I yawned happily and stretched my arms joyfully. In my dream, I have planned everything I will do with that money. My joy knew no bound. The thought of owning a million Naira filled my heart and soul.

My plan that morning was to get up from bed, take my bath, brush my teeth and dash off to the bank to withdraw my recent salary. As the latest millionaire in town, I need to go for some shopping, but I don’t want to touch the million yet.

I was still enjoying my sleep when a pain on my shoulder woke me up. I was about to bounce of from the concrete bed when I saw the ignition, “In loving memory of Pa Micheal”.

I held my chest with my hands and move two steps to the back.

I widened my eyes and re read what I read earlier maybe it will change, but “In loving memory of Pa Micheal” was still written boldly on the gravel.

My expression suddenly became lifeless, dull and boring, all the joy have been experiencing since disappeared. A sad reality overshadowed my expression.

I sat down beside the grave silently and bow my head. I don’t think running is an option because I’ve been running since and yet there is nothing to show for it.

I just placed my head conveniently on the grave and wept silently as if I’m mourning the person inside the grave.

It was that moment that I discovered how much I can sleep. In that horrific situation, I doze off while crying on “Pa Michael”s grave.

I was still enjoying my sleep when a tap on my shoulder woke me up. I jerked up instantly like a wounded chicken and gaze around to see the person that tapped me.

But I didn’t see anyone, all I could I see was just darkness, then I heard a coarse voice emitting from the darkness.

” If you want to be saved, follow this firefly beside you, our leader need want to see you”.

And according to what he said, the fly started to fly to one direction. I was able to see it clearly because of the light on her bottom.

The firefly stopped after flying for 17 mins, then I heard shrink voice from an unknown source speaking. ” Welcome to our midst……. bla bla” he was just blaring nonsense for 5 mins before ending it with a stupid dry cough and laughter. I’m not really scared as I was earlier because I’ve seen things scarier than only voice, so a voice cannot startled me.

I just hissed and turned to go back because everything he talked didn’t correlate with my freedom, they rather wanted me to live with them.

I haven’t made a 90 degree turn when a heavy slap landed on my face. The people I didn’t see earlier now became visible. The man was 7 feet tall, bigger than bouncer.

I think I really annoyed them because he didn’t waste time before pointing his sharp spear to my heart. He stabbed my chest in a second.

The spear was about to penetrate into my heart when I was woken up by the ray of light that bestowed on my face. I opened my eyes to see the shining light of a bright and precious morning. That “morning” may not be precious to others, but to me it is a gift.

It added 50% to my 3% chance of escaping. With the light, I can navigate my way out of the cemetery easily.

I thanked Pa Michael’s grave for protecting till daybreak and stood up to find my way out of the cemetery.

I haven’t taken ten steps before I felt a spiritual breeze on my face.

My vision started becoming dimmer and dimmer till I couldn’t see anything again. Then I realized I’ve been blinded.

What came to my mind was the story of the first escapades that lost some part of their body, mine was no different because they’ve taken my sight. There’s no way I’m escaping from this cemetery.

My 53% of escaping turned to 0.0% immediately, then I opened my eyes to face reality. Oops, I’ve forgotten, there’s no eyes again.

☠⚰ESCAPE FROM CEMETERY⚰☠

Episode 12 – finale

Of course, I lost my sighting sense immediately I felt the breeze on my face, the only active sense left to navigate my way out of the cemetery is my hearing and touching ability. I prayed and cried silently in my heart. I’ve lost the energy to even talk.

I knelt down on the ground and started tracing the way with my palm.

I do this to avoid hitting my leg on something.

I haven’t walked far before I heard some people banging the gate forcefully. With a loud thud, the gate opened and I heard some feet coming towards me.

“Yeah, officer this is him, this is the man I heard screaming all this while” I heard a feminine voice speaking. ” While going to the morning prayer this morning” she continued ” I heard his scream twice, I first ignored him, but while coming back again, through the transparent gate, I saw this man sitting on the grave, so I couldn’t approach him, that’s why I called you” she explained to the police.

I was really happy that the gate is the kind that look like burglary metal, people can see through it easily, but I was sad that she didn’t call the police during the midnight to arrest me, I would have happily go to prison.

But I realised at that moment that they were able to come to my aid because I’ve lost my sight, I’ve lost a part of my body. According to the testimony of people that came to the cemetery earlier, they lost some part of their body before escaping from that cemetery.

They first ordered me to stand up and I did, it was when they told me to come to them that they realised that there’s no more sight to see them.

One of them came to me and held my hand. They helped out of the cemetery and push me inside their van. They were about to take off when I remembered my friends motorcycle.

” Officer please wait” I tried to stop them, ” I parked a motorcycle at the bark of the cemetery, can you please help me take it, the key is there” , “Okay” one husky voice replied me.

The officer got down and I heard is feet running to the back of the cemetery, we waited for five minutes before I heard his approaching his feet.

“Young man, there’s no motorcycle there and please don’t waste our time” the man informed me.

The news left me flabbergasted, no bike, no money.

I came here to steal a money but the bike I borrowed was stolen in return. The thought of how to refund Quadri filled my mind but no as much as the thought of what to do to my sight less eyes.

They took me to their station for interrogation, they spent one hour asking for how I got to the cemetery and what I went there to do, and I spent one hour lying to them.

They bought and embraced all my lies but put my freedom on one condition, I can’t leave the station unless someone come to bail me. Of course, I cannot go home alone, with a blind eye.

I cannot let any of my family members know about my situation, so I don’t have choice than to call my friend Quadri to come and bail me out.

I begged one of the police officer to help me dial his number, thank God I know his number offhand. He dialed his number and gave it to me, I cooked up a story for him and he arrived at the station 30 mins later.

He was directed to where I was immediately he arrived, I was expecting him to ask for his bike but he didn’t. We talked for some minutes before he bailed me out.

Throughout the time we were discussing he didn’t notice that I’ve been blinded. He was about to go out when I beckoned to him to come.

He was surprised when I held his shoulder and started walking slowly behind him. I’m sure that there are thousands of questions he want to ask, but I told him that I will explain everything when we get home.

My expectation was to hear him stop a bike, but I was surprised when he told me to mount on the bike. Which bike, my heart started beating faster.

“Which bike” I asked out of curiosity, “my bike nah, the one you borrowed” he clarified. I fainted right on the spot.

Till today, I’m still wondering if I’m still in or out of the cemetery, even when my eye opened, I continued doubting if I’m really out of the cemetery.

《THE END》

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