The Otherside Of Life
Episode 2
So my mother has been the one financing the house with the little she make from her shop but one evening a calamity befell us
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The landlord kick us out of the house my mother wasn’t around during that time she was still in the market but my brother and i have come home earlier to prepare the food we are going to eat that evening.
My brother and I were in the backyard when we heard the voice of the landlord and our father we left what we are doing and went inside to check what is going but when we got to the corridor the landlord had thrown our properties out.
We were startled seeing our father on his knees begging with tears but the landlord had made up his mind.
“You people can’t ruin my life imagine three years house rent you refuse to pay and you call yourself a man of the house you can’t even finance your family it is your wife that has been taking your responsibility now you sit at home like a woman!! Today is today you must go!!” He yelled at my father.
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“Oga landlord please I am begging you just give us a little time and we will pay the rent you know I had an accident recently please Oga landlord!!” My father pleaded.
“So!! I mean so!!? How does that concern me? You have accident why don’t you die!!!?”
“Aaaaaaah!!” We exclaimed immediately my brother and I went on our knees and start begging the landlord.
“See if you beg me from now till next year I won’t allow you to stay in this house again you must go by fire by force!!” He said but he didn’t listen to us he went in and continue throwing our properties out when he finally did he locked the door and went out of the house.
My brother and I were crying profusely as our father begin to console us not quite long our mother return she was holding a nylon with some quantity in it when she saw us on the ground crying she drop the nylon immediately and ran to us in confusion.
“What happened dear!!? Why is our stuff outside what happened?” She asked
“The landlord already kick us out of the house ” my father said but as my mother heard it she grip her chest in pain and before I know what really happened she was on the ground. My father sprang up on his feet though he was limping he carried my mother and we rush her to the hospital down the street.
The nurses on duty attend to us with immediate alacrity seeing the way we barge into the hospital they took my mother into one of the wards while we wait in the reception moving to and fro in anxiety.
After some minute, a doctor came out from the ward the nurses took my mother into he was looking so worried he came to us instantly.
“Sir is that woman your wife?” He asked
“Yes she’s my wife!!” My father replied him
“Ok that’s fine see your wife is in a very critical condition right now i won’t lie to you she had a heart attack, right now you need to quickly look for 150 thousand to start her treatment but you can still deposit 75 thousand for a start” the doctor said and left.
It was as if I was dreaming 150 thousand by this time of the night I sat on the chair there thinking about where we can get the money.
My father was deep in thought he shook his head continuously in pain he had his hand on his waist in an akimbo. He stared at the clock hanged on the wall it is 7:30pm.
“No problem!!” He said to himself “Let me quickly go and meet some of my friends I will be back as soon as I get the money. Don’t leave this place!!” He said to my brother and dash out of the hospital.
I brought my handkerchief from my pocket and spread it on my head and began to pray for my mother and my father my brother was also praying where he was standing. I prayed and prayed till I got tired and slept off on the chair.
When I would finally wake up it was 11:00pm I turn to the right and saw my brother he was still standing in the same spot he was.
“Is dad back?” I asked
“No not yet!!” He said staring at the entrance of the hospital door. The doctor came out of his office yarning he took a quick look at his wristwatch and look at us
“Is your dad not yet back?” He asked in surprise
“Not yet sir !!” My brother said
“It is like he don’t love your mother he is not back by this time you better find a way to contact him or better still you look for him!!” He said and went to check on some of the patients in other wards.
“What do we want to do?” I asked my brother as I stood up from the chair.
“Let me go and check maybe he is on his way” my brother said and went out after some minute I went to check on him. He was standing by the road side looking at every car and bike that pass maybe our father is there but there was no sign of him.
We wait for some minute luckily our father arrived he got down from a bike at the otherside of the road seeing him was a great joy in my heart I felt relieved.
“Daddy be fast the doctor is expecting you!!” I shouted instantly he ran across the road with the money in his hand but unfortunately he was knocked down by a fast moving car.
“Jesus!!” I shouted and we ran to him he was bleeding from the head and also some other part I didn’t noticed.
“Take this money Gloria go and give the doctor immediately to begin the treatment for your mother” he said
“What about you dad?” I asked in fear
“Don’t worry about me dear i will be fine ” he said with a smile and I collected the money and ran in luckily the doctor is just coming out from my mother’s ward.
“Doctor here is the money!!” I said breathing heavily
“I am so sorry but the money is too late we lost your mother!!”
To be continued.
written by Nifemi Oluwasogo-
What a tragidy befell on a family