9

The next day Sarah was called by the police and she was informed that her son's body had been found they should come for it, Stacey had to go by bus and not Linda’s car as she was used to, she was still thinking deeply about the conversation she had with Linda about her being pregnant by this man she did not even know or even had his number.

“I don’t think I should tell him, we don’t even remember what happened that night,” she said frustrated to her.

“maybe you don’t but maybe he does “ Linda insisted that Justin was as much responsible as she was.

“then what? Cause I have been thinking about this whole week, and I realized I don’t want to end up like my mother.” She said to her getting a little emotional.

“so what do you mean?” Linda asked her taking the pipe away from her she had been trying to get her to think about this when she is sober but she kept on smoking throughout the conversation.

“I won't keep it,” she said to her as a tear fell off her eye. Linda moved closer to comfort her.

“look I need this job and if I ask for maternity leave as early as now I may never get it again, I still need to get the connection and I still got my studies. I know very well the type of shitty life I have lived because my mother got me too soon, she had to drop her studies and turned out to be a whore” she said breaking into tears.

“That is still your mother Stacey,” Linda said to her to watch her tongue of how badly she spoke about how she spoke about her mother.

“I know, but does she even care how I am doing here at school. She never calls and you have been long in my life to know the kind of life I have lived growing up” she said wiping her tears and getting her pipe.

“Okay I won't say my opinion about this but I will support whatever choice you make, “ Linda said as she agreed to let her have her way she knew Stacey well, one minute she is depressed the other she is very excited it's like sometimes feelings and emotions were just like a clothe she would change whenever she wanted.

The following day she had taken her to the hospital when she realized how serious she was about not keeping the child, she did not seem ready but she knew that was the best choice she could do, however, the doctor had denied doing it without agreement from both parents since Stacey was not underage that was illegal doing the abortion without consent from both parents.

She had left the hospital feeling relieved and also disappointed at the same time, she knew she has to face Justin and tell him the truth, she already had picked the document from the doctor that she had signed and she was now to give it to Justin to sign before having it submitted to the hospital.

“I had no idea doing this was another long process,” she said frustrated at the car on their way back.

“it’s a matter of life and death, procedure has to be followed.” She said to her and there was a moment of silence in the car for some time before she spoke again.

“what if he asks you to keep it, will you do it?” she asked her.

“I don’t know” she answered closing her eyes to get some rest.

She was lost in her thoughts stressed about how in the world she was going to find Justin and have him sign these documents. On her way to the office she passed by a corner of a place she had made it her habit to stop there to take a smoke or two before walking into the office, she had been informed that it was wrong to be found on drugs while working and so she had been doing it before walking in the office.

Only when she was high was when she would do great work so one way or the other she found a way of sneaking into her workplace high, she was not allowed to do her work at home like when she was at Mr Swahib's shop so she would have toco me back and work very late at the company, if she had classes in the middle of the day.

She got into her office very high today she had overdone it, she did not even realise from how stressed she was, after a few moments she walked out of her office in search of Patrick she had realized if he gave her the card to this place then she can perhaps trace him through this place.

“she thought she was making a lot of noises with the heels and so she removed them and carried them on her hands to make less noise, she was extremely high today she had lost all sense. Walking silently she stopped at Patrick's office seeing some flashes of light from the inside, she slowly opened the door and looked around silently.

“o my God!” she exclaimed when she saw a dress saw itself and turn into a very big and magical dress, it was one of the signs she had made and she was supposed to hand it over to the higher department to do some retouches before finally get done with it, at this moment she understood why they always come out so magical after she had handed to them.

“That was nothing!” he said shocked to see her but when he noticed she was holding her shoes and smiling sheepishly at them instead of screaming like other humans who ever get to see this rarely, he realized she was high again. Patrick had noticed her patterns but he had never asked her for as long as she kept on doing the great job she was always doing.

“you are high aren’t you, that’s why you are having crazy hallucinations!” he turned it all around on her.

“is it that noticeable,” she asked whispering to him and he smiled in the satisfaction that she was actually falling for it.

“yeah, you are carrying your shoes in your hands like a crazy woman,” he said to her and she quickly placed her shoes down and wore them trying to get them in order.

“What did you come to hear for?” he asked her holding his laugh at how crazy she was acting.

“I needed to ask some favour not business-related,” she said to him and he was keenly listening to her.

“I got this job through this card, a guy named Justin gave me and I thought perhaps you might know him,” she said showing him the card. “you see all the numbers here are all business it's ladies who are picking all the calls.” She said to him and he seemed to be thinking for a while.

“the only Justin I know is the CEO of YMDC, girl do you know him like personally?” he asked very excitedly.

“no, I don’t think it's him, he doesn’t look like a CEO anything he is just hot and really handsome,” she said to him and he asked her to show him a picture but she had none.

“okay let me show you the picture of our hot CEO and you tell me if he is the one, if not then I can't help you girl,” he said getting to his phone.

“what are you doing with his picture on your phone? Do you have like a crush on him?” she asked him and she laughed at it like it was true.

“mmm cute,” she said at that thought and he went ahead to show her the picture.

“no way!” she said taking the phone from him.

“Is he your Justin?” he asked coming closer to where she was.

“yeah, I didn’t know he was the CEO, I must go and see him now,” she said hurriedly.

“not like that girl, come hear. Close your eyes” he instructed her and he did something with his hands and a pinkish cloud of air came from it and entered straight into her head getting her sober, she felt different from how she felt when she walked in. Physically she felt like he had massaged her front head.

“woow thanks for the massage, I feel good, now I may go ahead and kill two birds with one stone or lose both the birds and stones,” she said joking before walking away.

“so strange, it's like you did all the work, do you have some locked magic or something?” Patrick wondered to himself when she walked away and he realized he had felt a strong pull of magic in her when he was using magic to help her.