HER DECISION
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The loud cry of Andrea jolted Beatrice mother awake.
She hurriedly got down from her bed and rushed out of the room and headed to Beatrice room.
She stood agape and in shock as she stared at the crying Andrea on the floor.
She had fallen off from the bed.
Beatrice was standing in front of Andrea, staring at her.
Her mother walked closer to Beatrice and gave her a deafening slap.
"How could you be so careless to leave an infant on top of a bed without keeping an eye on her.
You even have the guts to see your child crying after falling from the bed but you still didn't care.
You didn't even bother to carry her up and pet her.
Instead, you stood watching her cry.
You're heartless Beatrice!
For once have pity on your children.
It's high time you let go of your anger and bitterness towards them." Her mother expound angrily.
She was staring daggers at Beatrice.
She carried Andrea and walked out of the room.
Beatrice held her flushed cheeks and sat on the floor.
"Why's my life like this? God where were you when all these were happening to me?
I hate myself!!" She screamed in tears.
More tears poured out from her eyes as she thought of what she had been passing through.
She didn't offend anyone.
She doesn't deserves whatever that's happening to her now.
She didn't offend God.
She had been so consistent in prayer and doing the works of God.
She follows the sound doctrine thought by the Reverend and of course, her parents.
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Just because she made a tiny mistake of having a male friend and going over at his house doesn't means she deserves all the bad things that's been happening to her.
Humans are bound to make mistakes.
But why did her own had to get worst.
She isn't the only one who has made such mistakes, others had made.
But they didn't suffer the way she did.
Why's her's worst and complicated?
She wished she had died during the r**e incident and not come out alive to continue to suffer.
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Beatrice mother took Andrea to the hospital and after doing some checkups on her, she was prescribed some drugs to give to Andrea after eating...
Beatrice mother nodded in affirmation and thanked the doctor.
On her way home, she bought the drugs for her.
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"At the rate at which you're treating your kids, I might be forced to withdraw my promise.
If you don't change towards them positively, sorry to say, but you wouldn't be going to the university.
You will have to be stuck with your kids.
No university for you, no ambition for you." Her father said with all seriousness.
They were all in the sitting room having a family discussion.
Her father had been told what happened in the morning.
Her mother made sure she told him every single details.
Her father had been so angry that he felt like beating the hell outta her.
But he restrained himself from doing so.
If he should lay his hand on her, she would find herself in the hospital and he didn't want that to happen.
As she knelt in front of her parents and sister, she didn't feel remorseful.
Instead, she became even more angry.
"Are you threatening me?" She asked with a scoff.
"I ain't threatening you my dear child.
I'm telling you the real fact, what I intend to do to you." Her father said vacuosly.
She stared angrily at her father and hissed.
"Dad, aren't you taking this too far? Let's give her some time to make amend." Ariana said pleadingly.
"What stupid time?!
The babies are already a month's old and still she hasn't come to accept the children and take care of them.
She's a mother now and she has to deal with that fact!!
If you don't change your character positively towards the children, I'm sorry but I'll be forced to withdraw my hands that has to do with your university!" Her father said and walked out of the sitting room.
Beatrice knew her father wasn't bluffing.
She knew he was damn serious about his threat but she knows she has to do something.
She can't afford not going to the university..
"You heard your father!" Her mother concluded and walked out of the sitting room.
"They are your children and you're supposed to care for them and show them love." Ariana said softly and also left the sitting room.
Beatrice sat on the floor sank her hands into her hair.
She sat and went into deep thoughts.
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As Beatrice wiped Andrew's butt, she became angry again.
This was the fifth time in a day that she's changing his diapers.
She felt so frustrated.
She became fed up.
She was fed up taking care of the children.
They are a handful and because of them, she didn't always get enough sleep.
And because of them also, her father threatened not to sponsor her in the university.
She suddenly hated them more.
She's totally fed up.
She's tired.
The stress is too much for her bear.
She has to do something about them.
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Beatrice knew that she had to come up with a decision very fast before she loses her chance of going to the university.
She just didn't even want to see the children.
Even a tiny bit of love she didn't have for them.
She didn't even have iota of pity for them.
Throughout the night, she couldn't sleep..
She was deep in thoughts on the decision to make.
She just have to find a way out..
She doesn't want to see them, she doesn't love them, she doesn't even want to touch them.
Their cries alone are frustrating and changing soiled diapers all the time is depressing and tiring.
That night, sleep eluded her.
She was deep in thought even to the following day....
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Jasper flung the files on his desk angrily as he's secretary stood fearfully in front of him.
The secretary hands were clapsed together and his head was bent.
He was obviously shaking in fright.
His secretary, Mr Johnson had reported of their burnt warehouse which contained goods worth of billions.
He felt so much anger and bitterness.
Who could have set his warehouse on fire?
Nobody knew the cause of the fire and nobody knew the culprit either....
He glared angrily at Mr Johnson like he was the one who put on the fire.
"Get out!" He ordered sternly and fiercely.
Mr Johnson bowed and scurried fretfully out of his office.
"Arghhhhh! What's all these?
My most biggest warehouse in the state! Why does it have to burn down.
Not even a single goods was saved." He groaned in sheer anger.
Just then, his landline telephone rang.
He received the call and placed it on his ear.
"Boss!" One of his worker's panicked over the phone.
"Yes? What is it Mac?" Jasper groaned in impatience.
"Boss, the ship bringing the goods capsided! Everything's ruined.
Not even one of the goods are good.
They were all destroyed in the sea." Mac reported sadly.
"What?!" Jasper yelled shockingly and threw the phone away.
What's happening to him?
All in one day?
Why does bad luck has to happen to him?
Why now that he's trying to prove his father wrong?
Why now that he's trying to make his father believe in him that he can run the companies?
Why now that he was at the verge of gaining his father's trust and having the whole companies to himself?
He felt so embittered.
He loosened his tie and tossed it away frustratedly.
Just in a day, he had lost goods worth of billions..
How come?
What's he gonna tell his father?
His father wouldn't even believe him and at the end, his father would be forced to give the companies to his younger brother whom his father had always seen as the capable one.
His father had always trusted his younger brother and saw him as the right and capable one to take over his companies.
He can't believe that very soon, majority of his father's wealth would be given to his younger brother... And he would get just few........
He felt so pained.......
But he can't do anything.....
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In the next two days that followed, Beatrice pretended to love and take care of her children.
Her parents were happy at the new development....
They thought she had changed and finally accepted the children as her's and not mistakes.
But only did they know that Beatrice was just pretending...
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Finally, Beatrice got an idea and made her decision..
At last she wasn't going to be able to see her annoying children again.
She couldn't wait for the right time to come so she can hatch up her plan and finally get rid of the kids.
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