Angel Of Mine Episode 13 – 14

Angel of mine

by Amanda Mofiat

Ins**t 13

There is something mentally wrong with my sister. Oh no I am not just saying this without any evidence. I told Natasha that if Emily comes in when I am not around, she mustn’t let my sister in the room we were keeping Jamal’s mother. I was right after all and here is my sister almost strangling my woman. She lets her go and honestly I have no better words for Emily.

‘She insulted me,’ she said.

‘That’s not true,’ Natasha defends herself and I know she is telling the truth.

Emily is one big liar.

‘Tasha, can you excuse us. I want to speak to my sister,’ I say my eyes on Emily.

Natasha quickly rushes out of my office and I walk to my chair.

‘What brings you here?’ I ask her as I sit down on my chair.

‘So now you don’t pick up my calls?’

Oh so now it bothers her? I thought she didn’t care about anyone but herself. She sits on the chair and I am trying to act all busy to avoid her eye contact.

‘Ernest.’

‘Yes, sis Emily.’

‘I am sorry about yesterday; I didn’t mean to come out rude on you.’

I stop what I am doing and look at her. Something you should be aware, Emily isn’t good with apologies and she doesn’t accept her mistakes. For all I know she might be faking it right now and just wants me to feel pity for her. I am not buying her apology.

‘You are sorry?’ I need to be sure that I heard correctly.

She nods her head in agreement. If she came over to my office to apologize, I wonder why she almost strangled my woman to death, how convenient of her.

‘Yes, I am sorry. I didn’t mean all the words that I said to you.’

‘Does that include you calling your mother-in law a witch?’

She hesitates to reply.

‘Yes about that as well, I want to make amends with her.’

‘So are you going to tell Jamal the truth? That you fell on your own and you were never pregnant.’

I wanted to put her on a tight s₱0t and I did as she shifted uncomfortable on the chair. Oh no she wasn’t going to tell him the truth. We might as well forget that it ever happened; I can’t believe my sister had the guts to do such a horrible thing. I just don’t get it why she hates her mother-in law when she hasn’t done anything wrong to her. She is ever since loved Emily and never for once mistreated her but Emily on the other hand I am sure she is being poisoned by her friend Tiffany. You know what’s the funny thing?

Tiffany is engaged to Bradley and I am sure she has never said any bad thing to Emily about her mother-in law. She respects her mother-in law and busy telling my sister to hate hers. If I was Emily, I could open my eyes and see that Tiffany is going to destroy my marriage 1 day but then my sister is too stubborn to listen. I washed my hands, I surrendered, I gave up on her and just let her do whatever she pleases but I won’t let her mistreat that woman. Its better she gives her money so that she goes back at the village if she doesn’t want to stay with her.

‘If you don’t want to stay with her, why don’t you send her back at the village?’

‘She has no one to take care of her. That’s the main reason why Jamal had to take her in.’

‘And you just had to mistreat her.’

‘I thought we are over that, I am here to apologize to her and let her move back in with us.’

I don’t trust Emily and I am sure she is up to something. I am being over protective towards this situation because I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to Jamal’s mother. Yes she is not my mother but shouldn’t I at least take good care of her?

‘I will walk with you to her room and I am not leaving your sight until you are out of this hospital,’ I say to her as I get up from the chair.

We both walk out of my office and head to her room. Emily is trailing behind and I can’t help it but wonder what she is up to. I know asking her would be a waste of time, she will just lie to me. We get her room and I stop just outside and turn to look at Emily.

‘What?’

‘Don’t cause any trouble or I will have you thrown out of this hospital,’ I say with a serious look on my face.

‘I am not here for a fight Jamal. I just want to talk to her in peace.’

‘Fine,’ I open the door and we walk in,side.

She is actually surprised to see Emily and from the look on her face, she was scared of her. I wonder what Emily did to make her look like this whenever she is around.

‘Emily,’ she calls out.

‘You are surprised to see me right?’ says Emily as she walks to the bed and sit on it.

She takes her hand and smiles.

‘I am so sorry mother,’ she apologizes and I am just standing there with my hands placed in my pocket, ‘I know I haven’t been a good daughter-in law for the past few weeks and I do regret what I did to you. I mean every bad thing that I did to you. You didn’t deserve such kind of treatment and I am sorry for treating you like that,’ she drops a tear and I am now confused by her actions.

Could it be that she is willing to change? What if she is just faking it? I don’t know like I said it before, Emily is unpredictable and she changes like weather.

‘It’s okay, I forgive you,’ just like that she had to forgive her.

Like I said it before she was a good woman and I couldn’t help it but wonder why Emily was being so rude to her. The two hugged and maybe she has changed. I didn’t leave the room until Emily was out. When she left the hospital, she told me that she was coming to take her mother-in law once she has recovered. Well thank goodness the wound was healing, the pills were working and she told me that she was feeling much better than before. I left her room and there was someone that I wanted to see. I told Natasha that I was going to be out for a while, it was at around 6pm when I left the hospital and I had called her. She said we could meet at her house. I wasn’t okay with the idea but then no harm right. I drove my car to her house; I didn’t tell Natasha exactly where I was going. I parked my car outside her gate and obviously she was waiting for me. I locked it and the gate wasn’t locked and so I pushed it open and walked in,side.

When I called her, she was surprised you know, I bet she was never expecting my call, not in a million ways. I knocked on the door and she came in to open it for me.

‘Hie,’ she hugged me, ‘I was surprised when you called, please come in.’

I walked in,side her house and she closed the door.

‘Beautiful house you have got to yourself.’

‘Thank you. Can I offer you something to eat or drink?’

‘No, I am okay. Not planning on staying long.’

‘So why are you here? Is Emily okay?’

‘Emily is fine. She is always fine and she was never pregnant. Was she?’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Oh please Tiffany don’t act all surprised. You know pretty well that Emily wasn’t pregnant.’

‘Emily wasn’t pregnant? That’s new to me, I didn’t know that.’

I looked at her and I could tell that she was lying.

‘Why would she lie?’

‘I should be asking you that and she made herself fall from those stairs.’

‘What?’ she responded with shock.

‘You didn’t know?’

‘No, Jamal. How would I know? I thought maybe her mother-in law was the one who pushed her.’

‘So you don’t know that Emily has been mistreating her mother-in law.’

With hands on her mouth, she says.

‘Why would Emily do such a thing?’ she sounded all surprised.

Do you know why I asked to see her? it’s because I wanted to tell her to back off, to mind her own business and never get herself involved in my sister’s marriage but clearly Tiffany was just pretending not to have any idea of what I was talking about , making me look like a fool in front of her.

‘You are saying you don’t know anything? Isn’t it you have been giving her advises.’

‘Jamal I would never tell Emily to mistreat her mother-in law. I am getting married soon and I would be staying with my mother-in law too. She is like a mother to me and I will never mistreat her, like never Jamal. I don’t know why Emily is doing such a thing and why she lied to her husband but this is something that I would disagree on. I will never advise her to mistreat her mother in law, I will never do no such thing,’ she said.

‘Oh I thought maybe you were siding with her.’

‘No, Jamal. I don’t know where she is getting all of that but clearly not from me.’

‘Is that it?’

‘Yes, Jamal.’

She wants me to believe her but I am not buying her story, I know she is lying to me.

‘Okay, I shall take my leave now.’

I decided not to talk about the issue anymore since I have been lied to already. I get up and Tiffany walks me to the door. I say my goodbyes and walk to my car. I get into my car and drive back to the hospital thinking about Tiffany and her reactions towards what she was saying to me. She had lied to me and that simple means; she didn’t want to look bad in front of me. I wonder what Emily would think about all of this.

Ins**t 14

It’s after some few days I have been discharged from the hospital and Ernest is leaving today. He has to travel to Kenya and he will be there for some few months. Natasha is also going with him; I could never be more appreciative that I am right now. Ernest helped me when I wasn’t feeling well and now more than ever I feel better than before. He didn’t have much time and so we only said our goodbyes. He promised to come back and check up on me once he is gone. Emily wasn’t around, he had gone to work. Speaking about Emily, she had been avoiding me lately. I don’t know if it is because Ernest had been staying with us. She was being respectful to me and she was never rude. Jamal hasn’t come back yet and I don’t have any idea on how he is doing.

I walk back in,side the house and I can’t believe my leg is better than before. I start tiding the house before Emily comes back. I will have to prepare some supper for her, in case she comes back in the afternoon. She already knows that Earnest is leaving the country. I manage to clean the house and I just feel as if something bad is going to happen but I try to brush the thought off, it’s a beautiful day and I don’t want to think of anything bad happening right now. I finish off doing everything and since I am not a fan of television, I go to my room and take my Shona bible. I sit on the bed and start reading the bible when I hear noise coming from the dining room. I am alone in the house and so I put on my slippers and walk out of my room. As I check to see who it is, I am happy to see him.

‘Mum,’ he calls out once he sees me upstairs.

His smile is just priceless but then is he still mad at me? I stand there as I watch him run to me, he hugs me so tightly and I hug him back. I had missed him; I feel a tear escape my eye. My son is back and he just hugged me. Trust me when I say that I had been praying endlessly to God, to just give me back my son.

‘I have missed you so much,’ he said and takes my hand.

‘I missed you too.’

He walks with me to the dining room and makes me sit on the sofa. To be honest he is and he looks very happy to see me. Whatever happened to him where he was just made him come back as a different person, not angry at me? I want to ask him if he has forgiven me but I don’t want to talk about the past. I just want to enjoy this moment with him, I love Jamal with all of my heat and things hasn’t been okay with me since he had been ignoring me. Not hearing his voice and seeing his face was like torture to me.

‘How have you been Ma?’

‘I have been okay, ‘I say to him.

I won’t tell him that I was hospitalized; no I am feeling well now. We talk for a while and he tells me all about his trip. He enjoyed being there from the way he was saying out things. He made me laugh a lot and I even forgot that we were not on speaking terms.

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You must be wondering why I am back and getting along with my mother. When I left I wasn’t talking to her, I was mad at her and so many thoughts ran through my mind but then I saw something in Brazil that just made me change my mind about the way I had been treating my mother. I get it there is never a good relationsh¡p between mother-in law and daughter. What if my mother didn’t push Emily? What if Emily was never pregnant? You know why I doubt the wh0le thing? Emily always takes her pills every day, she doesn’t want to be a mother yet and she will never miss her pills. My mother has been my mother for years. Surely if she hated Emily, shouldn’t I have seen the signs before I even asked her to marry me? Before I told mum that I was marrying her? My mother is a lovely woman and she will never do that.

I truly owe her an apology; I don’t know what got into me. I don’t know why I had to think that my mother was a killer, she will never do that and right now I don’t want to mention anything that has got to do with that incident. I don’t know why Emily lied to me but I will surely get to the bottom of this. Right now I want my mother to be happy. Whatever got into me when I was being rude to her, my father should be turning in his grave right now as I promised him that I will take good care of mum before he died. I am so happy that mum is smiling. You know the emotional part of it, I let Emily’s mother slap her. A tear escape my eye and I quickly wipe it.

‘Are you okay?’ she asks.

‘I am fine, I am just happy to see you,’ I say to her and k-ss her on the cheek, ‘I brought you something,’ I say opening my small suitcase.’

I saw a beautiful garment and bought it for her. She loves sewing and maybe she could do something with it. I show her the garment and she is happy to see it. I am happy when she is happy. Honestly when I heard of what had happened that day, I was stressed up by everything. I didn’t know what to believe or who to believe. I had been with Emily for a while and my mother too, what if she truly pretended to have liked Emily. You see I had so many questions running through my mind. I had to take Emily’s side when I saw her breaking down, her actions towards losing our child were truly convincing and I was left with no choice but to believe her but now I am not so sure if I believe my wife. I will be waiting for her to come back home and we have a talk.

Mother and I decided to prepare some supper together. She had cooked something for Emily in the afternoon but Emily didn’t come back and so I ate her food. It was nice spending some quality time with my other. I can see she had missed me a lot too, I was glad to know that her wound on the leg was getting better. We finished cooking and sat in the dining room waiting for Emily. I didn’t tell Emily that I was coming, I wanted to surprise her and the surprise did work when she opened the door and I was busy laughing with mum. We were watching John English, I paused it when Emily walked in,side the house and I got up to welcome her.

‘You are surprised to see me?’ I ask her.

‘Yes, I am,’ she said hugging me back, ‘I didn’t know that you were coming in today.’

‘Well I decided to cut my vacation short so that I can come back home and spend some quality time with my mother and wife,’ I say to her as we sat on the sofa and she is looking all confused.

My mother greets her and she responds back.

‘Dinner is ready,’ says mum.

‘Let’s go and eat. I helped mum to cook,’ I say taking her hand.

We walk to the table and sit down. Mum says grace and we start to eat. I am looking at Emily and she isn’t eating that much.

‘Eat babe,’ I say to her and smile.

She fakes a smile and I could see it. She looks at my mother and back at the plate in front of her.

‘It’s getting cold, eat while it’s still warm,’ I say to her.

‘Of cause.’

Maybe she thinks my mother poisoned her. Why would mum do that? I finished my food and Emily didn’t eat much. She excused herself saying that she wanted to sleep early and take a bath before sleeping. I helped mum with the dishes even when she insisted on washing them herself. We finished washing the dishes and I leave her to tidy up the place before going to bed. I tell her that I will come to say goodnight. I walk to my room and open the door. Emily is putting on her night dress and I close the door. I have to bath too but just after talking to my wife.

‘So you didn’t tell me that you were coming. Did your mother know?’

‘Emily, didn’t I say that it was supposed to be a surprise.’

‘I see,’ she says and pause, ‘since when are you getting along with your mother,’ she continues.

So then she expected me to hate my mother up until when? The woman in the kitchen gave birth to me and I made a huge mistake when I couldn’t trust her, its Emily that I shouldn’t trust and not my mother.

‘Emily, I have to ask you something,’ I choose to ignore what she just said.

‘Go ahead hubby. I am all ears,’ she says sitting on the bed.

‘You said you were pregnant when my mother pushed you?’

‘The doctor said that.’

Funny Emily is the one who said that she was pregnant and she wanted to surprise me. You see how she has just changed her story. I saw the facial expression on her face change when she realized that she had given me a different answer but it was too late for her to change it again.

‘Emily I have known my mother for years now. I mean she practically gave birth to me and she would never do such a thing.’

‘Are you calling me a liar?’

‘I never called you a liar but think about it Emily. You didn’t want my mother to move in with us. You just made it clear to me that you didn’t want to stay with her. I thought maybe you would have changed your mind about it, but what if you didn’t? What if you framed my mother? What if you made yourself fall and put the blame on her? What if you wanted me to hate my mother? Emily, I love you a lot and trust me I love my mother too. But if you are scared that my mother will get more of my attention then you are developing an evil mind babe, I will never do that and my mother wouldn’t let me do that. She loves you a lot and I think it’s time we clear off this misunderstanding.’

‘Jamal, your m…’

‘I am still talking Emily. My mother didn’t push you and you were never pregnant Emily,’ I cut her short, ‘You will never miss your pills and I bet if you were pregnant, you were going to abort that baby. I know how much you hate kids but still I love you. Let’s just get along in this house. Mother will leave very soon but for now treat her with respect. Love her as if she was your own mother. You would hate the idea of me mistreating your own mother. I am going to bath,’ I say to her and walk out of the room.
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Amy