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*CHAPTER 49 part 2
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Tinny-B comes to her ”Are you okay, that was
one heated argument,i wanted to be anywhere
but this room. Wow, you both are like plus and
minus wires, sparking as you both meet. how
do you have such energy girl..see how angry he
was…you should listen to him though. He
seems to care”
She scoffs ”Care, that fool does not care for
anyone”
”Hey don’t be like that, he could easily kick you
out of his house and act like he ain’t his
problem. You should have seen his face when
you said you thought he would come for you
but he didn’t, he seemed broken, I think he
blames himself for your attack and he is trying
to make it right.”
”Well, he shouldn’t. i am not his concern”
”You are stubborn, someone is trying to help
you, and keep you safe”
‘WELL HE SHOULDN’T DAMNIT!” she snaps
turning away, then she pauses ”What does he
mean by he can’t look over his parents
shoulders and then mine?’ she points to the
door he just left throu-gh
”Eh” Tinny-B shrugs ”And that my attack may
be as a result of his enemies who wants to get
to him but can’t so gets to people around
him?”
Tinny-B shrugs again ”Like in the movies? They
want to go for someone and if they can’t get
him they go for his family? That sort of thing?”
”But this isn’t the movies and my attack…” she
trails off as as thoughts play out in her head
again.
Her father had come for her, it wasn’t Jaime
he was after , it was her.
Jimmy had locked her in the sto-reroom , Jimmy
hated her, he has plans for her.
But Jaime…said he is looking over his parents
shoulders.
Jimmy always challenging the Mayor..Jimmy
hates her because she stood up to him for
being an as-s-hole..Jimmy hates her..Jimmy
challenges the Mayor..that party..Jimmy didn’t
want the Mayor to bother about Jaime giving
his peach on the..what was that..the candidate
position for the president’s seat at the
table..right?
Oh…it was beginning to make sense .
She turns to Tinny-B , staring at her, staring
throu-ghher.
Jimmy has a thing against Jaime then. The
reason Jimmy hates her was because she was
in Jaime’s company, because she stood up to
him while she was in Jaime’s company.
Jimmy….jimmy, Jimmy must hate Jaime then.
Jimmy hates her because she told him what he
was, a stinking as-s-hole with a rotten attitude.
Oh, she remembered the scene all to clearly
when the Mayor first called Lockswire’s name
and insisted that he said something and he
refused, kept refusing . She remembered how
Jimmy reacted to it, how he insisted against it.
Jimmy wants something, something he didn’t
want Jaime to have..that has got to be it..he
was furious the Mayor kept calling Jaime to
peach, he was angered, embittered and …oh,
he smiled, she remembered seeing him smile
when Jaime began to walk out. Rejecting the
Mayor.
That’s it. It made sense now.
But what didn’t make sense was why Jaime
seems to be scared of Jimmy. Jimmy wants
that seat, it was clear now, Jaime didn’t want it.
It was evident as he refused to peach and claim
a candidate position but the Mayor, his father
insisted.
Oh damnit, no wonder. it makes sense why he
and his father have tense moments. It makes
perfect sense… Jaime wants it not, Jimmy
wants it all and Mayor wants his son to have
it.
She co-cks her head to the side , If i don’t want
something i am being for-ced to have, what do i
do? Everything opposite to spoil my chances of
getting it.”
Her eyes grows big in realization. Tinny-B
backs away for a minute as Alexander’s eyes
pops open.
”Er..Alex-” she trails off touching her che-st in
fear ”You okay, you look scary”
Alexander doesn’t answer , she continues to
think, looking this way and then that way,
pointing to the door, pointing around, and
then..co-cking her head to the side and then
back.
Does that mean, does it mean
that..everything Jaime has been doing from the
moment they met up until now was he trying to
spoil his chances of being the best candidate
for that position.?Oh…
She goes to the table and then turns on the
news, flic-king throu-ghchannels ”The Mayor’s
son has still not turned up …” she changes
Channel ”The body of Miss Bekington Alexander,
a woman who was for a short time the
companion and handler of Mr Jaime Lockswire,
the son to the Mayor has still not being found,
the speculations surrounding the death are still
unclear and -” she changes the channel again.
Tinny-B who has been staring at her as though
her friend had suddenly gone mad comes to
her ” Alexander , you are scaring me, acting
like a crazy person, are you okay, talk to me
girl”
”Sshhh!” she places her finger to her li-ps and
continues to change channel ” It has been
unanimously reported that the forensics report
to prove what actually happened in the event
centre where Miss Beckington’s prints were
found was burnt in a lab fire which leaves with
police with nothing other than to start from
scratch to investigate and-” she continues to
change ”Jaime Lockswire, original badboy-”
she pauses , Tinny-B taps her
”Alexander, what is it”
”Sshhh, i am trying to make sense of all this
”— He used to be the Br@in behind his father’s
company and may very well be. Quiet, reserved
and still every lady’s man. But he had eyes only
for one, Miss Christine Barlow. Everyone had
thought that this would be it, but years after a
long relationship, he breaks up with him with a
long time friend and disappeared to God knows
where. Years later, Jaime Lockswire got back
on his feet and doing good works, being a son
of his father, he followed in his foot steps,
keeping a low key on his foundations and what
not. Everyone had thesame thought, when the
Mayor steps down, his son was the most
aspiring candidate to take Mayorship and most
importantly, be the future in his father’s
company with a good track record that was
unbeatable. But like all good fairytale stories, all
good thing comes to an end or rather, not every
thing is as it seems. It appears that Jaime
Lockswire have always being living the double
life or in pretense .Two years ago, his true
nature began to resurface.. the chains of
countless women piled up with broken hearts
on the streets, the drugs, the bad boys
company, the bad reviews of his working ethics
began to surface, the bribery, the corruption and
all that jazz. It happens that daddy’s boy wasn’t
the good little two shoes we have always
envisioned him to be, which left us
regretting why we thought hat he would be a
good buy for the public. And then to crown it
up, a few days ago, he told the world how he
got anger issues, maniac tendencies of
committing a crime. Yes, Jaime Lockswire
confessed to his murderous intent before he
committed a crime. Now, a young
viBr@nt woman is dead, her body unknown and
he is in hiding, and what is the Mayor doing?
instead of him to make sure his son is being
searched for and arrested he is paying hanky-
panky with our lives? He intends that his son,
the killer be in the Mayorship race by putting
him in as an aspirant ? Even in his company as
a candidate for the presidential position? no
way..we would not allow such atrocity to befall
chocolate city. The Mayor, Mr Jacob Wellington
has been a good man, God sent. But his son is
the devil and God forbid we let the citizens of
Chocolate city in his care, God forbid. I am not
against the boy, i watched him grow up and
care for him, but i would not be blind to this act
no, before we give others the notion that it is
okay to be rich and murderous and get all you
want just because. Justice must be served
and..i hope the Mayor un-derstands ”
”But Sir Mr Chena, if i am not mistaken, you
have praised the boy at some point in your
briefing in the last foundation event about his
great work ethics?” the reporter inquired
”I was blinded, but see what has happened. Alot
of us regret this”
”So..what do your propose?”
”That whoever knows the whereabouts of
Lockswire should inform the police and ensure
that justice is served”
”But, we have reports that the primaries would
still hold, tomorrow at the company’s
conference town scare at Brooklyn-dutch by 11
am central time?”’
He smiles ”Yes, with all that is going on we
nee-d to give people hope and we also nee-d to
survive. The company is suffering with all this,
people are scared and they nee-d as-surance, we
nee-d another person to man the seat.. and take
back our plummeting stock and give us back to
the right standing”
”So who are you pitching on?”
”The best man, we all are pitching for our own
best man”
”But who do you think would win?”
He ru-bs his jaw ”I have known each candidate
personally and i know their strengths and
weakness and can tell who can take us further
to the promised land we have always dreamed
and i believe Mr Christopher li-pon is a strong
candidate but i believe my Jimmy Agreyo is a
best candidate..he has all it takes, the vision,
the motivation and determination and his pitch is
divine, you should be there to see what he has
planned for the future, technologies, innovation,
the community and the public. Knowing that the
Heritage group is also the lifeline of
chocolate city..he has the best ideas ever. So
my votes are on him and i have a strong
conviction that he would win. No one has such
ideas as great as his”
”But it is the Mayor’s company, do you think he
would agree? He is in a state at the moment
with the situation of his son. Would he even
want this to go on now? Knowing that his son
was an aspirant too, and rumor has it that his
pitch was carrying so much weight’ that’s why
he was eager for the world to hear it.”
”It is his company and we all have shares in it.
We all have a say in this and when something
is affecting the company, we all have a right to
ask for a change, albeit temporary to solve it.
The Mayor un-derstands this, that is why i am
acting president for the time being while he
steps down to take care of his issues, but
tomorrow, the primaries would still hold and
every candidate aspiring would still make their
peach and then we vote, who ever wins would
be sworn in as president of the Heritage group
and then begins resumes as proper”
”When you say aspiring candidate, you mean all
right?”
”Yes all candidates are mandated and expected
to pitch”
”That means Mr Jaime Lockswire inclusive?”
Mr Chena stares at the reporter ”He is a fugitive
and a murderer”
”But he is still a candidate?”
”In that sense, yes”
”And does the law not state one is innocent
until proven guilty?”
”Indeed, but he is a murderer, he confessed
before the act and then committed it”
”But there is no body to confirm that”
”Because he hid it and he is in hiding, what sort
of reporting is this lady?” He frowns
”I am just curious Sir, indulge me, supposing he
isn’t in hiding and he were to be available, can
he not pitch at the primaries tomorrow?”
”He cannot pitch, because he is a murderer and
he would not be given that stand”
”as-suming, you forget that it has not be proven
yet, supposing Sir”
”Then as long a he is being investigated, he
would not be allowed to. And mind you, a
criminal would not just walk in knowing he
would be arrested, that is why he is in hiding or
maybe have left the country. it is sad.”
”But what if he shows up’?’
”Look. he wouldn’t unless he would have done
so since ..he is a murderer and we would not
allow him take a stand and astir for a
position that have lots of people un-der him, he
would cause ruin, and if you must know, the
Mayor really do un-derstand. He has infact
endorsed Jimmy Agreyo as his best candidate”
”Oh really?”
”Yes really, i thought you are the news, you
didn’t get the memo, i saw it on the news just
now, ” he smiles ”and if you have no other
questions, i beg to excuse myself. ”
”And the election of the Mayorship come
November?” she throws at him
”That is in course, now if you would excuse me,
i have a meeting” …
Alexander changes channel again, fli-pping
throu-ghnews until something got her eye, he
goes a channel back, and then stares ha-rd at
the Tv , a picture was being shown, it has
Jimmy standing between the Mayor and then
his wife, he was smiling into the camera
shaking the Major’s hand and then waving to
the camera, there were other pictures like that,
he hu-gging and placing a ki-ss to the Mayor’s
wife’s cheeks and then he and the Mayor
alone, both waving to the camera. It was a
suggestive picture, one meant to imply , the
reporter came on ”It so appears that the Mayor,
Mr Jacob Wellington has endorsed Jimmy
Agreyo as his running aspirant for the Heritage
group which also means that he has
endorsed him for the Mayorship candidate, this
is what Jimmy Agreyo had to say to this ”
Jimmy comes on, he is smiling de-eply into the
camera has they pushed a mike to his li-ps ”Oh,
no no..i do not think that is the case but if that
was what the Mayor wanted then i am happy to
take it . That day, at the charity event, he kept
praising the good work i have done and wanting
to know more about my ideas and i was happy
to share. little did i know i impressed him . So i
came that day and he was the one who called
out to me and then asked that we take pictures
together and then he said, i quote ”my votes
are on you Jimmy, i hope you would take the
company to where it should be, i believe that
you would be a great Mayor one day” he laughs
and pats my back. So, really, this is news to me
but..if the Mayor, the Mayor, the man behind
the man, the one everyone looks up to thinks i
can be worth it to vote for me, then, i thin i a
already blessed. So yes…thank you”
He was seen waving and then entering his car.
”That prick!!!” It was Alexander who exclaims
”Is that Jimmy, as-s-hole Jimmy?”
”Yep..for a fine man he is a dxxk”
”Nothing fine about that man, he is a corny
as-s-hole when was this interview done?”
”It says here, over two hours ago”
”This morning, imagine that..i can bet my as-s
the Mayor wouldn’t endorse him shit. The
Mayor endorsed his son all this while, while
endorse someone just because his son is
supposedly a murderer without closing the
case..i think this is bullshit, and that man
whose face looks like a pig’s snort..is it China-
”Chena”
”Yes, Chena! man knows nothing what he is
saying” She stands up and then begins to pace
”It’s making sense now, all of it. Nothing is as
it seems, i think there is a plot here, and
Lockswire has been blind to it. I see it..i see it
clearly now”
”What do you see. You aren’t making any
sense”
”I know, but i know what i have to do..and i
would make sure he doesn’t get off so easily”
”Who Alexander?”
”J-” Her eyes catches something on the screen,
she pauses and then stares at the Tv listening
”There have been an accident on fork-lane, a
police officer was found dead and the truck
driver unconscious. His name is Steven Kirkled,
Officer of the district police, homicide division.
Investigations are on-going but it appeared to
be a case of wrong driving and the curve which
had resulted in an incoming to an impact leaving
him dead on the sp-ot. The trunk driver is in a
coma presently.”
”Who is stupid to be on speed on that curve,
alot of people die in sharp curves not seeing
the next car on time” Tinny-B turns away.
”Sad” She is walking out the door, Tinny-B is
following her
”Who do you intend not to let off the hook?”
”Jaime, and then Jimmy” they walk down the
stairs to the living room
”But…Alexander, do you think you can just
leave it for Jaime to handle because i am
really confused right now”
‘Let me explain what i think it’s going on..i
think Jimmy wants something and he doesn’t
want Jaime to want what he wants”
”And you know that how?”
”It’s pretty clear now..everything is making
sense, and i may be cut in the cross fire but i
am also a mission of another”
”I do not un-derstand”
She sighs ”Don’t worry. I know what i must do,
and i would ensure he doesn’t stop me. Do you
have a gig for tomorrow?”
”Yes”
”What time?”
”9: am, maybe 10:am”
”Great, have you got a wig, and know how to
do dress-up?”
”What are you planning Alexander?”
”Have you?”
”Yes!”
Alexander smiles ”Great, i nee-d a favor, but we
have to be discreet”
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TO BE CONTINUED…..