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WRITTEN BY: LIZZY OYEBOLA OYEKUNLE



BEVERLY

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I couldn’t be consoled, yet I couldn’t cry!







Cole must not get married to Beverly! You think you are wise huh?







Dr. Oladejo’s voice from the recorder rung in my ears again.






I need to save my family! You can’t keep attacking my family and then I will sit still! But of them will be married!







That was Prof. Bello’s voice but I couldn’t hold it in!







I had gone on a walk!







I had showered!







I had tried to sing!







Yet, I couldn’t get their words out of my head!







My phone rung for the umpteenth time and I knew without looking into the screen that it was Dr. Earl again!







He must have gotten the fact that I got to listen to the recorder while he was away, checking his father!







It was a very great and terrible day!







The words jumping out of the recorder were too deep for me to just accept and comprehend!







I had placed the recorder on the driver’s seat and walked away from the vicinity!







I needed somewhere to hide my unfortunate head!





I needed somewhere to shed some serious tears!







How on earth?







Beverly is my goat! She is still under supervision! You can’t be selfish enough to take her away from me and use her!







Those were words coming out of my trusted guardian!







Goat? Me? Under supervision?







What do you mean? You met my daughter and stole her leg from her! At a tender age, you took one of the things that mattered most to her! Why would you touch my belonging? Why?







Prof. Bello’s voice rung in my ears as I dumped some of my clothes from the wardrobe into my small travelling bag.







I needed a place where I could go bury my head!







How on earth would I have known that she is your daughter? She wasn’t wearing the brooch of the brotherhood!







So what?







Isn’t that a given? Anyone could have touched her. I saw the glory in her and wanted it. But why are you getting mad? I couldn’t even touch her. I could only touch her leg!









And have I even hurt your Beverly? Tell me Oladejo, have I? Why are you touching every other…







You dare call your superior by his name?







And if I do? You have done more harm to me than good! You were my best friend! You introduced me to one stupid brotherhood that promised so many gre…







You dare insult the brotherhood! You blaspheme!







Kill me! That’s the worst you can do! Can’t you see too? You are rotten at home, about to die and you come here to threaten me? We will go down to hell together! But leave my family alone!





Give me Beverly!









Give me my family back!







Why are you so keen on revenge? Do you know how much I have spent on this goat? Can’t I leave her quietly till she’s mature so I can sacrifice her for fat later?





You want to know why I am keen on revenge right? Because that is how I can get a fool like you! You dared touch the whole of my family and even me?







Is it my fault that you’ve got so many glorious belongings?







Well, you will get the point now! I will get Cole to sleep with Beverly and then you will die! Then, my family will be free, Beverly will be sacrificed and I will die! That’s my goal and I will achieve it!







What will you achieve by doing that? I want to use Beverly for my promotion! She’s my sacrifice! Why would you…





I shouldn’t sit here, discussing with you!







The brotherhood sent me to you Bello. Just obey their call and appear at the meeting!







Never! I made a mistake of a life time the first day I appeared before you beasts. I will nev…







You are turning your back to the hands that fed you?





Fed me? How? You rather took away from me! I made all my money myself! While all of you sat at the table to enjoy the blood and flesh of my daughter’s leg, you think I was…





What leg? You think we could taste the leg? We couldn’t! Wasn’t that why the brotherhood asked you to withdraw from your daughter and your son if you want to live long?





What have I gained? I became a devil to my own children! No more!







You would have been fine if you never accepted that bastard into your home again!







You have no right to sit down there and preach to me! Everyone sees you as a human but you are a beast! The way Beverly boasts about you, I really do wish she can hear you now!







I give Beverly all she desires so she can grant me all I desire! Even when I will sacrifice her, I would make sure she has reached the peak of…







Before you use her for your selfish benefit, I will use her to redeem my family!







Bello, I am on my knees! Can’t you see the way the brotherhood has mutilated my body? I must get Beverly back from you or I die! Give her to me and I will do anything for you!







Liar! Go and die! I will use her!





Where is the rope I used to tie her down? Hand it over to me NOW!





You think I have the rope? Why then am I hustling to get her tied to my son? I don’t have the rope!





There was a thud from the recorder.





You dare slap me? You dare…





You liar! If you don’t have the rope, who then has it? Fool! Before I die, I will make sure I destroy your family!





Before I die, I will make sure all you’ve ever worked for crumbles! Including Beverly!





I shut my ears at that as I placed my bag in a shuttle bus, gave him my credit card and entered into the bus.







“Warehouse” I said and he zoomed off.







I needed to be far away from the school! I needed to be in a secluded area where no one on earth would know me!







The heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it?





How on earth?







As I settled down on a dusty sack of SMC rice, I couldn’t help but ask on ‘How on earth?’







Why would Dr. Oladejo pick me up as though he loved me?







While I saw him as a good shepherd, he only saw a goat waiting for slaughter?







But I saved you! I delivered you from the hand of he that was stronger than you!







That must be the Holy Spirit!







Tears rushed to my eyes at that moment.







“Thank You Lord! Thanks! But who else can I trust in the world? Who will not…”







Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding!







“But men are wicked o! Oh my God! Ah!” I kept sighing as I could. As flood of tears rushed down my face, my eyes ached.







Dr. Oladejo after my father was my strongest pillar on earth!







Why would he scheme such a thing?







Brotherhood?







A cult? A fraternity? Oh my God!







My phone beeped and it was a message from Dr. Earl-that would make his 105 messages in three days!





Beverly, are you fine? Where are you? Come out and let’s talk about this. The devil is defeated already! The Lord has sent confusion into the enemies’ camp. Why not come out and let’s discuss this darling? I can feel your pain but the Lord got there before them! You are supposed to be full of thanks Bev! Come out!







As I read the message again, I wept louder!





I wonder why I knew I should be praying but I couldn’t even mention ‘Jesus!’







It felt as if a small, sharp dagger was being used to cut out some chunks of my heart!







It felt like I was bleeding!







“How can I ever look into Dr. Oladejo’s face?” I cried.









“What next? What’s the next thing to do?”







“Goooooooooodddddd!!!!!” I screamed so loudly that the wholly filled warehouse shook vehemently.







“Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” I screamed again, my head banding so much.







My phone started ringing again and it was Dr. Earl.







With so much frustration grabbing my heart, I ended the call, removed my battery and threw the phone away till I could hear the screen shattering to pieces!





Everyone in the whole wide world should leave me alone!





“I blame my father!” I started singing sorrowfully!







Of course I did blame him! Why would he be poor? Why couldn’t he be rich for once?







If we were rich, nothing like this would happen!







It wouldn’t!





Isn’t that a given? Anyone could have touched her. I saw the glory in her but couldn’t touch her. I could only touch her leg!







Those words rung in my ears!







Ava was touched too! And she was from a rich family!







“So, what could have made a difference? What…”









Jesus is ALL the world needs today!





“How?”





Ava’s glory wasn’t touched then because she had a hedge of Fire round her! However, I allowed her leg to be touched for a testimony!





“Okay?”





But, in what way have you been touched Beverly? You’ve not been touched at all! I love you! At a time when you were supposed to be slaughtered by the evil ones, I raised some souls to pray for you! Why? I love you!







Tears filled my eyes.







“Really?”











Oh yes! I didn’t allow you to be touched by the powers of darkness because you have a lot to do for me! Be thankful and not regretful! I love you!







“You love me?” I asked again, my heart shattering to bits.







I do! Do you know why they wanted to force you to sleep with Cole?







Good one!







I had always wanted to know!







They could tell the importance of sexual sins in destroying the hedge of fire round about the body, soul and spirit! Bello couldn’t catch you because I had chosen you! He wanted you to be joined with Cole so he could get you! When that was taking too long, he decided that you both should sin sexually! I love you for saying no!







“And I love you for helping me! For stopping him!” I quickly muttered as I grabbed my chest as tightly as I could!







Tears rolled down my face at the shock of the whole revelation!







“I am thankful Lord! I am thankful! I promise to give myself to You! You own me Lord! You’ve bought me Father! I give myself away! Who am I?”







Your father’s voice is ever before me! I know him! He’s my beloved! And I hear him!





I raised my hands in holy adoration as hot tears freely escaped my eyes, travelling slowly but steadily down my face!




“I shouldn’t actually blame my father as he is the richest man on earth! He couldn’t give me money and all but his prayer to God for me was everything I needed!” I thought deeply.







Thank You Lord.





Thank Mr. Jones.



———————

EARL

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I checked my wristwatch.





10am.







I started running as far as my legs could carry me to Bell Hall.







“My invigilation is by 11am. MED 1 students are having Basic Anatomy 012 in the Bell Hall by 8am.”







That was what Dr. Atobatele was discussing with another colleague and my ears picked them so fastly.







Beverly, wait for me!





I got to the entrance of the hall and as the security men asked me to show my invigilation tag, I quickly scanned the hall to see if I could find the chubby lady with long, dark hair, pulled into a full ponytail behind her!







She was nowhere to be found.







“I want to see a student quickly please” I said to the security men as if I did not know the rules of the school.







“Are you on invigilation?”







“No” I said, absent-mindedly. I caught a head that looked like Beverly’s. There was a furry cap covering her head and a white muffler wrapped round her neck.







Is the person bespectacled?







Turn your head, turn it quickly!







“Dr. Earl, you know the rules sir. Please can you step aside if you are not invigilating?” The most stubborn security man argued, looking at me angrily like I had stepped on his toes!





“I am sorry” I gave up the search and was about turning to go when Dr. Binta called from behind.







“Dr. Earl, what brings you here?”







I turned to look into her face and she was sweating under her nose.







“Are you under duress? Why are you sweating under your nose?” I asked, avoiding her question.







“I have been purging since last night o. Kai! Ba lafia I swear! I am not well at all!”







“Oh my! Sorry madam! Why not go to the toilet?”







“Will you take over invigilation from me? There are ten lecturers inside. I think our invigilation rules should be cross-checked o! Ten people for how many stud…”







“Give me your tag and go to the toilet doc. I will take over for you” I said and she hurriedly handed the tag to me.







“Thank you. Thank you!” She hopped off like a frog.

Source: https://ashsalt.com/2020/06/smallville-college-smc-8/


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