Dinah Love Games And Lies

The morning came with the sun rising in the city of Albany, as it penetrated the curtain openings, its rays falling on Dinah's face.

Dinah yawned as she stretched out her hand.

She felt like sleeping the more since she thought of herself to be useless.

It's been over a week now since she lost her Parents and her immediate sister was driven to a coma.

Life could be harder on her when she found out her parents had owed a loan bank a huge amount of money.

|6 March 2022|

She paid the cab man as she alight from the cab,

She should have ordered Uber or rather, asked her parents to come pick her up, but she wanted her comeback to be a surprise.

Dinah's look at the envelope in her hand as she smiled at the words displayed on the envelope.

Filled with happiness, Dinah decided to check the files again. Earlier that day, she felt weird as if she lost something important or rather forgot something, which made her check the files again.

She breathed out a sigh of relief as she started walking.

Looking at how crowded her house has become, Dinah looked confused as she struggles to walk-by the crowd until she got to the front.

At first, the corps at the entrance of the compound wouldn't let her in until she yelled at him that her family lives in, and she's the daughter of Mr. Zealot.

After confirming her identity, the corps let her in as she walks to the compound

Fear gripped her as she looked around, policemen standing guard at the door, others stopping the crowd from bursting while some took some pictures.

As she mustered courage to walk in, Dinah could not think straight, she could feel her legs trembling and her palms sweaty.

Shutting the door behind, Dinah swallowed hard as she slowly walked closer, hoping that whatever that is happening or has happened shouldn't be what she is thinking

“Ma'am, what are you doing here?” A corp asked her, but she was rather too dumb to hear him reply since she was full of thought already.

As she walked closer, Dinah began seeing traces of blood on the tiled floor which some corps took photos of.

Her hearts began pounding as she felt herself, sweating already.

“Dinah.” Somebody called as he held her, making her freeze on her stand.

“You shouldn't be here.” He added and Dinah slowly turned to look at him.

“Why…” Dinah stutters as he grab her by the hand, but she fidgets.

“I need to know. What's happening here.” She forced out her words as she walked more closely.

“ Mum….” Dinah was shocked as she widened her eyes seeing the corps putting her mum who was bleeding seriously to the cot.

“Mum!!” Dinah yelled, she was about to run to the corps carrying her mum on the cot but the other corps standing beside her stopped her by holding her hands as she struggled out of the hold, but it was proving futile until her mum was out of sight.

Dinah screamed as she fell to her knees.

She could feel her world crumbling already as tears poured down followed by screams of pain.

The envelope she was holding earlier fall to the floor, lying. beside her.

“Dinah. Dinah.” She heard her name, but she was too weak to reply as she slowly shut her eyes.

She was feeling dizzy already and what she could see now was blurriness with sounds of feet as she hit her head to the floor.

And Blackout!

As she slowly opened her eyes came with a headache.

Dinah groaned as she blinked rapidly, opening her eyes.

The smell and aura, she knew she was in a hospital as she sits back, moaning at the headache as she touches her forehead.

“Oh, you are awake.” The nurse who had been beside her said as she turned to look at the nurse who flashed her a gentle smile.

“Where am--” Dinah pauses, remembering the nights as she shoots the nurse a look. “Mummy.” She called as her heart began racing.

She began wishing that what she had seen that night shouldn't be true but to be a dream.

Furthermore, she refused to eat unless she gets to see her family and she wasn't responding to treatment, which made them hire a psychologist.

Dinah was confused about the hiring of a psychologist, all she wanted to see was her family, why should it be so hard until she learned that her parents were dead, and her immediate sister has been driven to coma.

Those words, at first, sound like a poem or rather storyline until she was taken to where her parents had been buried which made her weep the most.

She realized it wasn't a drama anymore but reality, all she could now think of was her life being a mess.

She was about to deliver the good news that night to her family that she has finally been made a secret undercover cop, but as fate could want it she met with her parents' dead bodies.

As days went by, her psychologist helped a lot until she recovered.

Renting an apartment in a local neighborhood, which thought would be inconvenient for her.

She has lived her life as a mama and papa's girl and a princess in their beautiful house, but what could she do after finding out again that the house is to be auctioned off due to some loan.

Their properties were seized and companies were shut down, she was now left with the remains of the property her dad had given her.

Dinah sold all the property in her care to start a new life, though that it might be hard. With the amount of money she got from selling off the properties, she settled in a comfortable one-room apartment in a local neighborhood.

….

Dinah weighed herself down the bed and to the bathroom.

Last night was as usual, crying and filling her stomach up with some foods.

She went for the bathtub as she dipped herself in.

Thinking became her habits, and eating while crying became a hobby.

She was to start her new work the following day, though that should have been since last week, but the station was considerate enough to email her to take a week off.

Dinah walks back to her room after a minute bathing as she walks closer to pick some cloth in her wardrobe.

She would be shopping for some foodstuffs, dresses and as well making another payment for her sister's treatment.