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"Am so sorry for your lost miss, believe me we tried our best to revive her and your really friend fought for her life so we will be looking forward to see her family to claim her corpse and take her to the mortuary, my condolences miss Linda" he said and hung up leaving Linda to scream and wail,her cry attracted few people in her hostel who later joined her to cry for the death of Betty. Doris came back from fellowship and saw crowd in her room she was wondering what is happening,she rushed inside and saw Linda crying "Linda what is it, please don't tell me is Betty". Linda crying said" yes is her ooh,Betty is dead ". Doris couldn't believe her ears" oh God why did you allow this to happen, I prayed on her behalf, oh lord why "she said crying" perhaps the wages of sin is death " added Doris. she went and sat beside Linda consoling her"Linda is well,stop crying, God gives and takes, he knows his reason for taking Betty's life. you know they say every disappointment is a blessing ". Linda replied still crying" blessing you say,I have lost two of my friends to the cold hands of death, tell me who did I offend, I haven't even fully recovered from Rita's death and now Betty my own Betty, oh God why,what else remains,why not take me too"she said wailing uncontrollably, Doris tried as much as possible to hold her" I understand but you don't have to give up ,look you will not die okay". "leave me alone I want to die" she said jumping from one place to another,students trying to hold her to prevent her from running outside. This continued till night the few students that came to the room to console her started leaving one after the other leaving Linda and Doris.
Doris was meant to go for a night vigil that night but she couldn't go leaving her roommate who is likely to commit suicide if care is not taken.
"mother thank god you never tried such evil as to kill yourself, if not you wouldn't have given birth to me and Kelvin". Linda smiled " yes I know I never tried such,if not I wouldn't have answered mother to my two wonderful kids". Sophie smiled back "so what happened next mum"..
Doris sat beside Linda's bed all through the night looking after her. Few hours later she broke the silence" may her soul rest in perfect peace Amen, you know I saw this coming when I had that bad dream about her,if only she listened maybe this wouldn't have happened". Linda never stopped crying as she thought to herself,she wanted to hide the true story of her death to her people but on a second thought she said no, she will let her parents know about this,she wouldn't hide anything about her death,she doesn't want only her to carry two secrets,she wants to offload one from her heavy chest Which is revealing the true story but the other one left is forever a secret,which is the true story of Rita's death. So she decided to call her parents tomorrow for them to take there daughter's corpse to the mortuary, she doesn't want to go alone, she wants to go with a friend she said to Doris "please I need you to accompany me to the students affairs tomorrow,I want to call Betty's parents and inform them about their daughter's death". "no problem at all make sure you tell them everything", Linda ignored her as tears wouldn't stop rushing down her face as she remembers there sweet memories, she misses her already, she thought to herself. Linda couldn't sleep all through the night as she kept on crying silently to herself not to wake up Doris who has already slept off beside her.
The following morning as early as 7,Linda woke up and tapped Doris on her shoulder telling her to wake let them go to students affairs and make the call before students starts resuming for classes.
Few hours later after a little preparation they left. On reaching there her heart started pounding heavily. Doris noticed her friend isn't in the good mood to make the phone call she said" allow me to make the call". Linda cut her short "don't worry Betty let me handle this" she said and dialed the number which is Betty's father. It rang for few seconds and a hoarse voice answered from the background, Linda's heart skipped "Hello sir,this is Linda Peters,Betty's friend am sure she has mentioned you to me few times". Mr Johnson replied" oh Linda my daughter how are you doing ". Linda ignored the question " sir I called you because of your daughter ". Mr Johnson's heart skipped a bit" my daughter Betty,hope she is good?". "am sorry she is not" at this point Linda tried as much as possible she could to hold her tears but she couldn't, Doris went over to hold her..Mr Johnson noticed she was crying "wait are you crying, please tell me what happened, hope my daughter is safe". Linda cried out saying" am so sorry, your daughter is dead,Betty is dead ". Mr Johnson couldn't believe it, as he laughed saying" oh come on and stop this your expensive joke and tell me why you called, my daughter dead,no no you are joking, you can't be serious ". Linda became angry and wondered why the old man will say such thing" Mr Johnson of all the things to joke with,is now Betty's death my best Friend, your daughter I will be joking with oh come on Sir". Mr Johnson screamed"oh no my beloved daughter what happened "he said. Linda heard him cry she joined him, the cry couldn't allow her to talk well. Doris went over and collected the phone from her..