The Dog

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 24

My mother opted for abortion by my father

disagreed, he said I was going to give birth to the

child and carry the shame form the rest of my

life. Give birth to a bastard? A child that has not

father, my father said I couldn’t live with him

anymore and during this period he was elevated from assistant pastor to pastor. He sent me to

the village to go live with his mother, my

grandmother in Delta state. My mother wasn’t

happy about the decision but I had no choice

than to accept my fate. 2 days later, I packed

my things and moved to the village, to live with my grandmother. They don’t want the street and

the church members to know about my shameful

pregnancy.

I finally relocated to the village, my

grandmother’s place in Delta state. My brought

me to the village, he explained everything to my

grandmother. She wasn’t happy about it neither

was she ready to despise me like my parent.

Living with an old woman was hurtful, I cried day and night, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, but my

grandmother was always by my side to comfort

me and encourage me, she would advise me,

satisfy me just to make me happy. My

academics was put on hold, my life was ruined,

so happy with myself. I went through a lot, hell, it wasn’t easy for me. I would go to the arm with

my grandmother, carried firewood, cooking with

firewood, grinding pepper on stone, doing all

these hard chores with my growing belly. My

parent hardly send money for my upkeep, I dare

not call them to send me money or to complain. I just had to adjust, I would help me grandmother

to sell her wares, she’s jack of all trades, she

sells everything, I wonder how she combined

them, at some point I got frustrated, it wasn’t

easy. I had no friends, I used to keep some

friends in the village cos we do visit home every Christmas but I just had to avoid them cos I was

ashamed of myself, moreover I was pregnant so

would want to make friends with a wayward

pregnant girl. There was one dude in the village

that we used to have sex every December time

me and my family visit home, he was my village boyfriend. A local champion but he was student

of Delta State University and the side is also

cute. His name is Martins, my village boyfriend

back then before I got pregnant.

Martins was still friendly, despite the fact that I

was pregnant for someone else, he do come

visit me, to check on me. Each time I see

Martins, I was never comfortable talking to him, I

was so ashamed of myself. Talking to Martins

was like I should enter the ground, I tried avoiding each time I see but he just won’t back

off. We became friends sort of, o the extent that

villagers though he was having sex with me,

rumours