Marked ( Nigerian) #4

Chapter Five

Remi drove the bus carefully. Her mind was pre-occupied with confusion and anger. She would look into the 360 mirror in the bus from time to time, stealing a glance of the intrusive passenger on board. Every-time he typed aggressively on his phone.

    

The bus was quiet after the buzz about him being such an equality driven candidate died down.

Remi wished she could somehow make the bus get to the final bus stop immediately.

    She looked at her watch and thought about being there any moment soon. Then she made the mistake of looking into the 360 mirror again. She jumped as she saw him staring back at her. Her hand hit the siren that she normally  used to resolve conflicts on the bus.

  He was staring at her and they were making eye contact. He had a very expressionless face.
    She kept looking at him through the mirror till he stood up and reached out to her within switch movements.

"Get your hands off the siren, woman" he said loudly.

"Oh my god, I - I" she murmured as she looked from her hand to the siren in horror.

      She looked in the mirror to see everyone muttering amongst themselves.
   
     "Fuck" she whispered to herself.

Thirty minutes later, she was driving into the bus terminal. She noticed the black cars that where on one side of the park.

      As she drove to a halt she saw Chima walking towards the bus from the other side of the park.

     She stood up abruptly and turned to look at the bus passengers who were already getting on their feet, impatient to leave the bus.

"I would really like to apologize for the incidents that Happened today. I am really sorry" she said as the whole bus fell silent. She stared from face to face as they all stared back at her. Nobody said anything for a few seconds.

"Can you please open the door now, thank you" someone yelled from the back of the bus.

"Oh sure, yes" she muttered to herself as she stretched to press the door button beside the stirring wheel.

"See you all tomorrow" she said awkwardly said loudly.

 She watched as the last passenger left the bus. She took a deep Breath and scorched her head forward.

    She heard footsteps come up the steps at the back of the bus and she looked up.
It was him.

It  was just the two of them.
      
   

Tobi Talabi was angry alright But he knew how to hide it exceptionally.

 He stood on one side of the bus while she stood on the other and they stared at each-other for a while then she turned to leave.

  Nobody walked away from him but he stood unmoving by her action. As she got to the door one of his guards stopped her. His full body frame enveloping the door way.