You runs in my Blood

Chapter 11: I'm back

Felicity Pov

I’m taking my fiancé to school and today is definitely Monday and surprisingly exam starts today. Okay, I wasn’t surprised because Mandy told me about it but it never bothered me and my fiancé seemed to be damn ready or not at all for this exam. She too don’t give a f**k about school and according to her she was just fulfilling her late parents’ dreams of having a graduate in their family. I don’t really know her family because she told me that her parents were dead and she was their only child so I guessed that is it. But she still choose to pass through school except that she wasn’t studying for good grade, she was studying to pass through the four walls of university for her dead parents. Blanca is a party girl and can party from January to December business isn’t her thing, work either. So this coming exam is going to be so funny and blasted and I also feel bad because Blair wouldn’t be participating in this semester exam. She’ll have to repeat her third year first semester. She’ll carryover this 300L first semester. Me and Blanca, yesterday was fun. We did our usual routine, went to parties, went shopping, ate, play and had s*x and today we’re good again and that makes me so happy and I also tend to keep this face smiling all the time. “Babe we’re here” I announced our arrival to school campus. She took her bag leaned in and kissed me, I moved closer for more contact and she held my neck and deepened the kiss. I pulled away and smile and she smiled too, “good luck on your exam” I said and she smiled more, “you too, don’t act like a hero, we’re taking the same exam on the same papers and at the same time except if the online have different exam timetable or do they?” she asked and I rolled my eye, “I’ll check my email” I said skeptically an she laughed. “Try to be serious for once because we both can’t sucks in education” she opened the door and stepped out, “and be a good girl”. I laughed and she closed the door and walked off. I called Mandy “hey, sorry I’m late…I’ll be there in 10 minutes” “no need to rush. I’m in school already, I can’t be late in my first paper” what about Blair” I asked worried “she will be good and she won’t die a minute or more without us Felicity” “good luck in your exam” “same here” she said and I laughed “golden illiterate” she cursed and I laughed more “good luck you too, you need it more than me” I said driving in front of the hospital building, “i***t” she screamed and hung up. So Mandy has become my friend this past few weeks and she’s pulling it fine and we are real good. I packed my car and went inside the hospital “Ah…I thought you’re writing exams to day” that was Joshua asking behind me and I stopped knowing he was referring to me. “Aha!... I thought that was you” he said pointing his index finger at me, “but what are you doing here this early morning, aren’t you supposed to be in your exam seat by now?” he tersed. “No dad…I mean yeah but I’m going for it right now?” I replied and he was like “in here?” he said looking skeptical, “yeah bye” and I left him there to Blair’s ward. When I got there she was still lying down like she was sleeping, all the bandages on her head, face, hand and legs had been removed showing that her physical body are all healed up, that made me happy. God she looked so beautiful in her sleep, would have loved it if I walked up to her talking or asking me who I was, though I expected a miracle to happen but well, I was disappointed and sad. She looked clean and she also had make-up on; a lightly touch of make-up which complimented her beautiful face though you can hardly believe she had any make-up if you’re not used to that face. Mandy really did a good job before she left. I sat down and decided to check on my email and log in school site, I still have exam today right? My email said exam started 10 minutes ago because this is just 7:10 am. So I decided to join. I copied my password from the email and paste it on a sign in button for exam and typed my registration number, wow! I’m logged in. I typed in my name and registration number on the space provided for it and scrolled down to scan the question. There are 7 to answer 5 and question number 1 is compulsory. I picked no 1 and started typing my answer. Well if you asked me, I’ll tell you I know what I was writing because answers were coming to me naturally truthfully. Yeah! I am no God, I am studying Business Administration and Management and I am already in business, my whole existence screamed business. When my brother were busy studying, I was busy doing business with my mother. My mother was my role model so I started business at the age of 3. According to her, I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted to follow her to work and she refused. She forced me to school and I went to school and refused to study, told my teacher I wanted to do business with mother. To cut the whole story short, mother gave up thanks to grandma (My mother’s mother) who told mother that everybody must not go to school. If I say I want to do business then business is what I was born to do and not to study. Grandma said business is in our bloodline and so every female of our bloodline is expected to be a successful business woman. My great great grandma was, so was my great grandma, my grandma and when she fell sick the business started going down until the stage of yielding nothing and my father suggested mother sell the business and use the mother to treat grandma while mother gave dad the rest to set up his own business. The idea of robbing Peter to pay Paul didn’t sit well with grandma nor mother. He suggested the idea to grandma to convince mother but grandma told him that she’d rather die than sell their family business for her health. And that was how grandma died. Dad came home that day speaking in parable and when Mum asked why he spoke in parable, he said grandma was dead. Surprisingly after the burial of grandma, Mum started struggling on how to revive the business, and Dad again told her to sell the business but she said nothing would made her sell the family business. She told him that she’d rather suffer than watch the business in another person’s hand. It is true that mother inherited the company from grandma but she also inherited a huge sum of an outstanding debts. So the debtee fought to took the company from mother saying it was a collateral since the debtor had died. And one day, the creditor came and offered Mum more money saying it’s the balance to which our company worth and Mum refused and asked him for extra two months to pay back and he agreed. Before two months Mum made his money and called for a meeting, I was sitting beside her when she brought the bag of money and placed it on the table but the man said he thought Mum was bringing to him the official document of ownership that Dad had already collected the money Mum refused, so what he needed now was the official document of ownership saying that Dad said that was what Mum was bringing to him. It was a very big issue Mum took the case to court and won the case and also a little money for damage and inconveniences. And yeah she suffered and revived the business and to day our company is one of the best in the country. During the years of under development there was nothing that Mum would do without involving me. I could remember when she told one of our potential clients that I was her personal assistant and the man was like, “what can she do, isn’t she too small for business because her mates are still in primary school or a bit higher” then Mum told him that I am the full definition of business and that was when I was 9 year old. No wonder when I told her that I wanted to do business, it didn’t come to her as surprise, not even a bit. She only wanted me to study first. So I agreed to study online so that I can have time for business. She started teaching me about business the very first day I stepped my feet into our company. And that was when I was 3 year old according to her and at the age of 5, I already had acquired ₦1,260,000. She assigned me work the first day I started with her. I arranged files she purposely scattered, told her what the time was every time I counted to 360 by indicating where the long and short hands of a wall clock were. I washed her coffee cup and reported to her from her secretary and I will eat and sleep. I only had 2 days off I used those days to study at home. According to my Mum, she said I was so good in business but I tell you, practical studies are always good and better than theoretical studies. But of all these I had my challenges. I think that started the moment I was born a girl into the family of Dike Whiteman but I had to worked out my salvation, I worked my way out and I started that early and father never liked it but he had no choice because Mum was the bread winner of the family. I was home schooled all through except in my university. Oops! I’m studying online. I finished writing my exam faster than I thought, I felt like we were studying my life because business is my life so answers to questions comes to me naturally. I crosschecked my work like I’m studying business proposal and hit the submit button, I checked the time I consumed, I started 10 minutes late to 2 hours paper, the time was still 7:57 am and I screamed “wow! That fast!” I went back to the school page to see what next I had but I heard someone’s voice, I looked up but on one in the room except me and Blair, I turned to her and was shocked to see her looking at me. I dropped my laptop and went to her smiling, “w…wa…water” she said and I rushed and poured her water in a cup, I raised her head a bit so that things won't get from better to worse, I got the water in an awkward way as I held her head and gave her, "easy...slow, slow...that's okay" I said because she had drank almost half of the cup and she looked at me, "I want more" she rasped. I gave her the half cup, "little by little...don't swallow much" and she slowly drank finishing the water. "More" she said, I got more, "slow dear...slow...slow" I coarsed and she slowly finished another cup. It was like the more she drinks the more better she sounds, "more" she said again and I got afraid, is she drinking last water before she died, I heard a story of a man who dosen't eat much but the very day he died, he ate like an elephant. He told his wife to cook his favorite and dish them all to him and she did but after eating he went in his room and slept off to corpse. Hope she's not planning to die..God I'm really afraid, "let me call the doctor" I attempt stepping a feet, "water...water...please" she pleaded. Without thinking I gave her once more, "let me call the doctor before things go awry" She stared at me, her eyes deep and hallowed, lack of expression, "thank you" she said and closed her eyes and just like that she drifted off or as I thought. I thought she was dead, I looked at her stomach to see the movement of her heartbeat, I places my ear on her heart thinking I could hear her heartbeat, "I'm here" she said startling me and I jumped my head. "Sorry I..." she was already sleeping. I went and called a passer by nurse and she came, "nurse...she...she" I stuttered she went to her watched her and came back to me, "what happened to her?" "she...she o..." she cut me off, "she did what?" "she opened her eyes...she spoke" "what did she say?" she asked not surprised or amazed. I went to check if actually she asked for water and whether I gave her or was it all a dream but it looked real. "she asked for me and I gave her then she asked for me and more and I gave her all" I narrated. "okay she's responding very well and that was a good sign. I think she's sleeping now or still sleeping her sleep but she'll always ask for more...water. She's dehydrated" she said aching her eyebrows. "she's fine okay!" she said and was gone.

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I sat down singing for her while I held her hand. I watched how peacefully she sleeps and how beautiful she is doing that, "hey sleeping beauty, I'm here whenever you wake up. I'm not going any where so it means you're stucked with me" I kissed her hand, "come back...to me...to us. Mum, dad, Kingsley and Mandy all missed you. I miss you so much" she squeezed my hand, she's been doing that a lot lately. I smiled and bent, I kissed her forehead. I continued singing for her until I started dozing off and before I knew it, I was sleeping. I woke up to felt someone patting my hair , I lifted my head up and saw her looking at me, she smiled "hey!" "do you need water?" I asked and she smiled again "yes, water" I went to fetched the water and found her struggling to sit up but couldn't, I dropped the water and helped her then gave her the water but I was afraid so I stepped a few steps to the entrance and called a nurse I sighted, “nurse she’s awake…she has opened her eyes…she’s awake” I went back to her but found her removing the drip “hey…hey… it's okay. The nurse is coming” she just looked at me but didn’t say anything and I was smiling like a Christmas goat. My joy then knows no boundary . Few seconds later Joshua ushered himself in. Placed his statoscope on her left chest, used his fingers and opened her eyes, he torchlighted her eyes and nodded, “welcome back” he said to Blair who was just looking at him as he ran his diagnosis on her. He lifted both of her hand, “you okay…feel any pain?” “no… I’m…I don’t…I’m okay” she stuttered. “Okay, I need to ask you a few question and I need an answer from you, can we do that?” “am I in trouble?" she asked and Joshua smiled," no but I need something from you, can we do that?" Blair looked from me to him "as long as you're not a cop and still wear that smiling face, I can do that but it doesn't means that I like doctors... They scare the living out of me" Joshua smirked, "I can removed the coat if that will help" "better" Blair replied as Joshua unbuttoned his coat and pulled it off "Okay, shall we?” "will you sit with me?" she asked me and I nodded "yes" I sat on the bed wrapped my arm around her and she smiled, me too, "okay" she assured Joshua and he began “Do you remember your name?” she nodded “okay, what is your name?” “My name is…my name is Blair Drille” “what else do you remember?” I have a friend whose name is Mandy, my parents are retired teachers, mother-a gardener now, father-sick now and I have a twin brother Kingley, I am a 300L student. By the way where is Mandy?” “Mandy is in school” I answered “Well no brain damaged, problem no one ruled out. Now I’m gonna run my hands through your body, tell me if there’s any part that pains you, and if you can feel my touch at anywhere tell me also okay?” Blair nodded. Joshua continue his diagnoses, he touched every part of her hands and she was responding positively and he went down to her right ribs and she flinched when he touched her there, “does that pain?” “Yeah, a little I can say” she detected. “Alright” he said and he touched her left side and she was positive, he went down to her waist and she nodded positive, “you felt me all of these places I touched?” “Yeah doctor” he moved down to her thighs and she was positive again, when he touched her right knee she screamed “Ahhhhhh…fuck doctor, you wanna kill me” “so that pained you?” “holy f**k yeah” she said grimacing. He went to her left knee and she was okay. He touched the wrists of her foots and she was okay too. He came back to her knee and she screamed again, “what the f**k doctor” he went back to the left knee, pressed and hold at a spot and she screamed higher, “no no no doctor” “is that paining you too?” “Yes” “but I thought you said it wasn’t paining you earlier?” “Yeah I thought but I don’t know where you pressed now, wait the back is paining me” “it’s okay” he said patting her back, “you’ve made it, it’s a good news that those are paining you” “how is pain a good news?” I asked, “it actually means her legs aren’t paralyzed” he replied “it’s okay, you’re fine now. I’ll leave you too” he said “but what about the legs, they are paining her” “that we’ll talk about later but she certainly is okay now, you need to have your time…together” he said shaking his head “okay” he tapped my shoulder, “well done” and he was gone. I looked at Blair who returned her stare at me after Joshua has left, “Hey! how are you feeling?” I asked excitedly and she smiled, “I’m okay”. “I’m…my name is Felicity…” she smiled again and I stared at her forgotten myself and she asked, “Mmm…are you okay?” that single question brought tears from my eyes and her face changed I saw worry in her eyes, “is everything okay?” she asked again and without thinking I wrapped my arms around her in a hug. I placed my head on her shoulder as uncontrollable tears rushed down my cheeks, “I am okay, everything is okay, thank you, thank you Blair for coming back to me, to us” I sobbed and she patted my back, “it’s okay, if I knew my waking up would cause you tears, I would have stayed back a little longer you know… so that you’d cry out blood” I pulled from the hug to see her face, I stood there starring and she was just smirking. f**k she's impossible “God! Who wakes up silly in a hospital bed?” “Me” she said pointing at herself. “f**k! You’re something” I pouted, “yeah, do you cook? I… am hungry” she said trying to adjust her sitting spot and I helped her, “f**k, you’re in the hospital, do you know that…? And what people do in a hospital?” she choked, “f**k… Who… Me?...I’m Blair not f**k please and to answer your question they cook” I gasped and she rolled her eyes and I felt a twinge in my stomach, “but human, they cook human beings” she teased. “so you’re a vampire now huh?” she shrugged, “I still need to taste your blood you know.... with my claws on your neck” she said touching her teeth, “to be truly a vampire and eat your flesh and keep you for myself alone…can’t share you with any one” she pouted and rolled her eyes again and I felt shiver down by body. God what am I feeling, what is happening to me, why I do feel this thing when she put her eyes in some ways “Yeah, your jokes are hilarious you know” I managed to say. Thank God I always come along with food so I brought it out. “Here, can I feed you or can you eat?” I asked and she just stared at me, “hello” I called her, “you know I’m the sick one between us but you can always choose for me mama” I fixed my stare at her, “but if I were you, I’d feed me so that I won’t hurt myself” she said and turned to face the wall, “yeah, like the baby you are I wouldn’t let you harm yourself, now turn that big head of yours ‘cause I’ve made my choice” she ignored me, “or I’ll let you harm yourself now” she quickly turned and every spoonful of food I fed her she’d smile before taking the food to her mouth. “So your name is Blair…huh” “and your name is Felicity” “who told you that” I was surprised that she knew my name “you…few minutes ago” God I even forgot that I told her before. “So, how are you?” she asked me, “I fine…now that you’ve woken up... I’m totally fine. And don’t ask me that I’m not the sick one” “but you look to me as the one, you were crying seconds ago, and you just said you weren’t fine as long as I was still lying down here. So are you totally fine and by the way what were you doing with your laptop, do you know how long I’ve been looking at you trying to get your attention but can’t, trying to speak but can and I was fighting to speak louder but you were just carried away with the f**k you were doing” “I’m sorry for that” she smiled the most sexiest smile ever “I’m not offended, just got worried that whatever you were doing back then must be given you headache, so I’m asking if you’re okay now” “yes, totally, thank you” she smiled “silly cute” and we laughed. I fed her until she said "I'm okay" "finally your satiated, I was beginning to think on how I'd buy a whole Mr Sweet resturant" I said, "what! you're not serious" she exclaimed. "I was...but thank you for speaking out" she laughed the most sexiest laugh ever and I was cut up at her eye. "hey don't leave me here" she said, " I wasn't going anywhere" I defended. "you already left...your mind wasn't here before" she pointed, "what!" "yeah... your mind left leaving me with your body alone but I want you whole, I want all of you" she said the most sexiest thing ever. God she just said what I've never heard anyone said to me before, she said she want all of me. I felt that same stupid twinge on my stomach and this time it bubbled. I don't know if she's flirting with me on a sick bed or just being herself but whichever one it is, I'm loving it. After feeding her, I gave her water and she drank, "I want to rest" she said and I helped lay her down. She stared at me smiling stupidly, "anything else?" I asked, "no..just want to look at you before I sleep" that stupid statement gave me goosebump and I blushed. "Okay...you've stared enough can you now sleep?" "what...why?" she asked, "because you're making me blushed like a teen" I said honestly. She smiled, "off... I sleep" she said closing her eye, "Don't sleep too much...please" she laughed "Okay, I hear you" I stared at her a bit and stand to turned, she held my hand ,"I'm not going anywhere, I'm here...I'm back, I just want to rest okay?" I looked at our joined hand and held them up, I kissed the back of her palm, "okay" she grinned and removed her hand off mine. I ate the remainant of her food and disposed the pack and I left the ward to buy more food for us three, Mandy, Blair and me.