I kept following her for about an hour more, I got tired and I decided to just confront her and get this over with but the closer I got to her the further away she goes, weird, I kept on trying that till someone pulled me back.

"Austin?" I looked around and saw the school right behind me, I was barely entering the forest, how is that even possible? What is going on?

"Alero you texted me that you are following someone but you have just been standing here for the past thirty minutes." He said expecting an explanation.

"No that is not possible I was—" I started. Confusion sets in.

"What are you students doing here?", Mavery asked out of nowhere "should you not be in class right now, are you ditching class and doing something ungodly here?" Mrs Mavery asked eyeing us both.

"No we are not, we will head back to class now." Austin told her and he pulled me along with him, we entered the school and into the hallway soon after..

"Let go off me!" I said yanking my hand away from him.

"What is wrong with you Alero have you finally lost it?!" He asked staring at me.

"I was following Mrs Mavery." I said staring back.

"Why?! Ever since this whole Azyma situation came on, you have not been yourself now you want to be suspicious of every thing and everyone." He said exasperated.

"No that's not it! I wanted to talk to Mrs Mavery about something that was why I was following her, I called out to her but she didn't hear me." I lied, I do not want him also to stop me from helping Azyma.

"Okay, go to class." He commanded with hand gesture. Just then the bell for closing period rang, I immediately went to the class where I left my bag and books to escape Austin's wrath.

I went to get the equipment for cleaning and I got started, I cleaned as usual, and I finished a bit early today, I guess I am already getting used to this janitor work.

I called Mrs Amira on the cellphone.

"Good afternoon ma." I greeted politely.

"I am fine thank you." I said as she asked how I was doing.

"School was fine and how was work?"

"That's good," I said politely "I called because we need to go to Azyma's house, maybe we can find something that will help us out." I said hoping she'll agree with me.

"You don't have to I can come meet you there." I said as she immediately agreed with me and a huge grin formed on my face.

"Okay if you insist come pick me up," I said smiling "bye." I told her and hung up.

"Who was that?", I jumped at the sound of Austin's voice "who were you talking t? And do not think of lying to me." He said pointing his index finger at me.

"I was talking to Mrs Amira, she called to ask if we have finally found the whole truth about Azyma's mom's death, I told her not yet and uhm, I told her I was still in school and she said she is nearby that she can drop me home, I said no of course but she insisted so I said yes."  I told him biting my lower lip. He stared at me debating whether I have just told him everything.

"Okay, I thought you went home already." I said staring at him suspiciously.

"I was doing something but I am going home now." He said chuckling nervously.

"Okay bye." I said waving him off.

"Bye." He left after that and I released a shaking breathe, then I realised my dad is the one picking me up from school so that's why Austin did not say anything after I told him that, I am sure he is hanging around somewhere waiting to see if I was lying. I quickly texted my dad and also told him the same thing I told Austin, he replied okay but he said we'll talk about it at home.

Not long after I saw Mrs Amira standing in the parking lot and called out to me, out of the corner of my eyes I saw Austin, I did not want to make eye contact with him, I walked to Mrs Amira and she led me into her car, we drove out of the parking lot and was on our way to Azyma's house.

"How was school?" She asked with a bright smile.

"It was fine thank you."

"I will be leaving Abuja on Sunday." She said with a small smile.

"Why?" I asked frowning.

"Don't worry I'll be back soon." She said chuckling.

"When will you be back?"

"In about a couple of days I am leaving for Lagos to do some work."

"Oh."

"So what do you think we will find in Azyma's house?"

"I am hoping we have Pictures, journals and more evidence to prove Mr Dario has been abusing Azyma."

"Do you think we'll find those?"

"If we look and search properly I believe we will, even if we don't its okay." She said smiling and I looked at her weirdly.

"What?! How is it okay?" I asked staring at her.

"I already have evidence against him, solid, concrete evidence!" She said staring straight ahead.

"What! Really! Which type of evidence?" I asked with a huge grin on my face.

"Videos that shows Dario beating and abusing her." She said with a straight face.

"What! Can I see them? How did you get them?" Wow she's unbelievable.

"You will see them when we present it in court after he has been found and jailed, and as for how I got it...," she let out a sigh "it was quite easy actually but expensive but it was worth it." She said with a smile.

"Please tell me." I pleaded.

Flashback.

I need a plan to figure out if Mr Dario is abusing Axymah, what can I do?
I then remembered that Axymah said he does not like to see her talk to me.
How can I use this against him? I need to help this young girl I need confirmation and proof.

"Good morning Mrs Amira." He greeted.

"Morning Mr Gabriel Ifechukwu." I greeted back with a smile.

"It has been awhile you came here, what can I help you with?" He said coming closer.

"Do you still have some of those wireless micro camera's?" I asked staring at him.

"Yes I do, how many do you want?" He asked.

"Give me thirty and help me connect them to this PC." I told him. I brought it out and handed it to him.

"Okay no problem, but you know it will cost you." He said with a raised brow.

"How much?" I asked bracing myself.

"The micro camera's will cost you fifty thousand naira and connecting them to this PC, everything in total is fifty four thousand." He said as he started gathering the cameras.

"How long will it take you? Only a few minutes," I asked hastily "hurry up please." I said to him. I really hope my plan works, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Axymah will still be in school, I will execute my plan before she gets back and I really hope Mr Dario is not home.

"I am done ma." He said and handed it all to me.

"So fast, wow! Here is forty thousand," I said handing him the money "I will give you the remaining fourteen thousand later." I told him with a small smile.

"Okay, ma'am but please bring it back soon, you know it will not look good if I am pestering you for the money." He said sheepishly.

"Yes I know thank you." I said and was about to take my leave.

"Have a nice day." He said waving me off.

"You too and please do not tell my husband that I came to buy this from you." I told him firmly.

"Sure thing." He said and I took my leave.

I stopped by Axymah's house but the door is locked, why is it locked? It should not be locked if Mr Dario is home.
This means that both of them are not home, this is great!
Where could they have kept the key I guess I will just have to execute my plan next time, but this was a really good opportunity for me.

I was about to leave when I spotted something sticking out from under the mat, I raised the mat up and checked what it was. Omg! Its the house key! This is my lucky day! God really wants me to do this.

I picked it up and unlocked the door, I entered the house and started placing the micro cameras everywhere downstairs, I don't have time to start placing it upstairs, I placed them in good angles, where I was sure the camera will capture everything.

So now I'll finally be able to see all what goes on in this house but I'll have to act like I know nothing and keep my cool, I should hurry they might be back any time soon.

End of flashback.

"Wow! You did that! We don't need to go to Azyma's place anymore then." I said getting excited.

"Yes we do, we need to find clues and hints about Azyma's mom's death and they may cook up some story about the video so let's find further evidence as back up." She said glancing at me. This is good, so now at least if we don't find anything there we still have videos to prove this.

"Okay, that makes sense." We were in a comfortable silence after that, we reached Azyma's house about thirty minutes later, I was hoping we find all that at least something that will shed light to this case, Azyma please come out of coma soonest, I have a lot of apologizing to do and lots motivational speeches for you.

When we got there I saw a police officer standing outside the house.

"How are we going to get it?" I asked staring at the officer.

"By asking politely." She simply said.

"I don't think that will work." I said as I grabbed my backpack so I can stuff in any evidence we find.

"Good morning officer." She greeted curtly.

"Morning Mrs Amira." He greeted back.

"Can we go in?"

"No!" He immediately declined.

"Why?"

"I am not supposed to allow any one come in here." He said sternly.

Things were not going the way Mrs Amira expected, I know how to handle situations like this.

"But officer, I borrowed my notebook to Azyma and I want to come get it." I lied in the most delicate voice I could muster.

"Okay, tell me where it is and I'll go fetch it for you." He said.

"Probably in her room." I told him.

"Which room is Azyma's?" He asked staring at the house.

"Just let us go in and get my homework what's the deal in that, you acting like we want to go look for evidence against Mr Dario or something," he immediately tensed up when I said that "so you do not want us to accidentally stumble on any evidence against Mr Dario that's why you do not want us in, am I right?" I asked eyeing him down.

"Watch your tongue young lady, I am here for Azyma's sake period." He said sweating. Yeah right!

"If that is true you would let us in." Mrs Amira told him.

"Okay but I'll go in with you two." He said in defeat.

"Sure." We all went in and I went to Azyma's room all the while looking around, I put my phone on video record so I'll have whatever clue I find on video since this man here will not let me take pictures of any, that I am sure of.

We got to Azyma's room and I started looking around, I found her backpack but my notebook was not there and that's because I didn't lend Azyma my notebook.

"Where is the toilet around here? I need to go." Mrs Amira said looking around.

"Its next to the entrance." He answered pointing in the direction of it.

"Okay, thanks." She said and left.

"I want to go make a phone call." He told me a little while after Mrs Amira went to the toilet.

I am sure he is actually going to make sure Mrs Amira went to the toilet. That means I can snoop around, I started searching her room for any clues, I rose the bed up as quietly as I could thank goodness the bed is as small as that of a bunk bed, I saw a small box, I quickly put it in my backpack, I looked around for anything more I could find but u didn't get much luck, I took pictures of Azyma's room so I'll have proof that despite Mr Dario's money, Azyma's room looks like a pauper lives in it, its even worse than it was when we first came here, its really a sore sight.

I checked if the coast was clear so I could go check upstairs, I quietly went upstairs into the room to the right, It was much larger and prettier than Azyma's room, it had a king sized bed and also a walk in toilet with a killer bathroom, wow!

I took pictures of Mr Dario's room then I started to snoop around, I checked his walk in closet properly, I finally found something, what I found shocked me, sex toys. I looked for a nylon and I used a paper from my notebook to put them in the nylon when I found one, I also took pics of it. I looked around for anything else but i could not find more clues.

I went into the second room directly opposite the staircase and the room was even more magnificent than the last. It had a Queen sized bed, a three head shower, a balcony and the closet had women clothes, is this Azyma's late mom's room.

I started taking pictures of the room, I snooped around and I stumbled on what seems to be a journal and also a picture album, I kept both in my backpack, what worried me was that my backpack now looks heavy, I hope the officer does not notice it.

"What are you doing in here?" The officer asked and I felt my heart in my throat, its a good thing my back was facing him, I quickly brought out one of my notebook and zipped my backpack.

"I found my notebook in here and I was simply keeping it in my backpack." I lied through my teeth.

"Why does your backpack look heavy what's in it?" He asked eyeing it. Just then Mrs Amira came to my aid.

"Have you found your notebook?" She asked as she approached me.

"Yes." I said.

"Then what are you standing around doing here?! Let's go," she said with a small nod "thank you officer." She said to the officer.

"I want to see what is in her backpack, open your backpack!" He commanded with a straight face.

"There is no need for that officer, its just notebooks that are in it." She said dismissing his demand.

"I still want to see." He said

"Open your backpack let the officer take a look." She told me with sagged shoulders.

"Okay." I said with a sad smile.

As I was about to open my backpack Mrs Amira's phone rang.

"Hello, good evening." She said picking the call.

"What!" She suddenly exclaimed.

"How did it happen?", she asked as tears welled up in her eyes "okay calm down, nothing is going to happen to him, what hospital? We are on our way." After that she hung up.

"What happened?" I asked looking up at her.

"We have to go your mom said your dad just got admitted into the hospital." She said with wide eyes as my breathe got stuck in my throat.

"Wha-t-t?!" I yelled, I grabbed my backpack and I wanted to rush outside but the officer blocked the way.

"Please you will check her backpack next time, we really have to go!" Mrs Amira begged. He gave us a hard look to see if we were lying about this, after a while he gave in.

"Okay, sure." He moved out of the way and I ran out the front door and into the car, Mrs Amira soon joined me and we drove off.

"Relax there is nothing wrong with your dad, I just made that up so the officer will let us go, and my phone never rang, I just set a timer on my phone this morning, the timer just went off just at the right time." She said with a smile.

"Oh, okay." I smiled in relief.

"So tell me what you found." She said looking at my bag.

"I found a picture album, a journal, a box and sex toys and I also found out that the two rooms upstairs are both a lot more beautiful than Azyma's room and one of those rooms belonged to a woman probably Azyma's late mom," I told her bringing it all out "what are we doing at Apo shop rite?" I asked her as we drove into its parking lot.

"We are using that parking lot, I can't check out the clues while driving and it not wise to park near the road to check it." She said.

"Let us look at the album first." I said as I handed her the album and we both checked it out.

In the album there are pictures of Azyma, a woman and a man Azyma shares facial features with them so we assumed there are her parents, we saw pictures of people we assumed were her relatives and friends, we could not find Mr Dario's pictures as we looked, we only found his pictures on the last three pages of the album, one some were of only him and others were with Azyma's mom and only one with Azyma, we also saw burial pictures, we saw some people wearing black dress and suit.

"Who died?" I asked stupidly, how would she know?

"I don't know because I was not there and I have absolutely no idea about it!" She answered eyeing me slightly.

We also took a look at the box, in there were pictures of Azyma's parents and Azyma and also another young girl, she does not look like Azyma so we know that they are not sisters.

"Its late I should go home now, my parents will question me and I am supposed to be grounded." I told her absent I mindedly.

"Why?" She asked looking at me.

"I went to a friends place and I came back super late." I lied. I don't k ow whether she'll still allow me to be in on this if she knows my parent aren't cool with it.

"So your parents are cool with you trying to help Axymah?" She asked eyeing me.

"Of course they are, they have good hearts." I said looking away.

"That's good." She said.

"So when are the cops going to go to bust Mr Dario." I asked hopeful.

"I will go bust him myself tomorrow." Its her turn to look away.

"You can't do that! He is a very dangerous man please let the police handle it!" I sound like Dinela right now. Maybe this was what she meant but nevertheless.

"Some of the police men are working for Mr Dario, if they find out that his whereabouts have been found out, they will warn him and he'll escape...again." She said biting her lip.

"Still, he might hurt you, he could even... kill you." I said concerned.

"Don't worry I'll be fine." She is putting her life at risk and she doesn't care. Still sounding like Dinela, I'm getting to understand her and what she was saying.

"You can take a look at the journal and tell me what you find out, I will keep the sex toys and the photo album." She said as she took then from me.

"You are entrusting me with the journal?" I asked surprised.

"Yes, don't make me regret that." She said sternly.

"Okay." I gave her all what I found except the journal which I kept, she took me home after that.

"Bye, make sure to call me if you find anything and my house is right next to Azyma's." She said looking at me with a smile.

"Okay." I went into my house and I saw my dad waiting for me on the couch.

"Why did that woman drop you off from school and why are you late?" Mom asked narrowing her eyes at me.

"There was a massive traffic on the way that's why and when I texted you, I was not yet done cleaning.

"Go to your room!" I didn't have to be told twice.

I went into my room, I went into the bathroom and took a cold bathe, what could be in that journal? I thought as I relaxed in the tub, Mrs Amira will get herself in big trouble if she goes there, she might even get hurt, I won't allow that, I have to do something and I will do something.

Edited.

I also wander what will be in that journal, I hope you are all enjoying the chapters if you are please don't forget to drop votes and comments, thank you.
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