MY HEARTBEAT
****EPISODE 6****
Tiwa’s week had started out great and it had
progressively gotten better. The whole week, she did not lose any patients, she had no emergencies and 3 of her patients including Mr Salman got discharged. Even better, on Tuesday, Fiyin had asked her out again and they had gone on their third date just yesterday.
She couldn’t help the tingly feeling being with him gave her. They had gone to the mall to see a Friday night movie and she had enjoyed the way women had turned around to stare at him. She had felt ecstatic that it was her hands he was holding and even though he had been distracted during the movie, he had made it up to her afterward.
When he dropped her home, she had expected
him to kiss her goodnight but he had only kissed her fingers and drove off after making sure she was safely inside her house. She could wait though, she had been waiting unconsciously for the better part of 3 years. Somewhere inside her, she had known that it was only a matter of time before Fiyin came to the realization that she was the only woman that could ever suit him, she hadn’t allowed herself enter any serious relationships and now her waiting was finally yielding results.
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She entered into the locker room and changed out of her scrubs into the mufti she had come in earlier in the day. Her shift was over but she
wasn’t in a hurry to go home to her snobby
roommate who always had something to
complain about. That pompous Imelda! She
thought to herself, she couldn’t wait to get
married to Fiyin and live in a house bigger than
Imelda’s parents’.
She made her way to Fiyin’s office and passed
the snarling Ozioma without a second glance. She knocked at his door and made to open it but she realized it was locked. She turned back to see Ozioma’s red lips curled into a smile.
Tiwa: “Where is he?” She asked impatiently
Ozioma: “Me? Are you talking to me?” Ozioma
asked, her eyes happy. “Doctor Tiwa, you cannot be talking to me oh!”
Tiwa: “I’m talking to you, where is Doctor
Arowolo?” Tiwa asked, getting pissed.
Ozioma: “I don’t know, you will have to go and
ask the other secretary you usually greet when
you come here.” So saying, she looked down at
the desktop on her desk and continued typing.
Tiwa: “Better watch the way you talk to me,
Ozioma, warn yourself!”
Ozioma: “Or what?”
Tiwa: “You’re not even worth my stress!” She
concluded as she made her way out of the office angrily.
Ozioma: “Ha ha ha ha!” Ozioma laughed as she
clapped her hands together. “See how her eyes
are shining, over a man oh. Let me call Hoiza!”
She exclaimed as she picked up the phone to dial another secretary that didn’t like Tiwa.
She found him at the car park. She had been
heading to her car in anger when she saw him
chatting with Jire Israel, a paediatric surgeon who was engaged to Fiyin’s youngest sister,
Boluwatife who was a lawyer and activist.
Fiyin: “Hey dear,” Fiyin called out to her, “heading home?”
She pasted a smile on her face and approached them, “Hi, Dr J!” She greeted Jire, another doctor she didn’t like as she made her way to Fiyin.
Jire: “Hey, Tiwa, how are you? Hope there’s no
problem?” Jire asked, noticing her eyes.
Tiwa: “It’s that stupid Ozioma in Fiyin’s office…”
she exploded, “…she had the guts to insult me
when I went there to check on you just now, that snake was mocking me, she all but said I was a worm….. she even….see ehn….in fact, what i will do with that girl!”
Fiyin: “Calm down Tiwa, please. Ozioma did all
these?” Fiyin asked, quite shocked at Tiwa’s
anger. In all the time they had worked together,
he had never seen her quite so worked up. “What happened?” He asked, concerned that Ozioma really had passed he boundaries.
Tiwa: “See, I don’t want to talk about it again,
okay?” She told Fiyin, happy that he was
concerned for her.
Jire watched the exchange silently and decided to keep quiet. He wasn’t sure sometimes how he felt about Tiwa. When she had first joined the hospital, he had chased her, impressed by her intelligence, boldness and beauty. Later, as he had gotten to know her, he had become more distant when he realized she was also quite cunning and had an unnecessary habit of looking down on people like she was better than them.
She seemed to be in the bad books of almost all the nurses, the administrative staff and the
cleaners. Even Junior Doctors were not on her
level. When he finally decided to correct her, she suddenly started having issues with him and their relationship had cooled.
Which was a blessing in disguise because it gave him an opportunity to be open to meeting Bolu, his fiancée. He just hoped that Fiyin was too smart to fall into Tiwa’s net. And if he fell, that he was smart enough to get himself out.
Jire: “Alright you guys, I’m out.” He told the pair
currently giggling together. “Take care, Tiwa. And guy, we go see Sunday na?”
Fiyin: “Yeah, sure thing.” Fiyin told him and
watched him walk away.
Tiwa: “So, why are you in a hurry to get home?”
Tiwa asked Fiyin.
Fiyin: “Oh? I told you about Mandy’s teacher,
right?”
Tiwa: “Yeah, what happened?” Tiwa asked,
wondering why Fiyin seemed to pay so much
attention to someone beneath him.
Fiyin: “Well, I want to catch her before she leaves the
house” He said, apparently excited.
Tiwa: “Erm, is that why you’ve been rushing home the past few weeks?”
Fiyin: “Yes oh, if I’m not there, only God knows what will happen to my baby girl when I get back! The teacher, she’s so disorganised, you should see her clothes and her lipstick, Jesus! She’s always…”
Tiwa: “Hmm, I thought I was your baby girl?” Tiwa asked, unwilling to go into his discussion about his teacher abi nanny. He had done the same on Tuesday and spent over an hour talking about the woman or whatever she was. She had tuned him out though, it was a skill she had perfected that made her the doctor with the best bedside manners.
Fiyin: “Erm, no. that’s a position exclusively for Mandy.”
Tiwa: “Oh, okay!” She said cheerily, although she was far from pleased with him. Couldn’t he have said she was his older baby girl? Men though, stupid insensitive creatures!
Fiyin: “Alright, I should be on my way, it’s almost five.”
He noticed she was looking expectantly at him so he pecked her on her cheeks and rushed to his car. He did not want Femi to leave before he got home.
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