I know a woman in her early forties in whose story I star prominently. As far as I know, she has lived single all her life. She knew love, or something next to it, only once. She fell in love in her early 20s and excused every sense of reasoning and warning when she met this charming young man. The young man was everything she had desired in her man. He had built for her a world she could call hers. She wouldn't allow anyone talk her out of it. It was her world, controlled by her and nothing could take it away from her. She knew it the day she met this young promising man. He didn't say much but said everything; he said nothing in particular, but said everything in a jiffy. It was a moment she could rehearse over and over, and it never bored her. He was not like the others.

She awaited the day he would say something, that thing that would make her ears tinkle. That thing that will elongate for her seconds unforgotten, better appreciated than hours in daily quest. That ignition, that will drive her forever and make him bound perpetually to her. He will come requesting and she will feign ignorance of his request and keep him in suspense. She would make him come begging for her. Her mind had told her she is a jewel, not meriting just anybody but this one whose words and deeds can be described as love. She gave him everything. She would not cast restraint because she knew he was hers.

It was by this man that the symptoms she had heard, known and seen of a pregnant lady became hers too, so they didn't disturb her. Whether they are true or not, the man who holds the key to her life will be there for her. His constant assurance of his love for her always rejuvenates her. It was in her mind that she vividly saw the two of them debating the gender of the baby.
"Wo, obinrin ni o," she heard him in his hysterical Ogbomosho tone.

"Aren't you a girl?" He places his head playfully on her belly.

"Ehen ehen," she says, "I am a girl."

"How did you say he said it?" Not aware that she said 'he' not 'she'.

Trying to be assertive this time. He stood like the dominating presence of a principal over an assembly of students and said, "She said, 'I am a…'" and saw his figure no more.

She couldn't keep the news to herself any longer and decided she must visit him at his station to share this goodnews with him. She had prepared her things for more than a day's visit and possibly the weekend. One thing she didn't forget was the result of the pregnancy test. The news must be substantiated with evidence. The medical evidence will be the imprint of the authenticity of her claim. She seems to re-assure herself that she might not need the result. After the news, they will pop the wine she had bought for the purpose and tease him on how she would look in the early and advance stages of the pregnancy. She will school him on pregnancy symptoms such as white eyeballs, blank eyes, swollen legs, irritating spitting, occasional discomfort like intermittent urinating and uncontrollable appetite for certain foods. She will then look into his face to see his reaction...
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