đAngel of mineđ
Episode 29
I staggered and found myself sitting down on the bench.
âShe lost the baby Jamal,â he said to me and all I could do was look at him.
At the moment, I wished for so many things, and I wished I hadnât gone at work. I wished I had stayed with her, what if this was p@rtly my fault. I should have been with her. I donât know what had caused the miscarriage since Ernest hadnât said anything.
âCan I see her?â
âYes, I have moved her to another room. I m..â
âplea-se, take me to her,â I said to him.
Getting up from my seat was just ha-rd for me. I could ba-rely walk thinking about Emily and how she was feeling right now. She must have been feeling bad about just everything. I hesitated to open the door. I wasnât re-ady to see the situation she was in; I was feeling nervous about it. I finally opened the door and she was connected to so many machines that I just turned and looked at Ernest.
âWhatâs with the machines?â
âSheâŠ.â
âShe what?â I gr@bbÂŁd him by his color.
âShe fell into a comma Jamal.â
âIs she going to wake up?â
âJamal, calm down,â said my mother.
âMother plea-se not now. Is there something else that you are not telling me?â
âI have to wait for the results Jamal, right now I canât tell you anything. I have to be sure about something. I am sorry,â he said and I let him go.
I walked inside her room and asked them if they could excuse us. I wanted to be alone with my wife. I walked to the be-d and sat. I held her hand and all I could do was cry, this was more like my first time crying out so loud. I was hurt to the core and p@rtially blamed myself for what was happening to Emily. I was scared that she wasnât going to wake up and at the same time still blamed myself for what was happening to her. I should have been there for her.
âI am sorry,â I said as I held her hand.
I spent the days at the hospital waiting for Emily to wake up and praying to God to just make her open her yes. We used to exchange with mum, she used to sleep over sometimes and I would go home to have some rest.
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I slowly opened my eyes and the lights in the room were just too much. I could hear people speaking but from a distant.
âShe is awake!â I heard someone exclaiming, âEmily, my princess. You are awake. You worried us all,â that was mum.
I failed to speak since my throat was dry and pointed at the water of bottle which was on the table. Jamal rushed to get it and made me drink the water. After I had drank the water, Ernest asked them to wait outside since he wanted to make sure that I was okay.
âAre you feeling any kind of pain?â
I donât know what I am feeling right now nor do I remember what happened to me.
âI donât know,â I honestly said to him.
But wait, I can feel the bandage on my stomach and I t©uçh it.
âMy baby, my baby Ernest. What happened to my baby?â I asked with a hint of panic in my voice.
Jamal c@mÂŁ back rushing in the room as I was screaming and shouting at Ernest.
âJamal, where is my baby?â
âEmily.â
âWhere is he Jamal?â
âYou lost the baby Emily.â
âHow?â I asked Ernest.
I alre-ady knew what had caused the sudden loss, I remembered drinking the wrong pills but I wasnât going to tell the truth, I was going to blame someb©dy else for that. As I was pretending to be all confused, asking how I had lost my baby, Jamalâs mother walked in the room with my mother. I hated Jamalâs mother and this was my final chance to get rid of her. I was going to make everyone else in the room hate her for that. I mean this was the best thing that could ever happen to me, me losing my child and blaming her for giving me that traditional medicine. I could just easily get rid of her and she will be thrown in jail for attem-pted murder.
âIt
was you,â I said trying to get off the be-d as I pointed at her.
Everyone in the room looked at where I was pointing at.
âYou poisoned me. You are the one, who killed my unborn child,â I falsely accused her.
âEmily,â shouted Ernest.
âShe killed my baby Jamal, she killed our baby. The medicine that she has been giving me, it was poison. She planned this from the start, I know she did. She killed my baby.â
âJamal, I would never do something like that. I didnât do it,â she refused.
âOh plea-se enough with the crocodile tears. We both know that you have wanted to get rid of me. You killed my baby. Are you happy now?â
âEmily enough with the lies,â shouted Ernest, âit wasnât her medicine that made you lose the baby. We found a certain substance which I tested and it was a pill that made you lose that child. That same pill,â he st©pped.
âWhat?â
âIt has damaged your wo-mb. You will never be able to have children again. â
I couldnât believe what my brother had said to me. I refused to be blamed for that, I refused to be blamed for taking those pills. I didnât know that they were going to damage my wo-mb. I wanted to give Jamal plenty of kids but then if I was never going to ba-re him another child, was he going to stay beside me. At first when Ernest told me that I had lost my child, I just thought that I would have another one but then how when I had done this to myself. But then I wasnât going to blame myself. If it wasnât for his mother then I wouldnât have looked for those pills. I was never going to try and get rid of them. It was her fault that things had turned out bad for me, I loathed her. This was her entire fault.
âEmily.â
âCould
you all just leave me alone, I donât feel well?â
I wanted to be alone; there was so much to t
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We walked out of the room and I know my sister was lying to all of us. I donât know how she took those pills but there was just something that she wasnât telling us all. I honestly felt bad for her but never was I going to allow Emily to lie to all of us. Mama Maria wasnât the one who made her lose the baby and that was a fact but she was still lying about everything. Jamal asked my girlfriend to take his mother home and I honestly felt bad for Mama Maria, maybe it was time for my sister to be brou-ght to trial. I did feel bad for Emily but I have had enough of her lies. Do you know whatâs ma-king this whole story weird or rather interesting? The pill that I found in her system is the same pill that we found on Mama Maria and even Jamal. Trust me Emily had done something to herself and I was still going to find out. Jamal sat on the chair in my office. This man has been throu-gh a lot and I felt bad for him. If only he had chosÂŁn the right woman for himself. I know I should be defending my sister right? But why would I defend someone like her? Emily didnât deserve this man and I wasnât going to defend her.
âI am sorry Jamal,â I finally said to him as he sat in my office, hands on his head, âI know there is too much to take in and I am so sorry.â
âI donât un-derstand why Emily is blaming my mother Ernest.â
âShe is just recovering from all of this, I am sure she didnât mean to say all of that.â
âThen how did she take those pills. I donât get it. Did someone change her pill?â
I know if I was in his shoes, I would probably be having so many questions left unanswered; I would probably be more than just confused. I know I will be having so many thoughts running throu-gh my head and I wish I could help him right now but I just didnât know how to go about it. The situation was complicated. I wasnât going to just straightly tell him that his woman was a she devil, she must have poisoned herself. I mean my sister was capable of harming herself, she did it once and maybe this was the second time. Jamal left the hospital after much convincing. He didnât want to leave but I told him that I would take good care of Emily. I kept Emily sed@tÂŁd for the night and told my mother that she can too go and rest. It had been a long day, Emily having some breakdowns, her tears were not crocodile but I wasnât sure which p@rt she was crying for.
The night seemed too short and it was alre-ady morning when I opened the door and Emily was busy insulting one of my nurses. I told the nurse to give us some space since I nee-ded to talk to my sister in pri-vate. I closed the door once she was out.
âYou refused to eat?â
âI have no baby to feed. What do you want Ernest?â
âI am worried about you sis.â
âOh plea-se, you are probably siding with that b***h Maria.â
âEmily that is your mother-in law.â
âI donât care who she is but she killed my baby and I will make sure that everyone knows about it.â
I sat down on the be-d with her.
âTell me something, how she got hold of the same pill that was found in Jamalâs system.â
I saw her trembling and I knew there was more to this story.
âWhat did you do Emily?â
âI took those pills by mistake when I was trying to get rid of them.â
âOh my God!â hands on my mouth I exclaimed.
âBut no one is going to find out about this. Jamal will never know that I poisoned myself, that I poisoned his mother and that I hate his mother. That I tried to frame his mother when I made myself fall from those stairs, Jamal will never know that I am the reason why I have suddenly become barren but I will blame his mother for it. I wiâŠâ
She st©pped at mid-sÂŁntence when we all heard something falling on the floor and when we looked at it; it was Jamal and his mother. He was carrying some plastic. I didnât even hear him opening the door.
âJamal,â that was my sister shouting and getting off the be-d.
âWhy Emily?â he asked my sister.
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To be continuedâŠ