Fear

Joan was at her office working when received a call from her mother.

"Hello mummy, good afternoon ma," Joan greeted, but the voice she heard on the other side of the phone wasn't that of her mother. 

"Hello aunty, it's me,"  the person on the other side of the phone said.

Joan recognized the voice to be that of her mother's new maid. "Amaka?" Joan asked in a shaky voice, why was she calling her with her mother's phone? Was something wrong with her mother? Joan's heart suddenly started beating fast as she thought of all the things that could have happened to her mother.

"Why... are you calling me? Where is my mother?" Joan asked in a shaky voice.

"Aunty, it's mummy o, she..."

"What is wrong with my mother?!" Joan asked in a terrified voice.

"She fainted," the maid said.

"What?! My mother fainted? What is wrong with her? What happened?"Joan asked all at once. 

"I don't know what happened, I___" the maid sounded distressed.