Chapter 26

The days after our break up have passed excruciatingly slow as if mocking me for being stupid. Two weeks have passed since that awful ordeal happened. Two long, slow weeks. Due to the break up, I was in such a hurry to get home to lick my wounds that I forgot to meet Zuri as promised.

So to make up for breaking my promise ,I am on my way to meet her now. The vehicle I am in is so loud that you barely hear yourself think . We have warned the driver more than ten times to reduce the volume of the radio that we gave up. He reduces the volume only to increase it after 15 minutes or so. I don't understand what he needs to hear in that loud volume. The music he is listening to is terrible.

Most people are tired and hungry since it is the middle of the day and the noise isn't making things any better. We want some peace and quiet before we are thrown back to the world. When you travel it is the only time you get to think without anyone disturbing you but due to this noise we can't even do that peacefully.

" Dereva zima iyo kitu Bana" ( driver switch of that thing) one guy shouts from behind me also irritated by the driver tactics.

We are all tired, so when the guy spoke up everyone echoed his words forcing the driver to turn it down. As he is selfish ,he turned around to argue with his passengers like the fool he is forgetting he was driving.

The minute he took his eyes from the road, is all it took for our lives to be on the hands of our maker. A personal car that was trying to overtake came to our lane. And because this idiot was busy arguing with a passenger he didn't notice the car coming towards us.

" Wee angalia bara..." ( You watch the ro..) was all I could shout before the car hit us head on collision.

It felt like time stopped and everything was moving in slow motion. The glasses on the windows shattered due to the impact spreading everywhere .Our car moved forward because of the speed were in and all the items in the car moved up and then down when the car settled on its side.

I tried opening my eyes but my head hurt too much. I had to force myself to survive. I probably had a concussion due to the impact. Opening my eyes slowly ,I see that am still secured to my seat but lying on my side. Thank God I put on my seatbelt.

Looking around I can see some people have been throw out of the windows and some are hanging from the window. None of them had a seatbelt on. Some were bleeding while others were unconscious.

I tried moving my hands to unfasten the seat belt but my hands felt like they were tied to stones. The ringing in my ears was irritating. Suddenly everything outside bursts into action. Good Samaritans were racing towards our car to get everyone from the wreckage.

I can see blue and red blinding lights, signifying that the police and ambulances have arrived at the scene. I can't tell how badly hurt I am because of the shock and adrenaline but am sure I will find out soon enough when the adrenaline runs out. I force my right hand inside my right pocket even if it won't stop shaking.

I pressed the power button five times as instructed by the manufacturer of my phone to send an SOS message to my emergency contacts. My emergency contacts are five people: my mum, dad, Elena, Zuri and Kevin. They will all receive emergency messages containing the time and my current location.

And if my phone is left on ,it will send a live location to my emergency contacts informing them of my movements. Knowing that my phone battery is almost full brought a smile to my face, at least they will find me. Too tired to hold on any longer ,I let myself rest my eyes praying to God that when I open them next time this will only be a dream.

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Zuri's POV

I have been waiting patiently for two whole weeks to talk to Zuri. I have some personal issues I want to unpack as well as discuss with her so that I can get someone else's opinion. Someone unbiased. I thought we would talk after Masai Mara but my girl was too heart broken to even step foot in Nairobi. I don't blame her at all .

That handsome devil ditched her at Masai Mara. What a coward. Who the hell does that? Didn't his parents raise him better on how to treat ladies? Why would he mess this up? He clearly loves her, I can tell. Don't ask me how but I just do. Was he trying to sabotage it before he became to dependent on her or what was his problem?

I wish I could see him and punch him on his stupid face for hurting my friend. Just when she opened up, he pulls this shit off . Fuck! Zee is going to build walls so high and thick that no-one will ever break them. He just proved her right. After all the energy and convincing it took to get her to give him a try. Frankly am disappointed in him, he should have acted better.

I know Zee needed the two weeks to internalize everything before she can talk to anyone about what happened. Finally today she is going to talk to me. I know her matatu left because she texted me they were on the road.

I had an hour and a half to kill so I went for a manicure and pedicure in a nail parlor close to my house. I received a text while the nail technician buffed my nails so I asked him politely if I could check my phone and he agreed ,not like he had a choice anyway. I opened my phone to find it's an SOS message from Zee .

My heart stopped immediately and my lungs felt like they couldn't get enough air. I don't know if I wasn't breathing enough air or my lungs were not working but something was wrong. I could feel it in my gut. From the message it clearly says her last location was Kenol which is 30 minutes away from my place. Her phone which is on her, showed that she is on the move towards Thika town.

I called her phone immediately the shock wore off only for it to be answered by a paramedic. The sweet lady informed me that Zee was involved in an accident and that she was unconscious. She was being moved to Thika level 5 hospital to check her for further injuries. My hands were shaking so much that the nail tech held my phone for me.

My voice was barely a whisper when I asked the details of her physical state. She said except for a few cuts she was okay but she might have a concussion and since it's a head injury they are not sure how bad it was. I thanked her and disconnected the call. Am still in shock, seated on the high chair barely processing what was happening.

I call her mum immediately as I know she rarely checks her messages. She didn't pick up so I called my boyfriend to inform him of what happened. He was as shocked as I was and promised to cut his meeting short and meet me in the hospital.

Due to my confusion I stood up and headed for the exit. I didn't even remember what I was doing here in the first place. The people working here understood that I was in disarray because of the bad news I had received that they did not mind that I left without paying or even finishing getting the manicure and pedicure. Those things were not important. Zee was more important to me than anything, she is like a sister to me.

I ordered an Uber hoping that I wouldn't take too long to get to her. My Uber picked me up in ten minutes and we were on our way to see my best friend.