You runs in my Blood

Chapter 12: Discharge

Felicity Pov

I bought food for the three of us and a new flower for Blair. Well, I trekked and that got me sweating like I had ran a marathon. One thing about this hospital was that they had air conditioning everywhere. Well, the charge here is so expensive. This is one of the hospitals that can make a poor man run away leaving his wife and a new born baby, not because the man doesn't want them anymore but because he can't afford the bill after child delivery. The bill on child delivery is so expensive that even you the mother will doubt yourself for being the one that does the pushing. What more do they do if not to stand at your feet chorusing pu….sh...pu...sh...one more time and after all the pain you went through, they get to be paid, nonsense. Those are one of the things that I don't understand. Here in this hospital, a woman gave birth to twins with complications. After hearing the bill from the reception, The husband went to negotiate with the doctor and it was fruitless. One month came and went and he couldn't save ₦10000 let alone ₦20000, two months and nothing sup. How then can he save up to ₦450000 over child delivery. Well I can't blame the man, he left his family there for the doctor and came to blaze fm 109.3 and mreported for help he said and I quote "my beautiful wife gave birth to twins and the doctor want to take my wife from me so he is threatening and scaring me with the sum of ₦450000. He claimed it is the hospital bill, my wife and kid have stayed two months in that hospital, please help, help me get my family back from that stupid doctor". Another sad story was that a mother died because her daughter couldn't provide the said amount of money needed for her treatment. So in this hospital, no money no life or should I say no money no treatment. This hospital literally belongs to the rich people who can afford the bill but that being said it is actually one of the best with a lot of bad stories involving money. I just walked in from outside sweating and as I stepped in I felt a fresh and cold air hit me, the ac chilled my body "oh Dozie hospital, this is also one the places our hard earned money are'' I said to no one in particular. This hospital screams welcome feel at home and relax but you should know that all this chillaxing is reading in your pocket. Well I brought Blair here because it is one of the best in the country and my friend also works here. Like I said Joshua is my friend and family doctor. As I walked down the hall I was stopped by a familiar face. The same woman I gave my car to when in labour, I saw her at the front desk and I approached her. God I haven't even asked about the woman after the accident. I must be an awful boss so I decided to use this platform to fix my mess. "Mrs Okra" she turned. "Good day ma'am" she greeted, hiding her face. "Hello, is that the baby, the one that you almost gave birth to at the working place?" she nodded "yes" and adjusted the baby for me to see, "Baby say hi to my boss, you almost came out in her company and her car" she said and I looked at the baby, "hello dear, gosh she's beautiful, you are beautiful dearie. She's a she right?" I said that looking up at Mrs Okra only then I saw her face full of bruises. "yes she is a she" "what happened to your face?" I asked irritatedly, she ignored me. "who did this to you, is this your husband?" I was curious and sad but she remained silent, "talk to me, how long has it been like this?" I pried but she tried to walk away and I hulted her, "I am concern about you...I am not here as your boss but as your friend so help me to help you because I want to, help me understand how long thus had been going long" Tears ran down her cheeks and I took her hand and directed her to sit down, "because of my baby" she weep. "What happened to your baby?" I asked confused thinking that maybe something happened to the baby, "what did the baby do," "I have four girls and we were hoping that this one will be a boy and she turned to be a girl. My husband wanted boys but I kept giving him girls. I received beatings from him every time I gave birth to one of them until I get pregnant again. This is how my marriage has been" She lamented. God so other married women get pregnant through s****l intercorse but she gets pregnants through beating, this is outrageous, "and this has been happening since the very first stage of your marriage?" she nodded and I lost it at that point. How can she be in an abusive marriage for this long. She is a strong woman, hardworking and God knows I pay her well. Why do women prefer being in an abusive relationship to being free and happy. Is that how desperate of men that are. God I hate this kind of thing."So you came for treatment...on your account?" I snapped, she startled at my tone, "no I...my baby fell why he was beating me this morning so I came to check how bad the damage might have been on the child if any but luckily she's fine. There was no damage and as for me, I have gotten used to the beating" she wailed ,"yeah, because it was something seasonal" I hissed. "Why are you still there, why not leave the marriage?" "Ma'am it is not easy" "what makes it not easy?" "I can't just leave him like that, he will die without me" "what!" I snapped, angry written all over my face, "ma'am it doesn't work like that" "okay, have you reported him to human right?" "no" "what about police?" "ma'am this is my husband we're talking about, do you want my kids to hate me knowing that their father is in cell because of me?" "f**k Blessing...do you want your kids to hate you more when they find out that their father killed their mother because their mother was being stupidly when their mother had a chance to make things right?" "it won't get to that" she said, "Okay I won't force you but know that you must do something about him before you end up not having your kids nor you on this surface earth. Don't play dumb and stupid, you're old enough and capable to carter for you and your kid. If it's a man you want, you can still find a man who will cherish you and your children. There are pretty men out there who are eyeing you admjring the hell out of you but they can't make a mive because of that stupid husband of you. Wait until he buries you and your kids or your kids or you, I mean you and he marries another woman who will then come and enjoy your hard earn money and sweat and wicked your children to the core" I stood up to go, "call me when you want that asshole out of your life for good. I'm here to help if you need any but for now, I can't be a part of this suicide you're commiting" I stepped a leg but she held my hand, "you won't understand I…he…" I cut her, "Call me when your life and your kids' life matters because for now I can understand that the only thing that matters to you now is him and the thing between his thigh and don't worry, I'm not married so it's hard to understand, call me when you're done deceiving yourself" I turned to the baby, "hey baby..." "her name is Felicity" she said "what?" my anger softened "can I be her godmother?" I asked, "I was hoping to ask you first" "well you didn't ask me when you named her after me so I am taking her. Oh my God, I'm a godmother" that made me very happy "Hey Felicity" I called the little baby, "God I don't know. It sound funny or lovely when I call someone that name. God this is a very special day for me" I hugged her and carried the baby, I smiled at the thought of me being a godmother, God I love this day. "I live you baby" I said kissing her on the forehead and on the cheek. I gave her back to the mother "call me when you need help and also I wouldn't want anything happening to Felicity and her siblings or I sue both of you to court. Anyways thank you for making me part of her life, I respect that, I'll cherish her till my last breath". "Ma'am I heard you were involved in an accident, is everything okay now?" "Yes, all is well now, take care I'm needed somewhere now" I said and took my leave. "Thank you Miss White" I turned and grinned, "you're welcomed" I shouted and was gone.

I entered Blair's ward and was met with Joshua examining Blair. "I thought you left" Blair muttered, "I nearly cried out my eyes" I went to her, bent down, brought my face to hers and kissed her cheek. "I'll never leave you" I said, giving her the flower and sat beside her on the bed. She smiled and brought the flower to her nose, inhaled its fragrance, "it is beautiful, thank you" she said and rested her body on me and I wrapped my arm around her. "So Joshua anything to be careful about?" I asked "can I go home, I want to go home now" Blair said looking at me, "hmmm...Joshua can we go home now?" I seconded Blair. "We have to run some test on you, though you're strong in our eyes…" he said as he dismantled drip stand and whatever they put on Blair. He removed the heartbeat monitor, switched it off and he was moving around gathering stuff here and there and I shifted to give him full access to do whatever he was doing, whatever the f**k he could lay his hands on, he gave them to the nurse that was standing waiting for him and she carried those medical stuff out and he covered the heartbeat monitor. Surprisingly the view of the ward changed and it was no longer looking like a hospital ward. It was like more of a room but with a hospital bed."I'm strong, look I'm okay...I can't stay here any more day" Blair said cutting Joshua. "We're running a test on you, we need to monitor your health today...at least give us today and then tomorrow you'll be discharged I promised" He said looking in between Blair and me. "Hey would you like to come back here again" I asked Blair and she gave me a look of never, while Joshua was standing in anticipation "then let's do this once and for all...okay?" she nodded. "alright so We're monitoring your health from now till noon tomorrow and by evening you're out of here, take care" he said and he was gone. "Don't worry I'm not going anywhere, I'm gonna stay here with you, then tomorrow we'll go. We can refresh when we reach home" She just stared at me without saying anything and I pulled her head and kissed her forehead, pulled her body to mine and wrapped my arm around her in a hug. "I bought food, are you hungry" "no I'm fine at least for now, what is Mandy still doing in school?" "Mandy is taking her exams and she's supposed to come check on you after her paper, so relax. Lemme call your parents, Kingsley will be so happy to hear you're awake, your mother needs to know that you've woken up all good and healthy so that she can live longer for you and all of us" She agreed and we made a video call to her parents. They were so happy to see Blair sitting and talking "Don't worry baby girl, I'm coming to pick you tomorrow so that you can rest. I'll go clean your room now and mum will go to the market to buy groceries to make you your favorite '' Kingsley smirked "tomorrow is still far don't you think? and I don't want to stay here another day but it looks like I don't have a choice'' she complained "Yes my daughter, it's for your own good. You've already won the battle, what is one day compared to three months you've stayed there in the hospital. Don't be like the tortoise who stayed in a sewage for years and when the time of his liberation came he said 'this place smell too bad can someone take me out of here' it's just a day and before you know it,you are out of there and home with us here" Mrs Drille encouraged. "Don't worry Mum, I'm taking her home with me and she will be well taken care of. You already have Mr Drille to take care of. I'll make sure she's okay and you can come visit her. I don't want her moving around until she's fully recovered because the doctor still has something to tell us tomorrow about her legs before she's discharged" I said "what happened to her legs?" Kingsley asked "well my legs are still in pain and the doctor said it's a good thing. He said it means that my legs are not paralysed but need to be treated. That was all he said but we will hear all of it tomorrow when my test comes out" Blair stated. "Alright, all is well, we've already won the battle, God answered our prayers and brought you back to us. Honey let me go check on your father" Mrs Drille said and left, "how is dad, King?" "he's still the same, there's no improvement but we are still praying and believing in God, he has answered one, he'll answered all, just don't worry the battle is already won. I will come visit you later okay?." "Okay, so how are you doing with work?" Blair asked concerned, "don't worry about that, I'm a man and I don't get lost in a jungle because I am the king of the jungle" he said and beat his chest and we laughed, "alright, my regards to mum and dad, tell them that I love them and I love you too" she said "I love you B and thank you Felicity, you're the God we see, thanks a lot" he complemented "bye" she said and she hung up. She looked at me and I for sure can't comprehend that look, I don't even know what to make of it but I was getting drawn by that look, "what is it?" I managed to say after a couple of minutes, "can you cuddle me?" she said and I laughed internally. What have I been doing all this while if not to cuddle her, she doesn't even need to ask because I'll still do it anyways because I love doing it. I don't know but whenever I hold her I feel at peace. Ask me why I've been staying with her for three months non stop and I will tell you for those three months even in her lifeless state, she still managed to give me peace. If you had asked me what I was doing I'd have told you that I don't know what I was doing but I felt like I knew where I was going. Have you ever long for xmas and finally it came and you knew that you'd be going home to see your loved ones and family, how do you feel then because that was how I was feeling whenever I'm out of her sight. I alway had this feeling that I'm far away, I've been far for so long and I need to go home to my loved ones and family. She made me see her as my home and family and whenever I'm close to her I feel complete, she made me complete I won't deny. She gave me joy that I never knew before. The connection I felt with her I've never felt with anyone even with my fiance. All I want to do is to hold her, touch her, mark her even as mine and make love to her all the days of my life but how can I when I have a fiance and I can't even even let people into my life because that will destroy me. This kind of feeling brings the mighty down, it could be a set up, a temptation, a trap and I don't want to fall. How are the mighty fallen, someone had said that to my grandma when she was sick and I never knew what it meant but I came to understand that, that phrase can never come your way unless things don't sit well with you but when things are great with you, you will hear another phrase, great is the work of thy hands. How can you deal with feelings you can't control? The more you try to overcome it the deeper you fall. I've always learnt to not fear my fears. But here, how can I not be afraid of my fear when it's way beyond me, it controls me like remote controls robots, God I'm doomed for life. She is the only thing I want to do all day. Looking at her makes me want to work harder to keep her happy. I laid down on the bed cuddled up to her, I wanted to kiss her forehead and my phone chimed, I checked and the screen told me it was Mandy's message. "Mandy just texted" "what did she say?" I opened it and read it out "Mandy: Sorry can't make it to the hospital today. Gotta revised my book for tomorrow's early paper. I love you, Tell Blair I love her more ?" "that's okay, I wish her all the best" Blair said. "Me too" I said and texted her, me: We wish you all the best" and I sent. I know she doesn't know what I meant by 'we' but it is a surprise package I am keeping for her, which she will receive tomorrow when she comes. I gently pulled away from her "don't go…" she said and I turned to look at her, "stay… Please" she muttered, "I'm not going, I won't ever go… I want to feed us" I said. She gave me an okay look and I got the food I bought earlier and set our dinner. I made her sit up, relaxing her back against the pillow as I fed her. She demanded water from time to time as I fed us and soon we both were saturated. I cleared the package, sat beside her, took her hand and kissed it. I don't know why I always felt like I would die if I didn't touch her. So from time to time I kept making contact with my body. Yes, any second I don't touch her I feel like I am losing it, like I'm about to die and those are the things I don't feel with my fiance. Yeah, talking about my fiance, we don't do much and I don't feel much, we just do what we do but we are okay. She likes me or loves me I don' t know but she has not gained my trust. Maybe all we do is to warn each other's body, warm the bed and...well I don't know again but whatever we have was good enough to be engaged right? Who am I asking? I don't know anything about love between two couples like married couples, my parents never had that but I experience love between mother and child, my Mum gave my brother and I that until she told me to not ever trust my brother, my father and anybody. It's like she showered her whole love on me on her last days on this planet earth. So I think what I had with Blanca was just an obligation. Something that everybody must do, and I did my best to fulfilled my duty to her until Blair. I must confess I stopped worrying about her behavior like she always comes home late around 9,10,11 pm or sometimes she doesn't come home at all. But those never bothered me much except when I want to have s*x and she's never around. But I do take revenge whenever I see her, f**k the living out of her until we both lost our breaths because man, I don't know when next I might see her again, she made a s*x monster but I don't feel like having s*x with this woman called Blair. All I wanted to do was to always be close to her, be by her side, hold her hands, hug her, kiss her, and then MAKE LOVE to her. Mark my word, I said MAKE LOVE and not have s*x. She was slowly changing my life perspective that is if she had not changed them all. I sat down as I was still holding her hand, she looked me deep in the eyes and I returned the look, without think I drew closer to her face without breaking the contact, I drew my face closer to her face, I waited a little for her to look away or shift her face but she looked at my libs in anticipation and steady her look deep in my eyes. I tell you, I felt completely naked under her stares, I leaned in, placed my libs on her libs and she closed her eyes, I closed my own eyes to what I'm was about to feel. I opened my mouth and slightly sucked her lower libs as she sucked my upper libs, then our libs moved in sync and I moved to sit on the bed without breaking the kiss. I adjusted to not caused her pain and deepened the kiss. I thought of breaking the kiss but my mouth was just busy f*****g her mouth. She moaned and that was the sexiest moan I ever heard. She put her arms on my neck and pulled me closer to hers. She slided her tongue in my mouth and I moaned. She pulled away from the kiss, looked me in the eyes and connected our libs again. Greedy me held her neck with my one hand and moved my other hand down her chest, I touched her pair of breast, she moaned, I squeezed it and she moaned harder, kissed me harder like she wanted to chop my mouth. My legs began to fail me, I was shaking but I never mind, I squeezed the other pair of her breast and we both moaned together, I started squeezing both of them together and harder in random and she groaned harder and harder. As my legs were failing me, I was slipping slowly and she was pulling closer to me, I finally slipped and hit my face on the bed. Thank f**k my face was hit on the form. "sorry" she said looking at me who was standing up fighting how to hide my embarrassed face. "it's… okay" I managed to say, "are you okay?" I asked, "are you hurt?" she sound worry ignoring my question. "no… no I'm okay" I responded "okay, I'm fine…come on let's sleep" she gestured me to lie besides her and I did. I cuddled up to her as she rested her head on my shoulder, I kissed her forehead and held on to her, "I'm sorry" she said again, "for what?" I asked clueless "we got carried away and you almost got hurt" "I'm fine. Don't worry about it, let's sleep" and just like that we slept off cuddling up to each other.

"I'm sorry, hope I didn't take much of your time?" Joshua asked walking in on a coat full of blood the next day, "are you okay?" I asked and he looked confused. "There's blood on your coat, Doc" Blair said pointing at his coat. "oh, sorry I… had been in thearter all day" he wailed, "that doesn't sound good" I pointed out. "lost a mother on my operation table, had been operating on the pregnant woman but the situation was doomed, one of them has to be saved, I thought I could saved both but lost the mother eventually" he wailed, tears streaming down from his eyes. I went and gave him a hug, offering my comfortable shoulder to lean on and right there he went in, let it all out and was back to himself again, "thanks, never knew I needed that" he said drying his tears with his handkerchief and blowing inside it, he threw it inside the waste bin. "alright back to work" wow that wasn't the raspy voice I heard before but I'm impressed on how he knows how not to mix pleasure and work together. "About her legs" he began, "she needs physiotherapy and I have someone to refer you too, he's good at his job" he said and we listened "this is the address of his place" he gave me a piece of paper "I've already booked an appointment for you so you just go when you can" "but we're getting discharge to day right?" Blair input and he smile, "yes, Felicity there's a wheelchair order I made, it's the best because I know you will want the best but you can still choose to order yourself" "no I'm fine with the best" I assured him. "here is the number of the physiotherapist in case you get lost on your way there" "okay thank you" I appreciated "so every other thing is fine, she can feel her legs. Just go to the front desk clear your bills and they will give what's yours. There are drugs I prescribed, it's for the pain, I've written the dosage on its cap. She takes them morning and night and there are four containers, she's to take one tablet in each container, please make sure she takes her drugs, it will help take away the pain and before you know it she's up and doing with the help of the physiotherapist" he explained "the rest is up to you Blair". We looked at him in confusion "how is it up me?" She asked "you need to work with the physiotherapist and take your drugs properly as prescribed, do whatever he asks you to do and don't argue or put up a fight. Most people do that, don't be like them otherwise you will have to make yourself comfortable on the wheelchair because it will become your permanent seat". "Alright thank you" I said and he smiled, picked up his chart and made a note "thank you doc" Blair instilled, "don't thank me thank her, I hardly do anything, it was all her for three months and Mandy when she doesn't have lectures or exams but mostly it was Felicity all the way, so you got luck there and… bye guys… for now" and he left. "let me go clear our bills" I took permission from Blair and went to the front desk, I settled our bills and they printed out my receipt and gave me. They also gave me the drugs Joshua made mention of and the wheelchair. God it is still well package, still in the carton. I left them there and went back to the ward to collect my car key, I also gathered all of our stuff "I'm coming" I said before I left. I took everything to my car and came back, I check to see if I'm forgetting anything and nothing stood out so I carried Blair in bridal style, she looked at me, "Don't I have an opinion about me going home with you? I think I have a choice still" she said, "I can go home to my place and Mandy will take care of me you know" "no" I said, "you don't have a choice, I'm taking you home with me so that I can take proper care of you, besides Mandy is taking her exam, she won't have time for you or do you want her carrying over those courses because she was bent on taking care of you?" she rolled her eye and I felt my stomach bubbled, feelings electrifying my whole body "No. I don't want her to fail any course" she affirmed, "so let's go" she just stared at me "you have beautiful eyes" I said and she placed her head against my heart, her left hand at my chest and I feared that she'd hear the sound of my heartbeat that was about to explode. We left the ward reached my car, I placed her down as I opened the car, I was putting on her seat belt when my hand brushed her breast, and we both tensed. God this feeling… I was tempted to squeezed her breast, I swallowed and stared at her and she stared at me. I swallowed again and managed to closed the door. I walked to my seat and closed the door, started my car "we are going home" I said to her and she nodded "okay" and we were off.