Losing a loved one to the cold hands of death is not something we pray for, it's sad, depressing and filled with emotional outbreaks.
This is the story of T-billion who lived his life with no excuses.
I met t-billion in my 200 level in the university, he was calm, kind, intelligent and the most stylish guy I have ever met.
All he wore were designers, he always dressed to kill, with different designer glasses, watches and his name t-billion on his gold necklace.
He stayed off-campus, even if his family stayed in the same town where the university was located, and even though his mom pleaded he came from the house to school, he refused because he was a social butterfly.
T-billion was friendly and free in his neighborhood and everyone liked him but he discovered everyone in his compound where in different cults and being approached by several guys in the compound to join them, he never wanted to join them. He thought to himself that joining one cult will make him an enemy to another.
A day to the school's matriculation T-billion went to a supermarket close to his house to shop only for four heavy looking guys to jump on him at gunpoint and he was kidnapped and taken away from town, his family called him but couldn't reach him then his mom drove down to his place but couldn't find him, no one had seen him and then the search began, friends, neighbors began to look for him.
His parents were so worried they went to hospitals, police stations to look for him but he was not found.
T-billion was blindfolded and taken to a village to be forced to join a cult. He saw a lot of young men like himself sitting on the floor waiting, then all of a sudden the village youth about 50 of them came to the bush with weapons and began to attack them.
T-billion was confused and didn't know what to do, all the cult members ran for their life and t-billion and some others were caught by the villagers and beaten so badly that three students lost their life, t-billion knew if he kept quiet he will lose his life so he started begging, crying and shouting "I was kidnapped, I am not one of them, please don't kill me" while he was being beaten with woods, cutlass and stones, the police arrived and t-billion was saved and arrested by the police while bleeding, the villagers were saying last week we were robbed by a group of students and we have decided to kill any group of boys we see in this community that are strangers then t-billion realized what was happening, because the villagers were robbed the week before, seeing over 40 strangers in the community they thought they were thieves and so they attacked them.
T-billion was taken to the police station without treatment and he was slowly dying.
Then he saw someone he knew in the police station and he begged him to call his parents and his parents were called, his mom couldn't look at his face she kept on crying with fear in her eyes, after bailing him out from the police station, he was rushed to the hospital to be treated, with his eyes blood red and his hands dislocated, he was admitted for over a month.
When he came back home from the hospital his mom was so afraid she decided he goes to school from the house and was given a car to drive to school with every day and be back before 6 pm.
Actually, she didn't know that was not the solution, revenge was in the mind of t-billion because he saw and knew who arranged his kidnap and also finally joined a different cult group just to have his revenge, and yes he finally dealt with his kidnapper, sending him to the other world of no return.
With all of t-billion's experience, he was no longer that calm, kind, and quiet person, life has taught him a difficult and dangerous lesson.
He was now following the wrong crowd, his car always filled with different boys, he was always smoking and drinking, things became worst, always giving his mom excuses for getting home late by 8 pm or 9 pm after school.
Late nights became his first name, he started dating different girls,
He stopped going to church and family events, he totally changed his attitude.
For him he was enjoying life, he left all his old friends that were advising him to go the right part, his girlfriend that was dating him before the kidnap happened saw the wrong change in him and told herself she deserves better and moved on.
His dad went back to work outside the state and he began coming back from school by 11 pm or 12 midnight, his mom will get angry at him but to no avail.
He was committed to his new gang or will I say friends, whenever they go clubbing even when he is drunk he still takes them home one by one and even if the journey back to his house is far away, he drives home alone.
This continue and he was even involved in three accidents that almost took his life, finally, he was done with the university but his bad habits still ruled him.
His mom got tired of his attitude so she tried all her best to speak to him to the extend of calling family friends, pastors to come to speak to him but it was to no avail.
So she decided to tell his dad to get a job for him outside the state where they were living and two months later his dad found a job offshore for him, he was so happy including his mom and younger ones were so happy.
He was to resume work on Monday but his dad told him to come to his place of work on Friday but he pleaded with his dad that he will be coming on Sunday, then on Friday night, he told his mom his friends were hosting a goodbye party for him and that he will be coming late.
He hanged out with his friends, had enough to drink, around midnight, he took every one of them home as usual and then it was already past 1am he headed home by never got home, on his way home being drunk and alone with the cold weather and without his car seat belt on, he slept off while driving and entered under a parked truck by the side of the road.
No one to help him because it was almost 2 am but the first people that saw him were policemen, he was dead already, his life was cut short due to careless living and in the name of grooving and enjoyment.
His life ended even before it started, his dreams, visions, and plans were no more.
Rest in peace T-BILLION.
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