help, please help, anybody please
SECOND FLASHBACK- 25 YEARS AGO
EXT. BAR BEACH, LAGOS- NIGHT
(Nine years old Rere and her father walk to the quiet part of the beach where there is no one around. Rere walks angrily with her father walking behind her)
Oluremi: maybe something important came up
Rere: Dad, no matter what it is, he made a promise to bring Alex and Bridget for my birthday party at the beach but he didn’t fulfil his promise
Olumide: maybe he will still come, don’t give up
Rere: at what time Dad?
Oluremi: has he ever done this before
Rere: no
Oluremi: so can you let this go one time, you will always celebrate many more birthday (Rere nods regretfully) now where is the firecracker?
Rere: oh! I think I left it at the bar. Am coming (she run away)
Olumide: (shouting at the top of his voice) Rere wait, let go together (Rere didn’t respond and runs to the Bar which is at the other side of where her father is. Panting, she approaches the Bartender)
Rere: my firecracker
Bartender: I was coming to give you (he brings out the firecracker from underneath the bar) have it (Rere collects it and starts running again) Rere, stop running so that you don’t fall
(she runs back to her father but suddenly stop when she see Nate Ehosa standing close to her father)
Rere: (smiling brightly) he came, for coming late I will make him find me (Rere runs to the nearby trees to take corner behind them. She looks at the duo and notice that they are arguing) are they fighting again? (She moves closer silently to hear what they are saying)
Nate: Remi please I need you to drop this case
Oluremi: (in a loud voice) what the hell is Bashorun offering you if I become the Attorney General because from the way you are acting, this is more than just me
Nate: nothing
Oluremi: (confuse) nothing? Then if you are getting nothing, why are you so obsessed with me dropping the case
Nate: isn’t it so obvious, with you as the Attorney General, I will be the next managing partner of this firm
Oluremi: well if becoming the Attorney General means becoming dirty, I am okay with been the managing partner of our law firm
Nate: well I am not okay with it, I am done been in your shadows
Oluremi: then be the Attorney General yourself, am sure Bashorun will want to help you
Nate: not if you drop the case first
Oluremi: well am not doing that (Nate turns his back to Oluremi and walks a few pace from him)
Nate: where is little Barbie?
Oluremi: what?
Nate: (he turns to face Oluremi) where is Lolu? Have not seen her
Oluremi: she went to get firecracker
Nate: (sighs in relief and nods) good (he brings out a gun from his pocket)
Oluremi: (shock, Rere looks sacred so she covers her mouth in shock) what the hell are you doing?
Nate: (shaking) please Remi, drop the case. I am begging you
Oluremi: what are you going to do? Shoot me?
Nate: I don’t want to
Oluremi: but you will if I don’t drop the case
Nate: I hope I don’t have to, we have come a long way for me to do that
Oluremi: yes, we have come a long way. We are good friends, I know you are ambitious but this, what happened to you?
Nate: (talking with pain in his voice) I am just sick and tired of been in your shadows
Oluremi: my shadow? You were never in my shadows. I may be the face of the firm but I carry you along with every decision I make in the firm
Nate: not enough for me
Oluremi: you want to be the attorney general right?
Nate: if possible yes
Oluremi: then we don’t need Bashorun
Nate: we?
Oluremi: yes, we, you and I. I am going to get you the sponsor you need. Bashorun is not the only politician in this country with all the cards (he starts to move towards Nate)
Nate: is that possible?
Oluremi: yes and I will find you the one that will help you (sees Nate contemplating, Oluremi moves to collect the gun from him and when Nate sees him coming, his finger pull the trigger shooting Oluremi in the chest. Tears fill Rere’s eyes as she watch her father go down)
Nate: (he looks at the gun and sees Oluremi on the floor) oh my God oh my God (bends down to stop the bleeding) why the hell will you come at me like that. I saw sense in what you said to me (tears start to pour from his eyes)
Oluremi: (choking his own blood) ho..hos…hos….hospital
Nate: I shot you in the chest possibly your heart, you can’t make it in time to the hospital. I am so sorry Remi (mucus comes out of his nose as he cry bitterly) I am so sorry, this was never my intention. Rere will be back soon, I need to leave (he stands up and picks in gun) I am so very sorry (he leaves hurriedly, Rere comes out of her hiding place with tears pouring from her face as she walks towards her father. She kneels over him and uses her hand to stop the bleeding)
Rere: (in her loud voice) help, please help, anybody please, my daddy is dying please
Oluremi: (he touches her hand gentling) Rere?
Rere: how could second daddy do this to you?
Oluremi: an..and d..don’t sa…don’t say anything
Rere: what?
Oluremi: when the po..po….police come, don’t sa..sayy anything please
Rere: daddy (Oluremi draws his last breath) dad, daddy, daddddddyyyy (she puts her head on his chest and sobs)
BACK TO PRESENT
EXT. ALEX’S HOUSE-NIGHT
(Rere drives into her compound with tears dried face. She enters her house and drops her bag on the sofa, removes her shoes and flings it into the dining then she walks upstairs tearing the bead chain on her neck away with beads bouncing downstairs. She enters her room and removes her earring and drop them into different corners of her room and she enters the bathroom. She switch on the shower and sits on the floor under the showers with her clothes as water pours over her)
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It seems Rere remained the little Barbie from the past, who is traumatized by her father's death
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