HEART FEELINGS?? ITS A NO NO (Episode 1) CONT...
Jimi was restless at work, unable to focus on the work of the morning.
When he was sure Marie had arrived Akure, he called her phone and she answered.
"I am here, alive and safe, so you had better Stop worrying yourself. "
He was a little relieved. "Okay, have fun and ping me with enough pictures o. "
"All clear baby ..."
"Marie?" His voice wavered a little.
"Yes, Jimi?"
"I miss you now."
"Me too, but its only two days na." He was silent.
"Marie, are you there?"
"Yes, yes, I am here."
"I just have this bad feeling ........"
He wanted to explain what he meant, but his secretary came in. She was an old woman, almost as old as his mother and she fumbled and frowned. Jimi was to dismiss them and to hire a young man or woman instead.
"Everything's all right," Marie whispered in his ear. "I have to go, we'll talk later."
She hung up and he saw his secretary who came in to tell him he had guests waiting.
His day passed in a slow, bustling wind. he had no time to call Marie back, although he constantly expected the flashing, red light on his phone. But he saw nothing the whole day. Finally the work has come to an end and he left quite early to take the time with Kiki.
He was glad when he came home and found her awake. They had a good father and daughter thing until she falls asleep his arms and he passed her on to Terdoo.
He pushed Marie's thought away, until later in the
Night, when he was sure she was resting after all the excitement of Udoka bachelorette party.
He took a shower and get into the news, Dinner and that was when he heard his Phone comes alive with Marie ringtone. He went for it.
"Marie?"
There was a short break.
"Marie, hello?"
"Hello, Good evening." The voice belonged to a man.
"Good evening…"
"Are you the husband of the owner of this phone? "
"Yes, where is she?"
"I'm sorry, sir she was involved in an Accident and was rushed to the Hospital. We want you to come immediately…"
Jimi did not hear what he said after that. He just nodded in one Dizziness. The caller was smart enough to write the address to him. Jimi called his best Friend, Kaseem, who then drove him to Akure.
He was still not clear when they were out of the car and went to the hospital.
Kaseem has received all the information needed and Jimi saw himself led from the emergency room to another part of the hospital. It did not matter distance as long as he would be with Marie again. He was so lost in his haze that he did not see the giant sign over the large double doors ahead of them that read MORTUARY.
He went blind and then it felt as if someone struck him back into life and he was aware of his milieu. The temperature of the space in which they were was cold. It was a small, empty room with a sleeping companion at its desk, he jumped as they entered.
Kaseem spoke to him and he led them to an inner
Room. It was bigger and had stainless steel Tables, refrigerators and flooring which stretched as far as half of the walls.
"What are we doing here, Kas?" Jimi turned to Kaseem but Kaseem only followed the companion further into the tables at the end lay someone covered with a white cloth drenched in Blood.
It did not look like a human corpse although Jimi suspected. The companion stopped and urged them to move Forward.
Jimi could not move...
"That's not ... that's ... That's not Marie ..."
Kaseem looked at him. "Jimi ..." He shook his head. "It is not my wife. Let's go."
Kaseem came back to him and held his Shoulders, looking directly into his eyes.
"Jimi, Marie was battered by a trailer like as She crossed a street. I'm sorry, man. She did not make it. She's gone. I am so sorry, We are sorry."
Jimi pushed Kaseem's hands away and moved to the table, a leisurely one step by step. He could do any part of it his body comes to a spasm, but he pressed until his hands rested on the cold steel edge of the table. He could not lift the cloth. He asked the companion to and he did, very much fast.
And what Jimi saw or did not see Marie's remnants sent a poisoned arrow down to his heart.
He heard someone scream Agony and did not realize the sound came from him, until he from incomprehensible sobs. He backed away the succession of bones and meat on the table and was almost tipped medical Apparatus on a counter behind him.
Kaseem put a hand on him. In his tears Jimi managed to tell him Marie Ehering to see if there is one certain engraving.
Kaseem has with the Assistance of the companion and confirmed the Engraving. It was Marie. She really was dead.
That day, Jimi's world collapsed.
He was dead. He walked like a zombie. The life around him also ran, hovering in gray tones and rust-brown, during which time he valued his mortality and came to the conclusion that he did not deserve to live.
The only the reason he stayed alive was because he was too much coward to kill himself.
He went through impertinent grief months and when he finally came to the point of acceptance where he knew he had to close the door and finally recognize that Marie was gone forever, six Months had passed.
He was in isolation. The room he slept was a shrine dedicated to Marie in his father's hoise in jos, the had most of their belongings and Images. He was crazy, but knew he had the right to be allowed his madness, no matter how long it took.
It did not last forever.
His Mom visited and had a serious conversation with him.
"You must continue, Olujimi, Kiki can not grow up without you. Her mother is gone, but she is still here and she needs to know that she is not alone. "
"I'm not ready, Mom exact replica of Marie. How I look her face every day, I look back in Maries? "
"It is Allah's blessing for you, it means Marie is not gone forever. Son, you have no choice but to be strong "She chose the words in slow bits to each
Point. "Pack your bag, we'll leave tomorrow
Tomorrow. "
Her voice bore this last note Jimi Could not go against it, but love in it Eyes was unmistakable. For their sake and kiki is back to the place where he was sure he would feel Marie's loss more. He was not afraid, although. He wanted to hold her for as long as he could.
There was a quiet dinner served by his Sisters for him when he came home. It was bittersweet as he sat at the table Marie always insisted that he eats her Meals.
It felt somewhat reassuring, to be accepted back and well by Kiki, the opened her arms for him with one loveable embrace. She did not remember him but she let him hold her. She was Marie personalized in character with all the love and cuddiness. He was also relieved, to find that Terdoo was still there. For the first time he dared to look into her face and saw that she was withdrawn, beautiful Lady with clever eyes. She loved his family as much as she loved her and he knew he owed her much for the sacrifice she had to look after Kiki.
After eating, he moved into his Bedroom, which he had not seen in six Months. In accordance with his instructions, No one has visited the room. As he went in, he expected half-way presumptuous presence of grief him, but what he felt was strange peace and the fruity smell of Maries perfume. It still hung in the air, limited their essence.
He went to sleep that night without pain. Marie finally rested in peace and so was his heart. The pain, he knew, would always be there, but for the moment he was not burdened with grief.
He used the following days to fit his new life outside Marie, spend the most morning on important calls to get him the job of his dreams. He still had the position of his old work waiting for him since it is a family business, but he wanted to get away with all that would bring him back in the life he used to know. A few evenings he had gone to town places cursed with traffic, so he could get stuck on the streets, just around feeling of being lost and crying alone; other times he would simply sit and look at a boring football game at or foreign news.
On one of those evenings, when he was seeing
the news, the fate came without a visit Warning as on day Marie died. Jimi watched a sponsored piece
on tourism in Cyprus. The place was Nissi Beach, one of their famous places. He felt bad to see the report because Marie always wanted to go on holiday but his work had not allowed them.
As the reporter the length of the Beach, ask a guide questions, Jimi followed her conversation. They stopped at some time where a group of people, couples mostly, relaxed on deckchairs canopies. Jimi was amazed at the clear Blue of the sea when the silhouette of a Woman has caught his eyes. She was dressed in a turquoise blue, short sleeve Dashiki and a pair of shorts and she was staring into the sea, as a gentle breeze in her bouncy Bohemian hair. The scar on her left elbow that pulled him closer to the screen and he leaned all out to look more closely.
Jimis heart started really fast to beat and He could feel his head pulsing with fear as the woman turned in a slowed movement at her side, smiling at someone He could not see. The world has not moved for him at that moment because the woman smiling was nothing else but his Marie.
She made a full turn and stretched out her hand to the person she smiled at - one young man about his age with the body of a runway model. But it was not the presence of the man who exiled him. It was the bulge Marie was wearing. She was pregnant. And to add his pain, he saw a gold ring at her wedding finger.
Jimi shot up from his bed. He guessed he saw things. It could not be Marie.
Marie was dead and buried! who was that
Woman imitating her?
Thank goodness for a PVR decoder. He has the Remote control and rewind Moment she turned her face to smile to the guy. The mole on her nose was there and the lacuna was clearly identifiable. Unless she had a twin with the exact properties, that was certainly Marie.
Jimi kept using the rewind button again and again
and again, until the screen frozen to the point where she stretched out her Hand to the guy.
There was an excitement of emotions in him - Anger, Pain, Confusion, Disbelief, Sadness, Depression - and he could hardly breathe.
A knock on his bedroom door and Terdoo came in. She kinked. "Uncle, good evening." She stared at the
TV screen. "Uncle, I have something to tell You."
Jimi looked at her frostily head to her toes as if she were a stranger.
He noted the delicate curve of her Form and the dark, introvert beauty on her face and all that together gave him an immediate feeling of nausea and the vehemence on his already abandoned Mood. Without thinking, he let out the first words he found on his lips.
" Go away from my room and my House now! You're fired!"
He did not care how Terdoo responded, he just wanted her out of sight, but when he realized that she was still he stood there crying more.
"Are you deaf?"
Terdoo pulled back quietly and Jimi hit the door behind her. As he turned back to the TV screen, he found it had been frozen and Marie was gone.
At this point He was angry and out control. With a full force he seized the TV, tore it off the wall and threw it to the ground. He took his car key. He had no holiday destination. He just wanted to be away from all that reminded him of Marie. He had been a fool, one Woman, and she failed him. His hands trembling as he grabbed the door handle and opened the door. He stopped when he saw Terdoo standing in front of him. His head went down immediately.
"I thought I told you to go."
"I have the report on Cyprus CNN as you were ... "
Jimi could not believe she was the same Terdoo, who for him for almost three years of articulating english. She had always been with her Marie in Pidjin.
"I can help you find your wife, but ... Please Don't send me away. I have a son, who Depends on me. Without this job he will not go to school."
Jimi's anger immediately Retreat from the outside and into his inwardly, silent in his heart.
"Get out of my way," he said as he left past her. "And pack your things tonight.
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