I LOVE YOU – episode 9

Just then, I saw a lady dressed in white, it was a nurse, I saw a POP  cast on my leg. “How did I get here?”, I asked myself, I woke hadizat who was sleeping on the chair beside me with her head on the bed.

Me: hadizat, wake up!
Hadizat: oh! Kelvin, you are awake, feeling better?
Me: what happened, why am I here like this?
Hadizat: am sorry, when we were going back to the hostel yesterday, you stopped to vomit, as you wanted to get up, you leg slipped and you fell into the nearby gutter, so  a passer-by and I brought you here- school health center.
Nurse: are you feeling better? You will not be able to leave here today, and drugs would be prescribed to you.

I wanted to sit up, but the pain in the leg wouldn’t just let me drag the leg up the bed. Hadizat held me down.

Me: did my phone ring?
Hadizat: yes, a person named paul called
Me: what did he say?
Hadizat: I told him you got injured and that you are in the health center
Me: oh! Thanks. Have you been here since then?
Hadizat:sure, how could I leave you?
Me: thanks , but go freshen up, you look ugly
Hadizat: you are not serious, I think your leg is feeling all better that you can decipher beauty. I’d be back

She gave me a gentle pat on my shoulder and left.
An hour later, paul came in.

Paul:Kelvin, are you ok? Heard from your friend that you got injured. Are you better?
Me: yeah, thanks. She told me you called earlier today
Paul:have these, you’ve not eaten right

It was a paper bag filled with pie, biscuit, and gala and pepsi drink

Me: thanks man, IFE-igbeyin no catch you?
Paul(he laughed). Thank God. I had called earlier to let you know that I’d be leaving for lagos today
Me: so fast?
Paul: my parents want me home as soon as possible
Me: ok.

He kept my company for some twenty minutes and then left.

I used to be like that too in first semester- going home as soon as exam ends, but that can’t be the case now.

I imagined how I must have behaved the previous night, I must have said jargons.
I used to castigate all those I saw in movies that fell, rise or slept in gutters, streets and misbehaved as a result of being drunken. But here I am suffering an injured leg as a result of being drunk. What a shame! Tears rolled down my eyes towards my ears. I cried for what I was becoming. How do I stop all these? I asked myself.

Just then, hadizat came in. quickly wiping my tears, I said “welcome”.

Hadizat: why are you crying?
Me: no, am not crying
Hadizat: don’t lie to me, I can see it in your eyes.
Me: look at me ( I burst into tears again)

She sat on the bed, came closer and hugged me and started combing my hair with her hand
“am sorry, its all my fault” she said.

Suddenly, I pulled her face nearer, she stared and I started kissing her. I didn’t know what has gotten into me, but I continued. She didn’t resist and I continued. Soon I started caressing her. The pain in my leg was gone as I sat up on the bed.

Suddenly the door opened, shock gripped us
.
Who was it?