WRECKED: Episode 3

As Obiageli got home, she took charge of her shop and thanked her neighbour.

Seven months later, as she was in the shop, she saw a job advert online and decided to apply.

Three weeks later, she was called for an interview. She performed excellently and was employed. She handed her shop over to her mum and started work.

In her office, she found favour in the eyes of their boss and her fellow workers. This made her more popular as she follows her boss to virtually all the external company meetings. Sometimes, she represents the company whenever the manager is not around.

Some years later, she was in a conference when a man walked up to her. He introduced himself to her as Briggs Maday. Briggs is the owner of one of the leading chocolate industries in the country.  Even though Obiageli doesn’t know him but she knows the name of his company because she used to sell his chocolates when she was managing a shop. They got talking, one thing led to another and they exchanged contacts. They became good friends and started seeing each other. During one of their dates, Briggs asked the “big question” and Obiageli said Yes.

He was very happy because it has not been easy with him. He lost his ex fiance to conflagration.

He informed Obiageli’s parents of his interest in their daughter and they gladly welcomed him.

Some months later, they got married and this set Obiageli’s village on fire. Emeka’s mother had gone to tell the villagers that Obiageli has bewitched a billionaire to come and marry her. This devastated Obiageli. She weeps every time she remembers this.

Eight months later, she came back home to see her parents and inform her of her intention to relocate them to the city where they stay hoping that this will reduce the gossips Emeka’s mother has been using her family to do.

Her parents accepted the idea even though her father hesitated because he knows nobody in the city. He thought of places he can be hanging out in the evening for fresh palm wine but then that was the only option. They relocated to the city and had peace of mind.

Some months later, Obiageli was delivered of a baby boy. There was jubilation all over the place. Briggs invited his employees to his house to come and have a good time and eat to their fill. Of course Emeka’s mother will not get to know of this anytime soon. She has become Obiageli’s worst nightmare. How a fellow woman will just naturally hate her is what she cannot decipher.

Her son grew bigger each passing day. When he became of age to go out, he was brought to the church and was given the name Sochima (Only God Knows).

Obiageli and her husband tried to have more babies but it wasn’t forthcoming, they decided to devote more time to loving Sochima.

Two years later, he was enrolled in a kindergarten to enable her parents be going about their daily responsibilities.

He later advanced to nursery one and the trend continued. During his stay in high school, he was the best science student and graduated with distinction. He was sent abroad by his parents to study medicine and surgery. Six years later, he graduated and started his internship. He completed his internship and became a registered medical doctor and a first class surgeon.

He worked under some senior colleagues for a while before making plans to establish a hospital of his own.

With the help of his dad, they built a big hospital for him and he hired some other medical workers; nurses, radiographers and clinic assistants.  

In no distant time, his hospital got a national recognition because of the way they respond to so many emergency  calls. The clinic operates all day and all night as the doctors are usually on shift; Sochima will work in the day today, the following day it will be his turn to work at night.

One fateful day, he was in his office with his mother who came around to know how it’s going and a junior doctor knocked on the door. He came to inform him of a new emergency case and this case requires urgent attention. He instructed them to bring the patient inside the emergency unit. His mother stood up to leave so he can go and attend to his patient. As she was leaving, she saw the patient the junior doctor talked about. It was Emeka’s mother.

“Emeka?” she said  in surprise as she saw Emeka in the waiting room.

“Oby, it’s me. What are you doing here?”

“I came to see my son” she answered.

“Okay, sorry about that. Is he sick? Where is he?” He calmly asked.

“He’s not sick. He’s the chief medical doctor here. This is his clinic” She said as she walked back inside  to see Emeka’s mother. Sochima has already heard of how she tormented his mother and her family. He swore never to have anything to do with her.

Emeka could not believe what he just heard. They have been to the Federal hospital in the city, they tried their best before referring them to this private hospital.

As she got inside the emergency unit, her son has already seen the name in the hospital card and what his mother told him about this woman. He does not want to treat her because he swore to her mother that he will never have anything to do with the family.

Her mother pleaded and reminded him of their medical oath and ethics. He finally proceeded with the surgery. Due to the fact that he has already wasted so much time, he was not able to do certain things he should do and this made Emeka’s mother permanently incapacitated. Even though she recovered quickly but life was no longer fair to her as she wasn’t able to do certain things she used to do.

What goes around comes around.