FINDING A WIFE

"I thought it was important for you to know Ms Monica, am sorry!" the maidservant never wanted her boss to misunderstand her in any way.

"It's alright... maybe you mistook her with someone else," Monica thought otherwise, "You can go back, it's alright."

"But she's the one Ms Monica, I have taken care of her for eighteen years.... I cannot mistake her with someone else!" the maidservant insisted.

"Okay!" As a wise grown-up woman, Monica Yen took it slow and wisely.

She put the phone back onto the ear. Secretary Jamila was still holding on. Monica asked her to switch to a video call which she did.

"Please put Babara in the camera... I would like to take a look at her.... I miss her so much," Monica requested.

Secretary Jamila went to the bed where Babara was sleeping and focused the camera for Monica to look at her daughter. Babara Yen was warmly sleeping on a very beautiful bed in the hotel.

"Thank you Jamila.. please have a goodnight," Monica said and switched off the call.

The maidservant was still standing right at the door. Matter of fact she had watched all the video conversation between her boss and secretary Jamila. She became worried.

"Come in here!" Monica Yen ordered the maidservant who was now worried and trembling.

"I want to see Madam Babara live on television right now like you said," Under commands she gave her the television remote.

On a trembling hand, the maidservant turned on the television and switched channels. She was already out of her minds worried of loosing her job.

"Stop!" Monica Yen was much attentive that she managed to notice something. She grabbed the remote out of the maid's hand, and pressed to the previous channel.

"Please leave!" Miserably sticking her eyes at the television without blinking, Monica Yen politely asked the maid to go.

The maidservant ran outside like she just escaped from the Jaws of a hungry lion.

"Oh, no! It can't be!" Monica Yen was shocked.

She walked sluggishly towards the television. She then slowly raised her hand emotionally and touched the television screen.

Monica Yen broke down and began crying with her eyes stuck on the television.

After Party:

It was half past eleven, only thirty minutes to midnight. People where still enjoying the champagne and platters while dancing to good music.

Pinky as the head bride of the party was tire and all her mind was home by that time. She couldn't concentrate anymore, thinking worriedly about her relatives' situation.

"Father must be angry right now," at the back of her mind she spoke silently, "and my grandparents are so worried."

Her mind was telling her the exact truth. Paparazzi kept taking her pictures. Different classy people came to her time to time wanting to hug, shake her hand and others asked her to at least take a selfie with them.

It was exhausting but she never let anyone down.

The master of ceremony was having fan on a round table so, she went to meet him. She asked for a microscope to communicate a few words to the audience.

"Attention attention attention!!" said the master of ceremony, "the most beautiful fashion model in the country and worldwide has a little message for us."

The announcement was greeted with applause and cheers.

Pinky walked her way to the stage to address the crowd. Cheers and applause raised so high to fill up the whole area.

Pinky: "I would like to thank all of you for the love you have showed to me. This was just a dream that has become a reality."

"Talking briefly about my background, my full name is Pinky Yen. My father told me the name Yen was derived from my mother's name who died immediately after giving birth to me."

"Before becoming what I've become today, I've been an ordinary ghetto fishmonger. I live live with my father, Mr Jonathan, his mother, father and aunt who are my beloved grandparents. We are a simple family of four down in the slums."

"I know right now as I talk they're so worried about me. Am supposed to be home at 7pm but as I address you right now, it is coming to midnight."

"Please my people, allow me go back home."

The round of applause everyone really creative wants, Pinky received after giving such a brilliant speech. She waved to the audience and left the stage.

In Buena city inside the mansion, the billionaire Monica Yen was watching everything on the television. Tears were rolling down on her face.

"My daughter!" she cried, "I've finally found my daughter."

Pinky's party:

Back to the party grounds, outside was a luxurious SUV car with a pink flower on the bonnet awaiting, parked in the middle of two security cars.

A driver opened the SUV rear door for Pinky to get inside. She stepped in. He ran to start the engine so that she can drive the crowned princess home.

While paparazzi took more pictures continuously, a convoy of three cars kicked off with a journey to take Pinky back to her relatives.

Smoothly cars slided on tarmac roads upto the slums of Capricon city. Not for long the convoy arrived at Pinky's small house.

"Knock knock knock!" Jonathan and his aunt raised up from their resting positions immediately they heard a knock on the door. His father and mother looked attentively from discomfort.

Quickly, Jonathan and his aunt rushed to open the door. Time from the clock on the wall was exactly midnight. When Jonathan opened the door, he saw his daughter Pinky but, in a different appearance.

Pinky was wearing a very beautiful makeup which gave her a Cinderella semblance. The pink dinner dress covering her body matched the lipstick on her lips, and the scent of the perfume inhaled from her was anomalous.

Her black hair was long, soft and shiny by the look and behind her were two men in black suits. This was beyond Jonathan's understanding.

When grand aunt squeezed herself outside and saw a crown on Pinky's head, she jumped and fell into her granddaughter's chest.

"I knew it," she exclaimed in delight. I knew you're going to win."

Jonathan has never seen her daughter's appearance like this. He was completely speechless to nearly deny that she wasn't the one.

"Who are these men?" Grandaunt asked out of a hug.

"They are security officers who escorted Mr back home," she answered, "they are ten in number... the rest are standing besides the cars.

Grandaunt and Jonathan walked closer to see where the cars at. They were so surprised to see a number of men in black suits standing attention like a mafia gang.

"Those men are going to spend a night here until tomorrow," she told them.

"The only food left in the saucepan is you're! besides, the house is very small. We don't have where to shelter them!"

grandaunt worriedly said to Pinky.

Pinky smiled and said, "come on granny you worry too much." "Those men you see are professionals, they can stand even if it needs three days." "They can't sleep on duty."

This left grandaunt wondering how that can be possible.

"Am so sorry dad for worrying you," Pinky apologized to her father.

Jonathan took a deep sigh, followed with an exclamation, "Wow!"

"I need to see grandpa and grandma, let's go inside," Pinky held her grandaunt and father on their hands and took them in the house.

"Oh, no! what happened to the television?" Pinky gave a sudden voice of concern after setting her eyes on it broken down on the floor.

Everyone in the house looked at Jonathan as a sign that he was the one who did it. Pinky noticed. She turned to her father.

"I don't think it was an accident, right!" she spoke seriously into his face.

Jonathan didn't know what next to say to his beloved daughter. Dismantling the television into scrap like a tyrant was a sign of dictatorship.

He leaned his arms against the table and bent the head down as a sign of embarrassment. They smiled at his folly.

Pinky looked at her grandparents smiling and wondered why! but they experienced Jonathan's reaction to the fullest in her absentia.

The next day:

'HongHills' was one of the most executive place for only the wealthy to stay. Only luxurious mansions were built in this area located in Capricon city..

Pinky informed her family members who never had single hopes of excelling beyond ghetto levels of life, that before the end of tomorrow they were to start a new life in HongHills.

"You mean the HongHills I know!" grandaunt said unbelievably.

"Exactly, that is were the house is won is located," Pinky clarified.

Jonathan raised when he heard this. It sounds untrue to his ears according to his facial expression. Pinky went ahead to tell them that the family was $100,000 dollars rich at that moment because she won it as well.

Jonathan gape-jawed in wonder. He looked at his daughter to get clarity whether what she is saying was actually true. Pinky got out a bank cheque from her wallet indicated, "One hundred thousand US dollars," in capital letters.

Grandaunt grabbed and read on it. She gave it to Jonathan to read for himself. This is when Jonathan came back in the world of reality that everything in life is possible. He just had to believe in her daughter's dream.

"And now that luxurious car guarded out there," Pinky stated excitedly, "is going to be our family car."

Jonathan swallowed his saliva, "where there's bad, there's good," he said to himself in silence, "I've learnt a big lesson of my life."

"Dad," Pinky looked direct in her father's eyes and said, "no more waking up in the cold nights to go on the lake to catch fish."

In an affective aspect of consciousness, Pinky's eyes turned yellowish and dropped a tear, "because we won't depend on fish any more." she said.

Jonathan's eyes turned yellowish red and started forming tears too. He walked close to meet his daughter and gave her a very warm father-daughter hug. It was affectionate moment between the whole family.

Due to emotions, grandfather, grandmother and grandaunt stood up to join them in tender hug as a whole family.

ODDITY:

On to the highway, a black sedan ran. In the rear seats within the handbag, a mobile phone rang. Monica Yen stretched her hand over to the left where the bag was and held it closer, onto her laps to get the phone out.

''sweet heart,'' was the identity on the dial screen. This made her nervous. immediately she asked the driver to park on the road side.

"Mom!" behind the phone was Babara Yen.

Daughter: "Are you there mom?"

Mother: "I can here you Babara... you were supposed to come back home two days ago. What happened?"

Daughter: "Something terrible happened to me mom."

Mother: "Am all ears... please explain."

Daughter: "This is something very important.. I need your guidance mom!"

Mother: "It's alright you can say it."

Daughter: "It all started from the meeting on Franklin Baron's ship." "With all the respect I had for him, he ruthlessly raped rapping me... mom."

Franklin Baron was among the chief guests when Monica was getting married to Jonathan before the twins were born. To hear that he raped his daughter, Monica Yen lost stamina from her legs.

The driver noticed when his boss dizzily broke down on the ground while on phone. He ran so fast to see what had happened to her.

Diver: "Is everything alright Ms?" He supported her up."

Monica: Yes, don't worry you can go to the car."

The driver didn't hesitate to walk back to the car and give his boss privacy. Monica Yen gathered herself together and got back on the phone.

Monica Yen: "Are you there my daughter?"

Babara Yen: "I couldn't hear you mom! are you alright?"

Monica Yen: "Am going to kill that heartless bustard."

Babara Yen: "I killed him mom!" she cried.

Monica Yen: "He deserved it. How could he do such a thing to a young girl who is supposed to be her child?"

Babara Yen: I killed many people mom! almost all the people on the ship I killed them... I don't know what happened to me but during the course of rape I turned into something that I don't understand... even bullets couldn't harm me.

After the narrative, Monica Yen knew things were not going to be the same again for her daughter BabaraYen. She asked her to calm down and stop crying.

At the back of her mind she knew this was to happen anytime to her daughter. The only solution at that moment was to find a way of protecting her from all sorts of challenges.

Monica Yen: "Listen to me and listen good.... I want you to tell me how you feeling right now."

Babara Yen: "Am stronger than ever before and I feel very healthy from from the moment I drunk Franklin Baron's blood.

Monica Yen: "Okay, have you eaten anything from that moment on?"

Babara Yen: "No appetite for food however much I try... I need to drink some fresh blood that is how I feel."

Monica Yen: "Listen! you don't have to bite any human Babar, you must resist the forces trying to mislead you"

"You see the supplements I gave you?" " swallow then as instructed on the tin."

Babara Yen: "I will try mom."

Monica Yen: "You don't have to try just do as I advise you." You're not diffrent from me, we have the same genetical DNA."

Babara Yen: "You mean you too killed and drunk people's blood!!"

Monica Yen:" That was long ago when I had just discovered I was sick." "I've survived on the same supplements I gave you."

Babara Yen: "Really!"

Monica Yen: "Now that you have all the answers to your questions, don't do anything stupid." "I am coming to Capricon city to bring you back home, you hear me?"

Babara Yen: "One last question mom!"

Monica Yen: "It's okay, ask!"

Babara Yen: "A we vampires?"

Monica Yen: "Yes my daughter." "The exact reason why I never took you to schools like other normal children."

This conversation left Babara Yen in tears after switching off the phone. She had nothing to do about it though.

Once Monica Yen got the news, she asked her driver to take her no where else except to the airport. She made a few different calls while the car was running.

Her private airplane was standby at the airport. With in no time she got on board and the airplane paced on the runway. Finally it shot in the air and took her to Capricon city to protect her daughter Babara Yen from danger.

However, Babara Yen was not the only reason for Monica Yen to fly to Capricon city. She had another hidden agenda that no one was supposed to know about.

A mission to find her second daughter Pinky, who was taken away from her on the day she was born. After watching her on television the previous night and discovered she was in Capricon city, it was about time as a mother to do the needful.

Pinky's mansion:

Pinky and family glowed in fresh beginnings as they happily recieved their luxury mansion.

The state governor who was the guest of honour at the ceremony scissored the ribbon tied outside the mansion's main gate to officially open.

The gate was pushed open, "Wow!" said the grandparents when they set their eyes on the house, "this is beautiful."

The attention given to the four family members was uncompelling. Officially, keys to the mansion were handed over to Pinky while paparazzi took all kinds of photos.

A big bottle of champagne was popped. Champagne splashed all over the place and wetted people's clothes and faces.

The state governor applauded their new beginning while the whole family walked around the house compound appreciating the physical beauty of the house environment.

"My teeth have taken long without pulling chicken pieces from the bone," Jonathan said to a female guest who was standing next to him.

As he freely loaded a heap of chicken drumsticks on a plate, this woman was staring gape-jawed at him. All this was happening at the feast in the mansion where they lined up at a self-service point to pick comestibles.

After house party which was filled with unforgettable memories, time came when all visitors have left. Time check was 7pm. Jonathan had already befriended the woman.

At the swimming pool they sat half naked with their legs swinging in water, while they expressed passionate interest in each other.

Grandmother and grandfather were both standing in one of the rooms while they watched their son through the window. As Pinky was passing, she saw her grandparents in the window smiling.

It was quite amazing to see them holding eachother, looking through the window smiling. She stepped back and came to find out what exactly was eating up there minds outside the window.

They had no problem to let her see for herself. By the look at their body language, Jonathan and the woman were really into each other.

"It's been twenty years since we last saw your father in such a mood," grandfather told Pinky.

Pinky knew her grandparents were actually talking about her father Jonathan and her mother she never knew in her entire life.

Pinky: "How was my mother?"

Grany: "She was as beautiful as you're and wise."

Pinky: "Father doesn't want me to ask him anything about her." "I stopped asking when he continuously ignored me."

Grany: "Your father came to us that night shading a lot of tears with you in his hands." "He told us, the love of his life was died after giving birth to you."

Pinky: "Which means I killed my mother!"

THANK YOU READER.