The Adventure Of Corper John Part 5

9 years ago

The Adventure Of Corper John Part 5

John woke up still smiling, it was the best
night sleep he’s had
for a long time, he was sleeping in the
comfort of a girl he loved,
no TJ had his leg over his body when he
slept and he was not
sleeping under any orange tree where
ants crawled on his when
he slept, he stood up and went outside,
leaving his friends who
were still asleep, he went to ease himself
under a tree and went
back to inside to lay beside Joy, he was
not the only one who
had a good night sleep, Joy woke up full
of Joy, it had been
almost a year since she had slept beside
a man whom she liked
and who also liked her too, she knew
John was in love with her,
she loved his warmth and manly
presence as they
lay……………………. Thousands of miles
away from them
somebody didn’t have a good night
sleep, Mr Adeboye had
traveled to Enugu in search of his son,
he arrived Enugu around
9pm and decided to lodge in an hotel so
that he could start
searching for his son this morning, he
rarely slept for 1 hour the
previous night as thoughts began to
occupy his mind, he hoped
John was safe and sound, maybe he had
an emergency and could
not come home then his phone got spoilt
or stolen, even if his
phone got spoilt or stolen at least he
knows his phone number,
why didn’t he call, he knew John to be a
responsible man, unlike
him, he had failed as a husband to John’s
mother and he was a
bad father to John, John’s mother had
left him when he had
beaten her for the umpteenth time after
he came home drunk
from the club, she packed her bags and
left his house that very
night never to return again, that time
John was just a year and
seven months old, he felt sorry for the
boy, he never had a real
mother to care for him, he went into the
bathroom to have his
bath ……………………………………………… The
DPO was not in a good
mood either, he called his men out, they
all stood at ease before
him as he addressed them, he challenged
them to show why the
police should be trusted, while the
people of the community
should feel safe and to show that they
were more powerful than
the trouble makers, with that he
dismissed them…………….
Bison had a good night sleep, despite the
events of the last two
days, he had earned about 15 million
naira that week, he had
given his men 100,000 naira for each
man or woman they
brought, now he could buy that range
rover suv like the type that
Chief Dotmann brought two days ago,
business was going on
well, all he had to do was keep on
kidnapping
people…………………. The corpers had
taken their bath at a
stream not far away from the hunter’s
house, they then had their
breakfast of eba and ogbonna soup with
antelope meat, John and
Joy kept making eye contact with each
other, they wanted each
other badly, the hunter came out of his
house carrying his dane
gun, but he was not dressed in his
hunter’s outfit, he told them he
was ready, they were also ready, they
were ready to take the long
walk to freedom
And they started their journey, the
hunter’s daughter was going
with them too as she was going to carry
some of the foodstuff
that her father was going to buy from
town, the corpers were all
happy, finally all their troubles were
going to come to an end, if
they could reach town they were all
going to call their parents, TJ
smiled at his thoughts, if he called his
father, he could go to
extent of sending an helicopter, he
father might not even know
that he’s not in Lagos yet, he was always
busy with his business,
Lagos today and London tomorrow, next
week Johannesburg,
next month Liverpool, well he was
already used to his father not
being around, John too thought about
his father’s reaction, his
father would run to Enugu immediately,
he knew his father would
be worried about him, if his phone had
not been collected by the
kidnappers he would have had over 300
missed calls, his father
does not joke with his only son, Joy
didn’t have any parent or
relative to call, her father and mother
both died in a car accident
in Manchester, that was about 5 years
ago, it was her father’s life
insurance money that was given to her
that she had been using
for her upkeep, she couldn’t inherit her
father’s property yet
because he had instructed in his will that
his lawyer should not
hand any property over to her until she
had finished her NYSC,
now she was going to Lagos to inherit
her father’s property, they
walked through the bush path until they
finally got to the wide
road where Bison’s men had harassed
them, but no one was in
sight today, they continued walking
along the dusty road, John
and Joy held hands and she put her head
on his shoulder, see
gbeke o,TJ thought in his mind, these
people love don reach level
2, love ke? He had never really loved any
girl, all he had for girls
was lust, for him girls come and go, he
used them like recharge
cards, they walked for 15 minutes when
they began to see more
mud houses, they were closer to town,
they passed through the
small community and alas! They were
finally at the tarred road,
their Joy knew no bounds as the spotted
a call center, they all
ran with their full speed towards the
yellow umbrella leaving the
hunter behind, Chinelo too followed
them, they heard drumming
and cheering not far away from them, as
they approached the
call center, the man that was there was
surprised to see them, he
was trying to tell them something, he
could not speak because he
was dumb, he quickly wrote something
on a paper and gave it to
them, the drumming and cheering
became louder as they saw a
croud approaching them, they were
probably celebrating
something, John read the paper, “take
the women away, no
woman is allowed to be outside today “,
before they say Phillipe
Coutinho, four men grabbed Joy, Becky
and Chinelo , it turned
into a tussle between them as more men
came to drag the ladies
away, the hunter had just caught up
with them, he had forgotten
that it was the nwayi festival which no
woman was allowed to
come out for that day, any woman who
was caught outside
would become either the king’s wife or
slave, John took a deep
breathe, he could not let Joy or Chinelo
go like that, their walk to
freedom had just become longer..
watch out for part 6