Terrific Tuesday

Love will kill us all. - episode 1

 

How are you guys doing? It's terrific Tuesday!  Yay. This is the first episode of the series enjoy.

 

It will. Love will kill us all. This is a tale woven through times and tears. Souls broken because they were opened. Join me on this journey to exploring the crevices of their souls before they went the way others before them did. Before love killed them...

 

DIANNE

"No. No. No.you can't tell me that. You can't tell me Umar has been shot by the Nigerian army Ify."  " you can't!!!!!" I shouted into  the mouthpiece while my body was heaving with sobs. Umar, MY Umar. Golden prince and rider of the black stallion. Umar, who made me see the world in technicolor. Shot? What did shot even mean? Was he dead ? Dying? Leaving me ?  Alone. Here. Without him. No umar ? I struggled to make sense of the whole situation. "What do you mean dead???!!!? " I shouted to ify again. " Dee, calm down. I didn't say he was dead. I only said he was shot. Muhammad just called me now to tell me. He asked me to break the news to you. You needed to know." Muhammad.  That lying son of a bitch. I'm sure he's the one that shot Umar. My Umar. "MUHAMMAD! !!???? , HE CALLED YOU TO TELL YOU THIS?"  I couldn't contain my rage anymore. "calm down dee" Ify said. "You need to be able to think straight. And don't try doing anything stupid like running to the terrorist base. You just can't afford to do that now. You might get killed. Worse still, your dad might find out. And you know what that means." Damn my dad. Damn the world. Damn death. What was life when Umar was slipping away.  " Ify,  what am I supposed to do? Sit back and watch while Umar is taken away from me?  Resign myself to fate? Let the world  be damned.  I can't sit back and watch. I can't. It's impossible." I said, surprisingly so calmly. Ify sighed. " Dianne. I won't say i understand how you feel right now. But, I do know the folly in taking irrational decisions. Just calm down and think of something. I will too. I'm sure the commander has it all under control,  I mean Umar is his son isn't  he ?  You aren't the only one that cares about him you know. So just calm down." There was no point with arguing with Ify or any body for that matter. They didn't get it. " Thankyou Ify, but I really have to go now"  I said brusquely. " okay dee. Don't do anything. .........."  I cut her off before she could finish her tirade.  There was no time to sit and play star crossed lover right now.  The situation demanded for action and immediately. I sat down to weigh my options and decide on a course of action, but before I could... The thief called memory stole me away...

 

 

 

UMAR

I feel the blood slip out of me and my thoughts become groggy. No. I can't go, I have  to hold on. For Diane.  I had been shot while I was having a face off with the Nigerian army. You see , they had received some ammunition the previous day from the US government. This had given them the courage to launch an attack on our headquarters. We received information of their advance quite late and the only thing we could do was maintain  a stoic front and fight back with everything in us.  But it wasn't enough. Their gadgets were too sophisticated to match the ones we had received from our international sponsors. The attack barely lasted an hour and we lost no less than two thousand men with about 500 severely injured. Our intelligence head quarters had been blown to bits and our living quarters also. In all, it was a terrible attack on us. I only hope our international sponsors get us help as fast as possible. It was all so surreal. One minute I was shooting down a line of Nigerian soldiers, the next minute I felt a sharp searing pain through my right soldier. My right hand man Dikko shouted amd came to my rescue. But for Dikko,  i'll be lying in the heap of corpses . The heap where our fallen fighters lie. I'll be dead. Gone. Away from Dianne.  My Dianne. That's probably the worst part. Death isn't as terrifying a thought as death.  They say  the worst thing that can happen is death or every man's greatest fear is death. No, I've tasted death and I know . The worst thing that can happen to a man is losing the one he truly loves .That is truly losing your soul.  Forgive me if I'm rambling but that's what being on the brink of death does to a man. You have a flashback. Or flashbacks. Of your whole life. Kaleidoscope. The blood keeps slipping out,  I vaguely hear  Dikko shouting "kada ka mutu,  don't die! Umar!  Stallion prince!! No you can't die .." and his words guide me into sweet sweet oblivion. ..

 

 

IFY

"Mscheew.  Good riddance.  The fool thinks I'm on her side , or I really  care about her lover boy. Hahaha hah hah Hahahahaaa.  Make she dey there dey jonze. I IFY  daughter of Okafor.  If I can't have him , then NOBODY. And I mean NOBODY can. She was happy while I went to bed aching each night. Who gave her the right over a boy I knew before her. She must be joking. At least now that umar has been shot, and with her destabilised, I can work better on my scheme to  capture Umar's heart. My Umar. Umar who was mine before he was Dianne's.  Oh, forgive my soliloquy.  I had forgotten I was in a story , as every one if us is. Only there are bigger stories and bigger stages. But we are all imaginary. Mere figments.  They say hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. That's a lie. Hell and all the demons in it, with their souls at boiling  point don't have HALF the fury that a woman scorned has. Dianne dared me. She thought she was fast, getting Umar to fall in .... It irks me to say this word, but it must be said. Love. She used her dirty wily ways to ensnare him. But what's that thing they say again  ? About he who laughs last ? Yes. But let me rephrase. She who laughs last, laughs best, and gets the man. Yes.  Muhammad  is there to work with me, and ensure that we break their relationship. To splinters and shatter it to pieces. Revenge is really sweet. You know  the funniest part? She thinks I'm her best friend. LMAO!  Best friend indeed. See ehn, you people need to realise there's  no such thing  as friends . Just people waiting to take advantage of you and stab you in the back. Stop looking at me that way please. You know it's the truth. You might see me as wicked, but remember Dianne stirred my fury. She stole my man. I hate to remember how it happened ... but we must all take that trip down memory lane some times" ....

 

 

 

MUHAMMAD

" Yes. Very soon, Dianne will be mine.  Not some filthy infidel's. Some times I think that girl is crazy kuma. Running off into the enemy's arms at the slightest opportunity.  But truly , that's what makes me love her. She has a mind of her own. So independent.  Not like these other spineless girls who  would jump at the opportunity to marry a captain in the Nigerian army.  That stupid boy only made things too easy for me. The right information from his right hand man Dikko and he was down writhing in pain like an earthworm sprinkled with salt. Banza lmaooooo. He's not even strong hahahaa,  I had thought he would put up more resistance , but. He made the work all too easy for me.  Now my plan is taking shape. All I have to do now is warm Dianne's heart towards me. And she'll be my wife in less than three months In sha Allah.  What's that her stupid friend's name ? Ah yes .. ify.  She'll be all too sorry when this is over. Now I can only laugh when I think of how Dianne rejected me severally. But every man knows that's  a tactic very woman worth her salt uses. It only makes the chase worthwhile and the prize sweeter *licks lips* yes sweeter, as I look back on the chase, I'm assured Dianne will be mine ...

 

 

COMMANDER

Commander- Oga sir. You are disappointing me. You assured me that your boys wouldn't strike yet. They did, and they shot my son. My prince. What do you propose I think of you now?  I'm not sure this alliance would work anymore.

Big Oga- Commander,  my condolences.  I was caught unawares. The new defence minister I appointed is overzealous. You know how these new boys are. I will teach him. He's already on suspension in fact. I am fully on your side. You know the country people are clamouring for a solution and elections are fast approaching. My our know how these things are now? Just be patient with me. I'll call my social media guys to make a case for tou.  Propaganda and all. Would that be okay ?

 

Commander - Nothing is as precious to me as my son Oga. Everything will become meaningless if you let my son die. I cannot assure you of  a continued alliance sir.

 

Big Oga - don't bite off more than what you can chew. You know who I am and what I am capable of. Good day.

 

"My prince must not die. That's all I know. All these politicians think they're wise. I'll show them wise."

 

 

 

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