Chronicles Of A Married Man - 25

There are some things that can leave one restless and peaceless....

Early 2020 I got a call from P when I was offshore at work and he wailed that Clara said she had taken in for him.....

“Which Clara?” I asked.

“That babe na, that lady that stays in my former area. The one with the big waist that we hanged out with the last time at the roof top bar”

 I remembered Clara and asked him how it happened.

“My guy I don’t know, I’m confused. I have told her to abort it. I even gave her 30k to take care of it only for her to return two weeks later that she didn’t. That she is scared. I even took her afterwards to my medical doctor friend’s hospital and she refused when we got there. I think this girl is trying to trap me with this pregnancy.”

 I  asked him in a cocky way if he skin dived in

“Which kain question be that na… “, He asked

“If I used protection, we won’t be talking about pregnancy now na. But on a serious note, this her pregnancy is kind of strange to me. Even when she came to my place that night my spirit told me something was amiss. I used coat on the first nose ooo but she was just saying we should do skinny on the second one. I protested but my erection got the better of me. The next day morning I ran to the nearest chemist to get postinor 2 and forced her to take it but I suspected she went into the toilet later to vomit it”

“I think she is trying to pin someone else’s pregnancy on me”, he concluded.

“Are you saying you are not responsible for the pregnancy?”, I queried.

“hmmm, he heaved a sigh. Something tells me that pregnancy isn’t mine. Looking at her that night. She was all very busty and has added some weight and she “looked” pregnant.”

I wanted to know what he wanted to do about it

The answer to that question took us one year two months to implement. P was devastated and he wasn’t ready to father a child that way. At that time, he was already planning for his marriage in the middle of August. How is he going to tell his fiancée that another woman is having his baby for him?

To make matters worse, Clara started her drama one month later. She reported P to all her family members and her pastor. Different people started calling him and sending him death threats because P told her he wasn’t sure he was responsible for the pregnancy and even if he was, he doesn’t want her to keep it. Clara was sending him caustic messages and even swearing for him and his generation.

In order to resolve the matter, we fixed a meeting between her pastor, family members and us (me, P and another friend of ours). In the meeting the pastor started talking about P coming to do the marriage rites, bla bla bla. P told the pastor that it won’t be possible and that he already had a fiancée; and besides it wasn’t his decision to keep the pregnancy in the first place.

 To calm everybody down, we agreed to take care of Clara till she gives birth after wish we will conduct a DNA test and see what happens afterward.

Having done that, the next decision to be made was whether to tell P’s fiancée or not. We all advised him against telling her. We felt it wasn’t a wise decision aftercall we weren’t sure about how she was going to take such news. P against all our advice did tell her fiancée and she was heartbroken but surprisingly she agreed to go ahead with the marriage, but on one condition. The child will be born and DNA conducted first before the marriage can go on. So, the marriage was suspended, then came covid-19 too.

This reminded me of my experience quite similar to P’s. Two months to my marriage, I got a call from an unfamiliar number. The caller from the other end gave me a shocker. I was stunned.

“I’m carrying your baby”, I heard her say. Pat was a girl I was dating on and off even before I met my wife. The relationship was pretty more of an “old firewood” affair that we just pick up from wherever we left whenever we meet.

Prior to that call, I saw her 8 months before. I had to travel out of the country for a professional course. Came back and continued with my marriage arrangements. I had even forgotten about Pat and in our usual way, we had carried on with our lives.
I asked her how old the pregnancy was and she said 8 months.

  I screamed. “8 months? You are carrying a child you claimed to be mine for 8 months and you didn’t even tell me”

“Early in the pregnancy I tried reaching out to you a couple of times; but your number was not reachable. Anyways don’t worry about me. I can take care of myself. I just wanted to tell you just in case of the future, that’s all”, she concluded.

I told her to send me pictures of herself to be sure she wasn’t pranking me. She did showing her heavily pregnant.

I was filled with a kaleidoscope of emotions. Anger, regret, fear, confusion, sadness and uncertainty. And this was 2 months to my marriage ceremony! Should I or should I not tell my future wife. I had to seek counsel from my bosses and mentors. They told me point-blank “don’t tell your fiancée”

I continued with my marriage plans and it eventually came to pass. I was married but was restless and peaceless because i kept thinking I have a baby somewhere .

 Three months after the marriage I eventually decided to call Pat to get an update and to know what to do about the baby. I assumed she would have given birth by then; I was even wondering why she didn’t call me that she had given birth…


To be continued next week.

Ciao!