Nu'aimat (COMPLETED)

Chapter 13 THE CRYING GAME

MUAYAD

it's being nine months and some days ever since Nuaimat left home, she said she will call, but for nine months now if  i hear my phone ring, i never stopped hoping it will be my sister,

After she left, on the day of resumption, i was in tears as we head to school, our driver asked "Nuaimat", as tears welled up in my eyes, Asad said "my Mama said her father drove her out of the house because she got pregnant", i nearly land a slap on the boys cheeks but what's the point, it isn't his fault, its his mother's upbring,

Even in school people kept on asking me where she is, i just couldn't give them a reply, but tears, friends from other classes kept on asking me where she is but i just shook my head and looked away,

Even teachers kept on coming to our science class to ask where my sister is, but i still had no answer to give, it was suppose to be a new day, a happy day because it was a new term, new class, new session, but why will i be happy my sister is nowhere around,

The very next day on the assembly ground prefects were called, and it wasn't a surprise when my sister was called as the assistant headgirl, there was loud cheers for her but instead as i stood on the called new prefects line as the Social/uniform prefect, i burst into tears, as chants of her name begun, "she is absent" said Mufeeda who was also on stage as the new jss3 prefect, but as she said it her eyes and mine met and in her eyes were the unsaid words "you are not escaping me today", oh yes yesterday i escaped her, Susan and Haloomah for questioning during break and after school hours,

"She left because she was pregnant, he disowned her" i said that afternoon to her three bestfriends, in one of the prefects room, "how will your father do that" asked Haloomah, "And they believed she is pregnant, no, i believe your step mother is the one who told the doctor to say she is pregnant" said Susan, "we all know Nuaimat, she is much more of a decent girl than we two are" said Mufeedah motioning to herself and Suasan, "girls we have to het to the root of the matter" said Susan,
   "She is indeed pregnant, we had the test in three different places after we were told in the hospital she was some days pregnant" i said Sadly, they were now mouth agape,
    "But if she was sexually active i will notice" said Susan,
  "No, she is not, but what really baffles me is that she knows nothing of the situation, she kept on saying she doesn't know any guy to be that intimate with" i said,

"Have you heard from her" asked Haloomah,  "no" i said, "then we have no clue until we hear from her" said Mufeedah,
   "Yeah by then that stupid Amanda will be given her post, my best friend's post" said Susan bitterly, that's how we let the matter be, but everyday we met they will come up to me "any calls" and i will sadly shake my head,

Even back at home life in there was hell, i rarely sit in that house for a full five minutes unless am back for the night, in the estate  everyone who knew my sister kept on asking me where she is, and i sadly reply away to an uncle's, but my stepmum managed to leak the news out and My friends wouldn't just hide it from me,

Ever since she left, i locked her door and denied Stepmum the keys, i stopped doing any chores, but my room and my sister's, i stopped cooking nor eat in the house,i stopped greeting her at all,

Now nine months, we are in the middle of our WAEC, but there is still no sign of her,

Today after our papers, i came back home and entered her room, it was clean as ever, thanks to me, i want her to come back and meet it clean, and i will promise her i will always do the cleaning of her room and mine, i brought out my phone and checked the 607 text messages i sent to her since the day she left but none was delivered talkless of being replied to, once when i told her friends about the non deliverance, Susan pointed out a clue, "it means her line is always off, that is why when any of us calls it simply says, switched off"
  "Then there are different theories here, is either something happend to her, or she is deliberately avoiding us" said Mufeedah