Watching the stars has always been therapeutic to Stacey. Like a peaceful meditation, a moment to connect with the realm of nature above her, and flow with the thoughts. Even in whatever pain, sorrow happiness or calmness she was in. She let the thoughts flow and overwhelm her, like the cause of the stars above.
And this day as she was stargazing, a moment triggered her. Her best friend Linda once asked her if she ever wanted to have kids and apart from her mother who always had something to say about that, her best friend was the one person that asked that and it felt so heavy to answer.
All her life she had avoided such thoughts she never was the kind of woman who fancied having a child but why was she thinking so much about this, she would wonder why her mind had drifted to such thoughts.
It was a week now and she hadn't seen or heard from Linda, ever since she learned that peter died in a tragic accident that night she felt guilty about it but did not speak about it. It was very late when Linda came knocking at her door she was deep in her thoughts she did not even hear the knock.
Linda walked into the unlocked house in search of Stacey who was at the window smoking as she stared at the stars.
"Hey," She said to her having a seat next to her. Stacey handed her the will she was holding and Linda took a few puffs before handing ut back to her, they would be mad at each other many times but in the end, they would find a way of being friends like they have all the years.
" I think I am pregnant" Stacey began after minutes of silence.
"Is it my brother?"Linda asked her off in her mood just kike Stacey was.
" no, you know we never did and that's why he cheated on me," She said not looking at her.
"How then is that possible nor did you cheat on him?"She asked her back.
" no ut happened that night I am not sure thigh I did ut out of spike and anger and now I feel very guilty, I loved your brother but u might be carrying someone else child that doesn't feel right. I am so fucked up" She said releasing a heavy sigh.
"It's okay we are in this together," Linda said to her moving closer to her and pulling her closer to her.
"I thought you were mad at me," Stacey said to her turning to look at her.
" I can never be mad at you mate," She said hugging her and Stacey began sobbing she was grateful for having such a loyal friend like Linda by her side.
"I am sorry," She said to her and Linda's eyes cringed with tears.
" it's okay we have both lost someone, "She said to her and the two girls spent their night at that place consuming each other, the funeral of Peter was to happen that week.
Stacey woke late and divided to go to work, she has been taking off and had not been seen at the workplace for quite some time now, nor was she even attending any classes.
She arrived at work and found her boss who appeared very angry at her for coming so late to work.
Stacey was very good with designs and she would make the best of clothes and so her boss had loved her so much for the sales she made in his shoo but this particular day he did not seem pleased with her not reporting to work that week and arriving that day as late as she did.
" Stacey where have you been?"Mr Swahib asked her but she was the well-prepared depth the excuse she was going to give.
"I lost my boyfriend, sir, I have been arranging his burial and it's been really hard to make it to work" she began with a very sad emotional face, what made Stacey appear peculiar was her sweet innocent face but an opposite character of who she was.
That sad face was enough to convince Mr Swahib to allow her to get back to work as nothing happened it had the charms to convince anyone especially if that is what sue intended.
Work was going on we'll she was attending to a lady who had been referred to her when Sandra walked and somehow in her, she felt uncomfortable but when she looked around she spotted Sandra looking as mean as possible and she sighed with a disgusted look on her face.
"Just the lady I was looking for," She said with attitude to her but Stacey ignored her and kept on to her work like she hadn't even seen her she wasn't in the to even begin talking about all this.
"Seems you have been stocking me, but maybe this should give you some peace lady. It was just a one night stand and I haven't seen your man or do I have his number so whatever this is just let it go girl. I am not interested in your man" She said annoyed at her.
"The audacity you have I came to do just what I promised you I will do next time you will think twice before sleeping around with other people's men," she said and then called Mr Swahib as she knew him. Stacey went back to some other business ignoring her but was still observing her from a distance her client had gone inside to try a dress she had admired from the boutique.
"Look here Mr I have only one simple request, I want you to fire this bitch and make sure she leaves without a penny, now!" She said and a glimpse of a red spark went across her eyes.
Stacey heard her and she let out a small laugh wondering how high this Sandra must be to expect a sweet old man like Mr Swahib to fire her.
Sandra turned to look at her with a grim when Mr Swahib turned into an angry man in a second and ordered her to leave the place before he calls the police on her, for a moment she was startled and was shocked at what was going on trying to understand how all of this was even possible.
"Now it's your turn Stacey I want you to walk out and head straight for a car and make sure it hits you and you die," She said to her with a spark of red in her eyes, Stacey didn't notice it because she was lost in so many thoughts what was even going on but she turned to look at her a girl with anger.
"I just gave you an order you should be on tour now!"Sandra said at her both of them maintaining eye contact.
Stacey looked at her and rolled her eyes at her before slapping her straight to her face.
" Why don't you go and kill yourself instead!!"She said before walking out leaving Sandra to ponder and wonder why the spell had not worked on her.
It was either something was wrong with her magic or something twisted about Stacey, she thought to herself.
Everything was in order for the burial of Peter, Stacey had chipped in the organizing for the burial since she had lost her job and she did not have much to do for the next few days ahead of her. She was stressed but was taking it all out on drugs. Even on this day, she was very high.“I think you have been working too much, Stacey,” Linda said trying to get her off some work and take a rest.“I need this, believe me,” she said carrying a vessel of flowers, everyone was still walking in but only a few people because it had not yet begun but everything was under the plan.“I know but got take a change of clothes we are about to begin” Linda insisted with her and she agreed to go and get ready for the burial.“Okay fine, I do feel tired anyway,” she said to her taking a deep breath of fresh air.“did you take the test?” she asked her looking around to make sure no one was listening to their conversation.“no, and please let us not talk about that today, makes me feel so guilty,” she said
The two girls sat on the bed with the pregnancy kit in the middle.“it is not so difficult just go ahead and take the test, you need to know” Linda pushed her to stop staring at the kit and just do the test. She got up from the bed very nervous and went to the bathroom with it.She took some time before she came out, she was contemplating whether to or not, when she was back they were to wait for the results in a few minutes. However, Linda was very stressed and was pacing up and down her room.“We have to leave now, something bad has happened,” she said very worriedly.“what? What about the test?” she asked her holding the test in her hand but Linda took a hold of it and placed it in her handbag.“we will get to see when we get there, it's urgent,” she said asking her to wear something warm and they both left in a hurry. It was mid-afternoon just after Stacey had gone for her interview early that morning. She had given a chance to the opportunity that had been offered to her by Justi
Linda burst into Stacey's house early that morning after she had texted her and she replied back that she was at her house. They were all worried after her scream and then she disappeared into the blues. The police had told them if they don’t hear from her the next day they were then to contact them.“you scared us, what happened ?” she asked her as soon as she got in the house, she was, however, getting busy with the new job. She had received a call early that morning and she had landed that well-paying job at YMDC Ltd. She had to wear clothes that prove she had a good taste in the job she was doing as a designer and all she could ask Linda is which of the two clothes she was holding looked nice, but Linda was not letting this go she needed to know what happened.“I don’t remember shit baby girl, and all these things you are telling me are making me wonder what the hell you are talking about,” she said trying to keep her good mood.“okay something definitely happened, and we haven’t
The next day Sarah was called by the police and she was informed that her son's body had been found they should come for it, Stacey had to go by bus and not Linda’s car as she was used to, she was still thinking deeply about the conversation she had with Linda about her being pregnant by this man she did not even know or even had his number.“I don’t think I should tell him, we don’t even remember what happened that night,” she said frustrated to her.“maybe you don’t but maybe he does “ Linda insisted that Justin was as much responsible as she was.“then what? Cause I have been thinking about this whole week, and I realized I don’t want to end up like my mother.” She said to her getting a little emotional.“so what do you mean?” Linda asked her taking the pipe away from her she had been trying to get her to think about this when she is sober but she kept on smoking throughout the conversation.“I won't keep it,” she said to her as a tear fell off her eye. Linda moved closer to comfort
“how is Sandra?” Andrew asked Justin he had come to his office early that morning and the two had some business they were working for on hours.“she is still healing, she survived,” he said to him and he seemed to be in deep thoughts.“We still need her, it’s a good thing we killed half of them, they won’t be bothering that boy's family. “ he said to him explaining to him that they were still watching that family and protecting them. He and that Unseelie had died upon an order from a fairy so powerful they were killed by the Unseelie who are still bound to the fairy magic.“what does this mean?” he asked him very interested.“mother says we may divide our attention because perhaps the queen is still alive and we are the only ones who can save her, that’s why we need you to still keep in touch,” he said to him and he felt bored at the thought.“I think they may be suspecting me, so I will have to play very low, especially now that she told me she doesn’t want to see me. She wants a brea
“wow sorry I forgot you were there,” Justin said after the awkward silence that was there before Stacey hurried to leave getting herself in order along the way.“Okay, I see why you want to get off Sandra so fast,” he said to him.“I just met her recently, nothing much,” he said trying to end that conversation about Stacey.“it seems you are forgetting what happened last time you were sleeping around with these girls! I will take care of this we have urgent matters to work on” he said to him before he looked at his watch and walked away leaving. Stacey felt embarrassed walking back to her office, getting herself in order. That went ugly real fast she thought. She did not understand how that even happened in the first place, she did not even say a word to Patrick when she passed at his office but neither could she wait to be done with the baby issue, now that she had the signature from Justin.She walked out of her office with her handbag ready to leave and get Linda to take her to th
Her mind was trying to make out the reason and a good explanation for all this, she was sitting on her balcony with her joint feeling so much pressured with everything that was going on, when she walked into her house from Linda’s house she found an eviction notice at her apartment door. All she could do now is smoke her stress away as she looked forward to the next day so she could go ahead to the doctor and have one of her problems solved, she had not seen Linda yet but she had no idea of how she was even going to hide all this from her, she was going to have to deal with all this by herself.Time went by so fast she did not realise when she fell asleep on her balcony and was woken up by the extreme cold that was outside. she drag herself to her bed and was woken up by her alarm in a few hours. Walking past Patrick she remembered what she had seen the other day in his office and she did not even bother to greet him, this was so crazy to her right now, she could not digest everythi
As she slumped on the bus seat heading back home, her mind drifted away to a million thoughts. The Black city was home to her but because of school she had to leave, this was not how she pictured coming home when she left for school. She had dreamt of coming home with her gown and her hard-earned degree back at home, not broke and a dropout like her mother, things had turned so fast for her, she hadn’t even had time to tell her mother she was coming back. “Perhaps she went on one of her trips with her boyfriends” she hoped, she knew she did not even care she was also angry at her and was not looking forward to seeing her. It has been a few months since her being away from home and a lot of things had changed, she looked around wondering when everything in the city had begun looking so different. After long hours of travelling she arrived home exhausted, unfortunately for her, her mother was in the house and received her with a warm welcome and a big hug.“baby I didn’t know you are