STREAMLINED 1 by Ebuka
Sussy has been pacing around within the apartment for the past an hour or thereabout. With a smartphone in her hand she was looking so worried and worked up in her night wears.
It's a room/parlour self contain with all the necessary plumbings installation.
4:12am on the wall clock. 4:20am on the digital leather belt watch on her left wrist. Sussy got confused at the time difference. She pressed on a button beside the smartphone, bringing the screen light into function. However the time on the phone was the same with that on her wrist watch. Angrily she pulled one of the dinning seats to the position of the wall clock and climbed up. She has changed the battery of this same wall clock twice this week, yet it kept on displaying wrong time, bringing more confusion into her head, adding to what she's going through now.
About to dismantle the clock from the wall, she heard a sudden cracking sound from the wooden dinning seat. The seat was about to break under her weight. Sussy quickly pulled off the wall clock. Just as she was about jumping down from the weakened furniture, it got completely broken and she slumped heavily on the floor. The said wall clock slipped off her hand and it's glass got shattered immediately. She was lucky enough that the smartphone in the other hand was still intact.
Sussy struggled to get up on her feet. And suddenly there's a heavy bang on the door from outside.
"That must be Steve!" She thought. He's the one she's been expecting of his arrival all these while..He had called her on phone earlier for over an hour fifty-five minutes ago. Steve was supposed to have arrived before now... Sussy opened the door, a fair looking handsome guy staggered into the sitting room with a traveling bag hanging on his back, and fell on his face upon the floor beside the centre table. The beautiful looking lady quickly shut the door, threw the smartphone aside and knelt before the guy. She turned him face-upwards to lay on his back. Steve's face was covered with blood down to his stomach. Sussy was alarmed at the sight of the blood. She managed to pull him up to sit on the floor and lean his back on the mini sofas.
SUSSY: "Steve?! What happened to you?!" Steve was saying something but she could not understand what it was. His voice was sounding weak and inaudible. "I can't hear what you are saying.. Steve?!" She screamed into his ear. Slowly he raised his right hand and folded the fingers like cup to his lips. It was a sign that he needed to drink water. She rushed a bottle of water out of the refrigerator and fed him the water by herself. There was a bit sigh of relief from the guy as the first drop of water gulped down his throat. And he gave her a sign to stop...
STEVE: (He pulled off the bag on his back) "Babe..." He broke off.
SUSSY: "Can you please tell me what has happened?!" She begged shaking him violently.
STEVE: "Our vehicle was attacked!... I managed to escape!... Babe you must leave now!... Go with the bag!.."
SUSSY: "What?!.. I'm not going anywhere, not without you!.. Who's after you?!.. Tell me, what the hell is going on?!.. Who attacked...?!"
STEVE: "Leave now..." He threw the bag on her. "...Stop being stupid! Leave the house immediately Sussy..." He pushed her away. And She fell backwards, got up once more. She grabbed the bag, took a few steps backwards towards the exit and halted.
SUSSY: "Baby...?!" Her eyes filled with tears. Where does she go from here?! Steve has failed to let her know what's going on. How can she walk out on her fiance while he's in such a critical condition?... What's in this bag he has asked her to go away with?!... All these thoughts were coming into Sussy. Suddenly she heard the sound of a car outside. The vehicle, she noticed has halted in front of the house.
STEVE: "Leave through the back door now!" He ordered her, trying to get up...
Sussy had no other option. Danger is lurking around. She advanced towards the kitchen and vanished in there.
Steve staggered and disappeared into the bedroom.
A few minutes thereabout the entrance was forced open, two fierce looking men walked in and started looking around the sitting room.
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4:59am
Sussy sneaked out into the darkness. Few vehicles, and humans were passing by. At first she was unable to get closer to the tarred road. Hiding in a thick dark corner, she kept on craning her eyes in all directions. It was at this juncture that she realized she was still in her night wears. Looking herself all over, she was filled with the thoughts about what people would think or say should she remain in such wears till dawn. This was exactly what stirred up the courage in her, to come out of the place she's hiding and walk to the road side.
The headlights of every vehicle that passed by would always reflect on the milkish silk night wears. So transparent that her breasts and her entire nudity can be seen the moment there's reflection of vehicle headlights on her. Sussy had no pant under, her halfgrown pubic hairs were displaying so much. Quite unfortunate she never knew there was going to be an emergency such as this that would make her flee the house at this hour, and in that condition.
Even the nipples of her pair of pointed breasts were as if they would puncture the night dress and come outside... She was looking extremely sexy. Initially Sussy didn't know the reason behind people's incessant admiration of her untill one useless drunk who has taken more gin than he could contain said: "So...hic...bra you...hic...no get...hic... even common...hic...pant you...hic... no fit buy... idiot! Ashewo!...bas...hic...tard... Bastard!!" The drunk staggered backwards then forward pointing a finger downwards at Sussy's 'engine room'.
Quickly she had to cover the 'engine room' with the bag. Then the other hand on both breasts. Sussy has become restless now... The sight was irritating to the drunk. He spat noisily on the ground in front of Sussy and staggered away, cursing her under his breath.
"Can I give you a ride pretty?!" A guy in a latest Toyota Spider that just pulled over before Sussy asked. She thought about it twice and waved the guy away, and started walking away as well.
"Young lady. Why dressed like this outside?! You're looking stranded?!"
Sussy turned around and saw a pretty lady coming behind her. She was dangling a car key in one of her fingers.
"I am Jennifer. I've been watching you from that filling station across the road. It seems you have a problem with your guy this early morning?" The lady smiled at Sussy who has already halted.
SUSSY: "Yeah. He threw me out of his house" She lied.
JENNIFER: "That's men for you. C'mon let me take you to my place to change into something decent. I parked my car in that filling station"
The woman and Sussy got across the road to the filling station, Sussy's big back and erected breasts dangling up and down and sideways...
Back to the house couple of gunshots were heard and there was sudden quietness again except for the sound of some vehicles and their horns...
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SUSSY: "Aah!" She exclaimed as Jennifer drove the car out of the filling station. Jennifer almost marched on the brake pedal of the car at the middle of the road. It's a black Mercedes Benz mini Jeep GLX.
JENNIFER: "What's the matter dear?!"
SUSSY: "I have forgotten my phone in his house"
JENNIFER: "You mean the guy that threw you out of his house?"
SUSSY: "Yeah".
JENNIFER: "Then let's get back to that fucking place. Now!".
SUSSY: "No. I don't want to step into that house again. Thanks".
JENNIFER: "Alright. If you insisted" She smiled romancing Sussy's left thigh slightly.
Once in a while Jennifer would admire Sussy lustily with charming smiles on her face, that she nearly hit the car in front of hers while they were in a traffic. Now she had to concentrate on her driving henceforth until they finally arrived her house.
Jennifer lives in an estate. It was a well furnished 2bedroom apartment, with all the necessary amenities installed. There's a mini bar in the sitting room with assorted bottles of foreign gin and wine, including packets of cigarettes.
JENNIFER: "Feel at home and make yourself comfortable honey" Sussy had to seat down looking around in admiration of the beauty of the apartment. "Let me keep your bag in one of the rooms, okay?"
SUSSY: "I will be fine with it. Thanks... Do you live here alone?!" Her curiosity was so high.
JENNIFER: "Now?!...Yeah. 'Though I once had my guy living here with me until he fucked up. I had to throw him out immediately. I don't take no shit from no guy" Sussy compelled a chuckle.
Jennifer told Sussy she was on her way back from a night club to refill the fuel tank of the car at that filling station when she sighted her standing by the road side, looking stranded.
The lady ushered her guest into one of the rooms... "It's few minutes to 6am already. I need to catch some sleep now, to wake up in the next few hours. Have some runs in town to take care of at 8:45 dawn. See ya sexy". Jennifer said in a rush. She blew some breeze from her mouth in her right palm towards Sussy and smiled out of the beautifully decorated room.
Sussy Smiled back at her with a wave of the first 3 fingers of her left hand. She shut the door immediately Jennifer left the room... Sussy's mind was occupied with different scary thoughts: Steve's present condition in that house; The radicalism she has taken notice of in the life of the lady that took her into her apartment, and for how long was she going to remain in this house.. the home of a total stranger?!; Lastly the content of this bag Steve ordered her to run away with. Sussy who has been sitting on the bed and the bag beside her, with her legs barely touching the tiled floor suddenly became dizzy. She laid across the bed and dozed off immediately, with her right fingers still having a tight grip on the handle of the bag.
8:02 am.
The door opened quietly and Jennifer sneaked in with an inaudible "Wow!" seeing the sexy looking bitch sleeping with her back on the bed. Jennifer has changed into a pair of black leather trousers and it's long sleeve jacket to match. She had pair of black snicker footwears designed with tiny white stripes.
The long zipper at the centre of the leather jacket was zipped down a bit, exposing the swollen of her breasts. While the pendant of the gold necklace around her sexy neck rested in between her breasts at the upper level, as if it was held there by some glue.
Jennifer halted quietly in between Sussy's open legs, admiring the sleeping lady's nipples and nudity through the transparent night wears with excitement. Suddenly her eyes caught up with the bag. Meanwhile she wondered why the guest had refused to let her take the bag for her into the room... "What's so special about this bag?! What exactly is the content that she still holds it even now she's already asleep?!" Jennifer brooded over and over again in her mind.
Actually Jennifer had had two different intentions for sneaking into this room now...But the problem here is which of the two is more important to her, even now than the other?! Obviously she has to forfeit one to possibly achieve the other.
Both the bag and the nudity of Jennifer's guest were tempting to her. She felt like a heroic Hunter having only one bullet left in his gun, while he has been confronted face to face by a tiger and a hyena all the same time, who's confused on which of the two wild animals he should release the only bullet that's left in his gun...
Earlier at 7:59 same morning. A crowd of people have gathered in the street very close to the location of Steve's house, to watch the tragedy that had taken place at the early hours of that morning before dawn. Two official police vehicles with a Mazda MPV metallic colour were parked in front of the premises where Steve was living.
A good number of armed police men have been deployed here and there within the area.
Meanwhile the crowd of people, a decent distance away from the police men was watching what was going. Almost everyone amongst the crowd, including the police themselves was taking picture shots and video recording of the on going incident within the vicinity with their smartphones...
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Two different human bodies were dumped in the back of one of the police vehicles; one dead the other still alive but injured, and in a pool of his own blood. When the police were all gone the crowd began to dissolve, some were going away to their different destinations, while the rest moved closer to the house to peep into the premises to see more.. Meanwhile there's nothing more to see except for the blood spots on the ground.
Tuaa! Tuaa! This sound like gunshots came from nowhere. People started running scarily away from the spot. Most of them thought it was the police that have returned again. While very few others had it that it could be from some armed bandits. But the truth there is that the seemed scary sound came from an old Toyota Hiace bus being used for a commercial purpose.
The town service Hiace bus was having problem with some of its engine plugs. Therefore as a result of that the gunshots like sound were being released from the exhaust pipe of the bus...A bus that was supposed to have been banned from plying the roads, and impounded by the Nigerian Road Safety Corps.
Tuaa! Tuaa! Kpoi! Tuaaaa! The sound kept on coming continuously even more scary than before. This time it was not only that people were running away, street traders have started closing down their shops for the safety of their lives.
"You no get house?! Leave my shop joor!!" A woman that owns raw food stuffs' shop screamed at a very fat lady that ran into her shop. She pushed the fat lady away and locked up herself inside the shop.
The fat lady run?! For where?!😃. She only sneaked under the wooden table and lay facedown on the ground, her big tommy making her head and legs to hang up such that if someone uses force to push her on the legs or head, she will be rotating like fan blades...Na waoo 😳..! Wow 😃..!
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At the State's Police Command, the remains of the dead was taken to the grave yard.
But the guy in a pool of blood was sent to a nearby hospital for immediate medical attention, having lost much blood through bleeding from the injured parts of his body. The guy was no other but Steve.
The one that was dead happened to be one amongst the two fierce looking guys that invaded Steve's apartment early that morning before dawn... But what about the second scary guy?! Where's he?!.
When the neighbours heard those gunshots coming from Steve's apartment, some of them had to call the emergency numbers👉 121,211, 911, etc... Which emergency numbers?! The numbers no dey work for Naija joor🚶🙏.
Someone else that has the contacts of some police officers in RRS (Rapid Response Square) had to call them. But the squard did not respond rapidly as expected. They arrived at 7:59am instead of a being there earlier than that hour.
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Back to Jennifer's apartment, she has already zipped down the leather jacket completely exposing her black bra and flat tommy. She carefully unbuttoned Sussy's night wear so as not to startled the sleeping guest, exposing the totality of Sussy's tempting boobs.. Jennifer laid herself halfway on Sussy and began to caress her breasts in excitement.
The nipples got more erected and harder, Jennifer had to start sucking them one after the other.
Sussy who was in deep slumber began to dream of where Steve was caressing and sucking her nipples. In that dream she held Steve tight upon herself with both hands... While still in her slumber, just as she was about raising both arms unknowingly in real life to hold Jennifer in romantic pleasure, the left hand was active, but the right hand refused to raise up. The right hand was so heavy due to its tight grip on the bag and this got Sussy startled from her slumber... The moment Sussy opened her eyes and saw what Jennifer was doing on her, she pushed her away and pulled herself up from the bed.
SUSSY: (Holding the night wear together with the left hand to cover her breasts) "What... What has gone wrong with you Jennifer?!" She screamed calling her name for the first time and backing off towards the wall.
JENNIFER: (Smiling.Zipping up the Jacket) "Seems this is your first experience... Lesbianism gives more pleasure to ladies than sleeping with guys.."
SUSSY: (Spits) "It's so irritating to me..."
JENNIFER: "You'll love it someday babygirl... Meanwhile breakfast is in the kitchen. I kept one of my trousers and top for you in the sitting room... I'm off to town for the runs, will be back in a few hours. Catch ya honey.. " She smiled and scurried out of the room. A few minutes later the engine sound of her car came to alive outside.
Sussy Hissed a sigh of relief when Jennifer finally drove out of the compound...No one else in the house except her alone. Now it's high time she should unzip the bag to see the contents...
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9:17AM.
Jennifer was dressing up in her leather wears. She had just finished having fun with one of her girlfriends in a hotel room. It was an upstair, first floor.
The said girlfriend was a married woman. There was a lighted stick of cigarette burning on a nearby stool in the room.
EUGENIA: "Jenny baby, when am I going to see you again. I enjoy having you around all the time?" The woman pleaded. She's looking very beautiful but not as Jennifer, or Sussy.
JENNIFER: "Don't know yet. I'm always very busy you know it. But nevermind. It won't be long okay?" She panted Eugenie slightly on the right cheek down to her jaw and pecked her on the lips. Taking the burning cigarette on the stool, Jennifer inhaled deeply of its last smoke and threw out the butt through the window. She began to puff out the inhaled smoke through her tiny nostrils.
Eugenia rose from the bed to help Jennifer zip up the leather jacket: "I'll miss you baby" She muttered under her breath and pecked her on the forehead... Suddenly a loud cry and screaming started coming from outside, downstairs. Both ladies rushed to the window to know what was going on down there.
A taxi cab was on fire and people were trying to quench it. At a point some of those people who were there to assist started backing off for safety with the buckets of water and the sands in their hands, as the conflagration went on the increase. Even the owner of the the cab had to flee too. All their efforts had become futile as the taxi finally got burnt down to ashes. Nobody knew what caused the sudden fire outbreak on the cab... But it was something that actually caused it.
The fire outbreak was as a result of the cigarette butt Jennifer had thrown out of the window. Unfortunately the owner of the taxi was refilling the fuel tank of the cab, from a 5 litre gallon of fuel... The cigarette butt that was still burning, and quite unfortunate it flew down beside the taxi driver at that very moment. The fuel got magneted to the naked light..then booom!!.. the cab caught fire instantaneously. The cab owner was lucky enough that the fire only bruised his hands just a little.
Hurrying out of the room in case the fire might also affect the hotel building, and the cars within including hers, Jennifer's phone rang. It was a call from the Buzz, as it was being pronounced by the man's gang members. Jennifer has been ordered to come over to the man's house immediately.
She was however running downstairs ahead of Eugenia. Jennifer got to where she parked her car. She did not even wait for Eugenia and drove off. Even when the lady was waving at her to stop for her, she did not even bother to look back. Eugenia was nothing to Jennifer for now, she's gotten the satisfaction she needed from her already... Anything about her should be for some other time.. when she, Jennifer, would desire to have advantage of her again..
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BUZZ: "Your contact could not be reached for a very long time until now?" The gang leader asked Jennifer when she arrived his house. It was a beautiful mini duplex. The entire premises was covered with colourful interlocks. The buzz has been waiting impatiently within the premises for Jennifer's arrival, beside one of the flashy fleet of cars parked in the premises.. He was such a huge muscular guy. Fair complexioned. Tattoos all over his body, wearing a pair of earrings on each ear.
JENNIFER: "Could be network problem. My phone has been on since last night. Sorry Buzz"
BUZZ: "Where were you last night?" He sounded hoarse. There's expression of anger on his voice and face.
JENNIFER: "I was with Shankar and Blade at the club before both went after Steve"
BUZZ: "Those idiots lost the bag. Steve shot Blade dead..."
JENNIFER: "Shit!!..." She flung the car key away."...Shit!.Blade's corpse?!" Jennifer so much liked Blade.
BUZZ: "Shankar left it behind in Steve's apartment and ran back home"
JENNIFER: "What happened Buzz...?! And where the hell is Shankar?!" She's angry and full of the spirit of action now.
BUZZ: (Pointing towards one of the cars) "He's right in there, already asleep" He said walking towards dup entrance. He got there and halted. Brought out a pack of cigar. He struck the cigar slightly against a unique place on the wall, near the door frame and it got lit instantly.
Jennifer hurried to the car. She opened the boot and saw Shankar laying dead inside. "That served you right.." She said and spat angrily on the deal man's face.
The unfortunate Shankar was shot twice in the skull by the Buzz, when the young guy ran back home with such a disappointing tale of having lost the bag, and his partner Blade.
Buzz would have preferred Shankar being shot dead by Steve instead of Blade. He thought after all Shankar was useless so he chose to kill him off by himself. "Garbage will be disposed of tonight.." Buzz said referring to Shankar's corpse. "Steve's girlfriend, according to what that fucking idiot told me, must have made away with the bag... Jennifer, find the lady! Kill her and bring the bag to me".
JENNIFER: "The lady?!... And the bag?!..( Her mind was about reflecting on something).
BUZZ: "Yes. That's what I'm saying; The lady and the fucking bag. Save the bag and kill the lady"
JENNIFER: (Stammering) "But... Buzz, I don't know who the lady is, or what she looks like... Where do I search for her now?!" She's distressed.
BUZZ: "In town, Jenny. Okay?! .. Search for her. And fervently! She's somewhere within the town with the bag. Search! search! search..! She's human, flesh and blood not spirit..." The Buzz gave Jennifer the exact description of the lady and colour of the bag in a flash and walked into the duplex.
Hastily Jennifer jumped into her car. That must be the same lady she left in her apartment. Yes, she believes so much in whatever her instincts tells her any time in any situation. Raising the acceleration of the car higher and higher while she drove home for Sussy, she reflected swiftly how she found Sussy that early morning and how desperate the lady was. And how she had attached so much importance to the bag with her... Yes the colour and type of the bag was similar to the very description by the Buzz.
The hour, and the area where the incident took place, according to what the Buzz said Shankar told him, related to when and where she met with Sussy.
"I gotcha Sussy! Your ass is mine. Bitch!" Jennifer said. She snapped her fingers with gnashing of the teeth.
When she finally got home, she parked the car outside the premises, pulled out a short gun under the driver's seat. She slot the weapon into an inner pocket of the leather jacket and hurried out into the premises...
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The Buzz would always assign Jennifer to a difficult task because of her unique wisdom and intelligence. But she was happy and thankful to her star that this time around, the seemed difficult assignment given to her was right inside her own house. Of course she wouldn't want to let the Buzz know about it...who no like better thing...?. Jennifer knew what was in the bag... She had already made up her mind to kill Sussy and keep the contents of the bag to herself:
"Jennygirl, kill Sussy and save the bag to yourself. Then tell the Buzz the assignment was unsuccessful" She said to herself.
She got the entrance of her apartment, pulled out the gun and walked in boldly. Straight to the guest room and ready to pull the trigger on the bitch... Alass!... There was no sign of Sussy. Suddenly she beheld a written note in a piece of paper laying on the bed:👉 THANKS FOR THE HOSPITALITY. BYE JENNIFER... The note got her crazily upset! that she started ransacking the room, throwing things here and there.. Sussy's disappearance with the bag has made Jennifer become so furious!.. "Hell bound smart bitch!" She screamed and staggered away into the sitting room, straight to the mini bar to freshen up. She needed some sticks of cigarettes and enough quantity of gin to cool off her mind now, so as to be able to restore her full self sanity! Yes.. Jennifer needed a sound mind to think very positive on how to get the bag...
"Fool you're Jennifer!.. should have gone the bag in the morning while Sussy was still in that room instead of trying to have fun with her.. You fucked up Jenny!!!" She kept on regretting for her stupidity.
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Sussy got the biggest shock of her life when she unzipped the bag and saw what was inside of it. She was terrified and angry that the guy she has been dating for the past 9 months had been seriously involved in drug deal without her knowing about it. Probably Steve was also into robbery, she thought, since there's also a fully loaded revolver in the bag, alongside the huge amount of currency wrappers in Dollars, and with some kilos of cocaine... At first she thought about awaiting for the arrival of Jennifer, to seek some advice from her. But some other thing she found in the bag made her flee the house.
There were copies of group photograph shots of Steve with some of the guys he had in the past introduced to her as his friends. Fortunately in one of the pictures was Jennifer's image... Sussy's instincts had told her these friends of Steve's would also be in this same deal with him. For sure that birds of the same feathers always fly together. Moreover one's lifestyle determines the kind of of persons he/she mingles with; show me who your friend is and I will tell you what you are 👍.
Bobby Nester Marley (Bob Marley) in one of his Most popular songs titled 👉 🎶WHO THE CAP FIT🎶 says:👉 ".. Only your friends know your secrets..."
Of course when Steve was ordering her to run away with the bag, Sussy knew that some people were coming after him. People that know everything about him Steve... Possibly the so-called friends of he's... Surprisingly Jennifer happened to be among them.. Sussy knew that her stay in Jennifer's house was a big risk to her own life. Because Steve's colleagues will definitely come after her, therefore she quickly changed into the wears Jennifer had kept for her in the sitting room and fled.
Steve had lied to his girlfriend Sussy that he was a clearing and forwarding Agent. So once in a while he wouldn't be home for days, and had always lied to her that he was traveling to Lagos to clear some customers' goods at the Wharf. But this very last outing of Steve's got hooked up, because of his greed to flee with gang's earning from the drop(Cocaine) of previous night at the club...
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Steve had a serious fight with his gang members in the club over the dollar they realized from the sales of cocaine to a White guy at the club, and some left over drops in the bag that night... Being a very strong and smart guy, though with some injuries they inflicted on him, he outsmarted them and made away with the stuffs and the dollars. He knew his life was in great danger, therefore he decided to go straight home and hand over the bag to his beloved Sussy. He thought it might also endanger her life to have told her on phone, to come out somewhere at such a critical moment to collect the bag... Steve loved Sussy so much, he wouldn't want anything to happen to her.. not while he's still alive.. Never!
When the two fierce looking guys, Blade and Shankar stormed into Steve's apartment that early morning, Steve who was gone into the bedroom already, had laid in wait for the attacker's with another fully loaded revolver hidden in his bedroom... Unfortunately Blade was first to come into view Steve shot him in the heart and he slumped dead instantly. The second bullet missed Shankar's chest. It got him in the right arm and he fled fearfully with the bullet injury... However Steve had no strength left in him, to take his leave of the house for treatment having lost a lot of blood through the injured parts of his body at the club, during the time he was fighting with his co-gang fellows over the bag... And so he remained in the apartment against his will with Blade's corpse until the police arrived the house at the dawn and took them away...
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Sussy went into a serious hiding... Myself, I'm even trying to locate her whereabout as well..
Jennifer, still drinking and smoking by the mini bar in her sitting room, suddenly dropped the glass of gin in her hand. Some thoughts had just strucked in her mind. Dropping the cigarette in an ash plate, she scurried into her bedroom and came out a few minutes later in a different wears.
Dressed corporately in a black trousers suit, and a pair of ladies' black high heel shoes, Jennifer was looking so decent and innocent. She also had a transparent spectacles covering her eyes that someone that knows her hardly would recognize her again.
At the breast pocket of the suit top was hung black, blue, and red pen respectively. There's also a short notebook or diary displaying at the same pocket... Walking towards the exit of the apartment, she slot a 4inch sophisticated Camera in one of the trouser pockets, and dialed a number on her phone...
"Hello... Meet me outside now.."
Jennifer had just called one of the gang's bike riders. In just a few moments the guy arrived on a very clean, newly bought autocycle and picked her up to where she said she was going to... Meanwhile at that same point in time Sussy was already back to Steve's apartment to check on somethings. And that was exactly the same place Jennifer was heading to now..
Jennifer thought wisely! In fact her instincts truly doesn't lie to her. However she had thought Sussy would be eager to get back to that house as soon as possible, to check on somethings.. Jennifer had also recalled that Sussy told her when they met that she had forgotten her phone in her boyfriend's house...Of course she, Sussy would have this strong desire to recover the phone she left behind in there.
Despite her worries over Steve's unknown present condition, whether dead or still alive, Sussy needed to get back to the house, but not to stay, just to pick one or two personal belongings of hers that should be important to her more especially the phone... it certainly was of so much importance to her even now as regards the critical situation of things... Meanwhile she never expected to meet even human dead bodies when she gets to the house. Having had the conviction that whatever might have transpired between her boyfriend his co-gangsters would have escalated within the area. The police would have stormed the house hours ago. She was certain about that.
"Go! Hang around somewhere. I will call you when I'm done" Jennifer instructed the bike rider that just dropped her in front of Steve's house. The guy nodded and rode away. She adjusted her dress, admired herself in pretence and started walking towards the building majestically..... While some eyes were watching from somewhere but nobody knew it.....
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Steve had to be very smart here.
Listen to his statement when he was being questioned by the police at the clinic where he was admitted for medical treatment:👉"... There were two of them. The robbers invaded my apartment. When I noticed that only one amongst the two was armed I decided and summoned the courage to fight with them. And fortunately for me I was able to disarm the guy with the gun and shot him dead. The second guy I think fled with a bullet wound in his hand.." Steve had mixed up lies and truth together; the truth there's that he'd been the one that shot the dead. Secondly that there was this other guy that escaped with a bullet wound... Steve had lied of having disarmed the dead robber and killing the robber with the guy's own gun.
If you've been following up on this story, should remember that Steve was already waiting for Blade and Shankar in the bedroom with a fully loaded firearm in his hand... Of course the police had found a gun in the house instead of a pair. And so a gun's missing without they, the police having the knowledge of it...
Now the question is, where's the second gun... Probably Steve's?!
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Sussy was being very cautious of two different groups of people:👉 The gang members and the Police; if caught by the police she becomes one of the crime suspects. If by the gang she sure was going to smell hell on behalf of Steve.
She didn't sneak in through the back door. The front entrance would have been worse either. Someone might be watching from somewhere..
The locker of the sliding glass window of the bedroom had stopped functioning for a very long time now. The window itself was located in a very small and dark sanitary lane adjacent a brick wall... The window was too close to the brick wall that no one can pass through the sanitary lane except by using one side of the body to sneak in. You dare not walk in straight and normal because both shoulders will never allow you to. Only God knows how Sussy managed to squeeze herself into the apartment through the same window..
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Sussy jumped into the bedroom. The first thing she did was to hurry quietly into the sitting room in search of her phone. Certainly she could still recall where it must fallen. But unfortunately it was no longer there. It shouldn't, not after the invasion of those gang boys, and the arrival of the police thereafter.. The said phone might have been taken away by any of these two different groups of people. She had to return to the bedroom to pick few of her wears with a poly bag and leave...
Suddenly she heard a phone ringing somewhere within the bedroom. Sussy recognized the ring tone. It was that of her device.. the phone she was looking for. She tracked the the location immediately. Behold! There was something else hidden in that same place...a gun. Sussy wasn't surprised who could have hidden the gun together with her phone in such a secret and unexpected place. She knew it was no one else except Steve... Meanwhile by the time she found where the phone was the caller had hung up..
She was about checking on who the caller was when the call came in once more. It was Steve's contact. Her heart beat skipped. She had to turn off the volume of the phone to silence immediately, so as not to attract attention from outside.. Picking up the call, she waited to confirm it was Steve's voice before responding...
"... I just picked up the phone... Okay. I'll call you back in the next 45 minutes..." She banged the call, stuffed the gun into her pants and scaled through the bedroom window once again out of the apartment. However she had taken the gun along with her according to Steve's instruction on phone right now.
Jennifer walked in through the front door into the sitting room 5 seconds within the time Sussy was about making her final exit jump through the window... She felt a sudden strange sound and hurried up into the bedroom, but got disappointed to when she met no one there.. Seeing the sliding window open, she peeped through, but can't imagine someone jumping in or out of the bedroom through that window, judging from the narrowness of the sanitary lane.
When she was done with searching some important places in the apartment, Jennifer decided to take her leave...
"State's CIDs. You crossed the police line madam. That apartment was a crime scene!" Jennifer was confronted by two strange gentle looking men outside.
JENNIFER: "I'm aware of that. And I am here for the same reason" She answered boldly with a charming smiles.
CID1: "May we know who you are please?"
JENNIFER: "PRESS for SNtv..." She produced an official ID card of SNtv (Sound News Tv), along with some complimentary cards from her pocket.
CID1: "You cover for FACTS Newspaper as well?" The man asked having gone through one of the complimentary cards
JENNIFER: "Yeah. Officer"
CID2: "Can we have more back up evidence or evidences here, madam?"
Jennifer brought out the 4inch Canon Camera in her trouser pocket, and the diary in the breast pocket for them to see.. The diary bears the name👉 SNtv at the back cover, with its official logo👉🌠.
CID2: "Thanks for cooperating with the Nigerian Police. But please be more cautious some other time against any impending danger. You may go now" The CID agents had to release her things to her, believing in all what she has explained to them about herself.
JENNIFER: "Alright officers. Thank you so much" She started walking away making a call with her phone.. Moments later the autocycle rider arrived once again and rode away with her.
CID1: "She's looking very beautiful. I couldn't toast her because I am on official duty. I will approach her some other time"
CID2: "How, when you don't have her contact?!"
CID1: "I sneaked one of the complimentary cards into my pocket.." He brought it out to show him. ".. Her contacts are here of course"
CID2: "Just be very cautious, you know the kind of woman you have at home.. So intelligent and perceptive!"
Both chuckled.
Jennifer's charming smiles and beauty clouded the minds of these CID Agents against conducting a check on her diary to see if she actually had made some written reports about what she saw of the crime scene. Moreso they should have checked on the camera as well to find out if she had taken photograph shots of the interior of the apartment. Moreover these Anti crime Agents were supposed to have expected some questions from the PRESS lady about what happened at the crime scene, how the police went about it, and the present situation of things since she wasn't there when the incident took place... Such a terrible/costly mistake these CIDs have made...😳 Police 🙏 make una no vex oo😞
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When she'd gone a bit far away from the house, Sussy checked and saw a lot of missed calls and messages on her phone.. even the battery has reduced down to 35%. She called Steve back 45 minutes later as she'd promised. She learnt from him that all is well, that she should straight to the hospital and not be afraid of probably going to be arrested by the police because of him..."Babe, I've manoeuvred a lot of things here." Steve had assured Sussy on the phone.
Fortunate enough, after the police have taken Steve and Blade's corpse away with them, that no one else entered the apartment except Sussy, and Jennifer that went in after. If not it could have been someone else who would have walked in there, found the phone while it was ringing, and took it along with the gun that Steve had hidden in the room.. Certainly if the gun were to be found by the police themselves, further investigations will be carried out about Steve's status, whereby he'll never escape legal judgment and being convicted!
<HOSPITAL>
STEVE: (Had been on blood transfusion ever since he was brought here. His health is improving for sure) "You left the phone in the sitting room. Picked it and his it together with the gun" He whispered to Sussy with a little difficulty due to pains.
SUSSY: "I noticed" She's looking upset.
STEVE: "Babe I know what you're thinking, how you feel about me right now. I am sorry.."
SUSSY: "We'll talk about that later. Not now! Not in a place like here!"
STEVE:"What's in the poly bag?"
SUSSY: "Some of my wears I took from the house"
STEVE: "The bag?!" His voice was almost inaudible when he asked about the bag.
SUSSY: "Very safe where I kept it... Steve, you've put me in a very tight corner; No safety assurance over my life now. They know nothing about your whereabout for now. I will be their next target henceforth, I'm aware of that.." She lamented...
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It was a successful meeting between Jennifer and the CID Agent who introduced himself as Smith. This had taken place 3 days after..
CID1: "She's such a lovely good lady. How I wish I had met her before I got married to that woman in my house"
CID2: "Some family problems are caused by we the men, but most times we like to lay the blames on our wives"
CID1: "What are you insinuating Williams?!" He's a bit upset, and
surprise.
CID2: "Smith, I suggest you take a proper look into your family, to find out what the problems are and get them fixed. You need to enjoy a happy home.. just only one life to live"
CID1: "You're not yet married therefore will not be able to understand"
CID2: "What's there to, or not to understand? Of course I'm still a bachelor but I have a girlfriend"
.. "
CID1: "Girlfriend?! You said?!" He interrupted smiling.
CID2: "Mmhn. The only unique difference between a girlfriend and a wife is nothing else but making children. Yet these two different status in a woman doesn't guarantee her being of good or bad character.."
CID1: "Most ladies hide there bad character while you're only dating them until the day you finally bring them in as house wife"
CID2: "A wise man, no matter how the woman he has been dating for a long time tried to hide some of her bad characters, must find out someday. Smith I remember you told me sometimes ago that you had dated that woman for eighteen whole months before you finally made up your mind to take her to the altar..."
CID1: "Historian.." He cut in again.
CID2: (Chuckled) "So eighteen calendar months wasn't enough for you to discover those bad characters of hers you always complain of?!"
CID1: "Questioneer!"
CID2: "See I have only dated Anita just for 90days. Bet me I've known most of her weaknesses in case I might decide to marry her tomorrow, then I've already made up my mind to tolerate those weaknesses.."
CID1:"Keep on taking" He jested.
CID2: "But you, 18 months dating, bad character not discovered. In less than 12 months in marriage now, bad characters discovered!.. Na waoo. Please look deep into your family..."
CID1: (Very angry now) "Enough of that, Williams! Henceforth stay away from my family and marital issues!" He walked out on his colleague.
CID2: "I'm sorry Smith". It was a sincere heart apology.
However Smith was bent on going ahead to date Jennifer come what may.
Every swift moving legs also have swift moving eyes watching after them... Sussy's moves were being watched by someone, or some people but she knew it not. Although she's being very cautious yet no matter how smart you probably might think you are, not everybody you can give a showdown, especially when there are so many eyes on one person..
Someone who has chosen to walk in the middle of the highway will never escape being hit by all the running vehicles.
Moreover no matter how courageous a man that have chosen to walk in the middle of the night is, he definitely will be scared of, or by one thing or the other.
When multiple of stones are thrown at a clever person all at the same time, he/ she will never escape all.
Sussy, after a visit to the hospital on a particular day boarded a public transport. She dropped off at a junction and took a commercial bike and dropped finally at her destination. It was an upstair under renovation in a remote area. The building paint has faded. No occupant on the 3rd being the last floor as the roofing sheets have been removed.There were about two heaps of sands in front of the building. Sussy walked up to the 2nd floor.
The apartment however belongs to a lady friend of hers that got married not quite long ago. The lady to whom Sussy was the chief bridesmaid on her wedding day, had left behind some of her properties under Sussy's care to join with her husband at his residential in Kenya. Bella was occupying the apartment as a single lady before she finally got married to a Nigerian Kenya based business man. Bella thrusted the keys of the apartment to Sussy. The woman hoped to return to the country before the rent is due and carry away her things. This was the place Sussy had run to for safety.. A place far from town.
The cyclist that dropped Sussy took off immediately and started making a call on his phone.. Surprisingly two different persons in different hidden places were also on secret calls...All against one single person 👉 Sussy!....
12 midnight on the dot, rumble began within and outside of the the building.......
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Smith was living in a police quarters. An agent to the State's Police Crime Investigations Department without good moral principles of how to handle family marital issues amicably.
He has been locked up in a police cell by his senior colleagues in the force, for beating up his wife and throwing her things out of the house.
"That was violence!... Violation of the law by a high ranked law enforcement fellow like you. What does such nasty action of yours to your wife depict before the civilians out there, who are looking up to us as the law enforcement personnels...? Of course they won't have regards for us, or listen when we order them according to the law.."
The police DCO scolded angry at Smith. " File for a divorce in court of law if you can't continue with the marriage any longer. Not displaying some act of immaturity like boys or tauts.." He said and got Smith dismissed back into the police cell....
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Sussy has been very much unhappy ever since after the occurance of this incident that made her ran out of Steve's house. An incident that has suddenly turned her into someone that should be hiding about from the people she knew not, nor have offended. The worst side of it was that Sussy doesn't know who they're but she's certain they have the full knowledge of her identity.
Although she still has the copies of the group photograph pictures of Steve and some of the gang members with her. But there should still be more of them out there within the town she wouldn't recognize their faces.
Steve has made her put her life in the line for the sake of the love she has for him. But does it worth risking her dear life for?! Sussy had asked herself this question so many uncountable times.. She had thought severally if she should return the bag to the gang, and face whatever the outcome will be in her relationship with Steve. If worse comes to worst she'd walk out of the relashonship and have peace of mind..Why date a gangster?! She asked herself.
In other hands if she should decide to hand over the bag to the police, a lot of things will be at stake, she certainly would be detained for some time. Worst still she'd be required in court of
law as witness against Steve and the entire gang. After which her whole life would be in a more serious danger. There was not going to be a sure solid guarantee for the protection of her life by the law. Therefore she's going to continue living in fear for the rest of her life... Too many things Sussy always thought about in her present situation that she had found it very difficult to sleep at nights these days.
Feeling thirsty, Sussy rose from the bed. She checked the time on the phone beside her it says 11:58pm, everywhere have become so quiet that the sound of a pin dropped on the floor at the moment will be heard clearly. The location of the refrigerator was the kitchen.She got there, took a bottle of chilled water. Suddenly she began to hear strange sounds from the back of the building. She peeped through the kitchen window to the rear balcony. It was as if someone was struggling to climb from the balcony of the 1st floor into the 2nd floor where she was.
Sussy had immediate feelings of what it could be that's about coming after her at this hour of the night. She heard murmuring voices meaning there were two or more coming up. These were Not just ordinary thieves It has to do with the bag and it's contents, Sussy had thought..
Dropping the bottle of water on top of the refrigerator, she hurried noiselessly back into the bedroom, picked up her phone. It was few seconds past 12 midnight. She dropped the device into the pocket of the hot jean shorts she wore on.
Sussy hurried back to the kitchen and saw one of them almost successfully getting into her own balcony. She grabbed the bottle of water on the refrigerator and threw it hard on the guy's face. The intruder lost his balance and grip on the iron protector and fell backwards to the ground. Sussy heard him screaming for help downstairs. The man would have sustained a very serious injury/ injuries..
Another guy appeared immediately after. Sussy grabbed a nearby mobbing stick and hit him on the head, but the guy resisted the attack. She retreated a bit and came back once again with another stronger struck, this time twice on the right side of his neck. He fell off downstairs even worsen than his colleague.. No!.. Sussy must get out of this building immediately! She doesn't know how many of them still trying to climb up ..
She's putting on a loose white T-shirt, so, she had to tie one side of it to knot as to be able to move freely... During her Secondary days Sussy was among the best athletes in the school..
She musn't take the staircase, such would be a very dangerous attempt.. She quickly ran to the front balcony, looking downstairs, all of a sudden the electricity went off. It has become completely dark inside out. Meanwhile no sign of life out there.. Nothing else except for the heap of sands... Courageously Sussy scaled the iron balcony and jumped down. She fell soundlessly on the heap of sand and rolled over a bit. Suddenly she sighted a figure on black wears running towards her. Quite unfortunate that before she could balance very well on her feet the attacker was already closed at her... It was a lady! Sussy pushed her away with every strength in her and took to her heels, as the attacker was about grabbing her T-shirt.
The lady staggered backwards, summersaulted and fell with a heavy thud on her back...
"Sussy..I will catch you bitch!" The lady screamed angrily, seriously chasing after her. Sussy recognised the voice. She knew to whom it belongs..
Now two more persons have joined the lady in the chase👉 3 against 1...
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(SUSSY STILL ON THE RUN).
Run Run Sussy!....
It's being said that one doesn't get wearied in the race to save his/her life. Life's so precious. Safety first!
It was as if the people chasing after Sussy, especially those two guys that joined the lady were gathering much more speed than Sussy... The said lady in question was Jennifer.
"Stop!.. Or I shoot!!!" One of the guys had pulled his gun, aimed at their running subject.
"Don't shoot her, or we'll loose the bag forever... The stuffs are not with her right now..." Jennifer shouted down on the guy.
"I meant her legs?" The guy retorted.
"Ok. If you can!" She replied. Jennifer's slowing down gradually that it got to a point she lost sight of her colleagues.
Sussy had to pull off the white T-shirt and was left alone in bra. The brightness and reflection of the white T-shirt in the darkness seemed to be assisting the pursuers in tracking her so easily. Immediately after she dived to the right side of the street. And same time came a gunshot!..Surprisingly two more gunshots from nowhere. The first shot was from one of Sussy's pursuers against her. The rest two that came thereafter took away the second guy who had been a bit far behind the other with the gun.
<BUZZ'S RESIDENCE>
3:AM
Jennifer with the two guys and Buzz in the sitting room. The second guy is in pains.
BUZZ: "What happened?!"
JENNIFER: "We lost her. Meanwhile she didn't have the bag with her at the moment. Cliff got shot in the leg by an unknown person"
BUZZ: "The apartment?!"
JENNIFER: "Already ransacked by the time we got back there. Some other guys are after our target also"
BUZZ: "Drake, take Cliff to the BQ. Spill no blood on these tiles, it's very expensive. Doctor Yusuf will soon come around to fix the leg" Drake was the guy with the gun. When the two guys were gone the Buzz gave his device to Jennifer to read a message that was sent him few hours back. It was a mini laptop by Apple🍏.
JENNIFER: "Why this threat. From whom Buzz?!" She got frozen having read the message.
BUZZ: "The buyer. Brenda threatens to go to war with us if we fail to return his dollars in a couple of days. The stuff we supplied him is fake. He said"
JENNIFER: "That can't be true. What has gone wrong?!"
BUZZ: "I suspect Steve might have changed the cocaine with the fake ones before the supply was made to Brenda that night. Find the bastard wherever he is and finish him up" He's filled with indignation.
Quite a big surprise. There was this opposition gang after the same bag. These guys knew that Buzz and his men were looking for someone that took away what belongs to him. So these guys have been trailing the Buzz's men all these while. The second gang's plan was to snatch away the bag from the Buzz's gang. There were five of them; Sussy delt with two at the balcony. Two others successfully climbed into the 2nd floor and ransacked everywhere in search of what they know nothing about. The fifth guy was the one that shot Cliff in the leg. The bullet was meant for Drake but Cliff was unfortunate...Drake had dated the guy's fiance some years back.
Drake was stupid. Several times he'd made jest of that guy, of how he had slept with the lady he plans to marry; how she does moans during sexual intercourse. In fact Drake has revealed lots of shameful/ secret things about the lady, which shouldn't be heard of by others simply because she was once his girlfriend.
3:30AM
Drake and Jennifer, with Cliff stormed the hospital. Having followed Sussy from there the previous evening, to that house they chased after her some hours ago. It had not been easy for Cliff, the young man was in serious pain, of the bullet injury in his leg. He's being assisted in and out of the car by Drake. Cliff had no choice, the Buzz's order must be obeyed. The gang needed some back up reason for coming to the hospital at such hour of the morning. So
DRAKE:"Emergency! Please!" She said to the nurse at the reception.
RECEPTIONIST: "What happened to him Sir?!"
JENNIFER: (Pulled a gun at the lady) "Call the doctor now.." Drake pulled a gun too. Cliff who was already seated also pulled his own gun. The receiptionist was ordered to put the phone on speak out. And the doctor was heard saying he's coming.
DRAKE: "We're looking for a guy, by name Steve Dikeh. He's on admission here. Lead me to him?" That was an order!...