Chapter 2 The Accident

Jake was the first to leave the meeting, his face was red with anger, the directors had not agreed with the idea of constructing a new office building but worse they had refused to listen to any plan which both Jake and Luke did not agreed to. He walked pass the secretaries and out to his car, he didn’t say anything to Luke because he didn’t want to fight him, not yet. He was going to try once more to change his mind. Back at Luke’s house, Nathan heard his father’s car come in; he ran to the front door “Daddy, you’re late. Come and see my new airplane, I nearly finish it. Daddy, it’s beef for dinner, your favorite. I’m starving.” “Hey! Slow down a bit. Hello darling, at last. Hello my love, it’s good to be home” They all went into the living-room to enjoyed the evening together.

The next morning, as they were having breakfast the telephone rang, it was Jake “Hello, good morning Luke, listen I’ve got an idea, why don’t we go out at hunting, It’s been a long time since we went hunting together, maybe we can bring a rabbit home for Megan to cook” Luke was pleased that Jake was in a good mood and although it was Saturday, Luke decided to go out with Jake. It was a chance for them to do something together as friends, just as they used to do in the past “Good idea, let’s do it, we’re going my car, I’ll come and pick you up in an hour. I need to clean my gun first; I haven’t used it for ages.” It was a glorious day, a perfect day for hunting. The sun was shining through the trees, the birds were singing. As they walked through the woods Jake started talking about work and the office building “Oh come on Jake, let’s forget about the office building for today and just enjoy ourselves, Life isn’t that simple Luke, and we have to pay for everything even days out in the wood that’s why we can’t afford to build children’s home Luke, Jake I told you the city needs the home and we have almost promised we’re going to do it, it’s the right thing to do, the right thing to do it’s what’s good for us not the others. Oh come on Jake, Let’s just hunt rabbits, now what’s that I see over there? Look like a nice dinner to me.” Luke pick up his gun, so did Jake, but Jake wasn’t looking at the trees or the rabbits, the bullet from Jake’s gun flew pass Luke’s Face “For goodness sake! What are you thinking of? You almost kill me, I’m sorry, It was an accident, I touched the trigger by mistake, I’m very sorry. Look, I think it’s time we went home; you’re obviously not going to do a serious hunting today, well I didn’t mean to do it, I said I’m sorry, if you want to go, then let’s go.” The two men sat in the car and stared at the road in front, neither of them spoke. Luke change gear when they came into an arrow road, Jake look down at the view across the hills and of the city below, Luke down the steering wheel as they came to a bend. There approaching them was an enormous truck at their side of the road. Luke shouted “Get on to your own side of the road” but the truck driver didn’t notice them, he wasn’t looking at Luke’s car, he was looking at the present view below “Move over! You idiot! Watch the road” Luke tried to move out of the way but the truck just came towards them. Luke down the steering wheel again, fast, the car left the road and disappeared over the side of the hill. For a moment there was silence as the car flew through the air, then came the crash. Neither of the man heard the noise nor felt the flames as the car exploded, their burned bodies were thrown out of the car and on to the grass.