With a start, she woke up from her sleep. Oh my God! It was a nightmare again. She switches on the bedside lamp and looks up at the clock on the wall it is just 2:15am. She had only slept for two hours. This doesn't happen often to her but when it does it keeps happening until she gets the message. They come in different forms but the ones that scares her to death are these ones, that come in form of a nightmare.
There are sheets of printing paper piled up on the chest of drawers close to her bed. She had been working on a big story that would hit the media soon. She had worked on a few investigative cases some months back and has finally settled for her passion- story writing. She scatters through the sheets, looking for an unused one and is able to get a single plain paper. She opens the chest and picks up a pen and starts to scribble what she saw but it is not working. Her hands and body begin to shake. All her senses are alert, it is as if the scene is replaying right in front of her in the room. She drops the pen and paper and picks up her laptop from where she kept it close to her bed. Luckily for her, the computer was just in a sleep mode. She keys in her password and logged in.
Within the next two seconds she is already typing, just as she is about to conclude the typing something vibrates below her. She jumps in fear, suspending her laptop before it lands with a thud on her mattress. Millions of thoughts ran through her mind before she realises that the vibration is coming from her phone. Oh my! She slaps her forehead, she had sat down on her phone and had completely forgotten about it. She looks at the name on the screen of the phone. Mommy. Why is she calling at this hour? She taps on the receive button and the voice flows in.
"Sweetheart, are you alright? " the voice from the other end asks. She didn't answer, she knows her silence will drive her mum nuts.
"Ebun, please are you doing fine, I'm worried. I had a nightmare." Her mum continues, her voice loud and shaky. She knows everything is not alright with her daughter. Anytime something seem a mist with Ebun, she always feels it. Her husband takes the phone from her and spoke
"Baby, we need to hear from you. Your mother and I are so worried. Please." His voice is low but firm unlike her mother's.
"I'm alright Dad, Please tell Mum that I just need to work on something. Please stop worrying and go back to bed." With that she ends he call. Tumininu is not satisfied with the answer Ebun gave her Father. "She's not fine". She says, holding her husband, obviously still shaken by her own nightmare.
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