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DAY 26.

Am so sorry, I have been MIA, school been happening around me, and am grateful I could steal time to write this. CHIKA APEH, this is for you…..

Nicolette was worried. Twenty one days and she hasn’t heard from her friend Esmeralda. She caused it all. How could she have blurted, she let the cat out of the bag without thinking for once.  Esmeralda was nowhere to be found.  Last week’s incident played on her mind.

George had been rushed to the hospital unconscious by his cleaner. She had battled so much to save him . When he woke, the first thing he said was “Esmeralda, where is my wife”. She tried calming him and he went hysteric again. She had to get him to sleep with aid of her injections. She tried all she could, everything, and no one had a clue. Few hours after George got himself, she had gone to see him, he wasn’t happy, he wasn’t bubbly, and Esmeralda had left with the best part of him.

“Nich, where is Esmeralda? I asked her to leave; I thought she would go to the boys’ quarters or to your place. I really didn’t mean it. I was angry, drenched and stupid. I just didn’t see myself not seeing or hearing from her for two weeks.  I am dying, she is my world. We were both wrong, took it out on her

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. I don’t know. Nich, please where is Esmeralda? I don’t know how, I don’t …..” he burst into tears.

Nicolette couldn’t help but join in the tear-bathe; she is the cause of it all. She couldn’t shut her mouth up. She sniffed and said, “George, I am sorry. I can’t find Esmeralda. Her office only got a mail from her; she said she was taking her annual leave earlier. I have tried to find her, I have tried. I don’t know what to not do. I am certain we will find her”.

“I am a fool. I was all she had Nicolette, I was her only family. To whom will she turn to? To whom will I tell my sad tales? How do we get to leave without the other?  Twenty years of patience lost. I need to leave here as soon as I can. I need to find my wife.”

“We’d start searching more intensely tomorrow. I have hired a private investigator. We will find her. You need to be alive to see her. Rest a little”. With this she left for her office.

Here she is, seven days later, same office, same tale, the only difference is that George is home”

“Ma’am, Dr. Cheta said you should see him at his office. He wants to talk to you about the baby. You’ve missed your antenatal a lot” said Nurse Abigail as she entered the office.

“I’d be there shortly” replied Nicolette.

George became devout. He prayed more than he ever had in his life. Here he is in the church, kneeling and praying, asking God for another chance to love.

“Oh God, keep Esmeralda for me. Do not let harm befall her. Keep her Lord”.

He bowed his head but suddenly stood up. He had someone to beat the hell out of.  Philemon Adeyemi!

“Please, I am looking for Mummy Elda’s restaurant”, she asked. She was standing on familiar grounds.  She could see the house she once lived in with her family across the street. News about mama must be somewhere here.

“Mummy Elda? I no sabi that one oh! Na last week I just they come here so. You fit go ask mama bomboy. See her as she sitdown they fry yam and potatoes. I hear say she sabi this area as she take sabi her belle” replied the mechanic.

“Thank you”.

She was fondly called Elda and not Esmeralda, how could she have forgotten, her dad called her Elda always. She had contacted her office. She had less to worry; her job at most was safe. She had little to worry about. Her secretary is just the nicest. She would come up with an excuse for her. 

“Good afternoon ma”. She was not taking her shades off. She wasn’t cut for street drama. She’d be discrete about her person as she could be.

“How are you my daughter? How much yam abi na potatoes you go chop?”
 
“Hundred naira each”. How the hell did she forget to eat?

While the woman was trying to pack the food into a newspaper, Esmeralda asked “How is Mummy Elda?”

“You never hear am. That woman done pack comot tey tey.

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. She and her pikin dem. As her husband die, she  come leave this area after like five months. Some say she done die, others say she dey run one big shop like that. Me, I know too sabi sha. But last time wey I hear, she done rich like ehnn. Infact eh, they say she dey live for G.R.A. Make I add pepper for your yam?”

 “yes, please do.” She said.

Mama, cannot die, God please keep my mum. She would be rich, mama has always been work minded. She had killed her mother’s husband. God let me see mama.  She thought in her heart. Collecting and paying for her parcel, she left to find her mum.

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