Chapter 123: Chapter 123
Chapter 123
~The war just begun~
When they got outside the joint, they were puzzled and brought to a standstill when they saw a police officer resting on the trunk of their Audi. Just by the corner was a police car with a glowing siren light that spun across the atmosphere.
“What is happening?” asked Ella, feeling the sweat that built on her palm which was locked into Brian’s hand. She barely could swallow hard, “Are they after us? Have they found the corpse?” she asked, gazing upon Brian’s face.
Brian didn’t want to ignore her but for the dramatic scene that was happening around his car. His eyes darted inquisitively as he watched the police officer stare at his car suspiciously. He noticed a party of police men was at the other casino building, gathered around a man who was explaining something to them, while this s lone police man rested on his car, exactly on the trunk where they hid the corpse.
“I just wonder why he chose to rest on our car of all the cars parked out there.” Brian murmured, still staring at the police man who was looking around the car yet again. “What is he looking for?” he asked holding unto Ella’s hand tightly and struggling with his breath as fear convulsed his body. He could feel Ella’s hand tremble under his hold, and he realized that they couldn’t help each other.
“Could it be that he has perceived the stench from the corpse?” Ella inquired looking at Brian’s face briefly and avoiding gazing at the police officer who was already serious with his intention now. “I believe he has perceived it and try to know where it is emanating from,” she guessed.
“Let’s move it fast,” Brian added, seeing that the police officer had drifted away from their car once his colleague invited him over to their gathering.
“No,” Ella protested, dragging Brian to pause. “We need to walk as couple, hand-in-hand, cautiously and elegantly portraying less worry and anxiety so as to avert his attention from us.”
“Regardless of that if bullshit wants to happen it will happen anyways. Alright,” he shrugged, “I will obey you,” Brian said and added, “Breathe in. Out.” They did at once as he said so before they pranced gently to their car.
Gently they heaved on the door, opened them and hopped in and shut it quietly. Brian squeezed his nose, staring at Ella who was already covering her nostrils with her hand. The corpse had been stinking, and now they sensed the reason the police man was glaring around their car. Quickly, he dug out a spray from the pigeon hole and sprayed across the car
“Damn,” he nagged. The engine came on as he reversed and took a swift move into the exit farther from the police.
“We wasted much time at the joint. You know the corpse has blood and blood has an offensive protein smell. I believe that is the reason for the stench.”
Brian squeezed his nose, “We will scale through. I am just wondering how many of such police officers we are going to run into tonight, knowing it is already stinking.”
He wished he could keep at his silence, and fight the fear caressing through his body. He took a gentle acceleration into the T-junction and lo and behold a party of police men was parked in the distance that yawned at them. He matched on his brake and the car brought them to a sharp halt that almost hit their faces on the windscreen.
“We are going to avoid them by taking another route. My instinct tells me they are going to search us if we continue, and that will be our end,” he said, noticing the fear that came at Ella in the form of warm droplets of sweat that gathered on her neck and face. Brian contemplated for a while, stroking his hair, using his eyes to comb around the major roads. “We will use the bridge,” he said, cast a glare at his watch and shook his head. “This is the right time to dispose of the corpse,” he groaned, twitched his ignition, reversed and swerved to the other exit.
“Oh my God, I just wish we survive tonight,” she sounded scattering her hair and losing it from its ponytail hold and often casting a glance at the back to see if police was after them.
They were on the bridge now and he tried to keep to a particular speed limit. Although the bridge was farther than the major roads, he just wanted to be out of the prying eyes of the police. He stared into the distance ahead in search of police as he drove on.
“I think the bridge is much clear,” he sounded and cast a brief stare at Ella who was busy looking out of the window and staring at the sky scrapers that threw past while they drove and he knew she was lost in thought. But he never bothered about her or anybody now.
After a few more minutes of driving through the lonely bridge, Brian said, “Here we are.” He pointed at the woods, scary haze of darkness that need not be looked upon for the second time.
Ella shook her head. “That place is damn dark,” she complained.
“Don’t worry the car has got good light,” replied Brian.
As he approached the woods, he developed cold nose as the tranquility of the place threatened him. He almost felt like cursing. Gently he started driving into it, looking out of the window to choose the safest spot to dump the corpse. A glittering spot came in sight and when he drove to it and flashed a convergent light at it, he beamed. “Wow that is a lake. We are good to go. Here, cover up.” He handed Ella a nose mask and gloves and took his too.
He got himself torch light before they alighted, advanced to the trunk, opened it as offensive protein smell swept into their faces. Ella shut her eyes, gathering a full lump of saliva in her mouth which she looked forward to spitting out after disposing of it
Brian held it by the head while she held it by the legs before they started advancing to the lake. Shortly a short splash sounded as they flinched away from the lake splashing on them – they had disposed of the corpse.
Ella wanted to dispose her nose mask and gloves into the lake too but Brian protested, “No, no bring it along. You are as good as good bye if police should find them. Your finger print will cancel Christmas on your ass. We will dispose of it carefully, where no one can find it. Let’s go,” he ordered finally.
Ella stared at the corpse which was mildly submerged in the lake, and she gave a lasting look at it, spat into it and cursed, “Farewell, pain in the ass,”
Brian squeezed her fingers and said yet again, “Lets’ go baby. We made it,”
And they started making to the car…
The war just begun…