NATASHA THE LIVING DEAD : Episode 4

TITTLE: Natasha The Living Dead - 

Episode 4

"Where am i?".... Natasha said in a faint tone. This Was the first question that came to her mind because the last thing she could remember was being rushed to the hospital after an accident. 

  "I can't seem to move freely and all my body really hurt"...... Natasha said as she tried to turn forcefully but didn't work.  

 As she tried to use her energy,  she observed her energy was being consumed faster.  She could hardly breath as oxygen seem less available.  

   "Who's there?  Can anyone hear me??".... Natasha cried out. 

  "What's this wool on my nose and ear for?"  she said as she was finally able to remove them from her nose and ear. Removing them wasn't easy and this actually made her breath easily atleast. 

"I hope I'm not in the mortuary?.... But I'm alive....Hello!!! anybody there!!!"...... Natasha called out in a faint voice. 

  Nobody seem to answer or even respond to her cry.

"why is everywhere so quiet? Was I dead???...... Oh mummy! I'm scared!"... She shared tears as she wondered and became more frightened. she struggled to find an opening, but nothing seem to be working out for her. 

   "Oh God!  What's all this??"... Natasha cried. 

Meanwhile, Natasha's mum has been on her knees praying to God Almighty. She has been fasting and praying since the day the doctor announced Natasha's death. Anabel and Natasha's best friend Lington joined in praying against further death in the family while other family members also joined mourning the death of Natasha who was already buried yesterday.  

  Natasha's mum refused to eat anything as she was later hospitalized that same day after she fainted in the sitting room, just the same way she fainted after putting a photo Natasha took together with her late husband inside Natasha's casket. 

This is the second time she's been in the hospital since Natasha's accident about five days ago.  Even in the hospital, Natasha's mum kept crying and praying day in, day out. Natasha's kid sister Anabel who was always in the hospital taking care of the mother just like Natasha did when their biological father died.

The death of Natasha's father years ago served as a big blow on Natasha's mother and the children which left Natasha's mum in coma for two months. 

 Now, Natasha's death then served as a reminder, as everything came calling with the pain getting too much for Natasha's mother to bear as she had no choice to get up from her admission bed to fire prayer. She started as she knelt down in prayers... 

"God of the impossible! God of resurrection and life.  The creator that was never created, hear the cry of a woman who death has taken her joy away. Hear my cry please and take your place over my situation......... "

 Natasha's mother prayed in a loud voice kneeling down close to her admission bed......

FLASH BACK

Natasha a beautiful, hardworking intelligent girl whose shape and figure her mother considered to be too much for her age.  She was so beautiful like her mother that at 13, she was the talk of her school.  

  Her father Mr koker  a contractor and a well known business tycoon into importation and exportation, 

was who Natasha regarded as the best dad in the world. Natasha's mother was a full time house wife who Was devoted to the proper upbringing of the children in love and in the fear of God. She cared for the family in general and an example of a perfect house wife who loved and respected her husband so much. Natasha's mum a young, beautiful woman who became the envy of other women in the neighborhood. she lost the parents at a tender age and became an orphan who Mr koker fell deeply in love with. 

Natasha attended the best school in this town called Ubiaja and was rated among top three in her class due to her level of intelligence. When Natasha was 4 years old, her mother gave birth to  Natasha's kid sister, Anabel.

Natasha and her family lived a happy life with everything they needed right in front of them. 

 But as we all know, life is not a bed of roses as the other side of life and journey started when Natasha's dad was diagnosed of having leukemia(Blood cancer) at the time Natasha was 12 years old.  

Despite every treatment he was given, Mr koker died few months later. Natasha's mother was broken as she collapsed at the news of her husband's death.

It was at this time she was diagnosed of being hypertensive while Natasha's kid sister was just 8 years old. Natasha at a tender age of 12 years old, took up responsibilities just as she promised the father on his death bed to always be there for the mother and sister.  Two months after the funeral of Mr koker, Natasha's mum was reported to have woken up from coma.  She actually collapsed immediately the husband was being received by mother earth. She being an orphan whom the late Mr koker fell deeply in love with, her husband's death was a huge blow to her because Mr koker was who she considered to be her everything. And while  Natasha's mother was still in coma, the late husband's brothers and family members manipulated and took all Mr koker left behind without leaving any for Mrs Koker and two daughters.

Though natasha's best friend from childhood by name 'Lington dip' was always available to help her through difficulty, but at this point there was nothing the 14years old  lington could do. There was nobody to come to her aid as Natasha had to stop schooling.

It was after 3years of suffering and mourning the late husband that Mr Okafor popularly known as 'Igwe Naira' came into the picture. Igwe Naira was a popular business man and a widower with a drug addict of a son by name Rufus who was 19years old. Natasha was just  15 years old with the kid sister 11 years when the mother got married to Mr Okafor aka 'igwe Naira', who was now Natasha's step father that was later abusing Natasha sexually.

BACK TO PRESENT 

Natasha decided to help herself by trying to search for an opening to this box she was in. As her hands went through the edges of the box & it's internal surface, she observed something that frightened her. 

   "I have been buried six feet into the ground!".....Natasha said within as she was soaked in tears......... 

TO BE CONTINUED....