Episode 1

Myrah at her Father's Burial.

MYRAH.

On earth we are given a great deal of work to do, heavy burdens lies on every soul that exists.

On earth we are all fated to meet difficult occasions, frustrating situations, life threatening

ailments, and violence.

We go into furious conflicts never arid of the fear of death, to protect ourselves from dangers

and threats, or due to provocations from a fellow, we encounter many situations, conditions and

machination, that will bring only trouble and turbulence into our life.

We may in an effort to gratify our whims and craves, involve in risky and peril activities.

It is implicit to say, we would thrive at times in our lifetime, or flourish, and relish in some

condition, but it can't all be achieved sans suffering, labour, or travails, and death being the only

surety that could spare us the ordeal of it, made life more miserable.

All these certainties cited, are what causes us to experience a plethora of miserable moments in our life.

Suffering is the experience we pass through mostly, although a few good times redeem those

hard times and beclouds the actuality that life is filled with struggle and survival.

But at a time and in a way, we will still come to realize that life is full of travails, work and

suffering, than it is with pleasure, it's prevalent in the life of a cipher.

These are my percepts about life, i learned through experience and reasoning.

They all ravaged in my mind during the ceremony.

I was tranced in bewildering thoughts about life and misfortune,

I stood alone and away from the crowd, I stood under a tree, utterly oblivious and shrouded in

deep thoughts, i wasn't aware of my surroundings, negative thoughts rioted in my mind,

accompanied with pain and sorrow i couldn't bear.

I wondered why unfortunate things keep happening to me, and why life has been so cruel to me,

I believed restraining from iniquity and observing moral obligations, would inevitably ward off

adverse conditions, but all my life experiences proves being good to be a corollary of

beleaguerment, and hardship. It seemingly admitted grief and beggary,

Misfortunes and tragedies never cease to come my way, and worsens my condition at every visit.   

It hits heavy on me like karma, like it takes note of my sins and tie them all together, and brought

them all back to me.

It's arrantly aggravating for a person who has never been notorious, wicked or fickle afore, or

somebody who has participated in causing ruin on another, nor trespassed against anyone.

I've never played a part in any of these, but still i live like am reaping the evil I sowed, I live like

i once spearheaded vicious schemes, and now am being hoisted by my petard.

Having lost mom twelve years ago on account of cervical cancer, I've lost dad now in the most

painful way, he died in a car collision, and It looks to be, the most unfortunate thing that has ever

happened to me.

Misfortune, virtually happens in many ways.

They could come as failure, some may come as adversity or loss of loved one or natural

disasters, famine, or sicknesses.

There is a consensual belief that Say's.

''Every cloud has a silver linning'''

which means, there is a positive side of every sad or difficult situation.

But i beg to differ on that, they can't be a positive side in certain respect, just like in my situation.

When someone looses both parents, such a situation literally has no positive side, especially

when your parents still play a pivotal role in your life.

Their demise will only have a negative effect on you,

Now I look around and realize, there will be nobody to protect me and stand with me and for me

in times of trouble,

Nobody to smile at me and say to me, be happy, you don't own all the problems in this world.

All I see is, hustle escalating and responsibilities that am incapable of taking.

LEON

What becomes of me now, I presently have nobody to call my parent,

There is no similar situation that can be worse for a child than loosing both parents.

Until this very moment i still can't believe I could go from having parents and on the long run

become an orphan.

I fear it could reduce the height I could possibly attain in life.

Because the catalyst in my furtherance has been eliminated, my furtherance cannot be altered

anymore, and I might be left in a life of stagnation.

I kept beating my brains out about that during my father's burial ceremony, the priest was

delivering a sermon, and my mind wasn't there, his voice sounded like to me he was blabbing,

My mind kept obsessing over dad being gone and us being left in the care of our step mom

armella.

Armella never liked us, not even the blindest bit of care or love has she ever shown us, she

forcefully makes us bend to her will and threatens our life when we disobey her orders,

And now it's just me, my sister, and her.

I could remember the year 2009 vividly, the year we lost mom, dad was very lonely and sad, we

were lonely too, but not as dad was, we always felt sad seeing him alone, so myrah and I adjured

him to find a new wife, we told him that we are willing to welcome a new mother in our life.

That's when dad searched and met Armella,

When armella frequently visited my dad, her behaviour gave me the impression that she can't be

a good mother to us or to anybody.

She doesn't speak to us, she only has short and casual conversations with us and she rarely pays

attention to us.

I told myrah to make dad break up with her, but she withheld.

She knows am a pessimist, am used to thinking bad things will happen, and often times it doesn't.

She told me to give her time, and assured me Armella still want to build a relationship with us.

It never got obvious to myrah until after dad got married to Armella, then it became obvious and

needing no further proof that my prediction was right.

By then getting rid of Armella had become impossible.

And now it's us alone against her, the thought of that made shafts of fear run through me and i

kept assuming that the shape of things to come will never be in our favour.

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