Chapter 46: Thank God he fucked up

"How was your date?"

"My date?" Tacha responded with a quick laugh. Kenny's question had triggered the memory she would cherish for the rest of her life. Her laughter filled the room remembering how she suffered in the hands of Nathan. Tacha adjusted her body, lying with her chest on the three-seater chair in the living room to ease her stomach. The first thing she did when she got back was discard the white turned to brown gown on her body and loosen the waist trainer that was almost choking her to her throat. Too much sexiness dey kill ehnn. She wasn't told, so she needed to tell someone to take it easy on herself. Flat tummy, flat tummy... She struggled to breathe in the bathroom, taking a deep breath to calm herself before coming to the living room in her nighties. Tacha looked up at Kenny. "You didn't ask me why I rushed into the bathroom the moment I came in?"

"I thought you just wanted to calm your body with a quick shower. I couldn't even call you with how you ran inside like a chased rat." Kenny said from the dining table, biting on the meat pie she brought from her date as well. "Did something happen?"

"I will come back for you so I won't divert." Tacha decided to sit upright, rolling her eyes at Kenny who had ice cream at every corner of her mouth after laughing at Tacha.

"Next time, don't buy me ice cream if you and your boyfriend travelled on a date cause this is water cream and I just can't let it go cause I like ice cream."

"That's your problem. Anything else cause you know my come back no dey nice."

"Come back my foot." Kenny's eyes were on Tacha like... we've heard part of your date. "No be your come back make you hit the table with that your big panda leg."

"You are mad! Na me fuck up. Na me dey tell you thing wey you no suppose know." Her pidgin found someone who understood them better. Tacha targeted Kenny's water cream, and with her pillow, she hit the cup away from her.

Kenny yelled, and her giggles came out very loud after discovering what Tacha couldn't see from where she was. "Hmm..." Kenny's laughter, which could be quite difficult to stop hit every corner of the room. "Come back, come back, una don pour ice cream on your flowers. When will you accept that your spirit hates evil "

"So my own spirit likes insult."

Tacha got up, reached for the table in the middle of the living room, and picked up the flowers Nathan gave her at the restaurant they dined at. She made sure she picked them all and brought them home with her. Tacha got to the dining table putting the new flowers beside the ones Kenny managed to clean.

"I like the one he gave you today." Kenny smelled the bunch of flowers Tacha dropped on the dining table. "It smells really really nice, and it looks really beautiful. Did you remember to thank him for this first one?"

Tacha loosened her grip on the flowers. "Can you imagine I didn't even mention it?"

"It's okay. You could tell he likes flowers and it's something he would always do. Just thank him later. So, my gist."

Tacha sat opposite Kenny at the dining table. She had forgotten her comeback and just continued her conversation with her friend. "It actually went well," Tacha said. "We went to Gina's restaurant. It felt like magic being there after seeing people brag about it on Instagram like it's heaven."

"But it's heaven. The Donald owns it. There was even a rumor that one of the sons owns it. Those ones just coded their lives like na them rich pass."

Tacha's lips spread into a light smile. "Can you even recognize them? Well, it's their lives, but I had so much fun at the place. It's very expensive but plenty of good food I can bet my life. Nathan and I talked a lot, I got to know some things about him, and I suffered ehnn!" Tacha broke into loud laughter, trying her best not to fall off the chair. "He's just not nice when he's teasing me. He's a troublemaker at times and his reaction to some things can be very funny. I really suffered today."

Kenny laughed. "Whao! He doesn't look like someone who can even crack a joke. If he's really got it, then you wouldn't have a choice but to laugh because that will be so cute and quite fun to watch. For someone who has tormented your life, and who is always so composed and barely talks to anyone."

"Well, he's really nice to me now, but he still has that attitude in him," Tacha said with a smile. "It's far better than when we had to scream on each other's faces. Oh, when I remember that time I laugh a lot." Tacha released the chuckle she held onto. "I think some things will always be part of him, but he's really making an effort."

"I'm glad to know you are happy with him Tacha. I'm just worried about this engagement of a thing. No one is debunking what Lola said on Instagram which means the engagement party is still happening or whatever it is they are planning. Did you discuss it? The pregnancy?"

"Hmm.." Tacha looked at Kenny with a smile. The worry on Kenny's face could pass hers. "Don't worry, everything is fine." She assured her. "We discussed it while in the car and he told me to trust him. He wants us to attend the party together. I trust him, Kenny. I know he really loves me...I love him so much. He's really a good man. He makes me so happy."

"What about Lola?" Kenny heaved a sigh. "Lola has her eyes fixed on Nathan. Nathan is like a jackpot for them. Neither Lola nor her family would want you two to be together. With Nathan, they could do some business, make more money through him, or even get money through him. I don't know how rich he is, but I can tell you Nathan is damn rich. His father is damn damn rich. His grandfather gave them these privileges and each grandchild has their inheritance. Do you think they would let that go, babe? Anyone who dates him knows what's in store for them. Now she's claiming to be pregnant. I bet you've had unprotected sex with him, stuffing your stomach with these contraceptive pills. Who is supposed to be pregnant? You or her? Don't you wanna have this guy? Babe wake up, these men don't be with you because they love you."

"And they don't marry you because you have a child for them," Tacha responded immediately. "In case you are worried about my pills, I got myself a new one already," Tacha said, her tone a little louder. "I don't care what tricks ladies are using to get men like Nathan, but Kenny, I'm not going to get pregnant for someone my future isn't secured with. I don't want to raise my kid all by myself. I know what's like to grow up without a father Kenny. I'm that child and I will be twenty-seven in a few months. It ends with me. It has to! I know of every struggle, tears, and pain I've experienced. Do you think I wanna birth a child that same way, make the same mistake, and make her go through what I went through? Never!"

"But he's different!"

"Because he's rich?" Tacha stood up, she didn't want to believe she was having this conversation with her friend. "Kenny, my Dad left with everything! Everything! Wherever he is right now, he's stinkingly rich. Does he remember me? Does he care...about how I feed? My education? Even my mum when he claimed to love her? But what happens when she can't get her life in order!" Tacha howled. She hated to have this discussion, but she couldn't hide her pain whenever she was doing it. She sat down again. "My mum came back pregnant again! Guess what? Mana is my Dad's child."

"What!" It was Kenny's turn to be caught unaware by this information. "I thought she was your stepsister. She bears a different surname why you bear Williams."

"Williams is my mum's surname. My sister bears his name. Mana Akinne." Tacha almost had tears in her eyes but she held them back saying nothing for a few seconds. Suddenly, she looked up at Kenny. "When you can't decide, make up your mind, and regardless of what may be choose what's best for your life, or you will end up living like my mum. She's not happy Kenny. She's not living her best life and I'm always ashamed of her life whenever I talk about her." Tacha let out her tears, she hated to always admit that, but it was true. She never wished to live like her mum. She looked up with her teary eyes, already swollen and red."How could she...how can you even go back and sleep with someone who abandoned you and took away all you ever worked for? What promises could he have made that she fell for it? At the end, she left when he realised what she had given birth to."

Confessing this to her friend, Tacha was really grateful to her mum for changing her dad's surname to hers because she would be doing that now after realising how much she hated his name.

"I'm so sorry Tacha. You know I love you so much. I just want this to be over, and you can be together for good." Kenny said after watching the pain in Tacha's eyes. She didn't mean to say all she said for nothing. She just wanted Tacha to have her man and be happy.

"I know you love me Kenny, and I will get pregnant for Nathan if I'm really desperate to have him and think that could keep him, but I don't want to live that life. I don't want my child to go through what I went through. Men like Nathan would not marry you because you have a child for them. They might not even let anyone know they have a child somewhere to protect their dignity, family, background, and image. Kenny, you are lucky to have both parents. Raising a child alone is not what I want to ever experience when the father is someone like Nathan who might want to be in the child's life because he loves you, but also might want to please his family because his forefathers have been protecting that name for ages."

"So, what are you going to do?"

Tacha smiled. "I will trust him."

"Even with Lola's threats."

"I will still trust him." Tacha's smile became bigger. "He told me he's so sure that the pregnancy isn't his. I believe him."

"So what's your plan?"

"He promised to send his driver to pick me up by tomorrow evening. I don't think he's gonna attend the engagement party." Tacha laughed, rolling her eyes. "Nathan is really capable of anything. I trust him and will wait for his decision."

"Aww.." Kenny whined. "Where una dey see this love ehnn." She chuckled. "But I love you so much sha." Kenny stood up and hugged Tacha tightly. "You are the best thing in my life after my parents."

Tacha laughed, embracing Kenny back. "Your ex was always coming before me you bish. Thank God he fucked up."

Kenny couldn't help her laughter, trying to release herself from Tacha's embrace but she wouldn't allow her. She hit Tacha's back lightly. "You bish, I will soon fall in love again."

"Crazy bish! Until you say I do. I can't trust someone who falls in love every three months."

The two released each other at once, laughing at their stupid jokes.