When Stars Collide

The Beating of a Lifetime

𝙎𝙤, 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙬 𝙖 𝙏𝙞𝙠𝙏𝙤𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙖 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄'𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙮𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚. 𝙄𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙮𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙨, 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧. 𝙊𝙧 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙭, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚. 

𝘼𝙡𝙨𝙤, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚.

↓Happy Reading. 

They both stepped off the aircraft, still badly shaken from the earlier events. What shook Hibba harder though, were the words that Salman had spoken, his very earnest and honest words shook her even more. The fact that he thought it best to say it when they locked horns with death was even a bigger shaking factor. 

"Are you okay?" He asked her softly as he rounded the corner to her, he had been speaking to an employee in charge of the helipad and now a repair team was coming. 

"I'm fine. What caused the accident?" She asked him with fear in her eyes, it now dawned on her that she could have died or worse, be burned to death had Salman not dumped all the remaining fuel in a rain forest about ten minutes away. 

"I don't know yet, too. But I found that my cousin's pilot flew it three days ago to Maiduguri and back, the engine must have developed a fault and they packaged it back. Maybe so they wouldn't pay for damages." Hibba shook her head and watched as Salman pulled his rolling suitcase and her small bag on the tiled floor. When they entered the building from the roof, it turned out to be the Federal Inland Revenue service building, making Hibba swallow, they'd crash landed on a federal building. 

"I hope they won't be angry." Salman looked around with a light hiss,"Things like this happen all the time, but today's own was completely irresponsible." though he had been deep in thought, he became alert, responding immediately Hibba spoke. 

At the car park, Salman had called an Uber, so they got into a black Toyota Camry about a few minutes later. Hibba with just her bag in her hands and Salman with just his phone. 

"Someone has to take responsibility for what happened today. And I will make sure they do so." Since they had to wait for the repair team to arrive, festivities at Nafeesah's house must have ended and Hibba lacked the energy to 'people', so when Salman asked for her address to order the Uber, she gladly agreed.