Everybody Needs To Read This To The End

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NAME: HENRY ZIBIMA

OCCUPATION: STUDENT, CREATIVE WRITER

THEME: BETRAYAL

It was a beautiful day in the blissful town of Brass, a riverine area in the southern part of the Glory Of All Lands- Bayelsa state to be precise. My dad had taken my brothers for a stroll that serene evening.

The clouds were dull and the evening sun cast long shadows on the ground. The light emanating from the sun guided us natives as we went about out daily lives.

Mama died many years ago, after battling a rare disease which no one in the community could find a solution to. My mother was a very strong woman, she fought with all her strength for more than a year, till she could fight no longer.

I cried my eyes out when I got to know that the angel of death, the unavoidable visitor, had separated my mum from me. I wept bitterly for months, it took a lot of encouragement from my best friend; Tari to get me emotionally stable once again.

Tari was like a brother to me, but he had lost his both parents on the same day! That day, they both went to cut down fire wood. I had seen a fresh log when I went to get herbs for my sick mother. I decided to do good by calling it to their attention, Tari’s parents sell firewood and had been in the business for a very long time.

Unfortunately, they were both bitten by a very poisonous snake while in the bush. We all in the village refer to the snake as “Agbilage” meaning bite and kill. Tari’s parents were found dead by some villagers and that day, my best friend became an orphan. I felt a little bit guilty, because they wouldn’t have been in the forest if I had not told them about the firewood.

Few months later, Tari vanished from the village and no one heard from him again.

My dad would frequently take my younger ones for a walk whenever he is free. And as usual, he took them out that “Mournday”. It was barely minutes when they left that I heard a deafening loud bang, it was so loud that I was shocked out of my skin.

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Boom it came again, and again until it became repeated. They were sounds of explosion. Soon there was a rain of bullets, people had began running helter skelter.

Jesus! I screamed. I was so awestruck my nerves couldn’t function any longer; I was rooted to the spot. It was when a bullet flew through the window just a few centimeters from my head that I regained complete consciousness. The bullet sank into my dad’s glass plate, shattering it into tiny bits.

I remembered what my mum taught me when I was still very young and as swift as I could, I lay flat on the floor, covering my head with my hands. The gunshots continued and my heart was not at rest because of my siblings and my father who were out in the open, prone to much danger.

“Ebiowei, Ebiowei” I heard a familiar voice scream my name, I thought it was a figment of my imagination but I immediately sprang up on my feet when I realized it was my dad’s voice. I looked out the wooden window and tears from no where flooded my eyes.

I saw my younger ones racing towards our house while my dad limped after; his leg must have been hit by a bullet. My brothers ran as fast as they could, their heels almost touching their backs. Men dressed in black clothings from head to toe revealing no parts of their body chased after them and many other villagers, firing indiscriminately with the big guns they carried.

They were pirates, which carried out all sorts of maritime crime. They rob, kīll, rāpe and act like they’ve sold their conscience to the devil. I was scared shịtless, it had been years since they last attacked our village so no one expected it.

I ran quickly to open the door, my brothers ran inside the house but before my dad could, he got shot more times; a few on his head and one on his heart region. He fell down to the floor, blood running over from his head to his jaw. He smiled at me in immense pains.

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