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Age nineteen Chapter fifteen
Mr. Skanda POV.I sat in my bedroom, alone. It was one of those nights I spent in tears, one of those nights that I couldn't bring myself to fall asleep. No man would be able to fall asleep when his house was on fire, and it was surprising how my wife slept like a baby next to me.I was unsure if she knew what was going on. Everyone in the house was counting down on the days our only surviving daughter had on earth, except her. she was still her usual moody self, she didn't even care to spend extra time with Kerah, and neither did she care to find a way to help. I looked at her through the dark, she was snoring lightly. I could make out her full frame on the bed, and that was all thanks to the nightwear that she had on. It was a white nighty.She stirred a little bit and then resumed her position again. She was enjoying her sleep, it used to be a beautiful sight to behold. Usually, I'd give her a peg on her cheeks, or smack her buttocks. But not anymore. She was an awful parent for s
Age nineteen Chapter sixteen
Kain's P.O.V I got to school on the bus, I wore a sullen look. I greeted the teachers with a frown, and even forgot to say hi to my girlfriend."Are you okay?" Sally was my best friend and my girlfriend. And she was the only one who dared to get close to me on days when I wasn't in the mood to talk."I'm fine." Before I looked up, I was encompassed by the beautiful smell of rose perfume she had smeared on her clothing. She was dressed in the orange dress I got her for valentine, and she still had the necklace I put around her neck."No, you are not! Baby, I want to know what is going on, Kain." She sat next to me and held my hands with hers. "What is going on?" Her eyes were getting watery, and her voice shook. I knew I had to speak or compound my problems. If I dared not to open up to Sally about anything, she would be moody for days, if not weeks."Sally, what I'm about to tell you right now is private, and a family issue. It shouldn't be heard outside." She gasped, and spoke up, I
Age nineteen Chapter seventeen
Kain POV.Sally and I stood at the gate that led to the public cemetery. I held her hands, and we paddled into the silence. All we could hear were birds chirping, and one of the sounds stood out from the rest. It made Sally hold onto me firmly, and squeeze my hands. It was the hooting of owls. "What do you want with these bodies, are you kids not gonna let them dead people rest?" We turned unanimously and met with the gatekeeper. "What are you doing here with your chick?" He strolled towards us. I shared a glance with Sally. "Good evening, sir." I smiled nervously. "What you want?" He ignored me. "My name is Kain, and I'm here because I want to meet with my sister."The gatekeeper was standing hands akimbo, he stared at me through the medicated glasses that hung on his nose. Under his eyes. His bulging stomach and short stout nature made him look funny. He was well above sixty, I guessed from the grey hair that adorned his partly bald head. He was putting on sparkling white short
Age nineteen Chapter eighteen
Kerah's Pov"Thank you so much for loving me, Davey. I love you. Thank you for the memories we made together, thank you for the happiest days of my life. I have limited time with you before I give up the ghost. When I do, please do not miss me much, I have tried to change fate, but it seems impossible. So, dear! I love you and I will think about you, even in the land of the dead." I sent it to Davey, while we were in the middle of a conversation, on Whatsapp."What do you mean Kay, are you okay?" He sent it with a laughing emoji. He wasn't wrong for disbelieving me, I used to prank him so much. Sometimes, I would tell him things that made him cry, other times, I told him things that made him laugh. And in the end, it would turn out to be a prank.That one time I told him that we were moving out of town. I made everything look real, and we had three dates, in three days, in a row. He took me to virtually every fun place, and to all the places we made all our memories together, and on t
Age nineteen Chapter nineteen
After I showered and brushed, I headed for Julianne's house.The last time we met, was in this city, in the then-famous eatery, "cruise la faire." It was there she had broken the news to me, that she was pregnant. Her house was a block away from the eatery, we met there just once. When she wanted to introduce me to her parents. I could find my way to the house, though it's been over thirty years since we visited that place. Since that day, I had been in their neighborhood a few times, but never in that house. I wanted to speak with my ex, but I didn't know where she was lying. I had no choice but to go back to their home.I rang the doorbell, and a young boy opened it. He looked ten or eleven years old."Hello, boy." I smiled at him, he had Julianne's eyes, and a smile, evident on her face."Hello, sir. Who are you looking for?" "I want to speak with Julianne's mother." I raised a brow at him when I had said that, he wouldn't know who I meant by Julianne's mother, and I couldn't re
Age nineteen Chapter twenty
After school the next day, I held Sally's hand, and we walked to the bus. She didn't get into too much trouble yesterday, because she didn't take much time. But this time around, she might never go back home. I found a map in the attic that showed the way to where the family graveyard. All my sisters were buried in the family graveyard, so it wasn't going to take me long to find her."Did you take permission from your mom for today?"She nodded no. I sighed with relief, I didn't want stories spreading that she got missing after we both went out."So, no one knows you are with me?" She nodded no again."But you do know a lot of people saw us coming in here, right?""Yh, I know." It dawned on me that I had done something very stupid. So many people saw us on our way here, so I wasn't going to go Scott free just in case anything went wrong with her. "That's not a problem, you know.".We paddled into the cemetery again, and silence greeted us. We looked in the direction of the little hous
Age nineteen Chapter twenty one
Kain's POVWe were standing in front of Anabel's grave. Cemented ground and moist loamy soil were all I saw."Isn't this a beautiful grave?" Sally's voice shook."Shhhh! Don't say a word, dear. This moment is sacred. I'm about to invoke the ghost of the late Anabel, so it would be best if you keep quiet, and let me do my thing without any disturbances.She didn't wait for me to breathe another word to her, she moved farther away from me. I waited until she was many feet away from the grave, and then I squatted by the side of her grave, on the concrete floor."Anabel! Anabel! Anabel!" I chanted. My eyes were shut, my fists clenched, and my knees were on the concrete ground.I could feel a vibration on my feet, I could feel something shaking beneath me.The book instructed me not to open my eyes, no matter what happens. I kept my eyes shut, and my heart thumped.The next thing to do was to chant the magic words that would awaken her spirit. I knew it was going to scare Sally, and I didn
Age nineteen chapter twenty two
Mr. Skanda's POV.I took her contact number and left. I made the mistake of leaving mine with her because it seems the woman has an eye for me.She dropped eighteen messages on my WhatsApp, ten of which I presumed were her best photos. She had dropped over six calls, all of which I missed. And before I was active, she had already begun complaining that I was thinking she is cheap."You have such good looks." She responded when I sent her Hi."Thank you." I wasn't interested in whatever she was driving. She told me that her husband was away, and so was everyone else. She added that it was just her son and her, in the whole apartment. "That's nice." I sent her after ghosting her for over twenty minutes.She went ahead to tell me that none of her family members would be back until a month.I gave her the same cold response.She sent me another selfie, that was a bit revealing. A good part of her cleavage was seen.I ignored the photo. She was beautiful, and she was giving me the care no