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 BONUS EPISODE TWO "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE “I am sorry I’m disturbing in your present state of grieving even when it’s barely a week, but if it isn’t important, I wouldn’t have dared.” “What is it Dr. Badmus?” Mrs. Ambrose still felt calm, she couldn’t see herself hearing a news that would hurt her more than the death of her son. “Before I go on, I want to deeply apologize for my ignorance and incompetence. I have no choice but to take the blame for two of my workers who were irresponsible and gave a nonchalant attitude towards a delicate situation such as your son’s death…” Mrs. Ambrose sat to the edge of her bed slowly, to put in more concentration to Dr. Badmus words as he continued “…I…I… deeply apologize ma…” Dr, Badmus could feel his butchered boldness bailing out on him “…I…unfortunately, my…my workers who I have fired because of their lousiness didn’t quite conduct the autopsy well enough and…and…” Mrs. Ambrose still tried to keep her cool but her impatience and f
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 BONUS EPISODE ONE "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE Dr. Badmus paced through his office to and fro all night. His fright and fear obviously got the best of him. Although the weather forecast was presented to be really cold that night, but Dr. Badmus lab coat reek of sweat.  The golden brown dried up sweat,  on his lab coat,  that laid on the chair,  formed a wobbling necklace round the collar and downwards. He unbuttoned his T-shirt as his collapsed on the sofa in an attempt to grasp a breath of fresh air, but all that pierced through his skin was a splash of hot guilt and fear “How could I let this happen!” he yelled at himself letting his fingers go through his fairly grown hair in frustration. He hissed in despair “Ahhhh! Badmus! Badmus! This is trouble…this is bad. How do you explain this” he kept on hitting his head with his hands as he monologue He looked at the time on his wrist watch. It was already 7am. He had spent the whole night lurking for a good way to break his puni
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PART TWENTY-ONE "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE Malia dropped the phone after speaking to Mrs. Ambrose who called to check up on her She went over to the drawer beside her bed. She opened the last drawer. She removed all the surface objects and gazed at the gift she had hide for months since she was given. The writing was still clearly engraved ‘To Malia’ She breathed heavily and took it out. She sat on the bed, slowly removing the wrapper. She saw a tiny box and a letter inside. She opened the tiny box and saw a beautiful necklace with Frankie engraved on it. She was stunned to see it. She kept the necklace aside and took the letter to read “To my dear Malia, I couldn’t talk to you before leaving permanently but I didn’t want to just go like that. You above all people deserve an explanation and an apology. An explanation about the cause of my death and why I had to leave without telling you about it. I hope you forgive me for not telling you about my illness, you should understa
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  PART TWENTY "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE The trio assembled at the center four days after their talk with Jeremy and Malia. Their countenance were still sad. Quinn had called in that she had to make an emergence trip but told the trio to meet at the center where she would meet up with them. Although both teams had filled her little details from their interviews Quinn walked into the room also with a sad countenance “Where have you been, you just zoomed off and refused to tell anyone a thing “Tony snapped but gave her a hug “you got everyone worried” Quinn froze when Tony hugged her but her brain shook her to the real issue “I am so sorry. I just had an idea that instance and I quickly took it, I wanted to have something in hand before telling you guys anything” “Well…we are finally done with our story” Alex said from a far end seating on a stool and leaning on the wall melancholically “Sadly we are” Eli breathed a heavy sigh on the sofa “It turns out Frank died of Obsessive
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PART NINTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE ***** “Hey bro! What’s up” Jeremy said enthusiastically as he grabbed a seat in the eatery. “This one you called me, hope you and Malia aren’t fighting?” Jeremy was bothered about Frank’s silence “Dude what’s up with you, are you okay?” “I think I owe you an apology” Frank finally spoke up “What do you mean?”  Frank spoke soberly and calmly “Malia is the first lady that has ever looked at me with love. She helped me through a lot. She always came through for me” Frank gave a sigh and continued “I have feelings for Malia...” Even if Jeremy already knew about it, he still felt shocked “I have always had feelings for her from the very first day, you won’t blame me. I wanted to tell her so many times, but I didn’t want to take her unaware or make her drift away, so I decided to exercise patience and probably take it slow. I knew she felt the same. Our relationship was going well. But unfortunately, during the period of my patience, at the
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 PART EIGHTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE Alex and the others walked over to the park to meet up with Malia when Tony’s phone rang “Guys Jeremy is calling” “Pick up then” Eli felt delighted “I was going to” Tony picked up the phone. The trio halted till Tony finished up his call “Does he wanna meet up?” Alex said “Yeah…”  “Oh Lord thank you!” Alex exclaimed “Today is the best day we have ever had over this story. Let’s go together. Eli and Malia can walk better girl to girl” Alex suggested “Heck no!” Eli bounced back  “She is a suspect for murder” she whispered “Common Lil” Don’t tell me to common. I’m not gonna take my chances. It’s either one of you comes along with me or forget it “Fine, Tony just go alone. I will go along with Eli” “Better. Bye sweetie” Eli waved with a successive smile (Malia) “I met Frank Ambrose at the school library for the first time.” Malia began “I was two seats away from him but I couldn’t help but notice the scornful laughs around him. For a guy
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 PART SEVENTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE The Quad assembled at the center the next day Looking at each other when they all arrived... it was obvious they were all restless. None had a good night sleep by the look on their faces. But amongst all Elizabeth had the worse restlessness “guys I think we should just end this, Efua, told us to end this, Jeremy told us to end this, his friend told us to end this and even Sofia! But we didn’t listen. We were all busy looking for a perfect love story between Malia and Jeremy not knowing we were just getting ourselves entangled into a murder case. Guys I am freaking out!” paranoia was already getting the best of her Tony drew closer to her,  holding her close on the sofa “just calm Lil, just calm down. Nothing is gonna happen” “Noo tony, don’t try to comfort me right now, I and Alex have been the ones mainly talking to her. What…what if she knows that we know her secret and comes for us?!” Eli’s eyes popped out in fear “I can’t die! A
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  PART SIXTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE (Sofia) “What is this big thing Jeremy is keeping to himself and doesn’t want to let out?” Alex asked Sofia “With all the stories I have heard, they love each other, so what is that big thing that had to cut them far apart?” “Alex I really don’t know myself. I deeply want to know what happened but know body is ready to talk” Sofia hesitated, startled as she recalled something “Did you remember anything, common tell me” Alex anxiety to know was on the edge “you know what” Sofia’s eyes weren’t settled as they spaced around” “What is it?” Alex asked “I have to go” “Nooo…you aren’t leaving. You are the one that said you also want answers a while ago, just help us here, please. It can’t be that bad” “Jeremy…he…oh no!” “What did Jeremy do, common Sofia say something!” Alex snapped “Sofia jerked in fright “You guys shouldn’t continue with this story, I don’t have a good feeling about this one bit. Please. I’m sorry I have to go” Sofia ran o
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 PART FIFTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE (Quinn) “Hi you are Tim right, Timothy” Quinn said to a guy she came across just leaving a building “Do I know you?” “Not actually, I just need a quick chat with you if you don’t mind please. I’m not gonna take your time” Quinn’s eyes begged for approved “Alright I have five minutes” Timothy didn’t look quite interested “Thanks. Mmm… it’s about Jeremy. I guess you guys are friends. People say they notice you guys around most time…” “Is there a problem with that?” Quinn grew furious with his tone of response towards her. She felt like snapping at him but she knew she wouldn’t get her information if she did. She took a deep breath and continued “Of course not. You should know he was in a relationship with Malia before and…” “Wait, this has to do with Malia…I am not interested in this” he snapped “Common, what’s so bad about her that you and Jeremy always behave like she is the worst person on earth or something?” Tim walked away but Mal
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  PART FOURTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE ***** “Dehm!!”? Tony Exclaimed “I didn’t know you were that bad. So what was your reaction when you saw them?” “Luckily that night, I saw everything from the beginning” “What did you see?” Tony’s eyes were wild open for an answer as Malia hesitated “wait, did she force herself on him?” Malia nodded in an affirmative “When I saw it, I knew that was what she meant about not giving up without a fight. Although I was pissed off, but I relaxed a bit when Jeremy quickly pushed her away. And that was when they noticed my presence” (Jeremy) “After what happened, I knew if I wanted to keep my relationship intact with the lady I love, I had to cut tiles with Sofia as soon as possible” “So what did you do” Eli asked “I called Sofia during school section. I had to make things right quickly because I allowed things linger between us for too long and she took it as a leverage and did that nonsense. I was so pissed at her. And she knew it. I was d
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PART THIRTEEN "THE STORY" BY UMORU PRAISE “I think your question should be what happened before that” Malia said ***** Malia waited for Sofia at an eatery close to the school area after Sofia called for a meet up “I hope I didn’t keep you waiting for too long” Sofia took her seat “I finally get to meet the Sofia” Malia said pleasantly discarded her statement “Excuse me” Sofia was confused “Jeremy has told me a lot about you. He told me you are a very good friend of his and trust me I have been willing to meet you but anything I request we meet up so he could introduce us he always postpones it” “Really” Sofia was intrigued “so what else did he tell you” “That you guys attended the same high school and were pretty close friends, and you even dated” “Oh really, he went that far. Then I guess he also told you we dated for three good and lovely years and we were really happy together”  Sofia drew a smirk to Malia’s expression After a sight silence, Malia smiled “well I guess the
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PART TWELVE "THE STORY"  BY UMORU PRAISE The quad decided to split up to get information quicker and faster on the story Sofia called the Quad hoping to finish up the talk they had five days ago ***** “Why don’t we just split, instead of going in pairs as usual, let’s just go individually. What do you think” Eli suggested “It’s not a bad idea” Tony concurred Alex quickly made the first claim “Okay then, I’ll go over to Sofia”  “Why Sofia” Quinn gave him the suspicious funny look “What… I just like the way she talks, it’s nice. If you like believe me or not, I don’t care” “Okay then, I’ll go to Jeremy” Eli said “I think he would open more to a female” “And why does it have to be you, Quinn can go instead” Tony gave the jealousy tone “Awwnn how sweet” Quinn spoke sarcastically “well I am going to search for some friends of Malia and Jeremy to see what I can find out” “I’m not going to ask him out, I’m just going to ask him some questions. So calm down alright” Eli beamed a smil