Please Help

“Ola! Do you want to kill your sister?” Mrs. Olayinka half yelled. She tried to pull Olamide away from Lanre but it was no good. Her strength could not match his. Lanre was already suffocating, her eyes has turned red and welled up with tears. Just when she felt she was going to end up dead, Lanre decided to struggle. She digs her nails into Olamide’s hand drawing blood in the process. Still, Olamide wouldn’t let go. Mrs. Olayinka could not watch her daughter die before her very own eyes by the hand of her own son. She rushed out calling for help.

“Please help me o! I’m finished if anything happens to Lanre o! Please help me! Olamide will kill her o!” She kept calling for help. Gozie was the first to rush to Lanre’s aid. By the time he got there, Lanre was already losing consciousness. Gozie immediately lunched an attack on Olamide. The two ended up in a brawl.

“Jesus! She’s convulsing! Gozie leave that boy let’s rush her to the hospital”. Mrs. Okafor screamed. Anita was frightened at the sight, while Mrs. Olayinka was all over the place like a mad woman.

She ran out of the place and cane back with onions in her hand. She chewed it and immediately administer it on Lanre’s nose. “Olomajhe! My God will not allow me see sorrow!” Mrs. Olayinka kept saying as the tears came out of her eyes nonstop.

Gozie carried Lanre from her mother’s arms and rushed her to his car. He asked the mother to tag along so she could show him to the nearest hospital. The mother kept saying hospital’s treatment is ineffective. But she had no other option than to show Gozie to the nearest hospital whilst praying that nothing happens to her daughter.

They got to the hospital and Lanre was rushed in and immediately admitted. They fixed oxygen on her nose. Gozie could not believe what his eyes had just see. He would never try to harm his sister. But here, someone was trying to kill his one and only sister. What in the world could people be thinking? He was relieved that Lanre was out of danger but would remain under oxygen mask for 24 hours. It was just a thin thread left between death and Lanre.

Mrs. Okafor and Anita arrived the hospital much later. Anita felt pity for Lanre. “You must be one unlucky bitch! I used to envy you because you are beautiful and K got drawn to you by just seeing you picture. But girl, now I pity. Your brother does not love you and just tried to kill you. And your so called best friend is now engaged to the man who claimed he likes you. Men are bastard! You won’t believe Michael is cheating on me”. Anita said within herself as though Lanre could hear her thoughts.

“Well, my brother is nice!” Anita said out loud this time, loud enough for her to hear but inaudible to the others.