đANGEL OF MINE đ
Episode 25
Funny, I am staring at the door hoping to see her. Itâs been days and I only saw her once.
âEat,â my mother says as she is feeding me.
âWhat are you thinking about?â asks Mai Chido.
âNothing,â I respond to her.
I am thinking about the doctor and the way she just presÂŁnted herself to me was something else. I finally remembered what had happened to me as I was told that I had been in a comma for months due to the vegetables that I ate when mum decided to cook for us. Ernest said that it was a reaction that had sÂŁnt me into a comma and thank goodness Angela saved my life and my motherâs too. She was like an Angel and I thanked the Lord. Emily hasnât come to visit me; she called in the morning telling me that she had some things to take care of.
âCongratulations, you are expecting,â said Mai Chido and I smiled.
Emily told me that we were expecting and I was happy when I heard the good news. I am supposed to be discharged tomorrow but I want to go home today so that I could spend some time with her. Mai Chido and mum will be staying with us for a while until I am better and when mumâs wound has completely healed too. I am expecting to see Angela because I would really like to thank her in person and I canât be asking Ernest of her whereabouts. Mum leaves the room and itâs just me and Mai Chido in the room.
âDid you see Doctor Angela today?â I ask trying to sound formal.
She has asked me to call her by her name but with Mai Chido, I had to sound formal.
âAngela went back to Harare, where she stays with her father and owns a hospital.â
I donât know why I felt the sudden pain in my che-st. Maybe because I liked her s-en-se of humor and she was a great person to hang around with. I couldnât ask for her phone number too and just decided to let it me. If fate was going to bring us back together then I would thank her. I was discharged from the hospital the next following day and Emily was there to accompany me home. We got home and mum had cooked something for me. She actually tasted the food before giving it to me and I gladly ate it. She was just looking at me as I ate, afraid that I might get sick again but I didnât. I even finished the food without getting sick or throwing up or just anything. I went to be-d early because the pills were ma-king me feel dizzy.
Itâs a week now and I feel so much better than before but still works from home. Mum is still around but Mai Chido went back to the village. Emily left early for work and so itâs just me, mum and the new maid. About the maid p@rt, since we were going to have a baby, Emily finally agreed to hire a maid. She recently started working few days after my discharge. I get tired of sitting in my study room and walk to my motherâs room where I find her speaking over the phone.
âYes, he is feeling better. Thank you very much my princess. Yes I will definitely come visit you, bye,â she hangs up and smiles.
âI have never seen you smile like that since dad died.â
She laughs.
âplea-se do you think your dad was the only person who made me smile?â
âDo I have another father?â
âJamal,â she pinched me; âyou know no one will ever replace your fatherâs place.â
âYou are still young mum; any man would want to be with you.â
âOh plea-se, I am too old for such things.â
âYou are not old to me,â I say to her.
Seriously I wouldnât mind if she brings in another man in her life. Itâs been a while since dad died and mum hasnât even had the chance to go out there and you know explore. She wasnât that old, only in her early 50s.
âI
was talking to Angela.â
The minute she says Angela, my heart skips a beat and I have never felt that way before. There is literally something wrong with me right? How can I feel like that towards some woman, I ha-rd ly knew?
âHow is she? You seem to be pretty close with her?â
âYes, we are. She saved my life and she is a nice woman.â
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The minute I heard her say that she is a nice woman, I felt my blood boil with anger. I know what she is trying to do right now, she is trying to hook him up with her. I knew there was just something fishy about that Angela girl and I alre-ady asked my pri-vate investigator to find something about her. He is yet to give me some news; I donât know why Maria moved in back with us. Maria is that b***h that calls herself my mother-in law, I wish she had just died from those pills but she didnât and now that she knows I poisoned her, I wonder if she is going to tell her son about it.
âShe asked me if I could come and visit her.â
âOh thatâs great, I can drive you there,â I heard Jamal say and clears my throat letting him know that I had heard everything, âhey babe,â he says to me and I fake a smile.
He walks to me and gives me a hvg.
âI thought you were coming in late. How is my baby?â
âHe is okay,â I say to him and we walk out of his motherâs room.
I swear that woman will hear of me very soon. How can she try to find her son another woman when I was still with him? We walked to our room and he opened the door for me. I am glad that Jamal is doing okay and that will never happen, me trying to poison myself. Right now I just nee-d to be careful with the pregnancy. More than ever I couldnât wait to give him a child so that his mother mustnât think that I was barren and bring him another wife. He takes my feet and starts ru-bbing them.
âJamal,
can I ask you something?â
âYes.â
âDo you like Angela?â
I donât know why I asked him that question but he laughed ma-king me look like a fool that I was.
âShe saved my life and I have no reason of hating her. If you afraid that me and herâŚ,â he laughed again, âI love Emily with all of my heart and no woman will ever take the place she have in my heart, itâs yours and itâs locked just for you.â
I smile and believe his words. I know how much he loves me and he wouldnât do anything to hurt me. I donât want to feel jealousy over nothing, I mean I am more beautiful than that Angela girl and Jamal only has eyes for me. I finally fall asleep while Jamal ru-bs my feet.
When I wake up later on, Jamal is not on the be-d and I put on my sli-ppers. I walk out of our room and find him in the kitchen cooking and humming to a song. I just stand at the door with my arms on my che-st. Lord, I donât know what I did to deserve such kind of man. I am just so lucky and Jamal is my everything.
âHow long have you been standing there?â he asks me and I just smile at him.
âLong enough to see you cook. Where is mum and the maid?â
âMum is packing her clothes. She is going to Harare tomorrow. I canât believe Angela opened a shop for mum and Mai Chido. She knows that they sew.â
I donât know whatâs with that Angela girl and his mum. I swear if that woman was living in our city, I was going to get rid of her. Jamal goes on and on about Angela and seriously he is just ruining my mood right now; I keep on faking a smile until he is done with Angela this and that.
âI
am sorry,â he says to me.
âSorry for?â
âI kept on talking about Angela andâŚâ
âItâs okay. She is a good woman and I am happy for your mother. I will go and see her,â I say to her.
âOkay, dinner will be re-ady soon,â he shouts as I walk to his motherâs room.
I opened the door and she was busy packing. This is the first time; we are going to have a talk. Since she c@mÂŁ back, I hadnât gotten the chance to talk to her. I can see by her facial expression that she is scared of me.
âI am happy you didnât tell Jamal the truth that I had poisoned myself and he ate the food, that I kicked you out and stuff.â
âI love Jamal and I know how happy he is with you. I am just praying to God that 1 day you change and be someone better.â
âAre you? Because from the look of things, you are trying to replace me with Angela.â
âEmily, I will never do that.â
âOh plea-se enough with the pretense; I know what you are up to. The next thing I will hear you calling that Angela girl, your daughter-in law. Let me tell you something Maria, Jamal is mine and I wonât let some stupid doctor take my place. Donât look all confused because I know what you are up to and I will be watching over you. Always know that everywhere you go, I will have ears and eyes. I will be the only woman for Jamal. Do you hear me?â
She nods her head in agreement.
âGood, I just c@mÂŁ to say goodbye and I hope we will never see each other again. Stay there as long as you want and donât think about coming back. This place will be about me, Jamal and our child. You should find yourself a man, I hope Angela will hook you up with her father,â I laugh out loud as I walk out of her room.
So Jamal wanted to drive his mother and I pretended to be sick the next following day. He had no choice but to sÂŁnd her off by bus. I was happy that the house was going to be ours; I didnât mind having the maid around as long as she was doing her job. I surely nee-ded someone to help me around.
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