PART ONE.THE JOURNEY TO THE TRUTH
"You have gone too far this time around"Mellisa screamed at Jasmine. " All this while I thought that you were my friend even though i don't know what to say to you anymore ?" Mellisa said angrily. All this while Jasmine was pretending to be a nice friend to Mellis to take advantange of everthing in Mellisa's life.
These two friends grew up together and did everything together because their family history was well known even before these two girls were born and came to know each other well . It all started when Norman and John were still kids back then these two families were united by their drug empires.
John and Norman used to school together and even went to rhe same high-school together as a matter of fact, these two were inseparable at all times even in the games or whatever event could be held in school you could just find these two together. As they were growing up , they used to see how their own parents running the empires with alot of seriousness . Even sometimes they two could attend the cartels meetings and also know better on how to running the business.
So one faithful morning, as the two gentlemen were going to their offices Norman's dad fell down and when rushed to the hospital he was confirmed dead by the doctors. All the family members couldn't believed what
they were hearing from the doctors. The family came together and mourn for week, then the funeral was held and he was put to rest in the cementry. After a week , the lawyer was called and the will was read to the family members, it wasn't a shock to them for Normany to get 80% of his father properties and the rest was well distributed to his mother, sister and the two young brothers.
As usual, the first son was the one in charge of the family and everthing and Norman was even luckily he was also close to his mother and the rest of his siblings he usually made sure that he had a strong bond with the rest of the family. Andrew was the uncle to Norman who was his biggest enemy of his brother family . But this didn't bother Norman at all because he had everthing under his control plus the his family was the biggest support in his life.
Two years later , there was an engagement party , where these two were to get married after many years of dating and everthing. So everyone was invited to the engagement party which was being held at Norman's house. Agness was her name ,which was such a beautiful lady whom Norman's family loved the most as their daughter in law . After some months even John get engaged to his lover whom they used to date back in university school.
Sofia and Agness used to go to the same high-school and they were best friends back then . So when they had finished their high-school studies they all passed very well and joined the same university in London, where they used to study medicines the both of them. And during the long vacation they used to came back home to their families and spend vacation together , and their parents were also very close and business people who had a very good reputation in the whole Nigeria .These two girls were unseparatable even in their daily lives as they started dating the most handsome two men in the whole region.
So it came to pass on evening as they had gone for a party in one of the longest friend house back in Nigeria, Sophie was so drunk that Agness had to ask for help of two gentlemen who were Norman and John as these two also were very close friend and used to do everything together. So when the opportunity emerged , they didn't hesitate to take it . So Norman and John came and helped Agness in taking her inside the car and offered to drive the two ladies back home but Agness refused and said she was alright and she could manage by her own . So after making sure that her friend was alright she drove off and while in the car she called Sophie parents and informed them about the state that Sophie is in. On reaching on the gate , the watchman opened the the gate for her and she drove
until to the house compound which was big enough , and the parents of Sophie were waiting anxiously for their daughter. When Agness stopped the car ,they came quickly and opened the car door and took Sophie to her room and thanked Agness for her kindness as she drove off to her house.
It was a rainy Monday, when everything was wet outside and when Sophie woke up and checked her phone just to see her fried had been calling to check on her . She ringed Agness back and the two talked and agreed to meet later and do their assignments because in the following week they were supposed to traveled back to school.
Later during the afternoon hours Sophie and Agness met in their usual spot and started doing their assignments without disturbance . Suddenly Agness phone rung and it was her uncle who was calling and ask about her whereabouts." How are you ?" Max asked. "Am good ".Sophie answered and they continued to their conversation as Agness was continuing with the assignment. After they had finished they each took their bags and books and left to their respective homes.
One faithfully evening, Agness had gone for her shopping and luckily she came across Norman who
was also doing his own shopping and he was also to return to school the following week. "Hy Agness " Norman greeted . "Hy too" Agness replied ."How have you been since the last time we left the two of you and how is your friend Sophie doing?" " Ooh Sophie she is fine and doing great" . " Can I have your number so that later we can catch up?" "Norman asked politely. "Of course "Agness replied so she gave him the number as they finished to do their respective shopping the said the goodbyes and left.
Time for the two girls came for them to return back to school and continued with their studies and that was their final year. Each one of them worked very hard and made sure their All were proud of them. As days came to pass the Agness and Norman became very close to a point that Norman could travel every weekend to London just to see Agness and this made Sophie want to date also because most of the time she was left alone in the apartment for some days. She she had to ask help from her own sister and she was given John number as these two also could talk and chat and planned their own things and everything. But the funny thing about Sophie was she was never in love with John and all she needed was just a male friend who could represent the male figure in her life.
As days wentby, the two girls finished their studies and graduated and emerged with first class each one of
them , and even Norman and John also graduated and finally they were free with their lives and each of them went in search of job hunting. Sophie was luckily and she got a position in one of her father's hospital and for Agness went a bit far from home and got a job as a pediatrician . They used to meet during the weekends and come together with their families also. John and Norman got hired in the father's company so each one of them was busy in their daily life's.
One faithful Friday morning, Andrew came to Norman's house while he was away and he made a very huge mess in Norman's house. Andrew's family was very unhappy with the distribution of the wealth since the begging of time. So this made him hate Norman and his mother and his siblings. Andrew swore to himself that he would made Norman's life a living hell and accusing him of his own suffering and the current condition that he was in full of debts everywhere. Before Norman's dad fell ill and died they used to work together the two brother , but due to Andrew negligence and incompetent in work Norman's father made sure that in his will he will never include him nor his kids. They used to urge over his behaviors of coming to work drunk, betting and taking large sum of money even without considering the life of other workers . These two were very close and loved each other deeply, but due to his unreasonable behavior after they had
started the company and he sawa that everything was going well he started changing until he was a mess until his own father got heart attack just because of his behaviors and some months later his mother also fell ill and died .
So life for Andrew family was very bad, so Norman had to rush back to his house and when he saw what the uncle had done. He called the police within a jiffy he was taken to jail for transpassing and destruction of properties. His family begged him but Norman refused to listened and went back and collected all the pieces and started again buy household equipment. When Agness and Sophie had what had happened , they rushed to see the great damage that had happened over there. John sent his apologies cause he was very busy in another country in a meeting with some of shareholders in the company.
Norman's mother was very furious with the way Andrew carried his his mannerless behavior to his son's house and destroyed a mass of unknown value in the house and he was supposed to pay evething . "How dare you came into my house without calling ?" Fiona angrily asked Adobe. " I can come here anytime that I want to thus that ring into your deaf ears?" Adobe said. "Are you happy now seeing us miserable like this and having nothing at our disposal ?" Fiona said . " Well well
look who is talking?" "Do you remember you were the one you used to advise your advise on financial matters in your family ?" " I tried to warn you about the repercussions of everything you two you were doing behind our backs and even caused mother and father illness and death ain't to aware of everything now ?" Adobe said .
" OK I agree I was foolish enough not turned a deaf ears to your pleading when we had a chance back then". "Can you please talk to your son for us please just look the way we are suffering from all of these mistakes that I tried to warned him myself but he also turned deaf on me". Fiona said. "OK i will try and talk to my son about his uncle to just forgive him because his the only father that he has right now". Said Adobe as she was looking and laughing rudimentary because she knew that the topic it's a dead end there's no way that she was going to confront his son and tell him about the uncle's wife pleading nor the children problems. She closed the door on her way out and entered into her car and drove off to her home where she had unexpected visitors. Her son's friend had just arrived and they were waiting for her in the sittingroom, where they were going to discuss how the business was being run on the other side of the countries and the benefits and losses that had occurred during the transportation of the cargo plus the challenges the workers were facing and the way they were going to compensate them plus their families
because some had to die and some became ill of unknown disease in some regions.
" Welcome back John you have been a great asset in our lives together with your family and everthing we thank you alot " Adobe said. "It's ok since we are from the same families and born in a business that need total accountability in everything "said John. " But on my way coming here I got a phone call about what had happened to Norman's house and his properties and am really sorry and well congratulations in advance about you going to marry Agness" said John. "Yeah that a normal thing everybody need a compionship some day who can advise you on matter which tend to be complicated in this life so I hope we can celebrate for this" said Norman. "Is everything ready for the wedding and is there anything I can do just to add up what is missing ?" John asked. " No the only thing missing is asking you to be my best man in my wedding " said Norman ." "YES OF COURSE it will be my pleasure to that because you can measure our friendship and brotherhood and the challenges that we passed together during our days back in school and everything" John answerd. So Adobe excused herself, and went to the kitchen and prepared some food for his two boy who had just arrived from their respective working places and made to sign deals and mergers with other cartels in the countries. It wasn't long that Fiona heard the news about the company and this made her even
furious and swore to herself that she was going to avenge back and take everything back which was taken from them and she even claimed that the company used to belong to her husband and not the other way round. So after Amber Norman's sister had finished her studies she also joined the company and made sure that to protect the family empire nomatter what. On the other side Priscilla John's sister also joined the family business and the both of them joined hands and made sure that the company grew even further.
So after some months, Fiona came to the company office and when she saw Amber and Priscilla she was shocked and couldn't believe her own eyes and ears of what was happening in the respective lives as adults ladies. She decided to swallow pride and went to Norman's and John's office and begged for forgives but these two couldn't let her win them with her smooth persuasiveness that she had .Fiona had started growing old not to mention the Grey hair on her head and not giving up on the company and everything in it ." So well untie you have decided to come and see for yourself how my own company is thriving after what you and your husband nearly left my father bankruptcy ?" Norman asked ."Well if it couldn't be my own Andrew hardworking and sacrifice this company couldn't have gone this far ". Fiona said arrogantly."Well I see it was your husband indeed who did this work aren't you ashamed of yourselves together with your gangster
son and daughter who came and ambush my house so what do you want from me? " Norman asked ."OK let me just be frank with you all I need is for my two children to be taken in and let them work for you as your farmers back there in the yard that all am asking from you " said Fiona. "OK let me see what I can do just for your son and daughter am sure I can get a vacant position and put them so that they can be use full to themselves and be independent individually in this life". Said John.
PART 2: FACING THE TRUTH
So after one year time they were both married and settle down . After six month Sophie became pregnant with Jasmine also Agness became pregnant with Mellisa. These two women grew ladies never stopped being friend with each other, and their friendship grew even stronger ,so after Agness had used to have complication with her pregnancy and which led for her many of the times being bed ridden in her house, and she was being monitored bt nurses who made sure she was OK and felt better . After some months John father was diagnosed with throat cancer stage three which was his final stage and this was very disappointing and very heartbreaking for the John mother and the siblings. Many days wentby and the business continued thriving with so many blessing and while Andrew was still in jail and planning how he was going to take revenge on Norman's and John's family after everything
he had been through because of them.
Sophie used to be in love with Norman from the beginning of time and used to fell jealous about Agness and Norman's the way they used to be in love with each other and their love patterns and everything what a woman needed in a man Norman had everthing. So Sophie started to be creepy in Norman's life until she had finally made away with him in his house so many times without her family knowing and Norman's family knowing anything. One unfaithful morning, the weather was very windy and everything was unstable for Agness due to her blood pressure and everything and she was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance as an emergency patient who need to be operated . Luckily enough Sophie was in the hospital so she requested for not to be operated since her blood pressure had gone up now they had to wait until the blood pressure had reduced. After three days of being nominated, the doctors confirmed that she was ready to go for an operation since she could not deliver the normal way. So her family signed the operation paper her mother ,father and sister and her auntie Jupiter who was very close to her were all there to support her and prayed for her for safety delivery. So Sophie went in and started the operation and luckily Agness had carried triplets who were weighed more kilos than normal babies. So after
everything had finished,shewastaken to her private VIP ward where only family was allowed to enter and see her the babies were taken to the cleaning room and well wiped and brought to their mother who had to breastfeed them .As first mother she didn't know anything about breastfeeding so she was lucky her untie and her mother were there to support . At home the maids had arranged her welcome party and arranged and decorated the house very well.
When she was discharged, her mother ,untie ,husband and the others helped her in taking her her children at home.All of them were surprised to see Sohie there and the way she was commanding them . But no one suspected anything was wrong but the maids knew what has happening behind the curtains. They all taught that all in the name of friendship and closeness of the two families. So she warmly welcomed them, and they took her to her bedroom and the children and she was told to rest .
One managed to take her quickly to the hospital and John called her friend husband and told that Sophie was rushed to the hospital the time had reached for her to deliver. So Norman on the other hand was full in charge of the company since the other wing was supposed to be at home. After some days, Sophie was discharged from the hospital and she had given birth to a lovely girl and ended up naming her Jasmine and for Agness had
triplets one girl and two boys so there was Mellisa,June, Yellow . Finally the whole family was in peace after everything they went through.
Written by Douglas Nyambane.
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