Angel Of Mine – Episode 7

Angel of mine

by Amanda Mofiat

Ins**t 7

I walk out of her office and trying so hærd not to let the tears fall. I am trying to be strong and not let what she said get to me that deeply. Maybe she didn’t mean what she said; I try so hærd to convince myself that it wasn’t her saying those bad things to me. And why would I pretend to love her? I didn’t understand where she was getting all of those things, I wasn’t even at their house to hurt her but Jamal had taken me from the village because I wasn’t feeling well. I wasn’t planning on staying but I had to because of the treatment I was getting from the doctor.

‘Ma, are you okay?’ the girl who was nice when I came in asks and I just node my head.

‘Yes and thank you,’ I say to her.

‘No need Ma. Have a safe journey,’ she says to me and I hear Emily calling out her name.

I hope she isn’t in trouble because of me. I am finally out of the building and I can feel my heart ache a lot. No one had ever spoken like that to me; I don’t know what to do anymore. I thought that it was work, I thought that maybe it’s because she was over working, the reason why she was being rude to me but that wasn’t the case. The way Emily talked to me in her office; I could see so much hatred in her eyes. Not only was she angry at me but she almost hit me with that lunchbox. As I am walking and thinking at the same time, I don’t see the car and it hit me. Suddenly everything is blurring.

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I wake up minutes later.

‘She is awake!’ I hear my son shouting.

I can feel the pain on my other leg and I try to sit up but I can’t. Jamal walks in minutes later with the doctor and I don’t remember what happened to me. He asks if I can remember anything and suddenly I remember the car hitting me when I was busy thinking about so many things.

‘You were very lucky Ma,’ says the doctor, ‘they were no internal injuries but you broke your other leg. You will have to use clutches for just a couple of weeks,’ he says and walks out of the room.

I can see my son’s eyes are red.

‘Have you been crying?’ I ask him and he tries to hide his almost falling tears from me, ‘come here,’ I hold out my hand at him.

He walks to my bed and holds my hand so tightly.

‘You scared me Ma,’ he says now in tears, ‘what if this was more serious? What happened? Where were you coming from?’

I guess he was that worried right, so many questions and I didn’t know how to respond to them. I mustn’t tell him about the visit at his wife’s workplace right, I mean when I went there Jamal wasn’t aware. It was more like a surprise and I had to ask directions on how to get there.

‘I had taken a walk son. I just wanted to see places and I just crossed the road without looking sideways,’ I decided to lie.

‘Mother you could have told me that you wanted to have a walk or see town. I would have gladly asked the driver to accompany you. I wasn’t going to forgive myself if anything bad was going to happen to you. You know how much I love you and losing you will be the death of me.’

Jamal worries a lot. At least the injury wasn’t that bad at all.

‘What happened to her?’ my daughter-in law opens the door and rush to my bed.

‘She was involved in a car accident,’ responds Jamal.

She hugs me,

‘Why didn’t you die?’ she whispers in my ear, ‘couldn’t it have been better if that driver knocked you down dead. He would have done both of us a favor,.’ She said and broke the hug, ‘what did the doctor say?’

Don’t you think it will be very bad of me to tell my son of what has been going on between me and his wife? If you are a mother, put yourself in my shoes. Right here I am just thinking that whatever things Emily says to me, she is probably stressed at work or I don’t know what’s stressing her. Shouldn’t I just be quiet about it and not tell Jamal. After all Jamal’s happiness counts the most and I wouldn’t want to tell on his wife. I know Emily is not such a bad person, she will come around. She is a lovely girl and I know 1 day she will try to get along with me, she will love me 1 day and I should keep telling myself that. Jamal told her what the doctor had said about my injury.

The doctor came back minutes later and told me that I will be discharged tomorrow. The young man apologized for hitting me and he wasn’t at fault. I actually told him not to worry, poor child was crying afraid that he might have hurt me that much but I was okay. Emily left the hospital later on but Jamal remained behind.

‘I am happy Emily came over to see you and helped a little.’

‘Yes,’ I respond, ‘you should go home and take some rest I will be fine. Its already night and Emily will be waiting for you.’

‘But you need someone to look after you,’ he said.

‘Not at all Jamal. I can take care of myself. I wouldn’t want Emily to spend the night on her own. You need to be with her.’

‘You love her that much mother. If you were someone else, you wouldn’t mind having me around.’

I smile at him, I was his mother and I knew what was best for him. I didn’t want Emily to think that I was the one who had told Jamal not to go home. Already she thinks that I am after their relationsh¡p, I wouldn’t want her to think the worst out of me. I didn’t want to be in bad books with her. Even though I was experiencing the pain and would need someone by my side, I just told Jamal to go home; I was going to be okay. It wasn’t that easy to make him go home, he didn’t want to leave but he left and I was alone now in the room.

I lay awake thinking about Emily. What she said to me when she came to visit me, how she wished I had died. If only I knew what made her hate me this much then maybe I would change my ways if it is that I am being too much of a mother-in law but then I didn’t know where I had gone wrong with her. I was completely in the dark.

The next following day Jamal came to take me home, I was discharged by the doctor and he told me to continue taking the pills and I shall be fine. We went home and when we arrived, Emily wasn’t at home. Jamal told me that she had left for work much earlier. I sat on the sofa and he prepared breakfast for me.

‘I am sorry I might not be able to help in this house.’

‘Mother you don’t need to worry. Just focus on getting well. Your health matters the most right now and I just want you to get well soon,’ he said and I just nodded.

We talked for a while with Jamal and I asked him to take me to my room just after I had taken the pill, I was feeling sleepy. He laid me on the bed and I closed my eyes as I drifted off to lalaland.

*

‘She didn’t die,’ I said over the phone.

I had called Tiffany telling her that my mother-in law was involved in an accident but the witch survived. I don’t know why she got hit by the car.

‘She doesn’t know how to cross the road. Do you blame her she is from the village,’ I say to Tiffany and she laughs out loud, ‘how is bae?’

‘Bae is okay and how is hubby?’

‘He is okay. He didn’t go to work today. He is nursing his mother’s wound.’

‘And why didn’t you do that?’

‘Oh please,’ I say and she laughs out loud again.

I say bye to Tiffany and continue working and so I wanted to fire the receptionist but she begged me not to, I ended up forgiving her when I had heard that my mother –in law has been involved in an accident but then we all know that she didn’t die, she escaped death. I finish off working and leave early from work. I am walking to my car when I receive a message from hubby. He said that he had to travel and it was an emergency that he had to leave. He asked me to take care of his mother. He could have asked me to do something else than to take care of that witch. Well it’s not like I was going to take good care of her.

*

Jamal had to leave; he got a call from one of his company. It looks as if the building had caught fire; I just prayed that none of the people in the building were hurt. He didn’t want to leave but I told him that I was going to be fine. I got up from the bed, I wanted to go to the kitchen to cook something for Emily before she comes back home. I wouldn’t want her to starve, I grabbed my clutch which I will be using now and walked out of my room. Now the hærd part will be for me taking the stairs. His house was big and to my room or to the dining room, you had to take some stairs. I was about to walk downstairs when I met Emily climbing up the stairs.

‘Look who we have here,’ she says to me.

‘Good afternoon,’ I say to her.

‘Oh please.’

She walks to me and grabbed my clutch from me.

‘Emily, please,’ I beg her.

I can’t stand without it.

‘Please what,’ she says and we hear someone driving in.

‘It looks like your son forgot something.’

‘Can I have the c..,’ I wanted to take it from her but before I could do that she made herself fall from up to down the stairs while holding the clutch.

The moment she is down on the floor, Jamal opens the door and I am upstairs staring at Emily.

‘Mother, what did you do,’ those were the words that came out of his mouth as he rushed to his wife.

I was utterly shocked that I couldn’t even say anything. Emily was unconscious on the floor and I didn’t know how to tell Jamal that she made herself fall from the stairs. He just took her and rushed with her to the car while I was left standing helplessly and desperately. I managed to walk downstairs and grabbed the clutch as I walked to the sofa.

Minutes passed, hours and after some few hours of waiting in there for my son. It was already dark when he walked in,side the house looking defeated. I got up to welcome him.

‘How is Emily?’ I asked worriedly.

‘She lost the baby.’

‘What?’

‘She was pregnant, you made her fall and she lost the baby. Emily told me everything mother. Why did you push her?’

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Amy