Everything they were doing proved to be futile. Despite how she ripped her clothes into two the morning to the engagement and had thrown many tantrums, the engagement had taken place. Irrespective of what destruction she had caused, Joshua still slipped that ring into her hand. The party was big, a typical high-class party. Her grandfather had paid so much to get everything done. It was still trending on instagram. Many people were congratulating her and her soon to be husband. Even though it's already over a week since she got engaged, her engagement, the pictures were everywhere. Good wishes kept coming in.

Lola hated it. She disliked everything about it. Their engagement ring was a gift from her grandfather. It was the first time no one is excited about a wedding in the Kola-Daisi's household. Her mother and she had tried to cancel the wedding. The blood group and genotype tests they had done were good. She was AC and he was AA but they had changed the result and said she was AC and he was AS. No one would want a child with sickle cell anaemia but Damijo won't believe the result.

Damijo had said they should redo it. There must have been a mistake. This time, he supervised it and the correct one was gotten. Cynthia had said it could be wrong that they should repeat it. The same came out and at that moment, she knew she was doomed for life. What sort of fate was this?

Lola trembled, she sat at the end of the bed, her hair nothing but a bird nest on her face. Everything drove her crazy. She was losing her mind. One of her nightmares was coming true. She does not want any of it. Lola got to her feet. This can't happen to her. She moved, her body swinging left and right. The engagement ring was down inside the soak away. She flushed it. She can't wear something that gives her sorrow.

Her heart constricted. She felt the tremor that tingled through her. Anger spiked in her. The feeling of destruction came. Everyone was going mad. Why is no one trying to stop it as much as she and her mother are trying to? Her grandmother seemed so okay with it even after she had been fooled. Everyone had been fooled. This man had played with them and manipulated her into agreeing to marry someone. This is not right! Nothing feels right! Her hand trembled. Her thoughts drove her mad. When a roar left her lips, her first attack was at her chair which she threw at the chandelier that dangled from the ceiling.

Cynthia rushed out of her room, Kenny behind her. She was on phone with the principal of her school in Yola when Kenny had rushed into the room to break the news about Lola. She left the phone and had hurried out. The loud crash could be heard. Cynthia's heart jumped in her chest. What's happening again? She grew more worried, fear absorbing her when she heard Lola's scream and another smash.

"Lola! Open the door!" Miracle rumbled, trying to push the door open with two security men. Tenny stood behind her brother and the security men who tried to break the door. Together, the three men would kick the door which refused to open.

"What's happening to her again?" Cynthia panicked.

"Mummy!" Miracle wheezed, sending a hard strike against the door. "She is not opening the door"

"Lola" Cynthia shouted. "My dear" she shook, every part of her going weak at an event that repeated itself. "Please open the door" The sound of some items breaking came through the closed door. Cynthia heart contracted, knocking any possibility of air for a while. "Lola!" she shouted as the men tried bringing the door down.

Around them were the maids who were so keen about knowing what's happening. Kenny, Tenny, Samson and Sarah stood around them, watching everything happening with shuddering minds. Mofe was nowhere to be found.

Tears swam into Cynthia's eyes. This can't be happening again. Her daughter can't have this again. What sort of thing is this? She played with her fingers, her mother heart going weak. She tried holding back the tears that fought to be free but one bead fell on her cheeks that had gone red in seconds.

"Lola, please. Don't do this to me again!" she squealed wanting to be heard. Silence came from the other end. There was no noise, no sound, nothing. It was still and they all felt it. The men stopped kicking. Cynthia's mother's heart skipped in her chest. She felt trepidation creep through her. Something was wrong. There was something abnormal about the silence.

"Keep kicking the door. Something is wrong" she felt a tightening in her stomach. "Someone should bring the spare key to this door!"

They kept trying. Each second came with terror. The door was not the kind to fall with just kicks. Few minutes later, the spare key arrived. When the door opened with the use of the spare key, they all rushed in. The room was damaged beyond repair. No one cared about the state of the room. They cared about the being that had been silent for a long while. Miracle's eyes whizzed across the room. His heart thumped in his chest. Cynthia looked around but Lola was not there. Along with their worry came the worst feeling of horror.

Cynthia felt it. Something was not right. Everyone stood still amidst destruction. They could all hear their pulse as their heartbeat increased. While silence fell upon them, their hearts seek for one thing. Where is Lola?

They found her unconscious on the floor in the closet. Her still body laid in the middle of a ruined closet upon a pile of clothes. Miracle had seen her head first, the silky curls spread out on the heap of expensive wears. He rushed to her. In one sweep of his hand, he lifted her unmoving body.

"Mummy!" Samson ran into the room. The scream was the kind that tore through anyone like the shards of glasses. It was the kind that tells you something is wrong. Cynthia whipped around to meet her son. Samson halted, gasping for air, his mother wide and terrified eyes on him. "Mummy" he called, bent with his hands on his knee. "It's Mofe. He...he...he is rolling on the floor saying his stomach hurts. I don't know what's wrong with him but he is weeping badly"

Cynthia dashed past everyone. What the hell is happening in one day?

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Lola had woken up but had fallen back to sleep. Mofe had to be taken into the operating room for his appendicitis surgery. It was confirmed after some medical procedures which took long that his stomach pain which came with a mild fever was caused by appendicitis. The doctor had said an immediate Operation was needed. Who would hesitate when it was a life they speak about? Cynthia agreed, signing the forms given to her with shaking hands. In an hour after many tension in the family, Mofe was out of the Operating room. No one could meet him until he regains consciousness. Lola regained consciousness before Mofe. Cynthia went to see her.

"Oko mi (My dear)" Cynthia called reaching for her daughter's hand. "How are you?"

"Fine" Lola rasped out. "I am sorry. I did not know what got into me"

"You don't have to be sorry" Her mother's fussed eyes held hers. "I am sorry for putting you in this situation"

Lola gave her mother a small smile. "It is not your fault. I was just angry and everything felt suffocating"

"We will call the engagement off. You won't marry him. I assure you"

Lola tried not to snicker at her mother's words. "We both know that's not true. Grandpa and grandma are hell bent on sending me to hell" she chuckled out her misery.

"Don't ......" Cynthia's words were cut short when the door opened. Richard walked in with Makinde behind him.

"Welcome daddy" Lola said with a weak smile.

"Lola, my girl. You got us worried" Her father kissed her forehead trying not to hold her hand that had the IV fixed to it.

"I am sorry. Hi bro" she smiled at her elder brother.

"How are you feeling?" Makinde moved nearer to her. He placed a wide palm over her shoulder.

"Better"

Cynthia had not granted her husband any look. She had her eyes which had turned cold from warm on the wall, his presence not acknowledged by her. When he greeted her, her reply was inaudible and mean. Makinde made eye contact with Lola at the attitude. Lola looked away. She understood that look.

Her parents' relationship got worse since the issue about the marriage begun. They rarely talk and when they do, it was malicious and distant. It was something many turned blind eye to especially Lola. She pretended as if such thing was not happening around her.

Her parents and brother stayed with her for a while before the news that Mofe had woken up came to them. It was then Lola knew Mofe had become a patient in the hospital. Tenny, Kenny and Sarah came in. They kept her company, trying to make her laugh.

"Sister Lola, do not worry. We are all going to gang up against grandpa to cancel this wedding" Sarah assured her. "I keep wondering how grandpa could play us so hard. That ECG machine made noises. Everything felt so real. He made us cry for long before he wakes up" Sarah ranted, still angry she fell for her grandfather's act.

"I doubt anyone will believe him if he really falls sick. That was too real to be fake" Tenny joined.

"And about our soon to be in law, I have remove him from our list of in laws" Kenny chipped in. Lola laughed. "I don't want him anymore if you are like this"

"We hate seeing you this way" Tenny said giving Lola's arm a light squeeze. "Please, find a way to get out of that bed. I want to go on a shopping spree with you soon"

"She is not staying long. She will leave today after her therapy with Doctor Ben"

"About what Sarah said, how about I run away before the wedding or on the wedding day" Lola said with a playful look.

"It would be nice to help you scale the walls of the house" Tenny played along.

"Why don't we make a plan?"

"And make mummy end up in the hospital with real heart attack this time" Sarah said making everyone laugh. "This time, the fire which is on the mountain will grow worse. I am sure she will shred daddy into pieces like the way she threatened"

"And removing Josh from the list of in laws, we can eliminate him for life" Lola turned to Kenny.

"I am good at running away in situations of that kind" Tenny admitted immediately. "I won't mind standing witness in court against everyone"

They laughed again. "So you will snitch on us?"

"Oh, it is a matter of going to prison. That place is not my kind of place. I reject it"

"We all do. How is Mofe?" Lola asked.

"Good and chatty. I wonder why the operation did not tie his mouth down" Tenny replied. "He won't eat until he farts" she laughed.

"It is not that way. He can eat but not heavy meals. He will just take veggies and liquids" Kenny told her.

"It's a lie" heat rose against Tenny's cheek before she said her next words. "That handsome doctor who carried out the surgery said so" she blushed at the thought of her latest crush.

"He was joking, T"

A look at her sister and Lola could tell.

"Don't tell me that handsome doctor is now your new crush"

"You got it" she clapped her hands. "He is hot. Tall, light skinned and someone a woman would like to be with. He looks so clean and I smelt money on him"

"The same way you smelt money on Brother Lolu when you met him and smelt poverty on Duke when you saw him" Sarah said giving her a pointed look.

"Exactly!" She clapped her hand again.

"Who smells poverty for God's sake?" Kenny asked with bewilderment.

"You know she has a different nose" Sarah teased.

"You guys did not notice but all the time he was disturbing Sarah, he wears the same shoe and nothing more than two trousers"

"What?"

"I saw it. I examined him well. He was putting nothing more than three clothes and he was trying to impress you by spending his hard earned money on you. I am sure when he gets home, he was going to stare at the ceiling with nothing to eat and he will be wondering. Why o? Just to impress woman" she made a gesture with her hand and put on that thoughtful face.

"Oh Tenny" Lola laughed. "You won't cease to amaze me"

"Me either" Others stated in unison.

"But that doctor is a man in my dreams" Tenny said dreamily.

"You and this your likeness for older men. I hope you won't end up marrying an old man" Lola chuckled.

"At that time, mummy won't be a patient in this hospital instead we might prepare for a burial" Sarah uttered.

Meanwhile, Samson stood guard near Mofe's hospital bed as Cynthia showered her youngest child with love and attention. The doctor who had come to attend to him was a female, assistant to Sarah's new crush. As the doctor asked him questions, Cynthia's phone rang. She took an excuse and left. There were two medical students behind the female doctor and a nurse with her.

"Has anyone ever said to you that you got a pretty smile?" Mofe said to the female doctor taking her hand.

"What?" Samson whose ears had picked the words turned around.

He had assigned himself as Mofe's personal assistant due to the presents Mofe would receive from different guests such as money, snacks and junks.

"Since you won't be able to eat until you fart, I will be your mouth for the time being and when you get money, junks and snacks they will be mine. I will be your legs for the main time until you can work properly and bank account until you can spend money" he had said with so much seriousness that shocked his younger brother.

"Don't you spend my money o" Mofe had said in a very childish tone.

"Right in front of your eyes" Samson pointed at Mofe's eyes. "I will spend your money and there is nothing you can do because you are stuck in that bed for the time being"

The female doctor named Regan looked up from his medical chart, disbelief in her black eyes. She lifted an eyebrow at his words before her lips broke into a wider smile. The medical students stiffened shifting their gazes from what they penned down to the boy. The nurse wide eyes fell on the teenager on the bed.

"A number of times"

He smiled. "You got pretty hands. They seem too soft for someone who had worked on me" he gave her hand a gentle caress. "I bet my early healing process was from your blessed hands" he winked.

Regan laughed out taking her hand from his hold. What a kid?

"How old are you Mofe?" she questioned with hilarity checking his IV.

"Fifteen" he gave her a boyish grin.

"Oh my God" she threw her head back. "You teenagers of today. I can see you are alright" she kept his medical chart at the end of his bed "We shall just wait and monitor you for while"

"Ouch!" Mofe let out a painful cry.

"What's wrong?" Regna bent over him to check him. Her panicked eyes on his face. Those behind her were on the ball.

"My stomach. It aches" he whimpered trying not to touch his stitches.

"I will check you Mofe. You will be alright" she assured lifting his hospital wear up to check the stitches.

"It does not hurt again. I just got better with your touch" Mofe grinned at her.

"Mofe" Samson slapped his leg.

"Ouch that hurts!"

Regan shook her head moving away. She slipped her hands into the pockets of her lab coat. "If you have any pain anywhere, you should inform the nurse. Nurse Faith here will check on you later. You can eat but you can only take liquids for the time being. You will only take solid food after some time. I will explain your diet for the time being to your mother"

"Why do I have to fart?"

"It is important. The fact that you can pee is a good sign even though you find that a little bit difficult. That's all"

"Thank you doctor" Samson shook her hand.

"My pleasure" she smiled at the older teenager before she left. The rest followed her.

"You full of shit bro" Samson said after the doctor left.

"Hitting on older women is not shit. And she blushed"

"She did not blush. She was amazed"

"She blushed. I hit the right spot in her. When I get out of this bed, I am going to keep disturbing her"

"As much as I would love to break your head, I really want you out of that bed" Samson leaned close to Mofe's ear. "Can you just stop been an asshole? You obviously have no chance with her" He whispered.