and not bothering to be angry. purity got down from the bed and got her handbag from the table.
well you said we could discuss it some other time yesterday didnt you, rume. she was saying as she rummaged through her bag to get at the key. well here i am can we discuss it now? she threw a furtive glance over her shoulder at him. she sounded like she was desperate, even if not in a panic.
discuss what? rume took the key from her. i dont think we have anything to discuss, purity.
we dont? i thought you said we could discuss later.
no. we dont have anything to discuss. when an affair is over, its over. you yourself said so, remember? purity remembered. it was she who gave rume that phrase some months back when their relationship had just started and rume had to break off his relationship with his old flame, blessing.

Rume broke into a cold sweat. so you came back last night? after our discussion yesterday, you went home. a pretty silly thing to say, but he was shaken and still groggy from sleep. his brain was probably still booting.
of course not. i came in this morning. Rume so you were not lying?
about what? Rume kept rubbing his throat, his eyes fixed on Purity's face like she was about to confess witchcraft. he was badly shaken finding her by his side the way he did. she could have killed him. she had sworn that she would get even with him last night before she left.
you know, of course, that girl of yesterday. i thought you would be sleeping with her. i thought i would find her here. i rang the door bell and no one answered, so i let myself in with the key you gave to me the other day. this of course was a lie. she did not ring the door bell. she had opened the door and sneaked in like a thief.
O the key. where is the key? he demanded gently enough.
he should be thanking his stars that his throat wasnt slit.

Then he felt a strange sensation on his shoulder, somebody was trying to shake him awake. he woke up from the strange dream to find Purity lying beside him on the bed.
Purity had been Rume's lover up till the previous day. they had a row the previous day and he had broken off the relationship, or at least, he thought he had.
Rume? you set the alarm were you going somewhere so early?
O yes i have to pick up... then Rume froze. he was fully awake now. Purity! he could not remember going to bed with Purity or anyone else for that matter the previous night. "Purity what are you doing here? how did you get in?" he sat up.
I used the key of course. Purity replied, sitting up as well.
key? which key? Rume remembered he had given one of his keys to her sometime back. that was when they had just met and she used to cook for him. now, she must have let herself in after he had gone to bed.
well, for christsake considering what happened yesterday, she could have slit his throat and no one would have known about it.

**Continuation**
As he got to the middle some people started throwing things at him. he could not see the people. but they came at him fast and thick but none of them was landing at their target; Spears, Arrows, Swords, Axes, and even Stones. he swam on fearlessly, the landing point of the weapons that were being thrown moved backwards. and it appeared as though the other bank of the river was moving backwards away from him too.
he got so tired but the more tired he got, the more determined he was to get the fruit. then the weapons stopped falling as suddenly as they had started and he also suddenly found himself at the other bank of the river with the fruit in his hands but to his horror, the tree broke in two and fell with a loud swoosh into the river.
That was when the bell started to ring. he looked up and saw a fire brigade motor chugging along on the river and he wondered how strange for a fire engine to be riding on the water. he had never seen anything like it before.

Tribes at war
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Episode 1
Rume found himself at the foot of a sherry tree with just one ripened fruit on it. the fruit was very big. As he peered up at it, wondering how to get at it, the fruit started to drop and he tried to catch it. as he caught the fruit to his dismay he found he was at the bank of a wide river and the fruit had fallen into the river. when he looked up from the water, he discovered that the tree itself had disappeared and was now at the other bank of the river. the choppy water started to carry the fruit to the other side.
Rume kicked off his shoes in panic. he dived into the water and swarm after the strange fruit as if his life depended on it. he didnt know why, but he knew he wanted that fruit like nothing else in the world.

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I opened my eyes to meet the Engineer with some strange persons standing close to my bed looking seriously troubled only to discover it was some of the labourers.
One of the women immediately ran to the doctor to inform him i was awake.
As the woman was leaving Edna my course mate rush into the ward sweating shouting where is he, where is my Ovie? asking no body in particular.
She came to the bed where i was lying down and asked how i was feeling with series of plenty questions.
Ovie have you eating, before i could mutter an answer she dash outside to get me something to eat.
The Doctor was back with the woman, holding a syringe filled to the brim and he told me once i took the injection i was free to go the next day but he wants me to eat first before he gives it to me.
I hated syringe and whenever i was sick and my grandma took me to the nearby pharmacy for injection the looks of the pharmacist wasnt encouraging.

It wasn't easy carrying concrete and doing all sort of menial jobs to keep body and soul together.
I was a chocolated skin chubby guy in my early twenty looking for part time work wasn't easy as the engineers seeing my look believed i was lazy and couldn't do the job well.
Truth be told i was a pampered kid maybe because my grandma didn't want me to go through stress.
My first day carrying concrete wasn't fun at all.
After alot of pleading, the Engineer decided to give me a try and told me to transfer blocks up stairs since they were short of blocks up stair.
I took the first block upstair and i was waving up and down, after much trial i was able to take it there.
on to the next block as i was climbing, i tripped on one foot and before i could know what was happening the next thing i heared was GBOSAAAA and i passed out
i woke up to find myself in the hospital, hearing some side gossip, "oga i tell you say make we no collect this boy you know hear see now the last money when dey na we wan take pay he bill"

My name is Ovie Rex Obodo from the oil rich community of Eruemukohwarien, my parents were separated when i was barely 12 and being the first child i stayed with my grandma in the village.
she took care of me and she made sure my basic needs were always taken care of even though she was not rich.
After writing my waec in Adagwe Grammar School and coming out with the best overall result, i was rewarded with a scholarship to study in any university of my choice.
I was very happy and that motivated me to read even harder for my post utme examination.
i would say from my first day in primary down to my first year in the tertiary institution was a very smooth ride, i never knew things were going to change in the twinkle of an eye
First of all i lost my Grandma who had always taken care of me even when my parents abandoned me, my Dad i only saw him once in a blue moon while my mom cant remember the last time we saw.
After grandma's death it began to dawn on me, i had to start fending for myself and i must confess...

Episode 1

It all began on a cool Friday morning, the serene environment was quiet, children were headed for school, parents were all already going to work. i was left alone in my bedsitter apartment, thinking out loud how to change my miserable condition.

I lost my job six months back as a marketing manager in one of the fast rising marketing/advertising companies in Delta state after failing to meet the required target for 3 straight months.

Earlier on in March the managing director had called me to her office and in her lengthy discussion highlighted all my major shortcomings. Mrs. Blossom Oritse is a very strict woman and also a business minded personnel, working with her has not being easy.

She always wanted everyone to be up and running and whenever any staff fails to meet up his/her required target for the month there was bound to be trouble.