Lost Dreams [On Hold]

Chapter Seven

Writer's POV.

***Back at starling hotel.***

"what? Chief what do you mean you can't find her? I directed her to your room personally" Mrs Patrick said.

"so you mean I'm lying?", chief Ekwe said.

"no chief. I'm really sorry. I'll send another girl to you.", Mrs Patrick replied then exited the room.

On getting outside, she bumped into Abigail. "just who I was looking for", she said as she clasped her hands together. "how could you do this to me? I'm really disappointed in you", she added.

"madam pat", Abigail said as she fondly called her. "what do you mean?", She asked, oblivious to what had happened.

"you're really asking me that? So this is what you have planned with your friend,right?", Mrs Patrick said.

"what?? I was also looking for her when I bumped into you.", Abigail said.

"she's nowhere to be found. I think she's run away", Mrs Patrick dropped the bomb.

"how dare she? I'll definitely teach her a lesson.", Abigail said angrily.

"okay, please if you don't want me to kick you and Dennis out of here, Don't. Ever. Bring. Her. Here. Again.", Mrs Patrick said through clenched teeth, anger lacing her every word. "And now my only problem is Chief Ekwe, he's really annoyed at what she did and I don't want to lose a great client like him. You know how rich he is", Mrs Patrick whispered. "could you please go to him?", Mrs Patrick asked.

"sure madam. Anything for you", Abigail said then she left for the chief's room.

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Rose woke up with a killer headache. She looked at Abigail's bed and found it empty. She groaned as the thoughts of the previous night flooded her mind again. Why? Why must things always go wrong for me? Why did i do this? Why am I so stupid? Why couldn't I do it? Why did I run away? What's wrong with me? What must Abigail think of me now? Oh God! Please help me.

Knock knock

A knock on the door brought her out of her deep thought. Who could be knocking on the door early this morning?, she said to herself. "Maybe it's Abigail", she added and put her hand on her head. She prepared her mind for the worst that could happen as she opened the door.

"good morning,Abby", she greeted her.
No response.

"hey I'm greeting you", she said again.

"what's so good about the morning?"Abigail shouted. It was time for Rose to be silent. "oh please, just leave me alone if you don't want us to have a brawl this morning. And please, Do. Not. Spoil. My. Mood", Abigail warned and dropped her bag on her bed. Then she walked into the restroom.

While she was in there, Rose had gone into the kitchen to prepare some tea and eggs so they could have breakfast with bread together.

Apparently, Nima and Chidinma had moved out of the apartment due to the change the school authority had made which meant that only two students per room. This made them have enough space in the apartment.

After ten minutes in the restroom, Abigail finally came out whistling. Rose had finished preparing breakfast and had set Rose table for both of them. Abigail ignored her at first then she went to empty out her bag. She brought out two bundles of fresh bank notes and kept on whistling. Rose had been concentrating on her food and didn't notice what Abigail was doing. Her constant whistling was getting annoying so Rose turned to face her but what she saw shocked her.

"Abigail!!", she yelled. "where'd you get that?", she continued as she stretched to touch the bank notes that lay on the floor.

Immediately, Abigail slapped her hand making her eyes widen like the full lights of a car. "ouch", she yelped.

"why'd you do that?", she added.

"because", Abigail replied smirking.

"becausssse??", Rose asked looking perplexed.

"when you were running away you didn't know then right?! I trusted you but you failed me. You were the one who was supposed to collect this money but you f**ked up so there's nothing for you", Abigail stated breathlessly.

"oh. I'm really sorry. Something came up", Rose lied trying effortlessly not to meet Abigail's eyes.

Abigail chuckled then said "I know you too well. I know whenever you are lying your eyes twitch".

"hahaha, oh really? It's ok then. So will you give me part of your money?", Rose asked with a broad grin spread across face exposing her perfect white set of teeth.

"only a little", Abigail replied giggling.

"yay thanks. So am I forgiven now?", Rose asked again.

"it's alright. Here, take this. There's more from where that came from. You know what to do", Abigail said handing her the money.

Rose ignored her question then changed the topic of discussion "thanks. Hope you haven't forgotten about the departmental meeting today? It's for only the 200 level students so we have to attend it. It's by 10am and Mr Joseph had warned us about coming late. I'll go freshen up now", Rose said.

"ok.. Hahaha, you really need to freshen up. You look horrible like choki but you don't scare me", Abigail joked.

"Oh my God. I can't believe you.", Rose said while using her hand to cover her face. Then she headed for the bathroom.

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Unknown POV
Today was just great. Note the sarcasm. I had just received my test script from my class teacher and I failed. I wonder what went wrong. I remember the test being so easy to write and I was sure I would ace it just like any other test I had taken before.

Ring Ring Ring. That was the school bell indicating it was time for the students to go home. I was so hungry.

Immediately I and my brother,   Nicholas, got home, I gave him some money to buy some bread and beans from Mama Nkechi across the street because I knew our parents wouldn't be home by this time since they started working overtime to provide for our needs.

After my brother had left, suddenly I heard something crash to the ground. The sound came from a room upstairs and I wasn't sure which it was. I looked for something to arm myself with as I thought a thief had broken into the house through the back door.

Our house was small but we still lived comfortable. I guess I couldn't complain since we weren't blessed with wealth like the other people in our community.

My brother had returned from where he went to buy our lunch and I signalled for him to come over to where I was standing. I told him about what had happened when he was out and he understood.

I found a clamp from the drawer in the store. As we climbed up the stairs, I heard some sobbing sounds coming from my father's room. As I approached the room with my brother by my side, I heard a familiar voice shout

"lily! call 911 now!", my mother yelled.

I was confused on why. I quickly dropped my supposed weapon to the floor and I ran into the room to see what was going on. When I got there, my blood ran cold. Father was on the floor lifeless with my mother weeping helplessly beside him...

To be continued 😊😉
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