LOVE, OBSESSION & TRAUMA

It was a hot afternoon. 1:00 pm or there about. Nora was laying unconscious on the bare floor by the road side with her long slender hair braided twist, she was wearing a pink silky gown with white flower designs. Some people were passing by the same road but no one dimmed it fit to see if Nora was dead, alive or unconscious, everyone just went about their business.

Not long a while, a young man was passing by like every other person, June is a good looking fair young man about six feet tall, full hair with an Afro cut, he had six packs and well muscular, he should be in his mid twenties or a little above that. He had walked past Nora's body about three steps away when he realised he had just walked past a human body, being a lady drew his attention more, so he halted and moved three steps backwards to be sure he actually saw someone's body, he crossed the road to the other side to the exact spot where Nora's body was laying unconscious. June became nervous, he didn't know what to do, he knelt down beside her body and bent his ears towards her chest at least to see if she was still breathing or maybe dead or unconscious. He was willing to help and at the same time he was afraid, he has never witnessed such before, he removed his black long sleeved shirt button down and began to fan the body, he was hoping she could just come alive, he is not a doctor, so he knew not exactly what to do, the best he could do was the fanning even though it was to no avail but he was certain he was not going to leave her body just laying there. After been puzzled for a while, he sought for help to carry Nora's body but unfortunately none was coming, No passer by, no bike, cab or tricycle not even a truck was passing, so June resulted to carrying her body on his shoulder and began to trek along the road, even though he had no specific destination in mind or even how to get there, the nearest hospital is about one kilometer away from the spot of incident. After about a hundred steps of carrying Nora's body on his shoulder, he saw a boy pushing some firewood in a wheel barrow. "Hello dude, please i need a favour to ask you, can I borrow your wheel barrow? I will return it in three hours, let's meet at this spot in three hours" June pleaded with the boy, fortunately the boy agreed to lend him the wheelbarrow, so he put down his firewood from the barrow " Thank you little bro. I'm so grateful" June thanked the boy and shook his hand with two dollar coins. Without wasting any time further he gently put Nora's body in the wheel barrow and began to push towards the hospital as fast as he could, luckily it was a tarred road. He nervously push Nora's body as he prayed in his mind for the come back of Nora to live even though he knew her not from anywhere. June got to the hospital with Nora's body on the wheel barrow, he pushed towards the accident and emergency unit, he cried for help "Nurse! Nurse!, please she is dying save her" the nurses ignored June looking at him wretchedly. I guess they must have assumed he couldn't afford the hospital bill considering the fact that he brought Nora with a wheel barrow. That's how people can be judgemental. June tried to approach two other personnel persuading them to at least hear him out and admit the unconscious girl, but nobody listened to June, he kept trying, until finally a matron more of a senior nurse from one the emergency wards came towards June and inquired what the matter was. June was about explaining while the while the matron checked Nora's pulse if there was any life present in her, June was nervous and scared he knew he might be in big trouble if the girl turns out dead "is she still alive?" June asked the matron expecting some hopeful response from her. The matron nodded negatively. "Please try again please" June knelt down by the wheel barrow holding the matron's hand and pleaded that she should check her again. The Matron seeing the desperation in June agreed and placed her stethoscope again on Nora's wrist, June was staring keenly with high hopes, expecting the matron to say something, she moved her stethoscope to Nora's foot, she checked the second foot and paused a while, after about thirty seconds in positive gesture "I think she can still make it, the matron affirmed facing June, " I could hear a few pulse at one of her feet, but its a seventy, thirty chance of reviving her" the matron concluded as they quickly rushed her to one of the empty beds in the ward, quickly the matron passed the oxygen tube into her nostrils and placed her on the life support machine and started necessary documentations "what's her name please? " the matron asked June " I don't know" June replied, in shocking surprise the matron looked at June and asked "isn't she your wife, or sister?" No ma. June responded " then who is she?" The matron asked. June had to explain the whole scenario, how he was passing by and saw her body laying unconscious and all. The matron stood astonished and commended June for his noble act and having to stick out his neck for something that risky. " She could have died" the matron added. " I know but I couldn't walk past her, I couldn't have forgiven myself if I did walk away" June expressed. " so what name do I document for her" the matron asked " use my name: June Maxwell" he replied. " so who will be responsible for her treatment bill and now she is even unconscious, she has to be on life support machine till she awakes and that is not cheap, this is a private hospital we don't run charity " the matron elaborated. With a loud sigh, hands at akimbo June's head was facing down having heard what the matron said. " how much are we looking at for the life support machine and other care?" June asked " say a deposit of five hundred US dollars for the first three days hopefully she wakes up within that time frame, then we can continue from there" the matron explained. June was dazed at the amount the matron mentioned to keep the unknown girl alive, he wiped his face from forehead down his chin, he dipped his hands into his pockets and could only boas of twenty US dollars. He pleaded with the matron to hold on to that twenty bucks and to give him some time to see how he could raise the money for the hospital bill. " you must be an overly kind a person for someone you claim you are not related with" the matron commended June for his noble and kind heart towards a total stranger. " thank you ma, I must run now to be able to raise some money and I must return this wheel barrow to the boy who borrowed me" June in a hurry asked the matron to allow him leave. "Before you go you should sign here" the matron opened the new case file of Nora with the name " June Maxwell" for June to sign for he is now responsible for her. June signed and and agreed to pay up Nora's bill, he also dropped his number with the matron invade she wakes up from comma, and he departed from the hospital with the wheel barrow. June was running with the wheel barrow to return it to his little helper. " its almost the time I promised to return the barrow" June thought to himself as he increased his pacing to meet the boy. Few minutes later June arrived the spot where he had agreed to meet the boy. Two minutes after the boy arrived and collected his wheel barrow. "Thank you little man, have this for iced cream" June thanked the boy and gave him and extra dollar coin for his noble kind heart to render such a help to him without hesitation. They both parted ways. June headed home with the thought of how to raise hospital bill for the unconscious girl, the boy also went his way with his wheel barrow.

Anderson Basher was a twenty-year-old man, the first child and only son of his parents. His younger sister Lisa was a medical student at one of the biggest, most reputable universities. Lisa serves as a resident doctor. Basher is the older child and only son of the Anderson family. His father, Mr Anderson, was a multibillionaire Chief Executive Officer and his mother, Mrs Anderson, was the most popular and second-richest business tycoon in the country. Basher was no doubt from a wealthy and influential background. His grandfather was from a British royal lineage.

He is a tall huge guy about six feet two inches tall, muscular with blonde hair. Basher had dropped out of university after a rape case he got involved in on campus with his gang. Other members of his group were expelled, but Basher was only suspended because his father was the highest shareholder at the university he was. Not long after his suspension was over, he got into another serious problem with the school management. He was caught doing hard drugs on campus. This time, his father withdrew him from school, so he didn't soil the family's reputation any further. You could call him a spoiled brat. After Basher dropped out of school, his father made him Assistant Chief Executive Officer of his multimillion-dollar company, being the next of kin to his parents. The Anderson family had a family friend and business partner. Professor and Dr. Mrs Williams, they are as wealthy as the Andersons, but they are quiet and humble people. They had only one girl child of about twenty-three years old. She graduated earlier as a medical doctor from the same university as Lisa Anderson. She is a practicing pediatrician, also at the biggest and most reputable hospital in Abgan city. As family friends and business partners, the Anderson family proposed a long-lasting friendship and bond to the Williams family, which they both welcomed and agreed to seal the deal with the marriage of Basher and their only daughter. Both of them got engaged and started courting. Both parents from the two sides never bothered to ask or inquire about the love interest of their children, as for Basher it wasn't necessary, he was a jerk already. What could he possibly know about love and feelings? He was a spoilt, irresponsible brat. But on the side of the Williams' daughter, they never allowed her to air her opinion or make a choice in the matter, not even considering her state of health. She is asthmatic and does have crises occasionally when stressed or agitated, but her parents dominated her will. She agreed to be engaged to Basher in order to satisfy her parents' wishes to foster the relationship between the Williams and Andersons. A few months into their engagement, both Basher and his fiancée moved to one of Anderson's duplexes. It was one of the properties bought in Basher's name. They were staying together while their parents were planning their wedding. Though there have been a series of fights between Basher and his girl. Until one faithful day, Basher asked her fiancée to let them hang out on a date, but she objected "Bash, I won't be able to go with you, let's postpone it. I'm not feeling too well today please" she pleaded, and without a second thought Basher flared up. Before she knew what was happening, Basher dragged out the duvet from her body, she was left with only pants on, and quickly she covered her breasts with her two hands in such a manner that her left hand was covering her right breast and vice versa, from zero to hundred in one second. Basher started going mad and violent, without a second thought he pulled his fiancée's legs and dragged her off the bed to the floor "Bash please stop! You are hurting me" she pleaded, lamenting, "you bloody fool, how dare you defy me. Now move your ass into the bathroom and get ready, you are going out with me", Basher yelled at her, dragging her by the hair into the bathroom. Basher took her purse and went out, slamming the door behind him. "Before I return in ten minutes you should be already dressed or else I will teach you a lesson you won't forget", Basher threatened angrily as he stormed out of the compound and drove off with his fiancée's purse. What could he be up to? When she noticed he had stepped out and driven off, she sighed heavily and started noticing she was about to experience her crisis. An asthma attack usually comes when she has been stressed or tensed. Immediately, she went to the living room looking for her inhaler. She sought her bag, but her purse was gone. She was already having a difficult and stiff breath, no one was around to help. She managed to get one of her clothes, put it on and crawled out of the duplex hoping to get to the nearest pharmacy shop at least for an inhaler to save her life. Along the way she couldn't make it to the pharmacy when she slumped and fell.

Basher came back from only God knows where, with some whitish powdered substance at the tip of his nose. It looked like he had just finished sniffing cocaine. He stepped out of the car and went into the house yelling and calling out his fiancée with derogatory names. "I guess you are already dressed, you silly, naughty spoiled ass, you must be ready for our outing by now or else I will teach you a lesson your father didn't teach you". Basher kept ranting the whole house, calling out his fiancée, but there was no one responding. He took out his phone and angrily dialed William's number. Prof was not answering, so he called Dr. Mrs. Williams "Hello ma'am, I can't find her, she has left the house, she defied me, I can't see her anywhere" Basher ranted on the phone to his supposed soon-to-be mother-in-law "who? What are you talking about?" Mrs Williams inquired "your daughter. I can't find her. I told her this morning we were going out, and she should be ready before I get back. Now she has left the house. She even left without her phone and bag. I don't know where she went", Basher yelled his lies and ended the call. "What happened Basher, where has she gone, where is my daughter? Haa! This boy hung up on me" Dr. Mrs Williams was puzzled as she dropped the phone. She tried calling her daughter's phone. The phone rang until it had expired, the phone was actually with Basher in his fiancée's purse. "No one is answering the call, what the heck is going on?" Mrs Williams exclaimed. She rushed to the room to meet her husband and narrated what and how Basher had just called to report he didn't know where our daughter was. "What!" Prof exclaimed as he jumped off the bed, rushed to wash his face and brushed. He hadn't time for bathing. Then, the Williams hopped into one of the cars and drove straight to Anderson's duplex where both Basher and their daughter were staying. Meanwhile, Basher's fiancée was a few weeks pregnant, but she had not broken the news to Basher yet.

Now at the hospital Miss Kate the matron who admitted Nora the unconscious lady, had done series of test and given various care, she didn't stop caring for her since June had given his word to raise the bill. Kate, during one of the examination sessions on June Maxwell "Nora" of course, she had noticed some bruise and also found out some bleeding around her private part. Kate noted her observation, ran necessary tests, and gave needed treatments. At every stage she kept updating June.

June had gotten home, his mind clouded with worries about raising five hundred US dollars to pay bill for the lady he is responsible for. June was just a road side mechanic, he repairs people's car and any other mechanical device or machine. He resorted to being a mechanic since he graduated college but couldn't secure a job, he was from a low background more like a wretched home. His mother sells bean cake and cheese at one of the local shade nearby. June was the first child and only son, he has two sibling sisters. His father died during a riot that ensued within the community while he was trying to restore peace and order amongst the people. He was shot with a pistol by one of rioters. June's father died while doing his job as a cop. Since then June has been the father figure for his mother and two younger sisters. June to his save box and brought out the money he had saved, about three hundred dollars. He was saving towards the tuition payment of his younger eldest sister who just secured a college admission to study law. "I'm sorry Jane" June muttered to himself as tears rolls down his cheeks "I will make it up to you and ensure your tuition fees are paid" June assured Jane his sister in her absence murmuring to himself. He grab his jacket hoped on his bicycle and rode straight to the hospital, from a distance she sighted Kate the matron and quickly he rested his bicycle against the wall and went straight to Nora's ward, he sat beside Nora as he spoke to Kate. "How is she doing?, any improvement so far?" June asked looking up to Kate from Nora's bed side where he sat. "Yes from the various tests we ran, the results have been hopeful, just that there is a bad news... She was pregnant and she had lost the baby" nurse Kate explained. "What! She was pregnant?" June exclaimed painfully, "she should be stable if we intensify the monitoring and treatment" Kate assured June. "Oh! Thanks to the heavens" June gratefully exclaimed. While Kate and June speak, Nora moved her right arm "did you see that?" June excitedly asked facing Kate "yea its a sign, she would come around soon" Kate assured him again. "But as it is now we will need some money to get some necessary things for her quick recovery" Kate opened up. Immediately June reached for his wallet and brought out his life savings, "here is three hundred bucks, its all I could raise for now, I will get the two hundred balance as soon as I can" June explained as he handed the money to Kate "you are a man of your word, your kind is rare" Kate commended June as always "and your balance is a hundred and eighty dollars not two hundred" Kate reminded June. "Thank you miss Kate, I must go now, please intensify your care, for her quick recovery" June pleaded with the matron and stepped out of the hospital. "What a noble, kind hearted young man, he is no doubt every woman's dream" Kate admired June in her thought as she watched him leave the hospital. Her hands resting on her chest. Kate sat down for a while after June had left, reminiscing about him "it seems I'm beginning to like him, I can feel something" Kate admitted her feelings towards June. "Nurse, nurse" from where Kate was sitting she heard someone called nurse, it was Nora, she had finally woken up and cheated death. Kate speedily approached, "oh thanks you lord, you are finally here, I'm happy for you" Kate happily responded to Nora. "Please help me up to sit" Nora requested. "Are you sure?, I think you should rest a while still" Kate advised "I'm fine please let me sit up" Nora requested "okay if you insist" Kate indulged her assisting her to sit up on the bed. "How did I get here?, how long have I been here?" Nora asked the matron as the support machine beep slowly, "Hmm" Kate sighed trying to disconnect the tube fittings on Nora's body. "Its been three days since you were brought here by an angel, a young handsome man" Kate lustfully described June "did my parents...Oh God" Nora tried to ask who brought her as she abruptly held her ears to her head with her two hands as though she heard a migraine echoed sound. "What happen to your parents? It was Mr June Maxwell who brought you here to be revived and treated, we even registered your file in his name since he didn't know your name" Kate narrated the story to her. "Let me even call him to let him know you are awake now, I'm sure he must be super excited" Kate brought out her phone and called June to break the good news."Thanks to the heavens, I will be there shortly" June responded over the phone. Kate ended the call and began a conversation with her just awoken patient. "So let me start by asking what your name is, where you are from, and what happened that took your body to the road side where June found you" Kate queried and keenly expecting response from her patient. "Well, I can barely remember anything right now, the only thing I can remember now is my name" Nora replied "starting with your name is okay, but how do you feel now, hope you are not feeling any severe pain or echoed sound around your head and ears?" Kate asked trying to confirm the state of her memory, although there were mild swollen bruises on Nora's forehead, which is indicating possible collision of the skull against a hard surface. "The scan shows you are perfectly okay and no any form of fracture whatsoever to your cranium" Kate confirmed the scan test result done on Nora while she was unconscious, affirming there shouldn't be a case of amnesia, that is a brain situation where someone can't remember past events. "I hope I'm not forgetting things due to my unconsciousness for the past few days" Nora opined optimistically. "Back to your question nurse, my name is Nora Silvia Williams, I graduated as a paediatrician, my dad is a professor of pharmacology, my mum is a lawyer and business tycoon..you must of heard of the Williams real estates" Nora detailed "Are you the Williams' daughter?" Kate asked surprisingly "yea that's me" Nora replied nodding positively. Nora Williams? She is the Basher's fiancée. Meanwhile, June had just gone to sell his bicycle to raise the balance for Nora's hospital bills. He also sold his jacket along side to make up for the amount he actually needed. "Let me quickly return to the hospital so I can balance up the bill, after all it is worth the while, the poor lady has her life back" with excitement and feeling fulfilled, June trekked to the hospital having sold his bicycle to pay bills. Now it's been three days since the Williams have been searching for Nora their only daughter, who was engaged to Basher Anderson.

Now Nora seems not to remember anything but only a few, could she be suffering from amnesia? Kate's feelings for June where does it head. How would the Williams find their daughter?.