Get rid of it!!!!!

Chapter 2

GET RID OF IT!!!!

SOPHIE'S POV

As I sneaked inside my office, I heard someone voice call out, scared to my bones I stopped as I soon as I heard the voice. I turned towards the direction of the voice and I soon overcame my trepidation as I  recognised it was my aunt.

Quite unexpectedly, she arrived early at the store. I did not anticipate her to be in the store at this time and had no excuse yet to tell her. Clutching my hair, I moved in her direction while concealing my face in the hopes that she would not probe too much.

"Hi Aunt Susan," I walked to where she was sitted and embracing her thinking it would help me avoid this dilemma. When I let go of her, she did not say anything and just looked at me. I knew she wanted answers. 

" Maybe she would not react as badly as I had anticipated" I thought to myself, but I was not ready to give up, yet I could not hide anymore.

"Ahm, I went to the hospital as you suggested, and........" I stuttered and stayed muted as I did not know what to say, my fingers trembling from fear.

 Aunty Susan stared at me for a while and reacted to what I had said, demonstrating that she was not going to let me go so lightly.

"And...... did you forget to return? She quirked, and I saw I could not hide any longer, so I simply gazed at her, having nothing to say.

'Where are you coming from?" She inquired again, this time louder and fierce than the first time, she seemed agitated.

" You have been gone since yesterday, and you are making an attempt to return late to work.  What is your excuse? What exactly did the doctor say?"

 My brain hurt from Aunt Susan's queries since they were all directed at the same moment, leaving me unsure of how to answer.

"It is only a fever," I answered quietly as I sat down still exhausted from last night escapades. She stared at me, it seemed she did not believe it was just a fever and asked about the results of the test findings.

"Give me the test findings. I want to know what is wrong with you?" She reached out her hands to take the findings, and I attempted to persuade her otherwise.

I reiterated, " it is simply a fever, nothing major. I will be fine soon." 

Aunty Susan seemed to have discovered my tricks and was not believing anything I said. She insisted on having the results and I had no choice. I turned over the results. Looking at it for a while, she blurted out.

"You are pregnant?" .She stated more like a question than a statement, her gaze riveted on mine. It made me nervous, so I twisted my hair and glanced aside to avoid her attention. She sensed I was not ready to talk and was growing agitated. She tapped me, attempting to gain my attention.

 "Who is the father?" She questioned me, her eyes unwavering.

"Its Ryan' s but......" I responded, turning away to avoid her gaze. I could not tell her Ryan denied the pregnancy. 

" But what!!!!!!" Aunty Susan questioned tapping her foot rather impatiently as she stared at me for answers.

"He does not want the baby." I mouthed finally. Aunt Susan glared at me with her mouth wide, astonished and disappointed, and she did not conceal it. She could not contain her dissapproval of the pregnancy as she had warned me about Ryan and couple with him refusing to take responsibility. She concluded I had to get rid of it.

" Get rid of it" Aunt Susan had a deep breathe as she sighed concluding that was the best solution for the situation at hand.

I did not seem to understand what she met by what she had said and I made a gesture of her to repeat herself so I could understand.

"Hmmh" I replied as though i did not hear what she had said, I did not want to believe my aunt would want me to terminate the pregnancy.

" You heard me right, do the needful for both our sakes" Aunt Susan said finally.

I did not know what to do about the pregnancy. Ryan had made it clear he did not want to have anything to do with me as he was already sleeping with my friend. Lost in my thoughts as I stared at nothing in particular. I pondered about what to do about it.

"No, I would not do that" I blurted out as the thoughts of terminating the pregnancy crossed my mind when aunt Susan spoke about it.

 My baby was innocent and I could not bare the thoughts of killing my baby.

 I was pregnant out of wedlock and the baby had no father. She expressed how it would tarnish the image of the family as she held my hands trying to convince me to terminate it.

"Get rid of it as soon as possible." She said as she sat by my side, holding my hands.

" I would not kill my own child" I  adamantly responded as I stood up letting go of her hands, pacing around the room.

"You would have to stay some place else, if you insist on keeping the baby." Aunty Susan replied calmly.

My heart skipped a beat on hearing her threats. I knew Aunt Susan better and knew she was not one to throw careless words. She meant it when she said I had to leave if I insisted on having the baby. I pleaded with her earnestly but she did not want to listen. I

" Please Aunty, where do I stay if I leave." I replied as tears fell down my eyes, but my aunty was not having any of it.

" You should have thought about that before making a decision to keep the baby." She flung the results on my face as she walked and headed out of the office, telling me she did not want to meet me in her house still pregnant.

" I do not want to meet you in my house when I get back if you still have that thing inside of you." Aunt Susan said with her voice thrilling off as she left. I fell on my knees and cried for a while before putting myself together to head home. I got home packed my bags as I wondered what the future held for me and my baby.

Torn between the decision to have my baby or losing it to keep my home made me restless, but one thing I was sure was that my aunt could not get back and meet me still pregnant. I left the house and headed to the streets not knowing where to go.

As I walked out with my bags, tears flowed freely down my cheeks.I left the home I ever knew and the only family I had. I had some money saved but that would  barely be enough.

" It is going to be fine" I wiped my tears as I assured myself.

I left everything as I headed for a new city and a new life for myself and my unborn child not knowing what the future held for us. 

I knocked for a long while and finally someone answered the door.

" Oh Sophie, come on in." An elegant figure motioned for me to come into the house, I stared at her as I walked in.

 "Leaving my aunt was not the end for me." I thought as I got into the house.