The Mythical Adventure

to be their permanent home. It was around November ending her father ‘Apostle Desmond’ wanted her family spend the Christmas at their new home, ‘’at least th

odu, at times you can be on a stand-still for hours. All these were Clara’s concerns. Esther was assisting Jane in the mopping of the sitting room and corridor along with other little and minor tidying up like; picking up clothes laying on unwanted place, shoes and slippers were removed from where it not wanted and properly placed. Jude was not idle either even if he had wanted to, there was no room for idleness, he also had his room to tidy up even though boys seems not to have too many cleaning to do, this Saturday became a handful busy day for everyone as there were too many cleaning to do. The cleaning was ongoing when they suddenly heard ‘’knock knock!’’, they were all startled and paused to be sure they actually heard the knock on the door. ‘’nothing jare let’s continue Esther announced’’ I thought as much ‘’added Apostle Desmond’’. Few minutes into the when the cleaning continued, ‘’KO KO KO ’’ they heard again on the door, ‘’who is it’’ Clara inquired but there was no response, ‘’who is there?’’ Apostle added, no respond,

. ‘’anytime sir’’ spiral added, as he was about to go he asked, ‘’sir was that your wife who opened the door earlier’’ ‘’are you okay what’s your problem with that’’ apostle thought to himself and quickly snapped back to himself. ‘’oh! No that’s my first daughter Jane, this is Esther, Jude and my wife Clara’’ and I am Apostle Desmond’’ apostle had no choice than to introduce his whole family to a stranger ‘’wow what a lovely family with beautiful and adorable children, you are welcome to the neighborhood once again’’ spiral complimented them. ‘’thank you’’ they echoed ‘’ehm one last thing please, were you the one knocking earlier? Before now?’’ Clara asked spiral, ‘’no not at all’’ he responded ‘’oh okay its fine’’ Clara added as they bid him farewell out of their compound. When he left, there was a strange observation noticed by Jude as he was a very observant, inquisitive and intelligent boy. And what was his observation? ‘’Dad who opened the gate for that man? He asked and everyone’s memory get a reset as if they had a memory loss before, they peeped through the window pointing a torch to the gate and discovered that it had padlock on it, apostle Desmond remembered he locked the gate as soon as they drove in from Bisolo in the morning, and up till now no one had stepped out as they all have been busy cleaning that they even forgot they hadn’t eaten since. ‘’how the hell did he enter?’’ Esther trembled as she inquired ‘’Jude was right’’ Jane affirmed. At this point they were really getting scared as they could not trace at any point where someone opened the