Stella and David were walking along a very busy road. They were going to Stella's Mum bridal store.
     "Are we close to your Mum's store? We've been walking for so long...I wish I came out of the house with money. We'd have ordered a ride", groaned David.
     "Mum's store is the next building literally after we walk pass this one", Stella replied.
     They arrived at the big store and Stella walked into the compound. David became confused. "Uhmmm...Are we not supposed to go to your Mum's store?", he questioned.
     Stella covered her face with her hand in disappointment. "When I said the next building LITERALLY...what did you think?", she asked him.
     "Wait a second! You mean your Mum owns the biggest bridal store in Calabar?", David asked in both disbelief and joy.
     "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!", she kept a straight face, "Can we go inside now?", she pointed towards the door.
     "Oh!", David went after her.
     They got into the building and what David saw blew his mind away. He saw extremely beautiful white bridal gowns in the large room opposite the entrance door.
     He stood to see the beauty of the room and how well arranged the gowns were. He turned right after some to see Stella, who was patiently waiting for him at a distance. He hurriedly walked up to her and they strolled along the walkway.
     All the sections were at one side of the walkway...at David's and Stella's left. Each section or room was known for one thing. There was a section for cosmetics and deodorants, a section for groom wears, a section, a very big one, where lots of tailors were in, arranged in rows and so on.
     "How's the place? You like it?", Stella asked David.
     "Are you kidding me? This is one of the most beautiful stores in Calabar. Kudos to your Mum!", he answered.
     "I'll surely patronize your Mum whenever we're getting married", he added with a smile.
     Stella laughed over it. "Mum has already promised me that everything I'll use here for my wedding will be free of charge", she said.
     "That's so sweet of her", David replied.
     A lady crossed paths with them. She knew who Stella was. "Stella!", she called in excitement.
     "Miss Roseline!", Stella called her by her name also. They both had a very warm hug.
     After the hug, David greeted;"Good afternoon Ma."
     Miss Roseline stared at him. "Good afternoon...how are you doing?", she replied.
     "I'm fine Ma", David answered with great composure. This was what Miss Roseline admired in him most.
     "He's so composed. That's what I admire most in him", she whispered to Stella. David pretended not to bother about what she was saying to Stella but was wondering what really she was telling Stella deep down, especially after noticing it was about him.
     Stella would look at David and chuckle a couple of times. The gossiping stopped and Stella signalled to David to calm down after seeing him looking insecured.
     "So...let me guess! This is the guy you've always been talking about right?", she said to Stella.
     "Yeah! Let me do some introduction." Stella turned to David;"David! This is Miss Roseline. She's an employee here but also a family friend. She's really a special person to me."
     "Awnnn!", Miss Roseline blushed.
     "You can do that again", Stella chuckled.
     "And this is David, my boyfriend. He's a very decent boy and he loves me a lot", she said to Miss Roseline. David gave a wide smile to add a little more impression.
     "You didn't make a wrong choice making this dude your boyfriend physically at least. He's very charming I must say", she complimented David.
     "I learnt everything from my Mum...my Dad's a very handsome man", Stella replied with a giggle.
     David found out Miss Roseline's glasses were not straight. "Uhmmm...your glasses are slightly askew", he said. She put them back in the right position and thanked him.
     "Where's my mum? Is she in her office?", Stella asked Miss Roseline.
     "Well...I haven't seen her today. Just go check on her...or I should follow you guys. Yeah", she nodded her head, "Let's go together", she answered.
     "Okay then", Stella agreed. They climbed up the stairs. David was looking round as they went up, being awed by everything.
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     A young man that was driving on the road, wanted turning right to a minor road close to the bridal store. He suddenly saw people running out of the road immediately he'd driven into it. He then saw Death quite far away coming towards the major road, very swiftly. He darted out of his car, running up the major road.
     Death ran into the road, picking up the first vehicle at sight and smashing it to the ground. Everybody in that vehicle passed away.
     People ran away in all directions, those in their cars all left them and ran out for their lives. The shouts of the people reached the ears of everyone in the bridal store.
     "What's happening out there?", Stella became frightened. The three of them went to a nearby glass window and looked through it. They saw people running away from something in no single direction. Stella looked further away and sighted that monster.
     She quickly called on David and Miss Roseline. "That monster has come again", she said.
     "Oh no!", David said to himself.
     Death looked up at its right to where Stella was standing by the window. It remembered Stella to be the girl Ratboy had saved that night at Food Court's restaurant. It got provoked at the fact she was still alive. He roared and ran across the road.
     "That monster roared angrily when it saw me", Stella was horrified.
     "Where did it run to?", asked Miss Roseline.
     "I don't know", Stella replied in a faint tone.
     They heard a sound of glass being shattered and they looked at each other, all feeling something was not right. They heard the shouts of people.
     "Why do I feel that monster came for me?", Stella asked.
     When they saw people running up the stairs, they ran to find a place to hide. David purposely ran slower than they did so he could be behind them. He saw an empty room and ran into it before anyone could see him.
    Miss Roseline opened her office and turned back only to see Stella. She was very shocked and asked Stella when she approached her if she knew where David had diverted to. Stella turned back and was taken aback, not seeing David.
     She became angry soon after. "David has done it again. He has proven to be a dumbo", she said.
     "Let's talk about that inside, people are coming", Miss Roseline dragged Stella into her office and locked it quickly. The people ran into the other offices and sections.
     Death went upstairs and crept along the walkway. It looked through the large glass windows looking for Stella but it didn't see her so it kept on walking past them, not harming anyone.
     Death got to the first office without a glass window to glance through so it tried opening the door. The door couldn't open because it was locked from the inside. Death could hear the sounds of people crying inside the office. It wanted breaking down the door when he heard a door open opposite it.
     It quickly turned back and saw Ratboy who apologized sarcastically for distracting him. Death ran to him to attack he beat up Death easily again. He pushed Death away and when he saw it was going to crash on the wall, he quickly ran to it and prevented it from crashing on the wall by holding his hand.
     "I don't want us destroying someone's sweat", he said to Death.
     Death pushed him away to the other end but he did a back flip and stood on the wall. Without hesitation, Death ran to strike but he jumped down from the wall, dodged the blow and held its hand to keep the wall safe. Death tried using the other hand to punch but he still stopped him by holding its hand with his other hand. Death struggled to remove its hand off Ratboy's grip but couldn't.
     "Now's my turn", Ratboy told it. He backflipped again while gripping Death's hands firmly. As he landed on the floor, he banged Death on the floor and the floor covering got broken.
     Ratboy saw the damage he'd caused and turned to where Stella and Miss Roseline stood. "My Bad!", he apologized to them.
     Death took advantage of his diverted attention and got hold of his legs. It threw Ratboy to the wall and it got broken a little. While still recovering from the dizziness, Death attacked from behind with a Coquina Clutch.
     Ratboy backflipped over Death quickly and reversed the attack. He held on to Death until it passed out. He left it to fall on the floor in an unconscious state.
     People gradually came out from their hiding places when they didn't hear the roars of Death anymore. They all saw it on the floor unconscious and were happy. Ratboy stood one place patiently, waiting for it to get up.
     After a while, it became conscious again. People got scared and wanted to all hide but Ratboy told them to calm down. They all listened and stood one place to see what would happen. Death slightly raised its head up and saw Ratboy waiting for him to get up. Ratboy saw its head up and set himself to attack. Death vanished suddenly to the annoyance of Ratboy.
     Everybody went back to their different activities. "Death's scared of this Ratboy...he's way stronger than the first", Stella said to Miss Roseline.
     "Let's go inside Stella", she said to her. They both entered the office.
     Moments later, David barged into the office. "Stella", he called. She didn't even turn back to see him. She was collecting some money from Miss Roseline.
     "Thank you very much", Stella thanked her. She walked past David without even looking at him out of the office.
     David made eye contact with Miss Roseline for a while. He saw her very sad looking, not even saying a word. He then remembered Stella had gone. "Stella", he said faintly and ran after her. He couldn't catch up with her because she also was running away. She went out of the building and by the time David ran out of the building, he saw her getting into a taxi and it zoomed off.
     David could only watch her go as he tried so hard to hold back the tears ready to pour down his face. He quickly took out his phone from the pocket to dial her line.