Intimacy in the Vines

Season 4 : Episode 15

I'd done stuff with a lot of girls, buy never in my life had I been irresponsible but here I was and in 9 months I could become a father.
Me a father? My dad would be so disappointed in me.

Gene had left immediately after saying that, I would have run after her but I was naked.
I felt so stupid, why would she do something like that to me. I was trapped, being catholic there was no way my parents would agree to let us have an abortion, and even then abortions aren't legal in Ghana.

It's also possible she was messing with me, if she wanted to get back at me, then this was the best way to do it. Gene was a smart girl, she had this dream where she was going to be my Michelle and I her Barack or Jay-Z and Beyoncé, you get the picture.
This wasn't the type of girl to intentionally get pregnant whilst so young.
It had to be a lie, and I really had to find out, I had to talk to her sister, but I didn't want to make obvious the dilemma I'd found myself in,she'd never stop teasing me, I had to play smart.

Gene had told her sister I was into music even though I had refused to let her listen to the trash I'd recorded with Debaddest. Her sister had been on my case for weeks pestering me to send her my music so she could get me music promotions and probably a record deal. I hadn't done so for months,and she finally gave up. Maybe it was time to give her what she wanted.

I called Gene's sis and the first thing she asked me was if I had sent the song over.
I told her I hadn't but I wanted to record something specifically for Gene and I was going to send it over unmastered when I was done, if she liked it we'd have it mixed and mastered.
She agreed, then I asked if Gene was on the pill and if that could affect her mood and what I should do.

Truth is I'd already done research on hormonal pills a long time ago, I knew they weren't fit for everyone, I wished I could help but men didn't have a lot of options, either we had a vasectomy or used a condom.
China had made a pill for men years ago but the W.H.O didn't approve it because unlike women, men weren't likely to develop blood clots, but the pills increased the chances, so for years women have been forced to take the burden of birth control pills upon themselves.
I just wanted to know if she was on the pill, and her sister was the perfect person to ask, it'd have been weird with her mom.
She told me Gene was on the pill and that it was her first time so I should be understanding if she had mood swings.
To be honest that was easier than I had expected.

I wasn't the type to go and make a song for a girl just cause I was crazy in love with her, thinking about it, I'm not the type that gets crazy in love, but I found myself in a studio making music for Gene.
I sent the unmastered record to Gene's sis and she hit me up an hour later telling me she was going to have it mixed and mastered by her engineer. Didn't know she had a sound engineer.
Just when I thought I'd prevailed, she told me Gene had just told her what had happened, she apologized telling me that she knows how I felt and that she's sorry Gene did that to me. She then told me to have a talk with Bela and establish some boundaries.
And she was right,that's exactly what I had to do.

Later that day,I called Bela and told her we had to talk. She sounded a bit excited, which I found weird. She had late lectures but said I could meet her after which I agreed to.
I was going through my lecture notes in my room, I was so immersed in the reading that I'd lost track of time and would have probably not stopped reading anytime soon had she not called, it was 9pm. I was a bit hesitant to go see her, it wasn't that late but then I just didn't like the idea of staying out late with Bela, everyone on campus knew our story or at least that's how it felt and I didn't want to fuel the rumors anymore.

I got into a taxi and went over to Bela's place,I didn't want to be stuck alone in a room with her after all we had a past that involved a lot of intimacy, I couldn't trust myself that much and hurting Gene was the last thing I wanted to do.
I told Bela I would prefer we stay outside, so we got some icy cups around the corner and found some benches that were unoccupied.
I wanted to go straight to the point but we started reminiscing old times. We kept talking until it was 11:30pm and all the mosquitoes had been fed to satisfaction leaving us itchy and irritated, Bela suggested we go to her room and continue talking. I declined initially but came to my senses after a few more mosquito bites, plus I hadn't even told her what I had come to say,I reluctantly followed her to her room.