It was getting dark as dark as the clothes she was wearing to her father's funeral.The crying of the people was a cacophony to her own.
The bracelet that was given to her by jer father was still cherished by her hand. The same colour of my pristine and beautiful eyes.
She wiped away the tears that has long made her scarlet handkerchief wet. The scarlet handkerchief was the first gift given to me by her father when she was still young.
A voice passed by her ear "condolence amara" the voice was very familiar. It was mike my co- teacher who teaches at the same high school she was teaching before.
"Thanks" my answer was definitely sincere . As sincere as the love I bear to my father. It was very genuine .
She could vividly remember that my father was always the person who wants to be prepared , who want to have in so many things.
But it seems he was not prepared the moment he qas now laid in the casket . So was I . I wasn't prepare to be honest .
After selling the remains left in his property just to bring him back but all to no avail.
It's been five years that his company went bankrupt before his sickness . We have been selling some of his property and also borrowing from friends just to make things turn around for good.
He didn't expected such a catastrophe would before him neither did she also expected.
Since then she had been taking menial jobs, just to pay for his treatment.
It was just last week she visited her father in the hospital telling him "I'm gonna get a loan to get you out off this mess crying beside him looking at him lying helplessly like a powerless lion. I hold his hand sobbing you can't leave me alone in this "
Then she dashed out of his ward to see the doctor to deposit the little she had gathered so they could start the operation. Then he told her "miss it's not up to half of the payment "she knelt before him sobbing in a low tone "doctor please save my father he's the only one I have left " she was even trying to give him explanation that her father just went bankrupt before he cut in"miss when the amount is up to half payment we can start the operation"after hearing those words tears ran down my cheeks then he said "miss excuse me I have a patient to attend to " she came out of the tears filled her eye .
Two days after ,the news of his death reached her very ear from her apartment telephone . Her heart rumbled she ran in disbelief. As she was running her heart was beating very fast her legs were running fast . Her speed was faster than that of cheetahs.
The hospital was two hundred kilometres away from their small apartment.
On getting there she saw her father's dead body lying on the bed followed by two nurse .
She rushed towards their direction and screamed "DAD YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME !"she knelt beside him and cried her eyes out .
The doctor she had met earlier said to her "miss patience"she looked at him holding her fist tight just as if she should punch the doctor to death . Because she couldn't come up with half of the payment for her father's treatment .
To worsen her situation by saying "miss I feel your pain but you need to calm down"
"Calm down !doc ,you're feeling my pain now it's okay you didn't feel my pain when I was pleading with you to treat my father. You lost your humanity if you this bitch has treated my father he wouldn't have ened up dead then you open that your filthy mouth telling me to calm down! Do you know how much he is to me? Because of you my father died I Will never forgive you !" I replied with tears filled my eye dropping like a loosened tap water . Other patients around me became emotional and started blaming the doctor .
After crying my eyes out a voice from the crowd came through.
"Sorry miss, sorry for your loss" a young lady said to her.she was tall and slim she must be in her early twenties . I felt like I was the only one left in the world ."Thank you " I replied in a low tone because I have lost my voice.
God or any supreme being didn't give him the chance to say goodbye to her and her un born child.
It was a great catastrophe for her because she lost her boy friend six month a go.
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Morning came, by the time she opened her eye so was her morning sickness. She grabbed the herns of the ebony curtain and swiftly split it open. Revealing the morning Sun's beaming light.
She looked to her left and the pink sticky note that she tacked on the calendar that was just a freebie in the grocery stores reminds her of her medical appointment today.
It was definitely upsetting due to the fact that the cash she has on hand couldn't even afford bread and butter. She had no option than to call the only.person who understand her financial situation . Jane her best friend.
After the call ,she treaded towards her bathroom that's not less than a few steps from her bed to have a warm shower.
Amara was wrong
She was wrong that the bath would be a warm and refreshing one .
Well it is a kind of refreshing one because her body was definitely drenched in her own tears,sweat and probably from her saliva. But still the water from the shower seems to come from a freezer. It was very cold as she bathed her self.
She quickly got out of the freezing bathroom . She wrapped her slender body . Her eye caught what seemed to be falling from te sky . That made her realize why the water was cold.
Today is the first day of winter in the city. She had only one thick jacket left for the first day of winter.
She was about to dress up when three knocks interrupted her perhaps it is jane amara amused! "Coming"
When she opened the door she was flabbergasted and surprised.