šUnattainable
Perfectionš
Ā©Eliza
Episode 14
ASTON VILLA MANSION..
Springing instead of walking, the giddy maid stĀ©ps In front Alice’s be-droom and then Knocks.
While waiting,she takes her time to study the earring in her hand.
Judging from the way her madam had gone haywire that day, she could finally comprehend why.
It wasn’t just a normal earring.
It was embe-dded with diamonds that glittered whenever the rays of the sun k!$$Ā£d it.
She sighs,recalling how Alice had gone completely haywire.
****
TWO WEEKS AGO.
In the kitchen, they could hear the angry footsteps of their madam, stomping her way down the spiral staircase.
Their anxiety and nervousness increasing with each pas-sing second as her footsteps kept getting closer.
“Who cleaned my room last night when I went out?”
She thun-dered as she stĀ©pped at the kitchen’s entrance.
All three maids turn.
“Who?!! Are you deaf?”
Alice thun-ders again and they flin-ch.
Her tone was scary but her eyes were deadlier.
“I..it.. Was me”
one of them answers timidly stepping forward.
Alice narrows her eyes at the teenage girl.
“Are you aware that my most precious earring is missing from my room? You stole it didn’t you?”
The maids eyes wi-den as she shakes her head.
“N.no ma’am
. I didn’t I swear
. It must be somewhere. I’ll go look for it right away ma’am”
“Don’t bother. You’re fired.”
She says nonchalantly and faces the other two maids.
“Find this earring or you’ll be fired as well”
and with that, Alice turns and storms back upstairs ignoring the fired maid’s plea-s.
****
Shaking her thoughts back to reality, the maid sighs, frowning slightly.
Why hadn’t the madam opened the door? She lifts her hand to knock when she hears screams.
“Close the gate! Close the gate!”
As curious as she was,she abandoned the door and walks back, running down the stairs towards the living room and out to the compound.
She g@sps when she notices the cold metal peep out of the car window as a sh0t rings out.
She watches in utmost horror as the gateman drops dead.
Did.. Did her boss just shoot at someone? Another sh0t rings out and she cowers back into the house fear crippling her.
*****
Alice screams as she loses control of the car, the right side feeling heavier.
Did they just shoot one of her tyres? well, they were in for a full b!own surprise.
She wasn’t going to make this easy for them.
There was no way she was going to let them catch her.
Never! Alice continues to drive with the punctured tyre only that this time it was much slower.
fvĀ¢k! The car managed to ride her out of her the vast compound onto the quiet street when it stĀ©pped.
Cursing loudly, she jumps out of the car, gr-abbimg her bag and begins to run in a backwards shooting at the two policemen who were advancing towards her,occasionally shooting at her also.
Alice could hear faint sounds of siren blaring from a distance.
Busted! More police officers were coming.
fvĀ¢k! fvĀ¢k fvĀ¢k! She curses repeatedly b!tt!g herl-ips ha-rd .
Think Alice, think! fvĀ¢king think! Arghh! Alice continues to run on the Street when she spĀ©ts a black sedan car coming towards her. Immediately, Alice runs onto the middle of the one way road and stands still,waiting.
“Get out of the way! Hey!!”
The man behind the wheel screams as he inches close to where Alice stood in the middle of the road The f”ck! Why won’t she move? Did she have a death wish? Oh hell no! There was no way he was going to hit her and have her blood on his hands. And so like any s-en-sible human will do, he haults His car and rolls down the glas-s to insult some s-en-se into the woman blocking the road.
But then much to his dismay, as soon as he rolls down the glas-s, he found the woman standing before him, pointing a gun to his head.
“Get the fvĀ¢k out of the car now!”
“O..okay”
trembling, the man opens the door and alights.
Alice wasted no time in pushing the man and got into his car as there was no time.
The blaring was getting closer and the two policemen on her tail were a few seconds away.
Shutting the door, Alice turns the key in the ignition, sparking the car to life.
“StĀ©p!! else we’ll shoot!”
Josh screams when he gets in front of the car in which Alice was now.
“I’d like to see you try”
she sm-irks to herself as she ti-ghtĀ£Ć±s her hands around the steering wheel, stepping on the accelerator in a quic-k motion sĀ£nding the car moving forward at a fast pace.
“Get out of the way josh! She’ll run you over!”
Greg screams at his colleague.
. “She won’t!!”
Josh shouts back,still standing his ground, his gun pointing at her.
Alice wouldn’t dare try to knock him down with the car.
Oh but he was wrong. He un-derestimated the woman because the more Alice got closer,the more she drove fas-ter and it was no doubt she would knock him down just to get away.
“Out of the way Josh! She’ll knock you down!!! Josh!”
Greg screams yet again.
Josh eyes fli-cked continuously between the tiny distance between him and the car now.
Alice was driving at an incredibly fast seed.
Five seconds.
“Josh move!”
Three seconds.
“Josh fvĀ¢king hell move !”
Two seconds. Alice wouldn’t dare right?
“One second. fvĀ¢k man! Josh jump out of the way!”
And that was his cue.
Just as Alice was about to ram her car into him, he jumps,somersaulting twice out of the way until his bĀ©dy hits the coaltar.
He gro-an s.
Lifting his head, he watches as Alice drives past them.
Just then, five more patrol cars drive towards them,siren blaring.
“Let’s go! She’s getting away!”
Josh screams getting off the floor and joining the first patrol car as well as his colleague.
“She went that way!”
He points to the black sedan which was still ba-rely out of sight.
The man being the wheel nods and then steps on the accelerator, increasing his speed to catch up with the car.
****
TEN Minutes.
Ten minutes felt like ten long hours.
That’s how long she’s been driving haphazardly on the streets causing a few traffics here and there just to get away from the several patrol cars on her tail.
She was getting sick and tired of the cat and mouse chase.
She nee-ded to do something, at least reduce the number of cars chasing her.
Alice looks ahead,spĀ©tting the traffic light at the other side of the road blinking red.
Looking past the traffic light, she again spĀ©ts a truck loaded with cement blocks. She grins sardonically, an idea occurring to her immediately and so putting her idea into action,she slows down her driving.
So that the police will think she had run out of petrol or something.
She knew very well that they wouldn’t dare shoot because they were on a two way road,with lots of cars and people walking around and so the bullet could hit any innocent person.
Alice drives slowly now, inching towards the traffic light which had by now turned yellow.
Looking throu-gh the rear mirror,she spĀ©ts the patrol cars slowing down as well.
She laughs.
Ghanaian policemen,so easy to outsmart.
Gripping the steering wheel, re-ady to spring into action,she places her other hand in the gear re-ady to change direction fast and quic-k.
Her leg also rested on the accelerator,re-ady.
The yellow light begins to blink.
Any moment now.
Green! The traffic light changes to green and with the speed of lightening, Alice changes her gear and steps ha-rd on the accelerator simultaneously, sĀ£nding the car flying forward in a fast motion as she made a sharp curve to the intersection crossing to the other side of the road, overtaking the truck.
And just like she calculated, the patrol cars races behind her but they didn’t see the truck on time.
As soon as Alice crosses to the other side,the truck driver speeds up urgent to get past the traffic light, meanwhile the patrol cars also take a sharp bend unaware of the speeding truck.
And in the blink of an eye,two patrol cars and the truck emerge from opposite directions and then clash into each other, the cement blocks falling onto the road as the truck subsides and falls with a heavy thud on the two cars.
One second. Two seconds.
Alice could see the smoke.
Three, four, five seconds and a loud boom resounds in the atmosphere as the truck explodes,the fire causing the two cars to explode as well.
***
“fvĀ¢k!” Josh screams in horror as he watches his colleagues In the other cars burn in the explosion, the fire consuming them including the trick driver.
“No more acting cautious Greg! She intentionally led them away so the truck can crush them now, I say we open fire!”
Josh yells to the remaining two cars including his.
Each police officer retrieve their riffles and then begin to shoot at the black sedan.
****
The shooting was unbearable now.
She had managed to Dodge a few bullets with a lots of bullet marks on every p@rt of the car.
But she wasn’t always going to be lucky.
One of the many bullet might hit her eventually.
Alic stares ahead, they had driven out of town now and all that she could see was bushy areas.
She could hear more siren blaring and she knew they had called more back up.
She was going to run out of petrol soon and they’ll catch her.
It was now or never.
Adjusting one hand on the steering wheel, Alice stuffs her gun into the small bag then throws it over her shoulders.
Alice then sets the car into automatic mode and then let’s go off the wheel.
Gripping the door, she counts.
Five,four three,two,one! With the speed of lightening, she opens the door and jumps out letting the car keep moving until it crashes into a tree.
Wasting no time,she turns to venture into the bush but then she trips.
Her eyes wi-den in panic.
A s-en-se of deju vu,hits her when she sights the hvge nail sticking out of the gras-ses.
She remembered pushing Alexa the same way till the broken pieces of pots pierced into her forehead.
Screaming, Alice falls,face first, sĀ£nding her left eye straight into the jail.
The nail pierces into her left eye, blood splashing over her shi-t as she falls further down the valley.
***
The young receptionist stood behind the counter, fl!Ƨk!ng throu-gh her phone when she felt a shadow looming over her.
Lifting her head,she screams when she sights a woman in dirty tattered clothes whose face was covered in blood, her left eye completely damaged.
“I nee-d a facial surgery”
the woman says simply.
Silence.
“Isn’t plastic surgery done in this hospital?”
“Uh…y..yes.. Yes”
the receptionist stutters.
“Good,I nee-d a surgery done on my face,to change my appearance”
Alice says.
“S..sorry ma’am. You nee-d..a..an appointment”
“I have money. Just take me to the doctor”
“Sorry I can’t. We don’t fix eyes here”
“I’m not here to fix my eye you idiot! I want a plastic surgery. To change my face!”
“A..appointment first..”
Frustrated, Alice pu-lls out her gun from her bag and points it at her.
She skrie-ks.
“Will you take me to the damn doctor now or you want to end up with one eye like me?!”
She sneers.
***
Don’t be mad yet people, Alice hasn’t fully escaped.
Just a little teaser.