Black date

When I closed the door behind me quietly, I didn’t think about what I would harvest from this black date. My cousin’s wife and I were getting ready to receive my sisters-in-law who were paying my family a visit.

Urgent matter

I received a call from my then boyfriend — I was madly in love with him. I told my cousin’s wife, who was my accomplice in all I did while in the village to take care of everything for sometime so that I could attend to an urgent matter.

She smiled and asked me to take care. I promised to try my best because definitely, taking care was the last thing on my mind.

I ran to the den of lions as we referred to Lucky’s home. His mother was very harsh. Luckily, she was not in and I felt a Daniel enough to trespass into the den where my prince was. How happy he was to see me remained a mystery to me. All I knew was that I was excited and impressed at his attitude, even though a chain of break-ups and reconciliations was the content of our five-year relationship.

Talk of love

All I did for that one hour was to take advantage of the situation and swim in the pool of love without minding the repercussions of our actions. We did as much as we could. Talk of love and its accomplices…

I went back home not knowing how my mother would react. I was satisfied, though afraid of what I never knew could be my worst turn of events in my life.

Thank God I was a Form Four drop out and conversant with Nairobi life. After a week, I was going back to Umoja estate.?

A month later, missed my periods and started experiencing pains in my tits and my back. I went to a chemist and got a pregnancy test kit. After five minutes, reality confirmed my fears — I was pregnant!

There was no way I could keep that child and I was not ready to tell my prince. He was a broke man and the thought of telling my mother was out of question. I registered myself in a stress chapter and thousands of regrets filled my heart. I had to find ways of getting rid of my pregnancy, in my own way far from my sister’s knowledge.