Chapter 10: Chapter 10

WE ARE EXPECTING

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SELENA’S POV

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Father has become unbearable since I spent the night at Chris. This was not the first time I didn't sleep at home but I think he suspects I was with Chris. He had refused to talk to me when I got home the following day, he was cold and distant throughout the day, the next day he seemed better but I knew something was wrong.

He forbade me from going to church on the Sunday after my sleepover, wanted to argue but I knew my father well enough. Once you refuse to do as he said, he finds a way to punish and make your life miserable. I just left him and started walking back to my room.

“Drop your phone on the table.”

“Are you being serious right now father?” I protested

“Never being more serious.” he glared at me.

What was wrong with him, I wondered. He was acting weird and he had a distant look in his eyes.

“But daddy, please don't do this.”

“You should have thought about consequences before you visited that boy.”

I froze for a minute, father turned towards me, he had a sad angry look on his face. “Yes, I know you spent your night at that boy’s place, the riff-raff, a nobody. Selena, you mock me by dating that boy.” father yelled, knocking off the glass cup on the table.

“You are my princess and you deserve better, but you chose to mingle with that commoner.”

“I love him, dad. Chris is a good boy and he loves me too”

“What do you know about love? Looking at me with disgust he continued, “I know he touched you when you spent the night with him.”

I Remembered our lovemaking, the connection we felt, I won't allow my father to degrade what I had with Chris.

“We made love dad. Chris and I love each other. Stop saying it as though he molested me. Please dad get to meet Chris, he is hardworking, loving, and a great man.” I pleaded, his silence made me think he was listening.

“Go to your room and stay there.”

I'm not a kid anymore dad, I was supposed to have left this house and stayed on my own but didn't want you to be lonely, don't make me change my mind”

“You are all grown up now that you threaten me. You leave me no choice then.”

“Dave,” dad called his guard.

“What are you doing dad?”

Ignoring me “ take her to her room and make sure she never leaves. Her food should be taken to her. One more thing, take out her laptop and any other phone with her, I don't want her communicating with anyone.”

“Yes sir.”

“You must be joking dad, I hate you, you are despicable.”

“You are right dear, I don't play fair, I play dirty.”

I stayed locked for almost two weeks, then I started having dizzy spells, I could not hold food for long and the nausea was terrible. I thought I was dying, father believed I might have fallen ill from being cooped up in the room and he asked his guard to let me out though I still couldn't get my phone. I felt hopeful that he would rescind his decisions and let me be.

My nausea worsened and I got tired so easily, my father called his doctor friend over and he drew some blood from me to run some tests. I just hoped it was a passing phase and once I got treated and better I could get back with my life. I missed Chris so much already, I wondered what he was up to. If he missed me as much as I did, just thinking about him made me happy.

“You brat, shameless whore.” my father spat out as he came into my room some hours after the doctor left.

I stared at him surprised at the awful words howled at me. I was too shocked to speak, and my father had never used such derogatory words at me, so I wondered what changed.

“Stop staring at me like a moron.” he threw a piece of paper at me and paced my room.

Picking up the paper, I read as fast as I could still not understanding what information I was supposed to get from it, then I stopped on track when I saw a positive. I reread some parts I missed and then reality dawned on me. “How come, I was pregnant. I was supposed to have ovulated before I had sex with Chris, or did I miscalculate. I felt a wave of nausea hit me suddenly and swooned, thankful for the table beside me which broke my fall.

“You will never birth that seed growing inside of you, Selena, why do you want to destroy your life and for that good for nothing, boy.”

Father looked monstrous as he yelled his usually pale skin turned red and the vein in his neck throbbed. I suddenly became afraid for him and prayed he wouldn't have a heart attack.

“I will send you some drugs and you better take them for your own good.” storming out of my room, he banged the door so hard that even the deaf would hear.