Yaron Mama

Episode 30

Nino was quietly sleeping on the couch on one end of the room, whoever said private wards were not the best must have never spent the night in the public ward of a busy teaching/public hospital. The surrounding was serene and quiet, it was almost pin-drop silence. Not until the ringtone from Nino's phone woke him up.

'Na'am' he lousily picked the call

'Toh, ina zuwa' Nino checked on Dai'ba on the bed, she was still not awake. The doctors had come to check up on her earlier and they promised she would be fine. As Nino was about to step out, Fa'ad called him on the phone again

'Where you dey?' Nino said

'In front of A and E.' Fa'ad replied.

Nino quickly rushed to the A&E building to get Fa'ad and Farisa.

'Hey babe, How are you?' Farisa was very concerned about Nino. Just a few months ago she put him through a similar situation and now he is going through same for Dai'ba.

'I am fine' his facial expression didn't correlate with the statement but Farisa just had to let it go. He looked very tired, his eyes were swollen from lack of sleep.

'Baba yane' Fa'ad threw his hand forward for a handshake, they shook hands and did the 'bro' hug

'Take it easy man, in shaa Allah she will be fine' Fa'ad whispered to Nino as they hugged. Nino just nodded his head, he still didn't know how to express what he was feeling, he really wanted to cry and be weak but that was harder for him than even griefing.

'Toh, let's go to her room' Nino walked ahead of them as they followed behind.

They got to the ward and met a doctor and two nurses attending to Dai'ba, one of the nurse was changing the drip and the other was jotting something down while the doctor kept on talking.

'Are you Mr. Adamu?' the doctor gestured his question towards Nino

'Yes I am, Hope no problem?' Nino sounded worried

'No not really, my name is Dr. Silas and I am the doctor on call this morning. Your sister woke up a while ago and we did a prognosis of what is wrong with her and until we are sure before we can diagnose her'

'As you know by now, she was involved in a bike accident and she hit her head on the ground severely which could be very risky. She was actually in a lot of pain that's why we sent her back to sleep.'

'Ok' Nino listened attentively to everything the doctor was saying

'The nurses will come and take her later for a series of scans to determine the extent of the injuries she might have sustained due to the accident. But we sure hope none of them is life-threatening'

'Hmmmmm' Nino let out a deep sigh

'No worries bro, we will try all our best to see that she comes back to perfect shape but for now, as you have noticed we put a POP cast around her legs just to make sure her bones start healing in time'

The room became silent for a split second, everybody turned to where Farisa was standing, she stood there sobbing uncontrollably

'What is wrong with this one' Fa'ad thought to himself as he rolled his eyes at her 'to even think Folake hasn't even arrived yet'

Nino signaled to Fa'ad to try to calm her down, the doctor finished explaining everything and left with the nurses.

'Babe, what's wrong?' Nino rushed to where Farisa was sitting

'I...I...I.. don't know' Farisa said in between sobs.

Nino was jealous, this was what he actually wanted, he wanted to cry uncontrollably and relieve himself of this heavy load on his chest. He looked over to where Fa'ad was sitting, they locked sight and had a conversation with their eyes only.