Passionate Heart

Abandoned

I woke up months later to find myself in a strange bed. I sat up and looked at my left side, I saw one woman with scattered hair on a bed, she was laughing unhesitatingly.

She must be mad I said to myself and turned to right side immediately. There I saw another woman eating bread roughly like a mad woman, she was even eating the nylon used in packaging the bread, it was obvious she was mad

I looked at my right to see another young woman eating scratching her head vigorously and talking and talking to herself, she was also mad.

I looked behind me to see another woman tearing her clothes and eating it, she must be mad too.

I stood up and screamed

Helppppp

All the mad people from other wards plus the ones in my ward jumped up and started running to me. I jumped up and started running. Just then all of them started chasing me.

Helppp..Helppppp I kept screaming as I ran around the premises. The doctors and nurses ran out and started chasing the mad people back to their wards. It was then it occurred to me that I was actually in Psychiatric Hospital.

you go back to your ward

why am I here? I asked

He stopped to look at me and he examined me.

Follow me he said and I went with him.

why did you cause that confusion today

I..I..was scared I muttered, why am I here? I asked again

You are here for treatment

was I mad??

what do you think?

who brought me here? I asked

Two young men brought you here but only one wrote down his number as the other one claimed to be in a hurry, he had a trip that evening The doctor said as he was looking for my file

I'm Doctor Max, the person we have his name here is George Graz. He has been coming from time to time to check on you, he said your brothers aren't around. He haven't come this week, maybe he's busy with work.

work? is he working?

He said he's working part time, what's your relationship with the guy, he didn't want to open up, are you in any way related?

No, he's just a friend

your boy friend?

I changed the topic

How come none of my brothers have come to see me

I don't know he said

I want to go home

we have already contacted Mr George, he said he's coming to take you home.

George came minutes later with one of his father's car. I entered the car as George settled the doctor and drove me home. The gate man opened the gate and George drove in and parked the car. i alight from the car and called the gate man.

Yusuf

Small madam

give me the keys to the house

I'm not with it oh!

How do you mean?

Dr Noble locked the house and left with the keys

where did he go to?

He traveled to Canada

What? I said and went around the house to confirm and found out that the house was indeed locked. I went to our car park that use to be filled with different cars and it was empty, I screamed.

George calmed me down

The doctor said you shouldn't encounter anything that will stress your brain, let me take you to my house first, we will sort everything out later.

At George's place, Mrs Graz gave me a very big room where I was to stay.

I was burning with anger, I took my phone and called Dr Noble

Hello

Hello, Treasure is that you?

yes its me

are you alright?

of course I am, I know you want me to be mad forever, don't you?

Treasure why are you so impolite this cold evening

owk! I should be polite and happy right? happy that my own blood brother. same father, same father abandoned his little sister in the psychiatric hospital, over a little bipolar disorder because he wants her to run mad forever so that he can share properties with the second brother

Treasure its not like that, I have been very busy

Too busy for your only sister

All these eight months even if its once, did you cared to know how I fared? You don't want me alive do you?

Treasure....

I have not finished I interrupted him

You even sold all the cars and houses and locked our family house because you don't believe you don't believe I will come back again, you made no provision for my coming back

Treasure everything I did, I did out of anger. You shouldn't blame me its all Bright's fault, imagine he sold all our landed properties and before I knew what was happening he had taken over Dad's company. So I quickly sold all the cars and locked the house, I took all the documents of Dad's and mum's bank accounts and took over mum's business, my employees are working there. If I hadn't locked the house, maybe he would have sold it too

So nothing is left for me right?

Treasure don't see it that way, u will be coming back next month so we can settle the matter

So where do you expect me to sleep

send your account number, I will send you some money to stay in a hotel till you find a house to rent okay?

rent a house while my father have houses

Treasure that's the least I can do till I come back

so where am I sleeping this night? I asked eeh?

your boyfriend's house, you can spend the night there

my boyfriend's house?

yes, your boyfriend's house

why do you think I have a boyfriend?

That young man, what's his name again.. eeh!..eeh! George ..yes...George

ok bye I said and hanged off.

Dr Noble is the first son of my family, he is a medical doctor, Bright is the second and last son, an accountant and a bank manger although people love calling him Engineer, because he is electrically inclined.

I am the only daughter and the last child of my parents. My brothers are married with children. I was born fifteen years after the birth of Bright when my mother didn't know she could still give birth. Dr Noble is 17yrs older than me, and guess what I'm 18yrs old in my final year in College. I took my phone and called Bright

Hello my Treasure how are you doing?

your Treasure?

yes nah my Treasure

your Treasure that you threw away

haba, how can a throw a treasure away, by the way, are you alright now?

yes oh! I'm fine now, I know you don't want me to be, But My God did not allow it.

haba, this one you are sounding like this what happened?

you happened

I happened?

yes, you know what you did

He laughed

oh! ho! he is even laughing at me after dumping me in the hospital and not even asking after me for once

Dear, you were very violent that day, I was just scared of being hurt, nothing more

I heard you did not even follow them to take me to the hospital, you instead drove away and started covering our parent's properties immediately

Ah! you know I don't just trust that Noble. that's why I decided to take action, delay is dangerous

Even after that day, all these months, you never came to see how I was faring, because perhaps you thought I will never be well again

Your boyfriend George was there to look after you nah

Is that your excuse?

what do you expect, when you have someone as caring as George, I'm sure you are absolutely alright

look at what you are saying, George is in no way related to me by blood but he was the one running around and even paying the bills you guys suppose to pay and you are here saying what you did was right

eeh..about the bills, I will refund him later

I also heard you and Noble are quarreling over our parent's properties.

we are not quarreling dear

Then why are you coveting our parent's properties that way

That's what its supposed to be dear

when our parent's wrote their wills

look Treasure going through court procedures will cost us time, money and energy

You should remember that the will states

that I have 30% share of our parent's properties while you and Noble have 35% each.

I know, let's settle it as brothers and sisters, tell Noble to come home let's share everything as its supposed to be

He said he's coming back next month

okay till he comes back

Till he comes back I should stay where?

First of all, have you talked with Noble

yes?

what did he say?

He said he's sending me a big amount of money

okay send me your account number let me also send you money

How much are you sending?

500k

what is 500k

okay, I will make it eight hundred

better do oh!

call you later my baby girl okay?

okay bye I said and hanged off