Make It Rain

NINETEEN

"How long will the trip last sir?" 

"Only a few days I guess..." Mr. Joel gently walked to his car.

"A few days?!"

"Hahaha... Seun if there is something on your mind please tell me." Wearing a knowing smile as he pulled his car door open.

"No sir! Nothing." Seun replied.

"I have known you long enough to know you are thinking something." Mr. Joel stepped into the car.  "It's either you are eager for me to leave or you can't wait for my arrival even before departure."

"Haha... You got me sir." Seun's smile lingered. "I want you to return quickly. There is much to discuss."

"Hmm..." Seun's strange demeanour was glaring to Mr. Joel. But Mr. Joel shrugged it off and ignited the engine before moving off.

Driving on the highway, Mr Joel listened to his favourite country songs as he always did.

Going at almost four hundred kilometres an hour, he was on his way to his getaway location. A place he escaped the world, an isolated location where the locals there didn't know who he was. It was the perfect place for him to relax.

Somewhere that only he and Seun knew he went to often.

"I might just get there early, the road is pretty empty today." Mr. Joel murmured.

"Oh no I didn't inform Shola I wouldn't be back home today!"

Not wanting his daughter to be worried sick about him, Mr. Joel put his hand in the tunnel console beside his seat to pick his phone.

Unable to reach his phone he carelessly took a quick glance at the compartment to pick it, but before he could raise his gaze there was a huge honking sound coming from an approaching truck at high speed that smashed into Mr. Joel's car. In a split second, Mr. Joel's car turned over and rotated in quick succession.

Glass from it's broken window flew all over the place, both in and out of the car. The huge force of the clash bent the bonnet of the car and completely damaged the driver's side of the car, leaving Mr. Joel stuck in his position.

The driver of the truck, after being stunned for a few seconds, swiftly got out of his truck and entered another vehicle that was following him closely behind and ran off.

An old woman sitting in a roadside eatery witnessed the whole thing and jumped out of her position shouting.

"Egbami ooo!!! They have kill him oooo!!!!!" She quickly ran to Mr. Joel's car, banging on to the side door. 

"Somebody ooo!!!! Somebody come oo!!! Na person papa be this oo! Ehhhh!!!" The old lady continued her wail as more and more people surrounded the scene.

With his car upside down, Mr. Joel hung in his seat, blood dripping from his neck that was impaled with glass, and even more pouring out of his leg that was crushed between metals. His whole face was a mess with shattered glass all leaving their individual marks.

Rescuers around tried to get the car open before pulling him out of the car while he remained unconscious in the car - No one could stay awake after such shock and hit.

***

"I am glad you brought me here." Referring to the water fountain.

Holding Shola tightly close to him by her waist as they sat on a bench, Samuel tilted his gaze at her, "Hmm... Me too."

"Tch! You don't even know why, you are saying 'me too'... olodo." Slightly slapping his chest. She sure loved to play with it.