘ah ah Mimi what are you doing out here all alone where are you siblings?’ they were shocked frozen because at that very moment they heard Mimi’s voice the same boy they have been looking for, for the better part of the morning, who also wasn’t there when they checked there few minutes ago ‘they are inside, I just wanted to greet you first’ ‘mummy what’s inside the nylon? Did you buy anything for me?’ he asked as their voice grew nearer the front door opened and the mum came inside carrying a small bag followed by their dad carrying Mimi in his arms ‘ah ah this one all of you are standing here to welcome us hope all is well?’ the mum and dad laughed the kids could only smile awkwardly ‘after all we were only gone for a night’ the dad smiled but when he looked at David the smile slipped a little ‘so David you are still here?’ their mom shoved him lightly and smiled at David ‘thank you for helping them when we were out you are a good friend’ she said while holding his hands and smiling he smiled back ‘no problem ma what are friends for if I can’t help him baby sit’ ‘when is school resuming? This one you people are acting like you won’t see each at school?, for guys you are way too close’ the father said David just smiled and messo looked away awkwardly ‘daddy chi stop it you are making the boy uncomfortable’ the mom said in a reproachful tone.
A few days go by with nothing happening and the children even forgot what happened that night/morning, until 2 weeks go by and miracle fell sick at first they thought that it was the normal malaria and they bought drugs and treated him for it, but as the days go by instead of getting better he just kept on getting worse so they stopped his malaria treatment and took him to the hospital but after running test to see what was wrong the test came out clean. There was nothing wrong with him physically but visibly he looks ill so they ran the test again but still nothing was found that left the doctor and his parents confused as to what is wrong with him.
They decided to take Mimi back home since staying in the hospital when they don’t know what’s wrong is a waste of money, when they got back the father took Mimi upstairs while the mother went into the kitchen to try and cook, while the mom was cooking the kids decided to tell her about that day, so after voting messo as the chief speaker they went into the kitchen, their dad had already come downstairs at this point in time and seeing all of them trooping into the kitchen with gloomy faces made him laugh ‘ why are all of you standing at attention like your mother is your chief about to send you to war’ the mom also smiled but the kids weren’t messo looked at his parent then his siblings and sighed ‘we think we know why Mimi is sick’ their parents stopped laughing and looked at them with all seriousness ‘so you know and you did not want to tell us or what?’ chisom came forward ‘we don’t actually know what’s wrong with him but we think we know what lead to the sickness’ the mum slammed the blow she was holding down on the kitchen counter ‘does anyone mind telling me what’s going on?’ the kids looked at themselves and decided to come clean ‘well it all happened when you guys left for your date….’ ‘…. And then you guys came back and you saw him outside and the cut from the night before was gone and..’ the mother cut them off while waving her hand ‘wait oh so you are telling me that your brother might be possessed by an evil bird spirit because a big black bird bit him and he bled black blood then he disappeared for a night and then reappeared without a single mark to indicate otherwise and THEN he fell sick?’ ‘yeah that pretty much sums it up’ they answered nodding their head ‘this is crazy talk YOU BROTHER IS NOT POSSESED!!!’ she shouted breathing heavily ‘he is not possessed he is sick, shame on you for trying to use his illness as some poorly done joke’ chizoba spoke up ‘mum we are not lying it’s true..’ the mum held up her hand cutting him off ‘let’s assume I believe you what do you want me to do? Hmmm how do you expect me to go about this? Hmmm’ she looked at each of them then at her husband who have been silent all this time ‘ I honestly don’t know but very soon we will go back to school and we won’t be around just promise us that you would at least call a pastor to pray for him regather less of if he’s possessed or not cause where man fails god doesn’t’ messo said before leaving the kitchen with his siblings and going back up to their room, the mm looked at the dad ‘you don’t really think that our son is possessed right?’ he shrugged ‘do I think that our son is possessed? No I do not think so, but I believe they are right about one thing’ he said hugging her, she looked up at him ‘what thing?’ ‘we need to call a man of god to pray for him if not to cast out demons at least to pray for healing for him’ she nodded slightly ‘ok you are right when next I’m chanced I will call pastor Paul’
That night dinner was awkward and silent with the looming possibilities that their child and their sibling is either sick with an on documented sickness or the fact that there is a slight possibility that the boy might the possessed, after dinner they each said their good bye and went to bed.
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THE BROWNS
HorrorA family of recently moved into a new house in a new town following the promotion of their father at work. But is this house all they have been hoping for or will it all come tumbling down around them at a moment's notice.
