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"Sometimes, you don't realize your strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness." - Susan Gale. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Background music: lean on me by Michael Bolton. ____________________________________ Recap : "Very well then, tell me how it all started and how you got here."Jeremy questioned and sat back on the chair waiting for Kemi to begin her story." "Well, it all began when..... " ************ "I was called out that night from my hostel room by my roommate Sola."Kemi began her story and flashed back to what happened to her five years ago. Five years ago kemisola laid on her bed after she was done reading her lecture book for the day. She looked up at the ceilings in her room and began to count them. "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9..... "Her phone rang on her desk and she rushed to pick it up. "Hello, sola. Where are you at? It's nine pm already."Kemi asked as she scolded her friend on phone. "I need you to come to get me at the old mansion of lordon." sola said to her on phone. "What are you doing in that isolated area? Are you insane?"Kemi ranted over the call but the line had already dropped. "Hello, hello sola!!! "She shouted to the phone. When she got no reply, she called the number again but sola didn't pick up. Kemisola grabbed a brown coat from her closet and walked out of her hostel room. She entered into her car that was parked at the front of her hostel and drove straight to the location sola had mentioned to her. When she got to the front of the mansion, she met no one and tried calling sola line again. She was surprised when she heard a phone ringing in the bush. She traced the ringing of the phone and when it got to the spot of the ringing, what she saw made her scream out loud and dropped her phone to the ground. There inside the bush, was sola on the ground, with her eyes wide opened, blooding oozing from her head. Kemisola shouted and shook sola's corpse but it was all to no avail. Sola was dead. soon, the sound of the police siren could be heard. "Stay where you are. Your hands up and stand up slowly." the police officer who had arrived ordered. Kemisola lay on the ground with sola's body in her arms. She couldn't do anything but cry at the death of her friend. Soon, kemisola was convicted and sent to court. No one gave her the chance to speak for herself, she was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for a crime she didn't commit. in the first year of her stay in prison, Kemisola Was beaten almost every day by her cellmate. And every night, she cried herself to sleeping hoping that she could be freed from the nightmare that had clouded her life. She couldn't believe she was being framed and she was stupid to fall for it. She was supposed to graduate from college that year but All her plans ended in one night. When she decided to speak out, nobody believed her, nobody wanted to take her case. No one stood by her except her brother. Kemisola wanted to die and leave the world that's had done nothing but bought pain to her but, her brother kept her going promising that, he was going to get her out one day. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ********** Present. Kemisola smiled at Jeremy and Yomi who looked shocked at her story. "That's my story guys. Hope you weren't bored by it?"kemisola asked in a sarcastic tone. The tone filled with sadness. Jeremy sighed and stare at kemisola for a while before saying anything to her. "Kemi, I feel your pain and sorrow and I'm going to get you out," Jeremy assured. Kemisola raised a brow at what Jeremy had said and smiled wickedly. "How are you going to do that? How would you get me out when the crime happened five years ago?" she chuckled and then shouted. "You have no evidence!" "Why don't you believe that he can do it?"Yomi asked. Kemisola banged the table and stood up from her chair. "Believe! That word is dead to me," she shouted and pointed to herself. "No one believed me when I said I didn't do it. No one. My career, my entire life was ruined because no one believed me. I have ten years left so, it's not a big deal for me." "That where you are wrong" Jeremy fired back at her. "Look, just because you hate the word believe doesn't mean you should lose your faith in it kemisola. I'll get you out of here and I'll do it with everything that I have. All I need is your co-operation."Jeremy said to her. Kemisola bite her lower lips to stop the tears that had already creep out of her eyes. Yomi offered her a handkerchief and she used it to wipe the tears off her face and smiled to cover the pain that showed clearly on her face. "I hope you'll keep your word attorney. When is the trial coming up?"kemisola asked because she wanted to leave the prison as soon as possible. "Right now, we have no evidence to reopen the case but, I'll make sure you get out of here as soon as possible," Jeremy promised. "I need you to tell me one more thing. Do you know any family member of sola?" "Yeah, "she replied. "Good. Tell me anything you know about her family and where they live."Jeremy said. Kemisola sat back on the chair and then began to tell Jeremy everything she knew about sola's family. When she was done, the warden came to their table to inform them that their visitation was over. "Visiting time is over." the warden informed. "I'll come to see you before Monday," Jeremy promised and went out of the prison with Yomi. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ******* Lara walked into the langose forensic department to collect the result of the forensic autopsy conducted on Timothy. When she entered, she went straight to the head of the department and requested the result. "Are the result ready Mr lolu?"Lara asked Mr lolu, the head of the forensic department in langose. "Yes detective, here is the result conducted on Timothy." Mr lolu handed over a white paper to Lara. "From the test conducted, we have concluded that Mr. Timothy was poisoned."Mr lolu announced the result. "What do you mean by poison? He was found in the sea."Lara tried to argue. "Miss Lara, that is the result of the test conducted. Mr. Timothy was poisoned with a drug that is not yet in mecianda."Mr lolu informed. Lara let out a sigh and ball her hand into a fist. She looked up at Mr lolu and open her mouth like she remembered something. James had said something about poison when Linda died. A poison that was not yet in the country. "The poisoned used does not exist in the country, whosoever killed Linda are top people" Lara broke out of her thought as she looked up to Mr lolu who was calling her name. "Yes, "she said. "I've been calling your name for a while now. Are you okay? Is there something I should know?"Mr lolu inquired. Lara smiled and stood up from the chair she was sitting on. "Nothing is going on Mr lolu. Thank you for your help."Lara saluted and walked out of the office. When she came out of the department, she let out a sigh and read through the result of Timothy's death. She bought her phone out of her trouser pocket and place a call to Jeremy. "Hello Jeremy, we need to see." ********************** Thanks for reading... Don't forget to comment, vote, and follow... Well, kemisola story had finally being told........... How is Jeremy going to reopen the case? without new evidence, they won't reopen the case... Law and order are going somewhere. Let's go catch some bad guys????? ~~~~~~~~~~~ Melody