11/03/2025
**Title: A Twist of Fate**
Love can be cruel, she thought. After five years of courtship with Yemi, Temi felt as though the relationship had reached a bitter conclusion. He was everything she had ever dreamed of: her love, her life, her everything.
Temi knew deep down that the relationship would end when she stood outside his house, hearing his voice echo from within, yet he didn’t open the door. When she called him, he insisted he wasn’t home. The sound of his friends laughing in the background pierced her heart.
Feeling that familiar anger boil within her, she pressed him. "But I heard your voice! Are you really sure you’re not home?"
His response—“Are you at the door?”—cut deeper than she expected. Devastated, she turned away from his front door, feeling shattered, broken, and utterly ashamed of herself.
Under her breath, she muttered the warnings she had heard from everyone: her friends, her mother, her father. Tears streamed down her face as she cried and gasped, lost in her despair, unaware of the car racing toward her.
The impact was brutal. Her phone was never recovered at the scene, and her bag went missing. Her family soon reported her as missing, and Yemi was arrested. He told the authorities he had been at home playing video games with friends, thinking that by lying, he could avoid upsetting her. The police found no evidence against him and eventually released him.
Months passed, and everyone searched in vain. After six months, Yemi moved on, while Temi's family continued to mourn her absence. They published her photos everywhere, clinging to the hope of her safe return, even preparing her favorite meals and setting her place at the table.
Meanwhile, Yemi started a new relationship about a year after her disappearance. Despite his new happiness, he often reflected on Temi and the love they once shared.
After two long years, Temi awoke in a hospital, having given birth to twin boys while in a coma. A good Samaritan had initially cared for her, but the burden of the hospital bills had driven him away. Confused and disoriented, she learned from the staff that she had given birth via cesarean section, yet she had no memory of her pregnancy or
