CHAPTER THREE

It was Covenant University’s graduation ceremony, Sandra and Abigail were expecting to see their mom and dad at the venue but they couldn’t find them and this made them disappointed because they had sent the date for the graduation ceremony to their parent via sms. Abigail later suggested that they should give them a call to know if they were on their way, Sandra dialed the number but no one picked the call. After dialing the number several times, someone picked the call, Sandra didn’t recognize the person’s voice so she asked who it was and the man said he picked the phone from an accident scene. Sandra couldn’t wait to hear the rest of the story; she asked the man for the address of the hospital and dropped the call.

Abigail noticed the worried look on her elder sister’s face and asked what was wrong but Sandra couldn’t tell her little sister, she begged Abigail to follow her somewhere and Abigail followed her without complaining. They boarded a taxi to the hospital and at the reception Sandra told the nurse that she was looking accident victims that were admitted in that morning, the nurse showed her the accident and emergency ward and they went in.

Immediately Abigail saw their parents she fainted and the nurse who was attending to their parent took her to another ward to attend to her. Sandra cried and begged her parent to stay alive; her mother opened her eyes and told her to take care of her younger sister. After saying these words she breathed her last. Sandra screamed and ran to get a doctor to attend to her but he couldn’t do anything because she was already dead. Sandra cried and held her mother’s hand and wished that she would come back to live, she later let go when the nurses came in to move the body to the morgue.

Sandra later checked on her father and her sister and noticed that her sister was fine but her father was still struggling to live. Few hours later, Abigail was discharged and Sandra took her home and also prepared some food for her dad to eat.

Mr. Gilbert woke up and was expecting to see his wife next to him but he didn’t see her instead he saw an empty bed, "thank God she's alive" he said to himself, thinking she was discharged while he was asleep. While he was trying to guess where his wife could be, Sandra came in and he was so happy to see his daughter, he said "where is your mom? I need to know if she is ok" but Sandra could not control the tears she had been holding back, she knew she had to tell her father that mom had died few hours ago but she didn't know how to. Mr. Gilbert pestered her until she finally said "Dad, mom is gone and she's not coming back", he went into shock when he heard the sad news. Sandra ran to get a doctor who would attend to him but he was dead before they returned. Sandra cried and asked God why this happened to her on a day she was supposed to be celebrating but she got no answer, she sat on the hospital bed and wondered how she was going to tell her sister about the death of their parents.

 After the nurses had disposed of their father’s remains, Sandra went home; when she got home Abigail asked ‘hope dad and mom are fine now?’ Sandra hugged her sister and said ‘They are resting in the bosom of the Lord’. Abigail cried and cried while Sandra comforted her and told her to take heart that she was going to take care of her as their parents would.



Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7