Made - Episode 27

 

After loosing both her parents in an accident. Mercy stayed with her maternal aunt and uncle. She only moved out when she got the job at WIKDOS. During her first year in secretariat college roughly nine years ago Cindy, her cousin got a new boyfriend. She was obviously in love with the guy she had met.

During one of the holidays after going for a sleep over, Mercy came back home to find a vomiting Cindy. The nausea continued early every morning through the rest of the week . It was clear Cindy was pregnant. When Cindy told her boyfriend he welcomed the news. The only problem remaining was how tell her parents that their seventeen year old daughter was pregnant.

Mercy did not like Cindy sneaking out off the house because she knew her guardians would hold her accountable being the older one. If anything happened to Cindy she knew they would question her. A week after discovering she was pregnant Cindy asked Mercy to cover up for her. She was going to convince her boyfriend to come over to see their parents and accept responsibility of both the baby and the mother. Mercy had reluctantly agreed hoping it would turn out well.

It didn't. 

Cindy never came home. Her body was never found.

"How would you be sure she is dead, maybe she eloped with her boyfriend."

She opened her slim bag then removed an old piece of an old newspaper from it

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. On top of one of the columns it read 

Girl mysteriously disappears 

There were two pictures. One of a young girl probably on her late teens and another of - Kim Maxwel. The Kim Maxwell i dated. I gasped putting my hand over my mouth. This couldn't be good.

Girl mysteriously disappears after allegedly leaving her parents house to go see her boyfriend. Her boyfriend- Kim Maxwell (right above) claims they were supposed to meet at a local restuarant on the night she  dissappeared.  He thought maybe Cindy had changed her mind on coming but grew suspicious when her phone didn't go through the next morning.

The parents and the elder sister of the girl are distraught over the missing of one member of their family. The parents claim that they did not know their daughter was seeing someone. Her sister is feeling guilty for letting her out that night.

I looked at the photos again. Kim Maxwell could be good at faking it infront of the cameras. The photo showed a genuinely worried Kim. I looked at the photo of Cindy then blinked rapidly dropping my head foward.

"What?" Mercy asked searching my eyes.

"I have seen Cindy before."

"You have?... where?"

"I haven't seen her _ but i have seen a picture of her before."

"Where?"

I rememberd three months after Kim broke up with me. I had woken up in the middle of the night to meet a status update on Kim's phone of the same lady. Woman crush wenesday.

"I have screenshot of the same."

"You have a screenshot if Kim's updated status... that is sad."

"Look , back then i did alot of things am not proud of but right now i have a photo of this lady _ i mean your cousin."

I opened the google drive then searched my pictures based on the dates they were taken. Within no time Cindy's face appeared on the screen.

"He must have killed her."

"How could you be so sure?" I asked though inwardly i knew high chances were he had something to do with her dissappearance. I rememberd the skeleton dream. If Cindy disappeared nine years ago. Why was he updating his status seven years later with a photo taken nine years ago?

"Yes am sure _ with everything he has put you through...you know the kind of person he is. Besides why would he date you if Cindy was still alive?"

Mercy took my phone and stared at the photo if her cousin.

"What happened to you dear cousin? _ am sorry i let you go to that evil man."

I moved to hug her.

"We will get to the bottom of this. We have to find out what happened to Cindy that night."

"We?"

"Yes we."

We both sank on the bed.

"I know why Kim Maxwell chose to date you." Mercy said.

"Why do you say that?"

"Look at this picture. You are the same height and size as Cindy then.  If someone was looking at you from the back he would clearly  mistake you for Cindy. It's what brought me close to you at first. You reminded me of her."

"While that is sweet and sad mixed in a jar...what you mean to say is that i was living on the shadow of another woman this whole time?"

Mercy nodded. I felt nauseated and a sudden need to puke. I shot to my bathroom.

"Am sorry Danny _ hope you feeling better now."

Mercy handed me a glass of water.  I glanced at my bed side locker. I had only watched three out of fifty dvd's Rob had brought in the box.

"I need to _ we need to get to work."

"We?" Mercy asked bewildered. "What work its already getting late."

That night we watched  every single dvd making copies of the same to my laptop and burning them to my blank dvds i had bought.  I felt like a little detective. The evidence was compelling. 

We were on to the last dvd when Mercy rose up. I had asked Alicia to sleep with Rachael.

"Am so tired can we watch the last one ...maybe in the morning."

I felt tired too but was too eager to know what was in the last dvd.

"I know watching those obscene scenes are exhausting but we have come all the way. We can just watch this last one and get it over with."

Mercy sank back beside me. I removed the other dvd and replaced it with the fiftieth dvd.

We waited for around a minute to load.

The face of Cindy appeared on the screen laughing. She had dimples on both sides of her cheek.  She was dancing around in a red dress, complimented by her red lipstick and black flat shoed.

Come on baby. Turn around for me. It was Kim's voice. 

My heart stopped as i struggled to breath. Kim always loved me in red. We could dance around and then he would sit down and watch me dance. I always thought it was a lovely gesture. Little did i know he was just trying to re-live his last moments with Cindy, the woman he actually loved. I felt a sharp sting on my chest.

Cindy's laughter filled my ears. I watched her dance gracefully, laughing angelically.

"Come on baby, dance with me." She said.

"No my love, am capturing every moment for my first child to see.. i bet its a boy."

"No its a girl."

"I let you win this time but next one is my boy." Kim responded back then broke into a long loving laughter.

I could hear the clicks of photo's being taken amidst the vedio shooting session.

Mercy who was now wiping tears off her eyes reached out for my hand and squeezed it tightly making me to wince. It was clear from from this video that Kim had welcomed the news of his unborn child.

I looked back on the screen. The camera was now edging closer to the Cindy's face then we heard the sounds of kisses.

"Let me go for more drinks." Kim said.

He placed the camera facing Cindy who went on dancing.

Out of nowhere two men came and slit Cindy's throat.

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. Am very sure i had seen their bodies on the previous videos. We both gasped as we watched Cindy's body crumble to the ground. An envelope was placed on top of her body.

We also heard the sound of breaking glasses then Kim appeared in view.

"Baby wake up!!" He called out shaking her dead body. He kept shaking her while wailing.

Watching this was hard. I reached for the pause button but Mercy stopped me. 

"Wait _ who is that?" Mercy asked amidst tears pointing at the screen. A man roughly Kim's age came running gasping for breath.

"Am sorry guy _ i warned you this was dangerous. Am sorry for your loss but we need to clear this mess." He said to a Kim was clearly broken over the loss of his love.

"I know that guy." Mercy said

"You do?"

"Yes i do... he used to come get Cindy when my uncle and aunt were not around. I think he was the message boy between Cindy and Kim."

"Then we need to find him."

"Will he take to us?"

"We will make him talk to us."

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Authors note

Dear reader. I hope you enjoyed this episode. We are in the beginning of the end. 

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Love you all.

Toda.

Dorsila