Love with bitter tear - Season 1 - Episode 22

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Love with bitter tear - Season 1 - Episode 22

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One of the doctors watching
them
from the receptionist stand
walked over to them as they
struggled to drag Annie with
them.

Doctor: “Hello please?”
he said
politely, smiling as they turned
to
face him.

Paul: “Hello! What
can we do for
you?” he asked still trying to
calm
Annie down.

Doctor: “Can I ask
you guys a
question please?”

d!ckson: “Sure, go on”

Doctor: “Who is
that little boy to
you?”

Ralph: “Hmmmmm! We
don’t
know him, we were just
driving
by when we saw people
gathered. That was when our
baby asked us to stop the car,
she
kinda rescued him from getting
killed” he explained proudly.

Doctor: “Your daughter should
be
given an award for such a
brave
act. And I overheard her saying
she wants to stay with the
boy?
She’s got a really large heart I
must say”

Ralph: “Yeah thank
you!” he
replied eager to get away from
the conversation so they could
go
home.

Doctor: “May I suggest
she stays?

She and the young lady here, I
will personally take care of
them.

They can even stay at my place
tonight and tomorrow and if
you
stay around, I will drive them
home myself. The way I am
looking at things now, this girl
might fall sick if you forcibly
take
her home like this.

Paul: “We
are sorry to decline
doctor. She is too young to
really know what she wants. Thanks
for your suggestion anyway.

We will get going now, thank you”
he said and they all turned to
leave, he noticed that Annie
was
quiet all of a sudden, he
checked
and realised she had fallen
asleep
in his arms and heaved a sigh
of
relief. They drove back to
Ibadan
in silence with each of their
minds occupied with thoughts
of the
young boy and the state they
met
him in. it was really pathetic.
=== He sat thinking about
where he
could find Sammy. He still
nursed
doubts in his heart about his
wife.

He knew he had to find out the
truth but how he could do that
was something he wasn’t sure
about. He remembered he
hadn’t
read news that day and he had
forgotten to get newspaper
from
the vendor, he decided to
check
online. He logged in to
http://www.storyai m.comand the
first thing he saw was JUNGLE
JUSTICE:
AN INNOCENT BOY ALOMOST
LYNCHED BY AN ANGRY MOB.

The
title seemed catchy so he
decided
to read it cursing the adults
who
would want to set an young
boy ablaze just because of
some
cheap commodity. His network
was slow so he tried again by
reloading it. It came on at last
and
the pictures he saw almost
took
his breath away. Laying on the
floor was his son, covered in
blood, unrecognizable because
of
his swollen and bleeding face.

He dropped his phone and stood
up,
unable to continue reading the
news any further. ”Oh my son!
My son!!” he kept muttering
breathlessly. He thought he
was going to have a heart attack
because of how much pain he
was feeling in his heart. “All
these is my fault, I drove you out of
the house… where exactly are
you?”

he remembered the post could
give him information about his
whereabouts and went over to
his phone, picked it up and
proceeded with his reading
again. He saw the picture of
the brave beautiful girl who had
saved his Sammy. They were
pictured with her rocking
Sammy’s head on her lap and
looking menacingly at one of
the men carrying out the
nefarious act. He finally got the address
of the hospital where Sammy was
admitted at, without thinking,
he
ran for his car and zoomed off.
Ophelia ran out when she
heard
the sound of his car leaving the
compound and wondered
what
could be wrong this time. She
saw
his phone on the table with the
post he just read still on the
screen, scooped it up and
scanned through it. She
staggered back when she saw
Sammy in the pool of his own
blood. Her hands began to
shake
while her palms sweated
profusely. She quickly dropped
it,
took her car keys and went
after her husband. === On
getting to the hospital, he was
directed to the doctor in charge
of
his son’s case.

Richard: “Good
evening, I am the
father of the boy who was
brought in some hours back.

The one in the ER” He introduced
himself. Doctor: “I know whom
you are,
the receptionist already called
to
inform me of your presence”
he
said as they shook hands.

Richard: “Oh good! So how is
my
son? Will he be okay?”

Doctor: “Of course he will be
okay. He sustained multiple
injuries though, three broken
ribs, mild concussion of the
brain and some fractures here and
there. But let’s thank God that
girl stood up for him when she
did,
by now his charred corpse
would
have been what you’d be
picking
from the road now with people
looking at you as the father of
a
thief”

Richard: “Hmmmm glory
be to God.

Does that mean my son is
not in danger anymore? I
mean
he will recover?”

Doctor: “Of
course he will recover
faster than you think. You
should
find a way to thank the parents
of
that girl. They even paid your
son’s hospital bills and the girl?
She was so taken to your son
that she didn’t want to leave”

Richard: “I must see that girl of
course, I read about it all online
and I must say I am really
impressed. Her parents must
really be proud of her. Please
when next they come, tell
them I want to see them, they
should
give me a call” he said handing
his card to him.

Doctor: “Okay
they will hear. And
don’t worry, your son will be
fine”

Richard: “But can I see
him now?”

Doctor: “Of course!
If you can’t
see him then who can? I will
take
you there. Come with me
please?”
he said leading the way.

Richard: “Thanks a lot” he said
as
they walked along the long
corridor leading to the
Emergency
Room. He was taken aback
when he saw
his son. He was plastered from
head to toe. POP was used to
support one of his legs. He fell
on
his knees and just stayed there
with his heard down like a
gallant soldier who fell in
battle.

Doctor: “Are you okay?”
he said
holding him gently by the
shoulder.

Richard; “I am not
okay doctor.

You see that boy lying over
there?

I am the reason he is there. He
told me something grievous
someone is dong to him and I
refused to believe him. I even
punished him for calling me a
coward when I knew within
me
that he was really saying the
truth. Now he is lying here
almost
maimed while his mother is
lying
cold and stiff in the ground, all
my fault”

Doctor: “I will advise
you to just
pray for him to get better soon
so
you can apologize to him. That
is
the best way and hope the
person that did that grievous
something has been
reprimanded? Don’t let him or
her
go scot free”

Richard: “She will
not. I will reveal
her dirty secrets to the whole
world, I will ruin her life for
ruining my family” he said
bitterly.

Doctor: “It’s okay, go
talk to your
son now, he seems to be
awake. I
will get going though, I am
having another appointment in
five minutes’ time.” he checked
his time, patted Richard’s
shoulder and started walking
out. Ophelia hid herself behind
the door till the doctor had
disappeared out of sight. She
quickly sneaked away from the
ER and fled from the hospital.

=== Ever since they got back
from
Abeokuta, Annie refused to talk
to anyone. She became sullen
and
withdrawn overnight. The cries
of the boy kept ringing in her
head, his agonized gaze as he
looked up at her. She felt like
she
could almost feel all the hurts
he
had passed through in his short
life on earth. She wanted to go
back there so much but there
was
no one to take her, which
saddened her so much.

Paul:
“Annie, we are going to see
that boy on tomorrow which is
Saturday. Will you like to go
with
us?” he said that morning as
they
were preparing for work while
prepared for school.

Annie: “Yeeeees! She said
jumping up excitedly. “let’s get
him plenty gifts, I will give him
all my toys even Elsa”

Paul: “You
like him that much?”

Annie: “Yes I like him very much,
he looks as if he is my brother”

Paul: “Really? Brother from
another planet heart right?” he
teased her.

Ralph: “Looks like
someone is
back. Welcome back baby, we
missed you” he said pecking
her on the cheek with the foamy
teeth paste in his mouth.

Annie: “Uhnnn! 1st daddy, you
are dirty” she said using her
towel to clean her cheek. ===

At the hospital, The POP on his
leg
had been removed while some
of
the bandages still remained. He
kept thinking about the girl
who
had saved him. She looked
exactly the same age as his
Annie, for this one fact, he
wanted to see her so much. As
he
was thinking, he heard
shuffling
of legs outside, he looked
sideways and there she was,
sanding right there grinning
gleefully.

Annie: “Oh my God!

You look
better friend. Thank God He
answered my prayers” she said
walking towards him slowly
afraid that if she walked fast,
she
will find out that it’s all a
dream anyway.

Sammy: “So
you’ve been praying
for me?” he said sitting up.

Annie: “Of course! Meet my
three dads. This 1st dad, 2nd
dad and 3rd dad” he said
pointing at them one after the
other.

Sammy: “1st dad, 2nd
dad, 3rd dad? Are those their
names? How
is it that you have three dad?
What of your mum?” he asked
after he had nodded greeting
to the three dudes standing like
her body guard.

Annie: “They
refused to tell me
where she is. What about you?

But what is your name? I don’t
even know your name”

Sammy: “My name is Samson
but everybody calls me Sammy.

What about you?”

Annie: “My name
is Annie…”

Sammy: “Annie…?”
his eyes
almost popped out of their
bruised sockets.