Day 37
It rains almost the whole day.
Effe stays in her room almost the whole day, thinking. She is happy and sad at the same time. Happy that she is pregnant at last and sad that the love of her life, the one who she has fallen in love with at first sight, even though she had not been brave enough to accept it then, is nowhere to be found.
What will she not give to find the Darling Boy, Chris Bawa and give him the good news, to feel his strong arms around her, to see the love he feels for her reflected in those sexy, beautiful eyes.
She will give anything just to see him smile, and kiss her, and make sweet love to her.
Out of boredom, Effe takes her phone and just flips through with nothing in particular in mind. Then, she flips to an online pharmacy shop she patronises most of the time, and orders several packs of pregnancy kits when the thought that the lab results and pregnancy tests may have been wrong about the pregnancy crosses her mind.
She goes downstairs briefly to pick up the kit when they arrive. Thankfully there is no one in sight to see her. She quickly unwraps the package and opens a pack with the speed of lightning, suddenly agitated.
Hurriedly, she pans to the bathroom, pulls the WC cover and places the pregnancy kit on it.
Then, she quickly flips through the drawers, and curses when she does not find any container to take the urine sample with.
She treks back to her bedroom, to the box on top of her wardrobe in the dressing area where she normally puts away most of the containers she does not need immediately.
Thankfully, she finds a container that will more than suffice for what she wants to do.
When she has successfully taken a load of urine sample, she takes a kit, tears it up and follows the instruction to the latter and waited...
When she feels she has waited enough but nothing is showing, she takes another kit and goes through the process again.
She ends up carrying out more pregnancy tests, and they all eventually show positive, and she laughs with happiness and cries to God to make a way so that she finds Chris again.
Effe is distracted again when Lawyer Joshua Darkwa calls that he was outside with her new car. The kind man has offered to pick up her new car from the offices of the motor company for her.
She beams with smiles as she hugs the elderly man, takes her key and spins the car around in the compound for a spell with the elderly man looking on with joy on his face. Seeing her that happy, fills him with so much joy. To him, the poor girl has suffered enough and deserved some respite.
Eyram visits Rupert and the rain traps her there almost the whole day. They share a first tender, shy and awkward kiss in the kitchen whilst their children sleep in their respective cots.
Jonathan Afful gets roaring drunk and finally gets an erection and makes love to an old prostitute on top of the deep freezer in his kitchen, and afterwards, he breaks down and weeps bitterly, calling Eyram's name over and over. The prostitute leaves with all the money in Afful's wallet whilst he lays snoring and giving off great thunderous flatulence on the floor of the kitchen.
Mr. and Mrs. Kedem make quick love in their room, the first in a very long time, and Ken falls asleep but Ivy lay there trying to stop her tears and refusing to think of Chris.
Steve stays in the office and watches Chinese Kung Fu movies and gets so drunk that he vomits on his desk and falls asleep on the floor of the main office.
And on the slippery road of the Tema Motorway, very late in the night, almost close to midnight, a man on a motorcycle speeds violently on the road.
His motorbike suddenly skids and shoots into the air.
The man crashes on the hard surface of the road and skids off the motorway into the bushes.
He lies there with a huge gash on his head because he is not wearing a helmet.
His arm feels broken, and he begins to bleed badly from his wounds, but he is unconscious.
There is no vehicle around, and no car around because it is so late.
He lies in the bushes unconscious and slowly bleeding to death.