THE LIST

chapter 7

I had done first aid in health class but that was all there was to what i knew. I locked my palm over my other hand and went for the chest thrust. “one, two,three...thrity.” he  was suppose to be up already. I almost reached for his lips to give him a mouth to mouth but stopped half way. Why was my heart pounding this much just at the thought of it. I went on with the chest thrusts , hoping this time that would work out fine.
It was not like he drowned for me to give him the so called kiss of life. Pshhhh , who ever came up with that name. My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of his cough. He was alive, he didn’t die, he didn’t leave me alone. Just the thought it self drove me insane, it drove my happiness to level one hundred and at that moment i didn’t try to stop myself from expressing it, i didn’t give myself a chance to think over it. I quickly descended on him with a hug then idiotically i allowed myself to kiss him. His lips were bloody, he had a bruise, it was a given. I didn’t even realise the warm tears running down my cheeks or the flips my stomach was doing right now.
“You are alive.” I said, allowing my face to part from his. “you are here, alive.”
“apayo.”i heard him whisper, “jinja apayo.” His voice was so weak it barely made it. I understood what he said. At least the every little sense i made out of it must be it. I had learn a few languages along the way, Korean been one of the least.
“ i know it hurts.” I said.
I stopped to look around. I needed to get him somewhere safe. I looked down at his leg and i knew there wasn’t going to be anywhere else but the hospital to take him. He was losing so much blood and he would die at this rate but the hospital wasn’t a place we could go, if enoch found us, we were dead. But wait, Enoch wasn’t trying to kill me, my mind drove to when i first escaped, he was the one who shot at me, he never misses his aim, and who ever just shot now missed two bullets in me. They want me injured, not dead.
I got off my kneels and broke a branch nearby. I took off my shirt, leaving nothing under my hoodie, i could feel the korean’s eyes drive away the moment he saw me hank off my shirt, he did have a sense of decency. Using the short branches of sticks i had broken down as splints, i tied them around the open fracture to support his leg.
“i need you to be strong.” I told him.
He didn’t say anything, he just nodded. It stabbed my heart when i heard him scream as i dragged him from the rock to a nearby tree to support his back. I then walked a distance and pulled out the phone. The screen was broken this time but it still worked. I had to finish the video my dad recorded before making a decision over what ever was going through my head.

“sir!”
Ibrahim burst into enoch’s office, a telecom in his hand as the other supported the door.
“sir, you need to take this.” He said.
“I thought I made it clear I wasn’t taking any disturbances what so ever!” Enouch screamed.
“its her,” ibrahim managed, “ its Zoya, she asked to talk to you.”
Enouch’s pupil’s dilated, he knew she wasn’t having a friendly talk with him, if she called, he hated her gurts, just like he hated her father’s. he snatched the telecom away as he mouthed to ibrahim to find the coordinates of her location.
“Zoya.” He spoke, his voice harsh but calm.
“chief.” She replied, offring nothing more.
“Look I know you think we want to kill you but you are our best chance at surviving.” He spoke and waited. Silence, silence was all a got for a minute or two. He felt fury thrust up his throat, what ever these mind games were, he wasn’t up for them.
“Zoya you are holding property of the CIA1” he screamed, his nerves taking the best of him.
“I know.” She finally replied. “I know Chief, I know what you want, you need the List.” He heard her say as he saw Ibrahim walk back into the office.
His eyes were enough of a question to know if he found her location and he nodded.
“call the sergent,” he mouthed but Ibrahim didn’t move, he tried to speck only to be showed away by his hand.
“listen Enouch, if you want the list, I will hand it over but on one condition.”
“am listening.” He replied.
“have the korean attended to, he is badly injured. Have him take medical assistance and deported back to his country safely. Only then will I give up any information.” She odered.
He hated her, everything about her, been wrapped around her little fingre was just one more reason added.
“done.” He responded.
“I don’t trust you enouch, and you know that but you know what I am capable of, you will have to kill me if you go against your word, but there is one thing you should know, even after I die,or the korean dies, that list will still come to light so you better keep your word.”
With that the line went dead. Fury took over the chief and he sent the telecom flying into a wall.
“that damned girl.” He screamed before turning to ibrahim who still stood by the door. “I told tyou to get the bloody troops for ceaser’s sake!”
“sir I don’t think we will need any troops.”
A puzzle walked enouched face, it was clear he didn’t follow.
“Zoya is here, down in the library.”