Chapter 6 : A week with Family

Chapter 6 : A week with Family

"I told you guys. I said it but no one listened to me." Said Harry while he discussed with his parents later that day.

He continues, "It was all a trick to lure us down here and now I'm back to this stinky rural place", but his mom cuts in quickly, "Harry! mind your language".

He frowns and leaves the scene angrily.

"Don't mind him, he will change", whispered Bexley, to her husband's ear. "I hope he does", he replies.

Harry took a walk outside. He could not log into any of his social media accounts due to the location. He was very furious at his grandma but couldn't do anything.

Suddenly, one of his cousins joins him on the wooden bench.

"Hi", he said with his right hands up. "Hello", Harry replied quickly.

"My name is Nonso, I'm your cou.....",

Suddenly, Harry cuts in.

"Bro...(he paused as they both look at each other) can i use your hotspot please?"

"Sure", Nonso replies.

Just like that, he began to know his cousins one by one and finally, he realized that a book should not be judged by its cover. Anyways, the family decided to throw a family party in a week time for the return of Harry's dad.

One week went so quickly like it didn't happen. Harry was very happy that a week had passed. His dad had announced that they would be leaving after easter. Jules had become the most popular lady in town. She was always friendly unlike her strong headed brother although she fell very ill a few days ago. Change of climate was the reason. It was quite difficult for everyone of them adapting to the new environment.

One thing Harry knew that he would miss was the meals his grandma served him. met new people and also tried most of African meals. During this first week of staying here, Harry realized that his grandma was quite cool. She's was so kind and friendly and she became his closest friend. He spent almost every day with her while Jules grew her fame with people. I've never been admired this much at UK. Harry avoided almost all his cousins excluding Nonso who supplied him network. They all seemed weird to him but sometimes, they had short conversations. One major thing that made him to avoid them was that they believed in so many superstitious beliefs. Not only them, everyone within the neighborhood did the same which made him quite sick of staying there. Anyways, he kept in touch with his colleagues overseas. He and Bran would text almost all night on Telegram. They both missed each other. Although, Harry's family house was huge, containing every member of the family, he still wanted to go back home.

[10th April, 2021]

Two days ago, the family threw a party for Harry's dad and family return. A party which Harry themed "the reunion of the prodigal son and family. But here's the gist, during the event, Harry accidentally joined his cousins in a conversation. One of them made a superstitious comment which made him join their chat. While the discussion went on, his cousins tried to impress him. They discussed about the mysteries in Africa. Harry believed all they mentioned were piece of trash until one of them said a thrilling word, "OGBUKE CAVE!!!"

The name of the cave or whatsoever he mentioned sounded quite strong, triggering Harry's curiosity. This made him question 'Charles' further, "what's that?" (That was the beginning of his craziness).

Charles went on further elaborating his experience at the above cave he mentioned. Harry could see fear in his eyeballs as he spoke. His looks were convincing untill he released 'the unconvincing stupid story from his loud mouth', as Harry described it. To cut the long story short, Charles said something like this, "it was a very scary experience, then our school went for an excursion at OGBUKE CAVE". He then mentioned something about seeing a man coming out a pool which was initially empty, saying that he came from another part of the earth.

"We wore white shirts and white trousers. The females wore white shirts and skirts. The cave was very dark. We all held torches inorder to see."

Harry normally disliked arguments so he withdrew himself from the crazy conversation but when Charles mentioned something about a tiny pool that transported one to another part of the world, he became quite curious about this cave. He knew that logically, all Charles was blabbing about was all a lie but still, something kept triggering him to check out this mysterious cave. He felt like he should go there and see for himself. One crazy thing about Harry was that whenever he became curious about something, he'd always satisfy that curiosity.

So he told myself, "Visiting a dark cave worths calling an adventure". His birthday was close by so he decided that he will visit the so called cave on that day and at least, experience a real adventure before going back to UK..

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