Mabel dried
herself and came out to check who was calling, just as Cynthia’s phone rang a
second time. It was their mother.
“It is mummy,” she told
Cynthia.
She allowed it
ring and stop. She checked her phone and confirmed it was still her mother that
called.
“Who knows why she is calling?”
Cynthia asked.
“Maybe she just wants to know
how we are doing.”
Mabel dialed her
mother’s line. She picked and talked to Mabel with worry in her voice. She
asked why they were not answering their phones. Mabel told her she was in the
bathroom when the call came. She asked if Cynthia was with her. Mabel said she
was. Then she asked why Cynthia also did not pick her call. Mabel told her Cynthia
didn’t know her phone was ringing. She insisted on knowing the truth, whether
there was a problem. Mabel looked at Cynthia to know if she could tell their
mother what had happened to Cynthia. Cynthia gave her a nod and she told her
mum what happened to Cynthia. Her mother shouted and asked where they were and
what they wanted to do about it. Mabel told her that she had taken pain
reliever and that they were on their way to see Dr Obinna. She said she would
meet them there. Mabel told her not to worry, and that they would see her later
in the day. Their mother asked to speak with Cynthia. Mabel handed over the
phone to Cynthia and went to dress up. Cynthia reassured her mother that she
was fine. Then she hung up.
When Mabel was
done, Cynthia managed to stand up.
“Do I need to bath?” she asked
Mabel.
“No. Allow the balm to do its
work,” Mabel replied. “Moreover the time Dr Obinna gave us has passed, so we
don’t have time to waste again.”
“So I will now be smelling
balm balm.”
“Chuka is not here to notice.”
Cynthia chuckled.
“Who cares?” she said. “What
about other people we will meet on the way?
“We will take drop straight to the hospital”
“Ok.”
Cynthia wore back
her top and adjusted it.
“Please give me your perfume,”
she told Mabel.
“What I have is cologn and not
perfume,” Mabel replied laughing.
“You are not serious,” Cynthia
said laughing. “Please give me whatever it is you have let me hide this balm
odour.”
“Don’t you know where it is?
Take it in the drawer na.”
“You keep changing where you
keep it na.”
“My dear, my friends don’t
know how to use another person’s perfume.”
Cynthia sprayed
the perfume until Mabel told her to stop.
“You want to finish it?” Mabel
asked her.
“Just help me check if I am
still smelling balm balm,” Cynthia said.
“I told you not to worry about
it.”
“Ok.”
Cynthia took her
handbag and gently walked towards the door.
“Are you feeling any better?”
Mabel asked her.
“Yes. The massage and pain
reliever worked.”
“Is there still any need going to see Dr
Obinna again?”
“Yes, let’s be sure there is
nothing to it.”
“Ok.”
When they were
set, Mabel locked up and they left. Cynthia managed to walk well to avoid
answering questions from people. As they stood on the road waiting for a cab, a
car drove to the front of the compound and stopped. They did not bother about
it. Then Mabel heard someone call her name. She looked well at the driver. It
was a lady she knew very well.
“Margret,” she said and went
close to the car.
“Where are you going to?” the
lady asked her.
“I am taking my sister to see
a doctor.”
“Eiyaaa she is not feeling
well?”
“It’s nothing serious.”
“Ok. Come in let me drop you.”
“Are you sure about this? You
don’t have somewhere else to go?”
“No. It is you I came to see.”
“Ok. As long as you promise
not to ask me anything.”
“I can’t promise you that. Get
in first.”
They laughed.
Mabel beckoned on Cynthia to enter the car. Mabel helped Cynthia enter the back
seat, then she sat in front. She told Margret the hospital where they were
going to and Margret drove off.
Margret was
Segun’s cousin sister and a long time friend of Mabel’s. It was actually through
Margret that Segun got to meet Mabel.
“I felt bad when I heard what
happened,” Margret said.
“I thought you said you will
not ask me anything about it?” Mabel said to her.
“I did not ask you a question na.”
“But you expect me to
respond.”
“You have to respond o. I
can’t come all the way to see you in vain. I need the full gist from the horse’s
mouth.”
“I am now a horse abi.”
“You can keep playing around
all you want. You will still tell me what I want to know.”
Mabel sighed and asked. “What did you hear?”
“Segun said you left him for
no reason, after all he did for you.”
“What!” Mabel shouted.
“He said you stopped picking
his calls and that you said you are fed up with him.”
(...to be continued...)
Nedu Isaac
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