🥒 SUMMER BUDDY 🥒

CHAPTER 16

                       Chapter 16

                       Tiony's pov

3 months later...

  While Mommy murmurs that some more ground food would be good, I took the opportunity to ask her about the bush that Aunty Palsy boils for Chantelle because I was four months and one week pregnant and worried. "Mommy, wey di bush name wey Aunty Palsy boil and gi Chantelle fi drink?"

  "She still a gi har dat? Like Chantelle really bung up mon, over three years now she a drink Dog blood herb (Rivina Humilis, fertility bush) and still caan breed." Mommy says, and I stared at her in shock.

  I calmed myself and asked her. "What exactly Dog blood herb good fah?"

"Palsy never tell yuh when mi ask har fi gi yuh some fi drink? Dem sey it help regularize women menstrual cycle and help with fertility." She asks and replies.

  I honestly wanted to cry as I was convinced that I was a very salt person. "Yuh still a have irregular period?" She asked, and I took the opportunity to escape to my shared room without answering as my father drove into the yard, and she was momentarily distracted.

  I inquired of which day it was ante-natal clinic day at the nearby clinic and went there to ensure my pregnancy was okay and start doing regular checkups. I had no one to blame for my predicament but myself, and I would never term my pregnancy as careless. Though I had cried practically every night since confirming that I'm pregnant a month ago, I will never make my child feel unwanted. Gibbanks babymother throwing acid and burning up Dinah is enough to make me realize I had made the right decision to end things with him, and the fact that she was sporting a belly that she claims was his though he was denying it.

  My head ached, and I hurriedly let myself inside the house to spend some time to myself before my parents and brother come home. I called the ultrasound center and made an appointment, all the while, hoping that the restaurant would call me so that I could work a few hours in the evening to earn some money. My phone rings with Steffon calling me, and I ignored it and took out the new Sim card. No later than this evening, I would change it. God will help me through this, and it's better that Gibbanks never knows. He'll probably want to take the baby away from me like he has taken his son away from Kimeka.

  I felt utterly stressed in the days that turned into weeks, and hiding my growing belly from my parents was getting harder and harder. I studied hard for the first set of my exams and has the Christmas holidays came I gave up seeking a part-time job and decided to study even harder so that my grades would put me in the final year exams. My parents calling me into their room one evening eased a wait from off my shoulders as I told them that I had a drunken one night stand with a man who isn't appropriate to be a father and that I'd get a job as soon as the baby is born. Their looks spoke volumes of disapproval, and I went out of the house and didn't return until it was late.

  My older brother Tyrone said nothing to me, but I know they had been discussing me when I went out. A week later, it rained, and he hissed and asked me while I hanged up my half dry clothes. "Pon a serious level, yuh mean fi tell mi sey outta every man wey a look yuh, yuh manage fi a breed fi a wutlis man?"

  I chuckled and shook my head, not answering him as I imagine Gibbanks expression if he heard someone describing him as such. He looked at me as if I was going crazy and grumbled that he was going to find somewhere to move out and guh because he was already uncomfortable. I stayed in the kitchen as he decided to clean his part of the room and my parents went inside their room and shut their door. We had an estranged relationship in the days that followed until Mommy asked.