To the moon and back

Chapter 5.1

Chapter 5.1

Hannah had to wait for another day which i was not sure of for me to ask her out for a date. With what had happened with Annika, my instincts told me that i needed to create a bit of a space and see what the future had install for me. Being a male i was under a lot of pressure. Anyone in shoes like mine could have done the same i believe, unless otherwise if he was a womanizer. There was a problem though, it rose up and made me to think that everything that had happened was just a onetime thing and i had to forget it and her.

By 'her' i mean Annika. Like the first time we talked in good terms, we didn't meet in a while after. I tried to call her many, plenty times but her phone was unavailable. My mother said she did not get to talk to her that much to know her whereabouts when i had asked her, and Jennifer said her physical home address had never being a topic between them.

"I thought you said you went out on a date with her, you did not get to ask her about where she lives?" Jennifer asked me, seriously.

"Mm - we didn't have much time to discuss about that" i answered her, nervously.

"You should have made a time to ask her, Nigel" she fretted and guilty was with me. "Try to get her address from Mrs. Dolba. She said they are so close to each other."

"Mm - I don't know who Mrs. Dolba is" i said and shrugged.

"Huh! Good luck then brother" said Jennifer annoyingly. "I can't help you here. I have to sleep now. I have talked a lot today."

She tucked herself into her blanket and started sleeping although it wasn't right away she did so.

"Who is Mrs. Dolba?" i asked my mother. She was of no help. She did not know who Mrs. Dolba was.

I did not revisit the topic of Annika with Jennifer due to the attitude she had showed me. It was clear to see that i was not going to get anything from her, taking my judgment from the experience i had with her in the yesteryears.

With some regrets i decided to let Annika slip away from my mind even though time after time i was asking myself that 'was there something wrong i did or said that drove her away?' And sigh, i couldn't recall doing anything wrong for there were no mistakes i had done. What was there to say is that if i could calculate, i had added a new friend and her name was Annika, a girl that always had a bowler hat on.

Days turned into nights and the nights transformed into sunrises, a well-blended medication for a scattered mind. Chemotherapy treatment time was around the corner again for Jennifer.

"Jenny is fine. She was just wondering when fat boom boom! Will visit her" i said to Eddie through a phone on a day i don't remember much about. I just remember that i spent the whole day with Jennifer and my first girlfriend, my mother, at the hospital. "Still, the doctors won't let her out of the hospital."

"Oh - but, ha, ha, ha, ha......" laughed Eddie, like there was to be no tomorrow. "Tell her that she will have to reconsider about that name. She should perhaps add 'er' at the end of each boom because, you know. Anyway still no news about Annika?"

"Yap" I squeaked, getting myself cozy on the couch. "The girl is a myth now and huh, thanks for reminding me of her. I had almost forgotten that she exists."

"Mm, i totally doubt about you forgetting her" said Eddie confidently.

"And sadly, do you remember Bryant?" I asked, my tone sorrow. "The one that caused some problems during prom"

"Yeah" replied Eddie. "What about him?"

"He passed away last week" i drawled. "He was involved in a car accident."

"That's sa-" the call ended unexpectedly due to errors of communication networks.

That did not end so well for me and so i guess for Eddie. He didn't get to tell me his day's adventures and i after had nobody tell my futuristic plans like really asking out Hannah. It was no joke this time, i had made up my mind and i was not doing the reversals. Come a day before that plan was to take place, i got woken up by a call from doctor Maynards at 8 A. M. I had then not slept for too long. I had just returned from work, the night shift i hated.

"Meet me outside your house. Black range rover. We need to talk" said the doctor when i had picked up his call.

"Okay" i said, tensed up already. "Give me a moment."

He had parked his car exactly where my mother parked hers, near the garage. I still could have easily seen him if he had not described the
make of his car. I got inside it and sat on the first passenger seat.

"Good morning" the doctor greeted me.

"Morning" i answered, in my morning lazy voice. The doctor then handed over to me a black and white picture and told me to look at it. On it was a girl who looked exactly like Jennifer. The girl was Jennifer i could have said but i could have been wrong. It wasn't her on it.

"That's my sister, Towerah" said the doctor, softly. "The reason i became a doctor. She died with only 14 years attached to her. Colon cancer was the reason behind. I didn't know what it was then." There was guilt and pain in his voice, big enough to stop a heart of a lion. "All the time she was in pain i just sat there watching her, not having anything to do that could have helped her." I didn't know how to react at first; i was just listening to him. It then caught me, my heart started to skip beats. I was with pity for the doctor. "I cried for almost an hour after seeing your sister the day she was assigned to me. I thought my sister had come back to life. Mm." he gulped, bowed his head onto the steering and sighed. After some seconds he turned to me and said, "Okay. Let me cut to the chase. My sister maybe long gone but seeing your sister has given me a chance to forgive myself and therefore i will do anything to help her beat the cancer. A friend of mine -" his phones, three of them began to ring. He picked up one. There was an emergency at his work place that needed his immediate intervention.
"I think we will talk at the hospital. I need to rush to the hospital" he said to me, snappily. "I will see you."

"Okay" i said and got out of the car, disappointed by the truth that i didn't get to know the main intention of his visit.

Come the next day in line, a day i had set to ask Hannah out, i was once more woken up by a phone call. This one made me to stress a little bit. It was my mother who had called. Picking up her call didn't happen easily. My mind overflowed with thoughts that had me failing to press the green button.

"Good morning" she greeted me right after she had responded to my 'hello', soon after picking up her call. Her warm voice alone shut down the thoughts that had bubbled up in my mind, the bad ones mostly.

"It's a good morning here, mom" i said, yawning. "How about there?"

"We okay" said my mother, vocally. "Mm, doctor Maynards wants to see us today so you need to come. He wants us all here."

"What time?" i asked in a quivering voice.

"10:30 this morning" she answered.

"He was here yesterday but didn't get the chance to tell me why he had come due to the busy nature of his job."

"Maybe it's the same thing he wants to tell us today."

"Let's think so" i said. "You will see me before the 10:30. I have to sleep a little."

"Okay, fine. Just make sure that you are here" my mother said and cut off the line. I went back to sleep, having in mind that i had somewhere to be in the day.

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