Chapter Nine [Bridges across difficulties]

Chapter Nine [Bridge across difficulties]

Daniele gets up early in the morning and starts to walk around the area by herself. There are no moving vehicles yet along the dark road. Daniele creates sounds from her footsteps, which gives her confidence that when the street lights are off, the sunrise will give her the signs that something new will happen this day.

Her small shoulder bag, which contained her phone, rang.

“Hello!”

David whisper. “Honey"

Danielle responded, "Oh, come on." she turned around and her thoughts began to race with worry that someone might be trying to hurt her at that precise time.

Danielle says quickly, her heart pounding as the cool morning breeze slaps her cheeks and her long, curly hair blows across her face, covering her entire face. She is unable to see the person hurrying in front of her. "I'm on the street right now. I don't get enough good sleep in that boarding house."

” David, honey!” Daniele unexpectedly and quickly says, "I just had an online conversation with you. You are here in Infront of me! Shocking!” Daniele laughs very softly.

“I couldn't understand why you’re surprising me with things that made my heart skip a beat and left me gasping for air.” David hurriedly hugged her and took her to a nearby secluded location where no one could hear or see them.

Daniele can't breathe, but she loves to admit that she likes the way David hugs her. She feels like being lit by love as they both yearn to cling to each other's warm embrace, and David whispers, "Your suffering is almost over, my dear wife."

Danielle gently outbursts, "It's been a while since we've had this moment together, honey." Her voice reveals her agitated and uncontrollable emotions.

“How much longer must we put up with this, David?” Daniele says, on the verge of sobbing.

"Have you kept your previous passport?” David promptly cut off Daniele's agitated growling.

David felt Daniele's hands groping his front body parts, and he instantly thought of Daniele's desires for him at that moment. He immediately touched her body parts and gave her a tender kiss. Daniele replied, "Yes, I always have it in my bag," gripping the inside of her small bag that was situated between David's front part and her belly. She almost touched David's belt that locked his pants.

David groped Daniele's private parts and quickly released his intense desire to get inside between her legs while she was wearing a tightly fitted brown mini skirt and a grays long-sleeve blouse. Daniele can't resist her husband's unconstrained advances. She quickly shows him her old passport that she tries to get from her small pouch. She smiles controlling outbursts and chuckles.

“God, oh God!” Daniele mutters as she fights David's sexual advances.

David whispers, "Why, don't you like me." Daniele whispers, "You're so uncontrollable.” “ If anyone is nearby, they will only be able to hear our sneaky sounds because it is still dark outside.” David insisted excitedly. Both David and Daniele are wearing black shirts, and Daniele is wearing a light, long, thin black jacket.

David, who is accustomed to speaking as they do the copulations, began the first one with Daniele while whispering.

David explains why he continues to express his romance with Daniele in uncomfortable positions, "We will be going for a trip to my homeland. You gathered all your personal belongings in one portable suitcase and we will be sailing by boat from the south. Until we can reach the other end of the country's coastal island." Daniele is unable to speak and is gasping for air as a result of the enthusiasm David kindled in her and the realization of their aspirations following several fights in their history.

David asks, "Are you attempting to sleep now while we're still making love?"

"With this unpleasant stance, what else do you expect?” Danielle responded, deciding to liberate her feelings for David, kissing him in return.

David is unable to speak at this time because Daniele prefers to restrain his talkativeness. She wants David to focus first on their lovemaking plans and hastily make it because the dawn is almost about to disappear and make way for the sunrise to shine throughout the area.

After 30 minutes, David begins to look for a private place where they can make love and ejaculate lots of spermatozoa freely inside Daniele as he continues to gasp and pant for the deed. "I wanted you to be satisfied even in short uncomfortable situations," Daniele explains in between pauses.

“What follows?” David grinned as well, his eyes sparkling with excitement. Daniele also grinned.

David gave the order as they began to walk slowly while holding hands. "We go now to your boarding house and fetch your belongings," Danielle suggested. "I'm hungry. Can we eat first even just coffee and rice with fried eggs?"

David says, "Ah, let's go to 24-hour restaurants. We can eat well there. But let's take your stuff now so that we can head straight to the passenger's boat schedules to leave early today noontime."

“Let's leave!” Daniele responds as she reflects on the misery, she had gone through with her fellow female boarders in that boarding house. She feels relieved.

When they arrived, the boarding house's surroundings were still shrouded in darkness, and the main door was closed. Danielle instructed David to go cautiously behind doorways as she made her way along a secret pathway to retrieve her portable luggage.

She keeps the practice of keeping her small luggage in the old cupboard in the backyard outside the filthy kitchen since she is always prepared for those circumstances and always feels like going right away.

She makes friends with the dog, so when she takes several ripe star apple fruits hanging from one branch and puts them all in a plastic bag for herself to eat while traveling, no one sees them.

As soon as the pair enters the overnight food chain, time flies by. They quickly have breakfast and board the bus headed south.

David explains, "We exactly get the trip and we can plan when we reach the port area," as Daniele opens the plastic bag and takes the snack apple to eat. "We can rest here together," David says as he pushes the suitcase on the luggage rack and directs Daniele to the secured seat in the back.

"Would you like to taste some?" Danielle says, "I just recently plucked it off the tree. It's fresh and clean.

David said, "Nice, we have something for an after-dinner snack."

Danielle continued, "If you are thirsty, you can take some fresh, pure mineral water from my travel thermos flask."

The parents are already closing their eyes, and the young infant in front of them appears to be starving all of a sudden. The mother appears to be close to giving birth to her second child while acting as though she is still experiencing labor pains.

"Do you consume star fruit? "Daniele's attention is drawn to the young girl who takes the fruits that Daniele is offering.

Wait, I'll show you how to eat it, Daniele said as he grates the flesh inside with a plastic spoon and handed it to the young girl.

David cautions Daniele, "Honey, be careful to feed her. It's too early in the morning to consume it. She might have stomach problems."

As the young child repositions herself next to her parents, Daniele quickly emphasizes, "Ah, yeah, Sweetie, you just take a little because it may give you stomach problems while on the journey."

The bus is about halfway through its journey when it goes by a hillside with lush farms and meadows on either side. Numerous modest cottages are there as the vehicle travels quickly along the zigzag route till it reaches the next bus stop.

The elderly woman next to the pregnant woman shouts out incoherently, "Are you due to give birth now? " The pregnant woman in the rear has been moaning so profoundly in pain. I'm not sure, but it appears that my baby is slipping out for a moment.”

The woman responds as the man standing next to them tries to pull her toward the door but stops in front of Daniele and David, who were briefly dozing off. As Daniele opened her eyes due to the touch on her right shoulder and the woman being carried by a man, she focused on the woman's bottom while wearing soft black fitted leggings and the baby’s head bulges that had marks on it.

“God, oh God!” Daniele yells, "Come on, swiftly take off your pants for the newborn baby is about to come out," and hurries to collect the baby's towels so that the mother can begin to push out gradually.

"Thanks be to God, a new life is on the way. Welcome, baby!”

Daniele laughs as she hurriedly wraps a towel around the newborn baby and blots the baby's extra reddish liquid from her body.

Daniele gave the bus driver instructions as he hurried to look for a hospital, saying, "We should bring the mother and baby quickly to the hospital to clean and secure them. I can't continue to take the risks as of now. The doctor should do it. The baby is holding her breath and needs proper ventilation for her lungs to refresh and provide clean oxygen and sanitation. The mother has to push further for the placenta to move out of her womb next to the baby."

While searching for hospitals along the highway, the bus driver hurriedly turned on the engine.

Unfortunately, the majority of hospitals along the route are now inaccessible and shuttered.

The bus driver is doing his best to drive safely as they check each hospital along the way. There is one hospital that closed the administration due to complicated issues that accept to let the baby cut the umbilical cords from the mother's placenta. Daniele begs them for the sake of valuing human lives as she sees the hospital along the way.

"Please assist me in cutting the umbilical cord”. Danielle asked the incoming attendants for the forceps, surgical scissors, and a clip. David is with her and helping as he counsels others to provide room and be patient to save lives.

"How are you today?" Danielle looks at the mother.

Daniele gave the instruction, "Your placenta is still inside your womb. You must comply as I coach you." Daniele put three fingers inside the birth canal and pushed the flesh across to cause discomfort in response to the mother's stimulus.

"Now, as I count one, two, three, push, you started to push harder when you felt the pain! The placenta is gently ejecting with little blood, as instructed by Daniele, who is also being helped by another woman who, if not mistaken, might be one of her companions.

"Please be quick. Wrap the placenta and dress the mother quickly as we get ready to transport them to another hospital. This hospital is currently paralyzed. I will ask the bus driver to get another hospital to seek refuge and protect them. Can you give me the baby and follow me quickly to the bus so that we can transport them to the emergency hospital? The baby is starting to breathe with a hoarse sound. She needs quick medical first aid." Danielle is traumatized and tries to stimulate the baby by massaging her hands, feet, and face.

David gave the bus driver a directive to maintain his composure as they immediately entered a hospital that could handle the mother and child. Danielle hurriedly exited the bus and rushed the infant to the emergency room.

Danielle yelled to the standing nurses and medical staff as she quickly placed the baby on the bed, "Hello, please hurry up. This is an emergency because the baby unexpectedly emerged from her mother while on the bus. The baby is alive but needs an antiseptic for cleansing. Her breath already sounds hoarse.”

Daniele struggles to save the family after observing the mother and her elderly friend speaking to the admissions staff at the counter. The mother and child are safe in the hospital, so she runs out and makes her way to the bus. She is still uneasy due to the baby's unusual breathing pattern, so she closes her eyes and prays for them. David hugs her to comfort her.

"How are things going?” David enquires.

Danielle responds as they all wait impatiently for good. Danielle and David close their eyes in prayer, asking for God's will to be done in the lives of His people, especially the mother and her newborn baby. Finally, as Danielle overheard them saying, they arrive safe and sound.

The mother explains, "The baby is almost dead if rapid, appropriate aid is not offered. As they simply make noise-keeping gestures because other passengers are already dozing off, another voice is heard.

When the family gets off the bus, Daniele likes to watch them. She wanted to reassure herself that they are all safe as they reach home and the baby is alive.

Daniele remembers as the family walks away from the bus stop to find peace in their home. She finds the mother sitting in front contentedly with her husband, and the baby is in the arms of the old woman who had been showing care and aiding Daniele throughout the events.

Danielle thinks as she rests on David's chest, "I hope the newborn baby gets well and grows up into a healthy and good individual of the family and of the community. Glory to You O Lord God Almighty." Her eyes are skyward.