Let It Go - Episode 18

I KENTBELIFIT! Hahaha. EVEN I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M UPDATING TWICE IN A DAY, SO CLOSE BUT IT'S HAPPENING. YOUR COMMENTS BROUGHT THE MOTIVATION NI JARE. THIS IS FOR YOU ALL THAT COMMENTED ON THE LAST EPISODE AND TO MAKE UP FOR THE SHORT FORMER EPISODE. ENJOY!

“So you studied law?” Ken asked

“Yes, I’m not practising though” Victoria answered with a small smile

“Waoohh, my crush course” Tessie said.

“Every course is your crush course, Tessie” Nancy said “especially when someone you like or admire studies it”

“Pfft” Tessie said and turned to Brent 

“She’s a wicked one”

“I like her nonetheless” he replied

“Aww, this is love” Tess cooed
 
Ken shook his head and said to Victoria “Sorry, but our family isn’t so normal. It’s worse since we aren’t complete”

“I love it” she replied. Then, with a darker and more sober expression, she said “She’ll be fine”

“I believe it” he smiled “Someone already gave his life many many years ago to make it fine”
 
Then she smiled too and said “Thank God”

“Sooo,” Brent drawled “why in the world will you study a course like law and not practise it?”
 
The question seemed to grab all of their attentions, especially Tessie’s and Ken’s

“Uhmm” Victoria said, a bit uncomfortably

“You may not answer if you don’t want to” Brent said hurriedly with a brief smile

“No” she said “No, No, I will”
 
Then she added, “I want to”

“You see, it is one of the issues I’m battling with right now, one of those that landed my husband where he is, and I can’t help but feel a bit guilty,” she hesitated “like I put him there”

***
“Please let him rest. Leave him for a while” the nurse who ushered her in the other time led her out.

“Kunle, be good, you hear

All episodes of this story can be found here >> https://www.ebonystory.com/story/let-it-go

. Teniola and Arinola too will come, but you must do better than this, dey strong o. Ehn, oko mi” she kept talking as the nurse urged her to leave.

“Sheri” the man on the hospital bed called as the nurse and the woman both approached the door
 
The woman turned at the mention of her name and responded

“Ehn, Ade ori mi”

“No forget wetin we talk last o” the man said

“I no go forget, I go yan you” the woman said, taking a last look at her husband and then stepped out of the room, alongside the nurse.
 
They both walked in silence, except for the clattering sound of the woman’s slippers.
 
The nurse got to her desk and aid her bye, but the woman had more to say, or rather, ask.

“My husband tell me say he carry person for bike and na the same thing wey you tell me here before I enter go see am” she said and the nurse nodded.

“Ehn, you also tell me say na my husband injury least of all wey injure”
 
The nurse nodded again and replied “That’s right”

“Ehn, the woman wey he carry for back, how she dey?” she asked.
 
The nurse hesitated answering for a moment, then said

“Her condition is very bad and critical.

Read " Once Upon A Lie " by the same author ( Gracious )

. She’s in the theatre right now”

The woman looked confused, then said

“If her condition dey bad laidat, why she go dey for theatre? Them still dey use her condition do film?”
The nurse looked lost for a moment then chuckled.

“I’m sorry, not that kind of theatre. I mean the operating room”

“Ooh!” the woman exclaimed.

“Kai! Her condition critical true true”

“Her family nko? You don get them already?” she asked

“Yes, they are already around. Why do you ask though?” the nurse replied.

“E dey do me like say I should greet them and wish them luck. Na the thing wey my husband too wan do” she replied

“Okay, that’s good” the nurse said and described the location of Maddy’s operation room to the woman.

“Thank you o, Nurse Titi”

“How do you know my name?” the nurse asked in astonishment

“The thing dey for your chest” she replied and smiled.

 The nurse smiled back and the woman left.

“Weirdly, I wore this today.” The nurse thought and brushed her right thumb over the name plate on her coat. “I like her. She’s smart after all” she concluded, brought out a file from the drawer and started to study it.

IT WASN'T EASY FOR ME TO WRITE THE PIDGIN PART OO COS I HARDLY SPEAK IT. I KEPT REREADING AND USING SCOPE SHA hehe.
I LOVE THE NAME, ARINOLA. Shhh don't tell. IT'S MAINLY BECAUSE I KNOW A CUTE BABY BEARING THE NAME hahaha BUT I DOUBT I'LL GIVE MY BABY GIRL THE NAME. DO YOU HAVE A NAME YOU LOVE BUT WON'T NAME YOUR BABY? TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS. I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMMENTS haha.