TEACHER NWACHUKWU (CRIMINAL LOVE) Episode 15 – Author Nath (Bright Daniel)
Heading: Stronger than water
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Pass six in the evening, crickets had started chirping, and toads at nearby stagnant water had also prepared to crow as a sign to the kids at the gate that darkness was not the only thing coming against them even the police and security men.
“What now, Ella?” Obi repeated the question.
Meanwhile, the security men matched like soldiers towards the gate. Their steps were not only brisk but sent a dangerous sound to any ear that hears them, matching to capture the kids. The force in which the gate was opened thereby making rusty sound could tell anyone that life must go down that night. Truly, one of the kids might go down.
The men barged outside the gate to see nobody as if the kids did abrakatabra and disappeared. At the point of woozy, the police arrived and sheriff matched forward to the men.
“Where are the kids?” she asked simultaneously.
“They’re gone.” one of the men said. “But how did you get information about their mission?” he added.
“What mission?”
“They left with government property.”
Sheriff thought for a while. “We just met one of them but on a landmine with Stephen Yinka.” She said.
“The missing boy?”
“Yes. Accordingly to Stephen, they are controlled by someone named teacher Nwachukwu.” She turned to her men. “Those kids haven’t gone far. We need to block all the roads.” She spoke through her transmitter to inform all units.
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At the landmine, the police had drawn a boundary, journalist surrounded the place with their camera and Stephanie could be seen shedding tears at a closer range to both her boyfriend and Ada, lamenting bitterly.
“I knew this girl had something to do with your disappearance.” She began pointing at Ada. “The police must make sure she pays dearly for this!”
Ada’s tears increased, listening to her. She looked at Stephen, “I’m sorry I have to die this way. I’m sorry for loving you so stupidly. Yes, I’m stupid, I know, but I’m glad I did it for love.” She wanted to step out in order to be blasted by the landmine explosive.
“Ada, wait, please.” Stephen prevented her to Stephenie’s amazement who stepped backward heartbroken coz she had noticed what was going on between the two. “You’ve passed through a lot because of me, Ada” Stephen continued. “..and I must appreciate you for that. Don’t lose hope yet, there must be a remedy to this. Please, don’t do this.” he concluded..
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The blades of the helicopter generated a strong wind that pulls away dried leaves found at the basketball court when it was landing. The blades slowly stopped rotating after landing, Judith and Cynthia stepped down reluctantly walking into the house with the fear of what teacher might do to them. Stepping into the house, they saw teacher walking down a staircase with a book.
“Sir, only these two returned.” The pilot reported, but teacher said nothing.
The two kids stood unease in the living room like one under tension. Truly, they were under tension, regarding teacher’s quietness and their love ones they left behind. Judith wouldn’t take it if anything should happen to Dave. Therefore, she was there but her spirit was with him Wherever he was.
Nevertheless, as they watched teacher silently, so as the guards and the pilot watched him too. He stood beside the centre table, pressed a remote at an empty wall and a flat screen television rolled out from the roof.
Judith and Cynthia looked at
each other coz that was the first time of seeing it. Suddenly, the television turned on to the latest news in town. They could hear a female journalist broadcasting thus; “There’s tension in the city of Kali as Stephen Yinka who was reported missing found on a landmine with one Ada who is suspected to have a crew headed by one teacher Nwachukwu. It is also reported that these kids have made away with a government property. Nobody knows what it is or where the remaining kids are but police are doing their damndest to get to the root of this..”
“When you get to The root of a plant. What happens? It falls.” Teacher said aloud.
The television displayed Stephen and Ada on the landmine.
Seeing them, the two girls felt pity for them while teacher began to touch his bears critically. He turned to the girls.
“Both of you should come closer” he said.
The girls glanced at each other as they reluctantly walked to him.
“Look at Ada and Stephen very well. What do you see?” he asked.
“Nothing teacher.” Judith replied as an afterthought while Cynthia shook her head.
“Look closely again.” teacher instructed.
Judith went closer to the television. “Wait, I can see their legs having the same colour, red.” She turned to teacher. “What does that mean?”
“The landmine they are stepping on is advanced.”
“I don’t understand, teacher.”
“What you’re seeing simply means that Stephen and Ada have the same blood. They are related.” teacher began to slide his beards again.
“What?” Cynthia met Judith, facing teacher the same way.
“Teacher” Judith chuckled. “Different people can have the same blood group. So your theory isn’t acceptable.” She spoke scientifically.
Teacher opened the book in his hand. “All of you were taken to me as a baby after being found dumped at the gutter, refuse-bin, etc. I took my time and resources to take your DNAs. Without Stephen’s knowledge I ran the same test and it matches with Ada’s” he showed them the evidence from the book as he continued. “In order to confirm it, I sent Stephen to the landmines.”
Cynthia looked up at him. “So you knew that Ada would go after him?”
“Blood is stronger than water and its cemented by love.” teacher replied.
“But you sent them to their death.” Judith looked up.
“No, Judith. I sent them there to get another device. The one at the bank coz it’s a completion of the one with Ella and co. Without the two I cannot achieve my aim.”
“How do you want to get the other device with the people trapped on a landmine?” Cynthia asked.
“That is a good question.” teacher took the book from them, placed it on the centre table and began to draw as he explains. “I’m the only one that can defuse the mines. When Stephen’s parents will know that the two on mines are their children they will do anything to save them.”
“You’ll send the parents to get the device in order to save Ada and Stephen for them coz you’re the only one who can do that.” Judith smartly completed.
“Exactly!” Teacher straightened up to see the kids amazed….
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TEACHER NWACHKWU
Episode 16
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Heading: Secret Diary (II)
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Teacher Nwachukwu knew everything he was doing and it was working according to his scrupulous plans. Before the kids take any action he knew they would and would be an expected reaction. Though Daniella and co thought they were acting base on their own power by disappearing with the device, but never knew that teacher expected them to act that way coz it was part of his plans.
However, inside the living room at the love garden, Judith and Cynthia mopped at their teacher after explaining to them about using Stephen’s parents to get the second device. They were amazed especially Judith who wanted to vividly comprend teacher’s ways of thinking.
“Teacher,” she stepped closer to him, staring up into his eyes. “Do you smoke weed?” she asked.
Teacher slowly brought down his hand from his beards. “Judith, state your mind.” he said.
“Each move we make, every word we speak and our character at each point in time are already known by you and it’s part of your plans. True or fales?”
The answer was true but teacher didn’t answer it rather began to analyze Judith’s critical methodology for getting closer to discover his plans other than just getting the device.
“Teacher” Judith continued unabashedly. “I believe the answer is true. I believe you’re playing a puzzle with our brains.”
Teacher turned his back on her to a telephone rested on a side stool. “Judith, where did all this things you’re saying come from? Why are you being so analytical to my actions?” he asked her without looking at her rather began to dial a number on the telephone.
Judith walked closer to him again. “Why I know that you know our actions even before we take it is because ever since we came back, you’ve not talked about Daniella and co. who are with a very precious thing you value. It’s your plan for them to react like that, isn’t it? You’re analyzing and observing our characters for something, aren’t you?”
Judith was getting closer to his other secret plans, so teacher turned to her with the phone on one of his ears.
“If I say yes to your question, you’ll call me a corny genius. If I say no, you won’t believe me. What makes someone a genius is not the ability to think outside the box. It’s the ability to survey his environment, study it and hold it in his palms.”
Judith became more confused trying to understand the relationship between her question and his explanation.
“I’m about to call Stephen’s parents.” Teacher continued. “You’ll ask me how I got their residential number because you don’t study your environment.”
“How? You mean you found their number in this environment?”
“Yes, in the wast-bin.” He dropped the phone. “Let me ask you; assuming you have parents and a boyfriend, you run into trouble. Who will you call first?” he began to touch his beards again.
“My parents of course.” Judith replied.
“Stephen wanted to give Murphy his parents’ number after I prevented him from shopping with us but Murphy rejected the request. Stephen had to write his girlfriend’s instead. The first number was swept into the wast-bin where I collected it.” he paused a little-while then continued. “Everything you want is within your environment. If It’s not there, creat it!” he flipped his fingers.
“So, leaving Ada behind after the shopping was your plan too.” Judith was still inquisitive, wanting teacher to go back to square one and start explaining again. The man just ignored her then placed the phone back to his ears, generating quietness…
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As the night was getting darker so as the city was getting scattered regarding the news of Stephen found on a landmine. His parents remained indoors, surrounded by policemen as a precaution to their safety. Mr Yinka couldn’t let his phone rest. Hence he was restless in the living room with the wife who had started crying. Suddenly, the family telephone rang, and the wife picked it.
“Hello..” she said in a hurry. Within a space of few seconds, she handed the phone to her husband. “It’s for you.” She whispered.
Yinka took the phone reluctantly.
“Hello, Yinka” teacher’s voice came from the phone. He recognized it.
“Nwachukwu.” he called scarily.
“Flesh and blood. Do you remember denying a pregnancy?”
Hearing that, the man glanced at his wife. “That was a long time ago.” he whispered.
“But that was a year after you married. You can’t run from your shadow, Yinka. I know you wouldn’t want your wife to hear this; that child you denied is the one standing on the landmine with your son. You can carry out a medical research on that if you like. Fate and blood have caught them. Their lives now are in my hands coz only me can defuse the explosion.”
“What do you want from me?” Mr Yinka whispered again. He could see how suspeciouly the wife stared at him.
“First, I can’t leave the poor girl in the hands of your wife, find her own mother, if she’s still single or divorced, take her in as a second wife”
“What?!”
“You don’t need to shout, Yinka. I’ll get to all of you in the government one after the other. Now, here comes what you must do urgently in order for your children to be released..”
Yinka listened attentively as teacher instructed him on what to do that night.
“..you have less than one hour.” he concluded and hung up the call.
Mr Yinka rushed his car keys on the centre table like a Russian.
“Honey, what’s going on? Where are you going to?” the wife asked him, but the man sped out without giving her an answer.
With the automobile, he sped like a lion, restricting anyone from following him. The headlight of his car soared clearly on the road thereby enabling him to see crawling reptiles across the road. On the steering wheel, he flashed back on how he denied the pregnancy from a young lady whom he doesn’t know her way about again.
“God!” he exclaimed, robbed his head haphazardly then activated his horn when he approached a zebra crossing. He dialed Sheriff’s number.
“Hello, sir” the woman sounded on the phone.
“Please, keep the children calmed. I’ll bring people who will defuse the explosion in the next thirty minutes.” Mr Yinka instructed.
“But sir, we can handle it”
“I said wait for me!” He hung up the call.
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Meanwhile, Daniella, Dave, Murphy, Obi and Vivian boarded the next available bus from the gate just to escape from the police. All seated in one roll. They looked back to see two huge men seated behind them without a trace of joy on their faces. They wore black and black like cultists. Daniella secretly covered the device under her cloth.
“Driver, stop us at Irogu, the road to the beach.” She said.
The driver kept quiet. He topped speed and locked the doors of the bus.
“What’s going on?” Dave asked, yet no response. They all turned to see the two men pointing guns at them. Vivian screamed but covered her mouth when she realized herself.
“Please, we don’t want any violence. What do you want?” Murphy asked.
“We only want you to shut up.” one of them replied with scary voice.
Murphy glared at Daniella in a way to say; “I told you this wasn’t a good idea.”
The kids maintained. The bus carried them to a far distance where they had never seen until they stopped in front of a lonely building at a lonely site. Through the headlight of the bus, the kids observed the building to be a furnished bungalow with electrical power seen through energy bulbs.
“Come out!” the men commanded them at gun point.
The kids came out.
“On your kneels!” they commended again.
The kids looked at one another then knelt down in a roll.
One of the men walked to Daniella. “Let me have that!” he stretched his hand while the other hand handled the gun.
“I can’t give you this. You have to take my life before I release it.” She objected.
Obi spoke up too. “Yes, you have to take my own life too but not all. Just take small of it, please.”
The man wanted to drag the device from her which started beeping red light but a deep voice came from the entrance of the house.
“Let her be!” the voice had said. The kids recognized it to be that of their teacher. So they remained amazed to see him coming with Cynthia and Judith who followed him like disciples.
His footsteps on the ground full of organic matter stopped before Daniella. Without saying anything, he bent down with his hands stretched and Daniella handed the device to him. He quietly began to walk back inside.
“Teacher, is unfair!” Vivian shouted. “You can’t let Stephen and Ada die!” she added.
Teacher neither look back nor give her a listening ear. Cynthia and Judith approached them.
“Teacher is not evil” Judith began. “He has more secret plans and Ada and Stephen is one of them.”
“How? What are we even doing here?” Murphy asked them.
“Teacher may not be evil but he’s a devil!” Cynthia substantiated. “He has all our actions pre-planned” she added.
“Are you saying teacher knew all about this?” Obi asked.
“Yes” Judith interfered…
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FLASH BACK
Teacher dropped the call slowly after speaking with Mr Yinka as everybody, including his pilot waited for him to take the next step. He gradually turned to the two girls. He wore his normal caftan, looking more critical and clever than ever before.
“Teacher, I’m scared of what might happen to Daniella and…” Cynthia was interrupted by teacher.
“You’re scared for those who are not scared. When they took power in their own hands, they summoned courage, they weren’t scared, so why should you be scared for their own courageous actions?”
Cynthia bent down her head shamefully.
“You know where they are, don’t you?” Judith continued with her question-tags which amused the pilot thereby putting a smile on his face.
“Judith, I’m not some kind of wizard that should be everywhere. How can i be here and know where they are?” Teacher replied.
Judith folded her arms like an amebo, staring at her teacher who began to smile at her troublesome posture. “You know where they are.” She persisted with a smile too.
Teacher looked at the pilot. “Get the blades rotating.”
“Yes, sir.” The pilot left.
“Both of you follow me, but you must not tell others about Stephen and Ada beings siblings.” Teacher told the girls…
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CONTINUITY
“That’s how we found ourselves here” Judith concluded, yet kept teacher’s secret.
“I guess we’re on punishment like this.” Obi said, while the girls spread their hands.
On the other hands, one of the men met teacher inside the room.
“Sir, only Murphy objected to Ella’s idea while others willingly agreed with her” he reported.
Teacher stared at him for a moment. “Thank you” he turned to a bookshelf where he brought out a diary that contains the names of the orphans. Once again, he circled Judith and Dave’s names and tagged them ‘lovers’. To Daniella’s name, he tagged her ‘mind reader’. On Murphy’s, He tagged him ‘outstanding’. On Obi’s, he tagged him ‘Lover boy’. Teacher stared at Ada’s name who he knew Obi loves. He counciled her name then tagged it, ‘rest in peace’. Tears fell from his eyes to the diary. …..
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TO BE CONTINUED
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