Angel Of Mine – Episode 25

Angel of mine

by Amanda Mofiat

Episode 25

Funny, I am staring at the door hoping to see her. It’s been days and I only saw her once.

‘Eat,’ my mother says as she is feeding me.

‘What are you thinking about?’ asks Mai Chido.

‘Nothing,’ I respond to her.

I am thinking about the doctor and the way she just presented herself to me was something else. I finally remembered what had happened to me as I was told that I had been in a comma for months due to the vegetables that I ate when mum decided to cook for us. Ernest said that it was a reaction that had sent me into a comma and thank goodness Angela saved my life and my mother’s too. She was like an Angel and I thanked the Lord. Emily hasn’t come to visit me; she called in the morning telling me that she had some things to take care of.

‘Congratulations, you are expecting,’ said Mai Chido and I smiled.

Emily told me that we were expecting and I was happy when I heard the good news. I am supposed to be discharged tomorrow but I want to go home today so that I could spend some time with her. Mai Chido and mum will be staying with us for a while until I am better and when mum’s wound has completely healed too. I am expecting to see Angela because I would really like to thank her in person and I can’t be asking Ernest of her whereabouts. Mum leaves the room and it’s just me and Mai Chido in the room.

‘Did you see Doctor Angela today?’ I ask trying to sound formal.

She has asked me to call her by her name but with Mai Chido, I had to sound formal.

‘Angela went back to Harare, where she stays with her father and owns a hospital.’

I don’t know why I felt the sudden pain in my chest. Maybe because I liked her sense of humor and she was a great person to hang around with. I couldn’t ask for her phone number too and just decided to let it me. If fate was going to bring us back together then I would thank her. I was discharged from the hospital the next following day and Emily was there to accompany me home. We got home and mum had cooked something for me. She actually tasted the food before giving it to me and I gladly ate it. She was just looking at me as I ate, afraid that I might get sick again but I didn’t. I even finished the food without getting sick or throwing up or just anything. I went to bed early because the pills were making me feel dizzy.

It’s a week now and I feel so much better than before but still works from home. Mum is still around but Mai Chido went back to the village. Emily left early for work and so it’s just me, mum and the new maid. About the maid part, since we were going to have a baby, Emily finally agreed to hire a maid. She recently started working few days after my discharge. I get tired of sitting in my study room and walk to my mother’s room where I find her speaking over the phone.

‘Yes, he is feeling better. Thank you very much my princess. Yes I will definitely come visit you, bye,’ she hangs up and smiles.

‘I have never seen you smile like that since dad died.’

She laughs.

‘Please do you think your dad was the only person who made me smile?’

‘Do I have another father?’

‘Jamal,’ she pinched me; ‘you know no one will ever replace your father’s place.’

‘You are still young mum; any man would want to be with you.’

‘Oh please, I am too old for such things.’

‘You are not old to me,’ I say to her.

Seriously I wouldn’t mind if she brings in another man in her life. It’s been a while since dad died and mum hasn’t even had the chance to go out there and you know explore. She wasn’t that old, only in her early 50s.

‘I was talking to Angela.’

The minute she says Angela, my heart skips a beat and I have never felt that way before. There is literally something wrong with me right? How can I feel like that towards some woman, I hærdly knew?

‘How is she? You seem to be pretty close with her?’

‘Yes, we are. She saved my life and she is a nice woman.’

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The minute I heard her say that she is a nice woman, I felt my blood boil with anger. I know what she is trying to do right now, she is trying to hook him up with her. I knew there was just something fishy about that Angela girl and I already asked my private investigator to find something about her. He is yet to give me some news; I don’t know why Maria moved in back with us. Maria is that b***h that calls herself my mother-in law, I wish she had just died from those pills but she didn’t and now that she knows I poisoned her, I wonder if she is going to tell her son about it.

‘She asked me if I could come and visit her.’

‘Oh that’s great, I can drive you there,’ I heard Jamal say and clears my throat letting him know that I had heard everything, ‘hey babe,’ he says to me and I fake a smile.

He walks to me and gives me a hug.

‘I thought you were coming in late. How is my baby?’

‘He is okay,’ I say to him and we walk out of his mother’s room.

I swear that woman will hear of me very soon. How can she try to find her son another woman when I was still with him? We walked to our room and he opened the door for me. I am glad that Jamal is doing okay and that will never happen, me trying to poison myself. Right now I just need to be careful with the pregnancy. More than ever I couldn’t wait to give him a child so that his mother mustn’t think that I was barren and bring him another wife. He takes my feet and starts rubbing them.

‘Jamal, can I ask you something?’

‘Yes.’

‘Do you like Angela?’

I don’t know why I asked him that question but he laughed making me look like a fool that I was.

‘She saved my life and I have no reason of hating her. If you afraid that me and her…,’ he laughed again, ‘I love Emily with all of my heart and no woman will ever take the place she have in my heart, it’s yours and it’s locked just for you.’

I smile and believe his words. I know how much he loves me and he wouldn’t do anything to hurt me. I don’t want to feel jealousy over nothing, I mean I am more beautiful than that Angela girl and Jamal only has eyes for me. I finally fall asleep while Jamal rubs my feet.

When I wake up later on, Jamal is not on the bed and I put on my slippers. I walk out of our room and find him in the kitchen cooking and humming to a song. I just stand at the door with my arms on my chest. Lord, I don’t know what I did to deserve such kind of man. I am just so lucky and Jamal is my everything.

‘How long have you been standing there?’ he asks me and I just smile at him.

‘Long enough to see you cook. Where is mum and the maid?’

‘Mum is packing her clothes. She is going to Harare tomorrow. I can’t believe Angela opened a shop for mum and Mai Chido. She knows that they sew.’

I don’t know what’s with that Angela girl and his mum. I swear if that woman was living in our city, I was going to get rid of her. Jamal goes on and on about Angela and seriously he is just ruining my mood right now; I keep on faking a smile until he is done with Angela this and that.

‘I am sorry,’ he says to me.

‘Sorry for?’

‘I kept on talking about Angela and…’

‘It’s okay. She is a good woman and I am happy for your mother. I will go and see her,’ I say to her.

‘Okay, dinner will be ready soon,’ he shouts as I walk to his mother’s room.

I opened the door and she was busy packing. This is the first time; we are going to have a talk. Since she came back, I hadn’t gotten the chance to talk to her. I can see by her facial expression that she is scared of me.

‘I am happy you didn’t tell Jamal the truth that I had poisoned myself and he ate the food, that I kicked you out and stuff.’

‘I love Jamal and I know how happy he is with you. I am just praying to God that 1 day you change and be someone better.’

‘Are you? Because from the look of things, you are trying to replace me with Angela.’

‘Emily, I will never do that.’

‘Oh please enough with the pretense; I know what you are up to. The next thing I will hear you calling that Angela girl, your daughter-in law. Let me tell you something Maria, Jamal is mine and I won’t let some stupid doctor take my place. Don’t look all confused because I know what you are up to and I will be watching over you. Always know that everywhere you go, I will have ears and eyes. I will be the only woman for Jamal. Do you hear me?’

She nods her head in agreement.

‘Good, I just came to say goodbye and I hope we will never see each other again. Stay there as long as you want and don’t think about coming back. This place will be about me, Jamal and our child. You should find yourself a man, I hope Angela will hook you up with her father,’ I laugh out loud as I walk out of her room.

So Jamal wanted to drive his mother and I pretended to be sick the next following day. He had no choice but to send her off by bus. I was happy that the house was going to be ours; I didn’t mind having the maid around as long as she was doing her job. I surely needed someone to help me around.

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Amy