STORY BY DEBORAH PAUL
PASTOR FEMI
EPISODE 41
Subtitle: the pas-sion
KENDRA’S POV
I couldn’t believe someone like femi was once in the military and to crown it up he even lost his wife and son.
KENDRA
how did they die?
(I asked feeling teary too)
PASTOR FEMI
we were sent on a secret mission, which we succeeded….or so I thought, I didn’t know how our information got out…. we all that went for the mission was taken out one after the other…..i was not at home, they came to my house met my wife and son….. the rest is history.
KENDRA
I don’t un-derstand, if it’s a secret mission and you guys succeeded…..how did your details get leaked?
PASTOR FEMI
after the death of Mimi, I started to gather information and I found out my boss was the one who set us all up for some amount of cash.
KENDRA
his so mean…. I hope he rots I’m jail
(I said but he smiled)
PASTOR FEMI
you think I would have my sanity knowing the man who killed my wife and son is alive? I went to his house and wiped his whole family and himself…….. I was arrested, as a black man with a white mother I didn’t spent much time in jail….. I came out and started to live like a ghost….
KENDRA
(I was shocked)
you killed your boss and his family?
PASTOR FEMI
is not something I’m proud of but yes I did….. I didn’t see other way.
KENDRA
you killed his innocent children who had nothing to do with the evil their father had committed.
PASTOR FEMI
well yeah, at that time I wasn’t a good man okay, beside do you know what pain does to a man? I served that country with all my strength and that’s what I get?
Who I’m I to judge someone like pastor femi? even the Bible said the sins of the father would be visited on the generation yet unborn…. whatever that happened to his family was his fault.
Exodus 34:6-7 “The Lord pas-sed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Beside if God can overlooked what he had done and called him to do his work who I’m I to judge him?
The room was silent for sometime turn I spoke again.
KENDRA
how did you overcome the pain?
PASTOR FEMI
(He smiled painfully)
you never overcome pain Ken, you just learn to live with it…. sometimes I stay and wonder what my life would have been like if God didn’t save me and gave me a reason to live again.
(his tears dropped)
KENDRA
you are right, after the death of my mother and dad…..did I tell you I had a British mum?
PASTOR FEMI
(he looked surprised)
you did?
KENDRA
yeah, mum was from Britain and dad from nigeria…..sometimes i wish mum was from Nigeria and dad was from British….. mum gave birth to us in her country but dad was always talking about his own country Nigeria that we had to come back to the country….. ba-rely two years that we came to Nigeria mum and dad were poison….. up till date no one knew how that posion got to the food that killed my parents…. they left me to take care of my little sister Natasha…. my dad’s elder brother took everything from us and sent us out into the street…. we had no pas-sport because our uncle wouldn’t give it to us and we were just kids that didn’t even know our rights.
Thinking of the past was so bad for me because as a little girl who came from a family who was wealthy only to start from the stretch wasn’t easy….. I remembered what I had to go throu-ghto feed my little sister, I remember how many times I was beaten and poured hot water on because I tried to save my sister from the crudity of human.
I couldn’t continue my story, my heart was to heavy to continue and my tears was already choking me…. pastor femi got up from his chair and hu-gged me.
PASTOR FEMI
it’s okay, you don’t nee-d to say anymore….your pain has said it all….. since I’m not a stranger to pain I can un-derstand whatever you went throu-gh.
I tried to talk but I couldn’t, I increa-sed my sob, he hu-gged me even more ti-ghtly.
I cried till I felt lighter, till I felt like my sorrows has suddenly been taken away from me… he pulled from the hu-g and stare at my face with pas-sion…. maybe I was exaggerating I don’t know but I could tell it was pas-sion I saw.
PASTOR FEMI
how did this two broken people come to know each other ? hey, look at me
(he held my cheeks) I’m so proud of you Ken, with everything you been throu-ghyou didn’t just come out strong, you came as victorious.
I stare at him too, I didn’t blink my eyes…..I got lost in those eyes that was filled with sadness and pain… I couldn’t take my eyes off off…..
PASTOR FEMI POV
there’s this saying that goes “know me before you judge me” I have been so mad at kendra for not accepting to work for God… when I have also been in that place… it took years before I finally accepted to work for God…. at first I refuse, but after the punishment from God I decided to give it a trial…. beside what will be my lose if I serve him? the first miracle I did was a little child who had swallowed a little Neil and they were taking him in for an operation…. unfortunately for that child, the doctor who was supposed to carry out that surgery didn’t show up…. he was delayed or something I don’t know….I was at the hospital because I had itches all throu-ghthe night and couldn’t sleep…. I saw the helpless child looking like he was going to die anytime soon…I made a decree unknowingly and the child vomitted the Neil at the sport.
The shocking thing was that I didn’t lay my hands on the child or even go close….from w distance I said what was led in my heart and it came to padd… immediately that baby vomited that Neil my stretching stopped.
I couldn’t believe it that after all I had done I could still be this kind of person God wants me to be….. ever since then I looked beyond my sins and started to serve God.
so I had no reason to judge someone else, listening to her side of the story hurt me, it brou-ght back the pain I felt when I lost my beautiful wife miracle.
As I held her cheeks and stare at her face, I was lost in her beauty, that beautiful face that beneath it was filled with sadness and pain…. I brou-ght my li-ps down to hers and I ki-ssed her….. she moved away and stare at me for some seconds
PASTOR FEMI
I’m sorry, I didn’t…..
i was saying but she grabbed my cheeks and ki-ssed me back pas-sionately….. I ki-ssed her back…. we ki-ssed for close to give minutes before I pulled from her….. the room became awkward, I didn’t know what to say…. I guess she didn’t know what to say either…… suddenly she got up and told me goodnight…..rushing off to her room.
STORY BY DEBORAH PAUL
PASTOR FEMI
EPISODE 42
Subtitle: No reason
PASTOR FEMI POV
Ever since that night I ki-ssed kendra she has been avoiding me, I have some everything within my powers to talk to her but she’s always running away.
even the days that I didn’t go out at all and stayed at home, she would lock herself up in her roo.
This continued for a week and it started to border me
“Did she hate me that much that she doesn’t want to speak to me after the ki-ss”?
“or was it the ki-ss she hate so much? maybe she hated herself for ki-ssing someone who wasn’t her spec”
“or was it because the ki-ss didn’t come from Michael but from me”?
all this question filled my head that it took away energy from my body, I couldn’t eat, sleep or even concentrate on anything at all.
Since she has decided not to see me, or even talk to me I started to stay inside my room too.
So this night I was in my room as usual trying to sleep…it was just 8pm but I wanted to sleep, I tried to read but couldn’t, I tried to see a movie on my laptop but wasn’t interested in it….. nothing was pleasing to me
as I toss from one side of the bed to the other, I got a text message on my phone….I quickly checked it thinking it was kendra but surprisingly the text came from Lilian…..I haven’t heard from her since that night I saw her ki-ssing another man…. thinking about that didn’t even hurt anymore, what hurt me more now is not being able to talk with kendra.
“Hey, are you awake? can I call you”?
that was what she sent, I immediately deleted the text after reading it….. after a while she sent another one.
” i know you are still awake, I’m going to call you now…..please pick up my call”
my phone started to ring, she was the one calling….i rejected the call and switched off my both phones.
As I as about to drop my phone on the bed, they took light…..I smiled at myself remembering what happened that night kendra and I ki-ssed….she’s scared of darkness and it only a matter of time before she start screaming again.
I haven’t even finish what I was thinking when I heard her screaming…. I smiled to myself happily again and ran outside, I went to her door and knocked because the door was locked from behind.
PASTOR FEMI
what happened? why are you screaming?
KENDRA
it’s so dark in here, I can’t find my phone.
(her voice was tense)
PASTOR FEMI
calm down, where are you exactly?
KENDRA
I’m on my bed.
PASTOR FEMI
good, gently come down from your bed, walk slowly to the door and unlock it…. do you think you can do that?
KENDRA
no, no, no, I can’t do that, what if something jump on my legs? I’m not coming down from this bed
(she said almost crying)
PASTOR FEMI
if you ain’t going to open the door it’s fine, but know that earlier today I saw one big lizard that looks like a snake closer to your window……it might still be….
I didn’t finish what I was saying when she jumped down to the door and opened it…. immediately she jumped on my body instead holding me very ti-ght.
To her she did it because she was scared of the lizard I said I saw and because of the darkness….. but that hu-g that had her legs wrapped around me meant so much to me… why was I so happy that she was wrapped around me.
PASTOR FEMI
calm down, you are safe now
i said with my hands wrapped around her back so she wouldn’t fall from my body.
after some time i tried to bring her down from my body, but Ken wouldn’t have any of that… she held unto me strongly not wanting to let go.
Eventually they brou-ght back the light and everywhere became dark, she immediately jumped down from my body feeling very embarras-sed.
KENDRA
I’m sorry for jumping on you like that
(she said looking at the floor)
I stare at her beautiful stature, it was the first time I was seeing her this close ever since that night…. suddenly happiness was replace with anger, I got pissed and turn to walk away not answering her at all.
She rushed at me and grabbed my arms but I removed her hand and went outside her room….she ran after me and stopped me before I could enter mine.
PASTOR FEMI
what is it kendra? you were scared of darkness and they have brou-ght back the light…..its obvious you don’t nee-d me anymore…..so I will just go back to my space…. where I have been this past week.
KENDRA
are you angry at me? I guess you are, it’s in your voice and the way you talk.
PASTOR FEMI
angry? I’m not angry…. please I’m sleepy and I nee-d to sleep….goodnight.
I took a step and she grabbed me again, pulling me back
KENDRA
why did you ki-ss me that night? was it because you pity me? or because you saw me ki-ssing Michael and you thought I’m a cheap girl that any man can do what they want with her.
I couldn’t believe my ears, for one week she stayed away from me because she thought I ki-ssed her because I was jealous of Michael?
It’s so silly of me having all those thought about her not knowing she equally has her own thoughts towards me.
PASTOR FEMI
(Shocked)
what!!! “pity”? why should I pity you? what reason do I have to pity you Ken”? when I ki-ssed you, you ki-ssed me back, yes you did…. then you stayed away from me for a week and filled your br@ins with this silly ideas? you think I’m jealous of Michael? this is unbelievable Ken….. how little did you see me?
I said and walked into my room, this time my anger had increa-sed from level 2 to level 10…. she followed me into my room.
KENDRA
at least I know the reason why I ki-ssed Michael, I also know the reason why he ki-ssed me back….its because he loves me and it’s because I was lost in his sorrow…. but I have no idea why you ki-ssed me… why did you ki-ss me?
PASTOR FEMI
Can you tell me the reason why you ki-ssed me too? since you always have reasons for ki-ssing people…. did you also pitied me because I told you I lost my wife and son? because I seriously want to know.
She was silent, her eyes weren’t as sharp ad they were few minutes ago….. they had turn red and I knew anymore mean word from me would make those tears drop and that wouldn’t be cool with me.
KENDRA
I didn’t ki-ss you back because I pitied you okay, I ki-ss you back because I have been dying to ki-ss you, I have always imagine what it would feel like ki-ssing you…. that’s the truth.
PASTOR FEMI
you have been dying to ki-ss me? but why? I’m not even your spec ….why would you be dying to ki-ss me?
KENDRA
I already told you why I ki-ssed you back, now it’s your turn to tell me why you ki-ssed me…. you just don’t go about ki-ssing people….do you?
PASTOR FEMI
I don’t know.
KENDRA
what do you mean by ” I don’t know”?
PASTOR FEMI
yes kendra, you heard me….i don’t know why I ki-ssed you….i don’t.
the tears she held in her eyes finally dropped, she moved away from me a little.
KENDRA
it’s not like I was expecting something magnificent…..but however your response still hurts me.
she said and left my room
story continues
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