A day before yesterday

last week i experienced my first writers block thank God am back sha. Oouch! I'm digressing enjoy this piece...

**********

It was thursday, a day before yesterday. She had been feeling funny and had been throwing up occasionally. She decided to go to a hospital for check up.

"Mrs Dare Lara."

The voice echoed through the hall. It was the doctor. Lara got up hastily from where she was sitting, put herself together and walked into the doctors office shuting the door behind her. "Good day doctor" she greeted. "Good day ma, please have a seat." She drew the seat from under the table and sat majestically.

Silence hung in the room for some seconds. Lara's eyes rolled round the doctors office as her finger clicked on the table. Finally, the doctor broke the silence. "Mrs Dare, congrats, you are a week pregnant." Lara could not curtail the joy that filled her heart. She was speechless and motionless for some moment and then tears began to roll down her cheek- tears of joy. After years of barreness. God had finaly answered her prayers.

She remembered those moments when her mother-in-law would visit them and call her a witch who wanted to ruin her son's life. She remembered the molestations she had had to face from Dare's relations. Oh her Dare, he had alway been there for her. He loved her so much as though they were still dating

"God's time is the best." So he had told her that night. That night when she kept awake and cried her eyes out "God's time?" "when would that time come, is it when i'm fifty?" "stop that" he rebuked. "Dont give up so soon dear God can still do it for you. He has done it for so many people just wait for His time." his comforting words were soft but sharp to the piercing of the soul. It relieved her of her pains.

"Mrs Dare, is there a problem?" she jerked back to the reality before her " Oh no doctor, thank you very much." She rose from her seat, wiped her face, thanked the doctor and made for the door. As she opened the door, the doctor called out to her. She halted almost immediately turned to the doctor as if expecting to hear the worst. "Congrats once again" he said, letting out a smile. She smiled back at him thanked him once again and bade him goodbye.

As she rode back home in her lexus jeep, she remembered all that had happened in the hospital. So finally i am going to be a mother, she thought to herself. The radiance on her face could illuminate the night. I am not going to tell Dare immediately he comes back home. I will tell him after dinner,yes, I will make it a surprise she thought.

It was 7:00pm. The bell rang, she rushed to the door. It was Dare, he was home he kissed her forehead as she collected his bag and walked him upstairs. "How was work today" she asked. "As tiring as ever" he replied." " what did you prepare for me today? Am fermished" he asked as he kicked his shoe to the other end of the room and was now struggling to undo his tie. "I prepared your favourite. Change your clothe and come over to the dining table , I will be waiting..."

'pounded yam' and 'egusi soup' is Dare's favourite. Lara knew him with that even while they were in school.

In about ten minutes, he was at the table. They talked about everything and about nothing in particular while they ate. They were almost rounding up their meal and she decided to let the cat out of the bag. "Dear, there is something I want to tell you." He stoped his meal and told her to give him some minutes to ease himself and then he dashed straight into the rest room.

He was still at the rest room when a message entered his phone. Lara ignored it at first but later decided to check it out. She clicked on the 'new message' icon displaying on the screen and it read.

"Hello dear, I was at the hospital today and was confirmed pregnant. I am carrying your baby." Lara's heart stoped for some seconds. Her breathing was begining to rise. Scream began to well up from within her, finaly, she let it out, screamed his name and then fainted.