Bip!.... Bip!.... Bip!.... I had been knocked down by a vehicle due to
my carelessness. I couldn’t see well due to the bandage on my head stroke face
but is still could see Mr & Mrs Oni alongside Adebisi talking to the doctor I couldn’t hear them but
Mrs Oni looked soo sad………….. And that was all.
The next time I woke up, I saw my Mum,
Bamidele my little brother, Adeola Oni, Mr Oni looking like a lost puppy and
Tunde the driver all setting in the room. Tunde got up to call the doctor who
was already on his way there “She’s awake” he said. I had been out
for 16hrs and I had lost a lot of blood. They were all there because I needed
blood and none matched not even my brothers’. Dr Pascal said it to my hearing.
I felt bad, oooo it was the end, but I had only started I said to myself I felt
life less couldn’t really feel any part of my body and my sight was blur.
The nurse came in and asked if she could
talk to the doctor in private, he came back in few minutes later with a smile
and said “a match has been found” apparently
the blood bank didn’t have a match. The source oh!
Shouted my mother, its from a young man and the blood as been tested.
I felt a bit better and could move my
hands. I had been sleeping for the past 48hrs. I wondered what had been
happening. I saw Bisco, Mrs Oni, and my mother looking a bit happier than the
last time I saw them. The transfusion had been done, adebisi gave his blood for
me.
I was getting better, I moved in with
the Oni’s again. My left arm was still in its recovery mood, and I felt soo
much love from them including Mr Oni who couldn’t stop blaming himself for the
accident.
After the accident Adebisi and I became
unusually close, he got me stuffs when he was coming home from school, spent
more time with me in the kitchen and most times sat with me in my room. And somemimes
he jokingly called me his “little wife”.
No one saw anything wrong with this not even
dad, only on one occasion did Mr Oni mention to everyone in the house while we
were having dinner that “bisco and Jaye are very close these
days” everyone
laughed over it and Adebisi said “ We share same blood now, so what do
you expect”……. There was great silence after that and
no one went back to it.
He was serving now and I had almost
gotten through with my studies, didn’t date anyone in school because I was
ashamed of who I was or more or less what I was doing to get sustained. But
with a friend like Adebisi I didn’t really bother at some times. I had started
feeling something for him that was beyond me. I wasn’t sure it was right
because I knew he was in a relationship and they seem like they are heading
places. I continued to be friends but after sometime I couldn’t do it any more
I started stay at a distance even if it was not easy. He complained and kept
asking if he had done something wrong and one occasion he asked Adeola and stev
his friend to talk to me, I told them nothing was wrong that I just wanted to
be by myself for some time and Adeola with a sad smile on his face looked me in
the eye and said “jayeola…… I think I know what the problem is”. He obviously
knew what the problem was. It wasn’t too easy on him and I could see him
struggling to stay out of my way. So he spent more time out of the house and didn’t
spend some nights at home.
I just had my bath and was trying to
apply cream on my back, didn’t usually lock the door has I seldom had any
visitors.
