Chapter 3

As the car kept on approaching me, I stood in front of the road and shouted, “Stop, please.”

As the driver was coming at a very high speed, I could see how he managed to halt the car in an

impromptu way in order not to run me over.

I took a deep breath of life because I thought I was going to be crushed this time around.

That was how the car stopped right in front of me and I was shivering with my eyes closed, like

someone who already saw the gates of hell.

While I was panting like a wild animal chasing its prey, I was sweating out of exhaustion.

The driver came out and yelled at me in a very furious voice,

“Young lady do you want to die?”

Still shocked by the act I had just carried out, I was still gasping for air to get myself to be able to answer

him.

While he kept on shouting and calling me names, all I could remember was the reason why I had to

commit that terrible act that almost cost me my life and I screamed, sir you need to help me, please.

That was the only way I could get help, no ambulance could come at that time. rescue him added to the

fact that my phone’s battery had died how could I even have called the hospital for them to send an

ambulance?

I thought to myself while looking at the man with so much fear.

The man saw the fright in my eyes and the bloodstains on my clothes and told me to calm down and

explain to him what the matter was and why I had bloodstains on my clothes.

All I could say was that he should come with me right away and that we need to hurry and go fast but

the driver insisted that he wasn’t moving an inch with me till I had explained to him what was the

matter.

Then I told him that a man was lying unconscious over there in the dark almost half dead and needed

our help.

The driver asked me where? I pointed out to a dark corner of the street shivering like someone who was

been stroked by an angel of death

The driver said he couldn’t see anything, but I told him that we didn’t have much time left because the

man had been lying there for quite some time and I couldn’t do anything to help him since I was alone.

I couldn’t transport him because I had no car and I couldn’t find anyone to help that’s why I am on the

street looking for help the driver asked me if I knew the person or if I am just making up stories to attack

him in the dark but I kept on pleading with him to please come with me and see for himself.

Then he decided to come with me to see what I was talking about and as we were walking towards the

area where I had left him the driver saw him there unconscious, and he asked me what I had done to the

man.

I exclaimed, “me”

I cried out in anguish and said,

“

I did not do anything to the man, I was on my way back from work and I saw this man in this state,” I

explain they asked me what the man’s name was I said I don’t know because the man didn’t have any

address or cell phone on him.

The driver now asked, how do we identify him? All I could say was that the man needs urgent medical

attention

The driver asked me to help him carry the man to his car to get him to the nearest hospital as soon as

possible.

So we battled to get him up his feet to the car so that he could be taken to the hospital.

As I entered the car and laid his head on my lap, I felt like I have known this man for a long time.

I felt like I have to save him from dying and that he didn’t deserve what had happened to him.

As the car kept moving all I could do was to stress the driver to drive faster because I felt like we were

losing the man.

the car was moving quickly and my eyes were searching all the corners of the streets to find a hospital

where we could take him there quickly.

We drove for some time and the car started jerking I got scared and I asked the driver, what is

happening? and the car eventually stopped on the way.

The driver went out of the car to check on what was wrong with the engine. he opens the bonnet and

smoke were making its way out d told me that the car had ceased to function and that we had to get a

mechanic to repair the car.

I screamed, “What?” I burst into tears as I asked him,

“What about the man, how do I take him to the hospital?”

The driver had no idea as he just looked at me dumbfounded and with pity.

I was asking him so many questions that I don’t even remember but all I needed deep down in me was

for the man to be brought to a hospital as soon as possible if not he will lose his life.

As the driver was trying his best to arrange the car while contacting his mechanic, I checked on the man

in the car and when I looked at him, his face was becoming pale and his body was turning white from

losing so much blood.

I panicked and yelled at the driver again in fear,

“

What do we do now, the man has to be saved.”

The driver told me to calm down and that everything will be alright.

Did I ask how? the man has lost so much blood and he is dying we need to take him to the hospital not

he will die.

The driver picked up the phone and he was calling someone but I honestly didn’t care who it was that he

was calling because my focus at that time was to save that stranger lying there in his care helpless.

While I was deep in thought I could already hear the birds chiming on the trees, then suddenly I could

see a flashlight from a car approaching our direction.

I immediately jumped on the road and shouted, “Help us, help us!” and the car stopped.