??ALEX-ANDRA?✨
(??♀️TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN ONE WORLD?)
(The dream of death)
©GIFT OKORIE✍️
?SEASON 2?
?CHAPTER 5?
How am I going to achieve this?
Indeed everything happens on earth for a reason.
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“I wish you were never born” I heard Jenny scream at me.
Huh, how did she get here, I fli-cked my eyes open and saw myself in an abandoned house, it was alre-ady falling ap@rt.
I looked around the pale looking house that seems like it was once someone’s home, beautiful home it was.
I tried to move but I couldn’t, I realized I was stra-pped to a creacking chair that could break any moment. I tried to untie myself but I couldn’t.
“One mistake you made was to come into my family, took our parents love from us, our crushes and left us with nothing” Titi spat out as she walked slowly to me.
I felt tears running down my cheeks.
“plea-se, I’m your sister, plea-se st©p hurting me” I cried out. I looked to the left and saw Lola leaning on a broken door.
“Lola plea-se” I pleaded.
“You know? I thought we could be friends, I thought I could trust you as my sister but you took the one thing I’ve ever cherished, one dream I’ve ever had, the one person I’ve ever loved, you took Alex from me” she fired at me.
“But Alex was never yours, and you were the ones who set me up with him, I haven’t done anything wrong plea-se” I cried, what is going on, how did I even get here.
“Miss perfect has spoken” I Heard Jenny chuckled out and they laughed.
Lola walked away from the door and walked towards me. She bent down and placed her hands on the arms of the chair.
“We won’t hurt you Andra, we can’t hurt our sister now, can we” she asked rhetorically.
But the others answered her anyway “not even a bit” Jenny And Titi replied.
“Which is why we will let you do that for us” Lola stated with an evil smile.
“Get her out” she commanded, Jenny and Titi carried me outside, while Lola walked behind us.
The neighborhood looked deserted, it looked like there was once a war there and people were f0rç£d to evacuate.
Jenny and Titi turned the chair so that I could face the building we walked out from and wow, the house is so big, with mas-sive driveway and garage filled with different expensive cars, beautiful flower garden la-id by the left of the compound, while a big gym house la-id by the right, there was a mas-sive pool by the center of the gym house, it was amazing.
It looked like the house of the riche-st celebrity, it could pas-s for Beyoncè’s house.
As I was staring at the building, something caught my eyes, from the window of the a room upstairs, I saw a little girl tied to a chair just like me, I couldn’t see her face, but I was sure she was crying and still br@vely struggling to until herself.
She looked down and our eyes met, looking into her big brown eyes I felt something in me yearning to reach out to her.
And then herl-ips moved. “Mum” she cried out.
“My baby” was all could come out of my mouth but in a whisper.
“Untie her” I heard Lola speak, I couldn’t get my eyes off the girl as Jenny cut off the rope they used in tying me to the chair. I slowly stood up with my eyes still fixed on the girl.
“Go get your baby” Lola whispered to my ear, but before I could take a step the house caught fire. I began to run with all my strength, while the girl kept struggling to untie her rope, she was crying seriously now and was scared to death, the house was alre-ady burning down, every bit of it falling carelessly but I’d rather die in that fire than to leave my child to be roasted like meat.
Thick dark smoke engulfed my being as I ran into the burning building.
“Andra” I j£rked up when I heard his voice.
“Alex” I screamed and hvgged him ti-ghtly.
“Jesus, you are burning up with fever, I’ve been calling you but you’ve just been shaking on the be-d in tears” he complained in cracking voice. Was he crying.
I looked up at him and his eyes were getting puffy and red. I t©uçhed his cheeks.
“Were you crying?” I asked him.
“You scared me” he complained as he t©uçhed my forehead
my forehead.
“It was a dream, thank God” I smiled and hvgged him again taking in his morning scent, so sweet.
“What was a dream, the fact that you are having a fever” he asked with worriness written all over his face.
“No, I had a very bad dream where my sisters……” I tried to speak but I felt extremely dizzy, and bile coming up to my throat, I covered my mouth and ran out of the room down towards the bathroom.
“Andra” I heard Alex calling as he ran behind me.
“Oh my baby” I heard Halen call as I ran past her into the empty bathroom, I rushed to the sink and threw all my guts out.
I lifted up my head to catch my breath, and then I felt a strong hand holding my shoulders.
“Are you OK” I heard the voice ask as he mas-saged my back.
“Yes Mr. Alfred, I am now” I replied as I kept breathing in and out. “I’m so sorry for disturbing you” I apologized.
“Don’t be silly, I just c@m£ in when I saw you” he waved me off. “Where’s Alex” he asked.
“Right here” Alex answered as he walked in with Halen following behind.
Alex bent down to pick me up from the ground where I sat after throwing up.
“Are you OK now?” He whispered in a ro-mantic way. I nodded with my h0t red cheeks.
“Here, wash your mouth with minty h0t water, I made it for you this morning” Halen stated as she handed a mug of h0t minty water to me.
I collected it and thanked her. I washed my mouth with it and took in a de-ep breath.
“Alex take her back to be-d, let her rest for a few minutes, then you guys can come down for breakfast, OK” Halen stated and Alex nodded.
He gently carried me up in bridal style and walked out of the bathroom.
“Now that’s a gentleman” I heard Mr. Alfred comment and I giggled while Alex chuckled.
He placed me on the be-d when we got to the room and I giggled in excitement.
“You are crazy, one minute you are sick and shaking like you are about to die, then the next minute, you are giggling like a teenager who just got deflowered” he chuckled out.
“Alex” I hit his arm and covered my face in embarras-sment as I tried so ha-rd to st©p my cheeks from heating up.
“Seriously you got me so worried this morning” he stated with a serious tone. I sighed and leaned on him, he t©uçhed my hair and held me closer.
“It was the dream I had” I replied.
“The dream you had made your morning sickness worst, what did you dream about, Aliens invading earth” he asked humorously.
“I wish” I breathed out weakly.
“You wish? Is that how bad the dream was” he asked and I nodded. He ca-ressed my hair a little bit. “Tell me about it” he whispered in such a ro-mantic voice that I was tem-pted to forget the dream and take him down to plea-sure town.
Jeez, what’s ma-king my mind this corrupt, I’m blaming this one pregnancy hor-mones ?
“Are you gonna tell me or will keep thinking about ‘pregnancy hor-mones'” he asked and looked down at my hand, I g@sped and covered my face when I realized that where my hand went to wasn’t a holy place. ?
Alex giggled, he re-moved my hands from my face “it’s OK to have bad hor-mones” he chuckled out and I poked him.
We bec@m£ silent for a while as we stared at each other, he ca-ressed my face and whispered “are we still gonna talk about this dream”
“Huh?” I asked abs£nt mindedly.
“The dream you had” he asked with an amused smile. This dude seems to be having fun in taming me ?.
“Oh, that yea, umh it was not a good dream at all” I told him everything. He didn’t speak for a good 5 minutes, he just watched me, studied me and then he finally asked.
“How do you feel now”
“I’m scared, it scared me, seeing her struggling to get out and get stuck up their with the blazing and aggressive fire burning up towards her, I felt like magically possessing a super power that could quench fire. I couldn’t breathe and then you woke me up” I explained to him.
He sighed de-eply. “That is so weird”
“You know? In Africa, if a pregnant woman have such a dream, she would go throu-gh series of deliverance” I whispered to him. He laughed heartily.
“So do you want to be delivered as well, too bad there’s no pastor here” he chuckled in amusement.
“n@ûghty boy” I hit his arm. “I’m just worried” I breathed out and wra-pped my arms around his w@!st.
“It’s OK, it was just a dream alright” he whispered to me as he rocked me in his arms like a baby rocker.
“You guys, breakfast is served” we heard Halen’s old cracky voice shout out from downstairs.
“We will be right there, thanks” Alex Replied. “Alright, let’s go dreamer” he said as he carried me up from the be-d.
“You are so crazy.” I giggled and rested in his arms as he walked us down the cranky stairs.
“Andra how do you feel now” Mr. Alfred asked me in concern.
“I’m better now, thanks” I replied. Alex dropped me on a chair and sat beside me.
“I made fresh wheat bre-ad, it’s wheat harvest season this month” Halen informed us.
“You guys plant wheat” Alex asked in surprise.
“Of course, it’s so good over here” Halen replied.
“A lot of good things are planted in the country side. Most wine refineries are built in country sides cause fruits planted in country sides are so good” Mr. Alfred stated.
Halen served us three slices of wheat bre-ad and apple jam.
“God I love it here”Alex breathed out and everyone laughed while he chuckled.
“Who wants vanilla tea or orange jui-ce” Halen asked.
“Well which one is better” I asked.
“Take vanilla tea, trust me” Mr. Alfred advised.
“Well vanilla tea it is” I replied humorously and they laughed.
Halen poured vanilla tea in all our mugs, she set the tea pot on the table and sat down.
She said the grace and we began to eat.
“I’m starting to learn how to pray” Alex muttered and we laughed, crazy guy.
“Would you like to check out the house after breakfast?” Mr. Alfred asked us.
I looked at Alex and he shrugged. “Umh I guess, sure, thanks a lot” he answered.
“It’s a nice place, you guys will feel at home” Halen added, i felt like crying.
“Thanks a lot, really, for everything thing, I don’t know what we would have happened to us if not for you guys, your hospitality and kindness is t©p notch” Alex detailed my mind to them.
“It’s nothing, you are both are very special people who doesn’t deserve what befell them, but I’m sure you will pick up and use your predic@m£nt to make a better life for yourselves” Halen replied and patted Alex’s shoulder while Mr. Alfred nodded.
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After breakfast and dessert, we all entered Mr. Alfred’s old buick and he drove us 5 miles down to the house.
“Wow” I breathed out when we got out of the car.
It’s a sto-rey chocolate and white colored building, the porch was decorated with different colors of flowers of different types.
There’s a little stable by the far left side of it, and a little chicken house beside the stable, I could hear the chuckles of chickens from inside the chicken house.
Two horses were grazing beside the stable. I wonder who takes care of them.
“Who takes care of the horses and the chickens” Alex asked them. Always re-ading my mind, lol.
“The gardener, but I’ve instructed him to st©p coming cause the house has been given out” Mr. Alfred replied. He st©pped by the porch and turned to us. “The horses and chickens are yours now” he added.
“Whaaaat” Alex and I exclaimed in shock.
“And so is that vine yard over there” Halen added to our shock.
I looked to where she pointed which was across the street right opposite the house, the vine yard was at least 8 miles long from where it started I as-sume cause I can’t actually see it’s end.
And the best p@rt is that it’s filled with gr@p£ trees and berries. Right behind the vine yard, la-id another 6 mile long orcha-rd of citric fruits. Now I know why wine refinery companies like country sides.
“You are kidding right” Alex asked in astonishment.
“Not even a bit” Halen replied.
“We are old, our son is dead, our grandson has chos£n his life, now God s£nt us you two, who else is more deserving of our property than you two” Mr. Alfred asked rhetorically.
“Let’s go in” Halen offered.
I ran to Alex beaming with smiles, he held me as well walked into our new home forgeting the dream of death I had.
TBC……