Explosive Revealed
1787 Words
“Ahhh” Emilia screamed as his hands rolled down hers to her wrist.
“With due time it will heal as you take your medication regularly,” he said to me while rolling my hand with a bandage.
“Thank you, doctor,” she said with a low tone.
“You’re welcome… I will see you in two weeks” he said, leaving the room to attend to a patient.
She unplugged her phone from the wall socket where she was charging it and left the room with her left hand hanged with a white cloth used in holding it around her neck.
** ** ** **
I got off the bus and walked down to my house, which is five blocks away from where I was. As I walked through, I saw flames and smoke going up, so as I approached the place, lo and behold, it was a house on fire and I had someone screaming. So I went through the back door but the fire was much. The voice kept on screaming, so I voiced out saying
“How can I help?”
At this point, the voice went low, as if he was being choked by the smoke.
The fire was so great, such that the heat and flames of smoke almost got to me, so I took some steps backward.
“Am sorry I can’t help you” coughing out loud
“911 are on their way! Please hold still!” I screamed out so he could hear me.
Looked around me to see if I could see a soul, but the street seemed to be in a curfew state. Looking at the house as it keeps burning.
Three minutes later, I heard a siren coming in my direction. It was the firemen and two ambulance vans. They stopped and I heard voices talking and some shouting and one giving orders.
I felt a hand lifting me from the floor, taking me to the back entrance of the ambulance van. There he sat me down and a lady came to me and said with a caring tone
“My name is Clara… what is your name?”
“Emilia,” I said with a shivery voice.
“Emilia! Are you hurt”, looked at my bandaged hand and wrote down something on the small diary she was holding in her palm.
I told her “No… I am fine… this is just an existing injury”.
** ** ** **
“Reduce the water,” the man said, holding a pipe in his hands and facing it to the building.
At that point, the fire stopped. Only smoke was rolling around the surroundings. Looking at the house, there was nothing left of it. Then I saw two men coming out from the house entrance with a body in the hands of the front man.
At that point, a car drove by across the road and a woman came out of the car running towards the body that was placed on the stretcher covered with a white sheet. The ambulance guy tried to stop her but she made her way through. When she got to the stretcher and lifted the white sheet with a scary face, she screamed and fell to the floor. Clara, who attended to me, went after her and held her with a consolating emotion. The woman cried on the shoulder of Clara while Clara consoled her.
The guy that came with Clara came to me and asked me
“Where do you live?”
I replied, “Down the street… five blocks away.”
He said I should get in the van so he could take me home while the burnt body was taken away with another van to the mortuary.
“Am Mike by the way” he said to me as he started the car.
“Am Emilia?” I replied.
After he reversed the car, he asked me
“What happened to you?” pointing at my hand on the bandage
“I feel”
“ I'm sorry about that,” he said as he looked at me.
We never said a word till I got to my house.
“Thanks for the ride,” I told him while opening the car door and leaving.
“Stay safe” he reciprocates.
I walked into the house and there my mum was at the dinner table having her lunch.
“Good afternoon mom”
“Good afternoon my dear” she replied.
“What did he say?” she asked me, but then I was actually on my way to my room because I was having pains and I needed to rest after a horrifying incident that had just taken place hours ago.
I asked, “who exactly?”
“The doctor, of course,” she uttered.
“Okay… he said I should take my medication when I do”, I voiced out for her to hear me as I walked into my room.
I was afraid so I fell on my bed. I was feeling sleepy but I didn’t want to sleep, not to have another dream again.
“Help me!! Help me!” a voice echoed in the room and immediately Emilia woke up, looking around the room in fear.
“Whose there” she uttered in anxiety, but the voice never returned, so she went back to sleep and had another dream.
“Hey wake up”, tapping her on her lap.
She wakes up asking “Where am I?”
He answered, “At the airport, of course”.
“How did I get here,” she asked, looking around in curiosity.
“I think you should be in a better place to answer that” he responded with a surprised look.
“Well, find your way home. I have to catch up with my flight going to Texas,” he said to her, standing up and lifting his luggage. Then he left.
Emilia looked around again and noticed the name of the airport was written in German in the city of Munich. Then she looked at the screen where records of the plane schedule and saw Texas was the plane on load and about to take off so she ran out to catch up with the plane but was late because it was already on the road rolling to take off.
Two minutes later, the plane exploded in the air right in front of him in the atmosphere.
“Oh my goodness” she was in shock as the remains of the plane rained down with fire on them.
** ** ** **
“Emilia's dinner is ready!” Trisha called out as she set the table.
But Emilia didn’t answer so she went up to her room to check on her.
“Emilia!” she called, knocking on her door.
“Emilia, are you okay? Can I come in? Trisha asked for a reply but got none, so she went in.
“Emilia, what’s wrong with you, Mrs? Trisha asked her as she drew close to the bed.
She touched Emilia’s forehead and screamed, which made the father rush upstairs to Emilia’s room from the dinner table, leaving Kinsley in a terrified state.
Emilia woke up screaming immediately. A part of the plane wanted to fall on her in her dream.
Trisha went and hogged her to console her.
“It is just a dream dear,” she said, rubbing her hand over Emilia’s back.
“What is going on? I heard you scream” Mr. Stanley asked, trying to catch his breath.
“It’s nothing much love, she had a bad dream and her body is hot” Trisha answered as she looked at him.
“You should go have your bath and come down for dinner,” he said as he left the room.
“Do you want to talk about it” Trisha wanted to know.
But Emilia said nothing.
“Get up and have a shower,” Trisha said as she stood up from the bed, giving Emilia a helping hand to get off the bed.
“Mum, can you stay as I have my bath?” Emilia asked in a low tone.
“Yes of course my dear”, her mum replied.
2 MINUTES LATER
*At the Dinner*
“Are you feeling better now?”
“Yes dad”
“How is your arm?” he asked, pointing at the arm with his cutlery.
“Never been better but it's fine” she answered as she went for the glass of pineapple juice in front of her.
After a few minutes, they were done eating and Trisha took Kinsley to his bed.
“Mum, what’s wrong with big sis?” Kinsley asked as he lay down on his bed.
“Emilia is fine. She just had a bad dream. Go to sleep and don’t worry about her”, Mum answered as she switched off the light and shut the door behind her.
“Do you want to talk about it?” dad asked as mum gathered the plates on the table.
“A man woke me up and I realized I was in an airport in Germany. A plane was about to leave for Texas, so as I ran out to catch up with the plane, it was already on the road rolling to take off, so I cried and watched it take off, but all of a sudden, the plane exploded right there in the air. I screamed when a part of it wanted to land on me”. Emilia narrated the dream as she kept sipping her pineapple juice.
“It must have been terrible”, Mr. Stanley felt bad for her.
Emilia stood up about to leave, then turned to her mum.
“Mum, a young guy came by asking for you.”
“Did he leave a name or message?” Trisha asked.
“Yeah, he said his name was… Anthony” Emilia replied.
“Oh Mr. Ben, he is a client of mine.”
“He said he tried calling but it went to voicemail… haven’t you checked your voicemail?”
Trisha looked at Emilia and nodded her head in a negative response.
Stanley left the dinner table to go to his room, leaving Trisha and Emilia at the dinner table where they had a female chat before going to bed.
Emilia took her night bath, brushed her teeth, then wore her nightgown dress on her bed, knelt at the edge of the bed, and recited the Lord’s Prayer before getting up to her bed and she slept off.
- Writer
