I watched the doer of the law chain the suspicious man in hand cuffs. I looked towards my side and I saw children watching me with a wide eyed wonder. The all seemed to be the same age. They must be triplets I suppose.
The girl stepped closer to me and she held my hands.
" Excuse me sir, I and my brothers would love to thank you for taking up our problems like it was your own, you were as brave as Samson and Gideon."
" oh really?" I was surprisingly amused by her compliment. Her lush brown hair remeinded me of peace's hair. Packed into two buns with enormous bows on top each rolled hair bun.
Her eyes were rounded ones and the eye glasses she wore magnified her eyes the more and her lips were heartshaped. Her nose were upturned and rounded like a bean and she had a voice that sounded very high pitched, like that off a foreigner.
"My name is Nelson,here is my business card, in other words, my mom's business card. You can use it to call my mom and you can be able to reach us." The one who had previously stopped my car from driving stepped up to me.
This young man stepped up to me looking up into my eyes, I wonder what kind of parents this children had. They were so confident and brave. He looked very much like his sister, he had a good posture for a five year old, he had a deep brown eyes which complimented with his fair skin. His eyes which were downturned,making him look asian. His brows were curved upwards and his nose were pointed just like the girls nose. His hair was cut into a neat afro with the hair left unshaved being curly.
" Why do you guys trust me and not the man that looks good and descent,I am sure you guys watch cartoons. The men in suit are the bad guys, I am wearing…"
The last one that I had not given so much attention too cut me short " I- we-we have the holy spirit and we know who is bad and who isn't. You are a g-g-goo-good person." He stood at a distance and breathed out those words while closing his eyes.
He was nearly an albino and he had curly light hair that was shinning like deliciously spiced meat. He mentioned holy spirit the same way Peace mentions it. She put an extra stress on the HOL. I shook my head, I have been thinking so much about Peace these days, now random children that I am helping out is reminding me off peace.
"Children!, Childre-!" I looked back and I heard a woman in her middle age calling out to my direction. She seemed to be referring to the three kids I was kneeling down to talk too.
" I am so sorry, I told them not to leave the reception, seems they did not get my message, since they are usually obedient children."
" Ms. Ella, we almost got kidnapped, someone disguised himself and was trying to forcibly take us home."
" What! Our admin let an unknown man take you out of the school? This is preposterous and treacherous!" she ran over and grabbed the three's hands. She bowed down in front of me
" Are you their father?"
" Oh no, oh no he isn't our dad but he called the police man for us. He is a very kind man." The confident child spoke…his name again, nelson?
I smiled and laughed at the whole situation, I might as well answered yes and taken this children to my home and called them mine. " What he said, I am not their father. I had gotten the suspect and got him arrested."
" Oh my, please give me the address of the police station after I get the children in, I will come out right after. I cannot believe this! Lets go children." I gave her a nod, I could feel that she was being pretentious with her over exaggerated movements
I sensed some kind of indignance as she dragged them slightly, they let loose of her grip and they all came to hug my leg all at once.
" Thank you sir, I could not imagine what we would have down without you letting God use you to protect us"
" please do call the business card this evening and check up on us."
"T-Th-thank you"
Then they ran ahead of the teacher. The teacher coughed and said out loud " I am so sorry sir If this children were being a burden to you"
They waved at me as they reached the school's entrance. The little girl waved the most enthusiastically and they all hurried.
" Burden? No…no not at all….." I spoke to myself and headed towards my car. I got into my car and stared at the dash board, I looked at my keys and reached forth to turn on the car.
I ploddingly moved my hands towards where they hugged me. I touched the area and for some reason, I smiled. It was an unexpected encounter but it incensed a spark of joy within me. I took the business card that they had given me and put it in my pocket.
Zoom, zoom and I was off.
Peace
I looked at Nancy,Nelson and Nathan with their heads bent down and staring at the ground kicking against the air, I presumed that they were on reflection mode.
" I am so sorry officer, this was not my intention initially. I had a tight work schedule and I asked my employee Jason too come and help me pick them up."
I stood at the tall desk with my heels, I was quite exhausted from the meetings with lawyers and farmers after my contract agreement form I signed with the new company but I had to rescue Jason. He did not mean any harm. I cannot imagine what he was going through behind bars.
" So you are saying that when the suspect put his hands in his pocket to get a dangerous object, as described by the children; it was actually his phone viberating while you were calling."
I quickly took a glance at the children, yes, yes officer that is exactly what happened. I have my call log with me, you can compare it with mine."
"Yes I would love to confirm, we don't want any miscreants rooming around the streets. This children are our future, you know."
I just nodded nervously and my eyes glanced at Jason looking at me with his eye glasses slightly bent in such a way that one lense covered his eyes and the other covered his cheek. Did he really look like a criminal? He looked at me with eyes of a puppy desperate for freedom from her chain. I just touched my heads with my palms. I looked at the children once more and I smiled at them gently; they were just being security conscious and deep down. I wanted to pat them. When they looked at me, my eye brows creased and I tossed away my face. I had to put on a serious, I did not want Jason thinking that I was acknowledging them for imprisoning him.
" All right, I will start processing his release, sign here and here"
" All right thank you sir, here?"