It was a very bäd and gloomy day in my life, I was at the site working arduously when I had a call from the hospital that my mum called for me and would love to see me immediately.
“Doctor, please, how is she feeling now?” I asked the doctor.
The doctor’s voice on the phone wasn’t her usual voice. Even if she said she was tired of us then, I would still appreciate and thank her very much for all the time she treated my mum, using her own money to buy drugs and injections.
“ Well, You should just leave whatever you’re doing and come and see her. Let me say she’s doing fine, but she keep telling me she want to see you. Come and see her now” The doctor repeated.
Life could be unpredictable sometimes, my mum had been sick since many years ago, On her sickness we sold all our properties on. That time, My father was healthy and fine, But it was so really sàd that my father d!ed before my mum who was on the sick bed.
Well, maybe, Dad d!ed Because of the high blood pressure he had developed over my mum’s sickness. I’ve always told him not to be sad that everything would be fine, But sadly, He couldn’t take it off his mind until he d!ed untimely.
Since I didn’t have a brother, sister, or any family member, the battle was now for me to fight alone. I wouldn’t watch my mum dying on a sick bed, I had to start working as a laborer in site,I had to be following bricklayers to the sites to do work.
When I told the bricklayer who took me to the work that my mum called for me, he told me I must complete the work or else I wouldn’t be paid. I begged him and did all my possible best, But he didn’t listen to me, he stood on his word. I couldn’t resist it, tears started rolling down from my eyes uncontrollably. From a person who could eat whatever he want without doing any work, to a person who begged to collect the money he worked for.
I had no money with me, I had to leave to see my mum, I trekked back to the hospital. As I got there, The doctor told me that my mum need more money to survive, That I should provide more money. The money I was getting from the laboring work wasn’t enough. I had to double my hustle.
I was just twenty three years old, But life has shown me hèll. I couldn’t help, I had to travel down to the Lagos to find a better work to take care of my sick Mum.
I spent a whole day looking for a job in Lagos, But it was all in vain. I didn’t know anybody in Lagos and it was time to sleep, I had to sleep under a table, where rain fell on me and cold nearly k!ll me in the midnight.
When it was the next day’s morning, I had woken up around 5:00am and couldn’t sleep again. While I was walking in the street, I saw a job opportunity on the wall, A driver was needed and the pay was good and much, 45k monthly. It was a great opportunity for me as my father had taught me how to drive before he d!ed.
I had to go there. I thought my suffering had ended, But it was another story. As I got there, The man who needed a driver attended to me well, But the way his wife, who was my madam was looking at me was inexplicable. She was licking her lips as she was looking at me admiringly.
Luckily, I was employed and was provided a room to be sleeping in, inside their house.
As I was about to take my first bath in the bathroom in the night, Then madam came to me.
“ you’re such a handsome Guy” She said.
To me, it was just a compliment. I smiled broadly.
“ Thank you so much, ma” I had replied, smiling.
Then she moved a little more closer to me
“ You’ll enjoy me” She said, smiling.
I thanked her and she went to her room.
When it was in the midnight around 12:00am, I heard a knock on the door. As I stood up and opened the door, It was my madam, wrapping just a towel on her body.
To be continued.
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