My phobias

4

I woke up feeling uneasy, sekemi had placed my dinner on the table. I tried to sit up but a sharp pain ran through my tommy, I wore a grimace. I wasn't in mood to do anything significant just to sit and stare into the blankness of the air, but I had to eat to take my daily dosage of pills. I tried to recall the incidence that led to my unusual afternoon-evening nap.

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"Ding dong ding" my phone rang, I dashed to my reading table where I had uncourteously left my cellphone.
" Madam, You didn't deem it fit to call abi? Anyways, we have gotten home since a couple of hours now". Morire's excited voice ran through.
" Ooops...my bad,I'm sorry. Thanks for the visit. Extends my regards to miracle". I said hanging up almost immediately to avoid unnecessary drama from morire, the drama queen.

I dialed Emmy's number to ask about her wellbeing.

" Janelle..." She sobbed, her voice was breaking over the phone, I could barely hear her.
" Emmyyyy, talk to me, what's happening?". I asked confused.
"We... Hmmmm...he isn't getting any better"
" Who?, What person?"
"Oh...what of your mom?"
"I don't know, her room I guess, what's happening for real, Emmy?"
"She didn't tell you?"
"What she?, Tell me about what? About who?, Stop talking in parables and please explain what all of this is all about"
"I'm sorry, I can't. Go and ask your mom"
"Emmy, wait up.." the line went off.

I dashed out of my room to my mom's. What I saw wasn't pleasing at all, I screamed, my mom had inhaled a large ton of Cocaine and she Laid lifeless at the brink her bed. I wasn't quite aware my mom sniffed any substance, I only knew she smoked some stuff and drank a hell lot of alcohol. The stench of alcohol made me bilious, I threw up right at my feet. Sekemi walked in to Meet my mom and I in a mess. She quickly ran downstairs to beckon on Kabir to help her. I was scared, really scared, it was like a night mare or better still a trance but that wasn't it all, as Kabir lifted my mom, I saw blood oozing out of her nose, I recoiled myself...that was all I could remember.

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"Janelleeeee'
"Fix in the oxygen and get ready to shock"
"Janelle, you can do this..." I heard those words very faintly.
"Coming in the next fifteen minutes, get the X-ray ready also, we need a transfusion urgently, hypnotize her nurse...."
"We need a transfusion..."

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I opened my eyes feeling heavy, I saw some tree-like creatures hovering around me. I was hallucinating
"Mum!" I yelled

Some forces held me tight to the bed as I was struggling to get them off me. I still was subconscious.

"Take your hands off me and where is my mom?" I said in a retort

"Olatorera, calm down"

I felt a swift affection of warmth envelope me, I felt relieved and then calmed down.

I looked around, there wasn't any physical being in the ward with me, nurses looked like moving trees passed and I heard some whispers faintly. I think I heard sekemi whispering " she is awake" to some nurses.

"Then prepare for the transfusion straight away" A nurse said impatiently
"What transfusion? I'm fine" I said trying to sit up but with difficulty.

I tried to resist the nurse injecting me but her grip was so strong or I guess I was too weak to struggle.
I gradually drifted into sleep

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I woke up feeling quite better, Emmy was sitting close to me, she had her face buried into her palms, nothing looked right.
Sekemi was on an inaudible phone call.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" She called from where she was sitting.
"Arghhhh, what happened? Where is my mom?" I queried.
"Calm down, you'll be fine, Your mom is responding to treatment"

Sekemi gave me a glass of milk, as I took a sip of the milk, I got nauseated and threw up beside the bed.

"She would be fine, it's just a reaction to the environment" The nurse attending to me said.
"You will be fine, big baby" Emmy said stroking my hair.
"I think I'll fine when you deem it fit to tell me what really happened" I asked Emmy with a fuss
"Are we really doing this?" Trust me, we aren't" She replied

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"Torera, what the hell happened?" That was Morire's voice. I heard and recognized her legendary high pitched voice from the entrance of the ward
"Like I know" I sighed.
"Good afternoon, aunty Emily" Both Miracle and Morire greeted
"Thank you for coming, my loves, I had to tell Sekemi to let you know, I never knew you could make it here today" Emmy said grinning.
"Anything for my babe nah". Morire said, this is one of the times, she isn't mean.
"Hi, How are you, Torera?" Miracle asked

I was swept away by his suaveness, I blushed a bit, at this point, I was blown away into my fantasy.

"You still dey blush inside you sick state, nawa for you o". Morire cut me short from my imaginations.
"Can't you be nice and stop picking on her?"Miracle chid her
"Abi o" I said In support to my crush.
"You still get mouth abi?"That was Morire.
"But sincerely how are you feeling?" Miracle asked
"Yeah, I'm quite fine, just a few reaction to the environment, the smell here is choking me"
"Oh, I know right? so sorry about that, I hope you are getting better?" He asked
"Of course, she is, your presence is enough to make her whole again" Morire chipped in
"Well, technically, not our presence but God's presence in our lives" Miracle said with a charming smile.
"Yes, that's true though" Emmy finally spoke after watching the whole scenario take place.
"Alaye give me milk jare, before you waste it" Morire grabbed the milk from my hand.
"You can not even comfort me and show affection, you are asking for milk, ode" I said with a grimace
"Peele, comforter of the century, boya I'm your Bobo" she replied
"Anyways, how is your mom? Sekemi told us over the phone"
"Yes, that's true, let me check up on her sef" I Said trying to stand up
"Let's all go". Miracle proposed
"No, she is under an intensive care unit, let me go,I'll give you feedback" Emmy said leaving us.
"Tell her I'm getting better too" I added
"Definitely"

"Shift jur, I want to sit down" Morire said, softly pushing me.

Yes, I know, my bestie has a problem, she stresses me out all the time.

"You can as well sit else where, don't stress Torera" Miracle said
"Abeg, help me tell her o" I added
"E dey your body" Morire said squeezing herself into the bed.

We chatted for a long time, I wasn't really feeling any pain again if not for the lump on my head, apparently, I had fainted and hit my billion dollar head on something. Emmy came back to tell us my Mom would be discharged in a couple of weeks, they had to flush her stomach due to the hazardous substance she had taken and the blood oozing out of her nose was due to the intense energy she used in sniffing the cocaine...

"Okay, we have to leave now, it's getting late" Miracle said rising up
"Yes, it is, Thank you so much". I Said smiling
"Ko tope aburo" Morire said laughing
"Who is your aburo?"

Morire and I had gone down this lane a million times on who is the oldest, she is the oldest in actual fact with just a few months older than I am but I just couldn't let morire oppress me with that.

"It's okay oo, before you guys tear down the ward with arguments" Emmy chipped in
"So, let us pray!" That was miracle
"Oh that's true"
"Father, we thank you for this day.., thank you, Jesus. Your word says that by your stripes, we are healed, therefore, we cause your hand of healing to Torera and her mom and we believe you will make them whole again, Amen" He prayed.

Morire hugged me tightly and gave me a kiss on my head before leaving. Miracle, instead of hugging as I had prepared for, held my hand and stared into my eyes, the look was intense, I couldn't hold the gaze, I turned away.

"Take care of yourself for me" He finally said
"God when????" Morire yelled from behind. This was one of few times she didn't ruin the moment with her legendary savages.
"Can you stop being dramatic?". I said laughing
"Whatever, I lurrr you, babeeeeee" she said giving me some inexplicable kind of look.
"Yeah, I love you, Bye".