THE NIGHT WIFE CHAPTERS 21-30

THE NIGHT WIFE

CHAPTER 25

BY SOLOMON ADNIYA

It was on a cold morning, it had rained cat and dog all night. Seember entered Dooshima’s room, she was still sleeping at six A. M.

“Dooshima? Dooshima? ” She called the second time after turning on the light socket hanging on the wall.

“Uhmmmmm? ” She replied refusing to force herself up from the bed, her mother probed her, her skin was burning hot, so hot as if it was just dropped from the fire.

“Dooshima are you okay? ” Seember asked her daughter, who was still coiled under her blanket.

“Mum I am fine, please go away I want to sleep.” Dooshima grumbled, she wasn’t ready to listen to her.

“Dooshima your body is burning, why did you not tell me you’re still down? ” Seember asked, Dooshima was too weak to respond she lay in bed immobile. “Dooshima wake up your dad is waiting for you down stairs, it’s time for our morning devotion.”

“Oh mummy leave me alone. ” Dooshima cried, her mum was hunched over , so that her head was almost touching Dooshima’s face. “I want to sleep mummy.”

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“You’re traveling to Abuja this morning you need to join the prayer, so we can commit your journey unto the hands of God , you know the number of people who travel and never come back home alive? ” She said calmly pulling her duvet away, Dooshima held it down.

“Mummy I’ll pray on my own. ” She said with a firm and clear voice.

Mrs Seember pulled off the duvet from off Dooshima’s body, she grumpily lifted herself from the bed, arms folded tightly around her boobs,to keep away the cold.She wore sky blue dressed in a singlet gown and had wore a milkish robe over it. She trudged slowly behind her mother as they made the tiresome journey to the sitting room at the down floor for the devotion.

Shania was and John with professor Gamadi had started the devotion already they were singing praises, and clapping their hands, Dooshima with a sleepy eyes plopped herself on a couch next to her dad , she continued to sleep, hearing the singing a long distance away, her heart was so heavy .

“Lillian? Lillian? open your eyes.” Professor Gamadi called to his daughter, Dooshima opened her eyes. “Why are you sleeping? didn’t you sleep in the night? ” the professor calmly asked.

Dooshima felt a rumbling in her stomach, a nauseous feeling creeped from her stomach up to her throat. She forced her old yawning bones up , to escape out of the sitting room, to puke in the privacy of her bedroom, but her legs were not fast enough.

She spill the contents of her gut on the white tiled floor next to the staircase. she sat on the staircase so weak, she felt like lying on the floor.

“Dooshima are you okay? ” Seember and her husband rushed to their daughter, who was sprawled on the staircase face down, Seember gently raised her to a sitting position. Her dad was already by her side. Shania and the driver John had rushed down to where Dooshima had fallen.

“What’s wrong with you sweetheart? ” The professor asked with a worried look on his face. “How do you feel? ” he asked her, but she couldn’t even place a finger on what part of her body was feeling unwell. Her whole body was at war with her. Her kneels felt like those of an old woman with arthritis struggling to climb a hill with a basin of cassava.

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“John go and get the car ready. ” He said at the driver. The professor and his wife helped their daughter up.

“So sorry Dooshima. ” Shania the house maid said, Dooshima nodded. She managed herself into the SUV . The professor had made a call to his family physician ,Doctor Akase .

“Please sir bring her to the hospital I’ve to run a comprehensive test on her to be sure of what is really wrong with her.” He said.

“We are already on our way now, I and her mother we’ll be in the hospital soon. ” The pastor said, he was sitting at the back seat with Dooshima and her mother, he pulled her head to rest on his shoulder.

The doctor was waiting for Dooshima and her parents outside the hospital, he helped hold her as she was unable to stand on her own. the pastor was a popular philanthropist, and a local celebrity, the number of doctors and nurses that greeted him was innumerable. The doctor took Dooshima to a private VIP wing.

The pastor didn’t stay long with his wife and daughter.
“Seember I need to rush to Ushongo I was told that pastor Terdoo has been killed with his wife and children at their farm in Gwer west. I need to go and visit their two surviving children at a hospital in Makurdi.” He said to her out side Dooshima’s hospital room, she embraced him before he left.

The doctor had taken Dooshima’s blood sample after connecting an IV to her wrist. He left for over an hour, Seember returned to the room. She placed a hand on Dooshima’s forehead, it was still burning hot.

“Sorry baby I know you’re under intense pains, you’ll be okay alright? ” She said, and Dooshima nodded, she was in so much pains, that she couldn’t say a word. The doctor returned with the test results.

“Mummy the result came back empty, she tested negative for HIV, Hepatitis, Malaria and Typhoid.” He said his arms folded over his chest.

Dooshima lay in bed facing the roof, tears falling from the sides of her face. “Ma her symptoms are consistent with those of pregnancy. Can I run a pregnancy test on her? ” The pastor asked, Seember was stunned unable to close her mouth.

“No Dooshima cannot be pregnant, she doesn’t know a man. ” She said , Dooshima turned her face to the wall and began to sob softly. “My baby cannot be?!” she yelled. “No! she can’t! ”

“Mummy can I have time alone with Lillian, I need to talk to her as her doctor.” Seember left the room quietly. And went to the waiting room, she was surfing through the internet to keep her mind away from the thought of her daughter getting pregnant. She wondered if Dooshima could be foolish enough to let that doctor boy sleep her.

“Dooshima I know it’s embarrassing to ask you a question about your sexual life, but we need to find what’s wrong with you.

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” He paused and partially sat by the lower part of Dooshima’s bed, her thumb and index fingers on both of her eyes, as she tried to stop the tears from falling from her eyes. “Did you have sex in the last six months? ” He asked. Dooshima couldn’t say a word, she just continued crying.

“We just need to get to the root of your problem. We need to run a pregnancy test if you had have sex recently so we can be sure of what we’re looking at? ” He said Dooshima’s face was turned to the world, her gut feelings told her what it was, she had been checking her symptoms on Google weeks after she had seen her menstrual flow. She got to know that she could be pregnant while her flows are still flowing.

“Please can I have a new blood sample for the test? ” The doctor asked, she extended her hand to him , he extracted a blood to half of the syringe, then capped the needle, before tying the syringe in a hand glove.

“I won’t be gone for long, I’ll go with the sample to the lab .” Dooshima lay frozen in bed, her heart was beating, her body trembled as she waited for her verdict. She wouldn’t turn to see who it was that was opening the door to her room.

“Dooshima how are you feeling? ” She heard Mimidoo’s soft voice, a second later her hands were on Dooshima’s shoulder turning her from the wall. “Am so sorry babe, I saw mummy in the waiting room, she told me you were here with the doctor. ” Dooshima sat up. Minidoo was dressed in a white gown and cap.

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