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Final Episode.. Broken . “Whenever you’re close to me, your presence sucks out every trace of oxygen. It suffocates me.” *** I awakened to the sound of my ringing phone. A smile flitted across my face as I found Raheem’s name on my screen. I hit the answer button. I made to speak, but Raheem […]

Episode twenty-three Grave . Continues.. “I will make your life a living hell.” *** “Sometimes I really don’t understand him.” I stabbed a potato chip with my fork and shoved it into my mouth. I’d been nagging endlessly over Raheem taking sides with the enemy. Flora and Amarachi had barely even said a word. Their […]

Episode twenty-two Hate . Continues.. “And I don’t break promises. I promised to bring you to her.” *** Eyes flying open, I bolted upright in bed. My heart raced like I’d been in a marathon. Dreaming of that woman’s death had become my alarm for the past six months. Somehow, she’d managed to survive the […]

Episode twenty-one Grief . Continues.. “But the next time you ever say a thing like that again, I will make you bathe in your own blood.” *** Days crawled past. But my grief remained. Nothing could take away the rawness I felt inside, as though it happened only yesterday. Barely twenty four hours after it […]

Episode twenty Loss . Continues. “You taunt me by asking me that. You should already know the feelings I have for you.” *** Screaming myself into consciousness, I bolted upright in bed, and before I could register the woman who sat beside me, she threw me in an embrace. I clung to her, my eyes […]

Episode nineteen Rescue . Continues. “Whatever you do, don’t let them get you. Just hang in there, okay? Help is coming. Victoria? Victoria? Hello? Are you with me?” *** My stepmother stiffened for a second too long. She looked over her shoulder and found the empty doorway. Barely giving her a moment to register that […]

Episode eighteen Danger . Continues. “When I faked that sickness, I had already resolved in my heart to kill you.” *** “Written by Stella Adewale?” Cynthia asked, picking up Stella’s Robber’s Heart from my bed. “Isn’t that our school nurse?” “Yes,” I said. “She writes.” “Seriously? She doesn’t even look like a writer. I could […]

A Chance For Love Episode seventeen Home . Continues. “I felt…so bad…about dying without…without your forgiveness. But now you are here… I am forgiven. I will die a happy woman.” *** “Are you sure this is what you want?” Sir Aaron’s voice breeched through the awkward silence in the living room. Although I’d already made […]

A Chance For Love Episode sixteen Forgiveness . Continues. “And then I knew my heart had led me to the one I wanted to spend my whole life with.” *** Rumors of me living with Sir Aaron had spread all through the school, and everyone believed he had ulterior motives, but he didn’t seem to […]

A Chance For Love Episode fifteen Freedom . Continues. “I’ll schedule a consultation and hire the right attorney so we can start the court procedure for child custody.” *** Something had awakened me. I’d heard a sound other than the pitter-patter of rain. Wide-eyed, I listened for it. Moments passed and it never came. Perhaps […]

Episode fourteen Sisters . Continues. “She’s been going all around Facebook, speaking of her huge crush on that new Iraqi guy who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes.” *** “Now I’m hollow. Ho-ho-ho-ho-hollow.” I probably made one or two mistakes with the tune, but that didn’t stop me from singing the song that had overwhelmed me ever […]

Episode thirteen Outing . Continues. “If you love her as much as you claim, then just take her with you.”***A fist of water slammed into me, drenching me to the bones. I bolted upright in bed, my heart hammering like it would burst out of my chest. The sound of plastic smacking the floor hit […]