CHAPTER FIVE: THE PREGNANCY TEST

 Locked me up in the room and walked away with the keys .

Everyone tried talking to him to release me, but it seemed like all the pleas fell on a rocky ground,

No one could make him change his mind, 

not this time, it looks like he is bent on destroying my life, happiness and freedom .

At about 7:pm I heard a voice 

"Tina, Tina please open"

I could hear the voice of Mrs Angela calling out on me ( she is my brother Kennedy's wife) ....

She is a huge and strength filled looking woman….. she was calling out to me to open the store room window.

"Here, take it", as she presented a pair of new dresses and a lunch pack to me through the window 

asking me to change my dress and have my dinner.

" Thank you" I said, as I swiftly collected it from her. 

I felt a bit more relieved after changing and having my dinner .

In the morning of the following day while I was still sleeping;

Suddenly I heard the store room door creaking open, and my eyes shot open in an alarm.

"Who is there"? I called out. My voice echoing off the dark wall of the store room with my heart racing in my chest. ( I'm sure you are curious to know who the unexpected visitor is).....

It was Angela (Mrs Kennedy). Probably she might have taken the key from where her husband kept it while he was still sleeping, damning the consequences of her action.

"Auntie, you?" ... How did you get the keys? Why are you the one opening the door, you are taking a risk, I don't want you to have a fallout with your husband please". I was concerned.

She didn't even listen to me. …. "Come out now," she said in a very low tune. As she dragged me out and locked the door.

"Thank you auntie" I gladly showed my appreciation as I gave her a tight hug and speedily ran to my room to have a warm shower.

Knock! knock!! 

My heart leaped as I heard a knock on my door.

Knock! knock!!

the knock came in again the second time but this time it was louder 

This must be my elder brother, Kennedy Adams I said to myself.

With my heart prepared for the worst (afterall he can't do more than he has already done) I sluggishly went to open the door after some minutes of knocking 

"How are you doing?" …Auntie Angela asked 

"Take this phone and call Tony, I'm sorry for everything" she apologized as she handed me a small cell phone. …

" hide it very well and do not let your brother see it", she diligently advised me .

"Thank you" once again I said as she left. 

I was so excited because I can see my life gradually coming back to me bit by bit.

"Yes". I jumped on my bed grabbing my phone tightly to my chest like a newborn baby .

"I don't have to waste any more time". I advised myself as I quickly dialled Tony's number off hand .

Ring ! ring!! ring!!! 

The call bounced back, i didn't hear the voice of my lover, 

I called the second time;

"Hello: who I'm I speaking to?" I can hear Tony questioned.

"My prince, it's me".... before I could say any word further he has already recognized my voice 

"My angel", as he always calls me … "yes, it's me" I answered.

"My love I have tried all means to get to you but all effort seemed aborted, I called Priscila and she told me Kennedy had you locked up. 

"Hope you are fine? Are you hurt? How did you get the phone? Are you freed now?" He anxiously asked.

" Yes, but….." I tried to narrate my experience in the store room but he caught me off 

"Don't worry, okay? I will come over to see you , so let's pick a venue"

" Come to the new site beside the house 

 where Norrison was working before he travelled" I directed him

"I will see you tomorrow" we agreed, as I ended the call.

 But unfortunately that night things turned out differently with me.

I became sick and the family nurse was contacted to come over to the house

" Hello, I'm onto Nurse Tricia" ? My brother asked 

"Yes, good evening sir , is there an emergency sir?", she asked in total humility.

"please come right now to Kennedy Adams mansion my sister is sick" 

"What is wrong…. "? Before she could finish throwing her questions Kennedy had quickly hung up on her in such an arrogant manner. 

"Nonsense!" He muttered as he dropped the cell phone on the sitting room table.

Not quite long,

 The nurse rushed in with her first aid box rushing to my direction where I was lying down.

 Kennedy was seated at the edge of my bed while other family members stood in worries.

The nurse placed her right hand on my neck to ascertain my condition. 

"Her body is very hot" she announced, placing the thermometer on me she could see my temperature has already heated to 38 degree, 

"Hold her"she said as she made an attempt to Minister an injection to me, and I refused.

because I was damn scared of injections. Neither do I welcome pills.

 Kennedy grabbed my hands, pinning it down to the bed while Auntie Angela laid my head on her thighs saying words of courage and care to me so that I could let the nurse carry out her duty..

" Come on baby, be strong, take your treatment and get well soon", mummy pleaded with me. 

"Give her some milk to drink, so she can regain strength" the Nurse requested after administering the injection to me.

In less than three minutes a thin piece of milk was brought to me to drink by aunt Angela ,

 She opened it and gave it to me to drink.

" No! I have no appetite for this",..... I said, as I rejected the milk while pushing my aunt's hand away .

"Please my baby, take it and be strong for me" 

Hearing mum's voice again made me feel better, so, I managed to take a little quantity.

Few minutes later, just when everyone was relaxed thinking I was getting better, suddenly, my body condition changed. 

There was this strange breeze I felt and I began to vomit and terribly began to shiver uncontrollably.

 Both mum and big brother fearfully bounced from the bed.

"Tina Tina!! Oh my goodness, God please help me, call the nurse again, no, let's Rush her to the hospital, Jesus, Lord please help us. Tina you won't die, call the driver, hurry now ,

 I could hear my mum cried;

I could hear everyone shouting and making their suggestions of how to save my life as they quickly rushed me to the hospital.

" Tony I wish you were here with me...

I'm sorry for disappointing you ,

I'm sorry I'm going to leave you this way,

I'm sorry for everything I put you through, but this is not my wish 

 I said to myself when I thought I was going to die".

I didn't know mum had already placed a call across to Tony informing him of the situation at hand. 

After two days of staying in the hospital I began to recover, all text's were conducted on me except one, ….. PREGNANCY TEST.

" I have called Tony and I told him your condition" 

 he said he is coming to see you.. and he offered to get you some provisions while coming"

 Mum privately told me. 

"But, there is a problem," mum sadly said as she turned her face away from me in pity.

" What? What mum"? I curiously asked.

" Kennedy! Kennedy!

"And what about Kennedy mum"? I asked her as I was already suspecting what she was about to say.

"I'm sorry,….. he can't come, Tony can't come because of Kennedy, he will hurt him". Mum told me as she felt pity for us.

"Oh God! What is this?" I cried while on the hospital bed….

On the next day something unimaginable happened. Do you know what?.....

Mum was just helping me out to eat my food so I could take my afternoon medication when the doctor and a female nurse walked in .

"Please Mrs Adams, kindly allow the nurse to take Tina's blood sample for test", the doctor told mum, 

"What? Test? what test"?

Mum and I chorused together.

I'm sorry Mrs Adams, 

Mr Kennedy has requested we run a pregnancy test on Tina so we could be sure she is not pregnant " He said while the nurse drew closer to me in an attempt to take my blood sample.

"What? This is crazy. Why would my son ever do this? Why should Kennedy do this to his younger sister, what has come over him"?.

Mum asked furiously and was so ready to give Kennedy a dirty slap if he had been close to her .

"No problem just go on" mum gave them her approval, though unwilling. (My heart leaped as the nurse took my blood sample for a test).

Few minutes later the doctor came back with another nurse with an envelope in her hand,...

" Congratulations Mrs Adams, your daughter is…

 (Are you not curious to know the test outcome of Miss Tina Adams?).