FED UP [XLVII]

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                Some minutes later, Kemi and Segun walked out of the door.

  “Can we get out of here now?” Mabel asked.

  “We may still jam them at the car park,” Coker said.

  “And part two will start,” Margret added.

  “So we will sit here forever?” Mabel asked, a bit impatient.

  “No,” Coker said. “Few minutes more.”

  “Should I go and check when they leave?” Coker’s brother asked.

  “It’s not necessary,” Coker said. “Few more minutes and we are out of here.”

  “And if we jam them and she tries any nonsense,” Margret said. “I will show her how terrible I can be.”

  “I have had enough drama for today,” Mabel said. “I just want to go home and lie down.”

They sat and waited.

After some minutes, Coker looked at his watch and said, “We can now leave.”

                They gathered their bags and things and got up to leave. As they got to the door, they heard the sound of a collision between two vehicles outside, 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 outside there. You could get hurt.”

  “I just want to make sure nobody hit my car.”

                They cautiously got outside and saw some people gathered outside the fast-food restaurant. They went close and saw a car that had been hit.

  “Thank God it is not my car,” Margret said.

They asked one man what had happened.

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

  “What type of car were they in?” Margret asked.

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

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

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

They went to a corner, away from listening ears.

  “Do you want to pay for what your cousin just did?” Mabel asked her. “Why did you react like you know them?”

  “I forgot o,” Margret said.

  “If they find out you know who did it,” Coker said. “You will either produce him or pay for the damages caused.”

  “I wonder why he sped off like that,” Margret said, a bit worried.

  “He is broke,” Coker’s brother said. “He couldn’t have been able to pay for the damage he may have caused.”

                They looked at him and he looked away.

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

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

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

  “Sorry,” Margret apologized.

  “It’s ok.”

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

                She dialed Segun’s number. It rang twice but he did not pick.

  “I hope he is fine,” she said. “This is all my fault. If I had known, I wouldn’t have organized this meeting.”

  “You didn’t know it will turn out like this,” Coker said. “Try calling him again.”

                She tried again but the call was ‘busied’

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

  “He may not be the one busying your call,” 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’s number and Kemi picked. He asked to speak to Segun. She asked to know who it was. He told her who he was and she cut the call. He held the phone for a while, shocked.

  “She actually cut the call on me,” he said.

  “After what just happened to her,” Coker’s brother said. “She could do worse.”

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

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

  “Please come and take me home,” Mabel said. “My sister must be tired of waiting for me.”

  “Ok,” Coker said.

They left the scene and went towards their cars. Margret went to hers while Mabel and the rest went to Coker’s car.

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

  “Just chat me up,” 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 to wherever she wants,” Coker said.

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

                They laughed, entered their separate cars and drove off.

(...to be continued)

Nedu Isaac