đAngel of mineđ
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I am trying to get up but I am unable to bear the pain coming from my wounded leg. I really wish Jamal was here, even when he was mad at me, I was willing to ask him if he could take me to the hospital. I was supposed to go over there for a checkup but I have no one to go with and the worst p@rt is that I am not able to walk. I have never experienced such pain before. Last night I could ha-rd ly sleep as I was having a terrible headache from the pain. I donât have medicine and I donât have anyone that can get me some, I seriously could use some help right now but I am alone in the house and Emily will never agree to help me out.
She just walked out of the house and told me that I should clean it. I wouldnât have disobeyed her orders if I was feeling fine but right now as I sli-pped and fell off hurting my leg in the process, I am failing to get up and she hide my clutches. I donât know how I am going to get up and do all the household chores. I am in pain, my heart is aching and if only I had the money then I would have travelled back to the village but then I donât have any money with me. I could have called someone to sÂŁnd me the money via Ecocash but Emily took my phone. She took my phone after saying that or thinking that I was going to call Jamal or people back at the village feeding them with all sorts of lies. I am not that kind of person and even if she is mistreating me right now, I will never tell anyone about it. I canât tell my s about it because I want him to be happy, maybe Emily is going to change, and just maybe she is going to change.
âOh my God!â I hear someone shouting as I am down on the floor, âmum.â
I look back and its Ernest. You should have seen the smile on my face priceless.
He helped me to get up and sat on the sofa with me. Ernest is Emilyâs little brother that I met and he always paid me a visit everytime he was in the country. He was a doctor and when he c@mÂŁ at the village, he helped at the clinic and I felt so much proud of him. I wiped away the tears and he just looked at me with pity.
âWhere is Emily? Where is Jamal?â he asked.
I told him that Emily had left for work as for Jamal; he was out of the country. He placed his hand on my forehead.
âYou are burning up,â he said, âlet me take you to the hospital,â he carried me on his back and walked with me to his car.
In the car there was a girl who quic-kly got out and opened the door for him. I just guessed that she was his girlfriend. I sat at the back with her and she was holding my hand, probably afraid that something bad might happen to me. Ernest owned his own hospital in the country and thatâs where he took me. I was taken in a room and placed on the be-d. I was just looking at Ernest as he was ordering them to take some things so that he can treat me.
âI canât believe that my sister can be so careless. Didnât she notice that your temperature is very high, that wound was supposed to be nursed? I am very sorry, you will be okay and I will make sure of it.â
Words only were not enough to thank him for saving my life. He said that if someone hadnât come in to save me, I might have been hospitalized for weeks and lose my leg in the process.
âI will keep you here for a few days until you have recovered, I am so sorry mother.â
âItâs okay. Thank you very much for saving my life. God bless you my son and donât shout at your sister.â
âOh plea-se mother, you donât nee-d to defend her. Emily is irresponsible; she was supposed to take good care of you. If she was taking care of you none of this would have happened. Donât defend her because she doesnât deserve that, I will talk to her.â
âNo,â I quic-kly said to him.
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I could see that she was scared, that simple means Emily was doing something to her. You could have seen the look on her face when I told her that I was going to confront Emily. plea-se I know my sister; she must have been the one who left her like that in the morning. Trust me I loved my sister and my mother but every time those women met, its trouble and not forgetting Emilyâs friend, Tiffany I never liked her. Right here my main concern is for Jamalâs mother to get better. She is a lovely woman and who have treated me like I was her own son. Every time I visited her at the village and doing some of my workshops there, she treated me with so much respect, I loved being with her more than my own mother.
âItâs okay mother,â I held her hand.
I feel so pity for her and Jamal. Jamal I have no better words for him. I heard that Emily lost her baby and itâs because she was pushed by Jamalâs mother. Well I know Emily and she made that up. Emily made me break up with my previous girlfriend when she created some fake stories thatâs why I am keeping Natasha away from her. I will never let them meet and thatâs the main reason why when I had drove at her house, I told Natasha to wait for me in the car. Right now my main concern is to make this woman feel better and ma-king sure that her wound is nursed.
Natasha is a nurse at my hospital and trust me everyone knows that she is my lady. She is a down to earth person and I just love her. My mother likes her but my sister she doesnât like Natasha and I donât care of what she thinks right now. I told Natasha to take care of Jamalâs mother for me, I had to go and have a talk with my sister. I was going to sleep at the hospital ma-king sure that her temperature had come down. I walked out of the hospital and got into my car. Itâs alre-ady 7pm and I had been at the hospital taking care of Jamalâs mother. Like I said it before, she is a lovely woman and she doesnât deserve to be treated that way by Emily. As I drove at her house, I had so many questions to ask her. Why did she mistreat her? I mean that woman was a God fearing person and she wouldnât hurt a fly. She loved Emily like she was her own daughter but my dear sister was just too blind to see.
Somehow not wanting to sound a bit rude or arrogant, I wish Emily wasnât my sister. My dad wasnât at all a horrible person, he wasnât that cruel but Emily on the other hand is a snake. Oh no I donât regret saying those horrible words because I mean it. I know right now going over at her house to confront her is a very big mistake and not a smart move to make but to hell with it, someone has to tell her off.
I get out of my car just after I had parked it outside the gate, I am not going to drive in the yard because I am not planning on staying that long, I have to make sure that Jamalâs mother is being well taken care of. The guard opens the gate for me and he is so happy to see me. Every time my sister drives in throu-gh that gate, you donât see that big smile on his face; I have noticed it so many times that these people are very much scared of Emily. I walk to the door just after asking him if she was around and he told me that she had just drove in few minutes ago. The lights were switched on and one tap on the door, I was inside the house calling out her name.
âWhatâs with you shouting?â she asked coming down the stairs.
âAre you the daughter of the devil? Because honestly my father didnât raise us that way,â I just had to ask if she was Jezebella.
âErnest what are you on about? I have so many things to do like finding that witch. My house is dirty and clearly she didnât hear what I said in the morning.â
âEmily that woman was sick when you left for work. Right now she is at the hospital; her b©dy temperature is very high.â
âWhat? How did she get there?â
âEmily I c@mÂŁ here and found her down on the floor in pain and you were nowhere to be found.â
âErnest isnât this my house? Who gave you the right to take that woman to the hospital without my permission?â
âJust listen to yourself Emily; I didnât nee-d your permission to save her life. She could have died.â
âAnd you think I care? Huh. She can die for all I care. Now she is trying to turn us against each other. You are supposed to be taking my side Ernest.â
âEmily you are sick, very sick in the head.â
She sl@ps me on my cheek.
âGet out of my house! I thought you loved me and you were willing to defend me from that witch. She killed my child and now you are siding with her, such disappointment bro.â
I laugh out loud and she must have thought that I was crazy with the way she looked at me.
âYour baby? Some bullsh*t story Emily. Emily we both know that you were never pregnant and itâs a possibility that you made yourself fall from those stairs. I so wish you were not my sister.â
âYou donât mean that,â she said with a lump on her throat, I must have hit a nerve.
âI mean it Emily. Donât forget that God is watching you. Taking good care of that woman is like a blessing. God gives you many blessings by just doing so but you are busy mistreating her. One day you will regret ever hurting that woman. She is a lovely woman and itâs rare to find such kind of mother-in laws Emily. I pray that you change your ways or you will not end up losing me but Jamal and everyone that ever loved you. I will let her move back here with you when she is feeling better. You are an evil person,â I yell at her, I am pissed off by her actions.
âI donât want to see her in my house, ever again,â she said with tears in her eyes.
âThe truth hurt Emily. You will regret one day,â I say as I walked out of her house and she was busy screaming out my name.
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