Emotional Tingle episode 32
EMOTIONAL TINGLE
(The Mind Reader)
Episode 32
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Written by Author Nath
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Police siren wailed continuously at the crime scene, outside the warehouse, indicating red, yellow and blue light. A few people clustered around to feed their eyes with the tragic death of many in the warehouse. Nobody had a glimpse of the sole element behind the bucket they all kicked. Two ambulances wailed in immediately. One could see two men carrying Crucifix out of the house. Oh, poor boy, he looked lifeless even though his life was just by the skin of his teeth. At the same time, a Lexus car, speedily arrived and Raina rushed out from it with her mother. She wore a black leggings, a yellow polo with a black circular design of a black woman at the center. She singly rolled and tied her hair behind in order to be free from it’s disturbance. On her feet were yellow canvase too. Nevertheless, she pushed the door of the car closed, directing her eyes to the entrance of the warehouse to see her father’s body being carried out.
“Daddy!!” she began to run while her mother followed from behind, but policemen blocked her. “Let me go! That’s my father!!” she shouted before they let her through. Getting to the father whom she confirmed dead, her mood changed. That was a hangdog expression which clearly indicated that her salad days were over. “No!” she covered her mouth as she cried, like she did in the bathroom days ago. Her mother joined her at a corner, letting out excruciating tears for the death of her husband.
Raina sighted the paramedics, putting a young boy into an ambulance. He looked familiar to her, so she surged closer with those tears in her eyes just to see them closing up the vehicle. She stretched her neck to see Crucifix’ face before the door was totally closed. She directed her eyes into the warehouse to see Forster and some other policemen with white packs of something she concluded to be drugs. She ran back to the car instantly.
“Please, sir, fly to my father’s bakery now!” she commanded the driver.
“What about your mo..”
“I said fly!!” she shrieked from the back seat, drying her tears with her palms.
The car sped off. Through the side mirror, Raina saw Forster questioning her mother. “Oh, God! Drive faster!!” she ordered the driver again who topped another gear to have to wheels of the vehicle spinning like a fan….
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Meanwhile, in,side the ambulance carrying Crucifix, two paramedics, a man and a woman in blue attire with white gloves in their hands, hurriedly cut the boy’s shirt opened with a medical scissors to have a clearer view of the bullet wound. As the female was getting hydrogen peroxide to clean up the surface of the wound, so was the male connecting wires from a monitor to his heart to get the rate of his heartbeat monitored. The monitor kicked off with a beeping sound and a moving zigzag line on the screen. The man also gave him two injections.
“He’s ready.” He said.
The female, after applying the hydrogen peroxide, brought her head closer to Crucifix saying, “Hey, boy, we just gonna get the bullet out. Stay with us.” she reached out to titanium surgical instrument which she deep into the wound. Silence and tension creeped into the vehicle. Only the beeping sound of the monitor filled their ears. One could see blood pumping out from the wound as the paramedic searched for the bullet with the titanium. Luckily, she clipped it, pulled it out and dropped it on a stainless sterilized plate which made a metal sound. All of a sudden, the beep became faster and the line on the monitor gradually straightened.
“We’re losing him!” the male shouted.
“Get the defibrillator! Charge it up!” the female commanded. “One forty volt!”
The male charged it to that level and electricuted the boy with it on the chest. Both looked at the monitor, yet, no signs of life in him.
“Again!” the female commanded.
The action was repeated twice, yet, Crucifix showed no sign of life in him. Actually, he was in transition: He saw his matured self, playing with his girl-child in a basketball court. He wore a white knicker and sneakers with a sleeveless shirt. He kicked the ball to the five year old child saying, “Come on, girl, bounce the ball.”
“Mummy!” The girl saw her mother coming from afar then began to run to her. Crucifix straightened up, watching his daughter run to his mother, Margret. He could never be happier. He had no worries about anything or anyone anymore. That was the peace of mind he wanted.
However, grown up beautiful Margret joyfully carried the child, grinning sheepishly. She wore a white gown too. She approached her husband with the girl in her hands then both locked their l-ips in a k-iss with their eyes closed. Surprisingly, when Crucifix open his eyes, he saw Raina as his wife instead of Margret. He stepped backward, “Raina?” he called unbelievably….
Meanwhile, in reality, the female paramedic dumbed the defibrillator and began to perform CPR on him. “Come on, kid, come on!” she shouted. Hopefully, the slow beeping sound of the monitor and zigzag line returned. Crucifix came back to life. The poor boy really fought death and won. The paramedics looked at each other and then exhaled..
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The Lexus pulled over in,side the bakery. Raina rushed out to see everyone up and doing. The same girl whom she met when she came there at the first time, looked at her and said, “You again? We said no vacancy here anymore.”
“f-ck you! You’re fired!!” Raina pointed an angry finger at her. “Everybody, stop work and go home now!!” she shouted walking around the factory. Workers began to abandon their works. Just then, Suzanna, the manager, hurried out in her high heel shoes.
“What’s going on, Raina?” she spread her hands.
Raina brought down her voice. “My father has been made by the feds. So I want every product found here and in other location of his company gone. You know what I’m talking about”
Suzanna turned to her workers. “Alright, everybody go home till further notice!!” she instructed.
“The feds might be on their way. Lock this place later and get me the keys.” Raina ran back to the car. “Take me home.” she instructed the driver and dialed her mother’s number immediately…
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On the other hand, Mr. Adams barged into his own house. The noise of the door attracted Margret, so she rushed out of her room, leaving her broken phone on the floor. She came out to the living room, surged towards the door of her parents, listening to their conversation.
“Honey, why are you parking your clothes in a hurry? Where are you going to?” she heard her mother asking.
“I need to make an urgent travel! Something came up.” the husband replied.
“What is going on, Adams?”
“I don’t think I’m safe here anymore.”
Margret’s attention deviated to a breaking news that just popped on the television. She turned to see Eda in the dinning room, listening to the news too. A journalist stood with a microphone saying, “There was a tragic shoot-out in a warehouse at Chino where the police found one Mr. Nelson Nnaji dead with other men presumed to be from his cartel because it’s being gathered that it was a shoot-out among drug dealers which Mr. Nelson was the head. Also, an eighteen years old whom the police identify simply as Crucifix was found there in his own pool of blood but was lucky to still have a pulse. He has just been rushed to the federal hospital…”
Margret, at the moment began to connect the dots. “What was Crucifix doing with Raina’s father in a house full of drugs? Wait, my father was probably there too, I guess. He escaped. Maybe that’s why he wants to leave town. Is my Dad a drug dealer? Oh, God! Could it be that Crucifix had been working with my father all along? Why?!” she thought and thought. She felt that there were more secrets hidden from her. Yes, girl, more and more things you need to grasped with your fingers. Just then, Mr. Adams came out with his traveling bag. Margret turned to him.
“Is this why you’re leaving town unplanned, dad?” she pointed at the television. “Dad, what is going on? Why do I have the feelings you were the one wanting Crucifix dead?”
“Don’t say what you don’t know, Margret.” The father replied. “Speaking of that boy, Crucifix, you need to stay away from him.”
Margret glared at her father then walked out from the house, heading straight to the federal hospital…
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in,side Nelson’s house, Raina paced restlessly in,side the living room with her phone in her hand. Obviously, she was waiting for her mother. Suddenly, the woman walked in through the door with eyes heavy of sorrows and tears.
“Raina, why did you leave me behind? What is going on?!” she asked with a broken voice.
“What was the policeman asking you, mum?” Raina asked.
“He was asking me about your father and home address.”
“Address?!” Raina shouted. “Mum, you need to get rid of that drug if it’s still in this house and make withdrawal or transfer money to any account as soon as possible. The government will cease all our asserts including this house and freez your account and Daddy’s too when they…”
A knock from the door interrupted her. Both swiftly looked at the direction to see Forster entering with many other gun policemen. “Madam, we’re sorry. We have a warrant to search and seal this building like every other assert owned by your late husband.”
“But why?” Mrs. Nelson asked.
“Are you kidding me? Your husband was a drug lord and has caused the death of many through that. Please, you are to leave this house with immediate effect. Both you and your husband’s account is frozen as we speak.”
Hearing that, Raina bent her head disappointedly. She raised it up to have tears running from her eyes. “Mummy, where are we to go now!?” she cried.
The two women were forced out of the house and sealed it with a bold notice written on it. They were left with nothing except their bags of clothes and small cash that was in the house. They could be found outside the compound, sitting by the street of DeMar like beggers and crying seriously. They just migrated from grace to grass. Suddenly, the weather changed; it became cloudy and windy. Thunder struck and a heavy rain started.
On the other hand, Geb, who had no idea what had happened to his grandson heard a knock on his door over the sound of the heavy rain on his roof. He opened it to see Raina, her mother and their bags soaked by the rain. Just as Margret was in the hospital, sitting beside Crucifix’ sick-bed and shedding tears, so were Raina and her mother under the rain.
“Raina? Please, come in,side.” Geb widely opened the door for them…
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TO BE CONTINUED.