"I have a bestie; and one day as we were out in the park, the deputy sheriff pulled over in his unofficial car, dressed casually, with sunglasses on," Reyes started explaining.
Then from a far, I noticed that someone was seated in the rear seat. Then the deputy seemed to inspect the place before opening the door for him. They moved and sat at the nearby furniture in the park,.." "summarize your story!," Ginn interrupted impatiently. "..then they started kissing passionately. That was it!," Reyes concluded.
"But a kiss doesn't justify your claim of him being gay. After all it was a woman!," Sam, Minteh's other cousin said pushing himself from the wall where he was leaning.
"Did I say it was a woman he was kissing? It was a man! In fact it was Denis!," "What! Are you kidding me?! That's gross! He would have got someone else but Denis! Dirty as he is! I feel like throwing up!," Lamech snapped, irritated but at the same time surprised.
"That makes it more clear then!," Ginn said thoughtfully. "What do you mean by 'clear'?," Minteh asked, confused.
"What I mean is, my daughter was gang-raped, sodomized, and then strangled to death!," she replied, sobbing as she explained. "Yes, she was old enough, infact she was even ready for marriage, but not ready for a gang to rape her! That's monstrous!," she broke down and wept again.
"Dad!," Minteh snapped, "are we going to pretend that this never happened, or like we don't know who the perpetrators are?!"Dad! Dad!,"
"Yeah, yes! I hear you! I am sorry!," Lamech responded, having been interrupted from deep thoughts. "We actually have to do something but still not in our way!," he continued, emphasizing 'not in our way'. "What's the meaning of that, dad?!," Minteh questioned him, unsure of whether he wanted to hear the old man's words.
"You know what I mean, my son! Yes we are fighters, but we are under the laws of a certain government! Let's not act carelessly! All eyes are on us now!," Lamech explained, touching Minteh, forcing him to face him.
"Again?!!," Reyes snapped. "How many times are we gonna be trampled underfoot and all we have to do is stay put, huh?! One of us is dead, and because she wasn't a fighter, or even outpowered, she was done every kind of evil to death! And all we have to do is stay calm, and wait for the 'law' to intervene!! Who is going to arrest the deputy sheriff who ideally was a partner in crime with the other criminals?!," he added angrily, causing the room to grow tense.
There was a graveyard silence, before Minteh said, "I, Minteh, son of Lamech Kubo, will not rest until I have avenged the death of my niece, Sonia. Everyone involved must die painfully as she did!," he vowed and left the family home.
"Minteh! Come back here!," Lamech tried to command him, but had already headed to his peugeot. He put the key in the ignition and started the car. And with a drift, he left the family home and left for Mitete town.
Everyone who was in the sitting room discussing the matter moved away, leaving Lamech, together with his daughter, Ginn.
"My daughter, I am sorry for you loss!," Lamech said, embracing her tightly. The longer she stayed in his embrace, the more she cried; for Sonia was her only girl child.
Few days later, far away from the Lamech family mansion, in the outskirts of the Mitete town, a man was rushing home. Unfortunately, he was hindered by the intense traffic on the road home.
"Beep beep," a car horn sounded. "Oh God! Beeeep! Get out of the way!," yelled the man at the vehicle before him, putting out his head through the car window.
My woman is in pain! How do I reach her now?," he asked himself loudly. "Calm down! Calm down! It's gonna be alright! The baby be okay!," he comforted himself.
As he said all that aloud, he was interrupted by a phone ringing, "Oh no! Let it not be so!," he said as looked at the caller ID on his phone screen.
He picked up and said, "hang in there darling, I am on my way! Ten minutes tops! I love you darling!"
"I can't wait anymore! The pain is too much!!," a female voice of the end of the phone replied, before hearing the phone fall with a thud, followed by screaming.
"Hang in there babe!," the man said before shifting the gear of the car and swerved it to the pedestrians' way. He pressed hard on the accerelator and sped towards a group of youths coming. He didn't show any signs of stopping, but instead, the car simply accerelated the more.
"He is insane! Leave the way before the runs over you!," one the youths yelled as he pulled his friend aside. The man continued to speed down via the pedestrians' way, sounding the horn, leaving a commotion behind him.
The phone was still on and he was hearing his wife screaming in pain.
"Wait for me sweetie! I am here!," he said, panting.
"He is either a criminal, or there's a life-and-death emergency calling him!," the bystanders said, as the car went past them
Not far from where the man was, there lay a pregnant woman, in great pain. She was screaming in agony, touching her belly.
"Where are you, Mat?," she called out, loud enough for the neighbors to hear, though no one responded, and neither did anyone come to her attention. "Noooooo!," he is coming out!," she screamed painfully.
As she was still crying out, car tyres were heard outside squeaking as the driver made a sudden stop.
The man yanked the door so hard that the handle seemed to have been broken off. He was the man on the phone in the car.
"Here I am babe! Lemme take you to the hospital!," he said as he help her up.
"I feel so much pain!," the woman cried out, holding onto the man tightly.
"Have you broken the water?," he asked as he carried her to the car. "Not yet! But it feels like the baby is near!," she responded, wincing with pain.
"Alright, I gat you! Let's go!," he said, putting the woman in the car seat of the passenger.
He fastened her seatbelt and ran to the driver's seat. He started the car, and drove off at a high speed, with the woman, crying out in deep pain. He held the stirring wheel with one hand and with another, he comforted his wife, touching her softly.
"Noooooo!," she cried out, this time louder than before, "the water is broken! But I feel the baby coming out also.