FATED

CHAPTER THREE

"Sir, we have confirmation that everyone in the list has been successfully registered and in their accomodations, what 's the next step?".

"Observe"

"........"

"Oh..okay sir.....em ....sir, what do we do about the.....with this crowd it might get their attention if........"

"Do nothing, ...just observe"

"As you wish sir".

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"Oh my, this place is dope, let's order in, you go have your birth first" Sheila so excited almost skipped out of the room.

Shaking her head, Lily picked up her necessities from the bag, but as she stretched out her hand to open the bathroom door, she got assaulted with different horrifying images and screams so loud that she nearly passed out. Staggering from the door, she made her way towards the bed, panting and sweating profusely, she looked around the room feeling nauseous with the bitter taste of fear in her mouth. And that was how Sheila found her a minute later.

"Hey, Lily! What's wrong? What happened to you?" Remembering her friend sometimes had visions she looked at her with widen eyes.
"Did you see something, was it a ghost?"

Poor choice of words Sheila, Lily thought seeing as she had indeed had a vision of the last occupant and the horrifying crimes carried out in this very room. Realizing the depth of her "gift" if you can call them that, was when she discovered visions were just the tip of the iceberg. She had come to observe that most things she saw were cruel and horrible crimes committed by others, she gets these visions when she touched them, or any object they had used especially objects that were involved in the said crimes. And that was why she saw the scene of the young girl brutally assaulted and mutilated in this room. With a shudder she pondered her next move. If she changed accomodations without a tangible reason, she might be alerting the perpetrators of her awareness of the crimes committed here, with a forced smile she looked at Sheila who was already looking worried.

" It's nothing just a terrible migraine, residue from this afternoon's episode I guess, I just need to rest a bit , I will be fine."

"Yeah you should get some rest, when it's six or seven I will get you dinner, also there are some drinks in the mini fridge, let me get you something to drink okay?"

"Okay, thanks as long it's not alcohol".

Lily sighed as she closed her eyes and pondered on the things she had seen in those few seconds. Growing up with a gift like this especially here in Africa was just asking to be persecuted, people tend to fear what they don't understand, one of such incident was when she was five.

"Aunt Maureen I saw Uncle Kelvin with Aunt Rita, he was kissing her on your bed". Five years old Lily explained as patted her doll's hair.

"What do you mean Lily? Are you sure of what you are saying?" Maureen who was best friends with Lily's parents asked with a little frown on her face, sensing the outcome.

"Mummy says a boy and a girl can only kiss if they are daddy and mummy and that is how they have a baby, but why did uncle Kelvin start taking off his clothes and Aunt Rita's, was he going to wash ......."

Even before little Lily could complete her words Maureen already zoomed out of the house.

Few hours later a very angry Kelvin barged in asking to speak to Lily's parents.

"Ah Kelly what's wrong? Why are you so angry ? Hope you and Maureen ain't having issues again" Raymond , Lily's father asked with a little humour , seeing as this was a cycle they experience nearly every week.

"Where's Lily? I need to ask your daughter where she saw me sleeping with Maureen 's friend Rita, I hope to God you and your wife are not involved in this , I hope you didn't train your daughter to go about wrecking people's homes".

"What? My Lily? Wreck your home? What are you talking about? She's just a baby barely five years old , what could she gave possibly done to make you this angry? Come sit down and explain to me, I don't understand......."

"Please spare me that, if you and your wife didn't discuss things like that how could a baby know? ........speak of the little devil, come here Lily who told you I kissed Aunt Rita?" Kelvin made to grab Lily who just came out of her room after hearing he loud voices.

" Mind your tone with my daughter young man" Raymond said as he hugged Lily who was already agitated.

"B..but uncle Kelvin I saw it" Lily protested as she felt she was wrongly accused.

"Where? How? How could you have seen that? Kelvin asked hostilely as it was impossible for this child to have seen the scene she described to his wife as the incident occured seven years back on his bachelor's night party two years before she was born, not even Raymond his best friend knew about this, so it was impossible for him to have told his wife Sylvia who was Maureen's childhood friend.

"When you carried me I saw it, I see it everyday it's why I asked Aunt Maureen".

With opened mouth and a look of horror Kelvin walked backwards to the door.
" You saw it when you touched me? What is this? Raymond?"

Seeing that Raymond wasn't as shocked as he was, it dawned on him that he was aware of this.

"Witchcraft! Your daughter is a witch Raymond" with that last statement he ran out hurriedly.

After that incident rumours began to spread in that environment where they lived, even Aunt Maureen stopped coming around, people avoided them, her school could no longer accommodate her, people started finding faults and seeing things to complain about her, blaming her for misfortune, sicknesses even deaths that occur way before she was born. Her father decided to relocate to another state, where they stayed and kept to themselves, her parents tried all they could taking her to church deliverances, spending alot on seeds and sacrifices, all to no avail. This was probably one of the reasons she wasn't keen on spiritual activities such as this one. Therapist also produced nothing, they could only manage "her symptoms" and hope that one day all will be fine.