Skip to main content

Jane the Good Girl by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

Jane the Good Girl by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

                                             


Mum wants to visit the zoo with Jane and Billy. When she was set to go, she could not find her car keys. Mum looked under the chair and did not find the keys. She also checked the table, but the keys were not there.
Jane saw her Mum looking about, and then she asked, “Mum, what are you looking for?”
“I can’t find my car keys,” she told Jane sadly.
“Have you checked the room?” Jane asked her Mum and sat up.
“NO, I have not,” Mum said. “Do you think it will be there?”
“You can never tell. Let me go and see if the keys are there,” Jane told her Mum.
Jane rose from the chair and ran into the room. She looked here and there. She checked under the bed. There was nothing. She also looked at the shelf at the other side of the room. The car keys were not there too. Biting her lower lips, she slowly looked about again. “It can’t be. The keys must be in this room. My Mum was here a while ago,” she thought. “If it is not in the sitting room, then it is here.”
Then Jane looked at the bed for one last time as if something had just told her that the keys were there. She moved close to the bed. She placed her hand under the head rest and gently moved her hand here and there. One of her fingers felt something like steel. Her mind did not play tricks on her!
She raised the head rest and was glad to see the keys. She smiled at the car keys because she knew without them they won’t go to the zoo. “Mum must have left it when she came to check her face in the mirror,” she thought. Jane took the keys and ran out of the room. Mum was still looking about in the sitting room when she ran in. “Mum, I found it,” she said, smiling.
 Mum raised her head and smiled back at her. She was glad that her little girl found her missing car keys. “Thank you, my girl. Where did you find it?” she asked.
“It was under your head rest on the bed,” Jane said.
“Ah, I am getting old. I forgot that I dropped it when I went to check my face in the mirror.” She gave Jane a pat on the back and smiled, “You did well. Let us go!”
Jane, Billy and her Mum walked quietly out of the house. They got into the car and then she drove them to the zoo.




READ ALSO:
The Adventures of Nihu
The Promised Land


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BOOK EXCERPT: The Farmhouse by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

The Farmhouse  by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren Chapter One The Family `Once upon a time in the old town of Gid, an old farmer called Erasmus had a horse and a son. The boy’s name was Jason, and the horse was Francis. They lived in a farmhouse, and Francis took them everywhere they went. The farmer had no wife. She died after Jason was born. Erasmus vowed never to remarry and had remained a widower ever since. Taking care of Jason and Francis alone was never easy, but the farmer promised his late wife on her deathbed that he was going to raise Jason into a fine man. One sad morning, the cockerel said it was dawn. The disturbance woke Jason. The boy stormed out of sleep. He removed the blanket and rolled out of bed. He went to the window and peered out. The weather was clear, and the boughs of trees bowed and danced to the sweet movement of the morning breeze. Jason liked the morning, and then he carried himself to the sitting room, where his father was on his knees saying his morning prayers....
1 comment
Read more

NEW RELEASE: “COMING HOME” BY OMORUYI UWUIGIAREN

  COMING HOME  BY OMORUYI UWUIGIAREN   About the Book Dalmos didn’t just save her life; he became her silent guardian, shielding her from the crushing weight of medical bills and the trauma of her past. When Lizzy reaches out to thank her mysterious saviour, she expects a formal meeting. Instead, she finds a man drowning in a different kind of silence—the lingering grief of losing his wife to a battle he couldn’t win. In the quiet intimacy of a “ party for two ,” two shattered souls begin to piece themselves back together. Lizzy is running from a toxic past and a brutal assault; Dalmos is hiding from a house filled with echoes. Together, they discover that while the world can be cruel, the right person can make it worth surviving.     Excerpt   Chapter 1 The task at my office wasn't just a project; it was a paper mountain that loomed over my desk, threatening to bury me alive. Every end of the season was like this—a brutal marathon t...
Post a Comment
Read more

NEW RELEASE: Those Ghostly Victorians by Annette Siketa

  Those Ghostly Victorians by Annette Siketa ABOUT THE BOOK At its zenith, the belief in ghosts in the Victorian era bordered on the hysterical. From stately homes to deserted wells, no dwelling was complete without a resident ghost. Halls and mansions and even the odd palace or two, spawned a multitude of family legends, many of which still persist. Many people claimed to have direct contact with a ghost through an object such as a ouija board or a pen, the latter collectively known as 'spiritual writing'. For example, a secretary allegedly continued to take dictation from his employer long after the latter was dead. Whether it was through books, plays, or supposedly true stories, the influence of the supernatural was profound. And it is not difficult to understand why, especially in the 'lower class', the majority of whom were uneducated. With nothing but drabness and poverty on the horizon, events such as a windy night or a violent storm were likely to set the ima...
Post a Comment
Read more