"What about exams, how are you gonna write, would you be able to make it to exams halls?" I didn't let her say what she wanted to. "Forget that, would you be able to read and prepare for your exams?"
"I'll figure it out."
"You will figure it out? How exactly?"
"Somehow, I will."
"Somehow? We could find a good hospital with a licensed abortionist, Ann. Think about it, it's safer and you get to resume lectures properly."
"No." She shook her head stubbornly.
"I'm scared for you Ann," She didn't know how worried this made me."I'm scared, what if something happens to you during this pregnancy? I would not forgive myself and your parents? They won't forgive me and you, if anything happens."
"And you think nothing wrong can happen during an abortion? It's also risky you know, everything's risky, it just depends on what risk one's willing to take." She said looking down at her nails, busy with them.
"My parents," She scoffed. "I don't think they'll care that much, if anything happens. They might not forgive me, they might be mad or sad, probably, if they find out anything happened to me but that wouldn't be because they care, it would be just the fact that I ruined their investment. I am their investment and I ruined myself." I listened to her say in a sad voice.
"Are you....are you crying?" I asked when o saw her wipe her cheeks with the back of her hands."Please don't."
"Why do people decide to get married if they know they don't love each other enough to be happy in that marriage?" She asked after she shook her head to deny crying.
"I don't know, love? They don't get to know if they will be happy forever, I guess they just try and hope their love is enough to pull them through."
"But love shouldn't be enough a reason to get married, people should know that there's every possibility that you fall out of love with the person you once thought you loved so much." I began to wonder if she was talking of her parents, I wouldn't know, she wasn't directly mentioning them but I did know we were no longer talking about her pregnancy.
"You don't fall out of love with people, if you think you have fallen out of love with someone then there was never love to begin with." I told her, I had read that in an online book, In love with you by genika3na, and I believed it.
She chuckled again.
"Then, they were never in love." She muttered.
"Who?"
"My parents." She had been talking about them."But what I don't still get is why they won't get a divorce. If they find out I'm pregnant, they're definitely going to argue whose fault it is that I'm pregnant."
I didn't know what to say after she stopped talking, so I just sat and listened to her go on.
"I don't want to kill the innocent person inside me." She looked at me with tears in her eyes. "I know it's just blood but that blood has a soul you know, it's not it's fault the pills I took didn't work, it's not it's fault my life is probably gonna be ruined by it....."
"Ann..."
"Please let me finish," I kept quiet when she asked for that. " I'm keeping it, I mean one day it's going to be able to breath like you and me, and walk and laugh and cry like me." She wiped the tear that had escaped her eyes quickly before it could go down her cheeks.
"You can leave right now if you want and I swear I would delete your number and never call you for anything and you won't have to worry about me or the little growing inside me. It's not even your fault, I don't know how you are still here."
"No." I wasn't going to leave her alone.
"You don't have to be sympathetic, I will be fine you know, lily's here," She said and I wondered who lily was. It had to be her roommate. "And even if she wasn't, trust me I would somehow figure my shit out.""
"I'm not been sympathetic, Ann, I care about you." She looked up at me and her eyes were red like yesterday when she came to see me."I'm not just going to leave. I'm just honestly worried."
"I'm fine."
"You are not." I told her. "If you were fine, you wouldn't miss our general class today. If you were fine, I wouldn't have come to know why you couldn't come." I heard her laugh even with tears still in her eyes.
"You're laughing, do I sound funny about this? The math lecturer, he gave us these questions to try and solve and hasn't explained a thing on that topic, I should be cracking my brain over that assignment back at my lodge but I am here to see you and you think it's mere sympathy?" She stopped laughing and we were looking at each other."You have heard what he does to people who don't submit his assignments, at least you weren't there, you wil be spared if you explain your health."
She shifted closer to where I sat and put hed arms around my waist, hugging me while she still laid down, I looked at her surprised, not because it's something she hadn't done before, no, because we cuddled yesterday. I was surprised because she was pressing her wet and teary face against my chest tightly.
"Thanks." I heard her clearly, her tears wetting my light shirt. Was she crying all over again?. "You are a good person, Jerry." She sniffed as she said making me smile. I rubbed her bare shoulders, hoping she would stop crying.
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