“Everything is well my child. Aih, be careful of boys, take Cindy as an example, Hai, mara,” she said sighing her through it all. I remember her telling me about Cindy bringing boys home when her mother was not there so I’ll take a pretty accurate guess. ” What happened mama, ” I said trying to carry out emotions of curiosity, but I think I knew what happened. Pregnancy happened. ” She has been feeling unwell lately, vomiting a lot and feeling tired all the time. I look at her and ask her what’s wrong but she tells me who am I to care. I think umithile,” she said and was soon called by a female voice.

I guessed it was Cindy. That’s how life is these days, pregnancy taking its toll but I guess it will continue. As long as ‘love’ exists in everyone’s life, well, it will not cease to exist. Mom ended the call and went to attend Cindy. I on the other hand, dragged myself to write my homework. Since it was my last year, things were pretty hectic and so was the workload. The saddest part was that I didn’t even have anyone to laugh it off with.

I guess it was because I’m weird, so no one ever dared to approach me. Most of the time I try to console myself by telling myself I don’t need friends but I’m still a teenager. I sighed and continued writing. Then I revised for the exams. I needed to pass with distinctions so that I can lend myself a nice bursary, so that I can go and study to become a food scientist. I wondered how Angel was doing, he really was cute, by now he’d be in university.

I watched one of my favorite videos, which I had saved on my cellphone. They were of a masked boy singing, his voice was perfect. He had a melodious voice. Although I had many videos of him singing, this particular song of his really sparked an interest for me, deeper than any kind. It was titled ‘ A dream to keep’. Rumors have it that he once got an offer from the biggest recording company in the world , but he refused by saying he wanted things to stay like this.

Well, he goes by the name, Ocean L. To hide his face, he looks away from the camera, and makes sure that the light is looking directly at the camera to blur it out a bit. If you asked me, that’s pretty smart of him. Although my heart skipped a bit every time he sang, I still felt like I knew him, from somewhere. From what I know, people or teens would die to meet him. I also would. I sighed as I thought about matric dance, and the person who was supposed to be my date, nah, I am not going to go.

I’d rather not be Cinderella who lost her glass slipper .

7 years later :

I was walking my way up to our favorite spot. Jaden said he’d meet me here for my pre-birthday if such a word exists. I then sat on the bench which offered a nice view, I seriously loved being outside surrounded by nature but under a couple of terms and conditions. A long list of T&Cs! ” Uhm, hi,” I heard a deep familiar voice say. It was Jaden, and he looked as handsome as ever.

What I had for him was, well, I think love. I smiled as a gesture of answering back. ” Jess, I’ve been meaning to tell you this for a while but, I don’t feel us anymore, we just ain’t like we used to be,” he said but I was a little bit baffled because yesterday he ended our call by saying I was his forever yena or soulmate. ” Are you kidding cause I swear this prank just isn’t funny enough, ” I said chuckling lightly. He held both my hands and looked me in the eyes and said ” I’m sorry but it’s over and I wanna move on. I’ve got an upcoming baby that I want to be there for,” and he seemed dead serious.

“Jaden, is this your way of telling me that you cheated?” I asked more than a bit hurt but trying to mask it. ” Jess, you were no longer enough, a man has needs, I have needs. Unfortunately, we’re just not destined to be,” he said and tried to rub my back but I stood up and smiled.” Okay, go on and chase your needs but I just noticed something, I am craving Café’s lunch special. Well then, goodbye and I hope we never meet again. Oh and Goodluck on your new relationship, as for me, I’ve got lunch to catch!” I said and walked my way to the taxi rank. Luckily enough I had bought my bank card and some money enough to take a taxi to city and back here.

I soon realise that the taxi rank was a bit too far so I called an Uber. I realised my outfit was just perfect for a day out, which I needed. Honestly, I just could not believe a 5 years relationship was ended within a day, wow, the world is sometimes funny. As I thought about it more, it made no sense for me to cry, I mean, a couple of weeks back I had noticed a girl, with a visible belly coming to visit him but he’d brush it off by saying it was his sister. Although I new that something didn’t make sense I just let it slide. Like I always did with some things.