The storm in my life
Chapter 7
Katherine’s POV
“What?” I said jumping out of my bed.
“Have you called the ambulance?” I asked her and quickly
rushed to his room and I saw my little sister sitting by him in tears, praying.
“Yeah”, my mum said, joining my sister in prayers.
I also closed my eyes and said a prayer to God.
“God please keep my dad alive for me. We can’t lose him now.
If we do, we’ll never be the same. God please”, I said tearing up too.
After a while, the ambulance arrived.
They took him and quickly left.
“Mum, let’s go”. I said to my mum.
“No, I’ll go alone. Stay at home with your sis. She has to go
to school this morning”.
“Mum, I can’t go to school”, my sister said in tears.
“Sweetie, you have to go. Your dad won’t be happy if he
wakes up and realises that you skipped school”, she said, trying to smile, but
deep down I could tell that she was really scared and sad.
“What if he doesn’t wake up?” she said to my mum.
“Don’t say that honey. He’ll wake up”, my mum said smiling
and cupping my sister’s cheek.
“I have to go now. Kat please make sure that she doesn’t
miss the school bus”, my mum said, taking her car key.
“Mum, please fill me in with anything that happens. I’ll be
there as soon as Lucy goes to school”.
“What about work?” my mum asked.
“I’ll seek permission from them to…..” I tried saying but I
was interrupted by my mum.
“No no, you just got this job. You can’t just skip work on
your first day. Go to work and after work you can come to the hospital”, my mum
said.
I wish I could let her know that my work required me in the
evenings and not during the day, but telling her that will lead to her asking
me questions. So I just had to let it go.
“Okay, but keep me posted”, I said to her.
“Sure”, she said and she left.
I took my sister to her room and made sure she got ready for
school.
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I was at Lanquin club killing time.
It’s been over two hours ever since I heard from my mum.
She told me that he was conscious, but was undergoing some
test and medication, and it’s been over two hours now and she hasn’t filled me
in.
I’ve called her several times, but it keeps going to her
voice mail.
I was really worried and I really wanted to go the hospital,
but I had to wait till noon.
I was sitting and waiting anxiously till my phone vibrated.
I didn’t even look at the caller ID and I picked up.
“Mum!! I’ve been waiting for your call. Any update?”
“Mum? Do I have a new coded name or something?”
I looked at my phone and I saw that it wasn’t my mum.
“Who’s this?” I asked angrily.
“Calm down Kat. It’s Noah”.
“Ohh, I’m really sorry Noah, I was expecting a call from my
mum”.
“Don’t worry. It’s fine. Is everything okay? You sound
edgy”.
“I’m fine, just waiting for my mum’s call”, I said, forcing
myself to relax.
“Is she fine?”
“Yeah, just a little family problem”.
“Mmm, I’m guessing today is a bad day to hang out?”
“Yeah, I’m really sorry Noah. Can we make it next time?”
“How about tomorrow?” he asked.
“Maybe. I can’t make any promises”.
“Okay, I will give you a call tomorrow. Take care of
yourself”.
“Sure”, I said, and he hanged up.
I called my mum and she still didn’t pick. I quickly stepped
out and took a cab to the hospital.
When I got there, I saw my mum arguing with a nurse and I
pulled her aside.
“Mum, I’ve been calling you. What’s happening?”
“We need to move your dad to another hospital”.
“Why?”
“They’re very slow in this hospital and they’re not giving
me any feedback. The nurse said all the doctors are busy at the moment and will
get back to me later. But I’ve not heard anything”.
“And why haven’t you moved him?”
“I don’t have the money to move him to a private hospital”.
“Mmm, I’ll call my workplace and see what I can get”.
“Do you expect them to pay you now?”
“They said they’ll give me advancement before work starts.
I’m just going to ask them for it”, I said to my mum.
“Will that be enough?”
“It will start something till my salary comes in”.
“Okay”.
I excused myself and called Amber.
“Hello Miss Kurry”.
“Hi Amber, uhmm…”
“I forgot to congratulate you on your assignment yesterday.
You did a good job. Mr Chappman rated you with 5 stars”, she cut in.
“Okay, thanks”, I said smiling. “Uhmm, how and when do I get
paid?”
“I thought you read everything before signing the papers”.
“Yeah, but I just wanted to be sure. It’s all mixed up in my
mind”.
“Okay. You don’t get paid on your first assignment. The
first pay by our client goes to Quora Ltd, and after that you start getting 70%
of the payment made by your client and the rest goes to Lanquin club and Quora
Ltd”, she said.
“Okay, thanks”, I said disappointed. “Do I have any client
yet?”
“No, but I’m working on something and that’ll work out
tomorrow”.
“Okay, thank you”.
“Sure anytime”, she said, and I hanged up.
I was really disappointed. My dad had to be moved.
I walked in circles thinking of what to do. I really needed
to get a client. And I wanted a wealthy one. I paced back and forth, and Noah’s
name came to mind.
How was I going to get him to call the agency? Oh God,
please help me out. Do you really want me to continue like this? Just find a
better way for me. I don’t want to do this.
I guess I’ll just have to continue with this.
I made up mind.
I have to do this for
my dad, so I took my phone and called Noah.
“Hello”, he said in his husky voice.
“Can you do me a huge favour?”
“Yeah, what is it?”
“Can you call my agent and request for a night with me”?
😲😲😲😲😲
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