I LOVE YOU – episode 15

I eagerly opened it, it read thus: “hi dear, how are you doing? I miss you”. I was happy.

The following day, I returned from where I went to meet a secondary school senior at sports, I got to the hostel and  my phone beeped. It was a message from her, I opened it , “Kelvin, am pregnant!”. It first didn’t make sense to me, I read it again and suddenly decoded all the meaning ( she’s pregnant. I had sex with her, she’s telling me, that means am responsible) “ah!” I shouted. I switched off the phone, restarted it, checked the message again, it was still, “am pregnant”.

I  started pacing up and down in my room( none of my roommates were around). I didn’t know what to do at first.

After about 30 minutes of being blank, I decided to call her. The phone rang for a long time before she picked up. She sounded not too well ( like I care. Am in trouble!)

Me: hello
Hadizat: hello( sounding really tired and sleepy)
Me: hadizat, I received a message some minutes ago, am not sure if you sent it, or its just one of MTN’s frustrating messages?!
Hadizat: I did.
Me: are you for real? You are pregnant?!
Hadizat: yes
Me: for who?
Hadizat:ahnan!! Who else, you of course
Me:( I shouted as if am just getting the message). Wait, where are you now, I need to see you now
Hadizat: health centre
Me: what?! What happened ?
Hadizat: come here first

I got there in less than 5 minutes. She was admitted into the same room I was when I broke my leg.
She looked fatigued on the bed.

“ when I got back from class, I decided to fetch water, then is suddenly collapsed, I woke up here surrounded my villa mates. And the doctor said I was pregnant and collapsed due to stress” she narrated, when I asked her the reason she was laying sick on bed.

I just listened blankly. I thought of my parents, how would they react on hearing this?. I sat down, my alarm rang, it was time to go for the last lecture of the day. I just dipped the phone back in my pocket.

Thirty minutes later, bode called me, “ guy you no come class?, your g.f nko?, see that baba wan do test now oo”

I got a grip of myself, ran to the venue, did the test, and just plodded back to the health centre.

I told hadizat about the test, “ I’d reschedule” she said. Yes, she only needed an health centre report.

Minutes later, the door flung open, it was the judge from last time, hadizat’s dad! Followed by a woman that looked like grown up hadizat.

Mum: Hadizat, omo mi, what happened. How come??!!
Dad: you are pregnant?! Or is the doctor wrong?

( I lust stood behind them, looking )

She only made gestures with her head, to confirm what the doctor had said

Dad: who is responsible? Who is that imbecile?!( he said, raging)

(my shoulders shuddered at this question)

She looked in my direction, and her parents too, they just noticed my presence

“ I should have gone out” I thought.

Dad: so you are the one that impregnated my daughter? How dare you?!

( the mother came to me, locking me by my shirt at the collar)

Then the nurse and the doctor came in

Doctor: hello sir.
Mum: doctor, see my life ( she said, crying)
Dad: doctor, welldone sir. Please what can we do?
Doctor: how do you mean sir?
Dad: you should understand now
Doctor: (smiling) we don’t do that here sir. And moreover, I’d strongly advise that nothing of such be done, apart from being against the law of man and God, it could also be detrimental to her health. In worst case scenario, death!

I just stood there thinking “ so am becoming a father! At 19?”

The father turned to me

“ you want to destroy the life of my daughter?! I will deal with you, I will show you!!”
“ what do you mean?” I thought