THAT NIGHT
Episode 6
A cleaner who saw me bleeding raised an alarm which attracted the doctor and nurses to my ward. I slipped into unconsciousness again and saw myself going on a lonely path, at the end of the path was a giant beautiful building.
I tried to open the gate of the building so that I can enter but I couldn’t then I decided to knock. After knocking for a few minutes, my dead mother appeared to me. I was so excited to see her and wanted to jump into her arms but she restricted me.
Mother: you can’t touch me, daughter, you have to go back to the world and fulfill your destiny
Me: But Mom, the world is filled with wickedness. I can’t go back, how do you expect me to survive in that wicked world
Mother: Daughter, some things must come your way before you can be what God wants you to be. I want you to know that God doesn’t give His children what they can never bear
Me: but mommy, I want to be with you
Mother: you will surely be with me but that is when you have fulfilled your course on earth. A seed has been planted in you, that seed will liberate many. The seed didn’t come legitimately because if it does, the wicked ones will cut it short
Me: seed? Why are you speaking in parable mother?
Mother: the enemy has seen that you would be a channel through which a great evangelist whose ministry will shake the world would be born that was why they decided to make you go through series of molestation so that you would become filthy before God. But you see, God works mysteriously, His foolishness is far wiser than the wisdom of men
Me: Hmmmmm
Mother: Be strong daughter, you have been favored before God. Don’t worry about what people will say, God will bring a man across your way to go through this journey with you
Me: But mother……….
Mother: go back to the world daughter, go back to the world, go back to the world, and fulfill your destiny
I woke up and find myself still on the hospital bed, I tried to lift myself but I couldn’t, I felt pain at the side of my stomach where I stabbed earlier. I was surprised to see Edwin sitting beside my bed.
Me: Edwin??
Edwin: Peculiar, thank God you are awake. You made us all worried, how are you feeling now?
Me: I need water, please
Edwin: let me call the doctor
The doctor came in and was so happy to see me awake. He said I have been in coma for two weeks and they all resulted in prayers. He warned me never to try what I did again and then advised that this was not the end of the world.
I was discharged after spending one more week in the hospital, everyone doted on me as if I was a baby. The pastor wife never relented in praying and encouraging me, Mrs. AkinOla was always coming to speak to me, Edwin wasn’t left out as he was always coming to visit me with gifts whenever he comes home.
I found the courage and told Mrs. AkinOla what I saw when I was in a coma and she encouraged me to keep living and allow God’s plan to come to manifestation in my life but one problem I had was the great hatred I had for my unborn child.
I wanted to love him or her since all that happened was according to God’s plan but I just couldn’t, I hated the sight of me, I hate to look at my protruded tommy. I once confided in Edwin that I pray I don’t grow up to hate the child after he or she was born.
That was how much I hated the growing feotus. Edwin shunned me and made me see reasons why I had to love the baby but that didn’t take the hatred away.
My nine months was completed and I went into labor immediately after my water broke. The pastor and his wife rushed me to the nearest hospital where I was taken into the labor room immediately.
I was given injections and was asked to push, I pushed and pushed but nothing came forth. It wasn’t a funny experience, the pain was something I couldn’t explain.
For two days, I couldn’t deliver myself. I was in serious pain, crying and asking God for mercy.
Edwin came down to the hospital immediately he was informed. He told the doctor to carry out a cesarean section that he would foot the bill. I was wheeled into the theatre and was delivered a bouncing baby born.
By the time I became conscious the following day, I was told that my baby is dead.
To be continued.
Ah dead how?