Chapter one
She got shocked and forced herself out of my grip. At that instance ,I su;;oned for ;y ;anners and later realized that I have overstepped my boundaries.
“Im so sorry nurse .’’
I cupped my hands together and pointed them towards her to apologize.
She nodded as a response.
I tried to walk past her ,to enter the labour room but she dragged my hands and forced ;e to return to where I stood.
‘’You wouldn’t be able to see her now.’’She said whilst rolling her eyes.
She walked past me and headed towards the hospital reception .
My eyes never cease from her as she walked .
I wondered why she wouldn’t allow me to see her with the fact that she had delivered her baby.
I turned away from the door and used my arms to embrace her chest.
Surprisingly, I flinced a agaze at the clock on the wall, Howevere ,it was 12.00AM.
The earliest hour of Christmas day.
Variably, I positioned my eyes to the clock for a while and noticed that it ad stopped working whilst its ands remained still.
I thought of the reasons why the clock would decide to stop suddenly,
Hence, my mind goes to how my wristwatch stopped working when the battery got damaged.
I raised a brow to it and took my glance off it.
I sit my butt on a chair and looked around me.
I saw so many people looking at me.I never noticed their presence anyways .So it seemed as if I was lucid dreaming .
My mind was emptied before the time I received the news of my wife’s delivery.
Misapprehensively, the hospital was so desolated it seemed as if I was in a graveyard.
The silence of it persisted to the extent that, I could hear my heart as it raises .
I wiped off my face with my palm and looked around again.
People that I saw , looked at me in despair.
I thought of how it would be possible for me not to see them rightly from the time I was here.
I set my gaze to the wall again and looked at the clock.
Apparently , the clock has started working .
Iopened my mouth in awe and wondered what was going on.
‘’The clock stopped working the other time, but now its working just fine .’’What’s wrong with me?’’
I muttered wods to myself over what I’m passing through.
Hence,Suzanna’s condtion moved swiftly into my mind .I widened my eyes a bit and yanked off from the chair.
I headed towards the labour room.
I awaited the nurse to call me , but she never did. So when I reached the doorknob , I twisted it and walked gently inside the labor room.
I stopped my feet inside the room and felt a shock running through my legs.
I walked off from the room and closed it.
Unfortunately, the people I saw the other time weren’t there anymore.
Fears gripped my soul this time I wondered what might be wrong.
I looked around sharply, abruptly I couldn’t see anybody.
I stood my ground and walked slowly to where I was sitting before .This, as I get ther,I set my gaze to the wall again and ealized that the clock had stopped working.
Surprisingly, the time was still12.00AM, again .
I shrunk my eyes out of curiosity .
After some moments , the blooming lights of the hospital went off.
My heart beat so fast ,that the terrifying moment got to a point , I couldn’t hold any more.
I walked back slowly and walked carefully to the door of the labor room.
I twisted the doorknob again and forced the door to open.
Invaiably,I stepped my feet inside the room and felt nothing.
I hurriedly walked up to Suzanna who was still on the bed.
I couldn’t see her so well since the light has gone off.
So. I removed my phone from my trouser’s pocket and switched on the flashlight.
The brightness of the lights shines on her, Hence, I could see her clearly.
She was left messy.
She was groaning in pain.
I looked at her again .She holds my hand , so tight.
Thus, she watched to say something , but she couldn’t.
My heart raises the more,
‘’Are you alright? I asked he.
‘’I tried to enter when I heard the sound of a baby crying, but one of the nurses stopped ,e,’’I added.
I said some words and expected her to give a response to it because I don’t know what was actually happening.
‘’My baby.’’She talked faintly , whlst tears rolled from her eyes.
‘’Whats wrong?Please say something where is our child?’’
,My eyes were filled with tears as we speak.
I couldn’t withstand seeing my wife in a tearful moment.It always hurts so bad.
I lowered myself abit and used my hand to lift her to the wall so that she could lean her back on it.
She sat on the bed , whilst I sat beside her,I emrace her, while we bot cied.
After some moments ,I heard a screeching sound , behind me.
It was just as if a door got opened.
I lose myself from my wife and looked in te direction when I heard the sound.
Surprisingly,the doo opened,I looked sternly and noticed that a wheel bed was at the doorstep.
My wife also sees the scene ,she got scred.
I stood up from the bed and decided to walk closer to the door.Hence, my wife holds my hand.