My Best Friend who became my Enemy

Pregnancy and becoming a Mother

Rosaline's father came out of the room with his phone in his hand trying to end a call, he went inside his room to pick the call from his phone, nobody heard his phone rang, he ended the call and sat down on his seat to continue the discussion with Richard and his friend, everyone in the room had a sigh of relieve as all thought he went to the room to bring out a cutlass and for Richard, I saw how he kept looking at the door and adjusting his seat from time to time until he came out.

Mr. Mohammed, Rosaline's Father was not concerned about the situation, he had always told his wife that female children are worthless and until she can produce a male child all her children will mean nothing to her.

Mrs. Mohammed, Rosaline's mother had tried countless time to have a male child for her husband but all her efforts proved abortive she had given birth to five children for her husband and all were female, Rosaline happened to be the second daughter of her parent, her mum had tried to make all her children a success even if her husband is not in full support, she is a businesswoman so she tried to put her children In the best schools in town.

Mr. Mohammed took the remote on the table and put on the TV to watch the news, he concentrated on the news he was watching and ignored the people in the room, his wife stared at him with anger boldly written on her face, he has been the cause all the while If only he had been supportive all this won't have happened she thought in her mind she looked at her daughter Roseline who was standing close to the door leading to her room with her head down and her eyes dripping with tears, she felt pity, lack of parental involvement in her life and she saw her life crashing, she busted into tears, my mum immediately came in as she tries to calm her down. Her husband will not allow Rosaline to stay in the house he insisted that she leaves the house with the owner of her pregnancy.

Mrs. Mohammed was able to whisper to my mother 'tell Rosaline to leave the house with Richard I will bring her things later' so she left the living room leaving others, my mum assisted Rosaline out and signaled to Richard it's time to go, I also followed them out.

The meeting ended on a simple and sympathetic note, tears were all over everyone's face except Rosaline's Dad, I was the only friend that was left every other person Rosaline met in school left her to face her predicament, I stood by her throughout this period I made sure she wasn't lonely, I forgave her of the past I knew she needed me by her side, almost every day after school I visited her.

Richard was just a music producer he was not ready to be a parent, he was not financially ready but he loves Rosaline and he wants her to be happy that was why he accepted to take up the responsibility of she and her unborn baby, he knew he a very wrong thing to have impregnated her, but it was not Intentional he was only having fun not minding where it will lead to.

I understood their situation will be hard so I tried all I could with the help of my mother to support her and the father of her child.

Rosaline gave birth to a bouncy baby boy, the birth of her child reunite her and her mother, after Rosaline's birth she changed towards her husband she became too demanding and she knew Richard had no strong source of income and his studio work doesn't come every time, tried to make her understand this fact but she asked me to mind my business, I had been her backbone throughout her struggles, I felt used it wasn't dawn on me until her friends started surfacing, they had been feeding her with lies about her husband, I overheard Susan one day advising her to leave her husband's house and return to her father's house if she wants him to marry her legally, I was at her door when I heard their conversation, I had left home to spend the day with her and to also help her with some chores, I wondered why Rosaline would welcome these girls back after everything they did to her all the wrong advice and how they were part of everything that happened to Rosaline.

I left heartbroken I knew Rosaline was taking a very wrong step, she would only listen to the wrong advice, she was young and not experienced, her after birth should be a period to get things right in her life I thought to myself as I walked through to my house, I thought about how we started I thought about our band her music career, how churches invited us for different programs to sing, I loved and missed that moment I wished I could turn back the hands of time, I felt lonely at that moment, we were 18 years old and we still had a long way to go.

I had to give her some space to avoid further problems from her since she preferred Susan's company to mine, Susan was two years older than we were, she loved a social life and love guys company, she attends the same school as Rosaline, her mother died when she was very young she was forced to live with her grandmother after her father took a second wife, her father's wife insisted she doesn't want to live In the same house with her so she had to leave, Susan lacked parental care and the environment she lived in shaped her life, she was exposed to life at a very tender age, she had needs and she had to find a way to get her needs this pushed her to start sleeping with older men for money, all that her Dad cared about was education, he does not understand that she has needed aside Education like money for upkeep, her entire childhood experience shaped her into what is.

I didn't bother to advise her or talk to her because I knew she wouldn't listen.

Rosaline was not experienced enough to be a mother, she doesn't understand what it is to have a child, she wasn't concerned at all about the well-being of the child, sometimes she will leave the child with the father all through the whole day, Albert will cry all day because he still feeds on breast, Richard could not take it anymore he had to report to her mother and also explain everything she had been doing from how she will go out all day and come back home in the night without considering how her baby is feeding, Rosaline's mother concerned and pitied the innocent child, took the child and ordered Rosaline to come back home with her things, she obeyed her mum's order and went back home, this period was hard on her because she has to stay at home to take care of her child.

West African Examination Council has begun and we're about rounding up when I was informed that Rosaline is back at her parent's house, I was happy but at the same time, I felt she listened to Susan advised and returned to her parent's house at the same time I also thought it would be a time to give Education a second chance I felt like going to her house immediately, after my biology examination I rushed to her house, luckily I met her at home her mother was also at home.

She was happy to see me even if she never asked of me and all through I was thinking about her, we chatted like it was old at that moment everything was fine, she wanted to know everything, she asked about the ministry and how I had been coping without her, she asked about what people would have said about her especially in the aspect of having a child out of wedlock, she was eager to know everything, I was able to calm her down, concerning having a child out of wedlock I told her I made people understand that it was a mistake on her side and since everyone is bound to make mistake and I told her I had not been going for programs since exam began I had to prepare for my waec so I could pass, she looked at me and wished she could be me not having to worry about a crying child at that point she missed school.

She talked to me about returning to school she said she does not it will ever be possible because her mother had told her she was done with school, this didn't go well with me, I was totally against this, having a child should not be the end of the world, she should be forgiven and given a second chance, I thought, she said mum said Albert will take over where I stopped and she dropped her head, carried her toddler that needs her attention on the ground and start breastfeeding him, the little child smiled at me, I collected the baby from her and played with him, he grabbed my hair that was weaved to the side If my ear and continued blabbing.

I looked at my friend she looked lost as if all was over for her, I wished I could help her at that moment that was when I remembered that cyber cafe's had started selling WAEC GCE forms, then I advised her to get one but she declined and said her mum will not be in support, I never gave up I had to think of what to do.