One Road, Six Ways

One Road, Six Ways - Part 32

Luisa was pregnant! Thelma could not believed her ears. If Luisa was indeed pregnant, what now? What will  they do? 

"Did Herman knew that you are pregnant?" Thelma asked Luisa.

"No, I want to tell it him when we already transferred here in Rotterdam. But he suddenly was gone. I could not understand it. When he said he loved me, it felt so sincere. So as when he said he will really marry me. But it's all lies, he is a liar, a liar!" and Luisa wept again.

"Luisa, please, try to forget Herman. Think about yourself. If you are really pregnant, what will you do?" 

"If you are me, Thelma, what will you do?"

"If I am you?" Thelma for a moment paused in a thought then later said, "I think I will have an abortion!"

"What?" Luisa exclaimed. "An abortion?"

"Yes, because how could you work if you are high pregnant? If you keep the baby how would it be like? We are almost half from the rest of one year that was left from our three year contract, what I mean after eight months we faced the possibility of going back to the Philippines. Did I said possibility? No it's not possibility, it's sure. Think about it!" Thelma made it clear to Luisa the possibility of what will happen.

"Thank you, Thelma." after silent for a while Luisa said and stood up. "But, I will not have an abortion. Never!"

"Luisa?"

"First of all, it's a big sin to the eyes of God. Second, what if this baby is a girl with blond hair and blue eyes?"

Thelma looked at Luisa. What in God's sake, Luisa was talking about blond hair and blue eyes, above the problems she had?

"Don't look at me like that! If it is a girl with blue eyes, the hair could be also black if it will not blond, doesn't matter black or blond, maybe my daughter will become Miss Universe?" and Luisa chuckled a bit. Thelma had seen already for several times the sudden changing  moods of Luisa and sometimes she could not understand how Luisa did it or if the moods she have were real.

"Think about it, I will not murder a future Miss Universe? And if it is a boy, maybe he will become the President of the Philippines later?"

"Okay." Thelma gave up. "But have a good thoughts about what I said. Just think it over!"

"I will wait and see! Who knows what tomorrow will bring to me, who knows!"

The first night that they worked, seemed nothing wrong with Luisa. They dance the Pandanggo sa Ilaw and the Igorot Dance. After their dance, both were invited by men to sat with them in their table. Thelma was invited in a table by an older man named Cornelius that asked her to just call him Kees. Kees was a retired train machinist that was never been married. 

"Never been married? Why?" Thelma asked Kees.

"I don't know." Kees answered Thelma. "But let's not talk about me. Tell me something about you and about the country where you came from."

The cozy conversation between Thelma and Kees stayed until the closing time of the club. Kees had ordered self many ladies drinks for Thelma but most of it, it was Kees who drank it just to help her. Kees said to Thelma that he understood the way nightclubs worked. And Thelma received from Kees a generous tip of 100 guilders.

"You found a generous man in the first night working!" Luisa commented to Thelma when they were already in their apartment. She only earned from her commissions in ladies drinks and a tip of 10 guilders.

"Yes, he gave me one hundred guilders!" Thelma agreed to what Luisa said.

"He seems a nice person!" Luisa gave her opinion about Kees.