The Bath

The Ordeal.

NATHANIEL’S POV

It’s been four years already, it all seems like yesterday. But my life has actually become a big mess, like I am not even proud of myself. I am known not even as a medical student but one of the hot and sexy boys on campus. Today is exactly one month when I lost Stephanie, it has been a tough experience because she died in my arms and her parents are still on the lookout for the killer of their daughter.

After the bath that day, I thought my life changed for the better but I was so wrong. I feel so infected with s*x rush and I am sure if I am horny I could have s*x with a almost dead woman or r**e a heavily pregnant woman. Stephanie had several abortions for me and due to my knowledge of science, I gave her drugs that worked easily and eased her pains. But the last abortion was the straw that broke the camel’s back. We had carried out an abortion on her twice and baby was still alive, I had to give her an overdose which she agreed to but unfortunately lead to her death. I have not even been able to reason well ever since then, and for the first time in months, I only had s*x 15 times after then.

I have no friends to talk also, I even stopped returning home, it is even such a pity that Dr. Mrs. Olusegun is no longer our H.O.D, I am wondering how this new man react to me bribing him so I will not get chased out due to my low G.P.A. My life is such a mess, Ibrahim has even deserted me and that I was once the best medicine student is nothing more than a s*x addict.

All I feel now is the fear of the unknown, what this whole issue would look like when my parents got to know. Last time they came, I know they noticed so they identified their counseling but it’s too late already. My own soul mate is gone and I feel so gone too. if I get caught I will just have to kill myself.

MRS. JOHNSON’S POV

I think I know the killer of my daughter, the person who poisoned her and is responsible for her pregnancy. It should be Nathaniel, the son of our former pastor. All I need for enough evidence is to find a way of getting her phone unlocked so I would read her messages, I am sure that with that I will have all the information I need. The autopsy confirmed her pregnant and dead from over use of abortion pills. My own daughter pregnant, the girl I trained in the way of God and I ensured she had everything she ever wanted. All the female friends that came home with her are all good girls but I have always suspected her friendship with Nathaniel, only God knows if he r***d her. It is so painful that at this point when she ought to graduate this is happening.

A WEEK LATER

PASTOR OSAIGEWU'S POV

Oh my God, I cannot believe all this I am hearing. Where do I even start from?, what mouth would I even use to say this, my only son, my only child killed someone, a church member for that matter. I am finished oh.

IBRAHIM'S POV

When the news went online by the campus newspaper this morning, I was so shocked that I had to head out to the police station. Since Nathaniel moved out of the hostel to stay alone too, I hardly communicate with him though he is always on my mind, Tunde was there to keep me company and help me grow in my faith. I had even suggested we lived together but he refused which I even expected. I wasn't even allowed to see him at first so I had to call his father to let them know the new development. When I finally had the chance to speak to him was after I met the D.P.O. The D.P.O told him me that Stephanie's mom had gone through their chats with the help of a friend that knew her password. Their suspicion was actually true that he was having an affair with her and she had asked him to bring the drugs over to her house for another try since the last abortions failed. But the only difficulty was that she told another guy too that she was pregnant. Her mother was even very disappointed in her daughter so was her father.

When the police got to his residence to arrest him, he immediately took an already prepared poison in his chest pocket and he would have died had the school health centre not bw nearby. I feel so much pity for him and I wonder how he would be feeling now, I know it is the love and mercies of Jesus Christ over his life that has kept him till now. Yes, Jesus, the work of preaching Jesus to me that he started, Tunde finished. I am now a true believer and a lover of God. Praise the Lord.