COMPLICATION'S

Hey baby! I have wanted to call you, but I don’t know of a better way to communicate this to you on phone. I’m pregnant as shown in the test result I got from the clinic this afternoon. I am scared and confused. Please get back to me as soon as possible.”

Immediately after reading the last line of her text, I was frozen. My heart stopped for a moment and it continued vibrating the next minute. I have never received this kind of text message in my entire life. I didn’t only feel like a failure, I was also disappointed in myself.

“This is not the right time,” I whispered to myself.

I am the youngest person in my family and every of my older siblings is yet to be married. How could I have possibly been so careless at this delicate moment of my life? I will be writing my final exams in a few months time, which implies that I will be graduating thereafter. I tried to think of the situation, but all I could see was the night we spent together – the Fifty Shades of Grey kind of a night. We had it in the best way, and the totality of our body sunk into the dark night. “Skin to skin” and without any precautions whatsoever.

I didn’t reply her message since my plans had already changed. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to reject and deny the pregnancy. Let the worst come to be. More messages and missed calls, all unattended to. She eventually stopped texting neither did she call afterward. I thought that was all. Probably, in my thoughts, she must have aborted the pregnancy.



Barely a month later, while I was in my room reading for my final examination, I heard a bang on the gate. This wasn’t unusual as I thought it was my sister. She does that whenever she feels really pressed. I hurried to the gate expecting to see my sister’s face, rather it was Dolapo and her Mom. Already, I knew there was trouble.

“Is he the one?” Dolapo’s Mom asked her aggressively.

“Yes,” she responded in a tone almost nearing a whisper.

“What are you talking about,” I shouted out loud showing some annoyance on my face.

Now, the argument was getting louder and my mother came out to see what was going on.

Dolapo’s mom instantly confronted my mother and explained to her what happened and informed her that Dupe was already three months pregnant. My mom asked me if I was responsible for the pregnancy. I denied without any hesitation. Eventually, my mom was forced to believe me and she lent her support. I realised she saw me as one of the coolest and most reserved of her children. She must have had other reasons to believe my words though. The whole case eventually died down and I thought that was all.

Many years later, I had raised my own family. My last son was just a carbon copy of me. On one fateful day, we were all in the house watching a movie, when, all of a sudden, we heard a knock on the gate. It was a lady and her daughter. On sighting the woman, I felt guilty and thought of my Dupe of many years ago. She has now returned to destroy my family. This time around she had brought our daughter who is pregnant with my son. At that moment I knew I have lost peace in my family. I am now a victim of the secret I thought was buried in the past. It was complete disaster afterward