JUST FOR HIS CHILD

ChapterOne

After a long and exhausting day at work, my immediate thought was to surprise my boyfriend, Nicholas, with my presence.

Stepping out of my car and clutching the gift I got for him in my arm, I smiled to myself, thinking that my surprise visit would bring joy to him as usual.

I made my way to his apartment door, pausing by the door to adjust my cloth.

He had told me of his recent promotion at work since yesterday and since I couldn’t make it to his place yesterday; I decided to surprise him with a present and my presence.

I input his apartment pin and got in.

He isn’t in the living room. He must be in his bedroom then.

I smiled deeply as I make my way into the bedroom.

I started hearing weird voices, like the faint sound of giggles coming from his bedroom door.

It would have made sense if it were just his voice. However, it was that of two people.

The other sound was more like grunts and husky breathing.

Curiosity got the better of me as I didn’t even think of knocking before opening the door to get inside.

The sight before me made me scream in surprise, earning me a head turn from the both of them.

The present I was holding dropped on the floor as my eyes widened in surprise.

There before me were Nicholas and his cousin Cynthia, tangled in the bedsheet. Both naked and doing the forbidden between siblings.

Cynthia was on top of Nicholas and they both of beads of sweat covering their bodies.

It was as if a moment of standstill passed.

No one said anything, just the three of us, looking at each other, with shock registered on all of her faces.

It was as if Nicholas got a hold of himself. He pushed Cynthia off him, making her roll out of the bed on to the floor with the bed sheet while Nicholas quickly stands to pick up his short as he struggles to put it on.

At that moment, I felt numb.

I was virtually thoughtless and unaware of what was going on at the moment.

“Hey, baby. It is not what you think you saw,” Nicholas says as he comes close to me, trying to touch me.

My mouth was open wide as I still haven’t gotten over the shock of what I have just seen, but, seeing what Nicholas was about to do from the corner of my eyes, I moved away from him swiftly as I raised my index finger with my gaze still on the bed that I had just witnessed an abomination on.

“Baby, please, let me explain. Because I can,” he tries to say again.

It was as if that line hit a nerve in me as I immediately jump back into consciousness and replied him.

“If you touch me, Nicholas,” I said, turning to look at him. “Oh. You want to explain what I have just witnessed with my two eyes? What is there to explain, Nicholas? What is there to explain?”

By this time, tears have cascaded my eyes and my voice was now breaking as the tears choked me.

Never in my mildest dreams have I envisioned this happen to me.

This is the cruelest thing that has ever happened to me in my lifetime.

Nicholas turned around with his right hand on his head, looking frustrated.

But, I don’t get it.

I should be the frustrated one here. I am the only one who deserves to be so frustrated. Not him.

He isn’t the one who is suffering from the pain of being cheated on by a partner.

“You don’t try to play guilty, okay?” he roared at me, obviously in anger.

“You know I don’t like you. Let’s not talk of loving you, but you keep pushing me around and manipulating me, telling people around that we are a couple when the relationship is obviously one sided. Or, don’t you see it?”

Oh no. I didn’t see that coming, and it made me even more speechless until I found my tongue again.

“Well, that still doesn’t explain why you are here playing couple with your cousin, Nicholas,” I said, with a low voice, pointing at the spot where Cynthia was.

She remained wrapped in the bed sheet but sat up on the edge of the bed.

I looked at her as I expect a reply from Nicholas, who refused to say a word to what I had just said.

She looked pissed. It was as if she was also expecting him to say something the same way I was desperate to hear him say that I was dreaming or even hallucinating.

“Nicholas, you don’t have anything to say to it, do you? I never thought of you to be involved in i****t. Maybe Cynthia can, but not you,” I said again, breathing my words in a very much low tone I could give as if I was trying to calm myself down.

“It’s not i****t, Jenna,” he said.

That was it for me.

Everything that was trying to hold be back from yelling got overpowered and I screamed out my lungs at him, “It’s not i****t, the, what is it?”

“Calm down, rich girl. You don’t get to define my relationship with Nicholas as i****t because we aren’t related.” that was Cynthia.

My focus moved from Nicholas back to Cynthia as I looked at her, confused.

“I see you want to hear everything that is going on and since Nick wouldn’t do it, I will tell you because I am not a coward. There is no relation between Nicholas and I. We had to tell you that so that you would not have any suspicion about her relationship since you were the one funding him. Or do you think he would have been with you if it were not for your money?”

It felt like a drum, beating hard to an intense music. I could hear the loud thumping of my heart pumping as though my life was about to leave my body and I could literally see flashes of scripts displaying how used and dumped I have been.

Everything immediately started to make sense, or was I just pretending to understand?

I have been used.

My benevolence has been taken for granted because I was an enterprising young girl who only knows how to make money and fall in love.

”Is this true, Nicholas?” I asked him, trying my best not to believe what the impostor said.

He only shrugged his shoulders making mine to slump as though a heavy weight has been put on it.

I might breakdown anytime soon.

“I think I should go now,” I said, turning around to leave.

Just before I carried three steps away from the door, Nicholas called my name.

He probably still wants me and wants to apologize.

It was just a prank, right?

I turned around to look at him. His hand is behind the door, probably holding its knob while he looks straight at me.

“Since you are aware of what is going on now, let’s break up. I don’t need your money again. And besides, with my well-paid job at New Views, you don’t expect me to come running to you any more, right? But it’s a pity I would not be getting unsolicited free money anymore,” he said, chuckling.

I heard Cynthia laugh from the room, and Nicholas’ laughter sounded even higher and longer.

I felt my entire world crumbling down.

This was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

Never have I ever felt so useless and dumb in my life.

I turned around to get out of the apartment immediately.

Just before I could open the door that leads outside from the living room, I heard Cynthia’s voice ring across the walls of the bedroom.

“And, thank you for the blood you donated. You are such a kind sweetheart”.

They laughed out loud again.

I shut my eyes very tight, my hand tightening around the door knob.

Hot tears threaten to escape from my eyes.

Gathering all the strength I could muster, I opened the door with force, blindly going back to where I parked my car.

I have been betrayed, shattered, and mocked.

Clumsily, I was able to get my car key from my bag and open the door.

Getting inside my car, I let the tears flow.

All my years of hard work and commitment now going down the drain in a second.

I screamed my lungs out in the car as I let the tears fall.

Never in my wildest dream have I imagined that Nicholas would be so ungrateful for everything I have done for him in this manner.

He used me.

And Sophia warned me about him. She asked him not to trust him and put all my eggs in one basket.

I even donated blood to Cynthia when he came running to me for help. I got tested, and we realized that we are both O positive.

The donation actually landed me on the sick bed for three days, which he did not even bother to visit me on any of the days.

“Nicholas, YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS,” I screamed out my lungs and cried my eyes out.

I just said what I will make him do, but I have no idea of how I would go about that.