{"id":3582,"date":"2017-07-05T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2017-07-05T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:23:06","slug":"the-abomination-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"The Abomination 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four years later….D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Written by Mofoluwake Omololu<\/strong>.
\n\u201cAnu, why are you so bent on being miserable? I\u2019ve told you we will figure this thing out together. There\u2019s no pressure on you, is there? It\u2019s not your fault so you shouldn\u2019t have to carry it alone\u201d, Emmanuel was saying to Anu as he adjusted his tie in the mirror.
\nShe\u2019d sulked through the night and was now looking forlorn as she remained in bed watching him move about.
\nThey were in their second year of marriage and had just found out Anu couldn\u2019t have children.
\nAt twenty-four, Anu had darned all ambitions and chosen to settle into family life with her best friend of five years, Emmanuel. They had met the year Anu gained admission in the university, she was eighteen and he was twenty, in his final year. They had kept in touch and developed a very unique relationship that led him to ask for her hand while she was serving. It was the best idea, and why wait anyway, so they got married right after her service year.
\nShe feigned a smile for him as she walked him to the door and gave him his lunch, but broke down in tears the moment he drove off.
\nThe plan had been for her to be a wife who cared for her home and family, comprising of a husband and children. She didn\u2019t have a career and wasn\u2019t inclined to get one, all she wanted was children to care for and now she knew there was no way she was getting that.
\nIt was bad enough she was an only child, it hadn\u2019t been the easiest thing to handle and her parent had tried but never really been enough. She had wanted a sister to talk to about everything and share dresses with and a brother to run to defense or at least one she could defend. She had always wanted a big family and that had spurred her decision to marry early, the situation she found herself in was not one she wanted to bear and she was confused.
\nShe picked her phone and dialed one of the only three numbers she had to call on when she was in a bad place and needed a shoulder.
\nHer mother picked up on the third ring.
\n\u201cHello honey, how are you this morning? Are you coming over?\u201d, Lara was saying cheerfully on the other end.
\nAnu sighed. \u201cNo mum, good morning. I\u2019m fine, how are you people?\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019re fine dear. What\u2019s wrong with you, you sound dull?\u201d, Lara inquired.
\n\u201cI\u2019m fine mum but can you come over soon? Something has come up.\u201d, Anu pleaded.
\n\u201cAlright dear. I\u2019m expecting a client shortly, I\u2019ll see her and attach one of my girls to assist her and then I\u2019ll come. Do you need anything?\u201d, Lara asked.
\nAnu thought for a second, knowing her mother and her thoroughness with work it could be another three hours before she came so she said, \u201clunch will be fine. Thanks mum, see you later.\u201d
\nLara showed up four hours later with lunch and a listening ear.
\nAnu had cheered up a bit and was chatty with her mother as they ate. When they were done Lara asked her what had come up.
\n\u201cMum remember how I always teased you about not having more children and how I\u2019ll birth a football team when my time came? Okay, now remember how you had asked me to at least find something doing before Emmanuel and I got married so I wouldn\u2019t be stuck at home and bored? Remember my reply?\u201d, Anu asked her mother.
\n\u201cYes honey, I do. You said you didn\u2019t think you needed anything else but a family to care for since Emmanuel already had a good and secure job. Why all these questions though?\u201d, Lara replied.
\n\u201cMummy, we can\u2019t have kids. We were at the hospital two days ago, we\u2019ve been going and getting tested these past few weeks. The results came and I have a condition which the doctors say can\u2019t make me have kids, \u00a0mum.\u201d, Anu started to cry.
\nLara sat dumbfounded, it couldn\u2019t be happening again. They had prayed, affliction shouldn\u2019t rise again. Her heart was pounding so hard she felt it in her head as she stared blankly at the daughter she had in ways she didn\u2019t wish to remember.
\nShe stood up like a zombie and went to her daughter, sat beside her and held her as they both cried, Anu hysterically and Lara quietly.
\nAnu regained some of her composure after a while and explained to her mother the options that she had been given – adoption or surrogacy.
\nLara consoled her daughter as best she could, assuring her that things would be better. She didn’t bother to ask about all the medical details or jargons as her daughter tried to explain. She knew the root of it all.They prayed together and Lara returned home with the heaviest of hearts. She wept all through the way.
\nThis circle was vicious and it was now coming for her innocent daughter.
\nKola was just as stunned as his wife had been when she recounted her visit with Anu to him, they were both paralyzed by the news and confused as to what to do for their daughter. What advice could they give? They had kept their secret well enough through the years but apparently, not well enough that they escaped from it.
\nAfter over two decades, Lara saw her husband weep, as he questioned heaven. He was completely distraught; and unable to help his pain, they wept and prayed throughout the night.
\nThey were guilty, guilty of having brought it upon their daughter. It was the only logical reason they could come up with and it hurt them very much to be the cause.
\nThey were at their wits end and needed help for themselves and for their daughter, quickly. They decided together and went to the only friends they had who would offer their candid advice without judgement, the old pastor and his wife, Lara”s ‘foster’ and trusted mother..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four years later….D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu Written by Mofoluwake Omololu. \u201cAnu, why are you so bent on being miserable? I\u2019ve told you we will figure this thing out together. There\u2019s no pressure on you, is there? It\u2019s not your fault so you shouldn\u2019t have to carry it alone\u201d, Emmanuel was saying to Anu as he adjusted his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}