Chapter one

It was a meek mild May weather,. The polar sun vertically peeped out from the blue shuffle cloud, the beautiful sun beamed her mild rays on the deep brown horse of victory statue at the Tafawa Balewa Square

The beautiful architectural chocolate features over looking the Southern hemisphere of the arena as he peacefully glance at all the merry makers in the Square ball of Tafawa,

They merrily merry in a low melodic mood.. The cool fresh air mingle with the mild wind that breeze towards the lower, hemisphere through the podium as the gentle wave of the breeze slightly brushed the Gimbal tripod stand to the left and quickly, a lady emerge, she was on a pink stripe blouse, on a short firm black mini skirt, her fixing blonde hair was streaked with a delicate features skin, her large brown eyes added to her creamy beauty, very calm and serene like the morning dew, the front fine trimmed line cut from the mini skirt revealed more her sweet tender delicate cornsilk laps as she approached the Gimbal trip

Her name is Justinah Crown, she was about five foot tall with a big but curvy frame, with a fine shoot out buttocks like a Butterfield Siamese bread. She was about twenty three years of age, a smart young blogger and a content writer for Groom Media Consult firm

She quickly adjusted the tripod stand and remove a white handkerchief from her duffel hand bag to clean the screen surface of her camera,

she just interviewed two female students, one was from queens college school and the other lad was from St Mary high school, she was very impressed at the way the event goes, the way they responded to their social life and the philosophy of life, especially the teen from St Mary high school,

she took her camera again and scanned through her camera glance through her photo picture. The gentle lad has a small round delicate lips with touch me not blue pupil in her eyes that gave her a kind of elegant look, what strike Justinah more, was the way she responded to her educational career and she quote and read her statement in mind,

"how they educate our mind may change with the time but how we cultivate our heart will remain timeless"

, she giggle silently as she read the footnotes, she put down beneath her picture,

her face suddenly beamed with calmness and tenderly swipe the strand of her fixed blonde hair to the back as the breeze wafted gently.

Justinah Crown lifted her face and glance through the cluster of people on the mustard olive colour carved pavement, she wish to take another striking picture of a man to compliment her today's work,

she loved her job as a blogger and a content writer, and she loves the idea of meeting new people from different background, listening to their point of view, understanding their perspective and ability to communicate with them with the the language they understand always give her inestimable joy, and perhaps, she wanted to create a striking content not just a picture.

She lower her gaze to the right towards a bleachers seat, with a broad aluminium round covers, few merry makers also leaped against the picket iron gate in front of the bleachers

she watched closely, her gaze fell on an image, he was on a white shirt, the white is pure with no blemish, the white of all white, the kind of white that has a resonant of its own, she was tempted to move closer, she craned her head forward towards the iron bar.

Hello! Justinah greeted with a smile as she took a quick glance at a tall and muscular drop dead figure standing in front of her. She boldly raised her head up to meet his glance,

she was mesmerized with his trimmed jet black hair, the black pupils in the center of his eyes seemed to have turned green, a powerful dark green like the trees on the back of the Bethesda lake, the water of the lake reflected the green of the tree and flowed calmly by as green as his eyes

Hi! The man responded with a little but with indifference gestures

He adjusted his position, his arm rested against his muscular chest and his shoulder propped up

My name is Justinah Crown, from GMC, the blonde haired wore a perpetual smile on her pretty face, a Ted on the silly side but charming nonetheless.

Sorry! I don't get that! The man replied, gave Justinah a quick glance

My name is Justinah from Groom Media Consult

Ok! Justinah, what can I do for you? Though he responded coldly but with an expression of great humility

Yeah I don't mind if you can just give me ten to fifteen minutes of your time just to ask you some simple few questions, then take a good photo of you

Photo of me? Why and how he asked considerably with an hand gestures and lower her gaze on her. He now leaped more against the iron bar

Yeah! Sir! It is just a natural thing and your picture is confidential until you give us the permission to post it for you! And that will be determined by the answer you 'll give us after i have done with the interview,! But i know u enjoy the conversation sir! She quickly added

he glance at the lady again, she looks attractive and calm but he is not interested with this at the moment, he actually came to the Tafawa Balewa Square to relaxed his mind and calm his nerves.

What make you feel or think I want to answer you and why did you have to choose me amongst others here? He replied with an hand gestures making his lips to be in a twitched

Justinah smile again! quick glance at the sky and locked her face back at him, you know we are social human being who are guarded by other people's opinion, action and reaction because one way or the other everybody always need support from the other and one of the primary motive of GMC is to provide a solution advice to the people of Lagos through others life experience and she continues,

for more than a decade now GMC has been making an impact in the lives of the citizen of Lagos considering the hustling and buzzing of the city

Do u you remember Tade? She asked rhetorically, an 18 years old teenager who was features in our online series, his kind heart and gestures towards humanity and his inspiration to help resulted in more than one million naira in donations for what started as an initiative to raise funding for less privilege students to have access to good quality education from primary to university level

Hmm? The man wiggle his head, he was amazed with her choice of words though he was not interested in any interview but he believes in helping the humanity in his own little way.

Ok! Justinah, I heard you, my name is Raymond, he replied with a light smile, Raymond David! he added

Ok, Justinah answered, nice to meet you Mr. Raymond David! please can you follow me to the camera stand?

Yeah, he heaved gently, but promise me it won't take more than fifteen minutes, Raymond David said as he followed Justinah from behind.

The sky over their head still flourish with the intent blue, the bluest sky mingles with the pure fresh air and everything around radiated this liquid blue and white light.

My name is Raymond David, he repeated and continue and I just came back home from a long service year

, he paused briefly and continue, I am an ex soldier for Nigerian army, immediately he mentioned the word an ex soldier, the cast of the half forgotten image appeared boldly in his mind, he vividly saw a gory face soldier

The cold air was slapping his face as he approached a ball of fire erupted from far away distance to meet the regiment soldier, he ran through the panicky pixel and took a sharp control of the rolling stone approaching, he could hear the cry of many soldiers. His platoon has been trapped unexpectedly, he moved closer and saw wounded soldiers with blood dripping at their fractured body, they were all engulfed like a stand storm.

The mixed crying of pain is a chaotic sound effect, familiar faces gaping with dead eyes to the uninterested sky

rampant pool of blood in puddles camouflage, his eyes stumbled on Evans,, a very gallant, bold and courageous soldier, they had been to different operations, he always motivate other soldiers in the battle field even if it seems to look like they were loosing the war, his words always heightened other soldiers. He carried him and hurled him on his shoulder advancing to the medical operation unit,

he ran as fast as he could as Evans whispered in a low painful voice, saving David was like saving thousand soldiers, crossing over different hurdles like hurdles run advancing on trembling feet,

he felt his weight of him redouble on his shoulder, the skin getting cold more than the midnight cold.

He stopped abruptly and checked his pulse, his eyes was close, Evans is gone

Hello Mr. Raymond! Justinah called out his name brought him back to reality

Raymond David quickly adjusted his position, oh sorry about that I just thought of something now

Hope you are okay? She asked considerably, hope you won't mind if you can share that with me?

Never mind, don't worry this is personal, he replied tenderly but his face looked strangely servile.

For good ten to fifteen minutes Justinah was able to engage Raymond in a mind blowing interview which she believes in her world to be a striking content and later gave a good stunning picture of him.

Thank you Mr. Raymond for the honour giving me to interview you, she appreciated and hurled her light tripod to her shoulder.

Never mind, he replied as they both advanced towards the Tafawa Balewa Square exit passage.

Justinah looked at him coyly, he looked attractive and charming, as they approached the southward passage leading to the Tafawa Balewa Square exit gate their gaze fell on a man sitting on a stool, he was on a red shirt, about forty to forty five years with a rate bald hair, he was holding on to a piano as he played with the strings, the sounds of it was so capturing sweet and softly on the ear and it sent a shiver through Justinah and Raymond Davids, the beautiful sound was like a symphony of Hargyn Raymond approached the man and drop a note of naira in a brown box placed in front of the man

He treaded back to meet Justinah

Hope you wouldn't mind if a invite you for a lunch in my house

Justinah Crown was shocked, she wasn't expecting that from him not because she doesn't like him but he was withdrawn and keep to himself.

All the same, Justinah wanted to get to know him thanks for the offer Mr. Raymond

I will surely get back to you on that

Thanks once again and have a nice day, she smile and waved at him as she shuffle towards the passage and mingle with the others within the TBS exit