Unfulfilled Promises. Episode 30 Oh! She was dead. How would she tell her mother? If her mum found out, she would kill her because she had warned her before. Oh! How could she and Eric have been so careless? Foolish as she was, she hadn’t even thought of protection until Eric had brought that condom the second time they had made love. She was ruined! Her future was ruined! She was only fifteen for Christ’s sake! How would she take care of the baby? She didn’t even know much about taking care of herself not to talk of taking care of a baby. Would she even be able to give birth? She heard labor was very painful. She kept wondering about her future as she continued crying on her bed. When she saw the beep on her system signifying that Eric was now online and wanted to chat, she ignored it. She thanked God it was a Friday because she didn’t think she would have been able to go to school the following day knowing what she now knew. She remembered school and cried anew. She would have to drop out because the school would surely expel her if they found out. She could just imagine the shame and embarrassment; ‘The school’s time keeper, pregnant.’ People would surely know Eric was responsible if they calculated between the time he left Nigeria and how far gone she was. She calculated herself and discovered that she could possibly be three months pregnant. She looked at her system and Eric’s, ‘Hello love, are you there?’ messages and ignored them. What did he want to tell her? Sorry for ruining her life? He was living it up in the States while her life was ruined here. She shook her head from such thoughts. It wasn’t his fault after all, she was the female involved, she should have taken proper care of herself and insisted on protection but she hadn’t been kissed before; she hadn’t known passion could make your brain numb. She didn’t know once could result in pregnancy. She laid down there and continued crying. She was like that throughout the weekend. She however managed to go to school on Monday with the hope that it was probably a false alarm and she had been worried over nothing. By December, she knew she was pregnant. Her stomach was now protruding a little. The bulge couldn’t be mistaken for over feeding. She stopped going to school then and shut herself in for fear of anyone discovering. She shut her friends out too. They kept calling her and sending text messages but she didn’t reply. She bribed their gateman to tell them she traveled whenever they came to look for her. Her mum was only at home in the evenings so she thought she was still going to school. Tessy too. The school didn’t ask because they thought she actually traveled as her friends had officially told them. ########## Damian flounced into his kid’s brother room with a basket ball in his hand. He paused when he took in the dejected figure of his brother on the bed. His brow furrowed into a frown. Eric sat with tightened fists and a bowed head. He moved to his brother’s side on the bed. “What’s the problem, kiddo? Why the long face?” Eric sighed and lifted up eyes filled with misery to stare at his brother. “Damian, I’m losing her. She doesn’t chat much again and picks fights with me at the slightest provocation. I don’t know what to do anymore.” Damian put an arm around his brother’s hunched shoulders. “Are you sure you haven’t done anything wrong? Girls behave funny when they’re angry.” Eric shook his head. “None that I can think of.” Damina kept silent for a minute. “Tell you what. Why don’t you give her a break?” Eric was scandalized. “A break? Our relationship is barely three months old. It’s too early for a break.” “I know that but since she’s acting all funny, maybe that’s what she needs. Let her miss your calls and chats. Works with Rachael all the time.” He grinned. Eric smiled a little. “I miss her a lot.” Damian got up. “I know how you feel, kiddo. Say, why don’t you come with us? Yolanda, her brother and some friends of ours are going camping for like two weeks. It would cheer you up.” Eric shrugged. “Okay, I guess.” He didn’t particularly like the way Damian’s neighbour, Yolanda was always all over him. “Will I be able to get network there?” Damian grinned again. “Dude, this ain’t Nigeria. Let’s go shoot some hoops.” He threw the ball at his brother who reluctantly stood up. ########## Oleng continued in solitude until she couldn’t take it anymore. She called Zinny and told her she was coming over to the latter’s joy. She called Marvy also and told her to meet her at Zinny’s place. She made up her mind to tell them everything and to probably find out from them a way out. to be continued Add admin on BBM. 7FED0C19
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:30:27 +0000