Means Of Survival

chapter 9(Bonus insert: the bomb)

#phiwes pov

We got home and I went straight to my room. I took a long deserved shower, then went to find a pare of pajamas then tried to sleep but I failed because I kept tossing and turning the whole night until I had excruciating pain on my lower abdomen. I tried to ignore it but it just got worse and worse, I shouted my brother's name and she came running you'd swear he was waiting for me to call him.

Him:what's wrong, what why you crying

Me : my.. My stomach hurts..

Him: uhm should i-

Me: AHHH OHH GOD IT'S GETTING WORSE

He just scooped me up from the bed and rushed me to his car. He drove like a maniac on the road while I was cursing and shouting, kicking and screaming in the back seat

We got to the hospital and I was rushed to a ward while the nurses were busy questioning my brother. I was quickly attended to, I came back to my senses when I heard someone say "take her to the maternity ward now!! She's having a premature labor"

Me and my brother at the same time went like :woah what!! Premature labor!!??

Doctor: uhm mam you're 6 months and 2 weeks pregnant

Alex: but..

I passed out same time.

#alex

Me: no no no phiwe don't! You can't die on me please sis

They rushed her to this other ward

Doctor: hurry we going to loose the patient!!

I tried to get in with them

Nurse: sir you can't get in im sorry

You know how they say a man doesn't cry? Well whoever said that lied because for the first time in years I knelt down and poured. I cried until my lungs hurt I really wasn't ready to loose my sister. She was only person I had in the world and without her I'd have nothing else to live for.

When I was done with my crying business I got up and noticed there were stares

Me: what?! What yall looking at! Yall never seen A MAN CRY BEFORE?! Huh?!!

They all looked away, I took a seat in one of chairs and waited. Then I drifted to memory lane.. From the first day I met little phiwe, she was 4 I was 6. That's when our parents were still hanging out. We'd play together, she was such an angel. My mom died while giving birth to me so I always felt lonely, my father was always at work and he always told me to be a man. But when I met phiwe I didn't feel like I needed to be a man but I felt like there's so much more to life and my father almost robbed me of my childhood. My sister always had my back even when-

I was bought back to reality by someone's voice calling out a name

Voice: Mr Davids?

I looked up, it was the doctor

Me:uhm.. It's Petrov..

Him: sorry Mr Petrov Davids

Me: no no.. My surname is Petrov not Davids

Him: ohh I'm sorry sir I thought the 2 of you are married

Me: she's my sister. How is she? Is she alive? The baby?

Him: She's awake but there seems to be a delay with the delivery. We're going to give it an hour and if there's still no progress by then, we'll have to perform a Ceasarian section.

Me: wow I didn't even know she was pregnant

Doctor: well judging by her physical appearance I can see there's no sign of baby bump and judging from your reactions there were no symptoms of pregnancy. It is actually normal for a woman to not experience any pregnancy symptoms for at least 30 weeks. In Ms David's case.. She is 26 weeks now.

I just sat there in silence and watched as the doctor left.

After what felt like a year the doctor appeared again looking rather puzzled.

Me: doctor what's up is there anything wrong with my sister

Him: no.. Well.. We have just discovered that the baby has been growing been growing behind her rips... Up against her back.

Me: what?!! What does that.. How did it even happen

Him: we are just as shocked sir. Due to this cause It won't be possible for her to have a natural birth so we are going to perform the ceasarian section.

Me: okay..

Him: but uhm..there's a possibility that only person can survive in this surgery. Ms Davids said if anything happens we should save the baby's life and not hers

I sank down again how could she!

Doctor: I'm so sorry Mr Petrov. I'll see you after the surgery he said as he walked away

I decided this was the right time to pray.

Me: Dear God...