Talk To Me

46. Who's your daddy?

"Wa..ter..." As soon as the lady said the words, a glass of water was pressed to her lips. She glanced back at Swalha, who had so far become too fond of her. In fact, Swalha seemed genuinely concerned at the moment from her facial expression.

"Don't sit up just yet. You might hurt yourself plus the baby is still feeding." A male voice said, one that wasn't Cherry's at all.

'Oh, my word! The surgery!' "How long have I been asleep?" 'This was not part of the agreement. This unwanted child was not supposed to feed me!'

The lady panicked, she wanted to fight...push the infant away from her body but her hands felt heavy. Turning her head away, she tightly closed her eyes since she couldn't stand the sight of it.

"Get it away from me...right now!" She demanded and to her surprise, the sucking sounds stopped, and so did the tingling sensation from her left breast.

'Maybe, just a glimpse would be fine,' she wondered, prompting her to tilt head only to watch the nurse hand the baby to a man, whom she had known through Cherry but never met. She felt relieved again for the infant was all covered so she couldn't even look at it even if she wanted. I watched the man walk to the door with the nurse then remembered Cherry had been asking for the man for months now but he had refused to see him. 'Where did he think he was running off with my child?'

'Kind! His name is Kind, I remember now. Cherry despises him to the core.' "I need some time...alone with Kind." 'Good that I finally got his attention.'

The lady looked around the room for Wale's presence but she seemed to have kept her word of not showing up. This had been her only request to Cherry, for a part of her felt uncomfortable with Wale. Having met her and revealed her involvement with Cherry at a time when they were still an item, Wale's nonchalant reaction to the news still baffled her to date.

Swalha seemed disappointed to have left with the nurse and as she was about to close the door, she whispered something to Kind, who bore a smile when he turned to face the lady.

'I forgot to tell Swalha to take that thing with her.'

Admittedly, Kind looked like the child's father, looking down at it in his arms, smiling as he walked towards the woman's bed.

"I don't want to see it. I'm sure Cherry and his ex girlfriend have informed you of our agreement, otherwise you wouldn't have come to see me so easily."

"It's nice to meet you. I wish we could have met under different circumstances. Though if I had a say in it I would have insisted you stay behind. This infant needs its mother."

"It's good that you don't have a say in it then. The decision is already made. I know Cherry will make a terrible father to it and besides, I didn't get pregnant just to trap him with me. It was an agreement to carry his child and that of his ex girlfriend. Either way, it will be awkward if I stick around with you two going about professing your love to each other to his ex. You are no different from me afterall." She looked at Kind to confirm if her provocation had worked, but his attention was more on what he was holding. Maybe it wasn't Wale who'd make a good parent after all...maybe it was Kind and that's when it hit her.

'Wasn't I a good girlfriend? I put up with Cherry's tantrums all through, his marauding temper... I was willing to fight for him. How is it that no one else understands my pain except myself?

Why I'm I the one losing everything?'

"Kind, I wanted to personally apologize for what Cherry's sister did to you. I had not been part of their plans. I would also like to apologize on her behalf since she hasn't been in her right mind for years as Cheery had told me. I hope you can forgive them since looking at you now, it seems you're doing well."