Janet stands still, like a stone figure; her face is terribly blank, eyes wide. Right here, my spines wobble within me, from a cold shiver. A two-month Pregnancy? The question probes my mind. Silence has crash-landed upon the room; like the one at the funeral of a young deceased. I can’t deny the fact that we had lot of raw affairs. But she would wash them with pills. I can’t remember vividly the last.... No. I think I can remember. Yes. Before she left, it was over two months when she started requesting me to always protect my sword before any battle. I shake my head. Then frame my jaw with my hand, smile, turning at the wall. In a matter of seconds, I turn back, sigh and face Adeola whose head has been dropped back. With a cool apologetic tone, I begin, “Baby, you should have told me this when Baba was here....I don’t know you’re carrying my baby. I’m so sorry. Two months, you call it?” She lifts her head. Her cloudy face is starting to brighten up. “Yes, two months,” She mutters, nodding. Then I bend over her, supporting my hand on the wall, “And you have confirmed from a doctor. He assured you that it’s only two months….” “Yes, I did,” she nods, innocently, again. I stand upright, turning back to look at Janet who seems completely lost; dummy-faced. I return my gaze on Adeola. “Get up from that place,” I say in a low, controlled voice. Looking at my face, her eyes glint with confusion. “I said get UP, now!” I boom as loud as a gunshot in the midnight, so that even Janet is rocked back on her feet. Adeola is standing slowly, trembling, “But, but, y...you….” “But what?” I bark, “But what? You think I’m stupid? You think I’m stupid like you?” Then I drop my voice to nearly a whisper, my breaths racing, I snarl, “for good three months in this room, Deola. For good three months, tell me. Did we have any raw affair? You must be sick in the head!” I point straight to the door. Janet is now standing aside, right behind me, “Now, use the door!” ajenifu-ja.blogspot/2015/01/the-tale-of-two-dying-stars-episode-9.html
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