Chapter 24

24

Nana's POV(The Twins Mother)

When my husband dropped the news of the twins as our daughters it shocked me to my expectations, I mean how could they be my daughter? Ya Allah why decide to trial me this way?

I felt bad for my sudden outburst at her,she haven't done anything wrong, in fact I was the one at fault coz I made her go through so many things, I intentionally makes her experience so much agony, I actually hinder my own flesh, my baby. I'm a wicked mother,I'm not worthy the title 'Mother'! No mother in their right state of mind would ever treat her own child that way

I ran to my room and start crying uncontrollable. What will I say to her? How will I face her? My innocent child! My baby! I'm so sorry Maryam,I'm really sorry please forgive your horrible mother...please...please forgive... Forgive this bad mother...please I'm sorry

"MARYAM!!" I heard my husband's voice yells

Maryam? What happened to her? What happened to my baby? I quickly unlock the door and ran downstairs, I fell down and hit my butt badly but I don't care,what's on my mind is my baby,nothing must happen to my baby,I quickly stand up and run to where she was lying on the floor

"Maryam! Maryam! Maryam please wake up your Mama is here! I'm sorry for shouting at you! I never meant it please wake up" I said shaking her and crying at the same time

"Jawad wake my daughter up for me! she needs me! tell her Mama is here,why isn't she answering?! " I asked with teary eyes

"Nana please your daughter will be fine,I promise our daughter will be fine" my husband assured me but I don't believe him. Then why isn't she answering if she's OK?

"Khalid help" My husband said to Khalid as he pick my daughter up in a bridal style and walk out to his car as we all followed him

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"Doctor how is my daughter doing? what happened to her?!" I asked immediately the doctor came out from her room

"She's perfectly OK" she replied smiling

"If she's fine then why would she faint?!!!" I yell. I don't mean to be rude I'm just angry and frustrated at the same time

"Nana will you please calm down?"

"Don't tell me to calm down! My daughter's life is at risk and you ask me to calm down?!....doctor how is she doing?"

"Can we go to my office and talk about it?"

"Yes sure"

"No" - we both said at the same time

"What do you mean No?" My husband asked

"What ever you might want to talk about you can say it here...I want to know how my daughter is doing"

"OK if you say so Ma'am.....the patient is actually alright as I've said earlier,she's so stressed out and needs a lot of rest,she-"

"Can I see her now?!" I asked cutting her off

"But-"

"Have you ever been separated from you child for twenty three years? Even after her living under you for good sixteen years and you still don't know she's your child but you just find out that she really is your daughter.... How will you feel? What will you do?"

"I'm so sorry Ma....you can go in now"

"Thank you" I said as I run into the room

The rest all followed me including my husband. I saw my princess lying on the bed looking so pale "Maryam" I whispered moving closer to her as she turn with a smile but faded away as soon as her face came in contact with mine

"What's she doing here?" She asked looking angry

"Baby-"

"Don't call me your baby! I was never your baby! You never treated me as one! You've always hated me! You've done nothing but to hurt me!" She said crying turning her face to the other side

"Sis you need to give her a chance to explain" my other baby suggested. How I wish we were not separated, how I wish my two princesses live with me and I showered them with my love, but all vanished the moment I lost hope on seeing them again in my life

"How could you say something like that Maimuna? Well you wouldn't feel bad coz you've always been showered with love,I mean your adopted parent love you as their real daughter so you wouldn't know what I've went through !" She said bitterly

"Do you think I also have a perfect life?! No I didn't, in fact my life was more worse than yours! Have you ever been interrogated at such a young age accusing you for stealing a huge sum of money? Have you been locked up in jail just because you make your adopted mother died accidentally?!....No you haven't! coz you didn't went through what I pass through...do you think it has been easy for me too? Everyday I always cry to Allah why I got separated from my own parent, I never got answer to my question coz there's no one to ask. So please sister let hear her out" she finished talking and now I'm already weeping so hard,I can't believe my children pass through all this just because of my carelessness

"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!! I'm so so sorry...it all started when I was in labour of you two"

///Twenty three year ago\\\

"Where is my husband!! " I yell through agony,I'm really in pain right now and my husband is not here

"Please calm down sister your husband is on his way,you know he wasn't around for the past three days but I called him already and he will be here in some hours time" my husband's brother Qasim said

I nod and the nurse lead me to the labour room. Even his own wife too was in the labour room,I can't believe we'll both give birth at the same date,our daughter's won't be different from twins I'm sure of that" I thought

****four hours later"****

"How is Jemila doing?" I asked Qasim with my teary eyes

"She's fine,she gave birth to a baby girl too" he replied as I burst into tears again

"Please stop crying sister"

"Did you just say I should stop crying? I lost my baby!!"

"You lost one not the two,you gave birth to a twin but one is gone and we need to accept our fate,that was how God wants it,you might feel bad but there's nothing you can do about it,it is written and destined already to happen....so please stop crying" he keeps consoling me till I fall asleep

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"Where's my wife?! Where is she?" I heard my husband yelling, his voice can be heard everywhere

"Nana" he called after badging in as he hug me tightly. I cried and cried till there's no more tears to shed again

"How could this happen to us Jawad? Just how? I never knew we'll have a twin,but here I did and I was told that one of my baby is gone,one of our princess is gone Jawad"

"I'm sorry" he keeps saying smoothing my back to calm me down

*****one week later****

We can't be discharge yet due to the process of operation I went through but luckily today I'll...so instead jemila decide to move into same room as me till I'll be discharged

" See they look alike" I said smiling to the two girls who looks like twins,they are so adorable

"Yes you're right sister Nana,they really look alike if anyone from outside should see them their thought will be that they came out from the same mother"

"You're right Jemila"

"How's the Queens and our princesses doing?" our husband asked immediately they both entered the room

"We're fine,and this your two princesses here one of them is so stubborn" I said

"What do you mean one of the is so stubborn?" Jawad asked confused

"Our daughter is so stubborn Jawad unlike Jemima's baby very gentle"

"Well what do you expect? Her Mom was one of the feisty lady on earth " Qasim tease as we all laugh

"We were just coming from the doctor office,he said you can be discharge any moment from now on" Qasim said

"Really?" I asked with happy face

"Yes love"

After so many gist and chat I finally asked if we could go home "So can we go home now? I hate the smell of this hospital, it makes me want to puke every time"

"Yes your Highness"

*****Two months later*****

"Hello sister! how about we go out to catch some fun today?" Jemila asked looking stunning as she entered my bedroom. But what surprise me was that how is she here? She was suppose to be in Dubai

"Hey! How?....wh....When did you arrive?" I asked looking so surprised

"This morning, I decide to give you a surprise, though brother knows we'll be coming to Nigeria today but I told him to keep it a secret" she said winking

"I hate you" I said pouting

"Oh come on, I know you love me and I love you too"

"Oh shut up" I said before hugging her

"Oh my God you stink,please go take a bath" she said pushing me to the bathroom

"I hate you!" I yell so she could hear me

"And I love you too" she said laughing

I came out after ten minute and saw her playing with the kids. The two kids really look alike, no one can identify them,it will be hard for an outsider not to believe that they're not twin sister and I love them both

I bought you so many things but before that let go catch some fun,may be this time around our husband might find our location" jemila said smirking as I join too

Well our husband's are so over protective of us which we always find funny and annoying, I mean we're married for Allah sake but still they always don't want us out of their sight

"You're right... Let see what they've got this time around" I replied smiling

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"What do we do now?" I asked getting irritated by the queue already

"Do you think we should talk to him?"

Wondering are we? Well we're at the popular ice cream shop,call us crazy but we're so In love with ice cream,we've had so much fun already and now we want to buy the ice cream so we could just go home and bake cake for ourselves and for our husband's too

"Let go"

"Wait! What about the girls?" Jemila asked pointing her index finger at them

"Don't worry jemila,they will be fine,nothing will happen to them. It just five seconds away" I said smiling

We begged the man in charge and he turns out to be a sweet young man,he understood us and sold the ice cream for us after so many curse from the customers but I don't care in as far as I've gotten my yummy ice cream

We walk to were we kept our babies but what I saw made my step slowly turned resolutely. I shut my eyes and re-open it just to be sure but it still the same,I can't find my baby

"Where's my baby?!" I asked dropping the ice cream on the floor even though I'm in love with ice cream my child is more important to me

"Subhanallah! Wh....where's Mufeedah? How...how? We left.....we left the two of them here right?" Jemila asked in bewilderment

"Where's my baby? Where is my Mufeedah?" I asked crying scanning the surrounding but I couldn't get any glimpse of her

"Calm down sister Nana"

"Don't tell me to calm down! I can't when I can't find my daughter... Who took my baby? Who took my baby?!" I keep shouting until I get everyone's attention

******

"How could you leave your child just because of an ice cream?!" Jawad roared angrily

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry,I'm so sorry" that was what I've been saying for the past one hour

"Please just get me my child please!" I beg

The officers came and asked some few question and we told them what we know.....they keeps asking foolish question and it just so annoying, what I really want now is to get my baby back

"Stop crying insha Allah we'll find our daughter very soon" my husband said as he hug me

*****two years later*****

It been two years we've been in search for my baby, but we can't find her whereabout and it really killing me,I feel like I was the reason why my daughter was lost ,all because of common ice cream

"Are you still thinking about it? This is not your fault you know right?" My husband voice brought me out from my thought

"But I...I left her....I left her only because-"

"Shhhsh....it was never your fault and I know some day we'll find our daughter....so please stop crying, I hate seeing you crying"

"I-"

"Mr and Mrs Jawad!" We heard an excited voice behind us. We both turn and saw this beautiful lady smiling at us

"Erm...sorry to be rude but do we know you?"

"How stupid of me, it been long you wouldn't be able to recall my face but I do...I was one of the nurse who attended to you after you gave birth in the hospital two years ago"

"Oh! Oh! Nurse Nana?!"

"Yes"

"Oh my God! It been a while....how are you doing and work?"

"Hmmm I'm fine Alhamdulillah.....and my work? I left the hospital already"

"Why?!" It a very big hospital with huge payment,why would she leave?

"Well you see that doctors who operated you then was an evil man"

"What do you mean?"

"He sold out peoples babies in exchange for money"

"What?!"

"When I was not able to cope anymore I left there"

"Eyah sorry my dear, God is always our strength....you see I thought I would see you before I would be discharge but I never get any glimpse of you till we left the hospital... I really wanted to thank you then"

"Yes actually I was transferred to another hospital the second day you gave birth, to work there for three months"

"And how is the other lady? Your sister?"

"Oh you mean jemila?"

"Yes!! How is she doing? Hope she wasn't that depressed?"

"Depress? Depress on what?!"

"Her lost baby"

"Her lost baby? She never lost any baby in fact I was the one who lost a baby"

"Babies actually " I thought to my self

"What?! No I'm sure of what I'm saying,immediately she gave birth we lost the baby,though her husband said we shouldn't let Anyone knows about it,he told us he will be the one to tell her"

"What?! Qasim said so?"

"Yes....any ways how are your twins doing? Hope they are now a beautiful girls? one could tell right from when they were born that they will turn out to be a beautiful girls" she said as I and my husband shared a surprise look. "What's this that I'm hearing? My twins? And jemila she lost her baby? No it can't be, I don't think this woman knows what she was talking about" I thought shaking my head

"Actually I lost one of the babies?" I told her

"What?! Innalillahi wa'ina illaihi raji'un ....how comes? Was it recently it happened?"

"What are you talking about nurse Nana? I lost the girl immediately I gave birth to her"

"What?! No!! Whose baby are you talking about? Yours? But I was the one who cleaned them up immediately you gave birth to them,in fact I took their pictures " she said as she brings out her phone and showed us their picture,indeed it was the same face as Maryam and mufeedah when they were both babies. What's going on here? Maryam can't be my daughter! No way! I lost my baby already and Maryam is jemila's daughter, I trust Qasim so much he can't lie to us

I was brought out from my thought when my husband take a hold of my wrist and told the nurse we had a really important place to go to

"But-" I wanted to protest but received a glared in return as I keep my mouth shut. We bid our good bye to her as we went our way

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"I can't stop thinking about what she told us,could she be saying the truth?" I thought

"Don't tell me you're thinking about that woman blabbering? You trust Qasim right? And you know he won't ever betray us? "

"But what if she was saying the truth?" I said at the other thought

"What?!"

"Please Jawad listen to me, what if that woman was saying was the truth? I trust Qasim but what if she was saying the truth? What if our daughter is really Maryam? You saw the picture earlier right? Those are Maryam and Mufeedah when they were babies....What if the daughter we thought was dead is still alive and it's Maryam?"

"How sure could we be that Maryam is our child...No way will I believe that woman...can't you see she talks too much?"

"There's only one way to find out"

"What way?"

"Drive to their house"

"What?! You mean to go and confront him...or what are you trying to imply? 'Well Qasim we met a talkative lady at the mall we went to and she told us our daughter is with you and she's Maryam' is that it? Is that what you wanted us to tell him?"

"Jawad please trust me on this,I know how to find out if he really do betray us"

"Fine if you say so" he finally agree after so many hesitation