FED UP!

(…continued…)

Some minutes later, Kemi and Segun were out to the door. Kemi showed them five fingers (waka) and they left. They still waited for a while.

  “We can now leave,” Coker said.

                They heard the sound of a collision between two vehicles, then a car speeding off.

  “What was that?” Margret asked rushing out.

  “Don’t rush out like that,” Coker told her. “You don’t know what is going on. You could get hurt.”

                They got outside and saw some people gathered some distance from the fast-food restaurant. They saw a car that had been hit. They asked those around what had happened.

  “A man and a woman entered their car in a hurry and while driving off, they hit that car,” a passerby said. “The stupid man that hit this car just meandered and drove off.”

  “What type of car were they in?”

                He described the car. The description fitted Segun’s car.

  “O My God,” Margret said. “I hope he is ok.”

  “AS if you know who they are?” Coker said, pulling her aside.

                They went to a corner.

  “Do you want to pay for what your cousin did?” Mabel asked her.

  “I forgot oo.”

  “If they find out you know who did it, you will either produce him or pay.”

  “I wonder why he sped off like that.”

  “He is broke,” Coker’s brother said. “He couldn’t have been able to pay na.”

                They looked at him and he looked away.

  “Don’t talk about your fellow man like that o,” Coker told him.

  “Especially when his sister is around,” Margret added. “And his ex”

  “Please don’t call me that,” Mabel told her.

  “Sorry,” Margret appologised.

  “It’s ok.”

  “I need to call him to know how he is.”

                She dialed Segun’s number. It rang twice but no one picked.

  “I hope he is fine,” she said. “It is all my fault. If I had known I would not have organized this.”

  “You did not know,” Coker said. “Try him again.”

                She tried again but the call was ‘busied’

  “He is now rejecting my call,” she said sadly.

  “I don’t think he is the one,” Mabel said. “He is driving, most likely in top speed. So it must be that witch who is holding his phone.”

  “Even if she is the one with his phone, she will not reject the call if he wants to pick it.”

  “Let me try with my line that he does not know,” Coker said.

                He dialed Segun and Kemi picked. He asked to speak to Segun. She asked to know who it was. He told her who he was and she hung up. He held the phone for a while looking shocked.

  “She actually hung up on me,” he said.

  “After what you did to her she should do worse,” his brother said.

  “That girl has to leave my brother,” Margret said.

  “I think Segun is okay because in the background, I was hearing the noise of moving vehicles.”

  “Let us go home then,” Mabel said. “My sister must be tired of waiting for me.”

  “Yea.”

Margret went to her car while Mabel and the rest went to Coker’s car.

  “I will call you later,” Margret told Mabel.

  “Just ping me,” Mabel replied. “After what happened today, I might not be in the mood to pick calls.”

  “Where are you going to now?”

  “I will pick my things from my house and then go to my mother’s place.”

  “How will you go?”

  “Don’t worry I will drive her,” Coker said.

  “OK. Thank you, but keep her away from your brother.”

                They laughed, entered their separate cars and drove off.

(…to be continued…)

-Chinedu Isaac