Dark Alley

chapter 1 (The beginning of the end)

My heart is pounding against my chest, it's like it's about to break out of my ribs, my lungs aren't helping too, they are struggling for air, they too are trying to escape. The terror of my reality dawns on me as I wished for my legs to move faster. They are catching up to me , God I'm totally fucked!! I'm definitely going to die today.
As I made my way down the alley there was this huge man, but because of the sweat and tears that clouded my eyes he looked. More like a gorilla to me. It's definitely over for me, as I turned back for any signs of hope, there they where coming for my life. They grabbed me and threw me into the trunk of their car and drove off. I could literally feel my soul dying as I slowly gave up on life. It was roughly about a 20 minutes ride when the rays of the sun attacked my eyes. The gorilla man pulled me out of the trunk and there he was ( if this was a movie he would be the bad guy)the reason for all this trouble.
We were on the third mainland bridge, my first question was why is the bridge empty? Where are the cars?
Then I saw the bodies, three bodies , I could recognised them and very soon I would be one of them. But then again where are the police? Now I'm definitely sure that god doesn't like me

"Did you think you could hide away from me forever?" The boss man said walking towards me

"No sir ! I wasn't trying to hide" tears began to rush down my eyes

"Put him on the edge of the bridge" he commanded his gorillas

They grabbed me like a bag of cement and landed me on the railing, I was struggling to find my balance

"Easy now, you don't want to fall into the water" he mocked

"Why don't you just kill me already!!" I screamed to the shock and amazement of everyone

Wait, what did I just say am I going mad, I've been running away from death this past few weeks now I'm demanding it?

"My pleasure " he brought out his gun and shot.

The banging on my room door brought me out of sleep

"Folarin don't you have classes today?" the voice at the other side of the door said while continuing the banging

I did have class today but I wasn't feeling well, I really didn't want to go to school, I just recently gained admission into the university of Lagos to study psychology

" I do, I'm almost prepared to go" I screamed back at the voice and the other side of the door

I staggered from my bed to the bathroom, I splashed water on my face so I would gain full consciousness I went to the table beside my bed, took out my mp3 player and put on drake's trust issues, as I went on to prepare to go to school

I got out of my room, about to be on my way to school

"Folarin you are not serious with your studies, your sister has left for school about an hour ago, why are you like this?" My mom nagged me

"He wants to turn to a dj, with no future ambition" my dad chipped in

My parents had never been happy about my obsession over music, they hated the fact that I walked around with an headphone, my sister was adored by them, she was a stupid brat, don't get me wrong I don't hate my sister but she just has a way of being what people wanted her to be, showing people what they wanted to see, one minute she is a prayer warrior in church the next minute she is a shisha smoker in the club, not that I'm saying that any of those things She does are bad but I hated the fact that people looked at her as one innocent being.
As my parents finished nagging I walked out of the house and I was on my way to school
I got to class reluctant, is not that I hate the course that I'm studying but I'm a serious introvert and I hate being around people especially new people.
The lecturer came talking about all the school of thoughts in psychology, the humanistic, the behaviourist, the psychoanalyts and all other schools of thought.
But what caught my attention in the class was Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs , the way he arranged the needs was just mind blowing from the biological needs to safety to love and belonging to self esteem to self actualisation, and how I desperately wanted to reach self actualisation. I was definitely at the bottom of the hierarchy and that has to change.
The class ended and and I was about to leave the muscular guy with an oval head and a piercing on his ear stopped me

"Hey I walk as an hype man at a club, I don't know if you know any dj around who can play" he stared at the beatsbydre hanging round my neck

"How much are we talking about" I was getting interested

"40k per month" he said

"Okay" I said

"So?" He looked confused

"I'm a dj" I smiled

"Are you good?" He said with no apologies in his tone

"Yes, I will send you a demo, just give me your email and I will forward it to you" I said

"Alright then" he patted me on my shoulder and walked away.