LASTING MEMORY. Episode 5
© Amah
“I have plans for tomorrow I won’t be able to see you…
“What kind of plan is that…can I be included in the plans? plea-se…
“Come on Kane…is nothing big just that I will be taking Emerald to a birthday p@rty…a friend of mine invited us for his nephew’s birthday p@rty…is tomorrow
“Okay… so I can I take you there and maybe bring you back. If you don’t mind…
“Ooh…well, my friend will be coming to take us and he said he will also bring us back…let me not stress you over that…
Kane eventually agreed although he wanted to go with Olivia but he decided not to push further.
Mark c@m£ the following day and picked Olivia and her daughter to the venue.
After they settled in Emerald was so eager to go and a bouncing castle with other kids.
Olivia watched as Marked guide Emerald to join other kids, she was so excited as she pl@ywith everyone even with the celebr@nt.
Mark introduced Olivia to his elder brother and the wife, they were happy to meet her.
Olivia sat with other parents as children kept on performing in the background, she kept a close eye on her daughter who was flowing with every game and was too excited to tag along.
Mark c@m£ to sit beside Olivia.
“she is so lively…and very active…I’m talking about Ema…despite she has not seen any of the kids here before…. look at how she is as-sociating with everyone with that attrac-tive smile on her face…you are a lucky mother…well I know the sugar drinks and cakes will make her super active too…
Olivia still focusing on the kids laughed out, Mark was sitting so close to her that she can perceive his fine cologne, he smells so nice. He was a little different form his brother, his elder brother was taller than him but wears same smile as Mark.
Mark said he took after his father in everything while his brother was more of his mother.
After the p@rty was almost over Olivia informed Mark that she will be going, so Mark quic-kly told his brother’s wife who parked different gift parks for Emerald who was alre-ady tired from the whole pla-y, Olivia thanked her and the husband before leaving with Mark
Emerald sle-pt off in the car as Mark drove them home.
When he st©pped in front of there house, Olivia thanked him.
“Thank you Mark…aside Emerald having so much fun I also had fun myself, your nephew is so cute…your brother and his wife make a lovely couple…our pumpkin is alre-ady asleep…she must be so tired from jumping up and down and p@rticipating in almost all the games…thank you…we will like to go inside now…
“Olivia…plea-se wait…I really do not want to press you on this again after you made it clear the last time…which has being years but…I wish we could get to hang out and talk more…I’m just trying to press my luck bu-ttons…maybe…just maybe you will consider me this time…plea-se…
“I have a man in my life Mark…and he is everything I want, I love him… I am occu-pied alre-ady…so plea-se don’t press your luck bu-ttons…it won’t work out…I’m sorry…
Mark was pained and felt heart broken but he accepted his fate and bid Olivia good night.
Kane called that night to ask how the birthday p@rty went and Olivia filled him in excitedly.
Helen c@m£ on one of her off days to spend time with Olivia
“Francis asked me to marry him…this is the second time he is asking me to marry him Olivia…
“And… what did you say…you should be happy settling down with the man you truly love, you don’t sound so happy about it…I know for sure that Francis loves you…you have tried to push him away severally instead he kept fighting to win you over and never gave up until you finally agreed to d@t£ him and now…he want you to be p@rt of him forever…what is holding you back…I thought you said that you love him?
“I do, I really do love him but sometime I have fear…fear of the past affecting my future and the way I look at men generally…and he is not exceptional…don’t get me wrong…Francis is a sweet ha-rd working man…he is never like the beast of a man that m©l£st£dme for years…no…not all all…but I just don’t know how marriage will be like for me…I may end up using my past to judge him…and many other innocent men out there….i…I told him he shouldn’t rush me…I wasn’t re-ady for marriage and he told me he will wait until I’m re-ady…I just don’t un-derstand him…anytime I try to make him leave instead he will give me more reason to love him the more…moving along and forgetting the past does not work like magic Olivia…I still think of the past and it hurt…so hurt like yesterday…sometime I want to hate my mother and watch her suffer for neglecting me when I nee-ded her the most and doctor Kate’s words will come echoing to my head…”do yourself a favor and forgive your mother” she say when I forgive I was actually doing myself a favor…I see her points but is ha-rd …my mother was so dependent of my step dad…feeding and upkeep, she thought without him she will die and that was why she never wanted anything that will affect her food chain…even if is me, she shut me up and threatens me never to speak up and after my step dad died she found out that she can actually live without him and she is now looking up to me everyday for her upkeep…what if I was dead. What if I succeeded in killing myself back then…I act all cool as if I got no worries but I still look back to those years of torture and no defense, those cold night, while my mother pretend to be asleep and the beast craw into my room and m©l£stme, I cry and l@yawake with fear and trembling every night, I was giving drugs to drink every weeks just to flush out any unwanted pregnancy, I didn’t know what the drugs was for until I grew up and realize what it really was…what if they succeeded in damaging my wo-mb, but I’m glad that such did not happen just that I nee-ded to treat somethings back then which Doctor Kate helped me throu-gh and I am fully okay, but what if all the bad things of life have happened to me because of my mother’s carelessness and the beast of a man who was not satisfy with my mother and decided to add daughter to the list, Olivia you are a strong woman…you have move past what hurt you, blessed with Emerald and Kane who loves you dearly…I envy your courage but I have not found your kind of strength yet for myself… when I think I have move on, when I think I have overcome all obstacle…then it will come rushing up to my pres£nt like a flood…
“Helen…listen to me…you will be fine…I as-sure you that…let go of those bitter emotions…and like doctor Kate usually say when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry…show life that you got a thousand reasons to laugh…and when a lemon is being stoned at you…turn it into a lemonade or a lemon pie…make good out of the bad and recklessness of life…you will be fine…go ahead with Francis…he will help you heal totally…and do not paint another man’s sin to his face…he deserve better than that. I thank God everyday for Kane…I’m so grateful to him, look at me now…I’m back to school…pursing my dreams…dreams that I thought will never be possible…he is helping me in every way possible….Kaka was the devil that destroy my family…and I’m glad he is either dead or rotting away somewhere…if Kaka ever comes like an angel to me in the dream I will find a gun a shoot him dead, I don’t know how to forgive a man filled with so much evil…I don’t want to even forgive such a man…but my peace of mind is that he is far away from me…I will never see him…so I move on with the man of my dream and I have no regret. Kane is God’s gift to me and Emerald also…go ahead and accept Francis proposal….so that Emerald can be your little bridesmaid….or flower girl…she will be so happy if you pick her to be p@rt of the train…you will make a beautiful bride, and of curse I will be by your side cheering you up…you will make a wonderful wife to Francis and sweet mother to your future kids…trust me on this…make good thing out the trouble life threw at you…you will excel…I’m here for you…always….
They talk into the evening before Helen later left
Kane took Olivia to a new and well furnished ap@rtment, he got her a fine portable car for her running around, Emerald has to change school to one of the best schools in town.
On Olivia’s birthday, Kane decided to surprise her further by opening a big supermarket like he has wanted to do with one of his property which wasn’t so far from Olivia’s former place of resident.
He put Olivia as the owner of the property, surprising her with it during her birthday which was the day he officially opened it.
He called it OLIVEM Supermarket, which was a combination of Olivia and her daughter’s name together.
Olivia was so shock when she was blind folded and guide to the place, when her eyes was open and she saw the big place with it signs she almost fainted out of shock, it was so unbelievable and she refuse to accept it
“Kane…this is just too much…have you thought of what your father was going to say about it all…I…is too much…I can’t accept this…you have done a lot alre-ady…you have done enough and…this is too much…Kane…I can’t…
“plea-se…accept it Olivia…don’t say no…I have always wanted to move your kiosk to a bigger dream…I told you that you are far bigger than that kiosk…my father gave me this building…he put my name to it that I should do whatever I wanted with the property and I decided to create a beautiful thing out of it for you…is all yours…the property name and everything in there….i have restock it to the brim…just for you to sign some docvment as the so-re owner and it will be all yours…I thought of the name to use for the supermarket I have to combine your name with Emma’s to bring about Olivem…plea-se accept it and don’t say no to this if you truly loves me…I told you before that I wanted us to settle down soon but you said you will have to finish your school first before thinking of marriage and I am not rushing you Olivia, I love you everyday…you are like the air that I breath….no matter how long it takes I will be here for you…whenever you are re-ady for us to make our relationsh!pofficial…tie the knot and live as God as instituted…I will be the happiest man but until then just accept this token…is de-eply from my heart and every paper is in your name…is only your signature that we are waiting for and everything will become officially yours…plea-se Olivia…shhhh….plea-se don’t say no Olivia…plea-se…
That was how Olivia bec@m£ a big supermarket owner.
Helen later accepted Francis wedding proposal and the d@t£ was later fixed for them
Emerald was the little bridesmaid and she was so happy to walk down with Helen, Olivia was her chief bridesmaid and it was a happy day for everyone, Helen’s mother was so glad as she watch her daughter get married to Francis the man who never gave up on her, doctor Kate was there, Mark too c@m£ as he was invited, Kane was seated among the audience with a smile as his eyes was focused on Olivia all throu-gh out.
Mark wish he was the one getting married to Olivia, he was looking at Olivia who was so filled with smile as she helped her best friend Helen, a blu-shing bride, who was so beautiful in her wedding dress.
Mark was alre-ady aware of Olivia relationsh!pwith Kane, the son of a wealthy s£nator. Their relationsh!pwas not hidden to the public eye after he opened one of the biggest supermarkets for her
He ha-rd that the man even put the property in her name and got her a car and he is the one responsible for her school.
He knows he may not have done everything as the said Kane was doing for Olivia but he would have made sure that Olivia will be happy for the rest of her life, going back to further her studies, buying her car that he would have done, but opening a big supermarket as OLIVEM, which was the talk of town that was a very big project, he will not have promise such a big thing but he would have tried to open a mini mart if she so de-sired.
but then he wasn’t going to compete with anyone, not with Kane, who was obviously so wealthy than him, spending his father’s money but he has to work for every dime that he spend, some people were born with a silver spoon while others have to earn it.
He can’t stress himself over competing to win Olivia heart because Olivia never wanted him, he was the one trying to see if anything can work out but it never did.
He wish Olivia nothing but happiness and if she ever invite him for her wedding he will be glad to attend and buy one of the best gifts for her because she deserves it
After sometime Mark stood up and congratulate Helen and her husband like everyone was doing, Olivia smiled at him and thanked him for coming, she introduced him to Kane and they shook warmly before Mark later drove off with a clear mind and planning to see if he can get serious with someone else and start his own family, everyone was moving on except him, maybe is really time for him to also move on.
Episode 6
Kane roll from end to end as the troubling night mare cycled his vision, it felt so real as he went back to the memory lane, something was hurting his eyes, he tried to wake up but he couldn’t, then right there he saw himself standing right before his past. His p@rtner’s words echoes like a loud trumpet, words he has forgotten and put it all behind him.
“….Kaka…he could have killed you if I wasn’t here, you should be thanking me for saving you sorry as-s…the plan was to take a shelter and leave here why do you have to r@p£ the poor girl…they are not p@rt of the plans, this is not p@rt of the plan Kaka…if things goes wrong now…your wealthy father is re-ady to spend all he have to save you but I got no wealthy parents and that’s why I’m doing this…it was risky, I have known someday luck will run out of me but I did not care all that matters is to make the money and enjoy myself to the full now all our plans has failed…tiger, gras-s cuter and Razor are out there…dead or alive I can’t tell, we manage to escape the least you could have done is to stay cool here and not hurt this poor family, now you made me to kill an innocent man who tried to save his daughter…you are a bastered…with all this injuries on your b©dy and danger around us you still have the appetite for a woman…because you know you may get away with anything…Kaka now look…the man’s wife has pas-sed out from the shock and that girl has fainted after the father was sh0t…if she survive she will be left with nob©dy, her mother may also die because she was alre-ady gone before I gun down her husband…you really messed up the plan…big time…you messed up…you messed up kaka
“shut up…..are you feeling sympathy for them…oh you are feeling sorry for people you don’t even know…let me remind you that sympathy is not p@rt of this job…that girl was too sweet to be resisted, the moment she entered I went all h0t…and st©p all this petty talk it doesn’t suit you, you did what you were suppose to do by killing the man because I would have done the same for you if I was in your shoe…we nee-d to have each other’s back…that’s the game…we will get out of here…plea-se don’t start with that your emotional talk…it doesn’t suit you and that’s not who you are…you are python…st©p acting like a c0ckroach that can be easily squashed…let’s find away and get out of here..i still have one bullet left in my gun…we will use it wisely to attack if there’s anything…
Kane woke up in sweat, he looked around the room, the air-condition was working fine, tears burn down from his eyes, regretful tears.
He gently l@yback to the be-d and stayed awake.
He flashed back to the last day of his gang hood, when he use to be tough and ha-rd en, he has even planned to attack and rob his father because his father has refused to give him what he asked from him then.
he was the only one among the gang that has a very wealthy father, who happens to be a s£nator, he never boast of his father’s wealth rather he wanted to make his own money in any way possible. Tiger has being their gang leader, he was second in command, the others were all dead except python who was still in prison for several years now
He was able to escape all trouble because of his wealthy father, he could have being dead or rotting away in prison like python is.
He wasn’t proud of his past life, he hates anything that will remind him of it, he knows he was the one that night, after Olivia told him about Emerald and broke down in tears. He has done his findings and was able to gather enough information, it was the that same night Olivia was R@p£d that her parents were also killed in the hand of the same gun men, him and python.
The news was that the police caught them and they were in prison while the rest of the arm robbers died, his father used money to cover up his mistakes and s£nd him abroad until the whole thing died off.
He never ever expected to meet Olivia again or anything about the family him and python destroyed, he did not know who Olivia was until he asked her about her past and it was a very sad news which was difficult for her to tell. He was afraid when Olivia mentioned gun men ra-ping her, he has silently prayed it has nothing to do with him until he decided to do his findings and the truth was staring right at his face.
He can’t undo what has been done, he can’t bring back Olivia’s parents to life or resto-re what she has lost but he knows for certain that money will do many magic, it will heal her wounds.
he loves Olivia even before knowing she was the same fragile, slender girl that stood shaking all over before him, she started screaming, he sl@pped her ha-rd and she fell back before he gr@bb£d her, to-re her night wear and stro-ke her steadily just as his b©dy has wanted, she was crying, a silent sob as she plead to him like a saviour but with the effect of the overdosed weed he took he wasn’t listening all that matter to him is to be satisfied.
it was until her father gr@bb£d something and threw at him which made him to fell off and cried out in pain, his gun has fallen off and the man could have killed him with it and thank God for python who saved his life and killed the man instead, Python has being so angry with him for hurting the innocent family and he was even more angry with himself for destroying a suppose happy home, he never knew the girl survived after she fainted from the whole shock and never know that his path will cross with her again, and now she has a daughter for him even without knowing.
He wish he has never joined such a terrible gang, he wish he has listened to his father and be an obe-dient son, he wish for many thing to change but his past still hunt him like a thief, the only thing he has vow to do is to make Olivia’s dream to come throu-gh, give her everything that life took from her aside her parents which he can’t give her, but he will do everything possible to make sure she forget what the past feels like. he want to get married to her and start a family soon but Olivia has made it clear that she nee-d to concentrate with school and finish up first before thinking of marriage, he was very sure that Olivia loves him and see him as an angel without sin, and that gives him a fulfilling joy, Olivia perceive him to be a perfect man and there is nothing in the past that can even link him to his sins, nothing and no one will do that.
He knows that Olivia will forgive him any wrong, she loves him de-eply and can’t seem to do without him, he has succeeded him conquering down her wall of anger and vengeance for the evil man in her past and he was glad he succeeded in doing that
Opening one of the biggest supermarket for her destroyed all walls of doubt and bitterness, she has never looked back ever since, she adores him and he has try to portray as a perfect man to her
He loves her so dearly and they will soon become one family that’s all that matters to him
Him, Olivia and their daughter Emerald they will live as one big family and love will surely win over hate
Olivia doesn’t have to know he was the same evil man in her past and he will not reveal that to her anyway, even if she finds out in the future, she will not have a choice than to forgive him, with the level of her love for him she can not live a day without him so eventually Olivia will let the past slide off and she will see the pres£nt as a blessing in disguise.
Kane was glad that his plans was almost perfected.
Olivia who was in school, employed a nanny to be looking after her daughter, she nee-ded to concentrate with her studies, she was moving from different stages, after university she went to law school, her dreams was coming to fulfillment and she was really going to make her late parents proud just as she has promised them before their untimely death
Olivia was asked to chose a t©pic in school that she can tackle so well and she chose criminal law and criminal procedure, the bases of criminal responsibility, the rules and policies for enforcing sanctions against individuals accused of committing offenses against the public order and well-being, and the rights guaranteed to those charged with criminal violations.
Olivia picked the subject of her t©pic as Kaka, she would have love to pursue justice with all her might back then if she knows better, but despite it has all been in the past she will not derail in becoming a renown barrister so that she can bring justice to victim of her kind, people who has nob©dy to speak up for them, she will take up many cases without asking for anything just to make sure that justice is served cold and chilled, and every culprit will be given a well deserved s£ntence.
Olivia still create time to be with her daughter who was growing so fast and with the man of her dream, the love of her life who God created so perfect without sp©t.
Kane to her was a walking angel, she wish her parents were alive to meet the great man that God gave to her, a perfect handsome being, who wants nothing else but her happiness.
She would have being married to him as he has wanted but that will distract her law school, and she doesn’t want anything that will affect her pursuit of justice, she want to become a voice to the voiceless, a human right activist. and will make sure people like Kaka never gets away from the law, men like Kaka who go around, m©l£sting, destroying and attacking the innocent will meet their lop hole, they will taste what it is like to be in real life pain.
No matter how much money they offer to be freed they will surely serve their punishment, he who destroys must surely be destroyed.
But angels like Kane will never cease to prosper and live happily with their families in peace as they deserve and no harm will come to them.
Python who has being in prison for years was finally re-leased, he was going to start his life all over again, to be a better citizen. Kaka has escaped because of his father’s wealth and status and they allowed him to served all this years quietly for the sin that him and Kaka committed, and Kaka even has the large p@rt of the crime but they hanged everything on his head and flown Kaka out of the country and he was s£ntence to years in prison. Now he is hoping when he finally gets out he will have hope of another good beginning.
Kaka should be able to help him start a new life again, being behind bars is never a good experience, and he was determined to warn many young and old fellows who chose such p@rt of life.
Kaka owes him big time, he will search him out and get something out of him which will help him start all over again into another journey of life, this time for the better.
TBc….