“Who could that be?” Gloria and Funke
were startled, staring at each other.
‘Did you lock the door?’ Funke asked very
scared.
‘No, when you came in, the happiness I
used to escort you in made me forget
you’ve arrived.’ She replied quietly.
“Huh?”
‘Yeah.’ She replied quietly.
They heard people laughing outside.
“Mum, come and open the door for us
oh!” Daniel shouted.
He opened the door and noticed it was
opened. He and Darasimi walked inside
laughing heartily.
Gloria and Funke couldn’t close their
mouths and was staring at each other
closely.
“Mum!” Daniel shouted.
She faced him at once. “What just
happened?” She stammered out.
Daniel and Darasimi laughed out
suddenly and shook each other.
‘Mum, I’ve gotten home and didn’t meet
you so Dan and I decided to come here.
We’ve been there for a while so we heard
everything you’ve been saying. I…’ She
started laughing.
The both continued laughing. “I did as if
the Queen was at the door.” She
concluded.
They continued laughing. Funke and
Gloria couldn’t take off their eyes from
each opther, they were staring at each
other non-stop and couldn’t say
anything.
“Em.. I can’t just utter a word now. Why
did you come home?” Funke asked
pretending to be angry.
‘Some people attacked my room,
searching for me last night and I’ve gone
for vigil then, the girl they met on my
bed was washed with a bottle of
dangerous chemical, maybe acid.’ She
uttered.
“What!” Gloria stood up.
‘Yes mum.. This is serious.’ Daniel said.
“What of that girl now?” Funke stood up
too and questioned.
‘She died this afternoon.’ Darasimi
changed her face, looking extremely sad.
‘What!’ Gloria shouted.
‘Yes ooh. Its so painful, so I had to leave
school, we can’t tell the people trailing
me. The police has been involved
because that girl’s parents are extremely
rich.
‘So despite all this, you have time to
scare us!’ Funke shouted.
“I suggested that. We came home so
taciturn, I decided to at least make us
laugh and happy.” Daniel said.
‘Oh my God! So that girl died?’ Gloria sat
down suddenly.
‘Yes mum. I guess she should stay here
for the main time or go else where, they
might be searching for her.’ He uttered.
‘Heeeeey.. I’m fed up!’ Funke uttered.
THE QUEEN? Gloria asked.
The princess and her friends were still in
school, vexing and annoyed about their
fuck-up. Stella stood up when everything
was so quiet and boring to talk to them
all. “I don’t know why you all are quiet as
a graveyard. Is it because it wasn’t
Darasimi or because Deola died. Cheer up
babes.” She encouraged.
“In one word, we are *murderers*” The
princess said and gave a heavy
exhalation.
‘No, we didn’t carry out the job ourselves
so we aren’t the murderers and this is
not the end. That Darasimi thinks she’s
smart, we must still dear with her!’ Stella
shouted
‘After wasting a soul?’ Princess asked
wondering.
“Please jare…” Rachael curt in. “Please,
forget about the issue of soul. We all
have our various destinies. That’s what
her destiny is all about, we didn’t kill her.
Its annoying me how you guys are doing.
If you are ready for us to strike a deal,
call me. I’m logging into Coolval22.com
to read some literature series.” She
uttered and picked her phone angrily.
‘We must at least pity the girl that
loosed her life. I’m afraid of something,
we all know that this girl’s father is
stinkingly rich and I think….’
‘She’s the only child, don’t think!’
Beatrice completed.
‘Can it be traced to us?’ Rachael
wondered.
“You all, let’s just get those guys now
and tell them they did a wrong job. I’ve
been told she went home this afternoon
with Dan. She should be trailed but this
time around I want us to change the
technique.” Rachael dropped her phone.
‘Let’s conclude this first!’ Princess
exclaimed.
SUNDAY MORNING, 7:15 AM…
Honourable Olukayode arrived with
policemen into the school and sent them
around the school, especially to the
hostel to arrest everyone their. All the
girls in the hostel were arrested and
taken to prison, investigation
commenced.
••••
Tony and his wife was in the living room
watching a program, not quite long after,
the program was ended and news started
about THE RILY KINGDOM. As Tony
heard the name of that Kingdom he
stood up immediately and stared at the
television set. “Rily” he kept repeating
the name.
‘Is anything the matter?’
“No..” He replied and smiled, took his
seat back but still worried.
One of his daughter walked downstairs
with a Nokia booklet and sat beside her
mother. The magazine contained the
pictures of all the phone Nokia has
made. The continued checking it and was
smiling while Tony was still watching the
news. It was after some minutes the
news ended he could notice things
around him. He stood up and walked to
his wife and daughter to watch the
phones they were watching.
He was smiling and pointing at different
phones. Soon, they got to a point with
the heading “OLD MADE PHONES”. The
continued checking it and were laughing
at the phones people were using then,
suddenly Tony sighted Nokia C1. “This
phone.” He tapped the magazine and
stood upright.
He started remembering how Raymond
brought it to him. “Raymond!” He
exclaimed suddenly.
The wife and daughter were staring at
him and dropped the magazine.
‘Raymond brought that phone to me and
told me that the King said its for the two
of us, but I can’t remember where exactly
I was that day.’ He uttered.
‘You, go to your room.’ Funmi said to her
daughter and she left.
‘Who is Raymond and who was he when
you were together?’ Funmi asked.
“My best friend, we do things together.”
He replied.
‘I think this is the best time to call my
friend. That guy that I said he’s a Doctor,
he should bring along a psychologist so
that they’ll help us from this that you
just remembered.’ She said and brought
out her phone to call them.
To be continued
