It's 1.15 pm. The sun shines hotter than before, flowers shine more colorful and beautiful. It's a compound with a duplex building, beautifully designed with some artistic touch of paint and flowers of different kinds. The house was bounded by little wooden fences and after that creeping flowers around it. At the end of the house there is a little garage built which can only hold two cars at most and beside it is the little doghouse.
Mr. Benson yawns, board as always. He stands up from the center couch in his sitting room then picks up his face cap on the stool at his side, he lifts his staff and moves out to the front door of his house. He sat down on his rocking chair facing towards the little wooden gate. Mr. Benson picked up his pipe and began smoking.Moments later he dozed off, and sometime later his dog began to bark as if something special was about to happen, this woke the old man up.
Mr. Benson is a man who is sixty-five of age, he has some gray hair scattered around his dark hair and he is quite tall for a fully grown man and dark in complexion.
"Billy, you don't need to drag attention", yells Mr. Benson.
"Can things get better", he soliloquized then proceeded with his slumber. Billy barks again, but this time it was for something special, something unexpected, it was family. They drove into the compound with their Chevrolet car and Benson's grandkids popped out of the car and ran towards him. Mr. Benson, being surprised stood up and rejoiced as he gave his grandkids huge. As this event was going on his daughter Kate who was tall and beautiful walked towards Mr. Benson.
"Oh, my little Kate", as he touched her cheek."Like look at them, they are getting taller quicker than I thought, like what do you feed them? Manure? he said, and they all laughed. Mr. Benson then opened the door and welcomed them into the house. Daniel who is the second of the three kids who was nine of age asked a question about their ground mother whether she was around or not, and his question was supported by both Kenny and Zack.
Zack is the first son while Kenny is the last and the only daughter.
"Oh, your grandmother, ehm she's not around right now but she might be back around next month or so", Mr. Benson said and scaled out of the question. It was a relief that the kids believed.
"That was close", said Kate and both daughter and father Smiled and entered the house.It's all in. Everything is now in place. Kenny was busy running around with her toy plane and the impression of the house being a hell came to Mr. Benson's mind. He then whispered to his daughter,
"Wow isn't this what you want, okay you know what, play with them while I go and unpack stuff from the car",
"no no no don't do that, don't leave me here alone", said Mr. Benson but she didn't listen but left to unpack from the car to the house."Okay, who wants to play board game?", said Benson clapping his hand"What!" they all paused, then Daniel came towards Benson and asked him what he just said"What happened did I say something wrong?" said Benson confused."Yeah you said something wrong," Kenny said in a low tune."I, I don't understand, what's going on here ", Benson said confused and trying to grab what was going on. " you said board game", said Zack from a distance, sitting on a couch with his phone. "You know board games died a long time ago, this is the sixth generation, and we no longer play those things, precedes it's for boring people and you do not want to be like those boring guys"."Oh you called my board game bored games right," Benson said oppressed."No, it's just that we are not interested. No offence" said Zack."Wow that's a very nice way to say that", replied Benson.Mrs. Kate closed her boot and then wondered what might be going on, she looked back to have a glance at the house then she smiled and continued her work, Billy the dog ran towards her and greeted her with a pounce, The dog seemed to know her as much as she knows the dog. Kate stood laughing and began to pet the dog. Not soon after she had Benson yell STOP, he was chased by Kenny then with time he stopped running and carried Kenny and they both moved towards Kate and began to help her pack.It's very late in the night.
Mr. Benson is still in the sitting room, kind of depressed, watching TV with no lights turned on. Mrs. Kate came and to her dismay she found him lonely and sad. "You are still up this late at night ", she said approaching him calmly. "Nothing", said Mr. Benson, She sat beside him and held his hands, "don't lie to me anymore and there is something wrong", she said concerned, there was then a pause and she continued. "It's it about Mom?" Mr. Benson then looked at his daughter then began to sob."Can you just imagine that she left me, she left me for a false reason? Like where on earth will you think that Mr. Benson can stoop so low to have another wife somewhere, I'm damn 65 years and now in a month she will move back to Africa and I will be alone here" he said sadly."No no Dad you are not alone, you got family with you, you have to let go of the past and live in the future and ....." her speech was interrupted by Benson who continuously repeated the word let go. Then his tone changed "Let go? Have you ever broken up before?" he asked. "Yeah, once and I made sure it became a bygone, if I didn't I would not have been in this spot by now, I would have been in the asylum by now". She picked up the TV remote control turned off the TV set and convinced her dad to take some rest.
At 8:35 AM, the alarm clock began to ring and Mrs. Kate hesitated to turn off the clock. When she finally did that, she heard a voice that yelled her name, it was Kenny and she was complaining about Daniel choking her ears. Mrs. Kate not in the mood to listen to any complaint decided to shut the door in other to reduce the noise pollution the kids were producing. "Ahh these kids are headaches sometimes", she said as she fell over to the bed. She took up her cell phone and then called her husband, Bruno."Bruno where are you babe?" she asked "Honey I told you I'm really busy now" "But when will you come? You're taking forever" "Honey Remember I promised to come and spend family time with you and the kids but you know I'm a detective and I got lots of work to take care of" "Babe you really need to hurry up we are missing you a lot" "Okay you know what, honey meet me at my office there is something I want to share with you in person" "Is it that important?" she said feeling her nails "Yes and be early okay?" "Okay, love you, bye" she then ended up the call. A few moments later, Mrs. Kate was done preparing, she had to leave in a hurry. "Mom where are you going," asked Kenny eagerly, "I'm off to see your dad" she replied about to exit the house, "he's close by" added Zack, "Yap, how did you know that?, anyways I want you to take care of your sibling until I come back and also have a good time with your grandfather", she then exited the building."Okay what's next," said Daniel"I don't know, we might be bored throughout today" added Zack"What about a story?" said Kenny? and all the boys yelled WHAT!! at the same time but she continued "Yap a story. Remember that story mom didn't complete for us" "What story?" Zack asked irritated "The story Mom told us about, the one Grandpa used to tell her when she was like us" "Yah that story, let's hear it from grand pops," said Daniel "You want to hear the story lads," Mr. Benson said creping out of a dark area and the guide screamed out in fear."Grandpops don't do that again" yelled Daniel who was terrified."Oh did I scare you, I'm sorry, just trying to do a dramatic entrance that's all. Okay let's go to the sitting room and begin". The kids and the elderly man excitedly went to the sitting room, the kid sat facing Benson. He went to the bar took a glass of Chortle and poured a little wine in it, he took a seep, cleared his throat, and smiled. "Okay this is weird" Daniel whispered to Zack and Zack whispered something back they both giggled and the story began.