Naya Aurora arrived home with blood streaming down her legs. She could barely walk and she knew that she smelled like semen. Who the hell had she had sex with the previous night? Luckily, her aunt hadn’t paid attention to her at all, so she snuck into the bathroom to take her shower and clear the disgusting liquid on her. What the hell happened the previous night? Who was this man that had the audacity to touch her like that? No matter how hard she tried to remember, she couldn’t. It was just too hard. Everything was freaking hard.
It was very difficult to tell if she was raped or she willingly slept with this man? The last thing she remembered was seeing a man with good hair and long eye lashes sleeping beside her that morning, but that was it. She couldn’t remember anything else. She felt tears running down on her cheeks as she leaned against the wall. That wasn’t a life she planned for herself, she could swear. She stepped out of the shower and changed into a casual outfit. She ought to go to work at the gas station that day, but how she felt at that moment was unbelievable. She wasn’t even sure that she would take steps without feeling like throwing up. “Where have you been?” Her aunt asked, stepping into the room. “Your mum was grumbling about you the entire night. Go and see her.” Naya’s mind went to her mother and she felt a positive feeling in her. At least no matter what happened, her mother mattered the most to her. She forced herself up and went into her mother’s room to see her. Her mother had a stroke, so she couldn’t talk or move properly. But the sight of Naya made her excited and Naya could not tell why. Naya smiled and leaned against her belly, while her mother began to say in audible words. “I am sorry for staying out late,” Naya apologized, assuming that her mother was scolding her. “I believe that just because I am 23 does not give me the audacity to do whatever I like. I am really sorry,my sweet mother. Please forgive me.” Her mother went on scolding her again and Naya hugged her for the second time. “If you continue feeling mad at me, I won’t be able to forgive myself, please?” Naya pleaded with a shattered heart. “I know how overprotective you can be of me, but I promise. I won’t stay out late without telling you again. I am really working so hard to save money for your bills. I promise.” Her mum sighed and managed to stroke her long silky hair. Naya saw that as an indication that her mother had forgiven her and pecked her on the cheek. “Thank you, mother,” she thanked. “I will work ten times harder to get you out of this bed and make you healthy again.” Well that seemed easier than done. In a couple of months, she was working on some dishes in the kitchen when she felt dizzy. She couldn’t tell why she was so dizzy, but her head buzzed a lot and she’d felt she was going to die. She had to sit down for a while and contemplate what was going on. The next few mornings were the same. She would either throw up, or stare at her favorite food feeling very reluctant to eat. “Hope you haven’t gotten pregnant,” her aunt joked, though the lady knew she was terrible with talking to men and she got anxious around them. Naya felt her heart race against her chest. There was no way she got pregnant for the man she had sex with that night. There was no freaking way. She knew that her aunt took that as a joke, but for some reason her mind was very worried about that. “I am Dr Doris,” the doctor recommended to her, welcomed her as she had her seat. “I heard something is wrong with your health so we had to conduct a few medical tests. I will just look through your results and tell you what is wrong.” Naya nodded obediently and watched her look through the record. “O!” The doctor giggled. “Congratulations. You are 14 weeks pregnant.” Naya felt her face go pale and her body tremble as she was unaware of how to react. “You are going to be a mother, Miss Naya Aurora.” Naya clenched her fist fist in anger and pounded on the doctor’s table violently. “Do you know what I am going through presently?” Naya asked in anger. “My mother is freaking sick! I can barely afford three square meals a day! How dare you come here to say that I am pregnant?!” The doctor did not expect her reaction. “Calm down Madame,” she calmed her. “That’s the result here. There is nothing I can do about it.” “I cannot have this child,” Naya said desperately. The doctor was confused. “I am sorry but there is nothing I can do about it. It is against my policy to go through any sort of abortion or….” The doctor tried to refuse but Naya was stubborn. “Please get rid of this baby! I do not want her! I do not fucking want her!” Tears streamed down her cheeks and she was beginning to have a nervous breakdown now. “Just take this baby away from me, please.” The Doctor gave her a helpless look. She dialed a number and spoke for a while before turning to Naya. “I have a better plan,” she suggested. “Why don’t you pretend to be someone’s surrogate mother instead?” Naya was confused. “How?!” Naya asked. “You will pretend to carry their eggs and give them your child, while you extort money from them. That way, you can give a way to your child and all is good,” Doctor Doris advised. Naya gave it a deep thought. “How much are we talking about? Will it be enough to pay my mum’s medical bills?” Naya asked with a desperate look. “If it will then I am in.”Brett Hazard woke up to a banging headache. He gazed around him and was shocked to find himself stuck in a hotel he knew nothing about. He groaned and sat up. How much had he partied the previous night? He knew he spent a long time clubbing with his friends, but he never knew he clubbed that much to the extent he had to book a room for himself. “O! Goodness! Lovelyn will be very mad!” He said to himself at the thought of his wife. This deeply hurt him a lot. “She must’ve been so worried for me.”He got out of bed and grabbed hold of his trousers. As he was about to put it on, he caught sight of a blood stain on his bed. This made his stomach tightened since he couldn't remember anything that happened the previous night. He caught sight of a long strand of hair on the pillow and gasped realizing what was going on. Had he slept with someone? Who the hell did he sleep with? What would he tell his wife? His phone rang causing him to flinch. He immediately picked it up and adjusted his
Brett couldn't sleep as he rolled on the bed thinking of all the pain Lovelyn had been through. He couldn't bear seeing her in so much pain. They had made two attempts! Two attempts for surrogates but none was working. Luckily, he was able to talk her to sleep that night and calm her frisky mind, but how long could he do that? How long could he endure seeing this pain in her eyes? His mother was already on his neck. She had begun to send him pictures of ladies asking him to choose which one he liked. "We gave you one job, Doctor Doris!” Brett scolded Doctor Doris as he barged into her office, forcefully opening her door. The creaking sound of the door alerted her immediately, and she instantly stood up."Calm down," she tried to calm him.“No! You should be the one to calm down and listen to me! You do not seem to understand the pain my family goes through every time because of your false hopes! My marriage is about to be pulled apart! My wife cries every night before sleeping! What
FLASHBACKBrett struggled with a recurring memory which he couldn't forget no matter how hard he tried. He saw a negative vision of that night at the club. There was the silhouette of a slender person who approached him, and they had a short laugh. He could hear her voice echoing in the abyss and her enthusiastic tone, but he couldn't remember who she was. He remembered the sound of her moans, her sudden fright and his soft hands sliding down her bare skin. He remembered the coolness of the air conditioner and the intensity of their sex, but that was it! He couldn't remember any other thing; not her name or her face. He wished he had known the young lady he deflowered. How old was she? Had she willingly given herself to him or did he force herself on her? He could remember her sobs and some words that mumbled from her lips. But he couldn't remember any of them.He wished he could remember whom he cheated on his wife with. ***Brett Hazard was confused about why Naya Aurora refused
FLASHBACK Naya got down from the cab in her mini black dress and nicely packed her. It was another amazing weekend to spend her evening on a few drinks and some new friends she might probably make. Club G was known for its loud songs and expensive guests, so as soon as she walked in, she knew she had arrived. She smiled at strangers and took her favorite shot of champagne. A few minutes into the party, she noticed some girls acting strangely and dancing seductively on the dance floor. Naya found that absurd and giggled at the embarrassment. She sipped her drink. “Your gown looks so nice,” a lady in a designer dress told her, as she sat before her. “I swear, when I saw you from a distance I knew that you were a damsel. I knew there was definitely something special about you.”Naya smiled with a grateful look. “Thank you,” she said with a polite tone. “I didn’t know I dressed that well.” “Baby girl, you did,” the lady got comfortable so quickly. “My name is Amelia.” She stretched he
Brett laid on his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. Since his thoughts were calm and his body was relaxed, the memories he sought slipped in slowly. That night, he attended the club to drink with his friend. While they joked and experimented on the sparkling wine with everyone over hyped, one of them pointed out to a lady in black dress who was sitting at the bar counter. “I can bet 1000 dollars that you won’t get that lady to lie with you,” the dare came. At that point, his senses weren’t working anymore, and he’d forgotten he was married. In fact, they had forgotten he was married too because they saw his wedding ring as an accessory and took it out of his finger. “Go! Go! Go!” They chanted as they slipped the ring into his trouser pocket. Brett nodded and went to meet this gorgeous figure. Her back was turned towards him, and she was speaking to a regular customer whom he knew. “Amelia, let me steal your guest for a moment,” he suggested. Amelia agreed and walked away, blow
FLASH BACK “Let go of mum!” Naya pulled her abusive father from her mother, but her father slapped her hard on the cheek, sending her flying on the couch. Tears streamed down her cheeks, as she watched him torture her mother with a belt. “Please stop it! I beg of you!” Her eight-year-old self pleaded helplessly as she watched. This wasn’t the first time, and it might probably not be the last. What was the point of having a child, if you couldn’t care for her? What was the point of birthing a child in the world of torture? A world where her mother is being maltreated. Naya couldn’t bear the thought of this anymore. “Let him show his love the way he can show his love, dear,” her mother said to her all the time. “Let him be the husband he can be.”“I do not want this kind of love!” Naya cried. “No one should love like this. I should never have been born into this kind of home.” “It’s fine, my love,” her mother stroked her hair. “My father used to show my mother this kind of love to
FLASHBACK“Where is your mother?” Naya’s elementary school teacher asked, as she submitted her assignment before the whole class. It was Parents-Teacher’s Day that week and her mother was specifically invited to check her grades. Since her mother claimed to have slipped and fell the previous night, she made an excuse not to come. Naya knew her mum didn’t slip and fall. The sight of the cut on her arm and the red marks on her neck, made it quite obvious that something was wrong. And it was her father that was wrong, not the wet floor. “She slipped and fell,” Naya said anyway, before walking back to her seat. How much she had started learning how to lie to cover up her mother’s pain from the age of six. Her mother taught her it was great, and it was for their own good. There was nothing good about it. In fact, nothing came out of it at all. But thinking about this. Naya wondered how she was different from a home-wrecker. She was Lovelyn 's husband affair, and aside from that, she was
The memory slowly set in and Brett became more and more aware of the face he saw. It was Naya. This sent him shivers and he felt more reason to stay away from her. Each time Brett saw Naya’s face, he was reminded of his mistake and the dark secret he had to hide from his wife. He wanted to keep away so bad but Lovelyn kept making things more difficult for him. During the next ultrasound, Lovelyn advised him to go with Naya alone. He hated the idea and didn’t want to leave without his wife. He hated the awkwardness when the doctor talked about the child around him and Naya. Things only got more awkward now that he knew it was Naya he slept with. He couldn’t tell her the truth. He feared letting her know.“Your child is growing very fast,” Doctor Doris told them as she turned off the monitor and printed out the result. “You are doing a great job taking good care of Naya.” Naya faked a smile, even though she knew that was not the case. “I guess there is 3 months left,” he said as he ho