Read The Best Of Me (Story) Episode 13

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 13

March 17th, 2019. 5:33PM

Day 13 of 35

‘A man is as he reacts and reasons.’

Yande sat looking straight at Mwewa who didn’t have an idea of what was happening. He had been expecting to begin the plan on how they would bring Ellie down but this was there second meeting since and nothing had been mentioned yet.

‘You won’t say anything?’ Mwewa asked

Yande moved from where he was sitting and went to stand just close to Mwewa. The air between them cold and barren.

‘Tell me about Abby’s pregnancy.’ Yande began catching Mwewa off guard.

Things had escalated between Abigail and I, I knew I had to slow down for my own sanity but I just didn’t know how to.

I liked her, maybe more than I should have. I found myself doing things that I could only imagine doing, I had reached a point where I wanted to spend nights with her. Abigail made it all easy for me, I know the stories that people have said about side chicks. About how possessive they are, their insecurities and always wanting to compete with the wife back home. She was far from all this, she never nagged or yelled. Not once asking me to disrespect my home and this plus more made me want to be in her life even more.

We never planned the pregnancy, but of course we talked about it so many times. She said she would not keep it if it got to that because she was never ready of the drama that would come with it. That she couldn’t bear what the world would say about it. And honestly I understood that but I would never allow it, if a pregnancy was to come in the picture then we would keep it. I wouldn’t risk losing her with all the complications that come abortions. And I made this point clear to her.

‘So what you are telling me is that you wanted the best of both worlds?’

‘You missed me there.’

‘Mwewa you were married, to an amazing woman from everything you have told me. You had a daughter too that you loved and yet you were willing to string that innocent girl along?’ Yande asked

Mwewa chuckled

‘You would never understand Yande unless you walk a day in my shoes, I loved my wife with every breathe in me but Abby was different.’

Yande didn’t respond for luck of a good response

It was a normal Saturday morning for me, I had spent the night at Abby’s but my wife knew that I had a work shop in Chilanga. I had been lying to her a lot the past year and now the guilt was dying out.

I noticed something was totally wrong with her but I did not want to push too hard asking what it was and so decided to wait for her to tell me.

‘Baby we need to talk.’ She said

She had been in the bedroom all along and her eyes were sore.

I put the television on mute and faced her.

‘I never planned this.’ She began

I didn’t respond

‘Honestly Mwewa I didn’t.’ She said again this time tears falling from her eyes

I didn’t know how to help, she was really closing her self in and shutting herself off that it was hard to talk to her.

‘Talk to me.’ I begged

‘I am pregnant.’ She said

I looked at her at a loss of words, the first thing that came to my mind was how Ellie was going to react. How my family would take the news hearing that I had impregnated another woman worse off that this had been going on for a year and some months.

‘Okay.’ I said

‘Mwewa, okay? Okay is the only thing that you are going to tell me?’ She asked as more tears fell from her eyes

I sat there looking at her, it’s easier to say something unlike doing it. I had been sure that I would stand there beside her if it got to this and now I just didn’t know any more.

‘So you bailed out on her?’

‘Physically no.’

Yande looked at him

‘Emotionally I didn’t know. I had been placed between a rock and a hard place, I didn’t know anything anymore.’

‘You do know that when people have a sexual relationship a pregnancy is going to come up if the right measures are not taken right?’

Mwewa didn’t respond to that

‘Tell me something, you never told your wife about this pregnancy but went and told your and her people. What were you thinking?’

The weekend had come to an end, it was the longest weekend of my entire life. I knew what I had Abby a million times over I just didn’t know how to own up to it.

But I told her that we were going to keep the baby, I didn’t know how I was going to tell my wife but we were not getting rid of it.

The following week I tried to stay away from Abby, I needed to think in a place that didn’t involve her. At this time I wanted to make decisions that didn’t involve emotions, I knew where she came from, I knew what she had been through. I knew her past, I knew about her fears. She had been totally raw with me and at this point keeping her close would have made me make decisions that were based on all that.

So I shut myself from her and took that time to look at all the pros and cons. And when I was convinced of what I wanted to do, I visited my uncle.

‘Sorry you lost me there, why didn’t you consult your wife. Sorry not consult but why didn’t you tell her the truth?’

He chuckled

‘Yande it is in moments like these that you know how a man truly is. It is in the way he handles difficult situations that you know if he will hold your hand in the storm. And it is in situations like these that a man truly knows which battle he has to fight.’

‘And your battle was?’

‘I loved my wife and family, and telling Ellie would have caused a drift between us. So I did what I thought best. Telling her family and mine first.’

‘How did she take it?’

‘I lost her when I did that.’

‘How so?’

‘For the first time since I knew her Ellie was quiet, she was quiet to her environment. Quiet to anyone and anything. She just became numb and shut herself from the rest of the world.’

‘Well you played your wife what did you expect?’

‘I just wanted her to say something, I wanted her to yell or cuss. To just do anything. But she didn’t, I guess that is when she left, emotionally.’

‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’ Yande teased

Mwewa smiled sadly.

‘I will see you after tomorrow.’

Yande looked at Abby immediately he got to the car, he had told her that he was going to see Mwewa.

‘Why didn’t you terminate the pregnancy?’ He said angrily

‘Mwewa we have been through this and besides I am the one that hurt them and why do you care so much about the Musondas?’

He looked at her as if to slap her.

‘When our parents died I was the only one left to look after you, I care because they took advantage of you!’

‘I am not a child, I was never a child when I slept with Mwewa so get over it and do your fuc.’

She didn’t finish her sentence before he slapped her leaving her shocked.