What A Family?

“No! No! Ebube is not Ify’s boyfriend! He is just a cool guy living his life. Ify is not his type of girl even. What do I do now?” Lanre cried. K pulled away from her. He felt guilty seeing her cry this way. He thought the guy was Ify’s boyfriend. He had come over to the resident to create a scene claiming to be Ify’s boyfriend. So he actually thought the young man was the one. But then, even if he knew the young man was not Ify’s boyfriend, how could he have tell he was a friend to Lanre.

“I need to get justice for him. I’m going to the police. They dare not push his dead aside and try to make it look like he was a part of a bad gang. If that happens, I will sue the government”. Lanre said standing up abruptly from the bed. K pulled her back.

“Sit back down! If you can’t bare it more, then f**king take a nap. You can’t take the world on your shoulder. Stop trying to be a hero if you don’t want to die”. K said to Lanre.

“Is this the same word you actually wanted to tell me yesterday regarding my mother? You are not going to save my mom are you? You just want to keep me here like a painting in the wall, don’t you? Kehinde, call me bastard if I don’t get out of here and save my mother”. Lanre said to K.

He grabbed her arms and made sure she could not free herself from his hold. He told her not to think of disobeying him. Lanre made a poker face. She didn’t care about obeying him.

“Then you would need to get me some sleeping pills if you think you can tie me down.

“I think I will do just that, in your dreams”. K said. He walked away leaving Lanre alone in the hotel room.

Lanre returned to her crying state. She griefed for Ebube the entire day. She would make sure the culprits are arrested. But what she did not know is the identity of the perpetrator, and it was not something that she could imagine.

Meanwhile K had gone to his house. On reaching there, he searched for Ify. He could not find her. He became scared. He didn’t know if she already left or his father got to Ify. His father had always threatened to kill Ify. The only thing that was holding him back was because he thought Ify was pregnant with his grandchild. Now that he knows that is not the case, he would probably carry out his threat.

K tried reaching his father. But it kept switching to voice box. He decided to call Ify instead. But he never got a response. He went home but there was no one home. And neither was his father in his office. It turns out the man went for a business trip.

“I don’t even about his schedules even though he is my father. What a family!?” K muttered.