ONYIYE THAT GIRL

ONYIYE THAT GIRL
CHAPTER 8

"We believe she swallowed a poisonous material, too much alcohol or a large amount of medication. The doctors are still busy with her."  The nurse explains to the Lindiwe’s parents.
"What really happened?" Her mother asks. 

They drove all night after the conversation she had with Onyiye. Despite that fact that she made a mistake by having babies in a young age, but an actual fact she knows that she would definitely wish her friend upon bad. She took her word and to her surprise her daughter was found by the police laying unconsciously.
"We do not know what really happened. She is the one who can tell us when the doctors are done with her."

IN THE WARD

The doctor prepares a gastric suction procedure, they begin by numbing her throat to decrease irritation and gagging. Then, the doctor inserts a lubricated tube into the nose and thread it through her oesophagus and into the stomach.
The doctor then sprays saline down the tube. Finally, they apply suction through the tube to remove toxic contents from the stomach.

Fours hours of the process and finally they are done.
The doctor steps out of the surgery room….
"Mr and Mrs Ngobese, I heard that you are here and you drove all the night."
He smiles shaking hands with them.
"You have no idea. How is she?" Her mother is very much impatient. She hates it when doctors make useless conversations instead of them going straight to the point! 
"We managed to clean her…" He keeps quite for a while and doesn't know whether to continue or not.
"But?" 
"That's all. She will be fine. You can go in and see her." 
The doctor decides to keep this to himself.

"Kodwa Lindiwe, what happened mntanami?" 
Lindiwe is awake but very much in pain. She wants to talk but her voice won't come out.
"W….who told you?" Her voice is squeaky and struggling to come out.
"Gift told me. She sent me tons of call backs last night. I didn't believe her at first. I thought that maybe she speaks out of jealously but umntana bantu was talking the truth. I don't know if I didn't believe her. She's the one that called for help by calling the police." 
Lindiwe's vision blurry in tears. Her drowsiness it taking control by the second. 
"I think my patient needs to rest."

Her parents decided to book themselves into a hotel.
"I can't believe Lindiwe tried committing suicide. After everything we do for her she goes and does this!" 
Her mother is totally hurt.
"I'm sure her friend knows what happened that is why she informed you." The husband replies wiping himself with a towel. "That is the only one person who could get through Lindiwe. Leave your hateness aside, every child makes there own mistakes and they learn form it. I'm sure if you talk to Onyiye from mother to daughter like you use to do previously."
"So, do I really have to call her?" She asks. The sound of her calling Onyiye doesn't sit right with her. She cringes in disgust and her husband looks at her and shakes his head.
"Yes, be her mother an not her enemy. If Lindiwe makes a mistake one day you will hate her like this?" 
"No," she replies shamefully.
"Than what is so hard for you to look beyond those mistakes and nature her like a mother would do. Why throw a towel for a child that never experienced the mother's love. I want my old wife back and not this witch you are turning to. Honestly, I don't know you anymore. I feel like I'm married to another version of you and it's tiring. There will be a point where I'll just give up and move on with my life and leave you hating on a God damn child!."
She gasps not believing her ears. "It's sickening to even think that you will side with a woman who feed her own daughter poison at the age of 5. It shows that at some point you will also want to kill me because of making a wrong decision. Think about your past, and compare yourself to Gift’s situation. Atleast she got to keep her babies not kill them!" 
He pulls his pants up wearing them. Sprays his fragrance and takes the car keys from the pedestal.
"Uyaphi baba?" She asks with a shaky voice.
"Somewhere peaceful." He walks out of the hotel room banging the door.
She sits on the bed thoughtfully. She grabs her phone that was under the pillow, searches through the messages and remembers that she deleted the call backs. She called her yesterday….
"Helo," she sounds asleep.
"Gift."
"Mah!" She's now wide awake. "Please tell me you found her." 
"Yes we did but we were told that the ambulance has already taken her to the hospital."
"Thank God," the relief in her voice couldn't be missed.
"I'm sorry that I didn't believe you. What lead to her trying to take her own life?" 
"I believe it will be at if you hear from her. It's not my place to share such sensitive information with you since I'm not in your good books."
"I understand, take care." She drops the call and saves her number as Gift. It's very much easier calling her Gift.
She takes time to herself to think about what her husband just told her. Maybe she was doing too much of it. Maybe she needs to take steps backs and be the woman who she was before. 
She lays down on the bed covering herself with a duvet trying to get some sleep. She hardly sleep midday but now she really needs it. She has been up all night.