Assistant girlfriend episode 18

Kristen eventually moved out a few weeks later when she could no longer stand the sight of me. My parents sent my younger sister who had just written her UTME to stay with me. I was older than Liz by seven years and she was the only sibling I had.

So many times when I felt like giving up on life because I found my condition to be more than I bargained for, she was my pillar of support encouraging me to not give up.
Mark came by to the bq when I was five months gone. He had moved out almost after I rebuffed his advances and told him I never wanted to talk to him again. He had moved out because of the complaints leveled against him and his friends by some of the lecturers. He came by to allegedly console me but I gave him a cold shoulder and he left eventually, I never saw him again.
I heard from one of my neighbors that Kelvin dumped Kristen and was dating another girl in our circle, Lauretta. Apparently, he had been cheating on her with Lauretta and when she had caught them together and made Kelvin choose, he had chosen her. My neighbor, Martha expected me to be happy at such news knowing what Kristen had done to me but I was nonchalant. It was their lives and their business. Kelvin was all charm and wits on the outside but underneath the facade was a monster not worth fighting for.
A few weeks before my final exams, I went into labor and after 38 hours of grunting, cussing and pushing, my son, David was born. The moment I laid my eyes on him, all the pains I seemed to have felt melted away as I gazed down at the miniature version of Kelvin



I make it a point of duty everyday to train my son to be a better man than his father was and I’m happy at the results. Dave clocked two a few days ago and is such a bright, kind and thoughtful young lad. My parents officially adopted him as theirs and they’re so happy that from the dark clouds had come a silver lining.
He is David Andy, the first and only son of my parents who are glad to have a male child to bear the family name. This had been the cause of the rift between my parents for years. After I finished the university, I lost touch with his paternal grandparents who had not shown any inclination to lay claim to him despite hearing rumours of his uncanny resemblance to Kelvin. My father was glad at this and is taking care of David as his own.

I graduated from the university with a second class lower and did my service close to home because I was a nursing mother. Dad made me the COO of his Urban Taxi Company and under my direction, the business has been flourishing.
Sometimes when I’m bored, I check up on the Donald family, Jack specifically, on social media. I had deleted him, his brother and Mark from my bbm and blocked them on other social networks. But once in a while when I miss him, I would google his name and check his profile on Facebook. The last time I checked him out on Facebook, he and his brother had gone to Canada for their masters. His Instagram pictures always portrayed him posing with exotic looking ladies from the Caribbean and Europe.
I still think about him sometimes. If I still love him is not clear to me till today. After him, I’ve not been in any other relationship. My wariness of guys that try to get close hasn’t helped either. I’m content with having one man in my life; David, my sunshine.
Mom always tells me there are still men out there worthy of my love but I don’t know if I would ever want to end up with any man. But I know I don’t want Jack. He was never the man for me.
However, I’m still curious though, am I at fault for what happened? Was I really the bad guy? I know what I did was wrong, but I feel he made me do it. Did he deserve the outcome?
Honestly, I don’t even know.
1:00am
August 3rd 2016.

THE END