85 PREGNANT FOR A GHOST 2. (1/2)
Many years passed and Odo Junior remained on earth watching over his family, many ghost came and went though like him there were a few others that had unfinished business that couldn't move on.
Initially when the babies came he could relate with them, play with them and all, when she will beg them to be calm while she went around doing her chores he will play with them, people around usually commented on how obedient the babies were, they will laugh on their own and general not disturb, what they didn't know was that their ghost father was keeping them engaged.
This also made it was easy for him to leave things for their mother through them there was a time he took a bag of money and wrote 'for the cute babies' and dropped it with the babies who were around nine months as at then, right in her sitting room. When she saw it she was like who owns so much money? ... and kept it here? but when she saw the note she desperately ran out to see if she could find the person who dropped it and even asked people outside her house if they saw anyone leave but they all said no one.
Those were they days he could help her a little without over doing it and scaring her. However, no matter the amount of money he left, money wasn't everything the days that broke his heart are those silent nights she cried tears after tears wetting her pillow and missing him badly, yet in the morning she still left the bed and faced the day as if nothing was wrong.
They always met in the night to catch up with each other under a very massive tree in the village where they are, this tree housed many of them, because they were friendly with the spirit tree, and was was now their treehouse lord.
When humans approached this trees they always get goose bumps and weird winds or even still air but the humans can't see the spirits except those of them with enhanced sights or perceptions.
These ghost also traded with each other here under the tree, this trees were not much and they were spread out in the village some herbalist and spiritual people also sometimes visit this trees to get what they needed.
Izogie took care of her children Osaro and Osaze all by herself with little or no help from anyone, it wasn't easy at all, many times Odo wept to see her loneliness and suffering, he desperately wanted to help her but couldn't find away at all,after the children passed five years of age they couldn't see him again for they started gaining better understanding of the world they now lived in, continuing seeing them under any means could alter their psyche.
Years tuned into decades his parents were now in their sixties and were trying to sell off some of their properties to convert to cash and go back to their own place in Anambra state, his woman was in her early forties and the children too had grown to be men in their early twenties, though Odo Junior did not age a day older than the age he died he watched his woman, children and parents grow older all heartbroken, when they could have had each others company.
what was he to do? .....
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Since the day Ayanna woke up from the coma in her fathers palace, and was finally in full health she had always slept in her own beautiful room but in the middle of the night she will be awoken by a great marketing in some distance place away, she couldn't place where the noise of the market was coming from, since it was late she will block it off and soon go back to sleep.
However, there is a saying that 'curiosity killed the cat”, on one of the occasions that she was awoken by the noise from the midnight market, she decided to listen to what they were buying and selling, though her logic told her not to, she still wanted to unravel the mystery market.
She totally forgot to run the incident by her father or even Hauwa her guard, concentrating on the sounds she followed it and picked up on several conversations.
Ghost 1:So Grace how did it go?