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Episode 3

“What am I going to do Tonia?’’ they are
standing in front of her house

“I don’t have any idea. But how can you not
know who the father is, I mean I may have been
with a couple of guys but I remember them, not
that I keep count though but I do, so how come
you don’t remember who you went skinny
dipping with, this is huge Meg, like bomb huge“

“Look unlike you I don’t sleep around with guys , much less random, the only dude that I was
you know
 was Fred, and I haven’t seen him
since last Christmas and we broke up way before
then and the last time we shagged was months
ago except I got pregnant then and the baby
suddenly developed which is impossible, over a
year ago? No.. the test rightly said four weeks..
that’s a month ago, I wasn’t seeing any one a
month ago
 heck for a year now so how the hell
did I get pregnant? It doesn’t make sense” she
sinks down to the pavement
Tonia slid’s down beside her “Okay calm down
Meg let’s figure it out. Let’s think. So a month
ago
 no guys at all like at all?”

“Dude I would remember, I haven’t been with
anyone and I would be stupid to be with
someone without using protection. I would never
do that, if I was so h—y and I needed a good
loving, I would have the good sense to have him
put on a condom or better still I would have
worn my contraceptive patch, I always have
those. But it doesn’t make sense
 I wouldn’t
have slept with a dude in my right senses
without protection, I know the consequences of
that, I would have been really really careful. I
wouldn’t “

“Okay, what if you weren’t in your right senses Meg?”

“What do you mean?’
“I mean, if you don’t remember sleeping with
someone and getting pregnant, what if it
happened while you weren’t exactly in your right senses?’’

”I am still not getting what you are saying Tonia”

“I am saying dummy is that what if it happened,
because maybe you were drugged, you know. I
hear of those kind of stories all the time, it’s
used for raped victims too, they go out with
friends, get drugged and get raped and have no
recollection of it, and the b——s goes scot
free”

Megan looks at her friend, then she bursts out
crying “I was raped
 I was raped and got
knocked up” she wailed

“Shhh girl. Well we don’t know that bit” she
hugs her friend

“Well is there another explanation? I ain’t a
sister to Mary Mother and I am sure as hell ain’t
giving birth to another Jesus, no angel appeared
to me to tell me I was going to birth to a
Messiah so which other explanations are there?’’ she sniffs

“well, are you sure you didn’t sex some random stranger?”

“I didn’t. I didn’t, I would have been careful’’ she cries

“Okay. So, if we are going by the fact that you
may be drugged, where have you gone to of
recent say in the past one month that there is a
likely possibility of that happening?’”

‘Erm..er” she screws up her face..”Church,
Aunt’s Christie’s Baby showers, Danny’s
birthday party, karaoke, erm you and I went pool
partying, and erm
 library sessions with the
Stevens, that’s all I think.We haven’t had much parties attendance and in these ones, there were hardly alcohol used, and I didn’t drink because I was sick for almost two weeks and doctor says no drugs with alcohol and ..well that’s it.

Graduation party was the only major party we
both went for that was totally trunt and off the
hook 
 and we know there was so much
alcohol, drugs and the whole shebang, I was
stoned, but since then not so much and-“

“ oh my God Meg..that’s it!”
“That’s what?’’
“Graduation party”
“What about it”
“Your test says you are one month pregnant
right?”

“Yes”
“when was graduation party?’’
“Erm?’’

They counted the days backwards..
“When did you notice you hadn’t seen Lady
Red?”

“I noticed two weeks later that I was already
over a week late”

“Dang!!! We just found the loop hole dude, you
got knocked up on graduation night”

Megan frowns, trying to remember that day “But,

I wasn’t with a guy that day, we went together
and we had fun and I knew I drank a lot and I
only remember waking up the next morning in
my house, you dropped me off didn’t you?”
Silence

“You dropped me off at home after the party
right because I knew I woke up with a nasty
hangover, then you came around and mom was
asking and I said you dropped me home and you
said yes, right?’’

“Well about that, honestly babes I didn’t drop
you home”

“Jesus Tonia!!!!”’
“I am sorry, I met this sexy s–d and 
 yes I
remember now, you were soo high you could
hardly stand straight, oh crap, I took you into a
room to sleep it off because you didn’t want to
go just yet and I didn’t either and he was sexy
hot and I was h—y as a dog on heat and
anyways you were half awake and asleep and I
told you I was going to come back and get you
and I am sorry, we went back, had fun and we
sort of went to his place and by the time I knew
it, it was morning, I rushed over to the party
house, didn’t see you there that is why I quickly
ran to yours and there you were, safe and when
your mum asked how you got home and if you
got home on time you said yes and said I
dropped you off and I knew if I had said
otherwise your mum would have gone berserk
and everything would have gone to shits
 but
d–n babes I am sorry, I didn’t think it was a
big deal plus I didn’t want you to be mad at me
for not taking you home” she says remorsefully
“Well right now it’s a big deal Tonia, how come you didn’t say anything. I was raped in there d–n it, I am frigging pregnant”

“Well you were alone in the room , no one else
was there plus we didn’t hear of any case of
anyone being raped”

“Like you said if I was drugged, I wouldn’t be
able to remember”

‘”True, but we are just speculating, what if you
weren’t drugged, maybe you did have sex and
too drunk to remember”

‘‘That wouldn’t happen”
“Sure about that Meg?”

Meg bites her lips “I would remember Tonia, I
would” she cries leaning onto Tonia’s shoulders

“I am sorry Meg, really it’s my fault, I shouldn’t have left you there’’

“what will I do??”
“Well we need to find out who and who was in
that party that day”

Megan scoffs “That’s like finding a needle in a
hay sack Tonia, like chasing ghosts. There were
a whole lot of students, from different universities
..how the hell are we going to find someone we
don’t know about?”

“S–t! Babe you have to remember
something,anything“

Megan shakes her head “I swear I don’t”
“What are you going to do? You just fresh out of
college, no job, no boyfriend and therefore no
suitor reading to whisk you away and your
parents are deep Catholics
 you are in deep
s–t”

“I know. I have to tell them”
“No you don’t, you could just go to the clinic and have it removed unless you want to keep it, you don’t know who the father is”

“I don’t know. Maybe ..no I can’t, how am I
going to take care of it?”

“Okay, I know someone, he has done it for a
friend of a friend a while back, we can go today
or tomorrow, the longer you wait the riskier for
you, you know right?’’

Megan sighs
“Does it hurt, abortion?”
“Her words? Like hell and it cost a tiny fortune,
how much you got?’’

Goosebumps rises up Meg’s body
” okay then.

Not much, I need to clear out all my small
savings”

“Okay”

“Let me go in, I don’t want mum to come out
an begin to ask me questions”

“Okay ‘’

*

As she lays on her bed , trying to go to sleep,
racking her brain trying to remember anything,
anything at all for the past couple of weeks to
pinpoint when exactly and how exactly she was
stupid enough to have unprotected sex with
anyone or was she raped?.

Nothing comes to mind.


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