Chantel decided to eat her food in the kitchen. She was not a happy girl. Her father had just ignored her when she greeted her and that killed her inside. She wished her father would just scold instead of just ignoring her greeting like that. There was porridge on the stove. There was some sugar in a container as well as a loaf of butter bread.
Chantel was hungry, but she did not feel like eating the porridge. She looked inside the fridge and found a can of milk. There was a tin of Milo chocolate drink on top of the fridge. She took the Milo and took out the milk from the fridge. She just made some chocolate drink and just sliced a small piece of the bread. She sat by the kitchen counter and drank her drink.
She was not ready to throw up all the food she had eaten so she ate slowly. After she was done, she washed the cup and cleaned the kitchen then went up to her room. Her mother came upstairs to her room a few minutes later to call her.
"Your father wants to see you. Please come downstairs," she said when she entered her room.
Chantel nodded and got off her bed. She followed her mother downstairs and sat beside her in the living room. Her father was seated in her chair, typing on his tablet. When her father saw them, he put his tablet aside and sat down straight.
"Welcome home, Chantel," her father said.
"Thank you, father."
"I hope your journey here was comfortable?"
"Yes. Uncle Roger was very careful with the driving. So the journey was quite a fruitful one," she replied.
"I see. Anyway, I know you just got home. But I really need to know this before I do anything. I want you tell me. Did that boy really get you pregnant?"
"Yes father. He is the one. There is no way I would lie to you. He is the one, believe me," Chantel said.
"I believe you. I really do. But I don't understand why you would get yourself involved with a boy like that. What were you even thinking?"
"He made me fall for him and I believed everything he said. I was very stupid to think he would not hurt me," Chantel said.
"Of course you were. You acted stupidly. That boy would not have taken you anywhere and he just proved exactly what I was thinking. Now look at what he did to you. He has almost ruined your life. But, all is not lost yet."
Chantel looked at her father with tears in her eyes. She knew she had acted stupidly and believed everything Kevin had told her. She wanted to do everything to she could to make it up to her father. She was ready to do everything her father wanted her to do. She listened as her father spoke.
"This has already happened and I can't do anything to about it. All I can say is, I want you to keep the child. I am not that kind of father who would ask his child to abort a pregnancy because they feel it will bring shame. You are my daughter, and no matter what happens, I will continue to love you. Keep the baby and I will personally take care of him or her till you are through with school."
Chantel was happy beyond words. She thought her father would disown her or even ask her to abort her baby. But he did not ask any of that. Instead, he asked her to keep her baby. She quickly knelt in front of her father and thanked him. She started crying, making her father worry, but she assured him they were just tears of joy.
She hugged her father, who happily hugged her back. Her mother joined them and soon, all of them were laughing together.
The rest of the week was good except for the morning sickness and the oversleeping. Also, her father sent her to the hospital and they were told the pregnancy was fine. She was happy her baby was doing well even though she hated her baby's father at the moment.
She smiled brightly when the doctor gave her the news. It made her so happy. She began having this urge to talk with her unborn baby. When she lied on her bed, she rubbed her hands on her tummy and smiled to herself.
"I can't wait to see you my dear baby. Very soon, you will arrive and I will get to see your wonderful face. I know you will grow up beautifully and look like me in future," she laughed when she said that.
Her laughter died, when she remembered Kevin. She could not understand why she could not get him out of her mind. He had disappointed her and she was so angry with him. Yet, she still loved him. She loved him with all her heart and she could not help it.
"I really want to hate your father, my baby. But, I can't. I love him so much. He disappointed me so much yet I love him with all my heart. What am I going to do with what I feel for him?" she said. She felt so sad when she said that.
She wished things were different. She really wished with all her heart that Kevin was different from all the other boys Cynthia and Adiepena had warned her about. She shook her head at the thought.
"They were right when they said your father would hurt me but I did not believe them. I should have known better," she said and put her hands on her tummy again.