SHATTERED Episode 6

SHATTERED
Story by O'nezer
Episode 6

  “Bayo, clean up the guest room and take her bag inside.” Mrs Jerry smiled in a rather nervous way.

"Bayo, can you recognize this face?” the woman asked when she was finally alone with Bayo.

"No..." Bayo answered abruptly without looking up from tidying the bed in the guest room.

  “I am your mother." she said almost in tears.

  “I don’t think so. I have seen your pictures before but I don’t know who it is." Bayo said. He completed adjusting the bedspread and left the room without looking his Mother in the eyes.

  Bayo's mother felt like a truck had ran over her. She could not place where the pain was coming from, but she sure was not feeling too well.

  “Is this what have become of my son?" Bayo's mum placed her hands on her head.

"Is this why he never accompanied them home all these years?"

"And they told me to check on my child once in a while o! But I believed he was in safe hands. What do I do to this strange Bayo now?" Bayo's mother muttered, all wrapped up in her soliloquy.

  It was almost mid-day when Bayo's Mum arrived. Bayo was yet to eat breakfast, not to mention lunch. But a quick lunch was made and in 2hours, everyone including Bayo sat at the dining table to eat.

  Bayo system had gotten used to being starved of food sometimes for two days and the meal before him looked scary. After gulping several spoons of rice down his throat, Bayo rushed to the toilet to throw up.

  “Is he sick?" Bayo's Mother asked with concern as she rushed after Bayo.

"Alakoba buruku! This boy wants to put me in trouble" Mrs Jerry hissed as she sluggishly followed the two.

  Mr Jerry soon returned from office and being the jovial man who can make light any issue no matter how serious it were, he made the family laughed as he cracked jokes after jokes.

"Don't you see that Bayo’s mother is wicked as it is.” Mrs Jerry whispered to her husband ear at night in their room.

"How? What do you mean?" Mr Jerry turned surprisingly.

"She didn't even tell us she was coming.” Mrs Jerry hissed.

  “That would not have changed anything and besides, she does not have a phone.” Mr Jerry noticed the furry in his wife eyes.

  She had always hated when her husband supports the Johnsons, Bayo's family.

  The next two days was a peaceful for Bayo. He ate when the family ate and all the unnecessary chores were scrapped. Then the heartbreak came. Bayo heard his Mother praying about her trip back to the town.

"Are you leaving already?” Bayo asked beside his mother in the guest room.

  For two days now on his Mother’s visit, Bayo slept with his Mum in that room. He tried to feed her in with all his experience, but it seems his Mother wasn't believing his story even with obvious scars.

  “And now she wants to leave me here alone?" Bayo turned away at that thought and he tried to cry, but the tears were not coming until he slept.

  The following day, bags were packed and Mr Jerry called that he would be late to the office so he could drop Bayo's Mother at the park. Bayo did his chores with such a heavy heart that was obvious on his face.

"Bayo!" Bayo heard Mrs Jerry's voice calling from his room and he knew better not to wait for her to call him the second time.

  “Pack this clothes in this bag. You are going with your mother to the specialist hospital in town. They should understand why you're pale and all that as they have foreign Doctors there. It is still quite better to the ones we have here in the city.” Mrs Jerry explained to Bayo who was not even listening.

  He cared less about what she said. What was important to him at that time was leaving that house for good.

  Everything was set and after the prayer by Mr Jerry, the car moved. Bayo had never felt relieved like this all his life. He stretched his legs at the back of the car where he was sitting and smiled sheepishly until they got to the park.

  The journey back home was stressful, but it really did not matter to Bayo. What was important was the fact that he was free.

  The bus pulled over to a building that seems to bring vivid flash-scenes to Bayo's memory, but he could not understand it until someone called out his name as he was about to alight from the bus.

  “We are home.” Bayo's Mother gave Bayo a helping hand. He was so slim that it sometimes looked like he was about to fall.

"Really?" Bayo held his Mother tightly as he jumped out of the bus.

  Bayo's eyes interlocked with a lady eyes. She has so much resemblance with her Aunt. Bayo knew that must be his sister, but he wasn't sure which it was as both sisters looked alike from the pictures he saw.

"Why is she crying?" Bayo asked his Mum who had also seen Titi crying bitterly and now running towards the back of the compound.

"Don't worry dear. Just go inside.” Bayo observed the unusual nonchalance from his family towards him.

  Tayo wore a frown as he packed the bags inside the house. Bayo got to know that Funmi, his other sister was in school, a tertiary institution not far from the town.

"Mummy, this woman must pay for this! See my brother!" Bayo heard Tayo's baritone voice vent in anger as he came out of the bathroom after a refreshing birth.

  He had listened as his Mother tried to calm Tayo down and Bayo could not help but wonder at the strange events in the house.

  Early the next morning, Bayo's mother had woken him up and they hastened to get ready to the hospital.

  “I work there and any further delay will leave us at the reception for hours." Bayo's Mother explained to Bayo who was still sleepy.

  They got to the hospital premises around 7:20am and Patients were already filling up the reception. Bayo's Mum was Favoured as a staff and Bayo was attended to in no time.

  Several tests and X-rays left Bayo very tired at about 11o'clock. He just wanted to sit down somewhere and save himself the stress but no way.

"Just this last test and you are done" The Doctor attending to Bayo said trying to encourage him.

"We are sorry ma, but we need to admit this boy and we will take him to the theater as early as possible to save his life. You should not have left him till it got so complicated like this" The Doctor gave Bayo's mother a document to sign.

  Mrs Lara Johnson tried to remain calm, but her hands failed her as she signed the documents. She watched, almost in tears as her little Bayo was being wheeled to the surgical ward of the hospital.

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