Second Chance

Seven

When Nancy got home, Melinda was on phone giggling, maybe she's talking to Chisom her boyfriend Nancy assumed, she doesn't like the guy because he's manipulative, he had tried getting Melinda to do most things she never believe her friend would do, fending for him, washing his clothes and other things she swore never to do to a man, now that she's doing it she claimed it's love, I understand her on that but I will never agreed to the part of apologising to him after he wronged her, he can even ghost her for weeks, sometimes month and if they got back she must give him all the feeding allowance she didn't send during their fights, I pray they broke up forever, I stop advising her when I saw that she isn't ready to listen to one.

"Good evening Mel" I greeted and she replied with "hm" I just walk inside, I don't have time to beg her for what I decide for myself, I'm an adult and know what's good for me and what's not, this pregnancy is not a good thing for me to keep.

I changed into a comfy dress, a gown that bearly cover my ti*ts and bu*m, it's strapless as well, I went to the kitchen; I don't want to take any food because I feel full for some reason I don't know, I picked the mango juice and made toast bread with just two slices of bread, I don't want to sleep on an empty stomach afterwards I started chatting on my phone till I slept off.

By the following morning, I wake up with the same mood as yesterday 'isn't it too early to start seeing symptoms?' I asked no one in particular, I went inside the bathroom to freshen up, I wore a gown that covers my body, picked my phone and call Gold to my surprise he's already at the junction, I left without telling Melinda my whereabout is not that she's interested anyways especially when it involves my pregnancy and abortion, I walked down to the junction of my street and there was God on white tee and black jeans trouser with a Nike shoe, he looks good.

"You look takeaway, can I take you away for today?" I teased him.

"Nice try, enter studio na, since you are already using lines".

"You are a foo*l I swear" we laughed.

A bus stopped in front of us and we board it, after about 20minutes, Gold signal to the bus conductor and we get down at a bus-stop. We walked down the street before turning left, I was thinking if I'm doing the right thing, I felt that I should aplogise to Melinda before coming, I'm afraid that I wouldn't make it or I will bleed too much just has Gold had told me 'I'm sorry Mum and Dad, I failed you'. Gold squeezed my hands "we're here" he told me, I prayed silently that I made it out alive and walked in with him.

"we're here" he told me, I prayed silently that I made it out alive and walked in with him.

There's a plastic hanged on the wall and 'GOP(General Out-patient)' was written on it, on the left side there was another placed on a table and 'Receptionist' was written on it as well, a Nurse is sitting behind the table, she scribbled some information provided by a patient on his small card then hand it over to the patient, after the patient left, Gold and I walked to the nurse, he explained why we are here to her, she told us it's 20,000; I made the payment and she gave us receipt and tell us to go sit, she pointed to a couch were young ladies sat down and she told us they are here for the same thing we came for, I sighed and walked to the couch, Gold told me he will go and wait outside that I should call him in when it's my turn.

There were about fifteen ladies if I counted well and two grown women probably they are housewives judging from their looks, I sat beside a lady, she was on phone when I joined her on the sit,  I'm already feeling agitated and my mind has begin to judge me if  doing the right thing,  the lady beside me end the call she's making and greeted me first.

"Hello dear"
"Hi, good morning" I smiled, with that I felt relaxed a bit.

"From your look it seems to be your first time" I nodded to affirm what she said. "Ohh... It's actually not as painful as people claimed it to be, it only lasts for some couple of hours and that's all" I can't believe am hearing another side of the story I have been hearing.

"Is this not your first?" I want to confirm my thoughts
"Nah! It's my fifth actually" my eyes widened at the information, so it's true that some people can abort more than five to eight times. "Well, it's not that I purposely wanted to be doing this, my first time I was raped, the second and third was for my ex, after I broke up with him I got engaged to my new boyfriend, few weeks after the engagement I got pregnant and he told me he is not ready, how can you not be ready and you proposed to me? I abort it and leave the relationship, this one is for my... man- friend" she whispered the last part "..I am on family planning actually, I wasn't expecting any pregnancy yet it failed me and I can't keep it because of his status and there's no agreement of getting married to me, I just want to remove this and I pray it will be my last because I don't think I can go through this again" she wipe the lone tear on her face, I decide to ask a question out of curiosity.

"I thought you said it's not as painful as people claimed it to be?" This time around she laughed, did I sound funny to her? As if she heard me, she gave a reply.

"You are really funny, I was expecting you to ask that.... Acually I mean I can't go through the process of killing my babies, I don't know if I would be pregnant again or not, I need to keep myself safe, after this if I should get pregnant again, I'm keeping it irrespective of the circumstances"

Her words hit me ' I can't go through the process of killing my babies' my mind begin to drifted to what Melinda told me days ago 'I don't care how you got pregnant but I care about you killing that baby...and if you insist, I'm walking out now, not only out of this room but out your life as well'  I look at the lady eyes, I know that deep down inside her she is regretting her past, am I going to regret this day as well? It reminds me of when Melinda said 'I pray you don't die during the process, I pray you don't look back and regret today' what if I die during this process? 'You see it's not always successful... that Yoruba girl that died in year one, she had an abortion too, I even heard it's a twin pregnancy she had unknown to her, she did the abortion that's how she died during the process' Gold's words rushed in my mind, i am already shaking as I was thinking about everything have heard so far, thankfully the lady beside me snapped me out of my realm.

"Hey! You are shaking.. what's wrong?" I wanted to tell her what is on my mind but she beat me into talking again "you know what? Never mind, I was like this during my first time, you can follow me inside if you don't mind to see how it's done, if you are okay with it you can do yours as well, if you are not okay with it then you can opted out" I nodded in agreement.

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