.
The next morning, I woke up in the arms of uncle
cheatmaster. I hadn’t realized we had cuddled up while
sleeping. I slowly moved away from him but as soon as I
got up, he woke up. He looked at the wall clock just
opposite him and jumped up. I knew we were already
running late for the appointment. He told me to quickly
take a shower while he also gets ready and so I left to
other room where I was supposed to have stayed for the
night. I only had the shorts and shirt I had brought with
me, which I wore on Saturday mornings in school for our
morning exercise.
Anyway, I took a shower and got dressed. In no time, we
were done and ready to leave the house, so he locked the
doors behind and we drove off to the hospital. When we
got to the hosptal, I looked around lost, knowing that it
wasn’t the same hospital my parents usually brought I or
Meso to whenever we needed to see the doctor. We got
into the reception and uncle cheatmaster told the nurse
about our appointment before she asked us to take a seat
in the waiting room. I looked around really nervous and I
guess uncle cheatmaster noticed it because he looked at
me, and held my right hand. I swallowed and tried to hide
the fact that I was as scared, nervous and whatever you
could call a state that was just scary and unexplainable. I
was scared that I was going to have an abortion which I
hadn’t really heard pleasant things about. Something I
had never thought I would ever do. I was pretty young to
understand a lot about what was going on, what to do or
say so I went with the flow hoping that I would be leaving
the hospital without being pregnant. My heart was
pounding because nobody knew any of this except uncle
cheatmaster and I…………and maybe the doctor and nurses
soon.
At that point, I didn’t even care what the doctor or any of
the nurses would think of me. I was so embarrassed with
the whole situation, I just wanted it to be over. I wanted to
burst out and cry like the baby I was. I saw the sadness
in uncle cheatmaster’s face. I saw the anger in his eyes.
He was definitely angry with himself but it didn’t look like
it, only I could tell, so I thought to myself. After about five
more minutes, a nurse came up with a file in her hands
and called uncle cheatmaster’s name so we both stood
up and followed the nurse behind as she led us to the
doctor’s office. She knocked, opened the door and let us
go in before shutting the door and leaving us to the
doctor.
“Good day cheat cheat, how are you?” he said as he
stood up to shake uncle cheatmaster.
“Samo! Doctor, Mr. Samuel Adekunle! Nice to see you
again. You know ever since you became a doctor, I
haven’t called your nickname in ages. Ahh Samo! Nice to
see you. Nice to see you.” uncle cheatmaster replied.
The way they talked, laughed and exchanged words got
me thinking that they were long time friends.
“This is my niece, Mesonma and Meso this is Samuel,
my long time friend.” uncle cheatmaster said introducing
us to each other.
I fake smiled at him and greeted him before he asked us
to take our seats.
“Mesonma, your uncle here already told me about
everything so I’ll just ask you a few questions before you
take the pregnancy test. Don’t worry, I know you’re
nervous but it will be okay.” the doctor said with a warm
but professional look.
I looked at uncle cheatmaster before I nodded, I can’t
remember why. The doctor started with his questionnaire,
from when last did I see my period to how I had been
feeling lately. I answered him as accurately as I could
before he asked if I was ready to take the test. And when I
told him I was ready, he took up the landline on his desk
and phoned someone who was probably the nurse that
was to help me with taking the test. In like a minute or
two, we heard a knock on the door and a nurse came in.
Then the doctor asked me to follow her to take the
pregnancy test.
Uncle cheatmaster’s side of story
As I watch Mesonma leave the office, I looked at Samuel
who looked at me with a not so pleasing eyes. I knew
what he was going to say next.
“Twelve years old cheatmaster, ahn ahn, You no even try
oo. Your niece again.”
“It’s okay now Samuel, I didn’t say you should start
making me feel worse than I already feel. I know I was
very wrong and I shouldn’t have done what I did but it
has already happened. Trust me, I still feel very horrible
about it. Thanks man for this though. I appreciate.”
“Honestly, don’t thank me because I’m really
disappointed oo. Look at the kind of risk you’re putting
me into. If not because of our friendship, I would never
have agreed to such. Do you know what all these mean.
Getting a small girl that is also your niece pregnant and
asking me to help you with an abortionCommon
cheatmaster, you’re better than this. You need to change
your ways oo.”
“Boss, I don hear you.”
We didn’t converse for too long before Meso came in
with the same nurse she left with. And as Meso took her
seat beside me again, the nurse gave Samuel, the doctor
a file she had been holding.
Meso’s side of the story
As the nurse handed the file to the doctor, I sat down in
suspense waiting to hear the results of my test. My eyes
were fixed on the doctor and the file. The doctor waved
for the nurse to leave and so as she left, he opened the
file and after about a minute, he looked at me and said;
“Mesonma, you’re not pregnant.”
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To be continued…..
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