[STORY] FLIRTATIOUS (Episode 10)

FLIRTATIOUS story by Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde

Episode 10.

We rushed back home like people on a mission. Leni kept asking why the rush, and I told her it was best we got home on time. Leni trusted me, so after a while she stopped questioning me.

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” Now that we are home, are you going to say what exactly is happening? Why are you so tensed?” Leni asked .

” You are the one pacing up and down… You are the tensed one!” I replied trying to shift attention from me.

” The reason for my tension is obvious, I am thinking of how to get rid of this pregnancy, but you …I don’t know why you keep tapping your feet!”

The doorbell rung and like a paper blown by a strong wind, I jetted off. Leni knew something was obviously wrong, so she hurriedly followed me.

I opened the gate and standing before us was BEAUTIFUL Shalewa, and for a moment there, I thought…

” How on earth did a beautiful baby like Shalewa end up in an orphanage?”

” You?” Leni Shouted ready to pounce on Shalewa.

” What are you doing here?” Leni burst out angrily

” You didn’t tell her I was coming.”

” Hi, Please come in” I said instead

” Come in?” Leni asked disbelievingly

” Yes!” I said affirmatively

Leni knew that tone, it meant “I have it covered”.

Leni followed us from behind as I tried engaging our guest in chit chatting.

” I hope it wasn’t difficult locating this place” I asked

” At all, I am a workaholic, so I know the city well” She replied

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Leni sat staring at Shalewa wanting to rip her to pieces…

” So?” I said hoping to make Shalewa speak

” So what? ” She replied

” I believe you have something to say to us as regards Leni’s pregnancy, since you texted that you were not planning to marry Marcus, is there a way you can make him accept the pregnancy since his mother loves you!” I said trying to cut to the chase

” Firstly, Marcus’s mother doesn’t love me, she loves her son, so by extension she loves what will give her son joy. Few hours back, I told her I can not marry her son, so in other words, I am just like you to her; Ungrateful children she invested in” Shalewa said

” Why don’t you want to marry him? That is a good life given to you on a plate of gold. Darling, do you know how many girls would rush into that marriage?” I asked

” My dear, I am not many girls, I am just that one girl who knows that the Same Red sea that the Isrealites walked through is the Same Red sea that swallowed the Egyptians. My dear, that everyone is doing it and are prospering doesn’t mean I can do it… I know Mrs Abrahamson has a good plan for me, but it isn’t God’s plan for me and I Shalewa desire to be only in God’s plan.”

And the earth shook…

Not physically but Shalewa had shaken the earth upon which Leni and I stood. Our lives had depended on life as Mrs Abrahamson gave us, but Shalewa was living life as God planned it for her…

” How come God has plans for you and He doesn’t have for me? I never had a sponsor like you both. God never had a plan for me” Leni voiced out

” He sure does,” Shalewa said ” You not having a Sponsor could be part of God’s plan.”

” Wow! Touché…And I guess my pregnancy is part of God’s plan?”

” Our mistakes are definitely not God’s plan but He can make a good story out of it. ”

Leni and I found Shalewa very wise, so we had no more arguments…

” I came here, because I wanted to be friends with you. When Marcus went in to meet his mother, I checked for F.D on Marcus’s phone and I got your number. I believe going to Marcus’s house today was not to Marry Marcus but to meet you.. Talking about God’s plan, He gave me the permission to go to Marcus’s house today, but not to marry Marcus instead to meet you guys”

” But don’t you think you are throwing a big opportunity away” Leni asked again

” My dear, when Saul gave David his big armour, David could not move forward because the armour and the helmet were too heavy on David. David took it off and fought with stones he was used to, My dear some big opportunities will weigh you down. You thought Marcus was a big opportunity but no offence please, see how he has weighed you down with this pregnancy… Marriage to Marcus is a big opportunity that will weigh me down. His mother told me I will be a pretty wife going with him all over the world, that’s not who I am , God has invested
so much in me to just waste away as someone’s pretty wife. This Beauty God has given me is to draw people to Christ.”

Leni and I were quiet again…

” So, Leni and Friday can I take you both as my sister and brother from now, Orphanages are places where God trained strong independent warriors; don’t let the world call us Less privileged. Leni, you have made a mistake, don’t let your mistake make you” Wise Beautiful Shalewa said.

To be continued… . . .

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