16/01/2024
Chapter 3
Pains of a motherless child
She was able to struggle and find her way to her house, she kept bleeding till she became unconscious.
Her dad came back home around after 9 in the night and saw his daughter in an unconscious state with the blood that covered her cloth, he rushed her to St Mark general hospital not too far from their house, after so many injections they were able to bring her back to unconsciousness, that was when the dad asked of her possibility of getting pregnant the doctor told him that there's a high chance of her getting pregnant in few weeks to come...
"Doctor so u mean that my only daughter will be pregnant in few weeks to come"Mr Williams asked the doctor.. " Yes she will be pregnant so the only thing u all have to do is to prepare for the out come, I will prescribe some drugs for her she should always take it...
After 3 days Cynthia was discharged from the hospital, every parent started using her as an example to their children today you will hear a parent saying "you better take ur studies seriously, don't sleep around so u won't end up like Cynthia"...
The pain was too much for her, she had to stop her business and there was no money to pay for her fees in school she stop at the first level of senior secondary School, she couldn't further, they had to channel the money she made in her sales added with her savings they had to channel it to their feeding, she became a drop out in school at the age of seventeen...
***Week later, what the doctor told her father became true she was pregnant.. Early on morning Cynthia was sweeping the compound when she ran to go and vomit she vomited three times the father did a urine test on her and confirmed the pregnancy, that was when she felt like the world was coming to an end, the thought that kept coming through her mind is that how would I cope, I'm too young to become a mother, would I ever be a good mother, how would I feed my child, how would my child survive in this cruel world..