Strange encounter 1

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“Sweetheart, are you prepared for work already? I am already done with your food”. She rushed to the sitting room with a tray of steaming food.

As she placed the tray on the dining table, he approached her from behind, already dressed and holding a briefcase.

She turned to observe him closely and adjusted his necktie to her perfect taste. “Better…”. She whispered.

He planted kisses on her forehead. “It is just two months that we have been married and it feels like two years already”.

She chuckled. “It feels like that because we were already friends for ten years when you proposed to me”.

They hugged and kissed three more times before he finally sat to eat.

She hopefully observed his mood as he tasted her gbegiri. “How is it?”.

He licked his lips. “Every Nigerian man love their wives more and more when they bless them every morning with good food”.

They burst into laughter and in a space of like eight minutes thereabout, he was done with his food and heading out of the house with his briefcase.

She rushed after him with a flask of food that contained his favourite. Rice and sauce. “You almost forgot your food”. She gave it to him and walked back into the house.

Their neighbour, mummy Rosa and Joan rushed out with her children who were already dressed in their school uniforms immediately she noticed that he was driving out.

“Mr Tyler, please can you help me drop the children in their school along the road?”.

“Why not mummy Rosa?”. He said lightheartedly as he parked and watched them get into the backseat.

He waved back at his beautiful two months married wife who was still standing by the window and drove off.

He loved her so much that he wished he could carry her to work every single day.

Mrs Naomi Tyler cleaned the house as she kept thinking of if to resume at the company she was working in before or just become a business woman.

She warmed the yesterday’s beans in the microwave and took it to the sitting room to eat as she turned on the television.

It was already showing eight o’clock news.

She picked the remote control to change to another station but stopped short when she noticed the chaos that was displaying on the screen.

She increased the volume to find out the information coming from the loud news.

“Delight Belt school along Akowonjo road Egbeda was just captured in the flames of the just exploded fillings station, Great oil”. The reporter who was standing in front of an exploded area announced.

She rose to her feet in shock.

Delight belt school was their neighbour’s children school.

Mummy Rosa and Joan.

Just as she rushed out of the house to call the woman’s attention to it, the woman was already running back to the compound and crying out helplessly.

She tried to catch her breath as she got to her. “Your husband and my children…”. Her voice trailed off in sobs.

Hearty sobs.

It was just that moment that Naomi remembered that the woman had pleaded her husband to drop the children at school.

If he dropped them at the same Delight Belt school that the news just reported that was exploded, did it mean that mummy Rosa and Joan was crying because they were captured in the flame?

She fainted.

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Onyekachiikeh.

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When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a small room.

He was feeling pains in his body and he could not even remember anything.

“Where am I? Who am I?”.

“When I saw how much you looked like him, I knew that I had to save you no matter what. Fortunately, your car had just driven into the school when the tanker explosion started but you saved the children. They should be with their mother now but everyone thinks you are dead”. The elderly man explained.

“I don’t understand what you are talking about”. He responded in confusion.

Martha, an elderly woman who was seated right there too leaned towards the elderly man and whispered. “He does not even remember anything. Instead of bribing him and telling him to play acting, we can just use him until my son is sound. What do you think?”.

“That is a good idea. We can just tell him that he is your son and we can use that opportunity to shield the company from your illegitimate son”.

They turned back to Mr Tyler who was still lying sickly on the bed and staring at them in confusion.

“Your name is Raymond Morgan and you are the current CEO of Jumpsuits company”. They announced.

“Are you my parents?”. He inquired.

“I am your mother but this elderly man right here is your personal assistant. He nurtured you since birth”.

“What about my father?”.

“Your father is in the house and he has been looking for you. We need to see him soon. You need to do a surgery on your face since it had been dealt with in the fire”. She gave him a mirror.

He looked at his reflection in the mirror and winced. It had a scar. “I was hurt in a fire?”.

“Yes. I had just gone to get fuel for my car when I saw the explosion and rushed in to save you my child”. Martha hugged him.

“Where did the explosion happen?”. He asked curiously.

Martha exchanged glances with the elderly man.

“You were in a room alone and fire from somewhere just came up and then your mother rushed in to save you”.

He nodded thoughtfully.

Martha smiled to herself.

Now that the young newly married man had lost his memory, she was going to do a plastic surgery on him and make him her son’s replacement until her son becomes normal again.

She watched him doze off and took the ring off his finger. “I pray your wife forgives me wherever she is but if I don’t keep you to myself, my husband will give the company to my illegitimate son once he finds out that my biological son is a drug addict. So Mr Tyler, you are no longer a married man, you are now the single son of Collins Morgan”.

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Onyekachi Ikeh

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