Before the Dawn Of The Reaper, Part 3: Overbearing Convictions

Before the Dawn Of The Reaper, Part 3: Overbearing Convictions 

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        And with that he walked out on me and drove off, I stood there still unclear about what just happened and why he found my questions offensive. I walked back to my room trying to figure if I should call him or not. I waited in my room depressed not really sure what in was waiting for. About 30 minutes passed and I buried my face in my pillows and started to sob softly not long after my phone rang and it was him. He apologized for his outburst and asked that I meet him just outside the school gate and he promised to answer all my questions. At lunch he told me he was into import and export and he had just struck big reselling confiscated cars and Lorries for the Nigerian Customs Service. He even showed me relating emails and corresponding text messages just to assure me he was into nothing illegal. I had never had a reason to doubt so I didn't have a reason not to believe him, besides I was just eager to see an end to the short misunderstanding.

                Everything was fine for the next three months or so. One weekend I decided to go see my dearest Odun In his school.  He had been coming to Lagos to see me for the past few weeks I decided to return the favor. I missed him badly and he was all I could think of all week. That Friday I hustled out of Lagos bound for Ife. He came to pick me up at the Bus Park shortly after I arrived and drove me to a slightly new building in the Ife metropolis which he said he and two other friends had just moved into. On reaching the apartment, he introduced his friends as Tolu and Malik. That was the beginning of a memorable weekend.

                That Friday had been amazing, immediately we entered Odun's room we devoured each other in several rounds of steamy sex. We tirelessly worked at it will we wore each other out and fell asleep. I woke up on Saturday morning, sleepily reaching out for Odun only for my hands to brush past a note, it was briskly written and read: "Gone to Get Breakfast, Be back in a bit... Love You". I stayed a while longer in bed tweeting and replying some texts. I felt the need to freshen up so I left the bed walking completely nude across the room into the bathroom, I got out fifteen minutes later and still Odun wasn't back. I was getting bored so I started casually fooling around, first playing dress up with Odun's clothes, then I pried around the room still and found his laptop lying casually on his reading desk. Curiosity came over me and I decided to break a few rules, "He wouldn't mind much anyways, at least I know I wouldn't" I thought to myself. I put on the laptop but to my dismay there was a password screen... urrgh… I started giving possible and obvious guesses: date of birth, last name, middle name still the same "Incorrect Password" response. My failure to give a right guess only renewed my determination to get into the laptop, then I clicked on the hint option, maybe that would help a bit, as I saw the hint a wide smile stretched across my face and immediately I knew was the password was, I input it and watched the computer come alive. The hint had read "Singer of Smooth Operator" that had only one answer "Sade".

                I spent the next half hour or so, navigating myself through the machine, nothing spectacular to see, just music and pictures, not even movies, Boriiiinngggggg. Only while I was on some messages came In via the messenger on the laptop, it came from Malik, he was saying something about forgetting his store key on the table In the kitchen, he said he couldn't reach him on the phone and begged him to keep the key, especially since he had a "different" visitor in the house. I baffled for a while about what he meant by different visitor, then I got really hungry and forgot about the messages. I left the room and walked to the kitchen, the house was empty, Tolu and Malik must have gone out too I thought. I silently prayed that like every all boys apartment they had easy to prepare food or at least cereal. Luckily there was cornflakes, I also found a tin of powdered milk in one of the drawers and settled down to prepare the offering. Slightly starting to get mad at Odun for leaving me like this, I gobbled down the cereal quickly, took another serving and started to eat more slowly, didn't even realize I was that hungry. I sat at the table in the kitchen, feeling empty for a while, looking round the room, trying not ask myself the question of why the apartment was so furnished despite being a student's abode. My eyes caught the keys Malik was referring to In his messages, I wondered what store he was talking about in his messages as another fresh wave of curiosity came over me, I wondered what he meant by "Different Guest". I picked up bunch and started towards the kitchen store, hoping to maybe find foodstuffs I can cook. Eventually I found a key that could open the door and I walked into a dark room checked around the wall for a switch but I couldn't find any, so I improvised and put on the flashlight on my phone. The small but powerful led light illuminated the room. I looked around me and found out the color of the room seemed to be red and there was a cupboard in the middle of the room. Still curious I walked over to the cupboard, and pulled it open, my heart momentarily stopped beating at first at the putrid and foul odor that suddenly filled the atmosphere and then at the horror I was looking at.............To Be Continued

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