Standing close to the kitchen sink to do some dishes, TINA began to feel uneasy all over her. She wondered what had happened to her while she slept or what she ate the previous night that made her feel that way!
Well, it could just be malaria she thought to herself.
Seconds had not yet passed by when she hurriedly made her way into the bathroom to pass out vomits!
TINA: Ah! What is really wrong with me? What could really make me feel this way? She soliloquied to herself!
MRS GLADYS: (who had been observing her and slowly moved closer to the bathroom when she ran in to the bathroom to vomit), called out to her in a manner she had never done.
What is wrong with you?
TINA: Nothing Ma. I am Just weak, I think its because I overworked last night.
MRS GLADYS: Walked closer to her. Touched her neck, forehead and finally made for her nipples. Oh! My God! Tina are you pregnant? How? For who? How did it happen?
She hurriedly made for her room while admonishing Tina to get dressed and follow her to a clinic nearby.
After some minutes
The doctor walked into his office to meet them and broke the news of Tina's pregnancy to them both.
Mrs Gladys was shocked beyond doubts that she had to call on her friend to come get her back home
It took a lot of beatings and threatenings from Mrs Gladys friend to get Tina to tell them who got her pregnant.
Mrs Gladys passed out on hearing her husband is responsible for the Girls pregnancy. She woke_up in the hospital bed to find her husband by her side. She yelled and called on the doctor and nurses to send her husband away while she cried her eyes out.
The doctor made it known to them hours later that she was due for discharge, but needed extra love and care to keep here and her baby safe
Mr. Adolphus: (At midnight) knelt down to plead with His wife for forgiveness. He cried out his eyes trying to win back his wife since she threatened to leave him. He made and even partially fulfilled promises he had never made to her before. Been a soft hearted woman, Mrs. Gladys forgave her husband but asked him what will be the fate of the maid!
Mr. Adolphus: Ok! We can take her to her parents and build our home my love!
Mrs. Gladys: When you are aware they are poor! Who caters for her and the baby then?
Mr. Adolphus: ok then! I will send some money to her parents for her upkeep and the baby's. But please Bae, don't leave me now.
*They made preparations and took the little girl back to her parents in their village. Her mum cried out her eye_balls, but then, she could do nothing more.
Just in a twinkling of an eyelid, little Tina, was going to be a mother and her dreams of assisting her parents financially has been jeopardized*
THERE LIES THE FATE OF THE POOR IN THE HANDS OF THE RICH!
***Through the years, many young girls dreams of becoming greater and proficient in the society has been cut_short by supposedly DIRTY BOSSES, Who take pleasure in savaging the young bodies of teenage girls.
There has been little or nothing done or spoken about this Girl_Child Molestation Acts!
Its even more alarming that mothers, are most times financially incapacitated and can't seek redress for their female children.
Poor and illiterate fathers on the other hand, are easily bought by money and the mindsets that female children stand no better chances in the society ***
Who will save our TEENAGE_ GIRLS from DIRTY BOSSES?