My Wicked Step Mother
Episode 3
She was shocked as l stood by the door with my mouth wide opened. ” What the hèll are you doing?” I yelled at Sandra as l moved into the room.
“What were you doing to my dad?” I saw you kîssing him. How dare you?” I yelled again like an angry bird.
She quickly moved away from him and went out of the room. She started calling out the attention of people that were around and soon enough, some nurses trooped into the room and Sandra started yelling at me.
“This girl is an evil girl. I came in here and found her at the machine. Do you want to disconnect the life support machine?” She turned to my and gave me a hot slap.
I went dizzy, almost falling to the ground. I was dumbfounded. I didn’t know what was going on again. She was blatantly lying. No one saw me come in ’cause I had sneaked in. Wasn’t sure someone was going to believe me.
“Urgghh…Urghh…” a noise came from behind Sandra. My dad was awake. The doctor came in at that moment and he rushed to where my dad was. He began checking him with his stethoscope. He took his hands and also checked his eyes.
Sandra began to say again, ” Doctor,I came in here and saw this girl at the machine. I don’t know what she was trying to do but she was about disconnecting the machine, ” Sandra said, breathing heavily.
The doctor’s face changed immediately and he went removing his glasses. “Joy, did you do what Sandra just said?” the doctor asked with a surprised face.
I was about talking when another slap landed on my face. I bursted out crying and Mr John, our security man shouted at the nurse.
“Who gave you the right to raise your hands on my small madame, are you okay?” Mr John said as he grabbed me, I was speechless. I was really confused.
“Joyyy…!” a faint voice called out to me, it was my dad’s. I removed Mr John’s hands on my body and went running towards my dad on the bed. I hugged him tightly and he went kîssing me by the forehead.
“Where is your mom?” He asked as he looked at me. I couldn’t say anything, all I could do was to cry. I opened my mouth slowly but words were not coming.
“Oh…my wife…I want to see my wife,” my dad said as tears began dropping down his eyes. His body began to vibrate and l really got scared. He started closing his eyes slowly and his hands were beginning to leave my body.
The doctor rushed at us, and he started CPR on him. A lot of injections were injected into his body, he was dying. All of us were ordered to get out of the room. I stood by the door as l watched them saving his life.
I couldn’t sleep throughout the night. I prayed to God to spare my dad. Sandra’s actions were still shocking to me. She turned everything upside down. She lied blatantly and everyone believed her.
I cleaned the tears that were on my face and l quietly dozed off. It has been a week, dad had speedingly recovered and we were set to go home in the evening.
Our security man had brought my dad’s favorite car. We were set to go home after all the horrible things that had happened.
I could still see sadness on dad’s face. His wife was gone and the next thing was for us to prepare for her burîal. We moved to his car and suddenly someone started calling out to us.
“Mr Mike, I’m the nurse that was appointed to you. I’ll be going home with you and by evening time, I’ll be leaving,” Sandra smiled at dad as she finished her sentence.
“Oh…no problem, hop into the car.” Dad said as be made to seat in the car. Dad went sitting at the back seat and Sandra went quickly to seat at the back seat as well. l was amazed at what she did.
I was supposed to be sitting with Dad and not her. Our driver signalled to me with his eyes. I got the message and I moved to the front seat.
The journey began and in no time we were home. Home was not like before anymore. There was silence everywhere. Mom wasn’t around anymore and my coolvalstories little sibling I was expecting was gone with mom as well.
Dad went into the house. His eyes caught the picture that was on the wall in the parlor. It was his wedding picture with my mom. My eyes and Sandra’s eyes caught each other and Sandra made to break the silence.
“Please can you direct me to the kitchen, you need to eat and take your medication sir,” Sandra said as she moved closer to dad.
I watched Sandra as she went to the kitchen with my dad. I went straight to my room. I was extremely tired. I went to shower as well and l spent almost like an hour under the shower.
That was the only place I could think about life. I cried for some minutes and l went consoling myself. I dressed to go to the parlor.
Dad and Sandra were not there. I decided to go to dad’s room. I saw Sandra by the bed side. My dad was fast asleep.
She saw me and she beamed a smile. “What did you give my dad?” I asked her as she went standing up from the bed. “I made tea for your dad and I gave him his medication.
You need to leave now, your dad needs to rest.” She said with a warning face. “I want to stay with my dad till he wakes up,” I said boldly and she bursted out laughing. Little girl, behave yourself and don’t let me hàte you, just obey and leave.”
Sandra said as she pointed for me to get out of the room. I didn’t move an inch and all of a sudden, a slap landed on my face. I went screaming but dad didn’t move on the bed.
He was still fast asleep. She must have given him sleeping pills. “I told you to get out Sandra,” Sandra went yelling at me and immediately, she threw me out of the room and went locking the door behind me.
I fell to the floor as I began weeping. I banged at the door a couple of times but no response. In tears I went running to my room. I couldn’t believe this was happening.
ROSANLA SEYI
