Facebook baby episode 5

Facebook baby Episode 5
***THE PROMISE***
The next day, he surprised me. He knelt before me with a promissory ring, then he became poetic in his expression of love, “Babe, you mean the world to me, Please would you be my girlfriend, Caroline? I want to take you on the odyssey of love. I want you to love me, for I have identified you as the only person I could ever love on this earth.
My heart is knitted to yours. I need you now and forever. Allow me to build my world around you.
You are my heart and my soul, my rose of Sharon, keeper of my heart, I will lay in your verdant bed of love forever.”
I will never leave you. I have etched your love in the abode of my heart with the last pigment that flows through my veins. If indeed a thunder should strike me for a lie, I’ll subject myself, a clean slate devoid of lies for these words I speak are truth. Nothing but the truth in a stainless gown. Carol, you are the edges of my soul and the light thrown in my way to cast away the shadows of darkness before my feet…..”
I could feel the effects of the sweet words of love Jeff was pouring on me. I used to think love was an imaginary element of fiction found in the world of Romeo and Juliet.
I blushed and s—-d my thumb like a child. I stared into Jeff’s eyes like my life rested in his eyes. “Carol, just say yes and I will marry you even if my parents disagree.”
For once, I love you more than my parents whose blood run through me. Your love has become the power that fuels my existence…” Jeff rom-ntically continued wooing me. His flirtatious words were really working magic on me. He continued his poetic rhetoric
“…, if I have to be disrespectful to my elders just to prove my love for you, call me a disobedient child whose life is limited as the bible said.
I giggled.
“…..Your beauty is indescribable, like an angel descending into paradise.
“Carol my love , I can’t speak of ever loving anyone aside you. You are the love of my life and life of my love…” Jeffery gazed into my eyes and hissed lovely words into my ears.
The wh0le scene looked like a fairy tale to me. I asked him, are you serious about this? ”
Without any hesitation, He said,” yes, yes! Yes!
I have never been more serious in my entire life than this morning. I’m damned serious, Caroline.
I responded, “ever since I saw your picture on Facebook, I have never been the same. I fell deeply in love with you , the measurement of which cannot be quantified.
Without hesitation, I said, “Yes, I want you to be my boyfriend. I love you so much, Jeffery. Keep me in your heart, I’m yours.”
We hugged as if there was no tomorrow. Nobody could describe my state of joy. I felt I was the happiest girl on earth at the moment because I met the most handsome and caring guy on earth. Jeff had indeed shot cupid’s arrow deep into my heart, the effect of which saw limitless joy cascading through my body and soul.
We left the Paradise Ocean Resort the next day. Jeff drove me to the lorry station in his air conditioned Jeep. In the car he gave me a phone number. I was excited.
Jeffery wasn’t like Koomson whom I was beginning to develop affection for. That man seemed ambivalent about establishing a relationsh¡p with me and because of his indecisiveness, I assumed he just wanted us to be platonic friends or friends with benefits.
Well, now, here comes the real man. God in his own wisdom knew why certain people cross our paths at certain stages of our life’s journey. Some came to propel us to greater heights, others to teach us life’s lessons.
Jeff said he would alight me at the lorry station and promised to know my house the coming week. He said he would have wished to take me home but had an important ‘Rendez-vous'(meeting) to honour thus the need to alight me at the lorry station. He gave me Chc 5000. I was amazed. That amount for just a day or two with him.
“Thank you so much, Jeff.”
“Welcome dear, “he said casually.
Deep down my heart, I was quite disappointed. I thought he will sent me home directly so that he would know my place and wouldn’t need any direction anytime he felt like paying me a visit. Besides, I was really enjoying the comfort of his posh car – the air conditioning, the foamy seat and the rom-ntic song bubbling out from the radio.
It was titled
“rom-ntic” by Koredo Bello
Hm hm hm hm hm
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
From the first time that I set my eyes on you
Baby I was stuck on you
Omo me I call for you
Make my body call for you, all for you
Went back and set my dream to search for you
Looking like a dream come true’
‘Cause you make my dream come true
Baby I’ll stand by you with you
*****
Time to show you off🎵
Oya show them, show them, show them,🎼
show them, show them🎶
Make all of them know
That my baby so rom-ntic🎵
Oya baby make we show them
show them, show them,🎶🎼
show them, show them
Make all of them know🎼
That my baby so rom-ntic oh
Ooh she rom-ntic oh, rom-ntic,
so rom-ntic oh (yeah)…..🎷
***
I felt like staying with Jeff forever. I have fallen head over heal in love with him. Now I don’t care what anyone would think about me. I could even declare my love for him if a gun was put on my head. He’s my “Mr. rom-ntic.”
*** MOMENT OF TRUTH ***
When I reached home that evening, I tried calling Jeff on the MTN number he gave me to thank him and reassured him of my undying love for him. The voice automated machine said, “Sorry, you have dialled the wrong number.
“Why? Why would Jeff give me a wrong number?
No. Maybe he made a mistake when he was giving the number to me in his car. I dialled the number again. The voice Automated machine said, ‘sorry, you have dialled the wrong number. I tried to reverse the figures at the end of the phone number and dialled again but still, it couldn’t go through. It was then that I realised the phone number didn’t reach the normal ten digits. One digit was omitted one.
Oh, my God, why didn’t I identify this error earlier? Then I remembered I was enjoying the love song in the car so much they I couldn’t really have checked the number properly.
I quickly logged into my Facebook account in a bid to see him and retrieve the last digit from him. I saw him online and was excited. My-one-and-only Prince Charming. How I missed you. Quickly I sent him a “hi.” and waited for him to spread me with another poetry of love.
“Hmmm, my dear Reader, He ignored me. I sent another ” Hi” and another and another but he ignored them. I called him using Facebook messenger but he didn’t pick my call.
Confusion descended on me like heavy clouds. Why was he avoiding me like a plague? He just proposed love to me some few hours ago? Surely, this was odd. Something was wrong somewhere.
As if it was a joke or he was playing pranks on me, I realised I could not see his status again. He had blocked me. Out of frustration, I scre-med. My rate of my heartbeat increased, as if angry at the deception. My hands were shaking uncontrollably and my vision blurred for a few minutes.
I felt weak all of a sudden and my head began to burn in,side as if its content wanted to explode to obliterate my memory of him.
Pain seeped into my body and my soul. Rivers of tears pour down from my eyes and I began to drool unconsciousness. Life seemed not to have any purpose for me.
It pained my heart that Jeffery used and jilted me, hiding under the smokescreen of love. My father used to warn me against social media guys but I never believed him, forgetting he was much older and experienced than me. I remembered my mother’s admonition, “if something is too good to be true, trust me, it’s fake.”
A week later, I decided to logged into my Facebook account again and tried reconnecting with him but alas, he was no longer on Facebook!!! He had vaporised into thin air.
Painfully, I decided to forget about him and repair the altercation between my ex-boyfriend Komsoon and me but he refused to extend his hand of friendsh¡p to me. Unknown to me, he had been told I was dating a Yahoo boy.
He said without any equivocation , “ever since you start following that yahoo boy, you have changed and you don’t know I even existed so go back to him. You are no longer my girlfriend”
I had the greatest shock of my life the following month. Guess what?
I lost my period !!!
My heart went down like the Titanic sh¡p which sank into the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg.
“Am I pregnant? I tested myself using a test strip. The result sent a blankets of fear all over me eventhough I knew what the result would be even before I did the test.
Off course, my suspicion was right.
I knew there was fire on my mountain.I was still in school. How could I combine pregnancy with studies? My dad would kill me should he became aware of my reckless lifestyle which resulted in this unwanted pregnancy.
I became so desperate and disoriented, searching for Jeffery on other social media platforms like Instagram, twitter, Linkin, snap chat, all with the hope of finding him. But I never did. It seemed he never existed. He has gone back into non-existence.
Abortions came to my mind but I was afraid I might die in the process. I remembered Mercy, my cousin, who went about frolicking with boys until they put her in the family way. Out of shame, she used unorthodox means to get rid of the pregnancy. Sadly, she died in the process. Instead of sorrow, she was cursed by her parents.
I decided to keep my unborn child and face the consequences of my action, even the rebuke from my parents and the school’s authority.
Another thought came to my mind. It was a wicked one. I could easily frame Mr.Koomson for my pregnancy. Everybody in the school would believe me because they knew I was very close to him. He was the school’s Administrator (Secretary) Some students were even suspecting, rather wrongly, that we were dating. I could capitalise on that perception and shift the pregnancy to him.
Then a voice spoke to me,” why would you frame an innocent man to bear the consequences of your own reckless lifestyle? He might curse you and your future may be worse than your present precarious predicament. The truth will eventually come out, anyway. Please don’t do that.”
I decided to rescind my wicked scheme and bear the consequen
ces of my actions alone. Every night, I cried. Even river Volta could take its source from my tears. They were simply limitless.
Tbc