All Chapters of The Illusionist : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

We stood in a circle, round the large gaping hole as they lowered his body 6 feet into the ground. I was standing with Crystal and Faith and I had to support her, so she wouldn't crumble.His first cousin, Lee, was giving his own tribute and It was heartfelt and so sincere. Some families of the other victims were looking absolutely distraught while some managed to compose themselves

This time around a secret message was mailed to our inboxes requesting our presence and that was where I was now.

"What?!" I asked in bewildered confusion. I had to go on this mission, I owed it to Richard."I had requested your presence mainly for contributions and to give you the respect accorded to being amongst the best in your field, not to lead you into action when you're undeniably unfit."

Even as the car had driven out of the hospital grounds, I still felt uneasy and agitated at the now forgotten hospital event.

The interiors of the building felt cold unlike the fading warmth it had once brought to my insides. Nothing had changed but everything was different. The furniture was in a dilapidated condition and it was crying loudly for a change. It made me wonder, had the extreme poverty of then continued? I had hoped somewhere in my mind as a little consolation, that they would have at least escaped from the shackles of its hold but now as I viewed, it looked as though things had gotten worse. I instantly felt ashamed, that as I was living a luxury life my family was suffering.

"What?! How?" I shouted in absolute shock."That can't be true Tayo, you are lying to me," I muttered next, still shaken, confounded and refusing to believe his words which struck like double edged swords to my gut.

It was already getting to 10pm on the clock when I lodged into the motel at the next street for the night. Since I had no other place to go to, there was no other option but to elapse the remaining days of solace to families alone in this hotel room with an unsettled mind. My mother was dying in some hospital ward room I didn’t know about and it was eati

It was the final destination as we had scanned through all the possible hospital locations in Surulere that she could have been admitted into and this was unexpected.I couldn't move my feet to proceed through the doors of the bed of flats that inhabited the clinic my mother was held at. Two things impeded my movements, I felt conscience stricken and guilt ridden that they couldn't even afford to take

My head slowly turned up and when my eyes met hers at last, I almost drowned In the cavernous depths I was disposed to just by staring at them. Her eyes were so empty, devoid of life and sunken and it broke my heart more, even though I was sure there was nothing else left to shatter.Her grip was weak and I could see her eyes widen when she t

"NO! LET ME GO!" I screamed as hands surged forth to grab me from going further into the room to hinder the doctor's work. The heart rate was still a flatline even as the man had pumped up her heart for the second time with the defibrillator. Despite the fact that I was in a frenzied and maddened state as my eyes bulged out at the sight of t