Episode 6
She screamed and tried to run to the other side. But, it was a little too late, as a car slammed into her and flung her to the other side of the road. She fell on the rain washed tar road, and soon, it became dark. The shouts and screams from witnesses, were like it was coming from another planet.
While people came to beg the Imam not to send his wife packing, his wife went looking for her daughter, Khadijat, in all the places she knew her daughter went. She even went to Halima’s house, but the latter told her, in no kind words, that her daughter was not in their house.
Khadijat’s mother: “Please, but she was with you the other day, help me my daughter” she cried desperately.
Halima: “Oh, I am now your daughter. When you called me a b—–d and a society’s reject, you didn’t know I could be somebody’s daughter.
Your daughter is not here and even if she came here, I would not let her stay” she said harshly and slammed the gate in the woman’s face.
Khadijat: “Subhanalai! What am I going to do now, where do I look for my Khadi?” she cried, with her hands on her head, not minding that she had left the house without putting on bra.
Halima had her own problems; she had found out just yesterday, that she was pregnant. The abortion doctor had told her the last time that she couldn’t have any more abortions again, because if she did, she might never be able to have her own children. The worst of it was that she was pregnant for her Christian boyfriend. No matter how liberal her parents were, she could never marry a Christian, her father was an Alhaji.
Would I now be a single mother? Which Muslim man would marry me with another man’s child?
“Ha Halima, you have really outdone yourself this time”
The thoughts kept reverberating on the walls of her mind. She should have been careful, she told herself. If only she was not addicted to raw s-x, if only she had heeded the advice of the abortion doctor and used protection.
“Enough of the blame game, now you have to think of a solution Halima. Can you risk excommunication from your family because of him?” She thought to herself.
She made a decision that, she would keep the pregnancy, and if her boyfriend accepted, she wouldn’t mind converting to Christianity. It would cost her a lot, but what other choice did she have? She couldn’t condemn herself to a life of barrenness.
Everyone watched the young girl splayed on the cold road, there was blood around and they thought her dead. Rather than see if she could be saved, they took out their phones and took snapshots of the accident, they had to be the first to share the eyewitness photos on the internet. The driver of the car that hit her had long vanished with his car. Other drivers maneuvered their way around the body, with pity etched on their faces, but no real will to help. An elderly woman, who was dressed in two Hollandes wrapper and a market bag in her hand, stopped and started screaming for help. When she saw that nobody was making any move to help the girl. She took to her heels, with her fallen b—-t flapping with the wind, running towards the closest clinic.
When she got to the bungalow clinic, she started screaming on top of her lungs.
This brought out the nurses who wondered why the old woman was shouting on top of her voice.
Nurse: “Madam, wetin dey worry you. Why you dey shout like woman wey dey labour”
Old woman: “Please, help me, a girl has been knocked down on Ola Iya junction. Please come before she dies” she said with so much urgency, that a man dressed in doctors’ garb ordered the emergency unit to take the ambulance with the woman, to the site of the accident.
Question: Will Khadijat be saved or will she die with a wish on her lips?
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