Novels by Kareem soliat Omolara

It was early in the morning after my usual nightmare. The nightmare never let me be even during the whole days I spent in that unknown place. I jogged down our estate with my earphones plugged in my ear listening to music. I guessed it was high time I let this out. It could be connected to mum's past one way or the other.A woman jogged down to me as I panted, halted to change the music that suddenly got boring. Brad's mum!"Can I get your attention for a moment?" She gasped out heavily as the sweat on her forehead slipped down her cheek."If it is all about your son, then I am sorry." I took a step to continue my exercise when she said;"My son did everything in his power to get you out of there and all you did is to find him guilty of the crime he knows nothing about?"I stood there for some seconds before I turned to her."What do you want me to do? To set him free?"

The driver parked the car inline with few different cars at the court park. I stretched my neck out to the glass as if I won't be coming down from the car.The lawyers already in their uniform with black files in their hand chat with each other. I could only saw their moving lips and the small of their teeth.Few people made their way to the court room. A black van came to existence at the moment. Two police officers jumped down from the back of the van with their long guns. An officer dragged down an head down guy in handcuffs. He raised his head up, it was Kelvin. He had so much bruises and marks on his face. He must have received much beatings from the cops.They caught the lawyers attentions as they both passed beside them. The lawyers shook each other hands and moved inside. Another was dragged down from the same van. My heart skipped at the sight of Brad. My eyes suddenly painted with pains and sorrows.

A I' s P O V."Hi dad! You are back." I walked straight to dad as he made his way to the dining table."Yes my love," we embraced each other. "How are you doing?""I am good." I dropped myself on the sit before mum, then I noticed her eyes was on me."Hi love!" Dad crushed his lips on hers, then sat close to her."How are you doing Ai?" She asked.I cleared my throat and exposed the meal in front of me, ignored her."What is going on here?"Dad must have noticed the distance between I and mum. Especially how this changed mum's mood."Nothing dad. The food looks delicious, we should eat." I gave a fake smile then plucked a spoon of rice into my mouth."Baby, are you sure everything is fine?" He turned to mum. She smiled along side the

A I' s POV."Why is no one telling me who Kelvin partner is?" I rested my head on the head rest. Mum sat down beside me at the back sit as we both headed down from my annoying neurologist.It was just yesterday dad appointed him – my neurologist to me. There are more truths to unveil by the way."I don't think you need to put your mind towards that. It is all left with the officers now."I have been asking who that was for the past five days the last incident at the hospital occurred. Was there something else behind this?"Mum, this is my case. I don't think I will need that. I wanna see the person myself to lay down my judgement over. I am not fucking waiting for any judge here mum." I scowled at her.Yeah! For the very first time in my life."But you need that Ai. I know for t

I couldn't let go of the memory of Ai's reaction at the hospital. The hallucinations, the anger that boiled in her. What would be her judgement towards the kidnapper?My mind couldn't stop to picture the smile on Lina's face earlier. I placed my elbow on the wooden table in front of me and palmed my cuffed hand on my face.I was abandoned in a dark room after our arrival to the police station. Different thoughts on my mind since I arrived here. How will I proof myself to them? How will I revealed the real culprit without an evidence? What kind of help can I offer to Ai in this stage of her life? Will she ever be happy again? Will she ever forgive guys for one guy mistake?The door creaked open, brought me back to life. A figure walked down to me then the light switched on suddenly. It was a curved sexy officer in a trouser and a chiffon carton colour shirt. She plopped down on the sit before me and we both maintained an ey

The bruises on her face just became visible as I came closer to her on the bed. The red marks on her brown skin colour and stripped of plaster glued on her cheek.Its being 30 minutes with the classmates in Ai's ward and she didn't blinked an eye open. Her lips parted, wagged her head to the right, left. Then I knew the same reaction wanted to occur."Ai! Ai!" I quickly patted her awake, then her eyes widened up. She looked down to the same direction she could have imagined there was someone. She looked back at me, then to everyone in the room."Ai!" They all exclaimed.She made an eye contact to them once again, down to her plastered hand administered with fluid. Her eyes crawled around the room. She must have detected just the empty ward with boxes of trolleys placed on each other beside her bed. The ceiling fan rolled in motion. She raised the hand once more and dropped it back weakly on the bed

JOYCE'S POV. Mic testing....The event was crowded with people, in different dazzling attire. They all sat down as the arrangement of seat in banquet settings, rocking to the tune of music played by the DJ at the corner of the hall. The hall was decorated in elegant colors with glittering chandeliers hanged on the ceiling.The table was embellished with bouquet, fingers chop was placed at the front of each guest. The caterers roamed about the hall, with foods in the tray on their hands, serving each guest.I swirled around with a large smile on my face, clad in a long white wedding gown exposing the small of mh back. My hair was bonded in buns, with white clips clipped on it to beautify the hair. My eyes dazzled in make over made by the short lady with an oblong face beside me. She smiled along with me, held onto the face brush.I stared back at the mirror in the hotel room, admiring the beauty that s

JOYCE'S POV.I dressed up already in my neat ironed uniform waiting patiently for Carl to get through with his food, wrapped my arms around my chest singing a praise song."Why aren't you eating?"I turned my face to the direction that came from. There was mum dumping in the light brown tea into a glass cup for Carl. "I'm not just hungry mum, I am okay. Carl, hurry pls, so we could leave together.""Done sis!" He stood up from the wooden chair and swallowed the tea eagerly as he cupped some bread in his mouth. "Shall we!" He said in a full mouthed and reached for his school bag that was hung at the back of the chair, then he flipped it on his shoulder."Bye mum!" We both waved to mum and stepped outside as she responded in a smiling face.*****Background voices of students' overtook the school as I walked into the school magnificent compound. Students' hung around the school compound mumbling to the

CLIFFORD'S POVI walked inside the small apartments that already looked empty, or is it just me? The frames that was hung on the painted wall in the living room were no where to be seen. My eyes thumped at the luggage aligned at the entrance of the wooden door.What is going on? I thought, then I saw my parents' moved out with a suit case, then an handy bag, like they are set to leave the city."What's up dad? Mum! What is going on?" I called to their noticed as I gazed back at the luggage."Good you are here! Go change your clothes, we are leaving now. I don't think we need to wait any longer." Father uttered hastily, reaching for the luggage."What! Now! All of a sudden? What is going on here? What of my studies? My friends? I will be leaving them here without a proper goodbye? This is not fair, what are you doing this for?""This is not about your friends right now, and your studies, I wi

I and my friends which were already before me trekked down the highway from school, down to our house. Some students' from other school murmured pass us in a whine uniform and style just as ours. Their voices and giggled enlightened the environment. The cock I sighted at the end of the busy road crowed along side their blared sound."What is wrong Joyce? You don't look cheerful this evening. Don't you girls notice?" Eunice tapped me on the shoulder then raised her head up to other girls–who immediately shoved of their smiling faces."I realized you haven't being okay since you've gone to speak to Clifford." Precious strolled back to where I was, leaving Sandra behind."Can you now see how much Clifford hurts you? I told you times without number, go for Eric who loves you, at least he is rich enough to take care of you," The passer-by focused their gaze at her as she squawked. "What are you looking at?" She rolled her eyes at them and wrapped her arms to

JOYCE'S POV."Why would you do that to me Clifford, why?" A single tears squeezed out of my wild eyes as I asked him. "Did you remember everything we've shared? Did you remember all the memories? Or have you forgotten so soon? Now you are leaving, you are leaving me all alone in this country, for what reason?" I fell on my knees, crying out. "For what reason."I was in the class chi-chatting with some of our class mates when Clifford signaled me that he wanna talk to me in private. I excused myself from others' and went to meet him. We ended up at the terrace beautified with flowers and green grasses in success high school, in our turquoise blue and white uniform.I have always been given the overall best student since I was in SS1 in my ex school until I got to SS3, which made me got a scholarship to success high school where I met Clifford, in the same very class. We bacame friends instantly, it