THE THREE

 JUST THINKING

Peter: Hey, Dominic!!! How was your day?

Dominic: It was great. Just that I am in a fix right now. That Edo babe I told you about is coming today and Theresa called like five minutes ago that she would be spending the weekend. Mehn, I don't know what to do.

Alex: I have told you guys most especially you, Dominic, that you should just stick to your one and only, Theresa. 

Peter: Ooh, you have come again. Let Dominic enjoy himself "joor". Besides, every one cannot be boring like you. 

Desmond: Peter, take it easy on Alex. 

That was the weekend that changed the lives of the "THE THREE" as they were known. THE THREE grew up together. They were great guys and buddies. But they had Peculiar nature and paths.

Alex was the owner of the house they lived in. He had a car and was doing great. He was also doing very well career wise but no girl wants to date him. He was an awkward kind of person that does not know what to say and when to say things. He lacked sense if humour. His dress sense was zero.

Dominic was working as a contract staff in a bank earning N65000 monthly. But he was always with different women. He was every lady's guy and he dressed well. He was a cool and smooth talker who has eyes for beautiful women.

While, Peter was just a jobless guy who lived as if he was the owner of the house. He was a chronic pretender and a liar. He did not want to work though he came out with a second class upper in computer engineering. He said his life was not meant for Nigeria. So, he was doing everything to travel abroad and was always on the internet in the nights. He did not have a stable girl friend.

The amazing thing of it was that Dominic wished he was Alex. He admired him and his lifestyle. Alex wished and envied both Dominic and Peter. He longed for ladies to be throwing themselves at him. But the reverse is the case. While  Peter envied both of them secretly and he had been admiring and wishing that he could snatch Theresa from Dominic.

Dominic came up with a plan that they should play along when his babe, Theresa came around. When Theresa came, Dominic told her that they were going to church for a vigil and Theresa was impressed. So, she left and the Edo girl came in five minutes after she left.

The girl was tall and looking hot. Alex and Peter were stunned by her beauty. She was really a beauty to behold. Then, not quiet long that she came, Dominic's mum called. She was worried because for the last three days, she had had similar dreams of death and police case concerning her son. She had prayed but she needed to call him.

She told him about the dream but it fell on deaf ears. He quickly told her that nothing would happen and that he would be okay just because the Edo girl. He had a great night that night with her.

It was a scream of Dominic that woke up the his friends the following day. When they ran into his room, they saw him crying over the Edo girl. She had died in her sleep. This became a serious "gbege" for them.

They had to call Theresa because she was a Medical Doctor and because they had no choice. By the way, she was a very good girl with a good job and her dad was the Pastor where three of them worshipped. She wanted to surprise Dominic that was why she wanted to spend the weekend with him. It was the first time in their one year relationship she would spend a weekend with him. She believed in no sex until marriage.

Then when she came, they explained everything to her. She was angry and wanted to leave but they begged her to confirm properly and if there was anything that she could do medically to resuscitate the Edo girl. She confirmed that the Edo girl was dead. Then she said they should call the police and the estate security which they did because it was the normal thing to do when there is a situation like this as long as there was no fowl play.

When the police came, they said they would arrest the three of them. They searched the house to see if they could get any incriminating evidence but to no avail. But when they searched the Edo girl's bag, they saw some drugs, her ID cards and some papers. When Theresa saw the drugs, she became curious. So, she took permission from the police to check the drugs and her suspicion was confirmed. It was HIV drugs and when she opened the papers, it was her medical report. She had just been diagnosed with HIV and the drugs were given to her at the hospital the previous day.

Then the Edo girl's phone rang. One of the police officers picked it up and spoke with the caller. It was her father who was also the commissioner of police in the state. Immediately he was told about his daughter's death, he ordered them to arrest everyone of them that they must have killed his daughter.

They took them with their laptops and phones to the police station after taking the corpse to the morgue. When they got to the police, THE THREE were locked up. Three days later after there investigation, they realized the Edo girl had taken some drugs and Dominic confirmed that she did before they slept after having sex. 

The police also asked who was the owner of a particular laptop, and Peter said it was his. For the first time, they saw Peter shaking while talking because he was always bold. The police said that after some forensic investigations, they realized that the owner of the laptop was one of the most wanted "yahoo yahoo" boys in the country. Dominic and Alex were shocked. They now realized why Peter was always on his laptop every night. Peter was very very rich through yahoo yahoo but he never allowed his friends to know about it. He was actually planning to leave Alex's house for his own house at Lekki Phase one in December.

When  Peter was interrogated, he said that three of them were doing it together. He roped them in. He felt he would not go down alone  The case now moved from being a murder case  to a murder and fraud case. 

The commissioner of police vowed that THE THREE would be killed for the death of his daughter and he would ensure that that happened.

Eventually, Peter confessed when they were arraigned  in court that he was the only one involved in the Yahoo yahoo scam and he proved it. He had a change of heart after he realized that he had been a bad friend to Alex and Dominic. 

When Peter was asked why he implicated his friends in his earlier statements, he said he was jealous of both of them. He wanted Dominic's babe, Theresa to be his and he had wished he was Alex because of his descent life, his career, his house and his value system.

Through the influence and manipulation of the Commissioner of police, Dominic was sentenced to death, Alex was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, while Peter was life in prison. But after an appeal by their families in court, Dominic was later sentenced to five years. The judge did it just to appease the commissioner of police. Alex was set free because he was found not guilty of murder and fraud. But Peter's judgement still held, that is, life in prison. He had duped many both within and outside the country. Dominic later did a test and he was diagnosed with HIV.

After the whole experience, Alex realized that it was bad to be envious of others and there was nothing wrong with him. Though others did not like him because he was not an outgoing person, there was someone out there for him. He was doing great but he allowed people to make him think he was inferior to them. He has moved on since then but the pain and stigma is still there.

I Corinthians 15:33 NKJV says, "Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits.”