THE PROTECTED CRIMINALS

EPISODE 14

I felt Daniela's legs clutch round my waist as I hung freely on the pipe, her scent was nice and her soft body sent a warm sensation around my body. I could tell she was a bit scared but I wasn’t, I had passed through stuff more than that during my training days, stuffs like the free rope hanging. I sometimes wonder how they manage to pass through training, I mean the girls. Daniela is a small girl, pardon me, a small-bodied girl but older in age, about some years older than I am. I descended down the pipe until I was on the same level with the fence which served as the demarcation between Perfect paradise hotel and an abandoned land surrounded by bushes beside the hotel. “One, two, and go” I shouted as I jumped into the bush, Daniela got displaced from my back and rolled on the floor. ” Are you okay?” I asked standing up to her as I pulled off the overall. ” Am fine” she replied dusting her white shirt. “Let’s go,” She said but I stood still. ” What is it?” She asked. ” How do you protect your identity, your cloth, and your face might sell you off” I replied her. ” True,” She said as she took a look at herself. ” What do we do now, this is 12:11, the school dismissed by 2:30 so we get no time,” I said. ” I got this” She murmured as she took off her white shirt to reveal her inner armless singlet, she also took off her trouser leaving her with only a bomb short and a singlet, both black. ” Would you please take your eyes off my body?” She said, I never knew I was staring at her. ” I wasn’t staring at you” I tried defending myself. ” The fear of women is the beginning of wisdom,” She said. ” What about your face?” I asked trying to change the subject, she looked around and saw a piece of charcoal, she picked it up. ” You wanna design your face with that?” I asked her. ” No” she replied and almost immediately, took off my Cap and handed the charcoal to me,” Use this to draw lines on your face when we get there, that’s to hide your identity,” She said as she covered her face with the cap.” What is the m…” She interrupted. ” Let’s go,” she said. I abandoned the overall where her cloth was. ” Make sure you come back here for your clothes,” I told her and with that, we found our way to where my bike was parked. Love Avenue is a bit far from the perfect paradise hotel and it's a long-distance to Genius school, I found my way through some corners riding at high speed, in about 20 minutes, we were standing in front of the deserted, scanty street, Love Avenue. ” The house as I heard, is the only mansion here,” Daniela told me. ” I know” I replied scanning the street with my eyes. There wasn’t any individual moving in the street, the only people there were some rough-looking boys who sat in the front of a house smoking and minding their businesses, they didn’t see us as we stood in a tight corner of the street with my bike. ” Don’t you think we should alert the others?” Daniela asked me, ” No, let just catch fun” I replied. ” How do we get to the house?” She asked again. ” From what I learned, the house is in the middle of the street. Where are the keys?” I asked her and she brought it from the pocket of her bomb short. ” Let’s just walk like nothing is wrong” Daniela suggested. ” Let’s do this,” I said and we started trekking in the middle of the street, we walked like lovers as Daniela clutched herself around me, the few people we met on the street showed no concern as they of course thought we were lovers, the only thing that could have arisen stirs would be Daniela half-naked dressing but no one paid attention to us, that’s Downhill for you, not like Heartrow where the old women will kill you with their stairs. It didn’t take us long before we found ourselves in front of the big Mr. Emmanuel Adam’s Mansion, there weren’t guards on the outside, but some rotating security camera. ” See how those cameras are rotating, we are to move in anti of it,” I said. ” I can’t code what you are saying” She replied. ” I mean we are to move in negative of the rotation of the camera to prevent it from getting us,” I said again as we stood some distance from the gate. ” Okay, I can code now,” she said smiling, just then her phone rang. ” Hello my darling,” She said over the phone. ” Okay love” she replied after some seconds and hung up ” It's Emmanuel,” she said turning to me, ” Who is Emmanuel?” I asked. ” Mr. Emmanuel Adam” She replied almost shouting. ” He said he will soon be home,” She said again while I checked my wristwatch, it was 1:30. ” We have less than one hour for this,” I said while she nodded. ” Let’s play some games,” She said drawing my hand to the side of the building, there wasn’t any house on either side of the building, the house closer to it was about a distance of 200m from it, and it was an uncompleted house. A long fence has rounded the mansion, a kind of security. ” You have to jump,” I told her as I bent down for her to use my back as a stepping stone before jumping. ” What about you?” She asked. ” I will surely join you” I replied her. She advance backward a little and with full speed ran towards the fence, she climbed on me and immediately, leaped and did a Summersault over the fence. I stood up and also went backward, I first used the charcoal in drawing lines on my face, then With all the speed I could gather, I took off and jumped, my height gave me an advantage as I was able to hold the top of the fence with my two hands, I drew my self up and then landed into the compound. Daniela quickly drew me aside as if we were under attack. ” What is it?” I asked looking around suspiciously. ” Move against the camera gradient,” she said pointing at a nearby camera. The house wasn’t much decorated, what surrounded it were just pillars, on the pillars were cameras. There wasn’t any kind of decoration like flowers and the likes. I drew Daniela and hid behind one of the numerous pillars, as we stood, we were watching the movement of the cameras which rotates every 30 seconds, they actually rotate in the same direction. I heard the front door open, I peeped and saw a guard looking around, he was in a suit and was holding a pistol. He looked towards our direction and I quickly hid myself, I looked up and saw the camera already rotating towards us, ” Time to play” I said to Daniela who was standing right against the pillar and looking up at the camera. I took off my gun from my waist side, the camera was now very close to facing us, the guard was still standing by the door, the pillar was the only thing shielding us from him. I held Daniela into my arm and I turned sharply to the other side of the pillar facing the guard. Almost immediately, I released a bullet to the guard who fell down dead, at the same time I was able to shield myself from the camera as I now stood in the other side of the pillar which the camera could not see, I was standing and facing the door to the building. Daniela ran to the dead guard and took his gun as she had no gun.