Yibanathi

🧡Part 5🧡

Avuyile Pov

I ran upstairs only to find Sthandiwe on the floor with water on the floor. I screamed too when I saw that it looked like she was going through immense pains luckily we called the ambulance and it arrived and my boss Mthiyane told me to follow up on Sthandiwe.

She was rushed in with a stretcher and I was pointed to the waiting area where I was currently sitting trying to find out what was going on.

I am trying by all means to not think about the thought that is trying to capture my mind.

Could it be that she was pregnant?

I mean the last time I saw someone in such pain was when they were going into labour.

2 hours later

A doctor comes to the waiting room holding a clipboard.

"Sthandiwe Chiliza"
She calls out staring at it.
I make my way to her.

"Hi I am Avuyile Chiliza, Sthandiwe's mother."

"Doctor what is wrong with my daughter?"

I ask the doctor.

"Congratulations Sthandiwe gave birth to a baby girl and she seems fine absolutely no complications."

"Sthandiwe...baby how ?" I question the doctor because she cannot confirm my thoughts because I refuse to believe it.

"So you mean to tell me that you didn't know she was pregnant either way her bp is very high it could be due to child birth and stress she is sedated since she was weak after labour."

I look at her while trying to process everything.

"You may see them... follow me."

I follow the doctor and she leaves me outside at least I am at a private hospital and she is a room with 3 other people unlike public hospitals. I am blessed for having Mthiyane as my boss for he will settle the bill at Life The Crompton because with this peanut salary I earn I could never afford to pay.

I enter the ward and I see her and the baby in the infant incubator. It is a baby girl indeed. She looks weak and I don't blame her at all giving birth is never easy.

"Sthandiwe why though why didn't you tell me?"

I ask even though she is clearly out of it. The baby looks cute and healthy.

I leave the ward since I couldn't even get the answers to my questions.

I decided to go and catch a taxi to go straight home because a lot has happened today and I decided to text Mthiyane and inform him that I was going home and not coming back to work.

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Sthandiwe

It all feels like a dream like an illusion.

Just last week I had discovered I was 7 months pregnant and that was because I thought I was coming down with a flu and went to have the flu checked only to discover that the flu was 7 months in the making only 2 months to be released.

Believe me it all felt like a nightmare and I swear I was even starting to heal from this whole thing only to be brought back by a whole pregnancy. I wish I can call it a mere issue but hey it is a major issue.

Muzikayise disappeared leaving his footprints within me. Now I have to live with his shadow on me.

I asked the nurse if there was a way to get rid of it because the word remove sounds very calm and gentle compared to the pain Muzi made me face. The nurse simply replied that it was too late and that there would be many complications even if they tried and it could be fatal.

At this point being fatal is attracting me closer to what I can call freedom if it is the way then so be it.

I asked for possible options to be relieved of the pain and she told me adoption since abortion is out. I tried to think about adoption but no way I can do that for a total stranger give them a cursed baby, a baby born out of unfortunate circumstances so I decided to keep it. The way I am so not interested even the gender does not concern me but how will I explain and who will they believe.

They will probably put their mouth where the money is which has to be non other than the rapist.

I went to work with my mom today and I got a text message which gave me a shock of my life.

"Hey Stha...it's been long I know look I am sorry for what happened the last time we were together. I hope you have a good day nana
XOXO"

Today of all days Muzi sent me a message wishing me a good day. What is good about the day?

Panick washes over me I see myself shaking.

Haibo everything is moving up and down and I feel a sharp shooting pain on my stomach and I scream and everything happened so fast and we are here now in a hospital and I screamed so much when I realised that I am giving birth.

One of the female nurses told me to calm down as if she would be calm if she was in my situation.

The sound of a baby crying is what lead me to panick and breathe heavily and I was injected with something that made me really sleepy.

I felt my eyes slowly closing even when I tried fighting it.

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Author: Any thoughts about Avuyile?

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