Unwanted Baby

Episode 2

The trip to Chima’s house was the longest I had ever had. The distance wasn’t much, but Mama’s incessant tears as she narrated to the other people in the Keke how her 16 years old child had been shameless enough to sprad her lgs wide for a man old enough to be her father still hurt her.

I wondered how Chima could possibly be old enough to father me, but kept silent to her tears and story. The people in the Keke stared at me in a mixture of pity and disgust. One woman openly showed her disgust.

“All this small small girls too like pr*ck, na their problem be that,” the woman said with a frown.

A young man in a white shirt who was seating close to me stared at me for a while, before asking a question I never expected.

“Was it r*pe?”

I stared back for a while, before shaking my head to say “No.” My mother burst into a fresh bout of tears, and I couldn’t help but begin to sob too. It now dawned on me my schooling was over. My dreams of being a doctor was over too.

I was seeing a new future now, one where I hawked oranges by the roadside with a baby I never wanted. The baby would probably grow up to be a thug too, and I would only hear stories of his ev*l exploits. I broke down in tears.

The Keke man drove us to Chima’s house. The young man paid the bill, and followed us into Chima’s compound saying he had to see the monster for himself.

The compound was a public yard, and as Mama weeped into it, neighbors of Chima began to come out to see what was happening.

Mama banged at Chima’s door, and as he stepped out she grabbed his shirt by the collar and asked him why he had to ruin her life by getting her only child pregnant. He looked surprised for a moment, but as soon as he saw me his face changed to a frown.

“I don’t know this girl oh,” he said angrily.

My mouth fell open….