My Baby My Girl

Episode 6

“Dude, nice to have you here mehn” Sean smiles at his friend Zackary who he invited over for the weekend

“Glad to be here bro, d–n, it’s been too d–n
long, three months. Wow. By the way, sweet ride
Sean “

“Thanks, perks of the job and yes, I see you
too” he laughs shaking his friend before
speeding off While they caught up for the three months they had been apart during the long weekend, they decided to enjoy the night life before Zackary went back to the city , so they went out, to a club and hung out with friends.

It was when a girl approached Sean with a drink
in her hand for him and a offer for the night did
it occur to him that he was bothered, he shakes
his head, Zackary raises his brow, as he
watches Sean politely turn the girl down and
watched her go on her away.

“What’s wrong Sean, known you forever and I
haven’t ever seen you turn down some free
loving and not even booze, you okay?’’ Zackary nudges him, but Sean was frowning

“Yeah I am, I just remembered something that
happened to me before I left, the day of my
flight, some chick appears in front of my door
and claimed that she was pregnant for me” he
says shaking his head, Zackary laughs, but when
Sean wasn’t laughing he stares at him

‘’For real?’
“Yes Zackary, for real. I mean its ridiculous
right? Plus I have never met the girl in my entire
life before and I never b@nged a stranger without
knowing who she was but here she was, eyes
puffed and she says I got her pregnant and she
was dead serious’’

“who the hell was she?”
“I don’t know, some Megan chick or something”

“hmmm, So what did you do, what did you say?’’

“What else, I told her she was lying, because she was, she had to right? And I left her standing
there, headed to the airport and came here”

“Well good thing, some chicks this days sleep
around and go about looking for scape goats to
pin it on and since you are rich, they think, why
not pin it on Sean O’Conner, get him married to
her or better still have his family take care of the
child support and she is made for life living off
the kid, and you know we are talking millions if
the girl gets a good a-s lawyer to take her case,
good thing you dodged that bullet. All lying
bitches looking for freebies, hope you told her to
go stick it in her a-s somewhere?”

“Well technically I did, but she showed me the
test result”

“So? Could be forged and even If it’s real and
she is pregnant, dude did you screw her?”
Sean frowns “I don’t think so. No. I have never
met her in my entire life let alone kissed her”

“Good, that is all”
“But she said something else that we did it and
she was certain it’s graduation night, and she is
almost a month gone, but do you know the funny
thing, I frigging don’t remember half of what
went down that night, so what if?”

“ What if you smashed her? Dude don’t be
stupid. Well… how could you remember, we had
drugs, we had strong spirit and we did s–t.. but
I know you wasn’t with no girl, and even if you
were with one you would have been too stoned
to know where the right hole was so trust me,
that girl be lying to you son, don’t get easily
swayed. If it were truly your kid, how come for
three months now no chick has come to find you
or your parents? Has your parents been
contacted? Look, I know girls like that, forget it.
Wait! is that while you turned down that pretty
brunet? she had the hots for you

“No, it was just the fact that she was giving me
a drink I didn’t know where from and I just
wanted to be careful, if I sleep with a girl I want
to be sober doing so. And I ain’t taking any
liquid or cigar from you ever again. You were the
one that got my brains fried”

“Well you could easily have said no, but you
didn’t, you took it, you loved it and you flew,
literally, I remember you screaming and shouting
cockroach and aliens in the building” Zackary
laughs, Sean joins him

“No that was you actually”
“Oh s–t!! Zackary laughs

They forget about the girl pregnant girl.

The girl comes back again, this time Sean
doesn’t refuse her, but he doesn’t drink “Why don’t we go back to your place and finish the party?”

she whispers into his ears

“Why the hell not!!’ Sean smiles whispering back and they make their way out.

“That’s it son” Zachary claps his back and he
goes out with a girl hanging on his arm too
Back at his apartment, Sean opens his drawer as
she la!d on his bed waiting and takes out a
condom, he was going to be extra careful and
sober while was at it.

Whoever that girl was, he didn’t want someone
like her to turn up again to force a pregnancy on
him and even if one did show up, he wanted to
be able to say…Yes, he was the one.. or No he
wasn’t with certainty.

But for that girl, that Megan whatever-her-
surname-was, she was just as Zachary said,
some gold-digger apparently trying to pin a
pregnancy which wasn’t his on him.

He was glad he didn’t listen to her and he prays
to never have to see her ever again.

FOUR YEARS LATER*
Megan had grown from a twenty-three year old
insecure woman and a single mother with no
hope, no direction and misplaced priorities to a
single proud mother of one, with a focus, more
drive and determined to be the best and do the
best for her daughter.

After she gave birth to her daughter after
working as a waitress in town, she had wanted
to put her up for adoption, she had everything
planned but that fateful day as soon as the child
was born in the orphanage home where she
worked and took care of kids, she knew there
and then that she could never give up her
daughter, never. So she took her child and she
left that same night.

She did nanny jobs in order to spend time with
her daughter and by the time Kikina Alexis-
Grace turned two, she enrolled for a teaching
course with the money she had saved, and after
a year she got the job as a kindergarten teacher,
and she was able to enroll Kikina into a school.
Yes, it had been one hard journey, cut off from
her parents who didn’t want to have anything to
do with her, going on with little to survive, kiki,
her daughter seemed to be the only light in her
life and she was determined to make the most
for her, she loved her daughter and she had
vowed to keep her safe, protect and never let
anything or anyone harm or take her away from
her.

Megan had come a long way, she had tried to
build her life back together, forgetting that night
years ago, forgetting the months that followed
and the boy who walked away not wanting to
know if he was actually a father .

But it seemed life had other plans. Tonia walked
into her small house, as Kiki ran to hug her
“Hello beautiful princess, how are you?’’ Tonia kisses her

“I am awesome” kiki says “ wait Aunty Tonia, I have to show you what I made today at school’’

Kiki ran to the bedroom
“Oh wow okay, I ain’t going anywhere” she says smiling at her, but when she turned to Megan,

there was a sad smile on her face
“What’s wrong?’’ Megan asks her friend, she knew that face well, fear grips her “Is my mother okay, dad?’’ she holds her

“It’s not your parents”
“Then what’s wrong?”
“Sean O’Conner, he is back. he just moved
back.”

Megan blinks

“Did you hear me Megan, Kiki’s father is back”

‘’Kikina is my daughter, her father is dead, that is all”

“But Megan, you can prove to him that you
weren’t lying”

“She has no father Tonia, that is all there is to it.
I will not let my daughter know a man who
didn’t care to know about her. And I intend to
keep it that way, forever. I don’t care that he is
back, but he will never be her father, he’ll never
know the truth” Megan snaps

“My father?’’
They turn so see kiki standing there puzzled
“Mum, are you talking about my father? Did you
meet my father Aunt Kiki, mummy told me he
went to heaven, did she lie to me?”” she had
tears in her eyes

Megan leaves the chair and goes on her knees
to be leveled with her four year old daughter
“Kikina, listen to me, mummy and Tonia are
having adult talk okay, go to your room. But
mummy didn’t lie”