My dream lover(Mystery behind the locks and love)

The dream lover(Mystery behind the locks and love)

Chapter 1.

The August Visitor.

In the rain, at seven o'clock in the night, I looked down the street and saw a drunkard smoking in the heavy rain. The road was so muddy that those who were just coming back from work walked bare footed in the mud. I was about sleeping when I heard a knock on the door. I looked at the wall clock on the wall, opposite my bed and saw that it was already late. I was scared because I was expecting no one. Even if it was a visitor, It couldn't be at such a deadly hour. I summoned courage and when I got to the door, I took a few steps backward when I noticed that someone had just entered into the room.

I took a spatula to hit him on the head because I had that instinct that someone was in the house but before I could turn back, someone stabbed me. The stabber was a very black guy, whom I thought should be a Ghanian just like me. I groaned and grunted in pain when my hands were tied to the green painted iron sofa while I was being treated by the stabber. He asked me to promise that I would keep this event a secret which I never thought I could tell anyone about.. The secret was all about how I got injured by being stabbed....

That was how our friendship started since he told me his own side of the story. He told me that he lost his two sisters due to lots of maltreatments his sister's had with his mum just because she wasn't their mother. I felt pity for him when he said that they escaped from home and we're no where to be found. I couldn't utter any word and so I kept quiet. The guy said his name was parmer and I also told him that my name was Pamela. He asked to sleep at my home but since I was in a room self contain apartment, I could not refuse and neither would I have agreed to harbor a criminal in my home. I was caught in between thoughts. I never knew who he was; how do I even explain it? Should I say Yes or No? What should I say? He was a stranger that I haven't met before. These were the questions that kept running in my mind, and so I became confused and torn in the midst of these rheotorical questions, not knowing what to say or what to go for. I didn't know what to choose so I kept quiet when Parmer tried un-tieing me from the old sofa he tied me to while he was treating me.. Why he said kept running into my mind, he asked me to keep it a secret. Was anything else behind the missing sisters? He said "No". But I wanted to help him find his missing sisters. So I voiced out and said "Yes". He could stay at my home. I didn't know when that came out of my mouth, and the funniest part was that I couldn't reverse it because I didn't want to be double minded. But I could see it in his face that he was filled with joy and so because he was overwhelmed with joy, he tried standing up but when he stood up, I asked him to lift me up since I was already weak due to the knife stab. He did agreed lift me up, he stretched his hands towards me and I also stretched mine towards him. In the course/process of dragging me up , he hit his leg on the old steel sofa and so he slumped on me. I was knocked unconscious. I did not know what to do neither did I know where the strength came from. I stood up and left him on the floor. I asked him to sleep in the room, while I slept in the tight and empty store room. I wasn't comfortable but I had to manage. The next day, when I woke up, I headed straight to the bathroom forgetting that I had an August Visitor at home while I dashed into the bathroom and saw him. It was parmer. I thanked my stars that he had taken his bath already and he was only brushing his teeth.

I quickly got out of the house not minding if I had taken my bath, rushing to work because I was already late for work. I worked at Mrs Benes cafe. Mrs Benes was such a strict woman so I tried as much as possible not to step on her nerves but on getting to the shop, she paid me my salary in full cash and it was strange to me because Mrs Benes paid her salaries on every twelfth (12th) of the month.I sensed that there was trouble until when the voice came'' I do not need your services any longer''.

Since last week you haven't been coming late to work and I queried you already but you promised me that if I gave you a second chance , you were not going to come late to and anymore.

I tried to control myself but the tears kept rolling down my cheeks, then there was silence for 20minutes until a voice broke the silence.

"Pamela, you did not cook at home and I guess you've got some money at hand so, you could just buy me a cup of coffee .

It was Parmer's voice. I became annoyed but since there was no food at home and I was also hungry, I decided that we could still take coffee at Mrs Benes shop.

Mrs Benes had a little slot at the back of the cafe where I learnt tailoring/ fashion designing. I did not work as a waitress in the cafe but designed clothes she had made/ sewn. I made emboderies to her client's dressings and so I got a lot of comments for that. After we had coffee,we left for my home. I cooked vegetables and so we are it along with fruits and a glass of pineapple drink for each of us. When I got home, I remembered that the previous day, Mrs Benes had already given me 30 dollars and then gave me a letter which I didn't remember to read but as the memory came to me, I remembered that I gave it to her but she returned it back to me instead. So I had no choice than to collect it on that day. I had sleepless nights just because I lost my job. Parmer was already asleep so I didn't even know when I dozed off to sleep.

After some months, like about three or four months, when parmer woke up, he had been staring at me for some minutes which I couldn't count until he slapped me on my face. I was so frightened so I quickly opened my eyes very clearly and when I realized that it was potiphar,( his name was also parmer), I made my way to return my own slap also. But heard him shouting at me saying ina loud voice as if he was giving orders to me.

'' I am hungry, don't you know that you have to wake up as early as possible to prepare my food? Look at the time now, take a look at you self, it is already 11am''.

I was so very much amazed and wondered if it was the same guy who stabbed me that spoke to me to my face right now or the guy who made me lose my job or the guy who stabbed me and told me to keep his secret of being the available suspect of a murder case and the guy who told me he was looking for his lost sisters whom I am still making up my mind to help him find his sisters.

I shouted back at him saying " Take a look at your self, you are man who can't fend for yourself".

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" Take a look at your self, you are a man who can't fend for himself but depending on a lady who just lost her job, just because of this august visitor named potiphar that came into my life.

You did not even come but crept into my life.I continued saying I don't know what kind of potiphar you are.

Potiphar in the bible was hardworking but here you are behaving like a nicompoop.I said as I made my way to walk out when I heard a voice say;

You caused it,I just bought a crate of egg and I kept them in the store just this morning but because of your carelessness you rolled on the egg and you broke them.crate of eggs ,he said;

I was short of words and did not know what to do.I didn't want him to feel like I'm a looser or the one at fault so I found my voice again and I said"Even at that, is that why you slapped me? It is better you mind yourself or else I report you to the house owner because you are of no use here, you don't pay out of the house rent fee, you don't pay money to the PHCN, yet you sleep on the new bed I just bought a day before you arrived here. All you do is to sleep, snore and tell me that you are hungry. ''You are such a useless man of no regard,I said as I pushed him away from my way and hissed walking away from him I had forgotten that I haven't taken my bath and was still on my night gown so I went back home climbing on the stair case which was very tiring because the elevator got spoilt some weeks back after his arrival.

'' Should it be potiphar(parmer) that spoilt the elevator? Why did I really shout at potiphar like that? This rheotorical thoughts kept running through my heart but there was no one to answer them, until I got to my door step and saw a little girl crying. I was shocked and wondered who the little pretty girl might be. I didn't say anything but walked towards her when the little girl raised up her head and said;'' Who are you?''.I couldn't reply but all I could do was to stare at her as I stammered and said "I- I- I- I am Pamela but you could call me "Pam" I said so little pretty, what's your name?she said she was Promise,Wow I said! that's my sister's name and so she smiled and asked if I could give her accommodation that her mum had been kidnapped,her dad neglected her and her elder sister whom she called small mummy was nowhere to be found.

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