Adaobi 20

Click HERE for all episodes of Adaobi

"What happened, where have you been?"  she asked in an excited voice 

"Ada i had an accident, I'm in your aunt's hospital, please come there" 

"No, i can't come there, i killed her husband, i can't come, i will be arrested " she said 

" please where are you " i asked her

" I'm in a friends house, Quincy i want to see you "

After much cajoling, she agreed to come. As a measure of reassurance, my father had agreed to pick her up, she came in a ran straight to my bed and hugged me, as we held each other, the pain seemed to vanish from my body, all that existed was the desire to be with her forever. Her aunt was called in, she looked more happier on seeing her than she was angry. She hugged her and they both cried. 

Then she told her story.. 

The knife had always been in her room since the last time her uncle attacked her, she knew he was going to come again and had prepared for it. On that fateful day, her aunt had left for the hospital and she was alone in the house. Her uncle came back some moments after her her aunt was gone and straight for her,  everything happened so fast, she left the knife in his stomach and ran out of the house. 

Her aunt believed her, she knew Ada wasn't bad and also knew whom her husband was, they had lived together for years and she knew what he was capable of. The real untold story of his head injury also surfaced, Ada left my role out of it, she covered up for me and had said she pushed him down which resulted in the injury. 

My left leg was fractured, a minor one but i wasn't going to make use of it for some time. Naza didn't return again after the first day at the hospital and i was worried. Her number was switched off throughout and i couldn't check up on her due to my confinement in the hospital. I called her number on the third day and it went through. I waited anxiously for her to pick and she picked. 

"Ada, where have you been" I asked her

"Nowhere" 

"You didn't come to see me again, why? "

" nothing "

She sounded cold and i didn't like it. 

" why are u sounding like this, are you ok? "

" I'm fine" she said and sniffed, i noticed she started to sound like she was crying 

"Ada, what is wrong? Please come to the hospital, i want to see you"

"I can't come " she said

" Why? "

" I have gone back to the village, i couldn't stay there again, i had to leave and what you did with Janet Quincy, it's tearing me apart" she cried and everywhere stood still, i was dumbstruck and my heart banged. 

"You didn't tell me you were going, you didn't even give me a chance to explain, i was sorry Ada, couldn't you have told me?" i said as my eyes soaked.

"I didn't want to see you again, i will hold you and never let you go if i did, i love you Quincy but i need to be away from you, i need to be alone for now, remember that i love you and will never forget you" she said and cut the phone. I tried calling back but her number was off already. 

I laid my pounding head down, closed my eyes as hot tears escaped from the shut lids.