KIMBERLY PART TEN.

 Kim's pregnancy became obvious. 

(COntinued from the previous part)

“Are you the husband of that lousy and lying woman?” the DPO asked sternly.

“Yes sir, she is indeed lousy and a liar. Please, release her to me and I’ll deal with her at home. I have a six month’s old baby at home, this is why I am pleading fro her release, and otherwise, I would have forgotten her here”

The DPO thought for a while.

“Inspector, go and bring that woman” the DPO said and the inspector left. He returned moments later with Mama Dada, she looked defiant and unrepentant.

“If you all think that you could cheat this poor girl and go scot free you better think twice because laws of karma will catch up with you all….”

Her husband slapped her hard across the face, stopping her from what she was saying; this seemed to please the DPO. He nodded in approval “You have done the right thing sir. A sensible man must control his insensible wife” he said and laughed. Other people there laughed with him except Kim, mama Dada and her husband.

“Give the inspector five thousand naira, that’s bail fee and let your wife sign an undertaken that henceforth she will not lie against Mr. Sayid any longer” the DPO said.

“But sir, I thought bail is free. I didn’t come with any money because someone just rushed to my work place to inform me that my wife had been locked up…”

“Bail is free, is fuel in our vehicles free too?” the DPO asked scornfully “Inspector, return his wife to the cell and let her go when her husband pays the bail fee” he said and dismissed them but Mr. Sam spoke up quickly.

“Don’t worry about the bail fee Mr. Daud, you are good neighbours to us, I will pay the bail fee” he said. Mr. Daud was very grateful.

“You see, the person your wife accuses is the one paying her bail fee” the DPO said “How can such a good man do what your wife is saying he did?”

The man and his wife were led out of the office.

During the whole time, Kim had thought a lot about the offer and she had already made up her mind.

“So, back to you, what do you say?” The DPO asked impatiently.

“I will….gbo, drop all the charges against him but I don’t need his blood money, God will judge him…gbo, gbo, gbo!!!” she said and stood up to go but she was told to sit while a form was brought to her to sign. She read the form with sadness and anger, knowing that by signing the form, she would be dropping all the charges against him. After signing, she left the station with a broken heart.

She cried till she got home and throughout the night.  All her neighbours stayed away from her. Mama Dada made an effort to visit her but her handstand stopped her each time she tried, with kicks and punches until her face was swollen and her teeth broken.

Few days later, Kim resumed selling on the highway. She tried to put the past behind her and made up her mind not to dwell too much on the unfortunate incidence. Soon she began to accept the fact that that was the way God wanted it to be. She continued living in the house but her uncle had moved out a day after the police station incidence and since then she had not heard from him. He had not come himself, his elder sister had come and picked his things and she had left without exchanging a word with Kim. No goodbye, no forwarding addresses.

One bright Saturday morning, Kim was about to take her breakfast when she began to feel queasy. She thought it was just a normal morning sickness and that it would pass but it didn’t until she vomited. After cleaning up, she felt a little better and decided as she left the house that she would go to the nearest pharmacy store to get some drugs. Throughout the day, she felt light headed and unusually hungry. She ate almost everything that she saw yet the hunger persisted.

At the pharmacy, she bought a few self-recommended drugs and began to take them. Her morning sickness however came on the third day again. This time, she was already on the highway, selling to the driver of a bus when she threw up. Part of the vomit escaped into the vehicle and the driver almost beat her for messing up his bus until she was rescued from him by the female passengers on board and fellow hawkers, yet she was made to clean the mess.

Later in the evening of that day, she headed to the pharmacy to complain that the drugs that she had been given was not working.

“If you had met me when you first came, I wouldn’t have sold those drugs to you but I cannot blame the attendant who sold them to you because that was what what you requested for. Self medication is bad, especially when one has little or no understanding of the drugs that one is using. However, this persistent morning sickness is a symptom of a particular disease that I don’t pray that you have.” The elderly owner of the pharmacy said. She was a retired nurse from one of government’s hospital. A stethoscope hung around her fragile neck. “Here, pee inside this contain” the old woman gave her a small container and showed her an enclosed place where she could do that in private. She came back few minutes later with the container and gave it to the old woman who put it on the table and conducted a series of tests on her. She checked her eyelids, her heartbeats, her palms and ankles and she finally ran a test on her urine. The whole process took less than an hour. When she was done, removed her glasses slowly and wiped them.

“My daughter, how old are you?” she asked

“I am thirteen ma”

“And where is your mother?”

“She is no more”

“And your father too?” she asked and Kim shook her head “Well, I have worked for more than thirty five years as a nurse and I have treated more than a thousand pregnant women and the symptoms are always the same. Without doubt or hesitation, you are pregnant” She said and Kim broke down weeping, sitting on the floor.

When she finally left the pharmacy, after swearing and promising the old woman that she wouldn’t do anything stupid, Kim felt suicidal.  She had never felt more like killing herself than then. Alone, she was barely surviving, how could she care for another human being?

Two days later, she was able to get a daughter of a neighbour who was rumored win the house and on the streets to be a prostitute, her name was Favour and she was twenty five years old. In the past, Kim always shunned her and avoided her company but now, Favour was the only one that Kim knew could help her without telling anyone. That night, she had invited the lady into her room and locked the door from inside. When Kim told her what she wanted, Favour had feigned anger and ignorance.

“What made you think that I know where such things are done?” she asked aloud and Kim had to beg her to lower her voice because other neighbours may be hearing them. After much pleas however, she consented. “Well, I have never done it before you know,  but I had a friend who did it then and I will ask her for the details and tell you everything as soon as possible”

Kim thanked her and they had parted way. The following day, the landlord came again and told Kim that the rent for the room had expired since the previous month and that she should pay up or start looking for another house. When she inquired how much the rent would cost, her heart sank because at that time, she couldn’t afford it. By then, it was clear to her that her only salvation was to go back to the Smiths for assistance but before then, she had a little issue to take care of.

Favour came back four days later. By then, Kim was behind herself with worries and apprehensions because the pregnancy was already becoming noticeable. Her stomach was already growing and her ankles were getting swollen.

“I have gotten the number of the doctor, he will help you” Favour said immediately she came into the room. “But this must be a secret between me and you, okay? My parents must not know and more importantly, our nosy neighbours must not know”

“Nobody will know anything. So like how much will this cost?”

“The doctor said ten thousand naira” Favour said “but I was able to haggle the price till he agreed to collect seven thousand naira instead. He said the money must be completed before the operation began”

“How good is this doctor?” Kim asked. She had heard a lot about teenagers who had aborted pregnancies before and died due to poor medical attention. She didn’t want to be on that list.

“He is good, he had helped me too one or two times in the past and he helped a friend of mine so many times that we both lost count” she said and laughed but Kim didn’t find it funny. She found it disturbing.

“How could someone be so careless for so many times? Where is that friend of yours now, Aunt Favour, is she married and does her husband know what she had done?”

“She is dead now though”

“How, what killed her?” Kim asked, greatly concerned.

“Abortion-the last one. But hey, enough of these pasts, when will your money be ready so that you can get rid of this thing as soon as possible? It is already showing, you must get rid of it before it becomes too late.”

REUNITED.

The following day at work, Kim was a shadow of her usual self. Her heart was beating madly and the thought of the baby growing inside her filled her with dread. What really scared her however was how to raise the money to terminate the pregnancy. Though her business now worth ten thousand naira, yet it may take days or weeks before she could be able to sell everything and raised the money. So she was filled with all these thoughts that afternoon when she absent mindedly walked into the middle of the busy road.

A car coming from the direction of Apapa at neck breaking speed was passing through the middle lane; it was in a hurry to cheat other vehicles and escape the hold up that was already building. Because the driver couldn’t see far ahead, he didn’t see Kim until the bus was on her and Kim too was too lost in her thoughts to notice the vehicle until it was too late.  The bus hit her hard and rolled her on the floor. Suddenly, noise broke out as people ran to the place to rescue her. Among the babble of voices, several women could be heard, wailing.

Kim was rushed to the nearest hospital inside one of the sympathizer’s car. At the hospital, the doctor and the nurses on duty quickly swing into action and began resuscitating her. One after the other, all the sympathizers left except one who stayed at the reception as the doctors worked on her at ICU. Some hours later when she was declared safe and wheeled into a ward for recuperation, the man was still there at the reception, pacing the floors to and fro. He was finally allowed to see Kim the following day. He was happy that she only sustained few injuries which was considered lucky.

“Are you her father sir? I must say that your daughter is very lucky indeed because she only sustained few injuries and the baby inside her is safe as well!” the lady doctor said, beaming at the man.

“I am not her father though I just happen to know her through a friend. All the same, thank you for saving her life and did you say she is pregnant?”

“Yes sir, she is” the doctor affirmed. “Though at her age, I consider that most inappropriate” the doctor said.

“I’m as baffled as you doctor but thank you all the same, I will settle the bill when I’m going” he said and the doctor exited the ward. He sat on a chair nearby and began to watch the sleeping Kim. Despite her age, deep lines were etched over her forehead and her visage was frowned even in sleep as if she was thinking in her sleep. After an hour, she stretched and yawned and woke up. The man remained seated on the chair while he allowed her to come to full consciousness.

“How are you?” he asked when her eyes finally rested questioningly on him.

“I am fine, who are you and where am I?” Kim asked, she made an effort to sit up on the bed but the IV that was hooked to her body became tangled so she decoded to lie back down.

(To Be Continued)


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