24 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
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“24 Days before Christmas”
Episode 1
Gun, pills, knife, rope, DDT all laid right on Franca’s desk as she stood in front of the desk wondering which one would be quicker and painless.
Out of agony and pain she came to a point were she wanted to end it all.
It was through no fault of hers, Franca was just a victim of circumstance. As newly elected women’s commissioner at her school, she was well respected until her sex tape went viral on campus.Her own boyfriend, whom she loved so much, did this to her out of peer influence. It was a carefully planned action. Ray was able to manipulate Franca right from day one until she finally fell in love with him.
Ray and his crew had planned to execute this action just because Franca appeared to be the difficult and unapproachable type on campus since level 100.
Even though Ray succeeded in making her fall in love with him, it took him 2 and half years for him to be able to make love to her. It was at that very moment that Ray secretly took coverage of their intercourse as a sign of proof for his crew.
Its unfortunate that, the sex tape only came out when she had recently won campus election as the women’s commissioner. Apart from the damage it has caused her on campus, her family’s dignity was at stake. She was the daughter of a minister.
Now all what she could think of was to end her life. She couldn’t handle it anymore, everyone had neglected her except Yaw, who has been by her through all this time. Yaw was secretly in love with Franca but she on the other hand always treated him as her kid brother because she was two years older than him, and he was her junior too.
The only reason she keeps Yaw around her was to use him as a “listener” and above all, she felt secured around him but never had any feelings for him.
Franca had locked herself up in her room weeping. She began writing her final words which was full of regrets and apologies to her Father.
Yaw on the other hand had also just seen Franca’s sex video, even though he had warned her about Ray so many times, he still stood by her and respected her decision because of the unique love he had for her.
When Yaw saw the video, she called Franca several times but she didn’t pick up, he knew instantly that something was wrong, so he begun to rush straight to her hostel which was about 30 minutes away from his place.
Franca had finished writing her suicide note, she picked the gun up and pointed it her head ready to pull the trigger.
“No, that will make noise and call the attention of the neighbors” she said to herself.
She picked up the Pills, and was ready to swallow about 50-80 unprescribed tablets.
“No No, i can easily be saved, if am found on time”
She said to herself.Franca found a lot of reasons not to kill herself until she arrived at the knife. She picked the sharp knife out and got ready to pierce it into her tummy.
Yaw had at that instant gotten to her door, he kept on banging the locked door but Franca who had heard Yaw calling out her name didn’t answer as she was determined to finish it up.
She held the knife, raised it high above to enable her use force to pierce deep into her tummy.
Yaw was getting frustrated and was about leaving until he heard Franca cry out.
To be continued.
