18.1.13

After Christmas

Merry belated Christmas and a Happy new year to you.
How was your celebrations? I had a lot of fun, visitors and a lot to eat and drink.
I witnessed a sad event the day after Christmas and I was shaken for days because in the midst of the celebrations their was sorry , not for me but for them.
I took my sister and brother out the day after Christmas to go and have Pizza and relax. When we drove out of the house, I felt kinda of uneasy, I said a quick prayer and brushed it off. I tried pretty hard to match the excitement my siblings had but I felt something was wrong. As we drove out I noticed a man run past and he looked scared, I said to myself what is chasing this grown man this hot afternoon, and then I brushed it off my mind again. We turned off my street in the estate and I sank into thought again.
Just around the corner my brother noticed a gathering, a little boy rolling on the ground and he decided to stop. I insisted we continued but he already stopped. He got and I followed, I asked what happened and a bulky elderly man said that he came to visit someone in the estate and was leaving. He got into his car drove off and he felt like he climbed a stone, he looked through his side mirror the see the size of the stone and noticed a young boy of about 10 - 12, he quickly stopped and asked the boy what he was doing there, at first the boy was incoherent and then he said that he was going home, became tired and decided to rest. I was overwhelmed and surprised at the wisdom of resting under a packed SUV. I asked the boy to find out how he was feeling because he wasn't really sure if he climbed the kid or not. I looked at the kid and told them he was bleeding from his mouth and I thought they should take him to the hospital immediately. These men said they wanted to see his parents first that they weren't go to move the kid and something told me it will be too late when his parents come.
When his mother came she started acting, and screaming, I was surprised, I asked the woman to take the child to the hospital and let her husband handle the men, you know what she told me..."his body Is too dirty" I was very surprised. It took her neighbours to lift the boy and start running to the hospital, at this time I told my brother that it was time to leave, and we entered or car and drove off..
When we got outside the estate I noticed them running to a building with the boy I asked where they where going and they said their was a hospital around there, I decided to follow them and see if I can help, when we got their his mother sat for just a minute and left. When the doctor arrived to examine the boy, he asked everyone to leave and when he was done he came out with a blank face, I asked him if it was good and he said no. I told him to tell us what it was and he said the child was dead on arrival. At that point I got into my car and went for pizza.
I was shaken and couldn't go a moment without thinking about it. I couldn't believe it, how will his people feel and what will be the fate of the driver/owner of the car.
But another question is what was that dong under that car....
I thank God I am still here even in this year.

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