Hole In The Woods

♪Memories follow left and right

I can see you over here,

You take up every moment…

That was the latest song ringing in Teresa's head. Joint with the fact it was by her two favorite singers, it was always up in her skull. Not even her coming exams could take away her happiness. It had been a while since she had been this happy. Her hand rummaged the edges of the figure in the black and white picture. The song had reminded her all about him and the happiness that came with it.

Love wasn't the word, it was obsession. She had never seen him in her life before except from TV where he was with the band. She knew almost all his songs and she always thought about him whenever she wasn't feeling depressed. Ever since she saw him perform with his band on TV, she felt happiness from within and it radiated on her face which made her mother wonder most times.

"Teresa." Her mother called from the living room. Her father had arrived from work with his friend and it was Teresa's duty to collect his briefcase and take it to his room. Teresa took his briefcase from him and took it to his room. On her way back, she overheard her father arguing with his friend over a scientific observation. She quickly kept his briefcase and walked back through the hallway, eavesdropping on the discussion. 

Mr. Borough, Teresa's father's friend,  was of the view that too many people had been disappearing through the black hole to one of the other planets. A magnetic force caused by wrong waste disposal is the causal agent. 

Now, this is not funny. 

Teresa thought. 

In that case, we should begin to campaign against wrong waste disposal. 

Collins suggested. 

The argument was so intense that Teresa became so afraid of the many disappearances of her college mates in recent times. 

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In Teresa' Head.

What is the mystery behind this black hole? There is no apparent correlation between waste disposal and disappearance of people, the concepts are two parallel lines that cannot meet. 

Seeking the truth has become her goal. She would follow her dad closely to tap from his further discussions with any other fellow. 

♪ And so many nights,

I dream of your,

Holding my pillow tight,

'Cos I don't need to be alone…..

She jumped up from her room when she heard the voice of her admiration blaring from the television set. The man she had lived to love. 

Teresa smiled away like she was in the hands of the country music star. As the music continued her father came from work with another of his friends. 

Daddy. Welcome home. 

She collected his briefcase and pretended to be walking to the room, as Collins and his friend Joe started another perspective to the discussion about the black hole.

The radiation from the early morning sun on the sea bed evaporates an intensity so high that it magnetically draws humans who carry in their veins some high engulfing haemoglobin. 

Jargons. All that is jargon. Teresa could not put the statement together but she is ready to pay any price to ensure she finds out about the sudden disappearance of humans. 

It was a long discussion though, the outcome is that Joe seemed to be smarter than Teresa's father, Collins. 

The next day at school, the news making the rounds was that the country music artist had suddenly disappeared. 

Teresa was so shocked, leaving her mouth opened ajar until she was noticed by the group of guys discussing the matter. 

That night, she got home but could not sleep. When mom served her meal, Teresa, trying not to raise any suspicion, took her dish into her room and left it on the mirror table, untouched. 

Soon, everyone had gone to bed. She noticed that the front door was being opened. 

What Could That Be?

Collin had opened the door, dressed in some kind of regalia that looks like a mafia's. He tiptoed towards the garden, scaled the fence and off to the woods. 

I am going to see to the end of this. 

Teresa said and trailed her father into the woods and saw him going into a tunnel. 

All the so-called disappeared people are just there, tied to one another. The painful part of it all is that the country music star is the freshest victim of Collins' antics. 

She has seen it all. Before anyone would notice her, Teresa travelled back to her room. She had first visited her parents room to see that her mother had been sedated and left to sleep like a log. 

From there, she went to her room, locked the door behind her and watched through the keyhole when her father would return. 

This man is going to pay so dearly for what he has caused those people including my mother. 

During daybreak, Teresa went to school and formed a group of activities who volunteered to walk the mile with her. 

She needed more evidence to deal with her father, so she set a camera that would record how his father had been sneaking out of the house towards the woods at odd hours. 

Two days after the discovery, the group went to the woods, located the tunnel, called black hole and rescued the victims. Allen, the country music star whom Teresa had always admired, was the first person she rescued. 

The group rescued the victims in collaboration with the police and gave Collins' details for arrest. 

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