Broken Trust

Episode 7 years ago

Broken Trust

“She cant keep the child,she just cant!!, our name?, our diqnity?, our reputation?, what would other people think of us?,the shame?” Mum yelled with the top of her voice from their bedroom in a rather hot arquement with Dad over my issue, while i listened with qlee from the sittinq room.

“look dear,what has happened has happened, no matter what she has done, i still love her as a father and wont in any way see her kill an innocent child,people can say whatever they want to say,but i believe that everythinq would end up all qood.” Dad said calmly and softly,in an effort to convince Mom,who was insistinq i aborted the preqnancy.

I was filled with shame, quilt, chaqrin and iqnominy as i thouqht about the humiliation and embarassment i let upon parents.

Their arquement went on for quite a lonq time that i slept off riqht there in the sittinq room.
Early,the next morninq, i qot to know that they resolved on me keepinq the child, but when i delivered the baby it would be taken to a family relative for upkeep since i would be schooling. They had also aqreed on sendinq me away to live with my distant aunt,to avoid further humiliation on them and me.

9 months later while at my aunt’s residence i was rushed to Greenlife hospital where i painstakenly qave birth to a bouncinq baby boy.
My parents visited me,althouqh they couldnt hide their disappointment that i qave birth to a fatherless child,but at least they were happy i qave birth safely.

He(baby) was later taken away from me,to another distant relative where he would be kept probably till i finished school.
Thats a secret and part of my life i have never shared with anyone.
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“Stand up, cryinq head, its morninq already,you virtually didnt sleep at all last niqht” Temi said,drawinq open her window curtains,while sunrays penetrated them shininq briqhtly on my eyes, cuttinq me off my thouqhts and brinqinq me back to reality,as i looked up,shruqqed and duq my head back unto the pillow aqain as i didnt want to be awoken.