THE BIRTH OF MY BABY Chapter 4

THE BIRTH OF MY BABY
Chapter 4

You know how pressure takes over your mind and your ability to think properly as a human? That was exactly the case with me during the pregnancy.

My mother, my aunt and a part of my siblings were not kind to me at all. Bad talks were just all over me and that made me decide to just end my life by falling off a cleave but the love and kindness and understanding that Benjamin’s parent showed me was second to know and that alone was enough to take my mind off suicide.

I was always myself whenever I was with Benjamin. Whether at home or at his work place.

Two weeks after the revelation of the pregnancy, on a faithful Sunday after service, our Zonal Pastor called for a meeting that includes himself, the Parish Pastor and his wife, a Deaconess, my mother, Benjamin and myself.

Our fault was given to us and Benjamin decided to kneel down and apologize to all of them one by one. After everything was done, we were placed on suspension by our Pastor as we were members of the Choir.

I was a little bit pampered but it wasn’t the same for Benjamin as everyone saw him as the bad egg, as the reason why I’m pregnant. I could say nobody was tender towards him.

I had to start defending him in my own little way.

I was later transfered to a new parish as the leaders decided that we shouldn’t be close to each other except if Benjamin have something to give to me and that should be in my parents house but that didn’t stop is from meeting each other and still had sex almost every time we met and that again, was because I lied to Benjamin that the nurses and doctors usually advise us to make our husbands sleep with us so that when the time comes to give birth, the virgina won’t be too little and Benjamin bought the lie.

One of the many things I like about him was the fact that he wasn’t ashamed to walk with me in the community even as my stomach kept getting bigger.

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