314: Amelia Marcus

"Uncle Damien! Uncle Damien where are you, uncle Damien come here quickly, Clara is shouting!"

Nimo has been visiting Clara to make sure that she is okay. Every Friday and  Saturday, she will be with her,  helping her with some small things like taming her hair, helping her walk around the field, and doing some exercises that she reads in the book as per the doctor's instructions. She was the helper and Clara couldn't ask for more, no one understood her the way Nimo did. As much as she was a kid, she knew when to give her meals, when to give her protein and when to take just juice and give her. She helped massage her feet while telling her a story, she would also read her a storybook when she was bored, and sometimes she would just sleep beside her while rubbing her tummy.

"Can you hear him, please call him again, wait, use my phone and call him, tell him my water broke., he might have left for work without telling me."

Nimo had been calling Damien for the past two minutes ever since Claire started crying. She felt sad that she was crying and nothing she was doing was helping her.

"Stay there, please,  aunty stay there, Dont move,  I will ask the guards to come to help you from the bed if that's what you want."

Nimo called Damien who panicked on answering the call. Damien said he will be in the house in a second. Meanwhile, Nimo rushed to the door and get the guards who were taking care of the security.

"Her water broke, her water broke and she is crying can you help her."

The maid who was in the kitchen ran and grabbed a basin-like trough and placed it in the empty room that was adjacent to the living room.  Nimo glared at her wondering what she was doing. Then she picked some fluid and poured it into the tub. She asked the guards to bring Clara into the room. Meanwhile, Nimo was given a number to call.

She did so quickly and later called her parents who panicked and said they are coming over.

Nimo rushed to the room with a Blue basin and fluid, she didn't know what they were doing, she feared that they might harm Clara because she was crying in pain with her clothes soaking wet. She video called her mother who was in the car with her dad.

"There are putting her there, is this okay mum, I feel like they are going to drown her, should I call 9-1-1?"

Nimo was crying now but she wanted to stop crying.

"It's okay baby, that's where she will be okay, have you called Uncle Damien or anyone else?"

Nimo wanted to reply but Damien rushed into the room asking for Clara. He run in the direction where Nimo was pointing and held the phone in her hand while going into the room. She found her aunt all crying and placed in the tub. The maid wanted to take Nimo out but Clara asked Nimo to be inside, I can't do this without her.

"Nimo please can you come inside, I just want you around, Damien, please hold my shoulder baby.

Nimo was afraid of the basin, she run but sat beside it. She didn't want to be inside she sat while hold f Clara's hands. 

"it's going to be okay, just breathe, breathe aunty."

That's what she saw Damien doing the same, asking Clara to breathe. Clara was crying while holding Nimo's hands tightly. The door opened and Daniella was there, she was crying, she quickly removed her clothes and remained in shorts and a tank crop top. She walked inside the tub and helped Clara. Nimo didn't know how they were doing it. They were singing songs to Clara who was now crying at the top of her voice.

Nimo was just there trying to draw circles in her hands while assuring her that everything was going to be okay, she didn't need to worry about anything.

"Push it, Clara baby, push it, it's near, it's near, push it."

Damien was asking her to push and Nimo widen her eyes wondering who she was told to push. She doesn't look inside the tun, hated the way the fluid looked like mucus and it was mixing with other things that disgusted her very much.

Clara was losing the power, she was tired and her body was giving up, Damien feared that everything might go wrong, she might give up on everything.  Nimo was there singing her songs while squeezing her hands tightly. 

"Hey aunty, you still remember that beautiful pair of shoes we saw, the ones we said we will buy once the baby arrived and you can't wait to see him or her in the shoes? That's what  I want, I want us to go there and help the baby wear them, but we won't go there if you give up. Push please push it harder the way you are being told, that's is the only way."

"Jeez Nimo you know how to get into my nerves, why would that make me push harder?"

"I want to see the face of my cousin, looks like, that's what  everyone wants here, so push one more time, just one more time and everything is going to be okay."

Clara nodded and pushed again for the last time, and the sound of a baby was heard. Daniella was the one who held the baby for the first- time. Clara was tired and just wanted to get out. The tub was quickly drained and she was picked up. She got washed by Daniella while Damien supervised the baby that was being cleaned, he was doing the cleaning while the doctor instructed him on what to do. Davids was next to him wearing the protective clothes, they didn't want to pass any bacteria to the child. She admired the way Damien was doing everything, she washed her hands and walked closer to help him.

"She is so funny man, she is so tiny and looks at her, she is smiling in her sleep and her hands are firm. Can I help you wash her?"

Damien nodded and Davids held the bay under the doctor's instruction and bathed her. She felt connected, she wanted to see how the baby was when they are born, she got that experience now. When they were done washing, Nimo was there standing, looking all cute, her head wrapped up and her hands ready to hold the baby. 

"Uncle Damien, now that I was the one here, can I hold her?"

They couldn't say, No, to Nimo, they handed her the baby while she was sitting and looked at her. She smiled looking at her face. 

             "Hello, Amelia Marcus?"

Davids widened her eyes and looked at Nimo, she knew it was not right to just give the name of the child if parents have not given one.

     "Nimo, you are not the parent."

"What, I am the cousin and the young godmother to her and she is Amelia Marcus."

Damien nodded at Davids, that was the name they had chosen for their baby girl. Amelia after Damien's mother and Marcus, after his uncle who has been there. 

Marcus couldn't hold his teats when he was told that Clara delivered successfully. She said he will be at Damien's in the evening. The baby was taken to Clara after the nurse made sure she was okay and she had to breastfeed her. Nimo was still holding her and she couldn't let her down. 

    "Can I still hold her when you are done giving her milk?"

Clara chuckled while nodding. She knows Nimo has found another new friend whom she will be playing with apart from her brothers.

"Mun, we were that young? I mean she is so tiny, and how did you manage to push so hard at the same time? Look at aunt Clara, she is already tired and doesn't even want to talk.

Daniella didn't know how to explain to her daughter that she managed because she wanted to see their faces. She nodded at her and smiled. There was no way of telling her anything. She knew Nimo is a bright kid she has seen what is happening and will come up with her answers.

When Clara was done, Davids held the baby since Nimo was washing up and Daniella. When they came back, they found Davids holding the baby in her hands, so gently like she fear she can fall any minute.

"Dad, look how she is cute, look at her, why can't she open her eyes? Can I see her eyes?"

Davids smiled at Nimo and patted her to sit next to her so that she can hand her the baby.

"She will open her eyes when she wants to open her eyes, right now,  she is still sleeping."

Davids and Daniella left Nomo in the room with Clara.

"She is so small and beautiful."

Davids said when they were out of the room, Daniella knew she was regretting not being able to see her daughter and son when they were small.

"You should have seen my day, I will show you the video when I am ready it's so embarrassing. I wanted you at that time, Clara was almost calling you but she couldn't, you were in prison. I still called you though, I had to go through the operation because I couldn't push them out. I was just calling you loudly and it still echoes in my head, I think I just wanted the babies to resemble nothing or no one but you, and thank God, they all remember you. The doctors were asking Clara to bring, 'The Davids' whom I am talking about but she couldn't. She called my dad who came through and sat beside me, Mrs. Smith came and helped me. That's when I stopped

It's that time when Davids realized that she had not told them that the kids were hers and the anonymous person was her all along. She wasn't sure how she was going to say all this.

"I will need that video so that I can see you or I won't give you something sweet tonight."

Daniella punched her and told her to stop, she promised to show her.

          "Were they that young?"

"Very young, Mrs. Smith feared that they will not make it. She had to keep an eye on them, Ashley was always looking at them every day when she came from school. She stopped having friends because she didn't have time for them, she just wanted to make sure that the children were okay. Everyone was concerned, they had to be placed in the incubator for a while before they were okay.

David's hugged her tightly crying, she hated that she had to go through that all alone and she was not there.

"I will never leave you, okay, I will always be here for you."

Daniella nodded and wiped Davids' tears to prevent her from crying 

"Is dad crying because of Amelia or what's wrong, daddy?"

Davids smiled and kissed Nimo on the cheeks. They went and sat next to Clara who was sleeping and Damien was rocking the child.