On a Cold Evening

Chapter Thirteen

"You did this on purpose!" Drea yelled as she ran her hands through her hair in frustration. She thought of the many ways she could break the news to her parents but no single method appealed because they all ended with her either losing a limb or two, or being thrown out of her home.

"How? We did this together" Dare pointed out, trying his best to placate her but she would have none of it. She continued to pace frustratedly, tears running freely down her cheeks as she thought of all the dreams she had had for her future, none of which would come pass at this point. So she believed.

"You trapped me! You trapped me on purpose. I don't want this! I won't keep it." She continued.

"It's usually the other way around, you know?" He mentioned, but the acidic look she responded with was enough to have him seal his lips shut. He raised his hand in surrender and approached her slowly as if she were some skittish animal. He soon enveloped her in his embrace, rubbing her back silently as she sobbed. He knew she was unprepared for this, but he was prepared enough for the both of them. He knew she was just in shock, and believed that she would warm up to the idea of having their baby with time.

She soon fell into an exhausted slumber, and Dare watched her with his heart swelling with pride. Contrary to what Andrea believed, he hadn't gone out of his way to impregnate her, but it happened, and he was some how glad that it did, because it would make it all the more easier to keep her with him. He knew she was scared of commitment, but the universe had played the cards in his favor. He pulled the blanket over her and went to break the news to his brother over the phone. He knew that he would have to meet with her family soon.

Meanwhile, Mandy had secured a date with a handsome hunk from the dating App Drea had introduced her to. Unlike before, she wasn't looking for her soulmate, this time, she wanted to ascertain how far she had gone in her bad bitchery. She wanted to use and dump men, just as she had been used. She wanted to drink men's tears, hold them by the balls, have them hung up on her and break their hearts just as hers had been broken.

She had been chatting with several of these men from the app, and as soon as they saw pictures of her voluptuous figure, they never wasted a single moment to prophess their undying love for her, and it didn't help that they were entirely predictable. This sudden transformation had not only told on Mandy's dressing sense, but on her manners too.

She wanted to be as ruthless as Andrea was, but she seemed to ignore the fact that there was a huge difference between being blunt and being unnecessarily rude and condescending. Mandy's mother watched as her daughter slowly lost the decency and morals she had always being praised for her having and didn't know what she could do to pull her daughter back. She prayed to the most high that it was just a phase induced by the effects of a heartbreak, but sadly, it only got worse.

For the next few weeks, Mandy's shyness faded with her decency. She was no longer ashamed to flaunt the bossoms that she was amply blessed with, and never failed to leave the house dressed in clothes that accentuated her figure to the fullest. She turned heads every where she went, and had an air of arrogance that trailed behind her like the strongest of oud perfumes. Unfortunately, there was one aspect that she didn't feel herself ready to explore, and that was the sexual liberation Andrea was never ashamed to preach about.

Although Mandy had engaged with several men in the past few weeks, she could never bring herself to sleep with them just for the pleasure of it, and it infuriated her because she believed that was the last step she needed to take before she could become a veritable femme fatale.

That weekend, Drea invited her friends to a dinner date. She planned to break the news of her pregnancy to them face-to-face because she had avoided them for the last two weeks with the excuse that she was sick. Which she indeed was because her morning sickness had nearly drained the life out of her.