Chapter 38 Room 45: Inside A Match Box 8

• BY 1:45 AM, ABRAM WAS STILL AWAKE. He was bothered and feared that something might be going on; Mat is not finding the time to tell him. A lot were jumping in and out of Abram’s head. He didn’t sleep but was standing upright like the bipedal. “Sharia Law, Mat, Police Custody”, what are the nexus, he keeps asking himself while moving his lip like a cleric in the abyss of incantation. He went straight to his fridge, took a table glass of water and drank to cool the heat inside him, melting his whole entire chemistry the moment he heard those words: ‘Sharia Law, Police Custody’ he keeps repeating.
• In his diary, page 40, he wrote: I wouldn’t believe my eyes what is happening? Mat called me with an ‘unknown number’ something he hasn’t done before. What even worried me worst is when he said to me on the phone, he was in police custody. Also, mentioning Sharia Law. What are the connections with these two opposites? I understand. Something is wrong. While Abram was deep writing this episodic part of himself and what he suspected wasn’t right with the tune of Mat’s voice on the phone few minutes after he called him. His phone beep … it was a text message.
• When he taps it, the message reads: they are taking us to Sharia Court any time soon. This might be the end of our ‘contraband’ love. Hurriedly, Abram starts typing to reply the text he received but it was frustrating. He also wanted to call the number but it was still ‘unknown’. In fact, the whole thing was punches inside his mind that he can’t bear. His state of psychology was galloping. Back and front was backlash. “What am I going to do to rescue my lover’s life?” he asked himself. “If I don’t do anything … with the way Mat sound on the phone, the impossible might happened especially when he said, ‘this might be the end’” Abram displayed bitterness and reiterated the words of Mathew Gozie in fear.