CRAZY SIDE CHICK
#Chapter_21
“Let’s carry him to the car!” Mwewa screamed at the company Auditor.
The Auditor shoveled up the back with his arms while Mwewa lifted the legs and carried Mr Binwell Tembo to the car outside.Mwewa instructed Mr Binwell Tembo’s driver to steer down to the City Hospital.
On the way,Mwewa searched for Mr Binwell Tembo’s phone which luckily had no password and called Majorly.He personally did not own a phone at the moment,since he left Mwaka’s apartment without it.
“Yes Father,” answered Majorly.
“Have you left for school yet?” Asked Mwewa.
“Not yet.Who’s this?You don’t sound like father,” said Majorly.
“Where are you?”
“Am still at my father’s house.Who are you?”
“Come down to the City Hospital,father just collapsed,” said Mwewa.At this point Majorly knew this was Mwewa for he called Mr Binwell Tembo his father too.
Majorly went like “What?What happened?”
“Just come to the hospital, okay?”said Mwewa.He guessed Mr Binwell Tembo’s sudden break down could be cancer complications related.But he couldn’t disclose Mr Binwell Tembo’s health condition against the old man’s wishes.He thought it best for Majorly to find out about her father’s heart breaking health disorder perhaps later this afternoon when she would come to the hospital.
A few minutes later,they were at the hospital and a medical team rolled Mr Binwell Tembo on a stretcher into an emergency room.A nurse kept Mwewa and the Auditor in a bench outside the ER.
Majorly rushed into the hallway to the ER and found Mwewa and the Auditor in the bench.
“What happened to my father?” She whined.
Mwewa stood up to talk with her,” relax.We are waiting for the same report.”
Standingly they both waited silently for someone to come out of that ER and tell them something.Minutes later,a lady came out with a stethoscope in her hand.
Marjoly blocked her way,”what’s wrong with my father?”
“Oh,you must be Mr Binwell Tembo’s daughter right?” guessed the doctor.
“Yes,please,” said Majorly.
“Your father has regained conscious after some elevated levels in his BP but we are keeping him here as he is in the last stages of his health condition.We need to prevent him from getting too depressed again,” said the doctor.
“Excuse me?” Marjoly puzzled up,” what do you mean ‘ he’s in the last stages of his health condition?”
“Go in and talk with your father for a minute,I will talk to you later,okay?” said the doctor.She sensed Marjoly had no idea about her father’s disorder.
Majorly hurried into the ER.Mwewa followed with the Auditor.
She couldn’t hold back her tears seeing her father in a stretcher.
“Father!What happened to you?” She held his laid right hand.
Mr Binwell Tembo held her back with his left and said,”am fine now, darling.Am alright.”
“Yes you are alright now.You have to be for me,right?” Said Marjoly.
Mr Binwell Tembo forced a faint smile.Inwardly he felt the pain but was really trying to hold it.Though lately, Marjoly had roughly thought about his unexplained weight loss which she mistook for work stress.He had ever hated to imagine himself disclosing his health status to his daughter.He really despised the feeling of seeing her worry about him.But now, feeling that he would not make it to his medical life expectancy,he losened his secret to let his daughter know about his troubles.
“Yes am alright,” he began and stared into the ceiling,”but the doctor said that I won’t be able to live the six months I was expected…”
“Father!What are you saying?”
Mr Binwell Tembo glanced at Mwewa and then turned his head back to his daughter, “Ask your husband,he knows my condition.”
“I don’t understand,father,” Majorly felt confused though she began to think something was really bad here.She’d have sought a clear answer but the medical team pleaded to let them take him out of the ER.
“Excuse me,madam.He’s been just admitted and we need to commence treatment right now,” said a nurse who came to roll the stretcher.
Mr Binwell Tembo said to Mwewa,”help me tell my daughter about what has left of me.And when you done,go back to work and work with the Auditor.Come back here after work,with my daughter, I have something important to tell both of you.”
Majorly tried to follow the stretcher but she was left standing in the center of the hallway.Mwewa walked up behind her and said,”he’s gonna get well.”
“What’s wrong with my father?” Asked Marjoly without looking behind her.
“Let’s go to your car,” suggested Mwewa.She agreed.
The Auditor waited in Mr Binwell’s car and was instructed to tell the driver to wait too for Mwewa.
Mwewa sat in the passenger seat next to Marjoly in the driver’s.
“Father warned me not to tell you about it because he thought it would hurt you badly and affect your studies ,” began Mwewa.
“About what?” Marjoly was both nervous and curious.
“Father has Colon Cancer stage 4..”
Marjoly looked in Mwewa’s eyes hoping to see it a lie even though she knew he wouldn’t make a lie for such a thing.
“Cancer?” She asked.
“Yes.He told me the last time you brought lunch to my office.He also told me that his personal doctor had medically proven that he would not live more than six months,” said Mwewa.
Marjoly stared in the windscreen speechlessly.She felt a weight in her heart as it pumped profoundly.She lost her strength and leaned her forehead over the steering and sobbed softly.Mwewa put his arm over her back.
When she was done sobbing, rubbing her eyes, Majorly said,” I need to be alone.”
“Honey,I need to be by your side now more than ever,” said Mwewa.
“What do you care!” Said Marjoly.
“Marjoly,he’s my father too,” said Mwewa.
“I said I need to be alone,” she told him.
“Okay..” said Mwewa and got out of Marjoly’s car.He went to Mr Binwell Tembo’s car and told the driver to take him back to SD Rides.
“Get me all the reports against Daniel,”Mwewa ordered the Auditor when they reached SD Rides.
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Later in the evening,back at Daniel’s house,Mwaka had been trying to escape from underneath the house.
She had been in the basement not knowing the duration of her stay in the cellar.It was too dark in there to distinguish a day from a night.
But she had used her senses of touch to locate a third hand cupboard that felt in her hands as the door of the basement.Actually the used cupboard covered a small window of the Cellar,and it was that prevented light from getting into the room.
She kept pushing the cupboard thinking it was the door she could break open.But it was too hard to break by pushing.Eventually she tried to pull ‘the door’ and the cupboard moved an inch.Her hopes went high and she kept pulling until she realized she had been pulling something else,but there was a small window without burglary behind the object she had been pulling,that shed through a little electronic light from the flurocent tubes outside .She broke the window with a spade she found in the Cellar and squeezed herself out of the basement through the window.
On the other hand,Mubita had plans to get into Daniel’s house to search for the Tittle Deeds.On the way into the yard,he spotted Mwaka trying to get away.He gave her a chase.
She took him down an alley and curved away into a tared two-lane road that it could take a minute for him to see her running up the main road.She was screaming all the while,”help! help! Somebody help me!”
Nobody came to her rescue until she almost bumped into the on_headlights of a car that braked emergently into her shadow.
“Help me!please!” She hit her fists over the boot.Hesitatingly,a door to the car opened and Mwaka jumped in, panting and choking.She sank herself in the passenger seat next to the driver’s.
“What’s wrong?” Asked a voice from the back passenger seats and Mwaka,frightened for once thinking it was the person persuading her,she looked behind and popped out her eyes into Mwewa.
“Mwaka?!”
To be continued…….
