Angel Annie was still with Ginshi in the IDP camp in Borno , when she got a signal that something was wrong with Bisi. Bisi had gone home in preparation for her father’s wedding but had to be rushed to the hospital a few days later.
Annie rushed to Bisi’s bedside immediately, while Angel Krioni came to stand in for her at the IDP camp. She did not like what she saw at all. Bisi was pale and looked very weak, the doctor said she was having a system breakdown and some of her organs were not working well. Annie was scared for Bisi! If she died, what happens to all her dreams? What of all her goals? Annie wondered to herself.
There were many tubes running through Bisi’s mouth and nose. Aunt Naledi sat beside her bed praying for Bisi to get well. She had also lost a cousin to sickle cell before and she did not want to experience that type of trauma again. Bisi hardly opened her eyes for the first two days, she was fed through a tube and did not even really know where she was. After about 76, hours she opened her eyes to see Aunt Naledi and her grandmother with tears in their eyes. They had been crying because even the doctors were getting scared. She tried to smile but they told her to just relax. Angel Annie knew that Bisi was not going to die, because she had not even fulfilled her destiny of finding a cure for sickle cell Anaemia.
She was hospitalized for a week and her father’s wedding had to be postphoned till November. Aunt Naledi wanted Bisi to accompany her for her pre-wedding shopping and she didn’t mind waiting until she was better. Bisi was so thankful to God for her new soon to be stepmom. They had bounded like sisters and Angel Annie had now begun to understand the great role Aunt Naledi was going to play in Bisi’s life and her brothers too. The angel was beginning to understand what the sky king had told her about the new person that would come into the commissioner’s family and help them all in their next phase of life after the death of Bisi’s mother.
What roles do you think Aunt Naledi will play in the life of Bisi and her brothers?
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To be continued
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