FEW YEARS AGO
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In a big logistics company, a young employee in his thirties carries a box of package into a truck filled with boxes. He works eagerly and tries to finish fast. A colleague holding a report file and a pen walks close to him
"Wow, Mr martins I can see you're very active today"
"Yes , I have to go pick my daughter up from school "
The colleague counts the boxes with his hands and jots something down.
"Your daughter has started attending school?"
"Yes the oldest one and her older brother took Ill, he couldn't go to school today so I'll pick her up"
" She is lucky to have a father like you"
Mr martins sighs and smiles as he drops the last box in.
" I was granted permission by the manager, I'll get going now, I don't want my daughter to wait too long for her dad. See you later"
His colleague smiled
"Don't be late"
He walks out hurriedly and boards a taxi.
Few minutes later he got to the location, gave the taxi driver money and got down from the taxi.
He sees students from his daughters school roaming about, he checks his watch
"I'm late, where will I find Susan now?"
He looks around and walks down, using his eyes to search for her. He crosses over to the other side of the road and sights his daughter looking lost and lonely.
He shouts her name with a wide smile on his face and his hands waving up the air.
"Susan! Susan!!"
She looks up as she hears her name from a familiar voice. She sights her father and immediately she lits up and gave a big smile as she waves back and shouts his name
"Daddy " she shouted his name with excitement and happiness.
He moves to approach his daughter when he hears a screech from a heavy truck and looks to check, the excitement on his face suddenly fell from his face as he sees the truck approach him, within a twinkle of an eye the truck crushed him and five other children .
His motionless body on the ground and his eyes were slowly diming as he sees his daughter run towards him in tears and shouting his name
"Daddy! Daddy!! Daddy!!!"
Teers rolled out of his eyes as they shut before his daughter could come closer to him.
THE PRESENT
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She opens the car
She stands still as the car was about to hit her, the drunk truck driver quickly turns the truck around and drives off.
Susan faints from the shock of the incident
***
Susan regains consciousness in a hospital. She opens her eyes and sees a nurse standing over her. The nurse is a young lady of average height. She looks at the nurse, the nurse smiles at her. The nurse looks at the drip
"I can see you've regained consciousnesses" she asked rhetorically
"Where am I ?" she asks
"Well you're in a hospital. You fainted from the shock of the accident. Luckily the driver swerved the car before hitting you "
She remembers what happened. The nurse was about to leave. When Susan calls unto her.
" Can you please tell me what's the time?" She asks the nurse
The nurse looks at her watch and tells her
"It's 3am, we couldn't get through to your guardians because your phone was dead, you will be discharged when the day is bright" she turns around and leaves.
Susan shuts her eyes and willingly gives herself to sleep. Susan was discharged in the morning. she knew she wasn't going to work that day and she just wanted to take a break . She needed one really bad and this incident is giving her an opportunity.
***
She gets home by taxi. She opens the door, sighs and she walks inside. She sits on the sofa in the living room brings out her phone and charges it for few minutes, she switches it on and dials Tony number but he wasn't answering his phone.
" He's probably busy" she drops her phone and as she was about to leave something struck her mind
"Jane" she picks her phone and calls her.
"Hello Jane "
" Hello Susan, what's wrong why aren't you at work?"
"Well I called to tell you I'm taking a day off, I tried calling Tony but he isn't answering. "
" You know you need a cogent reason to take a day off, did something happen?" Jane asks her.
"It's cogent, I got involved in an accident yesterday, I was just discharged this morning. I'll send you the doctor's report so you can get it across to the secretary."
" What? Oh my I hope it wasn't brutal? And no problem I got this covered "
"Well it's not but I need to rest today, thanks dear"
"Take care of yourself, I'll check up on you later, I have to get back to work. Bye"
"Bye" she hangs up the call
Shr drops her phone and sighs
" Well that settles that, what do I about my car " she talks to herself and rolls her eyes balls up as she thinks of what she could do. She suddenly thinks of someone but she doubts.
" I guess I have to ask Ray if he can help me"
She calls him too but wasn't answering her call. she redails his number this time his line was not available. She sighs and drops her phone.
" I guess I'll have to go for it later" she stands up and goes to her room to take a bathe .
Later in the day , she dresses up and about to leave the house, she remembers she has a car engineer contact on her phone. She calls him and sends him the address of the car location.
She decided to go on a walk, since she was already dressed up. She gets out of the house, locks the door and leaves the house.
She walks down the street and decided to get a bottle of soda. She enters a big supermarket and decided to buy four instead of one. She moves to the cashier and tenders her card and the goods.
The attendant swipes the card over the terminal
" I'm sorry ma but your card is being declined"
Susan stares at the attendant
"Declined? can you please try it again?"
The attendant swipes the card again, she shakes her head
"I'm sorry ma but it's still declined" she stretches out her hand to give her card.
Susan sighs, she was unhappy , she had really wanted to take soda . She turns and leaves, she waits outside for a minute and as she takes a step forward. She hears a voice from behind, she turns around and sees the attendant moving towards her.
"Ma'am !"
She waits for the attendant
"Here's your Soda, it's been paid for"
"Paid? By who?" She asks curiously
"A gentleman, he paid for it immediately you left" the attendant says and turns back to return back to the supermarket "
Susan looks at the soda in her hand and turns back to the supermarket, she thinks aloud
" Who paid for the Soda?"