Mehn i don't trust this Pope guy


Thanks Ops

Jacob is my number 1 suspect concerning Manny's disappearance

@ Silver1996.

A nice story you've got there.. Thanks for sharing it with us..

Can I make a suggestion.... ? Thank you..

Can you find another word for "blared out"? You use that word a lot... Try to spice things up using other words(synonyms)... D same goes for "exhales"... Over repetition of those words kinda detracts from punch ur story is carrying....

Can you also resort to using simple grammars that z easy to understand? .. Words that make your content flows better...

Silver i have been opening this thread for hours now hoping to see an update, when are you updating

micynute94:
@ Silver1996.

A nice story you've got there.. Thanks for sharing it with us..

Can I make a suggestion.... ? Thank you..

Can you find another word for "blared out"? You use that word a lot... Try to spice things up using other words(synonyms)... D same goes for "exhales"... Over repetition of those words kinda detracts from punch ur story is carrying....

Can you also resort to using simple grammars that z easy to understand? .. Words that make your content flows better...

Noted, thanks

Mavikolo2020:
Silver i have been opening this thread for hours now hoping to see an update, when are you updating

Sorry i haven't update....

Kings comes in the morning
Love in a circle comes in the afternoon
Dead trap comes in the evening
Price of heartbreak also comes in the evening.. But a bit late

If you will like to read my other stories, this are the links
KINGS
https://www.nairaland.com/4441916/kings-where-evil-men-dwells

LOVE IN A CIRCLE
https://www.nairaland.com/4441017/love-circle

DEAD TRAP
https://www.nairaland.com/4786309/dead-trap

nice one silver

Sharon is so dumb if she thinks she can trust Pope

POHB
EPISODE 17

WITH A BROODING FACE, POPE EMANATED, then he rolled his eyes to face her again... "And how do you propose i do that... ?
"C'Mon,you and i know you have resources, you can tell your boys to put out a search for her.. "Sharon replied with a snort....
"I don't have any boys, what I have are partners....
"Whatever they are... "Sharon interjects... She wring her lips.... "Just tell them to help us find Manny.... "
Pope turn away his gaze, he gritted then he turn to face her again.... "Why are you so interested in finding Manny, the last time i checked you hated her.... "
"I don't hate her...... "She snapped......
"Well if you don't, you wouldn't have told me to snatched her car away from her....."
Sharon huffs, she has told him to snatch Manny's car away from her now he was using it against her.. So original...... "There is a big difference between hate and jealousy.... "
"Sounds like hate to me.... "Pope said with clenched teeth focusing his attention on the steering
"Okay fine, whatever, but Manny is still my friend.... "She said in defence..... She hates it when Pope use her own doings against her.... She jut her chin waiting for his reply
"Forget about her Sharon, you know she is not worth it....."Pope said with irritation in his voice....
Sharon drew aback and reclined her back on the seat of the car..... "So that's it, you aren't helping me.... "
"Like i said, Manny is not worth it, like you told me, all she has done for you was show you how classy she is.... You said yourself that she flunt her ego.. Her flashing things... Her exotic dresses and gauzy jewelries right in your face...."
Sharon swallow hard, her face etching out what she was feeling inside... Manny had look down on her.... She takes the highlights on every occasion.... She was the glassy face, the rest of them were just thrash and local ...highly downgraded..... She puff at the dense feeling of it... The shimmering thoughts of every nonsense she has been sucking in that has eluded her came running back to her head like a loose tap..... She emit at the thought of everything......
"You still want to find her after everything she has done to you....? Pope ask putting a pause to the thoughts that clouds her head....
She didn't reply, she just knit herr brows and bit her lips, so hard that she almost grimaced....
"I for one don't believe Manny is missing, she is probably hiding from someone, who knows maybe a man she has extorted money from.. Now she is keeping a low profile........"
"And what does your thinking says about the missed calls Mary has been pumping into her phone for the past few days.....? Sharon ask
Pope scoffs, then he glance at her... "Well sweetheart that's simple.... ,Who are the first people anyone she is running from will go to...?
Sharon jut her teeth as she thought about the answer to the question....
"Don't think too hard... You and Mary are the first people her pursurer will seek..so if she is keeping a low profile.. She can't tell you two where she is....so it's really stupid that you want to find her.. My advice, don't put yourself in more trouble than you already are.... "
"If someone was after her, he.. They would have showed up at our door since she disappeared..... "
"Don't be naive sweetheart... If my instincts are right... Because they haven't come now doesn't necessarily mean they won't come later... But before that inevitable visit happens, i will like you to move in with me.... "
Sharon scoffs... "So this is what all this ranting about Manny running from someone is all about.. Just to give me a reason to move in with you.. "She boomed out
"Doesn't sound like a bad idea... Besides we are dating... "
"We aren't dating.... "She interjects harshly.....
"Oh that's harsh.. "Pope muttered with a huff
"I have a boyfriend Pope.... "She added with a frown encroach on her forehead
"A boyfriend you feel nothing for... "He shift his gaze to her.... "You and i know you agreed to date Tyler.... Taipo...
"Its Taiwo.... "Sharon cut in...
"Yeah whatever his name is... You are just dating him to get rid of me.. Which is something you are so bad at.. Because sweetheart you are mine... That's the level of our attraction.... You can't outrun it, it will always swallow you up and you will come back to my embrace ...
"You are such an arrogant haughty, overweening annoying bastard... "Sharon retorted with furrowed brows..
Pope suck his teeth... "So many words for your love.. Totally unfair sweetheart..... "he said with a wry smile
"If you think am coming back to you.. You better start rethinking because that sweetheart, is never happening .....
"Ouch.... Am defeated"


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Mary quickly look at from the window at the sound of a car horn outside, she snort when she realise it was just a moving vehicle probably horning to warn anyone to get out of the way...
She lean back on the chair... Jacob was gone now. He was he was going to take photographs at an occasion.. He was lonely...the stench and thin void of the house etched the feeling of extreme loneliness in her face.... She sigh,a sigh of extreme fatigue and and total bewilderment.....
Her doleful eyes stare at Manny's diary in her front... She pick it up still wondering who Sun is.... Jacob already said he is not sun.. It would have been easy if Jeremy was still alive to tell them if he was sun or not.....
A hazy feeling of disappointment rises in her head.. Her fingers cramps at the rear imagination of it.....
She quickly flip the sheets of the diary to the very beginning.. She was fully optimistic she will find something.. Anything that can lead her to Manny.. Or give her a hint.....
There was nothing tangible on the first sheet.. She flip to the second praying she finds something....
She beem a smile to herself.. Not believing Manny had actually wrote the day they met down.... Stated on the diary... Manny had explained She and Sharon were her best friends......
She quickly flip to the next and then to the next when she found nothing worth reading, she turn the sheets to the middle...
She suck her teeth as she saw a name.....Senator Bassey.... ..
She try to read what was written about him but Manny has use abbreviations. Some she understood.. The rest she didn't... She wonder how Manny knew the senator...
Senator Bassey is a very known senator in the country.....
She flip to the next sheet, she bug her eyes when she saw what Manny has wrote underneath the senators name..... "And i ask him to pay three million naira for the pictures... "Were the words written underneath the name....
Mary gritted.. As she try to read meaning to it.... She wonder why Manny was asking three million naira from the senator....
Slack jawed.. She covered her mouth.... Was Manny blackmailing him.... She wonder the mess Manny has gotten herself into...
Just then a knock came on the door.. She quickly stood up and peep from the window.... She took a deem drag when she realised it was Sharon...
Without hesitation she opened the door.....
"Welcome... "Mary said with grind teeth...
Not bothering to reply, Sharon went in....
"Where have you been?Mary ask irritated at her character.... Her consistent attitude.....
"What do you care...? Sharon ask back with muffled jaw
"What do i care... Our friend is missing, the least you could do is help me find her or find a hint that leads to her...
"You think i haven't been doing that....? Sharon retorted
"You think you are the only one who cares if something happens to Manny? She added infuriated...
Mary gasp at her own outburst...... "I called you, why didn't you answer...?
"Well maybe because i don't need your persistence calls to distract me"Sharon resounded
Mary suck in, she gritted, turn away her gaze then turn to face her again.... "What have you been up to Sharon, i have been here cracking my head in figuring out where Manny might be why you were out there doing God knows what... What is even wrong with you....? Mary lashed out
"You think Manny is worth this.... You think she is worth finding... You can't even begin to imagine the things Manny has done to us... Don't even think for a splint second that Manny cares about you.... "
"Yes... You keep saying that.... "Mary muttered with a huff..... "You keep saying Manny isn't the friend i think she is, but whenever i ask why, you totally snub it"
Sharon scoffs... "You want to know.. You really want to know... "
"Yes i want to know"mary boomed out
"Well i will tell you, you remember that night, the night you caught Francis fu*king that LovePeddler at the back of the club.... That was all Manny, Manny set him up, he paid that slut to have him drugged,and she paid another bitch to call you there so you can witness everything....
"Manny will never do that? Mary said with impugn...
"Well she did it, she did it to prove her point that all men are cheat.... That's The kind of person Manny is...... "
"I don't believe you.... "Mary muttered...
"Believe it or not she did it, she succeeded in driving a wedge between you and Francis.... Manny doesn't care about anyone's happiness, she doesn't care about your feelings.. She cares about no one but herself.. Manny is selfish... She sees herself as high and mighty... Manny isn't our friend,we are just pawns for her entertainment.. Manny...
"Stop.... "Mary lashed out...... "Just stop... "
Sharon knit her brows..."You wanted to hear the truth, well that's the truth"

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Humm interesting,pope maybe right about Manny hiding from someone,and I think that person is Jacob,he want to be close to mary so as to get first hand information about Manny way about ..Mary need to be wise for her own safety...nice update dear pls more updates

Francis was right all along, he was set up

i have always suspected one of them set Francis up, poor Francis and Mary is giving him attitude

just like i suspected, Manny set Francis up

I pity Mary

Silver1996:
POHB
EPISODE 17

WITH A BROODING FACE, POPE EMANATED, then he rolled his eyes to face her again... "And how do you propose i do that... ?
"C'Mon,you and i know you have resources, you can tell your boys to put out a search for her.. "Sharon replied with a snort....
"I don't have any boys, what I have are partners....
"Whatever they are... "Sharon interjects... She wring her lips.... "Just tell them to help us find Manny.... "
Pope turn away his gaze, he gritted then he turn to face her again.... "Why are you so interested in finding Manny, the last time i checked you hated her.... "
"I don't hate her...... "She snapped......
"Well if you don't, you wouldn't have told me to snatched her car away from her....."
Sharon huffs, she has told him to snatch Manny's car away from her now he was using it against her.. So original...... "There is a big difference between hate and jealousy.... "
"Sounds like hate to me.... "Pope said with clenched teeth focusing his attention on the steering
"Okay fine, whatever, but Manny is still my friend.... "She said in defence..... She hates it when Pope use her own doings against her.... She jut her chin waiting for his reply
"Forget about her Sharon, you know she is not worth it....."Pope said with irritation in his voice....
Sharon drew aback and reclined her back on the seat of the car..... "So that's it, you aren't helping me.... "
"Like i said, Manny is not worth it, like you told me, all she has done for you was show you how classy she is.... You said yourself that she flunt her ego.. Her flashing things... Her exotic dresses and gauzy jewelries right in your face...."
Sharon swallow hard, her face etching out what she was feeling inside... Manny had look down on her.... She takes the highlights on every occasion.... She was the glassy face, the rest of them were just thrash and local ...highly downgraded..... She puff at the dense feeling of it... The shimmering thoughts of every nonsense she has been sucking in that has eluded her came running back to her head like a loose tap..... She emit at the thought of everything......
"You still want to find her after everything she has done to you....? Pope ask putting a pause to the thoughts that clouds her head....
She didn't reply, she just knit herr brows and bit her lips, so hard that she almost grimaced....
"I for one don't believe Manny is missing, she is probably hiding from someone, who knows maybe a man she has extorted money from.. Now she is keeping a low profile........"
"And what does your thinking says about the missed calls Mary has been pumping into her phone for the past few days.....? Sharon ask
Pope scoffs, then he glance at her... "Well sweetheart that's simple.... ,Who are the first people anyone she is running from will go to...?
Sharon jut her teeth as she thought about the answer to the question....
"Don't think too hard... You and Mary are the first people her pursurer will seek..so if she is keeping a low profile.. She can't tell you two where she is....so it's really stupid that you want to find her.. My advice, don't put yourself in more trouble than you already are.... "
"If someone was after her, he.. They would have showed up at our door since she disappeared..... "
"Don't be naive sweetheart... If my instincts are right... Because they haven't come now doesn't necessarily mean they won't come later... But before that inevitable visit happens, i will like you to move in with me.... "
Sharon scoffs... "So this is what all this ranting about Manny running from someone is all about.. Just to give me a reason to move in with you.. "She boomed out
"Doesn't sound like a bad idea... Besides we are dating... "
"We aren't dating.... "She interjects harshly.....
"Oh that's harsh.. "Pope muttered with a huff
"I have a boyfriend Pope.... "She added with a frown encroach on her forehead
"A boyfriend you feel nothing for... "He shift his gaze to her.... "You and i know you agreed to date Tyler.... Taipo...
"Its Taiwo.... "Sharon cut in...
"Yeah whatever his name is... You are just dating him to get rid of me.. Which is something you are so bad at.. Because sweetheart you are mine... That's the level of our attraction.... You can't outrun it, it will always swallow you up and you will come back to my embrace ...
"You are such an arrogant haughty, overweening annoying bastard... "Sharon retorted with furrowed brows..
Pope suck his teeth... "So many words for your love.. Totally unfair sweetheart..... "he said with a wry smile
"If you think am coming back to you.. You better start rethinking because that sweetheart, is never happening .....
"Ouch.... Am defeated"


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I blame Sharon, if she wasn't foolish enough to go back to Pope after breaking up with him, Pope wouldn't be talking to her like that


Thanks Ops, nice update

Silver1996:

Sorry i haven't update....

Kings comes in the morning
Love in a circle comes in the afternoon
Dead trap comes in the evening
Price of heartbreak also comes in the evening.. But a bit late

Okay Ops, thanks

There is no real friends in this world. Thanks

now that she knows the truth, hope she will forgive Francis

the person she has been killing herself to find is actually the one who destroyed her relationship

aprilwise:
There is no real friends in this world. Thanks

Am telling you

uchedora:
Humm interesting,pope maybe right about Manny hiding from someone,and I think that person is Jacob,he want to be close to mary so as to get first hand information about Manny way about ..Mary need to be wise for her own safety...nice update dear pls more updates

It could be o, Jacob could be using her head..

I'm not totally sure Jacob is innocent ahn ahn, the way he's helping is suspicious. If I'm right, she isn't even his girlfriend yet.

Wow, should have known Manny would do that

Hmm, The story is getting more twisted

Thanks for the update

PRICE OF HEARTBREAK
EPISODE 18

BEHIND THE MASKED SMILE she wears on her face, there was sadness and shock. She anxiously looks at from the window to her left and right, repeatedly at every single sound that passes by, checking for signs of Manny footsteps that never came......
She blink her doleful eyes as the sad taunting words words of Sharon creep into her head... She insutilate wanting to believe Manny could actually do that to her....
She lean her back on the chair weighing the pros and cons of the reason Manny will do that to her... Manny knew she loved Francis.. Even more than she loves herself.. They both knew that.. But how could she...
She swallowed hard, sniff as tears began to descend down her cheek... She quickly wipe them off.. Drying her face clean with her hands....
She pick up the diary but the thought, the thought of her best friend ruining her like that taunted her mind.... It felt like an unending sadness really.. Willing to burst through her.... She shake off the thought again. She was inclined to ask her why she did do that... But she can only do that when she is found.. When she's safety home with them..
She quickly wined back to the diary... Grunting out all she was feeling.. The pain and sadness that has iced into tears gathering in her eyes, waiting for her to dwell upon them so they can rush out....
She held on to her strength.. Convincing herself to never break down with the truth.. A thought kept her going.. Manny is a better friend than that... Her mind began to dwell on the things Manny has done for her... Though she isn't proud of the things Manny has done. Especially the one he did to her. But she can't sideline her.. No matter what she feels.. Manny was still her friend, and she owes her an obligation to look out for her and that includes finding her.. Wherever she is...
With this thoughts, she prone her eyes on the diary....she sniff as she flip the sheets to where she stopped.....
She emit as she thought the business Manny had with the senator.... Then it occurred to her.. The memories that eluded her keep running back in a speed... Manny has tried to blackmail the senator.....
The scary thought of it drive her body to shuddered.....
"Why isn't there food in the kitchen?
Sharon's voice interrupted her... She raise her head to face her, she has changed into bun shot.... A small shirt exposing her stomach....
She lour back her head to the diary not bothering to answer her question...
Sharon groan and walk back to the kitchen...
She raise her head when Sharon was gone.. She took a deep drag, then lean her head on her right hand......
Nausea suck into her stomach.... She raise her head again.. Grunts and let out air....
A strange feeling drowned in her. A feeling she won't be able to shake off easily....
Then Sharon harsh words came rushing back to her head... Francis was right, he'd always be right but she chose not to listen.. She close in on him and now it was making her feel bad..like the guilty one... Her conscience screaming and bugging her for been so hard on him.....
She glance back at the diary.. Then she slowly drop it when it occurred to her she couldn't do it... Couldn't concentrate... The news of Manny's betrayal drowned deep in her heart... There was nothing more in her head other than a powerful blindness... A terrible push over that made her not to see reasons with him.. Not to hear him out...she cursed she will never forgive herself....
Slowly she drove into an oblivion of self pity.. Sharon's words of Manny's betrayal were beginning to grow into rage.. Anger and total hatred....
She quickly pulled out from her thoughts when she realise she was going too deep.....
She stood up and suck in all the air she can get... Her right hand slammed on her foreheaf... Her Left on her hip... She spun around weighing the pros and cons of how to put the thoughts away... They were hunting her.. Taunting her... Screaming at her to hate her.. Whispering in her ears she deserves every hatred....
With a huff, she dive back on the chair and begin to focus on the good thoughts. 'the positive thoughts of Manny....
She exhale when Sharon came in... Though she hated her outburst but a part of her was glad she was here, she needed a distraction and Sharon could fit in... Fit into that big and empty space her thoughts were screaming from......
She gasp for breathe as Sharon sat on the chair..a chair away from her...
She steam when she saw the expression etched on Sharon's face.. She was probably vexed.. angry she ignored her earlier..... "Am sorry... "She muttered..... Realizing her snubbing was childish.. Totally uncalled for..
Sharon didnt reply, instead she pick up the remote and increase the volume... She quickly change the channel into a music channel....
Mary sigh... "I saw something in Manny's diary....."She said. Waiting anxiously for Sharon's reply...
She suck her teeth when none came.. Then she continued..... "On the last sheet she has written on.. She wrote she was falling for sun... I checked her wardrobe and i saw a Teddybear...it was tag lovesun..... Do you perhaps know who that is... ?
Mary gave her a stony look, anger surged her spines.... ..."I ask Jacob,he said it isn't him, now am totally out of ideas... Since you know Manny very well, i thought you could clue me in.... "
"I don't know who that is... "Sharon said impetuously
"Fine, but you do know Senator Bassey, don't you? Mary ask irritated
Sharon snort..... "Am done with Manny okay... "She boomed out
Mary puff out her lips.... "Manny is our friend...."Mary retorted...... She huffs... "Just because she did some things to us doesn't change the fact that she's our friend.... "
"Fine, since you are so bent on finding her, find her.. Stop dragging me into your nonsense.... "Sharon latched out
Mary stood up furiously..... "You have forgotten so soon all the things Manny did for you...... "She slam her hand on her forehead, drop it and suck in air..... "You have forgotten everything Manny went through to get you where you are today... On your First year in our universities days, when you were chased out of exam hall because your parents had no money to pay your school fees.. Who paid your school fees.... Manny did, she use her last kobo to pay that so you can write the exam..,When you were caught cheating in the exam hall, Manny took the blame and fall for that, she was suspended from school, she had to exonerate herself from the suspension with lots of money, money you didn't even add a kobo to, when your father was sick in the village and you and your mother had no money to pay, who paid.... Manny did,she had to LovePeddler herself out so she could get the money while you stay here and cry all day..., Who bailed you out when your carelessness with Pope land you in prison.. Manny did, she did with her school fees.. Who gave you shelter...? The big girl that you are today was all Manny..the live you are living now, Manny made that possible,so don't you dare stand there and tell me Manny isn't a friend. Manny is worth more than a million friends... She has made mistakes am not proud of.... But she still remains my best friend.. Manny would have gone to hell and aback if you were in her choose because she cares... So if you are given up on her.... Am not... I would rest even for a second until i find her.... .."She concluded....
She inhale then sit back on the chair....
Sharon poke her eyes as she dwell on the things Manny has done for her.... ..
With a low grunt she ask....she stood up and walked out....
Mary exhales.... She eyes bulged when Sharon came back.....
"What did you say you found out? She ask with a sniff.....
"What is that, a guilty conscience.....? Mary snapped...
"I want to help okay.... Yes i know Manny did all that for me, i know she would have gone to hell and aback if i were in her choose... Isn't that enough reason to help?
"Fine..... Look at this... "She said tossing the diary in her hand.... Then she flip to the sheet the senators name was mentioned...... "What does that tell you.....?
Sharon fuse her eyes on the writings...."The senator and Manny had a thing a few months ago.... "She said with clenched teeth....
"I don't understand, was Manny into him.... ?Mary queried...
"Yes.. They were dating... Something happened and they broke up.... "
"What something....?
"I don't know, Manny didn't tell me.... "
Mary gritted as her phone begin to vibrate ln the chair ...she huffs when she noticed it was a strange number .....with curiosity, she quickly answer the call....
"Hello... "She muttered...
There was silent from the other end....
"Hello"She said again...
A trembling voice quickly came up.....
With shock Mary listen to what the person was saying... Then the call ended...
"Hello.. Hello... "she shouted...
Ribs tinkling.. Eyes sparkling she stare at Sharon...
"What is it,who called.....?
"She said she found Manny"She said with trembling mouth...
"I Dont understand.. Who found Manny, who is she.... ?
"I have no idea"

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Tnks Ops

They've found Manny

Who found Manny

hmm

Please come and update oh

Hmm, that's life. People tend to forget what's done for them.

Thanks for the update