Mom's sick

Sitted on the carpet in the babies' room while checking something on her phone Mira looked up when aunt Anna entered the room. She was carrying the feeding bottles of the babies in a medium sized bowl probably from cleaning them.

She placed the bowl on a small table in a corner and walked to the door which she closed and came back into the room.

Hmm she cleared her throat, "Mira she called". Yes, Mira who was back to her phone looked up again.

"I heard Eva is coming to the city for treatment, she has been sick for sometime and you know the medication that side isn't so good so aunt Romen decided to bring her to a better hospital here." aunt Anna said.

As she continued talking Mira was already in a daze as her thoughts rushed back to the time when she had visited her parents in a small town in the southern part of the country.

Her little sister had told her that their mother was taking certain drugs she didn't know.

At that time she really didn't mind but one day when their mother was not at home Patricia came running into the kitchen with two small bottles.

"Mira I told you that mother is taking weird medicines just look at them" she said as she shoved the two bottles in Mira's face.

Ahh you do you want to hit my face Mira who was stirring the soup in the pot said as she pushed the bottles away from her face.

Patricia 17 years old is the youngest of Kasi Blick and Mukesh Eva's five children with Mukesh Lucia 27 being the eldest and a stepsister to the other four and already married to a business man from country Y in central Africa with two children, Natalie Sylvia 22 owner of a small club somewhere in the city, Joanna Mira 20 a student at a medical school in city K, and Kage Chris 19 a business student at M university.

Did you check mom's stuff? Mira asked Patricia eyeing her seriously.

"Ehhh..ehhh I just wanted us to.. to..eh don't worry mom and dad won't know and anyway they are fine with me going into their room." Patricia said.

Mira looked at her sister and simply ignored her rumblings.

She kept stirring the soup absentmindedly. Maybe it's fine, she was just overthinking things.

Anyway she hadn't grown up with their parents as she was taken away by her mom's sister when she was just a baby.

Her mom had told her that when she was pregnant with her she had passed her date of delivery and the medical team almost took her in for a caesarian section because she didn't have contractions even after all the medication she had been given but miraculously she got the contractions at the last hour and she gave birth.

She wasn't in good shape so her sister came over from the city and took the child away to allow her time to heal well.

That is how Mira ended up not growing with her parents.

However she wasn't alone she was with Lucia who had been taken away first since Eva was worried that her new husband might not like her.

Their aunt owned an orphanage so that's where they lived with the other children.

Ehhh.. Mira.. Patricia waved her hand in front of Mira's face. Hmm? Mira turned to her and grabbed the bottles from her other hand. Let's check and see, she said.

The first bottle had antihypertensive tablets and the other had a weird powder in a small polythene bag.

Mira's brows were drawn together as she wondered what the substance was. She opened the small polythene bag and smelled the powder but couldn't figure out what the weird thing was but then a shocking thought crossed her mind. What if it was...no no no, it can't be.

Her mom can't be doing drugs, but the bottle didn't have any writings on it to show it's contents.

"Err.. what is it." Patricia asked.

Hmm..it's just pressure drugs. Now take them back Mira said as she put the bottles in Patricia's hand.

Oh okay, she said as she walked out of the kitchen. Mira sighed and continued with her cooking.

It was after a few weeks that one day as Mira was in the bedroom sitted on her bed when her mother knocked on the door and entered the room.

She was holding some papers and she posed by the door as if thinking about something before she walked over and sat on the bed next to Mira. She placed the papers in front of Mira and told her to check them.

"What is this mom?" she asked as she touched the papers. Check them yourself Eva said.