Be My Mummy

Ida felt her world collapsed, she was still weak cause she had just delivered, nonetheless, she ran out of the hospital, trying to catch up with Olga. She wanted to ask him one more time if he really meant all that happened just now. 

When she got to the underground garage of the the hospital, she saw Olga's car been driven away. She was so sure that her sister was inside. 

Ida walked out of the hospital dejectedly and began to walk aimlessly. Even her can't tell where she was going. Actually, she just wanted to die. She felt like there was nothing to live on for anymore. 

Memories of all her sweet days with Olga flooded her mind and if anyone had told her that a day like this will come, she will never believe it. Her heart was torturing her to an extent that she believes that it's just a matter of time before her heart stopped beating. 

She paused when she got before a brothel, she saw how people were moving in and out of the brothel and a part of her just wanted to storm inside there, drink as many drinks as she can and fuck as many men as she can. But her sense of moralty was cautioning her. 

"It hurts!" Her mouth suddenly shiver as she remembered how her husband claimed to kill her baby. The sharp pain she was feeling in her heart was incredible. 

Then she sighted a man seated alone beside the brothel, he was shirtless and was putting on a red pant, he looked extremely hot but his look exudes danger. He had a dragon head tattoo on his chest and a scorpion tattoo around his navel. The man was smoking in his own world, unbothered by the activities going on around the brothel. 

Ida wondered why people were not paying this hot dude any attention, since the handsome man had no one with him, she walked towards him and stood right before him. The smell of smoke filled her nostrils but she didn't bulge, all of a sudden, she began to choke. The man threw his cigarette away and stood to attend to her. 

In the next moment, she grabbed him and kissed him hard. She couldn't tell why she did that, it could be because she was going crazy as a result of her heartbreak. The man responded in return, their lips interlocked so perfectly and they sucked on eachother's lips like a pro. It was an intimate session that if not that they were outside, it could have lead to sex. 

She disengaged all of a sudden, breathing erratically while the man just watched her with an indifferent look. 

"Sorry! Sorry!" Amy felt ashamed and apologized. She wanted to break down to tears before the man but she held it. She didn't even know whom he is. 

She immediately dipped her hand inside her pocket and brought out fifty dollar, "I know we didn't have sex but kissing you without your permission is wrong, this is my way of compesating you," she stretched the money to him. 

The man looked at the money indifferently, he remained standing still, it was impossible for her to even read a single emotion on the man's face. 

When Ida saw that he wasn't responding, she said," oh! $50 is too small for you, right?" Ida thought that he may probably be a pimp, otherwise, why would he be here? Maybe he receives more payment as a pimp than the amount she was offering him.

"It's just kiss not sex plus I don't have much on me, just have this, okay?" She added an additional fifty dollar to the fifty dollar in her hand. The man only looked at the money in her hand silently and then looked at her face. He didn't utter a word still. 

"Weird!" Amy wondered why the man wouldn't say a word. Could he be dumb? She placed the money on where he had stood and said," haha... I guess you are probably shy to accept it from me? It's there, you can take it. Sorry once again for kissing you without your permission." She then walked away quickly from him. 

As she walked away, she prayed that the man wouldn't call her back and to her grestest surprise, the man didn't call her back. 

Five years later, Ida arrived from France where she had gone to school. Actually, she dropped out of school so she can marry Olga in the past cause her parents threatened her that if she didn't marry Olga that year then her sister would. 

Eventhough she sacrificed her career for Olga, he still betrayed her and even killed her child. But after the heart wrenching experience that Olga and her sister caused her, she had gone back to start school afresh and had now finished as an economist in the university she went to in France. 

She was back to her city, Beij, to start a new life. Her plan was to get a job and live the remaining few months she has left to live quietly. 

On her second day of arrival to Beij, she went to visit her old friend at her house but she was not around. She had wanted to ask her a few questions as regarding getting a job here and ask her how the city had been since she left. 

This friend of hers was living in a rich neighborhood as her parents were one of the richest in the city, while she was walking away from her friend's house and heading over to where she could get a cab to take home, she saw a little boy crying and walking helter-skelter. 

She felt pitiful for the little boy and walked up to him," handsome! Why are you crying?" 

The little boy looked at her with a pitiful face and answered," I lost toto." 

"Toto? What's toto?" Ida asked. 

"My sheep," the little boy responded and continued searching. 

"Hold on, I'll help you find toto," she said and the little boy paused. 

Could the sheep be around here? Ida thought and surveyed the area with her sharp eyes, she suddenly sighted a white small sheep curling itself beside a flower. 

If the little boy was as tall as Ida, he could have sighted the sheep too. 

"I found it, hold on here and let me get it for you," Ida said and watched as the cute boy nodded his head. 

Ida soon got to where the sheep was, "hey toto, don't be scared." The sheep calmed as soon as it heard it's name. Ida carried the sheep gently and went back to the boy. 

Once the little boy saw Toto, he began to jump up happily, he was so happy. Ida handed over toto to him and he carried it tenderly. "Toto, are you hurt? Why did you leave me?" The little boy examined his 'dear toto.'

Ida smiled as she looked at the adorable boy, she felt a sharp pain in her heart when she thought that her baby that her ex husband killed would have just been as young and probably as cute as this little boy. She didn't even know what gender her dead baby was. 

"Handsome, take a good care of yourself, bye," Ida waved with a smile that hid her pain. Before she could take a step, the little boy immediately curved his arms around her leg while he held his toto with his second hand. 

"Be my mummy, please," the little boy demanded.