“There Come Another Love Story” Episode Two

“There Come Another Love Story” Episode Two
September 14^th 2016

 Your first time of reading? Episode 1 here

It had started as a misery, and had somehow blurred into a regretfully wish – an unthinkable wish. Every day of the twelve days that followed the robbery cum rape of Tani, new thoughts came into her head about her fate and the possible steps she had to take. Was she to pretend as if Okasha, her five year marital partner was the one responsible for the pregnancy that she wasn’t even sure was inside her already? Or was she going to come out straight and try every means possible to identify the man who had raped her? The man in question is very much unknown, and the possibility of even nailing him at the end of the day is almost an absolute impossibility. However, that same devil was going to be the father of her unborn child and Tani avoided thinking further than that.

Her fear should only start if she was pregnant, and the possibility of that too, considering the fact that she had not been pregnant for five years of conTanious and well nurtured sex with her husband, was predictably impossible. So there was no reason to panic at all, but with the Doctor’s observation, Tani still panicked anyway. She couldn’t help it, especially now that her period had been delayed. Today, being the last day she was going to expect her haemorrhage, she couldn’t gather herself together at all, she couldn’t even hold a pin.
Mansura had observed her anxiety, and had tried talking her into voicing her problems but seeing that she could not even gather herself to speak about anything, the good friend decided to let her be.
“Even if I am not pregnant,” the thoughts penetrated her again after Mansura had left, “there is no way my marriage can be the same again.” Tani’s four years of studying Psychology at the University of Abuja had granted her that observation. She had observed the way Okasha stared at her since the day of the miserable event, as if she was just an object, as if she was something like the mattress or the beautiful curtains that they had decorated the room with. She felt his eyes following her skirt anytime she walked in front of him, like he was saying something like; ‘Another man’s woman’.
Somebody tapped her left arm and she snarled angrily and outrageously. When she calmed, she noticed that she had created a scene in the staff room, and all the other teachers’ attention were directed at her. It was just the SS2 Assistant Class Captain that had come to call her to take her Literature class. Tani realized, as the poor girl scurried away without conversing her intention. Tani packed her things quickly; she needed to start going home before she unleashed her emotions on regretful victims.
When she got home, Tani hurried into her bedroom to observe what she had deliberately avoided checking since morning, and shockingly she realized that there was no single drop that day. All the nerves that pulled fear and mad desire were immediately on Okasha.
She rushed to the hospital at once. Already sure what she would be told. The delay that occupied her wait for the test results almost crushed her life out, and when the Doctor finally brought the results, she was more than too curious to know.
“You are pregnant” Faruq said with a sad frown.
“For how long?” She heard herself ask; at least Okasha had also touched her the previous week before that horrible incidence, so she wanted to be sure whose child this was going to be.
“Two weeks”
She look at Faruq with a knowing look. It was definitely not Okasha’s child, and if nothing else was presently certain, that was.
“Doctor” she was entirely dumb after.
“I hope you are not trying to ask me what you would do now, because… I don’t know too.”
Tani stood without collecting the results, she walked unconsciously towards the door and left the office. She would sob her life into her bed sheet when she gets home.

To be continued insha Allah on Saturday 17th Sept …

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