She didn't fancy eating stuffs she was not sure of how hygienic they were. Sandra bought some bananas, groundnuts and a big bottle of water.
When she offered some to Dorathy, she politely declined. Several hours more into the journey, the only people awake in the car beside the driver were, Sandra, Dorathy, and a young student at the back sit who also has his earpiece on. Sandra however, kept making or receiving calls telling someone how far she had gotten on the journey and Dorothy simply assumed it was probably someone she was going to visit, probably a boy friend.
As if sensing what Dorathy was thinking, Sandra smiled at her and said. "Men! They can disturb eh when it comes to dick appointment"
"I know right" Dorathy simply said, totally indifferent.
"Are you also going to see a man in Abuja?"
"No, I'm actually going for my cousins wedding, she's getting married tomorrow"
"Wow, that's great" Sandra said, she was about to say something else again when her phone rang. "Excuse me" she said to Dorathy and received her Call. "Yes?" She glanced outside the window and through the windshield. "We don almost reached there" she said in pigin. "Okay" she ended the call and smiled at Dorathy. "I think we are going to be spending more time together, we could turn out to be best of friends cuz i like you already".
Dorathy didn't get what Sandra meant by that but it had a sinister hint to it that made her uneasy but if only she knew that Sandra actually meant her word or what laid ahead the road in waiting for them.
Ten minutes later, Dorathy and others in the car were suddenly startled by the gun shot from ahead and the driver quickly stepped on the brake, bringing the car to an abrupt stop and making the passengers lurch forward . everyone was awake now and almost speaking at once, wondering what was going on, Dorathy saw four men spring out of the bush from the other side of the road, ambushing the bus that was ahead. They fired more shots in the air to scare everyone in the bus. The people in the car began to exclaim:
"Jesus"
"Oh my God"
"Driver reverse, reserve, reverse!"
But it was too late, they were already surrounded. Dorathy glanced back and noticed that their was a filled bus behind them too and it made it a total of three vehicles.
The armed men were yelling "Oya everybody came down!"
"Make una come down before i go blow una head, come down!"
As the people began to panic, Sandra who looked less disturbed quickly said. "Please, let's just cooperate with them, maybe all they want is money"
She had barely finished her word when a shot was fired into the drivers head through the wound-down window, making the passengers Scream while Dorathy flinched in shock as the drivers blood brain matter splattered across her face and the front of her top.
Another armed man suddenly slide the door open and ordered all of them to come down from the car. As Dorathy and everyone else got down, she noticed that the two other vehicles had been emptied too and the drivers had been shut. All the passengers of the three vehicles were huddled together as they panic, called on the name of Jesus, even more pleaded and wept. Just then, Dorathy noticed that Sandra pulled out a handgun from her handbag and the man who had been bothering the woman and her child at the park was handed a gun too by one of the armed men. It was then she noticed that this were all planned and they were all working together.
Now, with with total thirty one passengers, one of them started to move within the group, selecting passengers and instructing them to stand aside from normal people.
Knowing that they were about to be kidnapped, Dorathy lowered her head and tried to hide her wristwatch by secretly removing it so that it didn't give away her status when she heard Sandra said:
"I'll take that" Sandra snatched the watch from her and shove her out of the group to join the smaller group of selected hostages.
The woman and her daughter were dragged by their harasser and shoved into the group and the stupid guy had a stupid smirk on his face that showed that he was finally victorious. A corp member were taken, the Fat Igbo man and his petite were taking and more people that Dorathy didn't know. After selecting sixteen people, the passengers were ordered to go into the car and close the doors.
"Wetin we go do?" Bosca, one of the armed men asked Sandra.
"A beg waste the rest"
The other armed men gave her raised brows. "Boss go provoke o" Pascal, the one who had been harassing the woman and her child said.
"Where Oga Ahmad sef?" Tuga, a stubby looking one asked. "He suppose don reach here by now"
"If Ahmad no dey, who be the next in command?" Sandra indignantly asked the hesitating men.
"Na you na" Bosco replied.
"I say make una waste those people, we no get time to dey road. You wan make police or army meet us here?" Sandra insisted when the men exchange uncertain glances, Sandra shouted "WASTE THE PEOPLE FOR GOD'S SAKE! UNA TOO DEY DULL"
Shrugging, the men cocked the guns again, positioned themselves beside each vehicle and rained bullets on the vehicles while the people screamed. Even Dorathy was shocked and there were horrified screams in her group too as they watch the men murder the oldest in cold blood. Even the woman had to press her daughters face against her lower belly to prevent her from seeing such evil.
When they were done riding the vehicles with holes, Sandra went around, checking to make sure there were no survivor and any she found, still groaning, and not yet dead,