Shadows of the Green - Season 1 - Episode 23

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Shadows of the Green - Season 1 - Episode 23

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“Mum, what is it this time?” Tiwatope
nagged as she took a seat in front of her
mother’s gigantic table.

“It’s been long I saw you, Tiwa. Is it a crime
to see my daughter when we are both
inside the four walls of this school?” She
looked depressed, she knew Tiwa hated her
or thereabout. She was always scolding and
nagging anytime they were together.

They way she looked at her with disgust was not helping the matter yet.she was her only
child, her first and last fruit, she had twelve
abortions before Tiwa was born, her birth
was by mistake. She never knew she was
pregnant till she was almost due for delivery.

She had wanted to kill her right from birth
but the girl seemed a hard but to crack. Two
abortions after her birth, she could no
longer had a child, her ovaries were
damaged. She made sure she never lacked a
thing, but here she was, she was like her
daughter’s worst nightmare.

“Mum… “Tiwa tapped, she felt guilty, she had nagged on her mother which she.knew was worst. She deserved something worse but no… This woman tried. ” Why did you call to
see me…”she said in a rather too cool tone.

“You refused to come for the mid-semester
break, home is just a fifteen minutes drive
from here.” She complained, she was lonely,
her only child was far from her.

“Mum, I have a lot of things to attend too
here in school.” She defended.

“Is it him? Is it Gori? Is he taking my place? I-
am-lonely.” She bowed her head as tears
whelmed up in her eyes, she felt jealousy.

“Mum, you mean you are lonely? For how
many.years now? Just two! I was lonely for
eighteen years… This same Gori took me out
of boredom… He gave me the attention I
deserved!” She barked. There was silence….

Both heads bowed.

“Did you remember? Those times you will
lock me indoors and leave for three days,
weeks? Those visiting days and open days
you were absent? You gave you old Rodgers
all the attention I needed too… I knew no
parental love while growing up… Those
humiliation I suffered from friends and
neighbours while you were busy making
your cash! Did you know why I hate your
sister so much… Those times I would go to
her place and she would be calling me
b-----d! Daughter of a b---h… Daughter of a
call girl and stuffs… Was it her fault?” Tears
were dropping freely from her eyes. “…
Those times you bring those ugly looking
old bleeping men home and m0aned like a
chimpanzee all in the name of a pleasure
right in my presence? See!” She rose and
picked her bag.

“Never complained of being lonely…. I also
went through hell! If you are lonely, call your
numerous boyfriends! Today should be the
last time you would bring up this topic.” She said walking away…

“Ti-wa” Miss Eyiwunmi called in a whisper, Tiwa stopped in her tracks… She paused and
faced her.

“What?” She barked…

“You look more chubby… See your sides,
your legs are swollen too… Your b----t are
getting bigger… Hope it is not what I am
thinking?” She searched through her
daughter’s eyes, her face filled with
suspicion.

“What are you thinking?” She eyed her
Mother, hissed and left.

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“Olami, I am pregnant!” She said in a shaky voice as she walked into the room in her
see-through nightie holding a strip of PT.

“Shhh” he shushed her. “Keep your voice down.” He warned as dropped his laptop on
the bed and walked closer to her.

“What is this?” Gori asked as he collect the strip.

“I went to see my mum yesterday and she
complained of some changes in my body
system…. Olami, today is twenty-seventh and
I have not seen my period.” She was
worried.

“Calm down, it is just few days late… Moreso, sheybi sometimes it ranges from twenty-
two days to twenty-six days.”

“Gori, the last time I saw my period was on
the twenty second. That means it is almost
ten days late.”

“That’s true… So what is this?” He said inspecting the strip he was holding.

“That is a pregnancy test kit, I got it
yesterday. I was to use it before bed or early
in the morning.”

“So what?” He was still hanging.

“I urinated in a bowl and dipped the strip in
for some minutes… Can you see this lines?”
She said pointing to the two red lines on the
strip, Gori nodded. “If it is one, it means I am negative… But now that it is two… Ola, I am
positive… I am almost two month gone… Six
weeks or thereabout…” He explained.

“How come it is two month when your last
period was last month… We never had sex
till a week or two later….”

“You start calculating from your last cycle.”
She replied.

“So you’re pregnant….?” He asked scratching his scalp.

“Yes.” She looked into his eyes expecting the worst.

“No problem…. Let’s rest.” He pulled her closer to himself, he was worried too, his mother would be disappointed in him, she was a deaconess and the church prayer
cord. He took a deep breathe, it was his life,
that would be his first child. He kissed her
forehead as he la!d her carefully in bed